The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1928, Page 12

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

The Power of God’s Word in Ze.

I remember one Wanji, who was a year gone
far inland. He was hunting an ivory, that is, he
was sitting in a village of the backwoods where the
headman owned an ivory, the express object of
Wanji’s desire and his bargaining. Before he left
home he gave his little fortune, his collection of
remarkable objects, to the care of Ze, a wife of
his who was a Christian. Two rainy seasons and
two dry seasons passed — the measure of the white
man’s year — before Wanji returned, and when he
came home, one of his wives was missing — she had

tion, — and he made a call at the town of the white
man. He looked what he was, the old type of head-
man, and without preamble he said: —

“JT have come to tell you that I wonder at my
wife Ze. She is a person of the tribe of God. I have
been inland two rainy seasons and two dry seasons,
yet that woman has kept the commandments of
God. This thing I know was never done by the
strength of a black woman, though a white woman
might be able to do even this. I see that the white
women are in a tribe by themselves [literally,
unique]. Only the strength of God is able to make
a black woman do such a strange thing. And I have

A Mission-Station in Africa.

Tun away. Another wife had a child. Wanji did
not wonder at either of these women. But much he
marveled at Ze, who still “sat in her house” caring
for his possessions. ‘They were all packed under
her bamboo bed. And of her the neighbors said: —

“Every night of the many nights you have jour-
neyed Ze has sat in her hut; as you see her to-day,

_ 50 she continually sat. She has gone to her garden,

she has cooked her food in her pot, she has eaten,
she has slept, just as you see. We have no word to
tell you of Ze.?.

Then Wanji put on his felt hat, which was
made in Germany and which was his badge of
office, —for he was a little of a headman, — and
he put a lad before him-in the path with a lan-
tern, —it was broad day, but this was ostenta-

’

come to tell you that I marvel at the power of God
for this thing that I have seen in my wife Ze.
I agree that it is a good thing to be a Christian.
But as for myself, my heart is too much with the
things of this world.” And he went away.

J. K. Mackenziz.

Christ must, alas! weepingly say of many a hea-
then, too, what He said of the Jews: “The kingdom
of God is come nigh unto you,” but “ye would not.”
Luke 10,11; Matt. 23, 37.

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Ler us tell the world about God’s love and care

, for us and thus help them to know and love and

trust Him, so that they, too, may have peace and
tranquillity, salvation and eternal joy.