The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 112

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112 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

volume would be thrown aside, or that its sacred
leaves might be used to wrap up tobacco, rice, or
salt. But no; the eye of God was upon that book.
Like Lot in Sodom, like the captive maid in the
house of Naaman, that New Testament was a soli-
tary witness for Jehovah in the midst of idols and
idolaters, and it became a light to them that sat
in darkness, it led some of them into the way of
peace. Soon after it was left, three or four heathen
came to that shop. They saw the strange book.
They asked that they might read it. They took it
home. As they heard what it told them about God
and man, sin and salvation, hell and heaven, they
wondered, they trembled, they believed. A church
was formed in that village, and two of those who
borrowed that Testament became preachers of the
Gospel ‘of Jesus Christ.

The Story of Christina.

This is the story of Christina, a little child wife
in India, as told by Lois Elizabeth Danner, ten years
old, at a Northfield missionary conference: —

“Christina was a girl about sixteen. Soon she
was married, and she had a little baby, and they all
lived happily for a year or two; but pretty soon
Christina began to show the marks of leprosy. So
her husband turned her out and told her never to
come back again. So she went to seek shelter at her
parents’ home; but they would not give her any-
thing but a little hut made out of mud and sticks,
just outside the village, and there they would bring
her a bowl of rice and set it out at a distance, and
she would craw] out on her hands and knees to get it.
But after a while they also drove her away and told
her never to come back.

“Christina had heard of a shrine where, if you

_would go and pray and fast for a fortnight, you
would be cured of the leprosy. So she went there
and prayed and fasted, but it didn’t do her any good.
She had also heard of a certain river where, if you
would bathe in it, you would be cured of the leprosy
also. So she went there and bathed, but it didn’t do
her any good. So she decided that the only thing
she could do was to beg in the market-place; and

who went to the Christian mission ran up to her and
_ said, ‘Poor leper woman! Why don’t you go to

‘Kushti Kana?’ (This in her tongue was the leper
Sy ig asylum at Purulia.) ‘They will treat you kindly
_ there, for Jesus lives there.’

- §o Christina took the little girl’s advice and

one day, while she was begging, a little Indian girl -

went to the leper asylum, and she was received
kindly and is now one of the happy Christian women
who are there to help teach other women who go to
them each day.”

Contributions Received by the Treasurer.
May 1—31, 1932.

Received for Colored Missions from the following col-
ored congregations: Alabama Luther College, Selma,
$164.26; Alabama Luther College Day-school, Selma, 42.00;
Augustana, Alexandria, 25.00; Bethany, Nyland, 10.68;
Bethany, Yonkers, 55.00; Bethel, Conover, 1.50; Bethel,
Rock West, 8.09; Bethlehem, Holy Ark, 10.46; Bethlehem,
New Orleans, 50.00; Christ, Rosebud, 7.97; Concordia,
Lowerstone, 4.00; Concordia, Montrose, 9.41; Concordia,
New Orleans, 15.00; Holy Cross, Camden, 6.71; Ebenezer,
Atmore, 8.66; Faith, Mobile, 9.77; Gethsemane, Hamburg,
3.34; Good Shepherd, Vineland, 13.81; Grace, Concord,
30.00; Grace, Ingomar, 3.09; Grace, St. Louis, 10.00; Holy
Trinity, Springfield, 20.00; Hope, Kings Landing, 4.33;
Immanuel, Cincinnati, 10.00; Immanuel, Pensacola, 8.00;
Immanuel Lutheran College, Greensboro, 325.25; Luther
Preparatory School, New Orleans, 193.55; Messiah, Bashi,
4.30; Mission in Baton Rouge, 1.35; Mission in Cleveland,
10.64; Mission in Hickory Hill, .64; Mission in New Bern,
.67; Mission in Washington, 18.77; Mount Calvary, Kan-
napolis, 40.00; Mount Calvary, Tilden, 9.40; Mount Car-
mel, Midway, 6.83; Mount Olive, Catawba, .31; Mount
Olive, Tinela, 5.64; Mount Zion, Bostian Cross Roads, 5.00;
Mount Zion, New Orleans, 25.00; Our Redeemer, Long-
mile, 6.90; Our Savior, Possum Bend, 24.99; Peace, Maples-
ville, 2.09; Pilgrim, Birmingham, 21.25; St. Andrew’s,
Vredenburgh, 6.03; St. James’s, Buena Vista, 6.52; St.
James’s, Southern Pines, 10.00; St. John’s, Joffre, 5.39;
St. John’s, Salisbury, 15.00; St. Luke’s, High Point, 8.00;
St. Luke’s, Lamison, 6.94; St. Luke’s, Spartanburg, 10.00;
St. Mark’s, Ackerville, 5.76; St. Mark’s, Atlanta, 23.44;
St. Mark’s, Winston-Salem, 7.00; St. Matthew’s, Arlington,
11.20; St. Matthew’s, Baltimore, 5.00; St. Matthew’s, Me-
herrin, 16.92; St. Paul’s, Los Angeles, 42.00; St. Paul’s,
Lutherville, 20.00; St. Paul’s, Napoleonville, 1.05; St.
Paul’s, Oak Hill, 8.46; St. Peter’s, Cabarrus County, 6.00;
St. Peter’s, Pine Hill, 6.35; St. Philip’s, Catherine, 8.35;
St. Philip’s, Chicago, 40.00; St. Philip’s, Philadelphia,
25.00; St.Philip’s, St.Louis, 115.00; Trinity, New Orleans,
30.00; Trinity, Selma, 31.69; Zion, Gold Hill, 2.00; Zion,
Taits Plice, 5.75.

Miscellaneous: Anna M. Krome, Legacy, $565.41. N.N.,
Illinois, for Negro Missions, 12.50. Rev. W. E. Heidorn,
Blue Earth, Minn., for Negro Missions Building Fund,
5.00. Josephine Kaemper, Los Angeles, Cal., for Negro
Missions, 12.50. Per C. F. B., Nebraska, for Negro Mis-
sions, 5.00. Mrs. A. G. H. Overn, Albert Lea, Minn., for
Negro Missions, 5.00. Tueo. W. Ecxmart, 7'reasurer.

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