The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1905, Page 13

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The Lutheran Pioneer. 13

Money Spent not in Vain.

One beautiful Sunday afternoon Wen Hsin, a
Chinese girl, lay dying in our Peking school. We
knew that she must soon go, and s0, as it is the
custom in China, she was bathed and dressed in her
grave clothes. Her glossy black hair was knotted on
the top of her head with bright red cord. She wore
a dark blue garment with a bit of bright trimming
down the edge; snowy stockings and embroidered
slippers were on her feet. Her white hands were
folded peacefully, and she lay so calm we knew she
was resting in the arms of Jesus, and only waiting
for Him to take her spirit from the poor worn body.

As she found how precious it was to have the
dear Lord Jesus go with her through ‘‘the dark
valley and the shadow,” she was thinking of them,
the kind friends so far away, who had done so
much for her.

I said to her, ‘‘Wen Hsin, do you want any-
thing?”

““T _want— to— write—a—letter.”’

*‘O you are too weak! What is it you want to
say? Tell me, and I will write it for you.”’

Gathering up all the strength she had left, she
gasped it out in her weakness, a word at a time:

“T want to tell my American friends they did
not spend their money in vain for me.’’

AfMission School in India.

It was the hour of the Sunday school. They
knew in the chapel that she was dying, and through
the open windows we could hear them singing,
‘‘There’s a land that is fairer than day.’’

The busy little clock on the square red table
kept on ticking, ticking, until the Sunday school
was dismissed, and many of her schoolmates gath-
ered sorrowfully around the brick bed on which
the dying girl lay.

Several of her old friends came in from the
neighborhood. None of them had ever seen a
Christian die before, and they gazed with wonder
upon the peaceful girl and went back to their
homes with the wondrous news that Wen Hsin
lay dying and was not afraid!

. Somebody in America had given thirty dollars
a year to support her in a Christian school.

Soon she closed her black eyes, and went away
from the brick bed to the mansion prepared for her,
but she had sent her precious message to cheer and
encourage the home workers in the mission cause.

World-Wide Missions.

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A Fatal Love. —

Love not the world, neither the things that are
in the world. If any man love the world, the love
of the Father is not in him. 1 John 2, 15.

The friendship of the world is enmity with God.
Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is
the enemy of God. James 4, 4.

Be not conformed to this world, but be ye trans-
formed by the renewing of your mind. Rom. 12,2.

‘Sag