The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1933, Page 87

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

87

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the treatment is not very humane. They jeopardize
their lives and lose their property, as did two
workers in China. But they keep at it for the joy
that is set before them, the fruit which they shall

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AN ARMENIAN CHILD

Totally blind, reading with the tips of
the fingers from one volume of a
Braille Bible

garner. Sometimes it comes soon. A single gospel
put into the hands of a child led to the conversion
and baptism of a whole family. Sometimes it comes
later. The record of this year brings the report of
one who, responding to an invitation with some
trepidation, called at the isolated home of a reputed
outlaw, to be met first with a word of grateful
thanks and then with a word of frank confession —
thanks for the Testament which had led to the con-
version of himself, his wife, and children, and the
confession that, when the Testament had been given
to him several years before, as the two met on
a lonely bridge spanning a turbulent stream, the
then outlaw had intended to rob the man and cast
him into the stream, but had been turned from this
intention by the gracious gift of the Book.

“Nor is all the credit due to single workers.
Leadership has counted, leadership such as that of
the missionary who inspired and instructed ten
young people to share in selling Scriptures at
a Peruvian fair, where in one day they disposed of
1,249 Bibles, Testaments, and portions; leadership
such as that of an agency secretary, which resulted
in stimulating the workers to a distribution during
the year of a quarter million volumes more than the
year before.” F.J.L.

Deaconess Work in India.

We bring below a very interesting article from
the pen of Miss Louise Rathke, who is at this time
home on furlough from India, where she serves as
missionary deaconess in the Northern Field of the
Missouri Synod Mission. We reprint the article
from the Lutheran Deaconess, the official organ of
the Lutheran Deaconess Association within the
Synodical Conference of North America.

“At one o’clock at night I boarded the train
which was to take me to the Kolar Gold Fields,
where I intended visiting two of the Bible women
who are stationed in that district. As the trip was
but a short one, I traveled third-class, choosing the
women’s compartment. These short trips have often
proved very enjoyable, as a number of the Indian
women became very friendly and were eager to en-
gage in conversation. Now and then I met one who
spoke English, but usually they know only Tamil
or some other native language. The former were in
most cases either students, teachers, or doctors.
Often to my great amusement strange Hindu men,
who were sending either wife or daughter on a visit

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MISS HELEN KELLER

Miss Keller readi: pet ile John 1:4 from a
Braille poibles “In him yas lites's and the
ic was the light of men."

or to school, upon seeing me in the compartment,
inquired of me as to my destination and asked me
to look after their women: Fortunately no heroic
measures on my part were necessary to keep my
promise, and I hope that all these little women have
safely reached their destination.