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The Lutheran Pioneer.

ing that her husband would be displeased if she
took it. A few pleasant words followed, in which
the visitor spoke of man’s need of divine direction
and of the divine adaptation of the Bible to that
need, and the woman resolved to take the gift.
Just then the husband came from behind the house
with an ax on his shoulder. Seeing the Bible in
his wife’s hand, he looked threateningly at her and
then said to the distributor: —

“What do you want, sir, of my wife?”

'The frank words of the Christian man, spoken
in a manly way, so softened his irritation that he
replied to him with civility; but, stepping up to
his wife, he took the Bible from her hand, saying:

“We've always had everything in common, and
we'll have this too.”

Placing the Bible on the chopping-block, he
chopped it in two parts with one blow of the ax.
Giving one part to his wife and putting the other
in his pocket, he walked away.

Several days after this division of the Bible he
was in the forest chopping wood. At noon he
seated himself on a log and began to cat his dinner.
The dissevered Bible suggested itself. He took it
from his pocket, and his eyes fell on the last page.
He began reading and soon was deeply interested
in the story of the prodigal son, but his part ended
with the son’s exclamation: “I will arise and go
to my father.”

At night he said to his wife, with affected care-
lessness: “Let me have your part of the Bible.
I’ve been reading about a boy who ran away from
home and, after having a hard time, decided to go
back. There my part of the book ends, and I want
to know if he got back, and how the old man re-
ceived him.”

The wife’s heart beat violently, but she mastered
her joy and’ quietly handed her husband her part
without a word. He read the story through and
then reread it. He read on far into the night, but
not a word did he say to his wife.

During the leisure moments of the next day his
wife saw him reading the now joined parts, and
at night he said abruptly: “This is the best hook
T ever read.” Day after day he read it. His wife
noticed his few words. One day he said: —

“T am going to try to live by that Book. I guess
it’s the best sort of guide for a man.”

From Selected Readings, by Lysnes.

————
Tie gate to the real spiritual emancipation of
the Negro race is Christianity.

BOOK TABLE.

Roughing It for Christ in the Wilds of Brazil. By Alb.
Lehenbauer. 50 pages, illustrated. Price, 20 cts.
Special rates when ordered in quantities. ‘To be or-
dered from Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis,
Mo., or from Rey. E. C. Wegehaupt, Box 73, Chat-
ham, Ill.

This is the second, revised and enlarged, edition of

a most readable and instructive missionary booklet. In it

the writer tells some of his experiences in the wilds of

Brazil. A spirit of quiet humor pervades the whole book,

but never so as to hide the intense missionary zeal of the

writer. Every line of the pamphlet is an eloquent witness
to the fact that the author is imbued with the same spirit
that filled the “watchmen of the Church’s youth.” We
hope that this second edition will soon be followed by
a third. F. J. 1L.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

Received for Colored Missions from the following Col-
ored congregations: Trinity, Springfield, $35.50; Grace,

Greensboro, 35.49; Pastor E. A. Westcott, 8. Augus-
tana, Alexandria, 7.00; Bethany, Yonkers, 50.00; Bethel,

Charlotte, 10.00; Bethel, Conover, 1.00; Bethlehem, Mon-
roe, 5.00; Bethlehem, New Orleans, 57.50; Concordia, New
Orleans, 15.00; Concordia, Rockwell, 4.75; Grace, Concord,
40.00; Grace, Ingomar, 1.00; Grace, St. Louis, 25.00;
Greer, 2.25; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 5.00; Immanuel College,
10.00; Luther College, 25.85; Mount Calvary, Kannapo-
lis, 14.00; Mount Calvary, Mount Pleasant, 7.00; Mount
Olive, Catawba, 1.00; Mount Zion, Charlotte, 17.00; Mount
Zion, New Orleans, 50.00; Mount Zion, Rocks, 10.00; St.
James’s, Southern Pines, 6.00; St. Luke’s, High Point,
5.00; St. Luke’s, Spartanburg, 15.00; St. Mark’s, Atlanta,
7.00; St. Mark’s, Winston-Salem, 16.80; St. Matthew’s,
Meherrin, 25.05; St. Paul’s, Charlotte, 24.00; St. Paul’s,
Mansura, 5.00; St. Peter’s, Cabarrus Co., 7.00; St. Phil-
ip’s, Chicago, 28.59; Trinity, Selma, 5.00; Zion, Mount
Zion, 7.00. — Total, $589.13.
St. Louis, Mo., August 1, 1924.
EWwaLp ScCHUETTNER, 7'reas.,
922 Pine St.

Received from St. Mark’s Mission Society, Sheboygan,
Wis., 3 quilts and 27 sash curtains for the girls’ dormitory
of Immanuel Lutheran College. God bless the kind donors!

Greensboro, N. C., August 2, 1924. J.P. SMITH.

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