The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1904, Page 70

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70 The Lutheran Pioneer.

mother to her only child on his Parting with her in
Liverpool.

Often, months after, when Neening my watch
and salbanys the deck, that entire scene came be-
fore me, and the precious Bible words came to my
mind. By God’s merciful dealing with me I found
my own salvation in those words of the Saviour read
by the little’ boy to the dying sailor. The great day
alone will tell how much good that text has done
for those others who listened to the precious words:
“God so loved the world, that He gave His only-
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.’’

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Waiting for God to Come.

One day a boy was discovered in the street,
evidently bright and intelligent, but sick. A man
who had feelings of kindness strongly developed
went to ask him what he was doing there. ‘‘ Waiting
for God to come to me,’’ he replied.

‘‘What do you mean?’ said the gentleman,
touched by the pathetic tone of the answer and the
condition of the boy, in whose bright and flushed
face he saw evidence of fever.

“God sent for father and little brother,” said
he, ‘‘and took them away up to His home in the
sky, and mother told mé when she was sick that
God would take care of me. I have nobody to give
me anything, and so I came out here, and have been
looking so long in the sky for God to come and take
care of me, as mother said He would. He will come,
won’t he? Mother never told a lie!”’

‘‘Ves, my lad,’’ said the gentleman, overcome
with emotion. ‘‘He has sent me to take care of

“you.”

You should have seen his eye flash, and the
smile of triumph break over his face as he said:

‘‘Mother never told me a lie, sir; but you have
been so long on the way.”

What a lesson of trust; and how this incident
shows the effect of never deceiving children with
idle tales.

The Master Always In.

Oy ohnnie,” said a man, winking slyly to a clerk
of his acquaintance. in a dry goods store, “you

must give me an extra measure; your NT is

not in.’’
Johnnie looked up in the man’s face very 8 seri-
ously and said, ‘‘My master is always in.”?
Johnnie’s master was the all-seeing God.

_ upon the stream of trouble.

“Go Ye Into All the World.”

Go forth and tell: ’tis Jesus bids you go;

And shall men stand with lingering feet and slow,
While listening angels long the words to speak,
That Christ has come lost men to save, to seek?

Tell them that sit in darkness that the light
That lights the world has come and scattered night,
That Jesus is the Light, the Sun that brings
Us righteousness and healing in His wings.

Tell them that hunger that the Bread of heaven
Has been sent down; to all is freely given;
That Jesus is the Bread, and they that feed

On Him hunger no more, but feast indeed.

Tell them of Christ, that He will freely give
The living Water, bid them look and live.

O tell the story of the Cross to those

For whom He lived and suffered, died and rose.

Lord! freely we received Thy wondrous grace,
O let us freely give to every place
The message, for it is the heralding

To haste the coming of the coming King.
Selected.

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A Good Reply.

An Irish priest told a man who had a Bible in
his possession that ‘‘he had no business with the
Bible; for St. Peter said it was not the Word, but
the mail of the Word he ought to have,”’ and uae
priest confirmed his assertion by reading 1 Pet. 2, 2
‘*As newborn ‘babes, desire the sincere milk of the
Word.”’

“T know that well, please your reverence,’? re-
plied the poor man, ‘‘but for fear the milk should
be adulterated, I like to keep the cow that gives the
milk with me in the house.”

Say What You Mean.

A young student, on delivering his first sermon
before a celebrated professor of Cambridge, thun-
dered out the following sentence: ‘‘Amid this tu-
mult the son of Amram stood unmoved.?’

“Stop there!’’ interrupted the professor; ‘‘
do you mean by.the ‘son of Amram’ ?”’

‘*Please, sir, Moses,”’ replied the young orator.

“Then if you mean Moses, why don’t you say
Moses?’’ said the other.

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Our hope is poorly anchored, if the cable parts
I believe in God,
who can change evil into good; and I am confident
that what befalls us is always ulemstely for the
best. — Walter Scott. -

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