The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1910, Page 37

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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True to Jesus.

About fifty years ago, a young Brahmin, in a
mission school at Madras, India, desired to take
part in the Christian instruction. He was kindly
received and was shown from Holy Scripture the
way of salvation. The word of Jesus, the Savior
of sinners, made a deep impression upon him. He
came to know his lost state and his great need of
this Savior.

He at length went to the missionary and
wished to be baptized, and become a Christian.
His former heathen friends, on hearing of this,
resolved to kill him rather than to let him be
baptized. A wild excited crowd of heathen sur-
rounded the mission school. A regiment of sol-
diers was sent by the government to protect the
school. The young man was baptized. From the
school he was taken to the dwelling of the mis-
sionary, the soldiers protecting him on the way.
As he was led through the street, stones were
thrown at the soldiers, who then guarded the
house for some days until the excitement had
subsided.

When all was quiet again, the young man re-
ceived this message from his parents: “It is too
sad that you have become a Christian, but do not
on that account let the family ties be broken.
Come again to our home. . Your mother wants
to see you once more. As a Christian you, in-
deed, must not eat in our presence; but you may
sit on the veranda, and your mother will prepare
the meal for you and place it before you. You
will surely again eat with joy something which
your mother has cooked for you, will you not?
Come and eat your supper at home and sleep here
this night.”

‘he young man was overhappy at this un-
expected sign of kindness on the part of his par-
ents, and without suspecting the least danger he
went to his parents’ home. ‘There he ate his supper.
Tt had been prepared by his mother, but mixed
with poisons, which are known only to the sor-
cerers of India and which have the effect, not of
killing a person, but of robbing him of his reason.
After the meal the young man lay down to sleep
and awoke the next morning —a madman. Then
they drove him out into the street. They needed
him no longer. The missionaries.found him and
took him into their care. As the madness con-

tinued, the young man had to be taken to an in-
sane asylum. The superintendent of the asylum,

' Savior’s love.

a distinguished English physician, was a young
doctor at Madras at the time of the young Brah-
min’s conversion. Je told the late Dr. Chamber-
lain the story, vouching for the truth of it. He
said to Chamberlain as they together visited the
asylum: “There you will see that young man, now
old and gray, but still an inmate of the asylum;
yet one thing is quite clear to him, and to it he
holds fast: it is his faith in Jesus Christ.”

Chamberlain found the man at some work.
When the work was finished, he looked up at
Chamberlain and said: “Leave Jesus, you said?
Never! I shall never leave Him. I may be killed,
but never shall I leave my Jesus. O Jesus Christ,
keep me, keep me, keep me steadfast unto the end !”
“Then,” says Chamberlain, “he sank against the
wall and seemed to know of nothing but of: his
That love was burning in his heart.”

He was forsaken and cast out by his father and
mother, but he was not forsaken by Jesus, who
says of those that are His: “I give unto them
eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither
shall any man pluck them out of my hand,’
John 10, 28.

“God So Loved the World.”

Rachel is the name of a poor orphan girl who
has found a Christian home, where she learns also
the one thing needful. When recently, in the time
of Lent, she heard of the great sacrifice of Christ for
the redemption of the sinful world, she said she
could never have thought that man lay in such a
deep damnation and that God could have loved
such a damned world, much léss that He could
have bought it for Himself with ‘such. bitter shed-
ding of blood. “I should say,” she added, “that
the blood of Jesus is more Brocigus aban gold and
silver, as the Catechism reads.”

“God so loved the world that He gave His only-
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting life,”
John 3, 16.

Do What God Says!

This is the way an old colored preacher put it:
“Bredren, whatever de good Lord tells me to do in
dis blessed Book, de Bible, dat I’m gwine to do. us
I see in it dat I must jump troo a stone wall, I’m
gwine to jump at it. Goin’ van it belongs to Go
jumpin’ at it belongs to me.”