# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1880_S12 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) » MRE 12 The Lutheran Pioneer. gospel annually cost the American people Our Critic’s Corner. $12,000,000. But he should remember, that lawyers annually draw $70,000,000 out of the American people’s pockets. Which cost the most, and which are least necessary of the two? That is not all. ‘The millions spent for the gospel’’, says the Lutheran Standard, ‘‘prevent the expenditure of millions more”, viz. for lawyers, police, armies. The influence of the gospel as a gospel of peace between nations and individuals and as a- preservative of good order and due respect of the one for the rights of others, is beyond dispute. Still more. Take away the gospel or check its influence, -in a short time there will be no security for any- thing. The world will not only be morally, but financially corrupt. ‘Real estate will then be worth about as much as it was in Sodom and Gomorrah. What substitute can be offered for the religion of Jesus Christ?’’ None; at least not Bob Ingersoll’s insane harangues. Read Psalm 14, v. 1. x. Items. Tse Danisa LuTHeran Misston in Green- land has eight stations, ten missionaries, and 7847 members. Tae LuTHERAN CaurcH in America has five missionary journals, of which three are in the German and two in the English language. The sixth (English) will soon be published. : Ir 1s sam, that there is a Lutheran con- gregation in Siberia, at the outermost Eastern station of the Russian Dominion, near the Chinese city of Aljun. Moss Port (Miss.). English Lutheran Mis- sion numbers 17 members. 39 pupils attend the parochial school. 4 persons are being in- structed previous to their confirmation. Rey. RupprRecutT was recently appointed traveling missionary for the state of Iowa, to visit, gather, and preach to the Lutherans scattered over the state and not yet organized into congregations. SS ee Luraerays are settling in Italy, Europe, inj. Tae ResurRECTION of Christ and the for- large numbers. At Naples there is a parochial] giveness of sins stand or fall together. Re- day-school attended by 130 children and con-)cognize Christ risen, and you recognize sin for- ducted by 3 male and 3 female teachers. At|given. The moment you take your eye off a Salermo, near Naples, another German Luth-}risen Christ, you lose the full, deep, divine, eran Church has been established. peace-giving sense of the forgiveness of sins. Tae LurHeran Orruans’ Home at Dayton, | The richest fund of experience, the widest range Ohio, is in a very prosperous condition. Dur-| of intelligence, will not do as a ground of con- . ing the past year, the first year of its existence, | fidence. Nothing, in short, but JESUS RISEN. there were 31 children in the Home, and at . Selected. the close of the year five others had applied for admission. THE Report or LurHeran Hosrrrar, Asy- lum, and Orphans’ Home at St. Louis is pub- lished. In the Hospital there were 72 sick persons, in the Asylum 18 old persons, and in the Orphans’ Home 78 orphans during the past year. Tae Ey. Luts. Swepisn Aucustana Synop has, for some time, conducted a mission among the Indians. Three young Indians are now being educated in the Swedish college at Rock Island, Ills., for missionary duty among their race. Several Swedish students are preparing for the same purpose. Miwavxkee, Wis.—The most beautiful of all the churches in this most Lutheran city, the Ey. Luth. Church of the Holy Trinity, was dedicated on Sunday April 11th. It is built in the form of a cross, in gothic style, 55142 feet. The two towers are respectively 200 and 128 feet high. A cotony oF IceLanpic LurHerans having settled in Manitoba, in British America, but finding it impossible to prosper and being re- Tue Lire or Luruer in Picture and Verse. - A Jubilee Offering in Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Luther's Smaller Catechism. Translated from the German of Rev. J. A. Darmstaetter, by Rev. G. H. Trabert, Lebanon, Pa.—Reading, Pa.: Pilger Book-store. 1879. Price: Paper 20 cts.; per 100 $15.00; Cloth 25 cts.; per 100 $18.00. To begin with a confession, we are not very par- tial to a “‘poetic” history or an historical “‘poetry”’. As a general case, to which, of course, exceptions are occasionally found, either history or poetry, if not each of them, scems to come off a loser by a rhyming treatment of history. We prefer, in this case, a good, clear, concise, and graphic prose, un- trammeled by the requirements of metre and rhyme. But this may be a peculiar notion of ours. And, aside from this, we do not hesitate at all to join our “esteemed contemporaries’’ (for example, the ‘Lu- theraner’’ of St. Louis, Mo., regarding the German Edition) in heartily recommending this very nicely gotten up little book of about 50 pages to. The pictures, 25 in all, are, partly, excellent. We would name, especially, the two pictures of Luther, one on the front of the fine cover, and the other opposite the beautiful title-page of the book, and those re- presenting, respectively, the Pope’s majesty ; Luther nailing his 95 Theses against Indulgences to the church-door (1517); Luther at the Dict at Worms (1521) ; Luther at the Wartburg (do.) ; the Sermon; Concluding the Translation of the Bible.—The letter- press, on tinted paper with an ornamental bordcr, is very good; the price lower than we would have expected. Tue Grace or Givine: Lecture by Rev. M. Rhodes, D.D., Pastor of St. Mark’s Eng. Evang. Lutheran Church, St. Louis, Mo. Philadelphia, Pa.: Lutheran Publication House. My Dury To THe Cuurcn. or wuicn I AM A Memper; and A Curistran Home, both by the same Author and Publisher. These Tracts or Discourses contain many a good and christian sentence. But, we regret to say, the Pioneer’? can not recommend them to his readers in general. Well-meaning and poetically eloquent, no doubt, the Author is; but he has not the true Lutheran ring in his voice. He lacks not only the grand and always most cloquent and effective sim- plicity of biblical language and style, but, worse than this, also of unadulterated biblical truth and doctrine. ‘Great moral principles and experiences underlie and grow out of it’ (viz. systematic be- nevolence, the Author’s hobby, it seems). “It isa subject, indeed a doctrine of divine revelation—a purpose of God—a method of grace, just as it is the most spiritual truth of the Scriptures’? (Grace of giv- ing, p. 3.).—‘*You are bought with a price, therefore give; not because you can give much, or little, but because it is a duty, and you can thereby worship and glorify God. The Holy Ghost has even given us the method of our alms-giving. It is not to be left to the impulse of a moment, nor to be a duty performed at long intervals. ‘Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him.’—1 Cor. 16, 2.” (My duty etc., p. 13.)—“I enter now into no discussion about the divine obligation and sanctity of the Christian Sab- bath. All that must be conceded, if it can be shown that the Lord’s day is a day for the family’ etc. (A Christian Home, p. 18.)—“God gave tt (the cuiajee Sabbath) for no such purpose” etc. (do. p. 19.)— These sentences will suffice for intelligent Lu- theran readers to show what we mean, and to justify our judgment. Want of space prevents us from Txov shalt know that the Bible is a book which makes the wisdom of all other books to be foolishness, because none teach eternal life but it. To read many books will not so much advance our learning, as often to read through this same book; by this we shall advance in religion, as well as in the knowledge of the world.—Jnither. —~+ oo > Curistrans and pious persons have greater treasures than the wicked. For although the wicked flourish in this world and are held in great esteem, yet they have not God.—Luther. *WaHEN you hear the Gospel inviting you to come to Jesus, then say not, I can’t come, I am a great sinner—that is the very reason why you should come. —————- 0