The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1908, Page 69

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They must also teach their children to abhor -

sin, to become honest, truthful, and industrious,
and to obey and honor their parents. This can be
accomplished only through the elevating influence
of the Word of God. This alone can teach them
how their married life can become chaste and de-
cent, how each can learn to love and honor his
spouse, how their children can be reared to love
and fear God, to love and honor their parents, to
love their neighbors, and to be honest and truthful,
and all this through the love and fear of God, their
Creator and Savior. The benign influence of the
Word of God, though: gentle and loving, is very
powerful in its effect. The sooner the colored race
comes under its influence, the more rapidly will
its social elevation proceed, the earlier will it de-
serve and gain the respect of the community which
surrounds it, and gain a higher social elevation.
Only by Christian churches and schools in which
the pure Gospel is proclaimed and taught can the
colored race be brought to a higher social standard.
Therefore see to it, ye fathers and mothers and
guardians of the children! Bring them early to
the Christian schools! Come to the church that is
open to receive you, and put yourselves under the
influence of the pure and true Gospel! “Godliness
is profitable unto all things, having promise of the
life that now is, and of that which is to come,”
1 Tim. 5,'8.

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Let Your Light Shine!

Some years ago there dwelt a widow in a lonely
cottage on the seashore. The coast around her was
rugged and dangerous, and many a time her heart
was saddened at the sight of wrecked fishing boats
and other vessels, and the cries of perishing beings.
One stormy night, when the howling wind was mak-
ing loneliness more lonely, and the widow was won-
dering what the morning’s light might Jet her see,
a happy thought came to her. Her cottage stood on
a-high place, and her window looked out upon the
sea; might she not place a lamp at that window?
The light would serve as a warning to those coming
too near the coast. This she did. And all her life,
during winter nights, her lamp burned at the win-
dow. No one knows how many a sailor’s life was
saved by means of it.

The Lord Jesus wants us to let our light shine.
He wants us to set a good example. He wants us
Christians to be a light in the world. We are to
Serve as guides to others. Let your light shine!

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“Remember Christ Jesus.”

A few years ago in Armenia, when the Turkish
soldiers were ruthlessly massacring the poor Arme,
nian Christians, a father and two sons in a Chris-
tian home were attacked by the Moslem murderers.
A missionary ‘saw the ‘Turkish officers enter the
house and offer life to the seventeen-year-old son if
he would renounce Christianity and become a fol-
lower of Mohammed. 'The youth looked up to his
father, but that Christian parent pointed upward
and said, “Remember Christ Jesus.” They ran the
sword through his heart and he fell lifeless at his
father’s feet. To his little brother, twelve years of
age, those soldiers made a similar demand. As
the child turned to his father, that father said,
“My dear boy, look not at your dead brother, look
not at me—but remember Jesus Christ.” They
took that boy’s life by beheading him at once. Then
turning to the parent they gave him the alternative
to retract, to deny his Lord Jesus, or to meet a fate
similar to that which had just befallen his two dear
sons. With serene faith he looked upward and ex-
claimed, “I can only remember Jesus Christ,” as
the ball from the rifle pierced his heart.

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Brotherly Love.

Some time ago a fire broke out in a village on
the island of Formosa. Two houses caught fire.
One of the houses ‘was saved. It was the house of
a heathen Chinaman. The other house belonged
to a Christian, who happened to be away from
home. As no one tried to save his house, it was
burned down. There was much laughter among
the people of the village at the Christian’s misfor-
tune. “That is the worth of your religion,” they
said to him. ,

A day or two after, a company of men were
seen coming across the fields, and when they got
near, it was seen that they were laden with wood,
tools, and articles of furniture: The village soon
was astir.. What was it? Who were the men?
They were the members of the church to which the
man belonged whose house had burned down. They
had come from their homes, some miles away, to
rebuild his house. This they did, while the village
folks looked on in wonder. Such brotherly love
was new to them. Nothing like it had ever been
seen there before.

Christ says to His followers: “This is my com-
mandment, That ye love one another.” :