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112 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

was utterly destroyed. My wife and children were
tortured and burned alive in my house.

“Do you wonder that I cannot agree with you
that one religion is as good as another? Gentlemen,
it is Christianity that has stretched its healing hand
to the tortured people of Europe, and after the war
it will be the spirit of the Master that will build up
life on the ghastly ruins. I am witness of it.”

The two men who had flippantly dismissed
Christianity in two sentences spent the next hour
learning some wholesome truths about Christian
missions and the heroes of the Cross.

Youth’s Companion.

Good Medicine.

It is hard for those who have always enjoyed the
power of written language to realize the full magic
of the written word. On Erwin Richard’s second
morning in Africa he was working on the packing-
boxes and wanted a saw. With a pencil he wrote on
a piece of board, “Give the boy the saw.” He gave
the board to a Tonga lad and told him to take it to
Mrs. Richards. It was the first written message the
boy had’ ever seen. He went off holding the board
at arm’s length as if fearing that some of the “medi-
cine” would fall off. He found Mrs. Richards and,
standing up very straight and holding the board
level, gave it to her. She glanced at it carelessly,
dropped it on the ground, and gave him the saw.

Completely mystified, the boy carried the saw at
arm’s length back to the “missionary-magician,”
who said to him, “Little fellow, what are you think-
ing about?” :

The lad stood erect, looked the missionary
straight in the eye, and said, “White man, I want
some of that medicine.”

He gotit. So did all his people; for Dr. Richards
did not stop until he had placed the gift of written
language and the power to read the Bible in the pos-
session of the Tonga tribe, in the southern part of
Portuguese East Africa.

BOOK TABLE.

The Life-Work of Johann Sebastian Bach. Lecture
Delivered under the Auspices of the Lyceum Com-
mittee of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo., by
Paul Sauer, President of the Chicago Bach Chorus.
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price,
10 cts.; dozen, 96 cts.
‘We read this lecture with interest; you will do like-
Take and read! F.J.L.

Contributions Received by the Treasurer.
May 1—31, 1929.

Received for Colored Missions from the following col-
ored congregations: Alabama Luther College, Selma,
$255.68; Augustana, Alexandria, 20.00; Bethany, Ny-
land, 3.00; Bethany, Yonkers, 65.00; Bethel, Rock West,
6.21; Bethlehem, Holy Ark, 14.37; Bethlehem, Monroe,
5.00; Bethlehem, New Orleans, 57.50; Christ, Rosebud,
31.13; Concordia, Lowerstone, 4.00; Concordia, New Or-
leans, 15.00; Holy Cross, Camden, 4.09; Ebenezer, At-
more, 3.25; Faith, Mobile, 9.15; Gethsemane, Hamburg,
10.35; Grace, Concord, 40.00; Grace, Greensboro, 27.85;
Grace, Ingomar, 1.10; Grace, St. Louis, 30.00; Hope,
Kings Landing, 9.80; Immanuel, Cincinnati, 20.00; Im-
manuel, Pensacola, 4.50; Immanuel, Shankletown, 5.00;
Immanuel Lutheran College, Greensboro, 784.04; Luther
Memorial, Greensboro, 11.13; Messiah, Bashi, 10.54;
Mission at Catherine, 4.95; Mission at Cleveland, 24.79;
Mission at Maplesville, 2.79; Mission at Union Springs,
4.40; Mount Calvary, Kannapolis, 40.00; Mount Cal-
vary, Mount Pleasant, 10.00; Mount Calvary, Tilden,
22.52; Mount Carmel, Midway, 3.95; Mount Olive, Tinela,
15.42; Mount Zion, Bostian Cross Roads, 13.00; Mount
Zion, Charlotte, 17.00; Mount Zion, New Orleans, 50.00;
Our Redeemer, Longmile, 3.35; Our Savior, Possum Bend,
3.57; Pilgrim, Birmingham, 8.87; St. Andrew’s, Vreden-
burgh, 7.96; St. James’s, Buena Vista, 10.51; St. James’s,
Southern Pines, 10.00; St. John’s, Joffre, 3.37; St. John’s,
Salisbury, 14.67; St. Luke’s, Lamison, 2.80; St. Luke’s,
Spartanburg, 16.50; St. Mark’s, Ackerville, 6.65; St.
Mark’s, Atlanta, 20.00; St. Mark’s, Winston-Salem, 5.00;
St. Matthew’s, Arlington, 6.00; St. Matthew’s, Meherrin,
16.85; St. Paul’s, Charlotte, 12.00; St. Paul’s, Napoleon-
ville, 7.50; St. Paul’s, New Orleans, 50.00; St. Paul’s, Oak
Hill, 17.88; St. Peter’s, Cabarrus: County, 15.00; St. Pe-
ter’s, Pine Hill, 5.35; St. Philip’s, Chicago, 50.00; St.
Philip’s, Philadelphia, 25.00; St. Philip’s, St. Louis,
65.00; Trinity, New Orleans, 25.00; ‘Trinity, Selma,
20.70; Zion, Gold Hill, 4.00; Zion, Taits Place, 4.52.

Miscellancous: St. Philip’s, Cleveland, O., for African
Missions, $5.00. “A Friend,” Milwaukee, Wis., for Negro
Missions, 1.00. M.K., Oakland, Cal., for Alabama Mis-
sions, 5.00. Lena M. Estel, Perryville, Mo., for Negro
Missions, 2.00; for Pensacola, 1.00; for Nyland, ‘Ala.,
1.00; for Catherine, Ala., 1.00; for Mollie Louder, 2.00.
“A Friend of Missions,” Altenburg, Mo., for Mount Pleas-
ant, N.C., 1.00; for Philadelphia, 1.00. Wm. J. Miller,
Paullina, Iowa, for Negro Chapels, 5.00; for African Mis-
sions, 5.00. John F. Hildebrandt, Steen, Minn., for Deaf-
mute Missions, 10.00; for Synodical Treasury, 10.00; for
China Missions, 5.00. Alb. J. Tschorn, California, Mo.,
for Tornado Damages at Mount Pleasant, N. C., 1.00.
Heinrich Meese, Frazee, Minn., for Foreign Missions, 10.00;
for Students’ Fund, 5.00.

Tueo. W. Ecxnanrt, 7'reasurer.

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