The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1910, Page 5

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“On my account? ITfow so?” asked the old man
in great surprise.

“Because you are old and cannot live much
longer and still do not know the way to heaven,”
said the boy.

“What? Do you know the way to heaven?”
asked the old man.

“I know that the Lord Jesus has saved me, and
that He is willing to save you too,” was the reply.

“Who is Jesus?” asked the old man.

The boy then told him of God’s love in Christ
Jesus, who came into the world to save sinners

and his wife were led to the Savior by this boy, long
before a missionary came to that place. Four years
later, the well-known English missionary, Hudson
Taylor, the founder of the China Inland Mission,
who himself relates this incident, was taken by the
boy, now a young man, to see the aged Chinese
couple. Missionary Taylor rejoiced at their sincere
Christian faith. He found them also very thankful
and warmly attached to the Christian young man
to whom they owed so much. “Had it not been for
this young man, my wife and I should have died in
darkness,” said the old Chinaman.

Congregation at Rocks, N. C., on the Day of Harvest Home and Mission Festival.

from sin and damnation by His sufferings and
death. The heart of the aged hearer was deeply
moved. “Boy,” he said, “I am already sixty-five
years old, but never in my life have I heard words
like those you just now spoke to me. Have you
already had your dinner?”

“When the boy said no, the old man invited him
to come to his house, where he could tell the same
story of Jesus to his aged wife. Gladly the boy
went along, and very attentively did the old couple
listen to the story of Jesus and His love. Upon
their kind invitation the boy came also the next
day. In fact, he spent all the rest of his Christmas
holidays at their home.

The consequence was that the old Chinaman

- Festival Day at Rocks, N. C.

The thirteenth Sunday after Trinity was a fes-
tival day for our colored Lutherans at Rocks, N. C.
On that day 41 catechumens were received into the
congregation by confirmation, after having proved
in a public examination that they had been thor-
oughly instructed in the Christian doctrine. On
the same day the congregation celebrated its Har-
yest Home and Mission Festival, the Rey. F. Ford
assisting the pastor, the Rev. W. H. Lash, of Salis-
bury, N. C. In all three services there was a large
number of attentive-hearers, some of them having
come several miles in the early morning to take
part in the festivities of this day of joy and thanks-