The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1904, Page 96

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

“In Grateful Remembrance.”

Selma Olafsen was the only child of a poor
widow who was sick. Selma tried her best to earn
a little, to help her mother, by selling chestnuts.
It was the day before Christmas, and she had not
been very successful in disposing of her chestnuts.
Toward evening she met a young man, whom she
asked to buy some of her nuts. He handed her a
silver piece and said, ‘‘I have no use for your nuts,
but you are welcome to this.’? More customers
now presented themselves, so that her basket was
soon empty, when she hurried home.

Twenty-five years passed. Selma had grown to
womanhood. ‘Times for her had changed and she
had become the wife of a banker. One evening on
passing the library she saw a man in conversation
with her husband, whom she recognized as the man,
who, years before, had been so kind to her. * After

‘he‘had left she inquired his errand.

‘*He came to see if I would not give him a posi-
tion in our bank.”’

“Will you?”

“T cannot tell.’’ :

“T very much wish you could,’’ she said, and
then related to her husband the story of her poverty
and the man’s generosity. é

Christmas Eve had come again, and the poor
man sat at the bedside of his invalid wife. Sud-
denly there was a knock at the door and a messen-
ger left a note.

-On opening the note, he exclaimed, ‘‘We are
saved! The position is mine!l’? Then he proceeded
to unfold another little paper which proved to be a
check for $200, and the note accompanying read:
‘Tn grateful remembrance of the kindness shown a
little chestnut girl, just twenty-five years ago to-
night.”’ ;

A Christmas Day in Uganda.

A missionary, in one of his letters, gives the fol-
lowing report of a joyful Christmas Day at the capi-
tal of Uganda in Africa: “Christmas Day dawned,’
and verily, it is a day never to be forgotten. The
thrill that went through me when, two years ago, I
addressed a congregation of 1000 souls in the old

_- church is still fresh in my memory. If was thrilled

then, I was simply overwhelmed yesterday when I

service was held, and I suppose between three and
four thousand people must have been present. Later
in the afternoon an English service was held. At |
this service a larger number of Europeans were
present than have been gathered together before in
Uganda. Christmas Day was a trying day, but an
intensely joyful day—a day worth coming to the
ends of the earth to enjoy.”’

OUR BOOK TABLE.

AMERIKANISCHER KALENDER fuer deutsche Lutheraner auf
das Jahr 1905. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis,
Mo. Price, 10 cts.

The time for new almanacs is coming. Everybody will
want one, and we heartily recommend to our German readers
the American Almanac for German Lutherans published by
the Concordia Publishing House in St. Louis. It is full of
excellent instructive reading matter and contains the usual
valuable statistics concerning the Synodical Conference, the
largest Lutheran body in America.

SINGET DEM HERRN! Eine Sammlung geistlicher Gesaenge
fuer gemischte Choere. Heft 2. Concordia Publish-
an House, St. Louis, Mo. ‘Price, 20 cts.; per dozen,

1.50.
Five excellent Christmas anthems for mixed choirs.

They will commend themselves to any church choir desir-

ing good Christmas music.

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. K. Kretzschmar
from Mount Zion Church in New Orleans, La., $25.00; of
Rev. F. J. Lankenau from St. Paul’s Church in New Orleans,
La., 25.00; of Rev. M. Weinhold from St. Paul’s Church in
Mansura, La., 10.00; of Rev. J. Kossmann from Bethlehem
Church in New Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rev. J. C. Schmidt
from Grace Church in Greensboro, N.C., 12.00, and from
congregation in Rudd, N. C., 7.32.

St. Louis, Nov. 15, 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. um. and 7.80 P. m.; Wednesday, ~~

. 7.30P. M.
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts. ; K. Kretzschmar, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. 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 Pp. m.; Thursday,
P.M.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Holy Trinity Church; L. E. Thalley, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.80 A. Mm. and 8 P. M.

TERMS:
Tue LUTHERAN PIONEER is published monthly, payable
in advance at the following rates, postage feceeas; to-wit:

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10 Copies .. .-. 2.00

25 « 6.00

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Club rates only all are to be sent to one

stood up to speak of the Saviour to a_congregation=-address.—In St. Louis by mail or carrier, 85 cents.

numbering over.5000 souls. T
as I stood up to speak, and, i
Service, was almost as awe-

the

ll business communications to be addressed to Con-.
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unications concerning the editorial depart-
aonenecs to Prof. R. A. Biscnorr, Conover,