The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1907, Page 7

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The Lutheran Pioneer. 4

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A New Voiume. — By the blessing of God we
are permitted, with this number, to begin a new
volume of the Lurmreran Pionrer. In its humble
way our little monthly has, as we have reason to
be assured, been the instrument of doing some
good. God has graciously blessed it in the past.
May He continue His blessing also in the future
for the salvation of souls and for the glory of His
name!

Gone to Rest.—“A friend of missions”

writes: “It may not be too late to mark the pass-
ing from earth, on October 13th, of the Rey. S.
Schereschewsky, D. D., for many years missionary
in China. Born in Poland of Hebrew parents
seventy-five years ago, personal study of the Bible
convinced him of the truths of Christianity and
brought him to faith in Jesus as the promised
Messiah. After having finished his studies in a
theological Seminary, he offered himself for ser-
ice in China, where, since 1859, he was a power
cummin mission work, particularly as a translator of the
cripture, having rendered into the Mandarin dia-
eam the entire Bible. During the last years of his
ife he suffered from almost complete paralysis,
being able to use only the middle finger of his
‘right hand to move the keys of his typewriter.”
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A Day or Regorcinc. — From an Australian
church paper recently received we learn that the
cormecel 5th of July of the past year was a day of rejoicing
eat the mission station on the western coast of
i eAustralia, where our Lutheran brethren are carry-
=» ging on a blessed mission work among the black
EM Fratives of that country. On that day eight heathen
children were baptized after having been thoroughly
WS: instructed in the Bible and Luther’s Catechism by
caameet De missionary, the Rev. C. Wiebusch. The baptis-
=o! mal font had been presented by the Lutheran con-
eat... gregation at Adelaide, and to the members of this
msavm, congregation the baptized children sent the follow-
m2, 40g letter of thanks written by one of the girls:
mance “We are writing a letter to you thanking you very
“* much for the baptismal font, and we eight children
imum, were the first to use it. It was a nice day, yes, the
==" best day in our life. There were a lot of people here
“ton that day. Pastor Koch and Teacher [the mis-
sionary] preached, and nine of the men played the
band while the people sang. In the forenoon we
were examined, and after examination we sang the
* hymn ‘Savior, like a shepherd lead us, and then we

went to dinner. The people had their dinner in the
dining-room, and we also had our dinner with them.
We sat by Pastor Koch and Pastor Kempe and
Teacher. After dinner we went to church again
and Teacher preached. Then we were baptized, and
then we sang ‘Baptized into Thy name most holy,’
Now we are so very glad that we are baptized, and
that God has given us a clean heart and keeps us
away from sins and also keeps us in true faith, be-
cause we know that Jesus died for us and cleansed
us with His holy, precious blood from all sins, from
death and from the power of the devil. We are so
glad that you, together with other Christians, started
the Mission, and we learned to read the Word of
God. May God keep you all and us in the one true
faith and finally give us the crown of life!”

An Arrican’s Reapy Repiy. — Missionary
Gruetzner, of the Berlin Missionary Society, tell

Orange River African colony, and a black nativ

the story of a white farmer, near Bethany, in ined
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Christian, who attended the services at a distant!

church. The farmer was only a nominal Christian-=

and did not like the frequent churchgoing of the
hired man, and one day reproached him by saying,
“Why take that long walk to church? Stay at home
and pray and sing here. Is not that just as well?”
The black Christian took a live coal from the fire
before which they were seated, and laid it upon the
ground. As soon as the coal had become black he
returned it to the fire, where it soon glowed again.
Then he said, “See, master, I go to church that I

‘become glowing again. My going will not make

me a bad servant, but if I stay at home, you would
soon find that I would not be as good a worker as
before.”

An Inpran’s Reavy Rerty.— To show with
what readiness and intelligence an Indian often
makes reply, a missionary relates the following:
A man had excused himself for not going to church
by declaring that his clothes were not good enough
for the purpose. Thereupon his chief remarked,
“J have read the Big Book from cover to cover,
and I have only found one verse about clothes and
going to church, and that verse is, ‘Rend your
hearts and not your garments.?” ‘The reply fur-
nishes a lesson which many people might well take
to heart.

Ricutty to feel sin is the torture of all tor-
tures. — Luther.

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