The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1911, Page 39

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house for a moment, and when one came back an-
other went. When the tract was half read, a woman,
who had expressed great readiness to hear, came
forward and said, “Sir, we should like to hear
more, bué we have something to do. We have this
evening killed a sheep and are just making it ready.
Now our hearts are thinking about the sheep, and
so we cannot listen well to what is read. Come,
therefore, at another time, when we shall be able
to attend with our hearis.” |All the others con-
firmed this and joined in the request.

The missionary told them they might die be-
fore he came again, and then they could do no more
for their souls. ‘To this they replied, “That is true,
but now we are thinking of our sheep.”

How like these heathen are many in Christian
lands — ever “thinking of the sheep” when the
Word of God ig preached. Their thoughts are so
oecupied with the things of this world that they
have no time for things that belong to their peace
and their souls’ salvation.

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Confirmation.

Abt Greensboro, N. C., a considerable number of
young people renewed their baptismal covenant on
Palm Sunday, the day which is set aside by so
many Lutheran congregations as Confirmation Day.

At Immanuel College, Prof. Bakke confirmed
ten students, viz., three boys and seven girls. ‘The
ceremony of confirmation was preceded by an ex-
amination on the chief doctrines of the Lutheran
Chureh, by the baptism of one of the students, and
by an address on Matt. 26, 41.

At Grace Church two young ladies and one
gentleman were confirmed by Prof. Wahlers, after
they had given proof of having acquired a suflicient
knowledge of the Lutheran doctrine. Prof. Wah-
lers based his address on Ps. 119, 106.

May these people continue steadfast in the con-
fession of our church ! M. L.

NOTES.

A Catt vor Hreir.— Our Mission Board, in
accordance with a resolution passed by the Synod-
ical Conference at its recent meeting, has issued
a letter to all the children in the day-schools and
Sunday-schools of the Conference, calling upon
them to help by their contributions in building a
sorely needed school-house at Greensboro, N. C.

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About four years ago a mission school for colored
Children was opened with 25 pupils near Immanuel
College, at Greensboro. The school has grown to
140 pupils and had to be taught in some of the
class-rooms of the College. But this can no longer
be done, as the College is overcrowded, there being
250 pupils and students. .So a building is sorely
needed for this Christian mission school, “which has
been a blessing to many colored children, and will
be a blessing to still more children in the future.
We hope the appeal for help will find a ready and
liberal response. And the pupils of our colored
schools are not excluded. They also may fall in
line with their pennies, and nickels, and dimes.
Every little helps, you know.

How ‘ro Give. — We read in Ezra 2, 69: “They
gave after their ability.” And in Acts 11, 29 we
read: “Every man according to his ability2’ Not
according to his mood and fancy, but “every man
according to his ability.” Not according to other
people’s giving or other people’s ability, but “every
man according to his ability.” How well supplied
would all the church treasuries be if all gave after
their ability, if the recognized standard of: giving
were: “Every man according to his ability.”

A Cireerrut Giver. —In the Treasury a min-
ister tells an instructive story about giving. In
one of his charges a wealthy man regularly con-
tributed every Lord’s day five dollars for the sup-
port of the church, and as regularly a poor widow
put in five cents, all she could spare, as she sup-
ported herself and six children by taking in wash-
ing. One day the wealthy man came to the min-
ister and said that the poor widow ought not to
pay anything, and that he would pay the five cents
for her every week. ‘The minister called to tell her
of this offer, which he did as delicately as he could.
This was her reply as the tears started to her eyes:
“To they want to take from me the comfort I ex-
perience in giving to the Lord? Think how much I
owe to Him! My health is good, my children keep
well, and I receive so many blessings that I feel I
could not live if I did not make my little offering
to Jesus each week.”

A GeEntTLE Hint. —A good example has been
set by Sir Robert Hart, for so many years Director
of Chinese Customs. He wrote recently to the
British and Foreign Bible Society as follows: “It
occurs to me, as I am just opening a new check-

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