The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1933, Page 30

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the United Synod of New York inaugurated a
unique plan by which a mission for Negroes is
.supported in Jamaica. Pastor Jesse Wayman
Routte, who graduated from Augustana College and
Augustana Seminary, Rock Island, and who was
ordained by the United Synod of New York in
June, 1932, is in charge of the mission. He is being
supported by the children of the churches in the
Long Island Conference, who through their Sunday-
schools are expected to contribute enough to take
care of his salary. — News Bulletin, N. L.C.

Which Are You? — There is a big difference
between a post and a tree. It is a difference of life;
a tree has life, and the post has not. Plant a tree,
and it begins to grow; put a post into the ground,
and it begins to rot. The question of vital im-
portance is, Which are you in your church, a living
tree or a dead post?

The Man of One Book.— During the Sepoy
Rebellion in 1857 a Brahman saw how the dwelling
of the missionary in Sikandra was pillaged. As he
came nearer, he noticed all kinds of books and
papers scattered about on the ground which the
robbers had torn and trampled under their feet.
Among the litter he saw a little book which took
his fancy. He appropriated it and brought it to his
home. Upon his arrival at home he began to read
in the book, which so fascinated him that he did not
stop till he had read it to the end. The book was
the Gospel of St. Matthew. Soon after, he left his
home and traveled from place to place and at last
came to a little village. Here he decided to stay.
Not long before his arrival the villagers had lost
their priest, and when he told the people that he
had found a new sacred book and read some por-
tions of it to them, they were so well pleased with
its contents that they asked him to stay with them
and instruct them from his sacred book. So this
Brahman became their teacher and led them to be
Christians, though neither he, the teacher, nor they,
the pupils, at first fully realized the fact. When,
later, foreign missionaries came to the village, they
were surprised and delighted with what they here
found.

- A Sad Discovery. — A man devoted ten years
each to law, to medicine, and to the ministry. At
the end of thirty years he announced his discovery
in the following words: “On the average, a man
will pay ninety cents on the dollar to save his
property, fifty cents to save his life, and ten cents
to save his soul.”—-Lutheran Progress, Santa
vf Monica, Cal.

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

The Jewish Surgeon.

In one of the large London hospitals a poor
woman was dying. One of the young surgeons who
was a Jew went to her bed and said: “My poor
woman, you seem to be very ill; I am afraid you
will never recover. Can I do anything for you?”

“Thank you, sir,” said the poor woman; “there
is a New Testament behind my pillow, and I should
be much obliged to you if you would read a chapter
to me.”

The young man scemed surprised, but he took
the Testament and did as requested.

He continued to come and read to her for sev-
eral days, and was greatly struck by the comfort
and peace which the Word of Life seemed to give
to the poor invalid.

With almost her dying breath the poor woman
gave the Testament to the Jewish surgeon and
urged him to read it.

He took it home with him and determined to
keep his promise. He read it diligently and soon
found Him of whom Moses and the prophets
wrote, Jesus, the Messiah, and by the grace of God
came to believe in Him as the “Lamb of God, who
taketh away the sin of the world.”

The Gospel’s Power.

The Rev. H. Nott, a missionary on the South
Sea Islands, once read a passage of the Gospel ac-
cording to St. John to a large number of heathen
that had gathered around him. When he read the
sixteenth verse of the third chapter, one of the
natives, who had listened with the greatest atten-
tion, cried out, “What words were those that you
read? Let me hear those words again!” The mis-
sionary again read the verse: “God so loved the
world that He gave his only-begotten Son, that

‘whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but

have everlasting life.” The heathen jumped up and
said, “Is that true? Can that be true? God loves
the world although the world does not love Him?
He loves the world so that He gave His only-begot-
ten Son that He should die in order that men may
live? Can that be true?”

The missionary read the verse again and said
that it was true indeed and that this was the glad
news which God had sent to them for their salva-
tion and that every sinner who believes in that Son
of God should not perish, but have everlasting life..