The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1916, Page 20

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

converts, after the massacre settled in Canada, where
they lived for about fifteen years, when they once
more came back, by invitation of the American
Government, to the banks of the Muskingum.
A new village, called Goshen, was erected for them
near the site of the former village of Schoenbrunn,
and it was here that David Zeisberger continued to
work among them as their spiritual father till the

“He loved me, and gave Himself for me.”

close of his sixty-two years of service as a missionary
to his red brethren. His grave is still to be seen
there, marked by a plain slab, in the old burying-
ground at Goshen, three miles south of New Phila-
delphia, the county seat of Tuscarawas County.

In 1823, after having been induced to sign away
the right to their holdings in Ohio, the remnant
of the spiritual children of the sainted Zeisberger
took up their residence at a Moravian missionary-
station on the Thames River in Canada, where their
descendants are still living. And when, in 1872.
the monument commemorating the triumph of the

ninety-six Christian Indians in death was unveiled
at Gnadenhuetien, there was among the participants
the great-grandson of the first victim of the mas-
sacre ninety years before, who, with three other de-
scendants of the sainted martyrs, had the honor
of unveiling the plain monument erected to the
memory of the victims of the white man’s savage
hatred. F. J. L.

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A Letter from Atlanta, Ga.

Just a few lines to let everybody
know that we are still alive and doing
in Atlanta.

True it is, dear reader, | was not
able to give you a story of great joy at
Christmas with reference to our build-
ing, as I had hoped to do, for at that
time we were still “at the old stand.”
But my joy is perhaps greater, now
that we have begun our chapel, because
of the delay. But let me begin at the
beginning.

During the last week of January
the contractor began work on the strue-
ture to be known as St. Mark’s Chapel,
and, to judge by present appearance, it
will be a very suitable edifice indeed ;
very neat in its simplicity and grand
in its purpose.
pleased to hear such remarks as, “Those
people must be in earnest with their
work.” And that we are, dear friend!
Often have I retired to my little room,
and asked the Lord to impress upon
the people that we are in earnest, that
we have an unselfish object in view,
that we are doing our utmost to have
“Thy kingdom come!” Lutheranism,
among the Colored people of Georgia,
is practically a new thing. How often people have
spoken of me as a herald of a “new réligion.” But
this I can now say: all believe that we are sound,
good, and faithful Christians of the right faith'and
caliber! And during this month I hope to organize
our second catechumen class. We have gained the
confidence of quite a few people, and, I am not afraid
to say, our building has had something to do with it,
for it has shown these people, strangers to us, and
we to them, that we are carrying on our work, not
for personal or denominational gain and prestige,
but solely in the interest of God’s kingdom.

Already I have been