The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1911, Page 35

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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Father is not in him. For all that is in the world,
the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and
the pride of life, is not of the Father, but of the
world. And the world passeth away, and the lust
thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth
forever.” And the Apostle Paul says: “If ye he
risen with Christ, seek those things which are
above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of
God. Set your affection on things above, not on
things on the earth.” :

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Christ Comes as a Savior.

Christ, when IIe comes, is nothing but joy and
sweetness to a trembling and broken heart, as Paul
witnesses, who seis Him forth with the sweetest and
most comforting title when he says: “Who loved
me and gave Himself for me.” — Luther.

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Heavenly-Minded.

In a church at Wittenberg a memorial tablet
was long ago fastened against the wall in honor of
the old Lutheran theologian, Dr. Major. The pic-
ture represents the ascension of Christ. The dis-
ciples are seen standing around the spot from which
the Savior had just ascended, and directing their
eyes to their ascending Lord. But around the dis-
ciples a still wider circle of persons is formed, all
of them looking up to heaven and beholding the
wonder of their Lord’s ascension with anxious yet
hopeful eyes. ‘They all belong to the family of
Dr. Major. It is a beautiful picture, writes a
Lutheran divine, and has a deep and _ beautiful
meaning. It teaches what the attitude of every
Christian family should be. The eyes of all its
members should be directed to Him who went before
us to prepare a place. for His own in His Father’s
house, and the hearts-of all should be set upon
things that are above, where Christ sitteth at the
right hand of God. Blessed family whose members
are all heayenly-minded! ‘Their hearts being set
upon the treasures of heaven! Blessed home in
which children learn to pray, and hear the Word
of God!

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A Little Missionary.

A few years ago an Eskimo man and his two
children were baptized at Churchill, on the shores
of Hudson Bay, in Northwest Canada. One of

the children was a nine-year-old girl, who, during

her stay at the mission, had had Christian teaching
and had learned to love the Lord Jesus Christ.
With her father she went away to the hunting-
grounds in the North. Three years later the bishop
made a very long journey, traveling from Edmon-
ton back to Ifudson Bay; when one thousand miles
from Churchill, he came upon a camp of some one
hundred and twenty Eskimos. About one hundred
of them had never seen a white man, much less a
missionary; and the bishop began to teach them
the things of God. Tle was surprised to hear that
the Gospel was not new to them. He found that
the little Christian Eskimo girl, of whom no mis-
sionary had heard since she had left Churchill three
years before, had spent the winter in that camp, had
acted as their Christian teacher, reading the Word
of God with the Eskimo children in their snow-
houses, and on Sunday gathering the people for
worship.

The story of this Eskimo girl who passed on to
others the glad tidings she had heard is but one
instance of the earnestness of many of the Indian
and Eskimo Christians.

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Old Uncle’s Answer of Faith.

One day three young men were descending from
the fifth story of one of Cincinnati’s largest build-

* ings in an elevator controlled by an elderly colored

man. ‘They were discussing the question of what
the result would be if the elevator should fall, and
one of them said, “I don’t care for myself, but I
am anxious for my old friend here,” alluding to
the colored man. Turning to him, he said, “Uncle,
where do you think you would alight?” ‘The. old
man replied promptly, “I would light in the arms
of Jesus! Where would you light?” The young
man was silenced, and left the elevator without an-
other word.

An African King’s Jubilee.

- The well-known Christian King Khama, chief
of an African tribe in Bechuanaland, South Africa,
celebrated, a short time ago, the fiftieth anniver-
sary of his baptism. An immense crowd, estimated
at 10,000, had gathered in the capital city, and
the king made a touching address in which he
avowed his continued loyalty to his Lord. Lifting
up a New Testament, which Queen Victoria had
presented to him when he visited England years

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