The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1912, Page 55

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Word of God to grow, and, when the ships came,
would sell the pigs for money, a large offering
might be raised.

The natives were delighted with the idea, and
the next morning the squealing of the pigs which
were receiving “the mark of the Lord” in their
ears were heard from one end of the settlement to
the other. On Missionary Williams’ return to the
island the native treasurer put into his hands about
five hundred dollars, the proceeds of the sales. It
was the first money they had ever possessed, and
every cent of it was given to the cause of Christ.

Well Dressed.

A Christian woman was asked if she did not fear
that she would not be admitted to the marriage sup-
per of the Lamb. “O, no,” replied the happy be-
liever, “I am too well dressed for that. I am
clothed in the beautiful dress of Christ’s righteous-
ness.”

“Blessed are they which are called unto the
marriage supper of the Lamb,” Rev. 19, 9.

NOTES.

New Onteans.—The recent meeting of the
Southern District Synod in New Orleans was also
attended by our Lutheran missionaries that are
laboring among the colored people in Louisiana.
The reports of their work were very encouraging,

and their plea for support of the work by prayer
and gifts will, we hope, be heeded. — Corr.

New Lazorers. — The most of this year’s grad-
uates of our Lutheran seminaries will enter the
Home Mission field, but some will take up work
in ficlds abroad. Two will enter the mission field
in India, where there is an urgent need for more
laborers, the field being white to harvest; one will
go to New Zealand to take up mission work among
the Maoris, the heathen natives of that distant land ;
nine will go to South America to labor in the vast
and promising mission field in Brazil and Argen-
tine. May God be with them all and abundantly
bless their labors!

Mitwavker Crry Missions.— The report of
the Lutheran City Missions in Milwaukee for the
past year must fill the Christian heart with joy
and gratitude. Our missionary, the Rev. E. Duem-

ling, has been doing a blessed work in proclaiming
the Gospel in 20 large public institutions and by
making known the way of salvation to the desti-
tute, the sick, and the dying. We learn from the
report that his labors have not been in vain. ‘True,
most of the fruits of such work will be revealed on
the great harvest day, but already here the mis-
sionary is permitted to see some fruit of his patient
labors.

A Biessep Work.—“A Friend of Missions”
recently wrote to us: “What a blessed work is the
work done by our city missionaries! May our
Church never neglect this important work among
the poor and the lowly and the destitute of our
large cities!’ Yes, the Lutheran Church is an
evangelical church, a Gospel church, and must not
neglect such work. To her not one soul for which
Jesus died can be a thing of contempt or indiffer-
ence. She cannot turn aside from any sinner, how-
ever vile. She cannot turn away the conscience-
roused publican or the penitent harlot. There is
no wound for which she has no balm; no forsaken
one for whom she has no sympathy. She must not, ,
like the priest and Levite, pass by on the other
side, but must be like the good Samaritan who.had
compassion on the traveler that had been robbed and
left wounded by the wayside. She is the true evan-
gelical church, the church of the pure Gospel.

CoNCERNING THE DISTRIBUTION or TRACTS. —
Referring to the tracts commended in our May
issue, a reader writes: I was glad to see such a
large number, of tracts advertised. Every good
tract is a missionary, and by the use of tracts much
good can be done in the mission field if the distrib-
uting is done carefully and wisely. An old uncle
of mine, a veteran of the Civil War, often told us
boys of a lady who distributed tracts among the
sick in the hospital, and who in her carelessness
once gave a tract on dancing to a soldier who had
lost both legs at Gettysburg. And then he would
add ‘the story of the train boy who passed through
the car, crying, “Pop-corn! pop-corn! Have some
pop-corn, sir?” An old gentleman, who had been
annoyed by the frequent visits of the boy, answered
somewhat angrily, “No; can’t you see I ain’t got
no teeth to chew pop-corn with?” “Then buy gum-
drops,” replied the boy. “That boy,” said my old
uncle, “adapted: himself to his customer.” So the
tract distributor must adapt himself and his tracts
to the people he wishes to reach.