The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1923, Page 63

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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The Kodaikanal School for Missionaries’ Chil-
dren is faring splendidly. Mr. and Mrs. Bachmann
are evidencing sterling qualities in the management
of the school and the Bergheim. The latter com-
prises no more than four small stone cottages, in
consequence of which many missionaries will spend
THill-leave,
with some, began in January; the last will remain
through until September. Several families are
always in one cottage together, —and the cottages
have only four or five rooms.

the hot season on the plains this year.

English services for Americans are held at
Kodaikanal in Mr. Bachmann’s dining-room every
Sunday morning; Tamil services for the servants
and munshis (language tutors) in the afternoon.
Such regularity of divine worship is highly appre-
fact,
especially in India divine worship becomes a very
distinct need, and a pleasure hardly comparable to
any other.

Because of a dearth of competent munshis the
writer and his wife have joined a language class
conducted at Kodaikanal.

To-day, more than a decade or two ago, India
presents unparalleled fields for the entry of the
Cross. May we not in charity suppose, knowing
as we do that in some circles of our Chureh at
home there is a truly assertive demand for expan-
sion in missions both continental and abroad, that
the day is advancing when the eloquent appeal of
the foreign field will find a somewhat proportionate
answer from the host of our Christians in America?
Here on the scene of conflict we ery: God speed
that day! BE. H. MEINZEN.

ciated by the families of missionaries. In

How Much Am I Asked to Give?
Marx 12, 41—44.

“Jesus sat over against the treasury.” He is
still watching. All our giving is in His sight.

“And beheld,” not critically, or with faultfind-
ing, but delighted. y

“How the people cast money into the treasury.”
“Wlung it.” They liked to do it.
- “And many that were rich cast in much.”
Thank God for consecrated wealth. ;

“And there was a certain poor widow.” Name-
less? Yes, but so were the “rich.” No discrimina-

“And she threw in,” just as the saints “cast

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their crowns” before the throne. It’s the same

“word. © the lordliness, the prodigality of her giv-
jing! She gave with the abandon of a spendthrift
king!

Is that a climax or an anti-
Call it a mill, the tenth part of a cent,
and you exaggerate.

“And He called His disciples unto Him.” It
was “too good to keep.” He was afraid that they
would not. “catch on”; that the rattle of the Phar-
isees’ gold would distract their attention.

“T.say unto you that this poor widow hath cast
more in than all.” Relatively? Yes. But actually
“more than all.” For they quit. She is still “fling-
ing it in.”

“For all they did cast in of their abundance.”
“Superfluity,” “overflow.” Oh, that the. Church of
Christ would do even that much — reach the’

“Two mites.”
climax ?

‘standard of the Pharisees and give some of their

“overflow” money to carry on the Lord’s work!
When that standard of giving is reached, the
Church will have millions for missions; for the
“overflow” alone is reckoned by hundreds of mil-
lions. ‘

“But she of her want.” “Penury,” contrasted”
with “superfluity.” God bless this princely giver!
The dictionary of your experience does not contain
the word “want,” but is crowded with the synonyms
of “superfluity.”

“Did cast in all that she had, even all her living.”
Every coin she had in all the world.

Two mites—half a mill! How small! But
the collective voice of the ages cries out: “O woman,
great is thy munificence!”

2 Cor. 8,9: “For ye know the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your
sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty
might be rich.”/ =a
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dipping into the volume here and there, we are astonished
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