The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1900, Page 11

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On Missionary Allowances.

My Christian friend, when you meet a man | not yield him five times as much. Is not the
who is constantly growling and complaining, | laborer worthy of his hire? My friend, when
that the work of mission makes such large mon- | you hear of a true minister of God getting a!

etary demands,
that the result is
not commensurate
with the expendi-
ture, that the mis-
sionaries get too
large salaries, and
that they ought to
be made to get
along with less,
you may just. put
that man down as
one who never has
overtaxed his gen-
erosity nor drawn
too munificently
from his wallet for
church or mission-
ary purposes. I
say for church and
missionary  pur-
poses, for in other
things he may be
liberal and broad-
minded. You will
generally find him
to be a man who
does not hesitate
to take his family
to a musical con-
cert at 50 cents a
ticket and vocifer-
ously applaud a
singer who per-
forms for a thou-
sand dollars a
night; buton Sun-
days you will see
this same man deal
out a pennytoeach
of his children
_for the missionary
box. You will find
him a man who
with the greatest
complacency en-
joys his ten cent
cigar, while he
growls at the ex-
travagance of the
missionary who in-
dulges in a ‘‘three
for five.”’ My
friend, he is a man
who without the

least compunction will give his tailor an order
Z : i erson
for a thirty dollar suit and purchase a five | But when you come across a niggardly Pp 2

dollar hat, while he will donate a pair of old

trousers, frayed at the ends and baggy at the : ; verace
knees, to glndaca the heart of some far-off | earned pittance, and be it above tne eee

heathen. He is the one who, when he hears

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of a missionary receiving from five to eight | will see him, and feel ashamed of himself. ‘If
hundred dollars a year, is shocked, but who| we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it
complains of ‘‘hard times” if his business does} great thing if we shall reap your carnal
jenings ti says the apostle 1 Cor. 9.

G. S.

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A Widow's Gift.

A missionary in
Persia tells of a
poor widow with
two little children
to support and a
mother and an in-
valid sister who
needed all the help
that she could give
them. And still
she desired to help
those who were in
suffering and dis-
tress.

“One day,’’ says
the missionary,
“she cut off the
greater part of her
beautiful hair and
soldit,and brought
me the money. She
knelt down at my
feet, and, with
eyes full of tears,
said, ‘Take this
money for the poor
people; I want to |
give ittoGod. It
is the price of my
hair. I had noth-
ing else to give.’ ”’
_ Itwasnot merely
the value of the
gift, but the will-

ing mind that

promptedit, which
made it a sweet
savor of love to the
weary missionary
working among
the poor and the
distressed. The
poor woman, like
the widow of old,
cast in her mite.
Herchoicest treas-
ure was bestowed
upon the poor.

How many Chris-
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LET tb trock Rey. W. P. Phifer. Rey. Sb "h. 5
es ee = : Teacher E. F. Rolf. Rev. P. Engelbert. earehonwaste ix
. J. F. Pfeilfor. 2. F. :
nian i d People in North Carolina. personal adorn-
Lutheran Missionaries among the Colored Peop

ment much that

ivi it. | might be given to relieve distress, to enlighten
little more than a bare living, thank God for i Reames pein eii ne a en
i f the Lord among
ing hi idance of the | the light of the knowledge of th
Lee ue a oars his well- | those who sit in lands of darkness, beneath the
SN SL eats shadow of death! Could not such learn a lesson
sust tell him to go into the dark, where no one from this poor Persian widow. —Selected.
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