The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1923, Page 45

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The Lutheran Pioneer. 45

upon whom will rest in great measure the future
training of their race. If we were always to realize
that we of this generation should not only think of
the present, but also of the future, it would give
us a larger vision and lead us to think more of the
future value of the work that we are doing in-the
present. It would also mean better equipment. for
the present: demands of the work. More buildings
would be erected, enlarged, and repaired; teachers
would be added where schools have outgrown the
present teaching force; benches would take the
place of boxes, and blackboards the place of be-
chalked walls. Organs, too, would find a warn
welcome in churches and schools, which need such
thelp to beautify the services in the former and to
aid the work of the teachers in the latter. And
thus the list of possibilities could be continued
indefinitely.

What say you, dear reader, will you help the
Board build for the future? FJ. 1.

Where There Is a Will, There Is a Way.

When we received a letter which, among other
good things, also contained the following para-
graphs, we at once decided that the information
would be too valuable to keep to ourselves, and we
so informed the writer, Pastor W. I. Lichtsinn, of
Hammond, Ind. These few lines once more show
that it often requires only a few words of encour-
agement on the part of the pastor or teacher to
interest the pupils of our day-schools and Sunday-
schools in the blessed work of spreading the mes-
sage of salvation. Then, too, let us notice that this
handsome sum was gathered by boys and girls, who
have less to give than any one else among us. If
they can do so much, how much more could the
wage carners among us do if they but carnestly
desired to do so! May many other classes of cat-
echumens and also many grown-ups follow the

example of these boys and girls in Hammond! But,

‘here is the story: — ‘

“After reading the first article in the current
number of the Pronren, T decided to write, to you
about a pleasant surprise T had a short while ago.
I know it will interest you also.

“At the close of the last confirmation lesson
before Palm Sunday, a boy and a girl of my class
“approached my desk, and each placed an amount
of money on it. Asked what it meant, they said:

“The class has collected this for missions. ‘The girls
collected $7.10 and the boys $11.40.

“Asked what induced them to collect this money
among themselves, they said: ‘Pastor, last fall, just
before our mission-festival, you talked to us about
missions and told us what even schoolboys and -girls
could do for missions. We then agreed to collect
among ourselves eath week, and this is the result.

“Now, the remarkable thing about this is that
we always take up an offering each Friday morning.
With the money collected on Fridays the class
usually buys some needed article for the church as
a remembrance of the class, and the balance is given
to missions. ‘Thus the class this year supplied the
funds for the violet altar- and pulpit-hangings.
You may imagine how pleased I was when they
handed me this extra amount for mission purposes,
collected without my knowledge. We have desig-
nated one half for the Negro Missions Chapel Fund
and one half for the Foreign Missions Chapel Fund.
May the Lord’s blessings accompany the gifts!”

F.J.1.

An Echo from Slavery Days.

While looking over my old letters the other day,
I came’ across one that was received by me over
twenty years ago. At the time when I received the
letter, it touched me deeply, and when I. saw it

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again the other day, it brought tears to my eyes; for

it brought back to me the sad truth that I had
not been able to give the letter-writer the informa-

tion she so much desired.

The envelope bore the address : —
SANT PALL Church
minester I charge
NEW Orlans City .

Here follows the letter: “Norfolk va October

the 5 1902. to the mister of this church My sister .

Was sold at speculater sale buy betsey griffern at
perry carter tawer [éavern] my Mother Was Name
pattsy Griffenn My sister Was Name famine Grif-
fen My Name is sophia C Griffen sister famine
Was My twin sister sam Winnborne bogh Me. We
all Was sold in Muffbrro N C° i Would like to
heare frome her if she is alive i trust God Will
help Me to inquire and to heare frome her please
ancer this at once Mrs james ferguson 72 salter’ st
norfolk Va” ese

As stated above, I was not able to locate the
inquirer’s twin sister and was obliged so to in-
form her. — E

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