The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1907, Page 70

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The missionary came and gave the sick man the
medicine he needed.

“Friend,” he then said, “you could not wait
when you felt that your life was at stake. Can you,
dare you wait when the salvation of your soul is at
stake, when the question is of everlasting life and
everlasting death?”

Now the Hindu understood his friend and did
no longer say, “I will wait.” He by faith accepted
Him who says: “I am the Resurrection and the
Life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and be-
lieveth in me shall never die,” John 11, 25. 26.

“To-day if ye will hear His voice, harden not
your hearts!” Hebr. 3, 15.

True Love.

Two miners were sinking a shaft. It was rather
a dangerous business they had to do. Their custom
was to cut fuse with a knife; one man then got into
a bucket and made a signal to be drawn up. The
other one got into the bucket when it came down,
with one hand on the signal rope and one on the
fuse. When he touched the fuse he made a signal
and was at once hauled up.

One day they left their knife up above, and
rather than go up for it they cut the fuse with a

. sharp stone, which made the fuse take fire.

“The fuse is on fire!” they both cried out, as
they leaped into the bucket. But the windlass
would hold but one at a time—only one could
go up.

One man instantly leaped out and said to his
comrade, “Up with you! T’ll be in heaven in a
minute.” With lightning speed the bucket was
drawn up and the man in the bucket was saved.

The explosion in the mine took place, and soon
after men went down, expecting to find the mangled
body of the other miner. But the fact was that the
charge had loosened a mass of rock, and it lay across
the shift, and with the exception of a few bruises
and a little scratching, the man was unhurt.

He was asked, “Why did you insist on the other
man’s hastening up?” ‘This was his noble an-
swer : — :

“Because I knew my soul was safe, for I’ve given
it into the hands of Him of whom it is said that
‘faithfulness is the girdle of His reins,’ and I know
that what I give Him He never gives up. But the
other chap was an awful wicked lad, aa I wanted
to give him another chance.”

The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Queen at a Sick-Bed.

The Rev. A. Rowland, of England, recently re-
lated the following touching incident in the late
Queen Victoria’s life. It occurred in connection
with one of his own parishioners.

A district secretary of the London City Mission
visited a small cottage at Windsor with a garden
of sweet-smelling flowers in front. On taking a
seat upon a Windsor chair, which had been dusted
for him, he was told, “That is the Queen’s chair.”
He was then told that one of the Royal Princesses
had one day stopped her carriage to look at the
flowers, and upon hearing from the daughter that
her mother was ill, had gone in to see her. The
next day another royal carriage drove up, and the
Queen herself stepped out, with the help of her ,
servant. “And of course,” the daughter told the
secretary, “we were greatly flurried; but the Queen
said, ‘Don’t be put about; I come not as a Queen,
but as a Christian lady. Have you got a Bible?’
She was given one, and the Queen sat down on the
chair, and said, ‘I heard from my daughter of your
long and sad illness, and I came to comfort you.’
She then took mother’s poor, wasted hand in hers
and said, ‘Put your trust in Jesus, and you will
soon be in a land where there is no pain. You are
a widow, so am I; we shall soon meet our loved
ones.” She then read the 14th chapter of the
Gospel according to St. John where Jesus says,
‘Let not your heart be troubled.’ Then she knelt
down on the floor and prayed for my mother. That
was not the only visit; for always since, when the
Queen came to Windsor Castle, she came to see my
mother once or twice a week, and always read the
Word of God, and always prayed.”

On the Day of Judgment Jesus will say to them
on His right hand: “I was sick, and ye visited
me.” And when they ask: “When saw we Thee
sick, and came unto Thee?” Jesus will answer:
“Verily, I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done
it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye
have done it unto me,” Matt. 25.

Confessing Jesus as the Lord.

To confess Jesus as the Lord means to acknowl-
edge ourselves as His servants, to seek His glory
alone. And this, undoubtedly, can only be done
through the Holy Ghost. “No man can say that
Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost,” 1 Cor.
12, 3. — Luther.