The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1904, Page 61

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A Zulu Village.

Our picture presents a Zulu village in Africa.
A Zulu village is made up of a series of huts like
huge beehives, placed in circles, the cattle-pen
being in the center. The huts are about ten feet
in diameter and five feet high. The single hole
through which entrance-must be made serves for
door, window, and chimney. No tables, no chairs,
no beds are to’ be seen, only a few mats, and pots,

The Lutheran Pioneer. 61

The Idolater Mistrusts His Idol.

Some years ago, when there was a great famine
in China, it became the duty of the Governor to go
daily to the temple and make offerings to appease
the wrath of the god and get rain. The mandarin
was a fat man, to whom exertion was painful. To
go to the temple he had to make his way with great
effort up a steep hill. As the weather was very hot
he made the visit two days with much discomfort,

A ZULU VILLAGE.

and blankets.
ground. ‘

The Zulus are very superstitious. Their ideas
of religion are very extremely low and debased.
Their faith is in witchcraft, in goblins to be feared
and appeased, and in ancestral spirits. to be wor-
shiped. Lutheran missionaries have been laboring
among the Zulus, and many of them have been
brought to the knowledge of the true God and their
Saviour Jesus Christ.

The people sit and sleep on the

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“Tur death of the believer is. nothing but pure

grace, yea, the beginning of life.’’— Luther.

and then declared he would not do it again. He
had the idol brought out of the temple and dragged
into the blazing sun to his residence. ‘‘Now,’’ said
he, as he gave due homage in coolness and comfort,
‘the knows how hot it is.”

The Governor did not trust his god; he believed
him to be without sympathy, and so had him sub-
jected to the discomfort he had endured, to force
him to answer his prayer more quickly: a

The Christian only has a-loving Father whom
he knows to be full of sympathy, and whom he
may ask in prayer with all boldness and confidence,
as dear children ask. their dear father. soe