The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1929, Page 47

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

47

All of us are hopeful and happy, and it is not
long before a fresh young voice calls out: “Daddy,
do look at that poor, tired man. Give him some
money to get into a dandy.” Because all of us are
well and strong, we stop by the side of the climber.

It is a burning-hot day, yet he is clad in thick
woolen garments. His head and feet are bare. It
was a tragedy to encounter any one so obviously un-
happy as this man. He would not even do as much
as raise his eyes or stay his step as we all came up
to him.

Betty’s daddy was the first to speak. He stayed
the man with a hand on his arm. “Friend,? he
said, “allow me to offer you money for conveyance,
as you seem to be very tired.”

In a strangely muflled voice, one might almost
say an unused voice, he thanked him for the offer
and said he he could not accept it.

“Every day,” the climber said, “I must climb to
the top of this hill and back to the foot again.”

“But why?” we all asked.

“TI am looking for God,” was his reply.

Looking for God on a narrow hill road, with his
eyes fixed on the ground. “You cannot find Him
thus,” we told him.

“T saw Him on this road,” the climber went on
to say, and into his eyes came a light that shone
bright. As if thinking aloud, he continued: —

“Twenty years ago I was a young man with
brilliant prospects. My health broke down from
overwork, and I had to leave college. The doctors
advised me to come to the hills to regain my
strength.

“On this very road I was passing in a dandy near
that little bridge there when I saw a coolie lying in
an agony of pain. He had been carrying a heavy
load and had stumbled and broken his leg, bruising
his arms and head. I passed on because he was only
a:chamar. One hundred yards I went past him;
then, for some reason, I ordered my dandy to wapas
jao [turn back]. Pity had overwhelmed the pride
in my heart, for I-am a high-born Brahmin. I went
to the suffering coolie, stopping, I moved the big
load off him; clumsily I bandaged the broken limb
and gave him water to drink.

“T raised the man in my arms to place him in
my dandy when, as I stood up, I saw a light on the
hill there, a light brighter even than that of the sun.
And somehow it seemed to shine round me too.
I saw a face, and the eyes were soft with love for me

-as they tenderly looked down. My heart was burst-
ing with a joy I could not define. —

“T put the coolie in the hospital and stayed my
month up there, but that face was ever before me,
smiling sometimes, appealing sometimes, but calling
ever. I went back to my studies, but that face
was always in front of my vision, calling me. So
I left all to come here to find Him. Now I have
grown old walking this hill, but I have never beheld
that face again.”

We were all awed by what we heard. But as the
climber ceased speaking, how joyfully we told him
of the true, living God, who has revealed Himself
in the Scriptures, and especially of Christ, who bore
the burden of sin for us, in whom we may see the
face of the merciful and loving God, who is the
Light of the world and the Sun of Righteousness,
the Redeemer of all mankind, who opened the gates
of paradise for us.

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Wessel). 88 pages. Price, 20 cts.— Iowa District.
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“Die Geschichte des Iowa-Distrikts” (Rev. Th. Ste-
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