The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1909, Page 36

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

One Girl’s Influence.

A Boston Jawyer who has for forty years been
eminent in his profession, and no less eminent in
Christian work, and in princely gifts to the cause
of benevolence, tells this story of what fixed his
course of life: —

When he was a young man, he once attended a
missionary meeting in Boston. One of the speakers

at that meeting — a plain man — said he had a girl
in his domestic service at a wage of less than $2.00
a week, who gave $1.00 every month to missions;
she also had a class of poor boys in Sunday school

who neyer missed her from her place. And he said
of her, “She is the happiest, kindest, tidiest girl
I ever had in my kitchen.”

The young man went home with these broken
sentences sticking in his mind. “Class in Sunday
school,” “Dollar a month to missions,” “Happiest
girl.” :

The first result-was that he took a class in Sun-
day school; the second was a resolve that if this girl
could give $1.00 a month to missions, he could, and
would. ‘These were the immediate effects of one
plain girl’s consecrated life.

3 But who can count, who can imagine the sum

total? ‘That lawyer was, for almost half a century
from this time, an increasingly active force in every
good work within his reach. — Selected.

The Tabernacle.

The Tabernacle, made. by Moses according to
directions given by God Himself, was for many
years the place of worship in the time of the Old
Testament until the building of the temple at Jeru-
salem. It was a large tent, with a wooden frame-
work covered with fine cloth and skins. It was
divided by a heavy, precious curtain into two apart-
ments, the outer apartment being the Holy Place
and the inner apartment the Holy of Holies. ‘The
Tabernacle, or Tent, was enclosed in an open square,
called the Court. ‘This Court was enclosed by cur-
tains fastened to posts at regular
intervals, the Tabernacle standing

So you see the Tabernacle area
had three divisions — the Court,
the Holy Place, and the Holy of
Holies. In the Court stood the
Altar of Burnt-Offering, near the
entrance, and the Laver, or large
basin, containing water for. the
sacrificial purifyings. In the
Holy Place were the golden can-
dlestick with its seven lamps, the
table of showbread, and the Altar
of Incense, which stood near the
entrance to the Holy of Holies.
In the Holy of Holies, the inner-
most and holiest room of the Tab-
ernaele, and the one into which
only the High Priest entered once
every year, on the Day of Atone-
ment, there was kept the Ark of
the Covenant with its golden
lid, called the Mercy-Seat, on which the High
Priest sprinkled.the blood of the sacrifice on the
great Day of Atonement and which was a type
of Christ, “whom God hath set forth to be a pro-
pitiation,” or .Mercy-Seat, “through faith in His
blood,” Rom. 3, 25.

The Tabernacle, with all its precious furniture,
was an example and shadow of heavenly things,
which we Christians in the time of the New Testa-
ment enjoy through faith in Christ Jesus, who came
“a High Priest of good things to come, by a greater
and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands,
that is to say, not of this building; neither by the
blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood
He entered in once into the holy’ place, having ob-
tained eternal redemption for us,” Hebr. 9, 11. 12.

at the western end of the Court. ~

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