The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1905, Page 22

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92 The Lutheran Pioneer.

Missions.

O Church of Christ, for whom He died
In pain and passion sore;

O Church of Christ, His holy Bride,
Beloved forevermore;

Into thy hands His Word of grace—
A sacred trust—He gave

And bade thee bear it to the race
He came to seek and save.

He bade thee every creature tell
How from His throne He came
To rescue man from sin and hell,
To bear his grief and shame;
Bade thee all nations to refresh
With the baptismal flood;
To break the bread, which is His flesh,
And pour the wine, His blood.

Durst thou that holy trust betray?
Durst thou despise His Word?
Durst thou His saying disobey,
Or leave His voice unheard?
Arouse thee, then! Awake, awake!
Attend the Saviour’s call, -
Spend and be spent for His dear sake

To whom thou owest all.
Rev. Jno. Power.

“Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against
Thy Neighbor.”’

Johann Arndt, the author of the famous book,
‘True Christianity,’’? knew not only how to write
about, true Christianity, but was himself a true
Christian, who lived according to the precepts of
the Bible. :

At one time he had gone on a trip some distance
away from home. On the day when he had to re-
turn a heavy rain set in. The roads accordingly
being rather muddy for walking, he took the first
opportunity offered and rode back on a freight-
wagon he chanced to meet. There was a large
barrel in the wagon, and Arndt was assigned a place
in back of it.

They had not gone very far, when they caught up
with three women who had been out on a visit and
who, like Arndt, were very glad of an opportunity
So they were taken in and given a seat in
front, where they could not see Arndt on account of
No sooner were they seated and the
wagon started, when they began to talk. First the

' friend whom they had been to see was most thor-

‘oughly criticized, her person, her house, the table
she set, in short, everything they had seen or heard

: _ or tasted was subjected to a destructive artillery-fire
~ of criticism. A
~ When this subject was exhausted, they branched

off to something else. ‘‘Now I know,’’ said one of
them, “‘why Arndt can give so many alms. I know
for certain that he has somebody to make money for
him. My husband says that if he had the authority,
Arndt would be prosecuted as sorcerer.’’ ‘‘Yes,’”
chimed in another, ‘‘and my husband says that he
knows as little of theology as a schoolboy, and that
he deserves to be tried for heresy, and to be ban-
ished from the country.’’ ‘‘Of course,’’ rejoined the
third, ‘‘and I know also why he is so friendly to
his neighbor, the weaver. Arndt simply sends the
penny after the dollar.”’

Suddenly there was acrash, and the wagon broke
down! The passengers were now obliged to get out
and walk the rest of the way. Of course, the three
backbiters were very much startled when they saw
Arndt, the object of their vilification, coming out
from behind the barrel. To add to their confusion,
a carriage just then drove up, which had been sent
by Pastor Arndt’s wife to meet him. The good man
insisted on their getting in and riding home, while
he walked the rest of the way.— Ex.

A Blind Missionary.

A blind Indian who had become a Christian went
to a missionary and said, ‘‘I want a bell, and a
hymn-book, and a God-book.’’. When asked why
he wished these things he said, ‘‘I live far away in
a heathen village. If I can show the books to my
friends, they will perhaps believe what I tell them
they contain, and I will ring the bell for them to
listen to me.”’

He went away, and after some time the-message
came from his village asking fora missionary. The
blind Christian was dead, but as long as he lived —
a year and a half from the time of his visit—he
kept tally of the Sundays, and when they came he
would go through the village, ringing his bell and
singing his hymns and telling the story of Jesus as
best he could. Some of his hearers believed, and
they wished to know more of the Saviour.

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That’s Enough.

Little Willie Stark was praying to God, as his
mother taught him to, for help in his need. Being

asked how he thought God could attend to him

while he had everybody else in the world to care
for, he replied, ‘“‘I don’t know anything about that;
‘all I know is He says He will, and that’s enough
for me.’’ :

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