The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1909, Page 54

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54 The Lutheran Pioneer.

Colored Lutheran Mission at St. Louis, Mo.

Grace Lutheran Colored Mission of St. Louis,
Mo., has recently experienced a revival of interest
in its affairs. For some time it was feared that the
mission place would have to be closed; but recent
events have demonstrated that we still have a num-
ber of colored Lutherans who are serious in adhering
to their Lutheran Church and its doctrine. And
so the work of helping and advancing this mission
has been earnestly taken up again, and the good
results are already forthcoming. At the Grace Lu-
theran mission place, northeast corner of 13th and
Gay Streets, services have been regularly conducted
for the last several months, which are attended by
15 to 20 adults; and the Sunday school, in charge
of Mrs. Marg. Baehler, is also prospering, 35 to 40
children coming regularly to the meetings. On
Pentecost Day Rev. J. H. Doswell, colored mis-
sionary of Springfield, Ill., came to preach the fes-
tival sermon, and at the same time to dedicate a
fine organ which had been presented to the mission

-by the Jesse French Piano and Organ Co. of

St. Louis.

Hight adults have expressed their purpose of
receiving catechetical instructions prior to being
admitted to the Lord’s Supper. It is hoped that
the colored mission of this city will soon have
enough members to require a permanent missionary
to be stationed here. The field is a large one; there
are upwards of 40,000 colored people in this city.
They need the Gospel of Christ, so that they, too,
might come unto a knowledge of the truth, and Jearn
to be saved through faith in Christ Jesus. May
God prosper this work among the colored people
here, and gather into the fold of the church many
who are yet in ignorance of Christ and His salva-
tion. W. H.

How She Knew It Was God’s Book.

She sat behind her neatly-arranged fruit-stand
—a girl of fourteen —absorbed in reading her
Bible. She did not hear the footsteps of a gentle-
man who was passing by, and was startled by his
question :

“What are you reading that interests you so
much ?”?

_ “The Word of God, sir,” she timidly replied.

‘Who told you that the Bible is the Word of
God?” he inquired.

“God told me Himself,” she replied, with child-
like innocence.

“God told you? ITow did Ife tell
you? You have never seen Him, nor talked with
Him. How, then, could Te tell you that the Bible
is His Word?”

For a few seconds the girl scemed confused,
but she very soon recovered herself, and her ready
wit came to her aid. ‘There was a flash in her dark
eyes as she asked:

“Sir, who told you there is a sun yonder in the
blue sky above us?”

“Who told me?” said the man, smiling some-
what contemptuously; for he fancied that the girl
was. trying to hide her ignorance under an irrel-
evant question. “Who told me? Nobody, I did
not need to be told. The sun tells me this about
itself. It warms me, and I love its light. ‘That is
telling me plain enough.”

“Sir,” said the girl with intense earnestness, as
she stood before him with clasped hands, “you have
put it right for both Bible and sun. hat is the
way God tells me this is His book. I read it, and
it warms my heart and gives me light. I love its
light, and no one but God can give such light and
warmth through the pages of a book. It must be
His. I do not want more telling; that is telling
enough, sir. As sure as the sun is in heaven, so
sure is God shining through this book.”

The skeptic was abashed. ‘The earnest faith of
the young fruit seller amazed him. He could
adroitly insinuate doubts into the minds of those
who have only given an intellectual assent to the
truth that the Bible is God’s book, but the girl’s
heart experience of the power of God’s Word was
an evidence he could not shake.

Messiah’s Herald.

Impossible !

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Looking after the Heathen at Home.

An aged preacher, known for his quiet ways,
once met a man loudly declaiming against foreign
missions.

“Why doesn’t the church look after the heathen
at home?” said the man.

“We do,” said the preacher quietly, and gave the

man a tract.
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‘THE whole-hearted life for God means a whole-
hearted opposition to the world, the flesh, and the
devil.

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