# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1883_S4 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 4 The Lutheran Pioneer. sionary to Australia. He is stationed at Syd- God’s Way of Giving. ney, where there are at least 600 Scandinav- ians. He has already organized several con- gregations and the prospects for effective work are good. He has a laborious task, as may be inferred from the fact, that he has to travel over a circuit of 1100 miles. At Sydney he has charge of an important Seaman’s Mission. Nor Yrr.—Several years have passed by, and the millions of which the Romish Arch- bishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, swindled confid- ing Romanists are not yet paid. In their ap- peal to the pope the creditors say that “after three years of patient waiting, the creditors, many of whom have lost all the proceeds of labor earned in a life time of toil, are becom- ing desperate, and that many of the poorer creditors have died from want, while others committed suicide, and others still have be- come insane from despair.’’ Srrone LANGUAGE, BUT TRUE.—The Prot- estant Standard says of the collecting of ‘‘Peter’s Pence”’ for the pope: ‘‘The hat was lately passed around for the benefit for the poor old pope. Churches that are overloaded with debt and poor people who scarcely know how they are going to pull through the winter are ob- liged to come down with the stamps to support a great loafer in gilded trappings and a princely palace with a small army of beggarly wretches to wait on his lazy ‘ Holiness.’”’ Tuanxs!—From many of our friends we re- ceived letters of greetings during the holidays. One was even sent over the ocean from Bavaria in Germany. We heartily thank our friends for their words of encouragement and for the interest they take in our paper. \ Wishing all readers a Happy New Year, the little PlonEER closes the window. —. ~~ + _New Year’s Greeting to the Pioneer. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. By Dr. Martin Luruer. Sraristics.—In Brobst’s Almanac for 1883 the statistics of the Lutheran Church in America sum up as follows: Synodical Conference: ministers 1,117, congregations 1,881, communi- cants 288,117; General Council: ministers 849, congregations 1,607, communicants 235,002; General Synod (North): ministers 847, con- gregations 1,355, communicants 128,229; Gen- eral Synod (South): ministers 141, congrega- tions 239, communicants 18,362; Independent: ministers 475, congregations 1,048, communi- cants 116,077; Total: ministers 3,429, congre- gations 6,130, communicants 785,787. Rarm Growrs.—The North American Re- view says: ‘“‘During the century just passed the population of the United States has in- creased elevenfold, and churches have in- creased thirty-sevenfold, and while a hundred years ago there was one church to every 1,700 inhabitants, there is now one for every 529.” This does not afford much encouragement to Col. Ingersoll in his crusade against the God of the Bible. Incresse.—Fifty years ago there were 502 mission stations in foreign lands. There are now 5,765, an increase of elevenfold. Fifty years ago there were 656 ordained missionaries, native and foreign. There are now 6,696, or an increase of more than tenfold. Then there were 1,256 other laborers and assistants. Now there are 33,856, an increase of nearly thirty- fold, and forming a total army of over 40,000 Jaborers in the mission field. : SPREAD OF THE BIBLE.—In 1800, there were four millions of Bibles, translated into thirty different languages, and in spite of all the at- tacks made upon the Bible by the many in- fidels of the present century, there were, in the year 1880, one hundred and sixty-five millions of Bibles translated into two hundred and six languages over the whole world. ‘There have been more editions of that one Book printed and scattered throughout the Jand, every edi- tion containing many thousand volumes, than there have been single volumes of any other book that ever was printed in this world. Orrnans’ Homwe.—A Lutheran Orphans’ Home is to be established in New Orleans, La., by the Lutheran congregations of that city. A Goop’Caristmas Present.—A pious widow, member of the Lutheran congregation in Butler county, Pa., Rev. F. Wilhelm, pastor, has presented to the Ey. Lutheran Con- cordia Synod a farm of 50 acres, on which a Lutheran Asylum for orphans and aged people If the Lord, in His dealings with you were to adopt your plan of giving everything at once, then, on the first day of January, you might have in your possession altogether enough to meet your every want for a whole year. To that amount, however, no further additions could be added until the year was out. Now, suppose you and others should be treated in that way, what would be. your condition and the condition of others, say, at the end of six months? You see, such an arrangement would not answer at all. But the plan which the Lord does adopt does answer. He gives you enough to satisfy all your wants for the year,. but instead of giving it all at once, he gives only a little at a time, and often; in a word, he gives your daily bread. He gives every day only what the wants of the day require; and so, the whole supply lasts throughout the year, and keeps you comfortable to the end. Whereas, if you were given all at once,-your experience with it might be a very sad one indeed. ———> ~