The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1924, Page 66

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

for $40 and have the mission board of his Church
send him to the mission-field with that money.
That man is now one of the best-known mission-
aries of to-day.

Wuat A Youne Moruer Dip.

A young mother in Ohio said, “Here am I;
send me!” and threw her whole heart and energy
into the training: of her large family of children.
Five of these children are now numbered among
the world’s best-known Christian workers.

Wuat A Servant Girt Din.

A servant girl in Pennsylvania said, “Here
am I; send me!” And out of her small earnings
she put aside small sums of moncy until she had
saved $100 toward the support of a missionary.
This zeal of the humble servant girl so aroused
her Church that it was inspired to help and gladly
assume the remaining amount of a full missionary
support.

Wuat Anoruer Worxine Giri Dip.

A working-girl in one of our large cities said,
“Here am I; send me!” and she alone assumed the
support of a missionary in Africa. In order to do
this, she was obliged, in addition to her regular
work, to do extra work both night and morning to
help pay her board.

Wuat A Sonpay-Scnoo. SupertntenDsNT Drip.

A Sunday-school superintendent in Kansas said,
“Here am I; send me!” and persuaded his Sunday-
school to assume the support of two missionaries
in the Philippine Islands. This has been done by
this Kansas Sunday-school uninterruptedly for a
number of years.”

Wiat A Farmer anp His Wire Dip.

A Nebraska farmer and his wife said, “Here
are we; send us!” ‘They have a family of six
children, and yet they have for several years kept
f missionary in their stead in Japan.

Wuat A Western Youne Man- Dw.

A young man in one of our Western States said,
“Here am I; send me!” and started to prepare
himself for a distant foreign field. But during the
World War he was called to serve his country. Be-
fore he left for oversea service, he arranged with
a trusted sister that the sum of $10,000, which
was his, should be given to the foreign missions
of his Church if he should not return. He was
killed at the battle-front, but his bequest to the
board is supporting a missionary in his stead in

Wuat A Youne Moturr Dip.

More than thirty years ago a young man with
his bride went to live in a little prairie town in
Kansas. A struggling Sunday-school was in need ,
of workers, and the young woman was asked to °
help in the work of the school. Although her baby
girl was very frail, the mother nevertheless accepted
the responsibility for the “infant class,” as they
called the primary department in those days, and
she often taught her class, holding the sick child
on a pillow in her arms. Closely confined to her
home ‘by the responsible duties of the household,
the mother could not caJl upon the members of her

“class, and instead she had them come to see her.

She organized them into a mission band, and the
Bible class on Sundays met as a missionary group
on week-days. ‘here were never more than fifteen
in the entire class, and yet the teacher set them to
work raising chickens and growing things, and by
and by they had money enough to support a Bible
woman in China. The programs for the weeck-day
sessions consisted largely of missionary stories and
incidents, and the children became tremendously
interested in the work of Christ in the world. But
that was a long, long while ago, long enough to
test the value of such a program, and the fifteen
little tots grew to be men and women, and to-day
all are united in the work of the Kingdom. One
of the little tots afterwards went as a woman mis-
sionary to Africa, and when her husband died of
a fever,-she came home and is now the head of a
splendid school in the United States. Another
went as the wife of a missionary to the Philippine
Islands. A third member of that little group be-
came a medical missionary in the Philippines.
Another became the head of a great Christian
Association in the Orient, and still another labored.
with her husband in the regions of Alaska. In
a letter to the teacher of the mission band, who
had scarcely been outside of Kansas at that time,
she said, “You know I can never forget the little
mission band, for in it you made each one of us
feel as though we ought to be missionaries.”
: F. J. L.

Our Colored Mission in Cincinnati.

We are pleased to be able to bring our readers
a cut of the newly acquired Colored Mission build-
ing at Cincinnati. Concerning this building and
its purposes, the Cincinnati Lutheran says the fol-
lowing : — opel

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