The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1912, Page 58

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and forever,” Hebr. 13, 8. Having suffered and
died for the salvation of sinners, He still goes forth
in the Gospel seeking the lost, and joyfully wel-
coming every sinner that comes unto Him by faith.
And He wants His followers to help in the great
harvest of souls. They are to pray for laborers in
the harvest-field and in every way help to gather in
the harvest. How gladly they should thus work for
Jesus who has had compassion on them and has
delivered them from sin and death and from the
power of the devil! Daily rejoicing in the bless-
ings of the compassionate Savior, they should also
have compassion on those who still wander on the
broad way of sin to destruction, without Christ,
and therefore without hope, and without God in

Be Not Weary!

The mission among the Kohls in India began
in November, 1845. The first missionaries had
been sent out by Gossner in Berlin. As soon as
they were able to use the language of the Kohls,
they preached to them. For a long time no fruit
could be seen, and their labors seemed to be in vain.
They began to grow weary and became downcast.
In their dismay they wrote to Superintendent Goss-
ner, telling him that the Kohls would not be con-
verted, that their efforts were in vain, and that
they desired to be sent to another field. Gossner
answered that they should not become weary of
their work. He wrote: “Whether the Kohls will be
converted or not, let that make no difference to you.
Tf they will not receive the Word, they must hear
it to their condemnation. Your duty is to pray
and to preach to them. Pray, and work on! We
also at home will pray more earnestly.”

The missionaries labored on, humbled, but more
prayerful. They met daily to pray that the Lord
would pour out His Spirit on themselves and the

people around them. Their prayers were answered,

. and. their labors were abundantly blessed, so that
* Gossner, shortly before his death, in 1858, was able

to write that showers of blessings were falling upon

the Kohls.

In obedience to Christ’s command, we preach
the Gospel and carry on mission work, leaving the

results to Him who never breaks His promises..

We are to be faithful in planting and watering,
but must remember that it is the Lord who gives
the increase. ~ Work in the mission field is a work

_of faith, the laborer trusting for fruit in Him who

- Jesus told us to do.

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has said: “He that reapeth receiveth wages and
gathereth fruit unto eternal life, that both he that
soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together,”
John 4, 36. We walk by faith, not by sight; and
by faith we know that in mission work much good
is done which is invisible to the eye of sense, but
which will be seen on the great, joyous day of our
true Harvest-home. ‘Therefore, “let us not be weary
in well-doing; for in due season we shall reap, if
we faint not,” Gal. 6, 9.

3e thou not weary, slacken not thy zeal,

Sow broadeast, for the harvest comes at length;

Even now the Master does Himself reveal,

Look thou to Him for all the needed strength.

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Let Your Light Shine!

Lomai, a converted heathen from Tanna, then
the most degraded island of the New Hebrides, was
sent on a trip to Aniwa, which had been trans-
formed into a Christian land through the labors
of the Rev. Dr. Paton, the pioneer missionary to
the New Hebrides. ‘The contrast between the
heathen cruelty of Tanna and the Christian peace
of Aniwa was an object lesson to Lomai. Ile saw
that the result of sin is war and division and un-
happiness, and the result of Christian living is
unity and harmony and happiness. He earnestly
pleaded with the Christians of Aniwa to do mis-
sion work among the heathen on the island of
Tanna. Here is his plea for teachers from Aniwa
to go to Tanna with the Gospel message:

“Long ago Dr. Paton, the aged, was a young
man and lived in Scotland. The light came into
his heart, and he said within himself, ‘I must not
hide this light, I must let it shine.’ So he left his
home and brought the light to Aniwa. Aniwa was
then a dark land, but now it is full of light. Men
and women of Aniwa, do not hide your light; let it
shine! There is a dark land across the sea. ‘I'ake
the light of Jesus, there, and let it shine till that
land is full of light, like your own. ‘This is what
Let your light shine!”

The words of Lomai also remind all Christians
in Christian lands ‘of the words of the prophet:
“Arise, shine: for thy light is come, and the glory
of the Lord is risen upon thee,” Is. 60, 1.

"As long as the “offense of the Cross” remains,
so long va missions remain an offense in the world.
@. Warneck.