The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 100

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

the mission-field would be a faithful son to you,
because of his faithfulness to the Lord. We feel
sure that he would work the harder because of your
interest in him. You would not only support him
with temporal means, but because of your increased
interest in him he would be the special subject of
your prayers and intercessions, which again would

_mean greater blessings upon his work.

Or if you feel that you cannot undertake this
alone, perhaps you could induce some of your
friends to share with you the responsibility of sup-
porting a colored pastor or teacher in the Southland
or one of our faithful missionaries or deaconesses
in India or China.

A Ladies’ Aid Society that has Supported a Native Worker in India

for Many Years.

VII. Chapel or School.

A member one day came to his pastor and said,
“Pastor, I have $1,000 that I should like to give
some mission; what would be a good purpose to
give it for?” The pastor replied, “You might
furnish some Colored Mission congregation a silent
preacher with the money.”, In surprise the good
member exclaimed, “A silent preacher? What do
you mean?” The pastor answered, “I mean that
you could give some colored congregation a chapel
or a chapel-school. They build serviceable com-
bination chapel-schools in Alabama for about a

$1,000 to $1,200; parsonages for $500 to $600, and

teacherages for about the same.”
Dear reader, why not make a note of this and
put a bequest for an amount like this into your last

_ will and testament? We are sure your children will
not think the less of you for doing so. And here
_ is another suggestion: What better memorial could

you erect in honor of your departed wife or husband
or parents or child than such a “memorial chapel”
or “memorial school”? If our beloved dead, who
now sleep in peace, could choose between a costly
mausoleum or an expensive monument and a memo-
rial chapel, do you not think that they would choose
the latter? The giver of such a chapel or school
may be long in his grave; yet the chapel will con-
tinue its silent preaching to the saving of immortal
souls. Friend, will you not consider this suggestion ?

VIII. Annuity.

Here is one more friendly proposal. You might
wish to give a sum to build a chapel or a school,
and you might wish to do so at once; but you find
that you will need the in-
come from the $1,000 or
whatever sum it may be
while you live. Suppose
you give the sum you wish
to give at once, but make
arrangements- with the
Mission Board for Col-
ored Missions, or any
other board to whom you
wish to give your gift,
that you be given the in-
come from your donation
during your natural life.
We feel quite sure that
such a special agreement
can be made with any one
of our mission boards.

FJ. L.

.Mackay of Uganda.

The scene is in Rhynie, a small Aberdeenshire
village; the time is in the year 1863. In front of
the Free Rock manse by the roadside stands the
minister with his little son Alec, for whose benefit
he is drawing a map with his stick in the dust of
the road.

“This, you see, Alec,” he says, “is the Zambesi
River, running through the heart of Africa into the
Indian Ocean, and here is the tributary, the Shiré,
which Livingstone explored.”

In this way the lad, Alexander Mackay, just
entering his teens, first found the name of Living-
stone one to conjure with in his own heart.

Again, it is Christmastide, and the year is 1875.
Alexander Mackay is now twenty years old and has
become an accomplished engineer, surveyor, mathe-