# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1880_S52 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) The Lutheran Pioneer. TuE pastors of the German Lutheran congre- gations and the teachers of the Lutheran pa- rochial schools at New Orleans have begun to publish a small monthly devoted to the interests of the Lutheran Church and congregations in the South and, especially, at New Orleans. It is called ‘‘Der Suedbote’’ (the Southern Messen- ger), and is not quite the size of the PIONEER. The first number contains brief sketches of the several Lutheran churches at New Orleans; also a sketch of the work of the Missionary Association of these churches; announcements of meetings of churches and associations etc. Price, 25 cents per year. Address Jacob Broder, Box 1279, New Orleans, La.—Though this new periodical has but a local importance in the Church, being only the voice of Southern minis- ters to Southern congregations, it may be of some interest to Northern Lutherans who desire to inform themselves about the condition and trials of Lutheranism in the South. Rey. F. Wemmann has charge of the Moss Point, Miss., English Lutheran mission. He has established a parochial school, which prom- ises well. - The mission was begun by Rev. J. F. Doescher, and is under the care of the New Orleans Missionary Association. THE Mission-Board of the Synodical Confer- ence calls for contributions to erect a school- building at Little Rock, Ark., capable of holding the large number of children attending the colored mission schoo] at that place. The first donation for that purpose was received froin Mr. G. D. Simen, Allegheny, Pa., who sent ten dollars. Next? Rey. L. WaGner will go to San Francisco, Cal., having accepted a call of the Lutheran church there. He will be the associate pastor, while Pastor Buehler will be Pastor primarius. ~ Lutheran mission-work in California will be greatly increased and carried on with vigor, as Rey. Wagner goes there at the instance of. the Home Mission Board of the Missouri Synod. Arkansas has but two German Lutheran and one English Lutheran congregation. Of Lutheran missions there are the Colored Luth- eran at Little Rock and two German missions. This state greatly needs a traveling missionary to look up and gather the Lutherans that have settled in all parts of the state. The stationary ministers can do no more than they have done, because their own charges are but missions demanding all of their time and attention, and requiring an enormous amount of labor and exertion. ; M—, —_———_~o or oe ‘ (For the ‘‘Lutheran Pioneer.??) The True Time for Repentance. It is NOW! Repent just now and no later! Alas! how many postpone their repentance to old age, or reserve all thoughts of repentance for the time of sickness or the hour of death! Perhaps you are one of this kind? Is it right? Is it right, is it just, is it fair, to give the up- right part of your life to the devil, and then to devote the lame and limping part to God? Ought you to give the devil your health and to reserve your sickness for God? Ought you to let the devil-have the fresh blossoms of your life and offer the withered remnants to God? Is it fair to willingly relinquish the present to the devil and let God have the future? The present is certain, the future uncertain. Will you divide your life so as to make the devil’s share your blooming, robust, active youth, while God’s share consists of your limping, decaying, lame, sickly, wrinkled old age? Will you re- serve your piety for the time when your hair shall turn gray and white? Perhaps you will not live long enough for one single hair to change its color. And who is your best friend? The devil is your enemy. God is your Friend. ‘To the friend we must give the very best of our goods. To God, therefore, belongs the best part of our lives, when we are young and strong; when we are enjoying good health and plenty; when the cold hand of death is not already upon us. Consider also, who offers and gives thee the best things, God or the devil? Which is the best, heaven or hell? When you are un- able to serve the devil and sin as in thy youth- ful days, then you want to begin to serve God. The devil rejects you; therefore you want God to take you. What do you consider God to be? Only a servant of Satan. O hearken to wise counsel! Repent not only when sickness, old age or death is upon thee, but Now, gust now, while sin seems sweetest to thee. Hasten! before the gates be closed. Purchase in time, ere the opportunity be lost. Do you know how much time of grace and how many oppor- tunities to repent you will have? 5 (From the German.) st +o o> oe Ingersoll Silenced. Shortly after Robt. G. Ingersoll] (the blas- phemous infidel) was defeated in his race for the governorship of Illinois, he was one day boisterously and blasphemously proclaiming his infidelity on board of a railroad train between Chicago and Peoria. After being for some time offensively voluble he turned to a gentle- man near him, and defiantly demanded: “Tell me of one good and great result that Christian- ity has ever accomplished?”? The gentleman, not wishing to open an argument with the ‘bonster, hesitated to answer. The train had stopped and all was silent in the car. Just then an old lady of 80 years, who sat just behind Mr. Ingersoll, touched his arm with her trembling hand, and said: “Sir, Ido not know who you are, but I think I can tell you of one glorious thing that Christianity has done.” “What is it, Madam??? said Ingersoll. “Tt has kept Robert G. Ingersoll from being governor of the great State of Illinois.”’ Tf lightning had at that moment flashed through the car, the effect would not have been greater. Ingersoll turned literally pale with rage, and remained silent. The grand old woman lies under the prairie daisies now, but her courageous act ‘‘swells sweet, and bléssoms in the dust.” Selected. + om 0 -e A MAN may as well think of buying light from the sun, or air from the atmosphere, or water from the well-spring, or minerals from the earth, or fish from the sea, as think of buy- ing salvation from God with any kind of price. The sun gives his light, the atmosphere its air, the well-spring its water, the earth its minerals, the sea its fish: all man has to do is to take them and use them. So God has given salva- tion to man. All he has to do is to take it by faith, use and enjoy it. P, 8. Our Critic’s Corner. Wuat ts a ‘‘Lurgeran’’? or, Why do you call yourself a ‘‘Lutheran’’? This valuable Tract, translated from the German, gives a clear, distinct, and comprehensive, not to say exhaustive, answer to the above question. Its 20 pages 8yvo teem with precious truths, precious in all times and lands, but especially precious and needed in our time and in our land swarming with all sects and ‘‘denominations’”’ that, however they differ among themselves, yet are united and one in their opposition and hostility to the Lutheran Church, because it claims to have alone the Gospel pure und unadulterated. A Lutheran not knowing why he is a Lutheran, is, therefore, in a very dangerous position, amidst all the jecring and sneering foes surrounding him. How easily may he be drawn away from a Church opposed by all, and not known and appreciated by himself! No one who reads, digests, and retains in memory and heart the truths set forth so plainly and conyinc- ingly by the above-named Tract, will find himself in such a deplorable plight. It is sent by Rev. J. L. Trauger, Petersburgh, O., for 5 cts. per copy, 50 cts. per dozen, $4.00 per hundred. The proceeds are, moreover, given to the Church. Bisuica, Hisrory in the Words of Holy Scripture, with Engravings, Maps, Quest- ions and Notes, for Sunday and Weekday- Schools. Reading, Pa.: Pilger Book Store. Price: Boards 30 cts., Cloth 35 cts. per copy; per dozen $3.00 (3.60); per hun- dred $20.00 (25.00). 5 This book of 188 pages 8vo gives the History of the Old Testament in 52 Stories, together with a valuable Table comprising the ‘Prophecies con- cerning the Saviour”, and an Appendix containing a short, but sufficient and lucid history of the Jews after the return from Babylon down to the time of Herod and Pontius Pilate. It gives all the Title promises, and gives it abundantly and nicely, just as you would expect it from the “Pilger Book- Store”’, a publishing-house laboring incessantly and successfully to furnish our Lutheran Church with truly Lutheran Books, at once practical and cheap. CRITIC. TERMS: Tue LurieraNn Pioneer is published monthly, payable in adyance at the following rates, postage included, to-wit: 1 Copy Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent to one address. All business communications to be addressed to »Luth. Concordia Publishing, House“, M. C. BaR- THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo. 2 Ange All communications concerning the editorial de- partinent to be addressed to Pxor., R. A. BiscHorF, Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.