The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1931, Page 157

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is He?” So much are the heathen steeped in idol
worship that they oftentimes look for a visible, tan-
gible god when they hear of the true God. Probably
this poor man was so taken up with the idea of
a man being a living god that this question was
thought of first as he heard of the Savior. He was
told briefly the story of Jesus’ incarnation, death,
and resurrection, of His ascension and of His gra-
cious, invisible presence. He was laid on a bed of
straw in a beggar’s home outside the north gate, his
wounds were bandaged, arrangements were made to
heal his wounds at the mission dispensary and to
lead his soul to a further knowledge of the Savior.
But when the general heard that his captive had
been given aid, he was enraged over the act of the
missionary, who knew not of the order concerning
the man’s return to his people. He forthwith dis-
patched his soldiers to the beggar’s home to drive
the ill-bandaged prisoner on toward his home.
Whether or not he finally arrived there and whether
or not he remembered His Savior and finally either
died or lived as a disciple of Christ has ever re-
mained an unanswered question to the missionary.
BE. Rivet.

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Eprror.)

“Thy Kingdom Come.” — “Thy kingdom come”
does not mean: “Lord, give Thy Gospel to me and
my wife, to our John and his wife, us four and no
more”; it means: “Help me to fill the contribution
box for missions and dispose my heart to give cheer-
fully and liberally and regularly.” Some one has
said: “Silver and gold become iron or tin or brass
as we give grudgingly or flippantly or showily; but
the dullest copper penny is changed into a gold

penny when it is all we have to give and for His

sake it is freely given.” The Father gives His Son,
the Son gives Himself for our sins, the Spirit gra-
ciously bestows on us all the gifts that Christ has
merited. ‘There lies the motive, and there is the
example for our giving. God opens His hand. He
is always doing that. Do you likewise.
Ev. Luth. Sanitarium Review.

Alabama. — Pine Hill’s teacher has finally been
given a home. For the past two years, Teacher
Bridges and his family were compelled to live in
@ one-room cabin with another'family! The new
teacherage cost $550 and contains three rooms. —
Rock West now has a modest chapel-school. Pastor
Peay dedicated the building August 23. For six
years this station had no home of its own.

Home Missions in Southern California. — The
Southern California District voted $32,000 for Home
Missions in the District at its last convention. The
work to be done during the coming year will tax this
budget to its fullest extent. Several very promising
fields that should be entered at once must be neg-
lected for the present because the means and men
are lacking. Thus the Lord is ever proving the truth
of His word that the field is white unto harvest and
exhorting us that we pray Him to send laborers into
the harvest.

Northern California Missionary Enterprise. —
Through the efforts of Northern California pastors
a Lutheran summer pulpit was established last sum-
mer at Yosemite National Park, and services were
conducted in one of the chapels every Sunday. The
park authorities furnished camping facilities gratis
to our pastors that conducted the services. We under-
stand that the Lutheran vacationists loyally sup-
ported the missionary venture by their attendance.

Bread upon the Waters. — This from the News
Bulletin of the National Lutheran Council: “Last
winter the Metropolitan Lutheran Inner Mission
Society, a Missouri Synod project in New York
City, maintained a soup-kitchen to feed the un-
employed and vagrant every Sunday noon after the
morning services in the chapel. The number taken
care of averaged about 500 each week. After the
kitchen was closed with the advent of spring, more
than one hundred of the number continued to come
to the chapel each week. On Sunday, July 19, four-
teen men and the wife of one of them, members of
the group who had been fed during the winter, ex-
pressed their gratitude to God for the unemploy-
ment relief granted them through professing their
faith and joining the Lutheran Church. One was

baptized, all were confirmed, by the Rev. Edward

J. Kroncke, executive missionary of the society.
The confirmation was witnessed by the directors of
the mission.

Pittsburgh, Pa. — The Lutheran Inner Mission
Society of Pittsburgh cared for 1,200 families of
unemployed during the winter and spring months.
In the past twelve months this society gave more
than 36,000 free meals to hungry men, women, and
children.

New Italian and Spanish Mission.—The South-
ern California District now also has a mission for
the Italian- and Spanish-speaking people in and
about Los Angeles. Recently the Reverend Mar- —
tinelli was installed to carry on this important and
promising work. :