The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1909, Page 72

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in the Christian faith, had been baptized and was
prayerfully cared for. But later the missionary’s
heart was deeply pained by her falling away from
the faith. With all heathen pomp and ceremony
she was married to a heathen man and moved into
another district far away.

Fifteen years later, the same missionary went
to a distant village and preached there. Not long
after, a man came to him with the request to dedi-
cate a house of prayer which the man himself had
built. The missionary went with the man, who
soon pointed with a certain pride to a neat little
house made of palm leaves. He called it a church;
there were indeed a number of heathen assembled
awaiting the missionary’s coming.

“T should like to be a Christian,” said the man
who had built the little church, “and I wish you to
bless the house of your God.” The missionary
wondered how it happened that in a heathen village
some one wished to become a Christian. “My wife
is the cause,” said the man. “Fifteen years ago
you baptized her. But she left all, even her faith,
to become my wife. At first she was happy; then
she grew sad. She wished to have her children bap-
tized and also wished me to learn to understand the
Christian religion. Therefore she sent me to you

. after we had recently heard you speak of Christ.”

The missionary was deeply moved. ‘There was
no doubt, the wife of this man was his former pupil
for whom he many years ago was deeply. grieved
when she moved away from her former home with
her heathen husband. He learned that, whilst grief
and doubt burdened his heart, God’s Spirit worked
in the soul of the woman through the Word which
she had learned from the missionary. His labor
had not been in vain. The wandering one was
brought back to the fold and the missionary re-
joiced with the Good Shepherd who had found the
sheep that was lost.

Bitter Reward of Unbelief.

Years ago I was visiting a friend of mine, who
possessed: a large estate. Incidentally I spoke of
paradise to him. Then he smiled and said, point-
‘ing out of the window toward his extensive estate:

“That is my paradise.” And indeed, vineyards and

meadows, surrounded by blossoming fruit trees, ex-
fended there in a gentle slope down to the blue
lake, and on the shore beyond beautiful hills arose,
und above them the snowy Alpine peaks mounted
into the very sky, A beautiful picture!

After a few years I visited him again. The
lake was still smiling in the sunshine, and the trees
were green, But in the room the owner, broken in
spirit, sat brooding gloomily in his armchair. His
beloved son had been drowned before his eyes in
the Jake, one daughter had entered an unhappy
marriage, and he himself was slowly sinking into
the grave with an incurable disease. Just then his
youngest daughter came into the room and said,
“Father, I am going to town. What shall I bring
for you?” And the father answered sullenly,
“A revolver.” — FP’. Bettex.

Acknowledgment.

Received for Colored Missions from the following con-
gregations: St. Matthew, Meherrin, Va., $8.68, St. Paul,
Charlotte, N. C., 7.50, Mount Zion, Meyersville, N. C.,
2.50, Bethlehem, Monroe, N. C., 2.50, St. James, Southern
Pines, N. C., 2.50, Mount Calvary, Mt. Pleasant, N. C.,
5.00, Grace, Concord, N. C., 15.00, Concordia, Rockwell,
N. C., 8.83, St. Paul, Mansura, La., 2.10, Bethlehem, New
Orleans, La., 30.00, Mount Zion, New Orleans, La., 35.00,
St. Paul, New Orleans, La., 35.00, Grace Mission, St. Louis,
Mo., 3.00. otal: $157.61.

St. Louis, Mo., August 17, 1909.
Henry A. ScCneNnKEL, 7'reas.
1447 John Ave.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.

St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. st. and 7.30 P. M.;
Wednesday, 7.30 p. at.
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts.; Ed. C.
Krause,: Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 1] a. mM. and 7.30 P. M.;
Thursday, 7.30 P. a.
Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.;
G. M. Kramer, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday. 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. 3f.;
Thursday, 7.30 p. mM. ‘Sunday School: Sunday, 10 A. af.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Holy Trinity Church; James Doswell, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 a. x. and 8 P. Mf.

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