The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1911, Page 29

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upon us, and I removed my boat to another part
of the city, two miles distant.

“About eight o’clock in the evening the young
man came again; he had been searching all along
the shore for me. On his return to his grandfather,
the latter inquired if he had asked the teacher to
stay with him; and he had now come to invite me
te his house. I went, and found the old man seated
in the midst of his family. He put out his hand
te feel for me, and I perceived that he was blind.
Ilis family had read to him, and he spoke of the
comfort he had derived from John and the Acts.
“The eyes of my body,’ he said, ‘are dark; but the
eyes of my mind are opened? ” — Ea.

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Jesus Paid It All.

Matt was an idiot boy living on the coast of
England. Ife had learned enough to know that he
was a sinner, and that he owed a debt to God which
he could not pay. He was one day sitting on the
beach, weeping for fear that God would shut him
up in prison. A Christian lady took his trembling
hand in hers and gently said, “No, Matt, you need
not be shut up in prison, for Jesus has paid your
debt.” She then told the poor boy in a very simple
way that Jesus paid our debt of sin with His own
. blood, and that’ His rising from the grave was the
proof that the payment has been accepted, so that
all who trust in Him need not fear to be shut up
in prison, since Jesus paid it all. By the power
of the Tloly Spirit the soft light of the Gospel
glanced into his darkened mind, and the saving
Gospel truth was carried home to his heart. He
lifted his streaming eyes to heaven with the joyful
cry, “Man that paid, Matt says, Thank you, thank
you!”

Trusting in what Jesus did for him, his fear
was gone, his heart was filled with joy, and he was
often heard saying, “Jesus paid it all.”

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A Good Reply.

An Irish woman, who had left the Romish sect
and had embraced the evangelical faith, was in her
illness taken to a hospital in which Catholic “sisters
of mercy” were employed as nurses. She was bodily
well taken care of, but had to endure much reproof
and ridicule and many pase for ghaving become a
Protestant.

One day one of the sisters said to her, “You
Protestants have no respect for the Virgin Mary,
whom the angel called blessed among women.”

“No respect?” replied the sick woman,,“I should
like to know how many Catholics there are that
esteem so highly the only command of the mother
of our Lord and so faithfully try to follow it as
the Protestants.”

“Which command?” asked the sister,

“Why,” replied the woman, “the only command
she ever gave and which was given at the marriage
at Cana when Mary commanded: ‘Whatsoever He
saith unto you, do it! We Protestants do what
Jesus says.”

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The Lord of Death.

From the resurrection of Jesus Christ we see
that He is the Lord even of the king of terrors, of
death; the Lord of him that binds with inde-
structible fetters and lays at his feet every creature

coming into his realm.— Dr. Walther.
Do It Now!

We pass through this world but once. Any good
thing, therefore, that we can do, or any kindness —
that we can show to any human being, let us do it
now. Let us not defer it nor neglect it, for we
shall not pass this way again.

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Ordination of Rev. W. O. Hill.

Grace Congregation of Greensboro, N. C., had
the great pleasure of witnessing the ordination of
one of her sons, namely, that of W. O. Hill. In a
solemn afternoon service, on Sunday, March 5, said
candidate of theology was ordained for the office
of the holy ministry by Prof. N. J. Bakke, the
other professors of Immanuel College assisting at
the ceremony. Prof. Bakke also preached a very
impressive sermon, basing his remarks on 1 ‘Tim.
4, 16. He pointed out the arduous task and the
glorious reward of a candidate of theology.

Rey. W. O. Hill graduated from Immanuel Col- ,
lege last spring, and had until now assisted Rev. J.
McDavid, of Charlotte, N. C., in his mission sta-
tions. Now the Board for Negro Missions had
called Rev. Hill to Yonkers, N. Y., where he is to