The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1922, Sheet 44

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God does not desire that one of these precious
blood-bought souls be lost. Jesus shed His blood
for the world. With compassionate and yearning
heart the Savior looks down from heaven upon this
neglected people, and wants them brought to Him.

“Go preach my Gospel!” Christ has said;
“Go, all My famished feed;
To every creature give Life’s Bread;
O’er earth My message speed!”
And yet amid this darkened land
For light vast numbers cry;
Ye that are stewards of God’s wealth,
How can ye pass them by?
hank God, our Lutheran Church has reached
out into the Black Belt of Alabama! With her

The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Holy Spirit has revealed to many the story of
the Cross and its meaning. What nothing else in
this world could do, that the Gospel has done;
namely, saved the lost and perishing.

Among the large number who faithfully at-
tended our meetings at Longmile Place was an old
antebellum Uncle. For more than sixty years he
had been connected with a sectarian church. As he
himself says, he knew as much when he joined this
church many years ago as he did when he left it.
Since coming to the services which the Lutheran
Church conducted near his home, he has learned to
know His Savior.

This old man, together with many others, has

A Temple of God, Alabama Mission Field.

Gospel-teaching she has in some measure penctrated
the darkness in this section of the Southland! One
congregation after another has been organized, and
those dying in their sins have been reclaimed. Our
Christians cannot but rejoice over this. ‘They will
also be glad to hear that on last Sunday, April 30,
another Lutheran church was established down here.
This is at Longmile Place, eight miles from Cam-
den, Wilcox Co. The people in this community,
having heard of the Lutheran Church, begged us to
come to them and their children. LEarly this year
we drove our Gospel-Ford to this place for the first
time. Since then we have been conducting services
and mid-week instructions regularly. Gradually,
but convincingly God’s Word worked on the hearts
of those who faithfully attended these meetings.

learned from the Bible to trust solely and alone in
the Savior. This old, gray-haired veteran, together
with his aged wife and thirty others, were received
into the Lutheran Church on the last Sunday in
April. Others who wanted to join had to be denied,
for we feared that they had not advanced far enough
in Christian knowledge. ‘They will receive addi-
tional instruction before becoming members of our
Church. Of the people at Longmile Place it can be
said: “They that sat in darkness have seen a great
light.”. They have had the darkness which en-
shrouded them dispelled by the glorious light of the
Gospel. They have now come to a saving knowledge
of the grace of God in Christ Jesus. They have
learned to know and love Him who came into the
world to save the lost, and have joined the Lutheran

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