The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1925, Page 127

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

be turned,’ we read Jer. 31,18. What if you would
be encouraged by these words to beseech God to con-
vert your heart? Would not such praying be ac-
cording to His will? ‘Blessed are they that hear
the Word of God and keep it,’ we read. Now, if one
were prompted by these words to ask God, saying:
‘Dear Lord; help and teach me to hear Thy Word
and to keep it, would not this praying be pleasing
to God? Think of the seven petitions in the Lord’s
Prayer. Every thing contained therein must of
necessity be agreeable to God. And if you turn to
Phil. 4, 6 and read the words: ‘Be careful for noth-
ing,’ ete., why should you hesitate to make your re-
quests known to God in full confidence that He will
gladly hear you? — And if we have a matter for
which there is no evidence as to the will of God,
then Ict us follow our Lord’s example when in Geth-
semane He prayed: ‘Father, if Thou be willing, re-
move this cup from Me; nevertheless, not My will,
but Thine, be done.’ In this wise we may lay the
matter into the hands of God with great confidence.
Why should Christians consider it a defect in God’s
promises or an unwelcome restriction that only such
things should come to pass as are according to God’s
will? One that knows not God may think so;
a Christian never, believing as he does that God is
infinite Wisdom and loves him with fatherly love.
What Christian would want to be given anything
which, in God’s knowledge, would not benefit him?
Therefore, in spite of all doubts and misgivings
raised by unbelievers, we Christians have every
reason to pray with sure confidence and with a be-
lieving heart.”

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Editor.)

St. Philip’s, Chicago. — Our St. Philip’s Mission
in Chicago celebrated its first anniversary some
time ago. It is still using the Colored Y. M. C. A.
building for its services, but its members are work-
ing hard to get a chapel of their own. This chapel,
it goes without saying, is much needed. The
Northern Illinois District of the Missouri Synod
has appropriated-a sum of money to help the mis-
sion to get a chapel soon, and the members are most
grateful for this assistance. The prospects for this
mission are very bright.

St. Louis, Mo.— On Sunday, June 14, Candi-

date Paul FE. Gose was ordained and installed as”

the pastor of the colored Grace Church in St. Louis.
- Pastor Gose has done supply-work in our Colored
Missions for five years. The ordination service was

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held in the chapel of the Niedringhaus Memorial
Mission.

Selma, Ala.— The two buildings of the Ala-
bama Luther College are expected to be ready for
occupancy by the time the school opens in October.
A special overseer is on the ground to superintend
the work and speed operations. We understand that
$10,000 is still needed for this institution.

Gives Ponies to Missionary Workers. — The
workers of the Presbyterian Indian mission at
Ganado, Ariz., were recently presented with two
Navajo ponies by an Indian named Daselah,
a staunch friend of the mission. Hearing how the
workers were hampered in their work because of
the lack of proper means of transportation, he
brought two gentle Navajo ponies for them to use.

An Instance of Steadfastness in Korea. — An
evangelist at Chairyung, Korea, tells of a Christian
woman who steadily attends Sunday-school and
church despite the fact that when she returns to
her home after each service, she is likely to be beaten
and kicked and dragged about the house by her hair.
And then, after receiving this cruel treatment from
her husband in the morning and afternoon, she re-
turns to the church for the evening service. The
evangelist says of the Christian Koreans that church
attendance is the one thing in their lives which dif-
fers from the daily drudgery and is very precious
to them, and if a Korean once takes a definite stand
for Christ, nothing but sickness or death will keep
him from church. :

Atlanta, Ga.— Plans have been drawn for the
new chapel at Atlanta. But we are sorry to say
that the 15,555 pupils of our Central District day-
schools and Sunday-schools have not as yet reached
their’ goal of $8,000 for this chapel. ‘Treasurer
Eckhart’s latest report shows that only $6,933.20 has
so far been received by him. At its last convention
the Central District encouraged and urged those
schools which had not yet done their share to do
so at once, so that it might no longer be charged
against our Central District that we had not kept
our pledge. :

Return of the Assyrian Christians to Their
Homes. — When the Assyrian Christians of Persia,
after years of exile, were once more permitted to
return to their old homes in Urumia and the vil-
lages, they were full of gratitude, even though they
found nothing but ruins. One old woman, as the
little band of pilgrims of which she was a member
entered the wreckage of their old village, first of all
went to her church and inside its shattered and
roofless walls knelt down and thanked God for