The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1911, Page 63

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Seeing Jesus with the Heart.

One day an aged native came to a missionary
who was laboring among the Papuas, on the island
of New Guinea. The old Papua asked the mis-
sionary, “Have you seen the Lord Jesus?”

The missionary replied, “No.”

“Has your father seen Him ?”

“No.”

“Has your grandfather seen Him?”

“No.”

The old man went away sorrowfully; but after
some time he came back and joyfully said to the
missionary, “I now know. You have seen the Lord
Jesus with the heart.”

The words of the native came to the missionary
as a light in darkness. He had long tried in vain
to find in the Papua language a word for the Bible
term “believe.” He now had what he needed. He
simply translated “believing” with “seeing with the
heart.” The natives now understood him when he
spoke to them of faith in Jesis.

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Either — Or.

Christ says: “He that is not with me is against
me; and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth,”
Luke 11, 23. ‘To be with Christ means to be of
the same mind with Him, to believe in Him, that
His works, not our own, help us to salvation. And
to gather with Christ means to do good in Christian
love, to be rich in good works. Whosoever, then,
does not believe is by his own decision, not with
Christ, but against Christ; for he denies Christ,
trusting in his own works. Again, whosoever does
not love, gathereth not with Christ; all his labor is
lost, getting further and further away from faith.

Lather.

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NOTES.

- Bronxvitie Concorpra. — We are in receipt of
the beautiful new Catalogue of Concordia College
at Bronxville, N. Y., “an institution of the German
Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and
cther States, maintained for the preparatory instruc-
tion of young men for the ministry and, in general,
for the higher education of our Imtheran youth.”
By word and illustrations the Catalogue presents our
Bronxville Concordia, giving full information as to.

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equipment, methods of instruction, and courses of
study. It will be sent on application. Address:
E. H. Engelbrecht, 1192 Park Ave., New York City.

Home AND ForetcN Missions. — After refer-
ring to the criticism of “your so-called common-sense
man,” who opposes Foreign Missions on the ground
that the money is needed at home, the Boston Tran-
script, a secular daily, says: “Furthermore, the men
and women of America, who are the largest con-
tributors to churches, schools, and missions in the
United States, are the most generous supporters of
the same Christian work in foreign lands. ‘The two
go together. They are one.”

THE Girts or THE Arrican. — Says a German
Lutheran mission paper: The new mission church at
Kwanyako, on the Gold Coast of Africa, is a strik-
ing proof of the fitness of the African for civiliza-
tion and culture. The chancel, altar, and font are
in mahogany lathe-work, the benches of ant-proof
odum-wood, the floor solidly cemented, the walls of
rammed clay, the roof of corrugated iron — all Af-
rican work, a triumph of African industry over
heathen sloth, a performance of African civilization
of far-reaching importance in this uncivilized land.
This building, and many others on the Gold Coast,
are not only signs of a growing Christian life, they
also bear favorable testimony to the mental gifts of
the African. This is not a race that is doomed to
intellectual stagnation. :

Nose DEED or AN ArnicAN Prince. — It is
reported from the Kameruns that the African Prince
Njojo, of Banum, has built a large school for 500
scholars, and has turned it over to the Basel Mission
Society. The prince himself is a volunteer teacher,
giving Christian instruction to the children with
much enthusiasm.

Ture Power or Gop’s Worp. — A German mis-
sionary in China writes to Mission Magazine from
the province of Shansi, where ten years ago the
Christians were so cruelly persecuted: “A few
months ago a man came to our station to buy a
New Testament. As he lived a long way off, he had
never before seen -a foreigner or heard a preacher
of the Gospel; but a copy of St. Matthew’s Gospel,
which some one had bought from a colporteur two
years before, had fallen into his hands. He read this
through several times, and wished he could under-
stand its meaning better; so he came to us at a time
when I happened to be away. He. decided to wait