The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1911, Page 64

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for my return, and in the meantime he read the
New Testament nearly three times right through.
His heart and his lips overflowed with what he
found in it. When I again reached home, I called
him to me, and he spent a long time in our near
neighborhood, that he might attend all our services.
Before his departure he begged for baptism.”

Home Misstonarres IN Korea. — A missionary
of Seoul, on the way home from a service outside the
East Gate, overtook a couple of women with their
Bibles and hymn-books tied about their waists climb-
ing one of the hills. On asking one of them, whom
he recognized, where they had been, she replied,
“Over to that village,” pointing to a cluster of
houses in the valley below. Although the hill was
rather steep, the women did not seem to notice it,
and when we stopped, after some puffing on my part,
I asked their ages. The one said sixty-six, the
other, sixty! “Does not this walking tire you?”
I asked. “O no,” they replied, “for we go so often,
and much farther than this.” “Oh, you are Bible
women?” “No; we go to read and pray with the
women, for we want them all to know of our happy
faith,” was the answer, with such bright faces as
carried conviction of their joy. With such home
missionaries, is it, any wonder Korea is becoming
a land of Christians? — Missionary Herald.

MEASURING THE SERMON. — When Hans Egede,
the Norwegian Lutheran pastor, came to Greenland
to do mission work among the Eskimos, he found
them to be a restless people, not easily getting used
to the long Sunday services, which were the custom
at that time. They ordinarily could count no fur-
ther than five, and when the sermon seemed long
- to them, they would go up to Egede and have him
measure on their arms how much longer the “talk”
was going to be. Then they tramped back to their
seats and listened with great attention, but all the
time kept moving one hand down the measured
arm as if checking off the preacher’s progress. If
they got to the finger tips before he stopped, they
' would shake their heads sourly and go back for a
remeasurement. But they all loved the missionary.

Safe in Jesus.
- Some one asked old Uncle Moses whether he

really believed that he was safe in Jesus though -

he was such a poor, helpless, unimportant creature.
“Yes, sah,” replied old Uncle, “I reckon de fly in
Noah’s ark was jis’ as safe as de elephant.”

é The Lutheran Pioneer.
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BOOK TABLE.

MEMORIAL SKETCH OF DR. CG. F. W. WALTHER.
For the Children of Our Schools. Concordia Pub-
lishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 5 cts. per copy,
prepaid. Special prices made when ordered in quan-
tities.

This booklet, which can be had in German and in Eng-
lish, brings an excellent sketch of the life and work of
the sainted Dr. Walther, the blessed servant of God, the
one hundredth anniversary of whose birth is to be cele-
brated in October of the present year. The booklet will
prove helpful and serviceable in the celebration of the
“Walther Centennial” in our day-schools and Sunday-
schools. The Sketch has been compiled so as to enable
the teacher easily to analyze the sentences into questions
and answers.

Acknowledgments,

Received for Colored Missions from the following con-
gregations: Holy Trinity, Springfield, Ill., $4.30, Beth-
lehem, New Orleans, La., 35.00, Mount Zion, New Orleans,
La., 35.00, Grace, Concord, N. C., 7.00, Station in Napo-
leonville, La., 29.30, St. Paul, Mansura, La., 5.00, Mount
Zion, The Rocks, N. C., 10.00, Concordia, Rockwell, N. C.,
5.00, Zion, Gold Hill, N. C., 3.00, St. John, Salisbury,
N. C., 4.10, Bethany, Yonkers, N. Y., 10.00, Mount Cal-
vary, Mount Pleasant, N. C., 3.00, St. Paul, Charlotte,
N. C., 7.50, Mount Zion, Meyersville, N. C., 2.50, Beth-
lehem, Monroe, N. C., 2.50, St. Matthew, Meherrin, Va.,
5.95. Total: $169.15. :

For new school at Greensboro, N. C.:
Congregation, Yonkers, N. Y., 5.00.

Grand Total: $174.15.

St. Louis, Mo., July 15, 1911.

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

From Bethany

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 a. 31. and 7.30 Pp. 3f.;
Wednesday, 7.30 p. x.
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. x. and 7.30 Pp. M.;
Thursday, 7.30 P. at.
Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.;
G. M. Kramer, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A.M. and 7.30 Pp. M.;
Thursday, 7.30 r.x«. Sunday School: Sunday, 10 a. a.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.
Holy Trinity Church.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 a. x1. and 8 Pp. xf.

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