The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1931, Page 148

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

That the truths which these hundreds of boys
and girls are learning from God’s holy Word at
Piney Woods will be carried to other parts of the
State and beyond, yes, that even now these saving
verities are being brought to others, is evident.

Before leaving on a trip through the far North-
east with a Piney Woods quartet last June, a graduate
came to me and told me of his sick mother. “Rev.
Schmidt,” said he, “my mother is sick. Is it pos-
sible for you to go and tell her some of the stories
about Jesus which you have told us in class?” I went
to see his mother and found that this student had

The First Mississippi Lutheran.

We now have twenty other Lutherans in Missis-
sippi besides this baby, and prospects for a boun-
tiful harvest are very promising.

already told his bed-ridden mother the truths about
Jesus and His love.

Another boy wrote me from his home: “I taught
Sunday-school to-day and showed, in the lesson
about Saul, that Saul’s conversion was the work
of God. The people saw the point and were sur-
prised.”

Writing from a hospital, where she is studying
to become a nurse, a girl graduate writes : “I’ll never
forget those Bible-verses, the Creed, etc., which we
Jearned at school. I hear from other members of
_ the graduating class, and they all say they miss the

Bible-teaching so much. And how we miss those .
good old hymns !”

If only the readers of the PronEER could hear
the student-body sing some of those good old Lu-
theran hymns, as: —

Christ, the Life of all the living,
Christ, the Death of death, our foe,
Who, Thyself for me once giving
“To the darkest depths of woe,
Madest reconciliation
And hast saved me from damnation:
Thousand, thousand thanks shall be,
Dearest Jesus, unto Thee;
or when they are gathered for evening devotion: —

Now the light has gone away,
Savior, listen while I pray,
Asking Thee to watch and keep
And to send me quiet sleep.

Jesus, Savior, wash away
All that has been wrong to-day;
Help me every day to be
Good and gentle, more like Thee.

These hymns and the Gospel-truths taught by
your Lutheran Church at. Piney Woods has made
large numbers happy. And that happiness will be
carried through the Bible-truths by the students to
all parts of the State and beyond. We have God’s
promise. And we are firmly convinced that God
will in this way also open for our Church many
doors where we can enter and spread the saving
truths of the Bible in the benighted backwoods of
this State.

Let us thank God for this opportunity to teach
His saving Word. At hundreds of institutions, stu-
dents are being taught that man comes from the
monkey, that God did not create this world, that
large parts of the Bible are mere legends and fairy
tales. In this way their faith is being shattered, and
untold numbers are being led to hell and destruc-
tion. At Piney Woods School the students day after
day are hearing the eternal verities of God’s holy
Word, particularly that truth that Jesus’ blood is
the one remedy for sin-cursed man. God bless further
the teaching of His holy Word in these last evil days
of ‘the world and gather for Himself fruit unto
eternal life!

An Incident.

One more incident. Some distance from Piney
Woods lives an old grandma. She is very old. Her
eyesight is bad. Her hearing is worse. She’ is
entirely neglected by her church. God led your mis-
sionary into that home. By using the pictures in
the Bible History and by expending a good deal of 7
lung-power to make himself understood, your mis-