The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1906, Page 71

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NOTES AND ITEMS.

Conover, N. C.— The Rev. W. H. Lash, our
missionary at Salisbury, still holds preaching and
catechising services at Conover. Mrs. Lash opened
a summer parochial school in August, which was
The work will no doubt prove a
blessing to the colored people.

ASLEEP IN JESUS. — On the 13th of August the
one year old child of the Rev. J. C. Schmidt, our
missionary at Greensboro, N. C., departed this life.
Funeral services were held on the 14th of August,
the Rev. Prof. G. A. Romoser, of Conover, N. C.,

.preaching the sermon. — “Asleep in Jesus! Blessed

sleep !””

Our Coxieces. — Luther College in New Or-
leans and Immanuel College in Greensboro, N. C.,
begin a new school year in September. We are
glad to hear that there are good prospects for a
large attendance. ach institution has issued an
interesting catalogue giving full information as to
the courses of study and other matters. These
schools give their students thorough instruction in
the different branches of knowledge and a sound
Christian education and training. Their “chief
object is to provide a liberal and practical training,
on the basis of Christian principles, for young men
who intend later to enter the ministry or engage in
missionary school work, and for gifted girls who
desire to enter the service of the church as Chris-
tian schoolteachers.” ‘Those who wish to teach and
train others must themselves be well taught and
well trained. ‘The ‘old colored farmer, of whom we
recently read, was entirely wrong in his ideas as
to the equipment necessary for a preacher or
teacher. His name was Chad, and he had a son
who had tried the civil service examination.

“Well, Chad,” said a, friendly gentleman after
the trial, “did your boy pass the examination ?”

“No, suh,” replied Chad; “dey turned him
down.”

“What was the trouble?”

“Short on ’rithmetic, suh.”

“Anything else?”

“An’ geography.”

“Yes ?”?

“An’ spellin’.” : :

“Nothing more?”

‘Nothin’ mo’ ceptin’ grammar, an’ hist’ry, an’
some other things.”

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“Well, Chad, what will he do now?”
“Well, suh, he jest *bout decided ter preach or
teach school.”

A Lirrie Missronary.— The Review of Mis-
sions says: “A Chinese Christian boy in one of the
Swatow schools, by repeating at home the Gospel
truths learned at school, has been the means of
leading his father, mother, and grandmother to be-
come seckers after God.”

A Memorrat Taster. — A tablet was recently
unveiled at Haddam, Conn., in memory of David
Brainerd, the great missionary who gave his life
in the service of the Indians in Pennsylvania and
New Jersey. He spent only four years in the work
—years full of self-denial, bright with ceaseless
prayer, burdened with hard labor, consuming his
life in the mission service and dying under thes
heavy burdens at the early age of thirty, beloved
and bewailed as a father by the many children of
the forest whom he had led to a knowledge of the
Savior. His heart was filled with the true mis-
sionary spirit, and after having spent his life in

_the mission service, he said, “I declare now that I

am dying, I would not have spent my life other-
wise for the whole world.” ‘The tablet in his
memory bears the following inscription : —
Opposite this spot was born, April 20, 1718,
David Brainerd,
A Servant of God.
Wise in his knowledge of men;
Self-forgetful in his devotion; -
O£ single-hearted humility ;
Careless of the dangers of the frontier;
Undismayed by failing health;
He gave his brief manhood to the material and
spiritual upbuilding of the Indians.
He died at Northampton, Mass.,
October 9, 1747.

Tire SItent Misstonary. — The Bible has been

‘called “the silent missionary;” for this blessed

Book has exerted its divine power and done its
silent work on many a mission field. Several years
ago a Testament was left in an Armenian village.
The missionary: had been driven away; but that
Testament remained there as a faithful missionary,,
doing its silent work. A few years later another
missionary came to that place, whence his fellow
laborer had fled for his life. He says he found
thirty families which had become Christians through:
the reading of that New Testament.