The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1907, Page 88

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From Darkness to Light.

A missionary, who labored among the Indians
in the West for many years, relates the following:

“Some years ago an Indian stood at my door,
and as I opened it, he knelt at my feet. Of course
I bade him not to kneel. He said: ‘My father,
I knelt only because my heart is warm to a man
who pitied the red man. I am a wild man. My
home is five hundred miles from here. I knew that
all the Indians east of the Mississippi had perished,
and I never looked into the faces of my children
that my heart was not sad. My father had told me
of the Great Spirit, and I have often gone out into
the woods and tried to talk with him.’

“Then he said, so sadly, as he looked into my
face:

“You don’t know what I mean. You never
stood in the dark, and reached out your hand and
could not take hold of anything. And I heard one
day that you had brought to the red man a wonder-
ful story of the Son of the Great Spirit.’

“That man sat as a child, and he heard anew
the story of the love of Jesus. And when we met
again, he said, as he laid his hand on his heart:

“Tt is not dark; it laughs all the while.’ ”

BOOK TABLE.

+ PROCEEDINGS OF THE TENTH CONVENTION of the Evangel-
ical Lutheran Synod of Missouri and other States.
American Lutheran Publication Board, Pittsburg,
Pa. Price, 20 cts.

Besides encouraging zener on the important educa-
tional and missionary work of our English brethren, this
pamphlet contains an instructive doctrinal paper on Con-
version, very clearly setting forth this important doctrine
in accord with Holy Scriptures and the Confessions of the
Lutheran Church.

AMERIKANISCIER KALENDER fuer deutsche Lutheraner
auf das Jahr 1908. Concordia Publishing House,
St. Louis, Mo. Price, 10 cts. ~

This useful annual will, no doubt, again be welcomed
in thousands of German Lutheran homes. Besides the
usual calendar and statistical matter, it this year con-
tains 27 pages of instructive and edifying reading matter.
It brings also a beautiful colored picture representing the
risen Savior with the two disciples at Emmaus, and illus-
trating the pilgrims’ prayer: “Lord, abide with us!”

From American Lutheran Publication Board, Pitts-

burg, Pa., we have received two excellent Christmas Pro-
grams:

THE CuRisTsAs Messace. A Festival Service for English
Lutheran Schools.

THE Cneist-Cnitp. A Program for a Children’s Service
at Christmas.

Price, each 5 cts. per copy, tpaid; per dozen, not
postpaid, 50 cts.; seed ater |p $3.50."

Acknowledgment.

Received for Colored Missions from Mount Zion Church
at New Orleans, La., $35.00; St. Paul’s Church, New Or-
leans, La., 35.00; St. Paul’s Church, Mansura, La., 12.50;
St. Paul’s Church, Charlotte, N. C., 5.00; Mount Zion
Church, Meyersville, N. C., 2.50; Grace Mission, St. Louis,
Mo., 5.00; Holy Trinity Church, Springfield, Ill., 31.00;
Grace Church, Concord, N. C., 10.00.

St. Louis, Mo., October 19, 1907.

A. C. Bureporr, T'rcas.

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Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.

St. Paul's Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.; F. J. Lan-
kenau, Pastor.
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30 P.M.
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