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your husband whom you love?’ ‘My husband,’ she
replied, ‘will find comfort and accord me my rest in

heayen.’ I thought that perhaps she might recover,
but when I got back to my home I was informed that

she had departed. I have every reason to believe that |

she is with her Lord and Saviour. How a missionary
rejoices when, on funeral occasions, he feels justified
in giving thanks and saying, This one or that has
fallen asleep in the Lord and is forever saved.”

I Know that My Redeemer Liveth.

When the Great Elector of Brandenburg, Fred-
erick William, felt that his end was drawing near,
he joyously exclaimed: ‘‘I know that my Redeemer
liveth, and though worms destroy this body, yet in
my flesh shall I see God!”

These words made such a deep impression on
his beloved wife, the Electress, Louise Henriette,
that she composed that beautiful hymn:

“Jesus, my Redeemer, lives.’’

For over two hundred years this hymn has
been the comfort of sorrowing hearts throughout
Christendom.

Medical Missions.

A Chinese went to the Mission Hospital at Honan
and asked for treatment of his weak stomach. His
native doctor had made him take a cupful of ground
stone every morning until he had swallowed sixty
pounds of it. Afterwards he ate forty pounds of
cinnamon, but did not get any better. At last he
made up his mind to try the ‘‘red devil’s’’ medi-
cines. The missionary physician soon relieved him
of his trouble.

During the treatment he bought a New Testa-
ment, read it diligently, and asked the physician
for instruction. ;

_ One day he said, “‘Doctor, I am glad I got ill!”

“How so???

*‘If I had not fallen ill, I should never have
heard anything of this precious Book.”

When he left the hospital, fully cured, he was
no longer a heathen, but a professed believer in
Christ Jesus. — Sel.

—_--—____—_-—____---—_

Used to Such Things.

- A German clergyman, who was traveling, stopped
at a hotel much frequented by wags and jokers.
The host, not being used to having a clergyman at
his table, looked at him with surprise; the guests

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used all their raillery of wit upon him without elicit-
ingaremark. The clergyman ate his dinner quietly,
apparently without observing the gibes and sneers
of his neighbors.

One of them, at last, in despair at his forbear-
ance, said to him, ‘‘ Well, I wonder at your patience.
Have you not heard all that has been said to you?”’

‘Oh, yes, but I am used to it. Do you know
who Iam?”

"No, sir.”’

‘‘Well, I will inform you. I am chaplain of a
lunatic asylum; such remarks have no effect upon
me.”?— Px.

OUR BOOK TABLE.

ZWISCHENSPIELE zu den gebracuchlichsten Choraeclen der
lutherischen Kirche, bearbeitet von J. A. TuE18s, Or-
ganist an der Bethlehems-Gemeinde zu Milwaukee,
Wis. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
Price, $2.50.

These Interludes will prove helpful to our organists.
They are churchly, and the character of each is in harmony
with the character of the respective choral. They will not
hinder, but further the devotion of the congregation when
singing our grand old Lutheran chorals.

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. K. Kretzschmar
from Mount Zion Church in New Orleans, La., $25.00; of
Rey. F. J. Lankenau from St. Paul’s Church in New Orleans,
La., 25.00; of Rev. J. Kossmann from Bethlehem Church in
New Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rev. M. Weinhold from St. Paul’s
Church in Mansura, La., 10.00; of Rev. J. C. Schmidt from
Grace Church in Greensboro, N. C., 12.00; of Rev. L. E.
Thalley from Holy Trinity Church in Springfield, Ill., 7.00.

St. Louis, March 16, 1904. A.C. BurGporr, Treas.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.; F. J. Lan-
kenau, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A.M. and 7.30 Pp. m.; Wednesday,
7.30 P. M.
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts. ; K. Kretzschmar, Pastor.
. cope Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 Pr. M.; Thursday,
7.30 P.M.
Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.; J. W. F. Koss-
mann, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10 A. M. and 7.30 p.m ; Thursday,

7.30 P. M.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Holy Trinity Church; L. E. Thalley, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 A. M. and 8 P. M.

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