The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1915, Page 26

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‘The Lutheran Pioneer.

Yes, and the risen Savior also assures us that
hell’s gates are closed, and that heayen’s portals
are opened to us; for where there is forgiveness
of sins, there is also life and salvation. The risen
Christ has brought life and immortality to light
for us. He lives, and we shall also live. Jesus,
our Jesus, is risen, and He will draw us unto Him-
self. He, the Head, will not leave us, His mem-
bers, behind. His death was our death, so His
resurrection is also our resurrection. Where He
is, there shall also His servants be. Jis resurrec-
tion tells us that we shall rise, and see Him as
IIe is; His resurrection assures us of the fact that
our believing shall be changed into a blessed seeing.
In view of Christ’s resurrection we may laugh to
scorn the gloomy grave, and the thought of death
no longer causes us to tremble; for we know that,
when the final trumpet shall sound, we shall be
raised unto life eternal. Aye,

Jesus, my Redeemer, lives!

J, too, unto life must waken;
Endless joy my Savior gives;
Shall my courage, then, be shaken?
Shall I fear? Or could the Head
Rise and leave His members dead?

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A Hindu Story.

In a Hindu house, the home of three brothers
and their wives, their sons and sons’ wives, and
several grandparents, in all more than fifty per-
sons, the gladdest person of all the company was
a little dark-eyed girl of five years of age, who daily
went to a mission-school. ‘Though her father and
brothers were bigoted Hindus, nothing was done
to prevent her from attending the mission, where
she learned to read verses from the Bible. But
when she was eight years of age she was considered
too old, according to the customs of the country,
to go out of the zenana, and so her daily aA to
the mission ended.

Shut in her home, with a Testament, which she
had received as a prize, she was accustomed to “play
school” under a wide veranda with her sisters and
brothers and cousins, who had a great admiration
for her superior education and were delighted to
repeat after her texts of Scripture, whose full mean-
ing they did not at first understand, such as “God
so loved the world,” and “Jesus said, I am the
Way, the Truth, and the Life”’ ‘The two best
scholars were the little girl’s brother and cousin.

Both of them determined that they would learn
English so they might read the English Bible and
books about the “Bible God.” ;

The father of this little girl and her brother
was rich, and so the boy soon got money to buy
a Bible, which he hid away and secretly studied,
learning some verses out of it every day. One day
his Hindu father discovered the Bible, and angrily
said he should no longer go to college and should
learn no more English. “These teachings will be
your ruin,” he said. “But you are young and will
forget, for I will destroy this book.” And so he
tore up the Bible and burned every scrap of it.

Meantime the cousin, a few years older, had also
bought a Bible, and was studying it, and had learned
without a teacher what Jesus meant when Ife said,
“T am the Way, the Truth, and the Life,” and
begged permission to be baptized. ‘This his father
refused and sent him to Burma, where some months
later he died mysteriously. It was believed he died
a martyr’s death because he would not give up his
faith in Christ.

The brother.escaped his fate. Stealing away -
from his home, he heard a missionary preach, and
became convinced more than ever before that he
should be a Christian. Then he went still farther,
and heard another missionary, and asked to be bap-
tized. He was aided in escaping to a far-off island,
where there was a mission, and where he would be
safe from his father. He was very sorry to leave
his mother, whom he loved, and after some years,
when his cruel father had died, he went back among
his own people to tell them of the Savior. He
formed a Bible class, and has shown many the way
to Christ. —

From the above story Christian parents may
see the great value of an early learning of Bible
passages on the part of their children. In showing
us the powerful influence of mission-schools among
the heathen, it also shows how necessary the re-
ligious instruction given in our parochial schools
is for our Christian children. What a great pity
it is that so many of our parents cannot or will
not see this. How many a Christian, when passing
through the dark valley of the shadow of death,
has been comforted and strengthened upon that
journey by the Bible verses and hymns he had
learned in his youth in a Christian parochial school!

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THE whole business of the whole Church is to _

preach the whole Gospel to the whole world.