The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1910, Page 29

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right away, he could reach the chief before night
and be in time for the boat the next day.

The missionary started immediately, accompa-
nied by the messenger and several Druses. But to
travel over mountains was very difficult, and there
were several hindrances, so that they made but slow
progress. Night came on, and they were still tray-
eling. As the moon rose, they suddenly saw a hyena
on the road in front of them. The Druses soon
drove the wild beast away: with stones. But they
positively refused to continue the journey as they
were superstitious and considered the hyena a sign
of ill luck. So the missionary had to stay over night
in the nearest village. Being overtired from their
hardships, they awoke rather late next morning.
With a sad heart the missionary had to give up his
visit to the chief. He reached the harbor only just
in time to catch his boat.

Why was the missionary prevented from visiting
the chief who had said he wanted to hear about
Jesus? Why did the hyena appear on the road just
at that time? The missionary could find no answer
.to the question as he with a sad heart left the land
of the Druses. But later he learned that God had
cared for His servant and had protected him from
the wily chief. He received a letter from a friend
in the Lebanon Mountains. His friend wrote: “The
chief who expected you was here and said to me,
‘Your friend is indeed a servant of God. God has
kept him. I wanted him to come to me, so that
I might kill him. God has delivered him out of
the hand of his enemies.’ ”

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A Wise Little Boy.

An officer in the United States navy, spending
a day on one of the West India islands, where his
ship lay, visited a mission school, where he found
a number of colored children under the instruction
of the teacher. One little boy‘was asked to prove
from the Bible that the bodies of the dead will rise
from the grave.

“I can prove it, massa,” said the little fellow;
“for Jesus said, ‘I am the Resurrection and the
Life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live;? and again Jesus said, ‘I will raise
him up at the last day, and in another place, “The
hour is coming in which all that are in the graves
shall hear His voice, and shall‘come forth.’ ”

He was then asked, “Can you Prrey it from the
Old SESE also?”

“Yes,” he replied; “for Job says, ‘I know that
my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at
the latter day upon the earth; and though after
my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh
shall I see God.”

A Bible was then put into the boy’s hands, and
he turned readily to the places where the words
which he quoted are to be found.

Surely, this little boy was in the right way ‘to
true wisdom. It is the Bible that can make us
wise unto salvation; for the Bible is God’s Word.

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The Way to Heaven.

A poor little boy was standing at the corner of
one of the streets in Glasgow, Scotland. As he
stood there a gentleman came near and asked him
the way to a certain street. The boy gave such
exact directions that the street could not be missed.
The gentleman, in order to test the boy’s Christian
knowledge, then said, “Now, my boy, if you will
tell me the way to heaven as correctly, I’ll give you
a sixpence.” The boy considered for a moment,
then suddenly remembering a text he had learned
in a Christian school, he replied, “Christ is the
Way, the Truth, and the Life, sir.”

The gentleman at once handed him the promised
sixpence, and left him, deeply touched by the little
boy’s answer.

In after years this boy had the blessed privilege
of directing many to Christ, the Way, the Truth,
and the Life. For the little fellow one day saved
a child from being run over, and, out of thankful-
ness, he was educated by the child’s father and be-

came a missionary, showing to others the way to -

heaven.

A Noble Confession of a Brave General.

King Frederick the Great, of Prussia, had
among his generals one who was known for his firm
belief in the Bible. The King, who was not a be-
liever himself, one day asked the brave general in
the presence of others, “Why do you believe the

‘Bible ?”

The battle-scarred veteran replied: “Because
the Bible reveals to me a Father who has numbered
the very hairs of my head; because the Bible re-
veals to me a Savior who has atoned for every one
of my sins; because the Bible reveals to me a heaven

where I am to spend an ONE and blessed ~

existence.”