The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1927, Page 61

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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of course, is in bad condition, so that it will cost at
least $125 to repair it. Possibly the fire has warped
the engine, so that it can no longer be used.

Ten Missionary Needs. — According to the Ne-
vada Lutheran there are ten missionary needs: More
missionary faith; more missionary prayers; more
missionary sermons; more missionary intelligence;
more missionary conviction; more missionary self-
sacrifice; more missionary consecration; more mis-
sionary giving; more missionary volunteers; more
missionary rejoicing for victory.

‘““He Loved Me and Gave Himself
for Me.’’

When the Rev. Charles A. Berry sat in his study
in Bolton, Lancashire, England, late one night,
a poor girl rang his door-bell. “Are you the min-
ister?” she asked. “Yes.” “Then I want you to
come and get my mother in.” Berry, thinking it
was some drunken brawl, said, “You must get
a policeman.” “O no,” said the girl, “my mother
is dying, and I want to get her into salvation.”
The girl lived about a mile and a half from Berry’s
residence. She was determined that he must come
with her.

He went. He found the place to be a house of
ill fame. In the lower rooms people were drinking
and telling lewd stories. Up-stairs he found the
poor woman dying. He sat down and talked to her
about Jesus as a beautiful example and praised
Him as a teacher and a leader. The woman looked
at Berry out of her eyes of death and said, “Mister,
that’s no good for the likes of me. I don’t want
an example. I ama sinner.” There Berry was face
to face with a poor, dying sinner and had no mes-
sage of comfort and peace for her, no sweet Gospel
of Him whose blood cleanses us from all sin. He
then thought of what his mother had taught him
and told the dying woman the old story of God’s
love in Christ, whether he himself believed it or
not. “Now you are getting at it,” said the woman.
“Thats what I want. That’s the story for me.”

Berry, later, in telling the story to a brother
clergyman, said, “I got her in, and I got in myself.”

This story, taken from life, brings to our atten-
tion anew how utterly helpless and comfortless
those are who have “another gospel, which is not
another,” and a Jesus who exists only in their
imagination and who is powerless to save from sin
and death. — Atlantic Bulletin.

New Chapel for Apaches at
Sherman Institute.

The cause of the Lutheran Indians at Sherman
Institute was first championed by the Rev. G. H.
Hillmer, of Riverside, Cal. Rev. Hillmer maintained
that the cause of the Indians would best be served
if a chapel be erected near the institute. The
Southern California Mission Board realized the
importance of this claim and approached Synod’s
Board for Indian Missions with the request that
$4,000 be appropriated for the acquisition of a lot
on which a modest chapel might be erected. The
Board approved the plan, and Synod was accord-
ingly memorialized in June to allow the amount
asked. Synod acted favorably and appointed the
Southern California Mission Board as a subcommis-
sion for the Indian Mission Board.

The entire Southern California Mission Board
visited Sherman Institute in order to select a suit-
able corner lot and to hear Rey. Hillmer’s sug-
gestions as to what should be embodied in the new
chapel. Plans are to be submitted to the Indian
Mission Board for approval.

This new chapel will make possible a more ad-
equate care for our Lutheran Indians at the
Sherman Institute and will serve as a missionary
agency for such as have no church affiliations. It is
hoped that it will also serve other missionary pur-
poses in Arlington.

Alhambra, Cal. A. C. Keor.

The Hospice Hand.

“Will you look up my brother? He has been
in your city for several years, and I know he has
not been attending your services.” The request
came from a small country town. We at once got
on the trail of the young man. We called repeatedly
at his lodging-place, but he was never in. Finally,
we “cornered” him at his place of business. We
saw the president of his firm frowning when we
asked for permission to speak to him. But that did
not bother us at all. We wanted to get a definite
promise, so we maneuvered around till we got it from
the young man. He promised to do the right thing,
the reasonable thing, the decent thing, the Chris-
tian thing. He came and would pare his nails
during the services, utterly indifferent to things
spiritual and supreme. He came a few more times
and then never again. Weknew the reason. He knew
the reason. He had been bedarkened, deceived, side-