The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1933, Page 86

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

sale of gospels and five-cent Testaments among the
Negroes of the South, due to the activities of boys
and girls, who in large number have developed
a laudable ambition in spreading the Word of Life
among their people.

There are still many homes in our land in which

Courtesy American Bible Society

In the Barber Shop.

no Bible is found. One Bible worker in his monthly
report has this to say: “So far this month I have
visited 478 families and found that 354 of them
never ‘owned a Bible or a Testament.” Another

worker writes: “I am constantly meeting people

who have never seen a Bible and do not know
what it is.”

The distribution of the Bible among the blind
is attended with much joy. The blind greatly desire
the Bible, and the generosity of Christians has made
it possible to provide them with the Scriptures at
less than one-tenth their cost. Letters full of pathos
and gratitude come to the Bible society in large
numbers from persons who have received embossed
Bibles at the nominal price of twenty-five cents
a volume. Among the cuts which we are able to
bring with this article, due to the courtesy of the
American Bible Society, there is one showing Helen
Keller reading her embossed Bible, another one of
an Armenian child reading the Braille-type Scrip-
tures with the tips of the fingers. There are one
hundred thousand blind persons in the United
States alone, to many of whom the American Bible
Society has been able to bring the Bible through the
generosity of those who support its work. The
grand total of embossed volumes published for the
blind since the work was begun has reached the sum
of 101,864.

We bring the following
Tribute to the Bible Distributors
from the last report of the American Bible Society:
“ “NEITHER Snow, Nor Rain, Nor HEAt,
Nor Groom oF Nicut Stays THESE
CourRIERS FROM THE Swirr CoMPLETION
Or THEIR APPOINTED Rounps.’

“These words of Herodotus in no small degree
apply to those who through the past year, in this
and other lands, have helped to distribute God’s
missive of love. Not so many shared in this work
last year as in the year before. Without endeavor-
ing to weigh its significance, the fact is of interest
that the four thousand workers enrolled last year
distributed, in proportion, as many volumes of
Scripture as did the five thousand the previous year.
To do this, probably meant more hard work and
devotion than a gain of many thousands would
mean in better times.

“Of the workers only 325 were subagents and
colporteurs, while 1,521 worked without salary.
With a pitifully small commission, with a great love
for their Book and a divine urge in their hearts,
they sacrificially travel through the cities and the
countryside, on highways, byways, and waterways,
in season and out of season, sowing the seed of the

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CHILDREN LET HIM GO ONLY AFTER HE
GAVE THEM GOSPELS

Kingdom. The same may be said of the 2,108
voluntary workers who cooperate, on some regular
basis, both in this land and in foreign lands.
“These heroes of faith often work in great
loneliness, as the two colporteurs of the Mexican
Agency who were the only active Christian workers
in the whole state of Tabasco. They face and en-
dure such experiences as being put in jail, where