The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1911, Page 16

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16. The Lutheran Pioneer.

was written by Bishop Heber, who spent the last
years of his life in India and at all times took ac-
tive interest’ in mission work. In 1819, when
Heber was still pastor in England, a royal letter
authorized collections for mission to be taken in
every church and chapel in England connected with
the State church. On the evening of Pentecost
Sunday, which was the day appointed for the pur-
pose, Heber had been engaged to deliver the first of
a series of Sunday evening lectures in the church at
Wrexham, which was in charge of his father-in-law,
the Rev. Dr. Shipley. On the Saturday previous,
as they were seated around the table in the par-
sonage, Dr. Shipley requested his son-in-law to
write something for them to sing in the morning
that would be suitable to the missionary service.
Heber at once retired from the circle of friends to
a corner of the room. After a while his father-
in-law inquired, “What have you written?” Heber
then read the first three verses, which he had already
produced, “There, that will do very well,” said
Dr. Shipley. “No, no,” said Heber, “the sense is
not complete.” Accordingly, he added the fourth
verse, commencing, “Waft, waft, ye winds, His
story.” Next morning it was sung at the mission
service and soon became “the famous missionary
hymn.” Of Bishop Heber’s fifty-nine hymns none
are so widely known or so frequently sung as his
missionary hymn, “From Greenland’s Icy Moun-
tains.” :

A Lesson in Giving.

Sometimes people make the excuse that they
are too poor to give anything for missions. Such
people might learn a good lesson, indeed, from the
following : — P

“About eighty-six years ago Sally ‘Thomas, a

servant whose highest wages were fifty cents a week,

Board out of an estate of $500.00. This was the
first legacy the Board had.

“This woman had worked for her board and
$26.00 a year.. No doubt each year she gave. some
to the Lord, and the $500.00 she probably saved for
the time when she would not be able to work.- But
if the Lord should take her home before she needed
it, she willed it to Him. She’should have a record
beside that of the widow who cast in her two mites.
Tf we all had her spirit, how soon our missionary
treasuries would be full and overflowing!”

( Holy Trinit Church.
died leaving $345.83 to missions of the American . Sea nition Harte

BOOK TABLE.

OUTLINES oF DoctrinaL TuroLocy. By A. Lb. Graebner,
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price,
$1.50, postpaid. i

This is a new edition of a capital book from the pen of

the Jate Prof. A. L. Graebner, D. D. It has proved worthy
of the high praise given it when it first appeared in 1908.
The various doctrines are therein set forth in concise
statements, and for every doctrinal statement the ‘Serip-
ture proofs are given, thus showing that Lutheran theology
is Bible theology. The well-printed, handsomely and sub-
stantially bound volume will be found useful in the elass-
room and for private study. It will also do good service
to pastors as a reference book.

SYNOPALRERICHT DES ZENTRAL-ILLINOIS-DISTRIKTS. Con-
cordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 12 ets.
Contains an instructive doctrinal paper on the second
aoe of the Augsburg Confession, treating of Original
in.

Acknowledgments.

Received for Colored Missions from the following con-
gregations: St. Matthew, Meherrin, Va, $6.37, Mount Cal-
vary, Mount Pleasant, N. C., 1.00, St. Paul, Mansura, La.,
5.00, Grace, Concord, N. C., 8.00, St. John, Salisbury, N. C.,
2.75, St. Paul, Charlotte, N. C., 7.50, Bethlehem, Monroe,
N. C., 2.50, St. James, Southern Pines, N. C., 2.50, Beth-
Iehem, New Orleans, La., 30.00, Mount Zion, New Orleans,
La., 35.00, Concordia, Rockwell, N. C., 3.00, Zion, Gold
Hill, N. C., 3.00, Mount Zion, The Rocks, N. C., 3.00,
Grace, St. Louis, Mo., 6.00. Total: $115.62.

St. Louis, Mo., January 16, 1911.

H. L. Doepertetn, 7'reas.
848 E. Prairie Ave.

Received for the French Vaudois Lutheran Mission in
Chicago $10.00 from the family of A. DihImann, Brooklyn,
N.Y. May the merciful God bless the kind givers is the
prayer of the aged missionary, Rev. F. L. Braun.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.;
Ed. Schmidt, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 aA. x. and 7.30 pv. 31.;
Wednesday, 7.30 r. Mt.
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. aM. and 7.30 vr. M.;
Thursday, 7.30 Pr. M.
Bethichem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.;
G. M. Kramer, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A.M. and 7.30 P. M.;
Thursday, 7.30 yr. xt. Sunday School: Sunday, 10 a. a1,

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 a. x. and 8 pr. M.

TERMS:

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