The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1907, Page 62

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

Prof. R. A. Wilde of Luther College has taken
up the study of Theology under the tutorship of
his colleagues. In this wise he will be of greater
service to the Mission, which stands in great need
of preachers.

Mr. Theo. Wilder, until now teacher at Beth-
tehem School, has accepted a call to Mount Zion
School, where he is sorely needed. A graduate of
the Teachers’ Seminary at Addison, IIl., will occupy
Mr. Wilder’s former position at Bethlehem.

It is interesting to learn how our mission work is

being looked upon by outsiders. The Conservator,
a weekly paper edited by negroes, writes the follow-
ing about it: “The Lutherans are making friends
and followers here right along. They have a mis-
sion here that is certainly doing good work. They
have already done well enough to establish a high
school in our midst. They have several primary
schools, and these schools work so well that they keep
Luther College working right along. The college
has turned out several graduates who have been set
to work as teachers in the primary schools. This
has been quite an encouragement, and more of our
people are going with the Lutherans than is gen-
erally believed.” J. M.

A Problem for Mathematicians.

A young man, who had graduated at one of the
first colleges in America, and was celebrated for his
literary attainments, particularly his knowledge of
mathematics, settled in a village where a faithful
minister of the Gospel was stationed. It was not
long before the clergyman met with him in one of
his evening walks, and after some conversation, as
they were about to part, addressed him as follows:
“T have heard you are celebrated for your mathemat-
ical skill. I haye a problem which I wish you to
solve.” “What is it?” eagerly inquired the young
man. The clergyman answered with a solemn tone
of voice, “What shall it profit 2 man, if he shall
gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” The
youth returned home, and endeavored to shake off
the impression fastened on him by the problem pro-
posed to him, but in vain. In the giddy round of
pleasure, in his business, and in his studies, the
question still forcibly returned to him, “What shall
it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world
and lose his own soul?” It finally resulted in his
conversion, and he became an able advocate and
preacher of that Gospel which he once rejected.

“The Wicked Flee.’’

A pastor one day visited a family in his con-
gregation. ‘The daughter saw him coming and
slipped out of the house through a side-door. She
loved the world and the things that are in the
world, and did not like to hear about spiritual
things and heavenly treasures. She therefore felt
uneasy whenever she met the faithful pastor and
friend of her parents.

When he had left, she came back into the room
and asked her mother whether the pastor had in-
quired after her. “Yes,” the mother replied, “and
he also left something for you. Here it is; he
marked the passage.” With these words she handed
the Bible to her daughter, who read Proy. 28, 1:
“The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the
righteous are bold as a lion.” She read the words
yery attentively, and they seemed to make a power-
ful impression upon her; but she did not say a
word.

Not long after, she went to the pastor and told
him how that Bible passage had entered her heart
and had made her restless as it opened her eyes to
see her sad condition. The pastor pointed her to
Jesus, the Savior of all poor sinners; and in His
blood she found pardon and peace.

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Fruits of Mission Work.

A seaman, on returning home to Scotland after
a cruise in the Pacific, was asked, “Do you think
the missionaries have done any good in the South
Sea Islands?”

“T will tell you a fact which speaks for itself,”
said the sailor. “Last year I was wrecked on one
of those islands, where I knew that eight years
before a ship was wrecked, and the crew murdered
by the savage natives; and you may judge how
I felt at the prospect before me, if not dashed to
pieces on the rocks, to survive for only a more cruel
death. When day broke, we saw a number of
canoes pulling for our poor ship, and we prepared
for the worst. Think of our joy and wonder when
we saw the natives in English dress and. heard some
of them speak English words. On that very island
the next Sunday we heard the Gospel preached.
I do not know what you think of missions, but
I know what I do.” ;

Faire is not a work, but mistress and the real
life of all works. — Luther.