The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1912, Page 47

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The Influence of a Tract.

Early in 1819, while waiting to sce a patient,
a young physician in New York took up and read
a tract on missions which lay in the room where
he sat. On reaching home, he spoke to his wife of
the question that had arisen in his mind. As a re-
sult they set out for Ceylon, and later for India,
as foreign missionaries. For thirty years the wife,
and for thirty-six years the husband, labored among
the heathen, and then entered into rest.

Apart from what they did directly as mission-
aries, they left behind them seven sons and two
daughters. Each of these sons married, and with
- their wives, and both sisters, gave themselves to
the same mission work. Already several grand-
children of the first missionary have become mis-
sionaries in India. And thus thirty of that family,
the Scudders, have given five hundred and twenty-
nine years to India missions. — Indian Witness.

Faithful.

A young Hindu who had been converted from
the darkness of heathenism and had joined the
Christian Church, was treated by his heathen friends
and relatives as an outcast. An old, very rich aunt
of his one day came to him and begged him to leave
the Christian Church, offering him a large sum of
money if he would come back to the worship of
idols. But the young man proved true to His
Savior. He said to his aunt, “I cannot sell my
soul for money.”

“What is a man profited if he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own soul?” Matt. 16, 26.

Trusting in God for Results.

When Morrison, the well-known pioneer mis-
sionary to China, set forth for that vast empire in
1807, he had to travel over New York. After all
arrangements for the voyage had been made in
that city, the owner of the ship wheeled around
from his desk and with a rather queer smile said,
“So, Mr. Morrison, you really expect that you will
make an impression on the idolatry of the great
Chinese empire?”

“No, sir,’ replied the brave missionary, “but I
expect that God will!”

From the history of missions we know that the
missionary’s trust was not in vain. His faithful,

self-denying labors among China’s millions were
abundantly blessed by Him who is always with His
trusting, faithful servants in the mission field ac-
cording to His promise: “Io, I am with you alway,
even unto the end of the world.”

NOTES.

Tne Unknown Brneractror.— For the fif-
teenth time the unknown benefactor and friend of
our missions among the colored people brought his
yearly gift of $500.00 to our treasurer in St. Louis.
Unknown to man, he is known to Him who has
said that he who does the least service for His
sake “shall in no wise lose his reward.” ‘The pres-
ent need of our treasury is a loud call for liberal
givers willing to help in our mission work for the
sake of Christ.

Meuerntn, VAa.— From our German mission
paper we learn that on the fourth Sunday after
Easter the Rev. E. H. Polzin, formerly pastor in
Michigan City, Ind., was installed as pastor of
our colored Lutheran congregation at Meherrin,
Va. It was, no doubt, a day of thanksgiving and
rejoicing for the dear people at Meherrin. May
the Lord bless them and also their new pastor and
his work in the mission field.

Frost America ro Arrica. — Colored men, who
have been educated in America, have gone to Africa
to labor as missionaries among the natives of that
dark continent. One of them, at present visiting
in our country, recently addressed a large meeting
of colored people on bringing the Gospel from

America to Africa, as many Africans look for help ‘

to their brethren in our country. “Until a few
years ago,” he said, “the African natives did not
know that a part of their race was beyond the seas,
but now the word has been spread, and no matter
into what part of the continent you penetrate, the
natives will tell you, ‘We have brethren in Amer-
ica” He also said that the natives are “densely
ignorant, but they are teachable; they worship
many idols, but by the power of the Word soon
turn to-the true God as they are shown the error
of their way.”

Tr May Yer BE FuurrLep. — The remarks of
the missionary mentioned above reminded us of
the hope expressed about thirty-five years ago on
the floor of the Synodical Conference by the founder

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