The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1905, Page 40

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An Interest in the Concern.

A gentleman in London saw a lad, an acquaint-
ance of his, comingonarun. He stopped him with
the inquiry,

‘‘Whither away in such haste?”’

“Exeter Hall.’’

‘“What is there at Exeter Hall that so interests
a chimney-sweep?”’

‘*A missionary meeting, sir.’’

‘‘Why do you care for a missionary meeting?”’

‘*T have an interest in the concern, sir.’’

‘‘You an interest in the great London Mission-
ary Society? How came that?”

‘*T gave my money, sir.”’

Would it be well to be more deeply interested in
the cause of Christ? Then do more and give more
for it. If we do less and give less and pray less,
. our interest will diminish.

A Touching Appeal for a Teacher.

The following letter was sent by some Chinese
villagers to a missionary. It is pleasant to know
that he was able to send them a catechist each week
to instruct them in the way of truth.

‘*To the aged and honored church teacher: We
respectfully and humbly approach you. We are
the inhabitants of a mean and wretched village, who
all our lives have been oppressed by idolatry. We
are like people sitting in a dark house without a
single ray of light. We have fortunately met with
your teacher. He came through our village and
saw several of us together. Wishing to save us, he
earnestly preached the doctrine.

‘“We, having heard his words, know there is a
Saviour who can save our souls, redeem us from sin,
and deliver us from walking in the wrong road. So
now we are like men who have had a glimpse of the
sun and of heaven. We are afraid if we cannot have
the teacher always with us, and hear more of the
doctrine, we shall always be men of hell.

“We earnestly besought the teacher to remain in
our village, that he might teach us ignorant men and
open our hearts, lest we lose the light of the Gospel.
He said he could not without your permission. We
know how difficult it is to build a large church, but
we do not ask you to do that. We will get our own
room and the furniture necessary, and will not
trouble you in any way. Some of us might manage
to go to Sunga, eight miles away, but the women

and children cannot go so far; besides, if we had
a church here, we could come every morning and

evening to learn, and so run away from the devil

The Lutheran Pioneer.

and get near to God. This would be a great ad-
vantage.

‘‘Sometimes one of our rich men will bestow
alms and take care of the bodies of the poor around
him. Our souls are more important than our bodies,
and we earnestly ask you to take care of them. Our
great hope is that you will let the teacher come and
have a school here, that our women, and girls also,
may hear the doctrine and become children of God.
You need not fear that we want to trouble you about
any other things. We beg you not to sit still and
let us be lost, but do let the teacher come, that we
may know how to walk the heavenly road to life.
If you do this, it will be like creating us anew, and
will bring praise to the Saviour; if not, we cannot
enter the happy, heavenly place. The report of
your love is spread abroad. Do stretch forth both
of your hands to help us; do not fold your arms and
let us go to perdition. In a letter it is difficult to ex-
press all our hearts feel, but your permission would

be valued as a gift of a thousand pieces of gold.’’
Little Missionary.

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions from St. Paul’s Church in
Mansura, La., $10.00; from the congregation in Gold Hill,
N.C., 4.50; from the congregation in Rockwell, N.C., 4.20;
from Mount Zion Church in New Orleans, La., 25.00; from
St. Paul’s Church in New Orleans, La., 35.00; from Beth-
lehem Church in New Orleans, La., 25.00; from Grace Church
in Greensboro, N. C., 12.00; from Holy Trinity Church in
Springfield, Il]., 10.00; from Grace Church in Concord, N.C.,
10.00; from St. Matthew’s Church in Meherrin, Va., 10.00;
from Grace Mission in St. Louis, Mo., 3.00.

St. Louis, April 15, 1905. A.C. Buraporr, 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. 1. and 7.30 Pp. m.; Wednesday,

30 P. Me
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and ThaliaSts. ; K. Kretzschmar, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. M.; Thursday,

7.30 P. BM.
Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.; J. W. F. Koss-
mann, Pastor. .
ne Services: Sunday, 10 A. M. and 7.30 Pp. s.; Thursday,
7.30 P. M. :
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Holy teed Church; L. E. Thalley, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 A. M. and 8 P. M.

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