# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1883_S48 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) The Lutheran Pioneer. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —ThE papers of the past weeks brought full accounts of the grand celebration of Luther's four hundredth birthday in all parts of the world. Our colored Lutheran churches in the South also had their Luther Day. A descrip- tion of the celebration in Little Rock, Ark., is given in the missionary’s letter which we publish in this number. Our colored Lutheran congregation at New Orleans held a grand fes- tival service on the evening of the 12th of November. The church was most beautifully decorated with flowers and a large audience of colored people listened attentively to the able discourse of the Rev. G. Franke of Algiers, Louisiana. —TueE Methodists, says the Church Messen- ger, celebrated the birth of Luther for the rea- son that ‘John Wesley heard on the evening of May 24th, 1738, in Aldersgate street in London, Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans and received, as he said, the conviction, that the Lord had taken away all his sins and redeemed him from the law of sin and death.” He was therefore converted (according to Lu- theran teaching) by the quiet hearing and re- ceiving of the Word of God, and not by the violent exercise of prayer, by which modern Methodists confess to effect conversion. —Emperor William presented every Protest- ant school in Prussia with a copy of the beau- tiful picture ‘‘ Luther and his fellow-laborers translating the Bible.” —TueE Magistrate of Berlin resolved to con- tribute $25,000 to the ‘‘Luther-fund”’ for the education of children of pastors and teachers. Other cities will follow the example of the German capital. - —Amone the relics of the past stored in the Markish Museum at Berlin, is Martin Luther's own Bible. Written on the title page are the words, ‘‘If Thy Word, O Lord, did not com- fort me, Ishould perish in misery. 1542, Mart. Luther, D.’? Rarely, indeed, does so much interest ‘and importance attach to a particular copy of this sacred volume as to this. It was not only the means in the hand of God of illum- inating the mind of Luther; but, through him, of rescuing the whole world from the darkness of Papal ignorance-and error. —Two Jews, after receiving instructions for 8 months in the doctrines of Christianity, and manifesting a sincere desire to hecome Lutheran Christians; were recently baptized and admitted into Rey. F. Koenig’s church in New York. These are the first fruits of our Jewish mission in that city. —TxeE Crrcuration of Bibles, Testaments, and portions of the Word of God during the year 1882 by National societies is thus reported : By the British and Foreign Bible Society, 2,964,636; by the American Bible Society, 1,676,232; by the Scotch National Bible So- ciety, 481,166; and by the Hibernian Bible Society, 57,518, making in all 5,179,547. Be- _ sides these there are several other Bible socie- ties in Britain and America, and some on the Continent of Europe, which print and circulate Bibles, and there are great numbers printed by private publishing houses, especially in Ger- many. Altogether, we think it would be safe to estimate the whole number of issues from the press of the Word of God, in whole or part last year, at something like seven millions of copies, a considerable portion of which are distributed gratis. The British and Foreign Society has agents all over the world ready to report any opening for the circulation of the Scriptures, and to superintend the'work. The American Bible Society is engaged in the great task of seeing that every family in the United States is supplied with the Bible. —TueE pope’s people hate the Bible. While religious services were being conducted recently at Wexford, Ireland, a Catholic mob entered the building, and made a bonfire of all the bibles and hymn-books that could be found. One Protestant was attacked and carried down to the harbor, the intention of his assailants being to drown him. Some respectable citizens interfered and saved him. Another Protestant was chased through the streets and finally sought refuge in the police barracks. He was told the police were unable to protect him. He was seriously wounded. The mob took com- plete possession of the town, broke the windows of the Protestant church, and of nearly all the houses occupied by Protestants. The ladies who attended the services in the churches were insulted, and the gentlemen accompanying them stoned. Several were injured severely. —A telegram from New York states that eight novices, who landed in that city on Dec. 4th with a Romish priest of St. Louis, were arrested for smuggling silk goods under their skirts. A Jesuit, in defending the nuns in a Romish paper, says: ‘‘These women appear to have been doing a little smuggling, which, after all, is no great crime.’’ The silk was to be used for making priest’s robes, and the Jes- uit, no doubt, thinks that the end sanctifies the means. _ —TueE Rev. Ruttonji Nowroji, who has charge of a congregation of 494 Christians, while on a tour in the vicinity of Arungabad, India, speaks of a Brahmin school-master who visited him daily. After many earnest conversations, when about to part on their last interview, this Brahmin, joining both hands, with tears in his eyes, exclaimed: ‘‘I will remember your kind- ness to my dying day. I know not when God will permit us to meet each other. But, oh, sir, let me make one request! In all your preaching, and at the conclusion of every re- ligious discourse, call upon my country-men to learn to read. When they read your Script- ures they will be convinced that Christianity is divine, revealing to sinners God’s plan of sal- vation.”” _—TneE present Christmas number closes the fifth volume of our paper. Thanking our read- ers for the interest they have taken in our work during the past year, we hope they will kindly assist us also in the future. ones who hang up their stockings in the merry Christmas time our little ProncEr will be found Among the little too. He expects to get many names of new subscribers as a welcome Christmas gift. Now don’t disappoint the little fellow. Whilst he is hanging up his stockings, we hang up our scissors and lay down our pen and close our window. BOOK-TABLE. TuE WITTENBERG NIGHTINGALE. By Hans Sachs, Translated from the German of 1523 by Prof, C. W. Schaeffer, D.D. Brobst, Diehl & Co., Allentown, Pa. Price, 20 cts. per copy; $1.75 per dozen; $12.00 per hundred. This-is a most excellent translation of that “master-song’”? of the German ‘Master Singer,’” Hans Sachs. Dr. Schaeffer says in the Preface: “The ‘Wittenberg Nightingale’ has always stood high among the testimonials that have come down from the earlier periods of the Reformation Era; and as the memory of Luther and his labors is specially lively, at the present time, the Song of the Nightingale, by the shoemaker of Nuremberg, is here presented, in English rhyme, for the delect- ation of modern readers.”’ Der LutnEeriscue KaLENDER, published by Brobst, Diehl & Co., Allentown, Pu., makes its ap- pearance for the year 1884 with its usual variety of statistics and instructive reading. Among its ar- ticles is an interesting biography of the late Dr. C. P. Krauth, with a portrait. The price is 10 cts, per copy, 90 cts. per dozen, $6.00 per hundred, SynopaL-Bericut des Mittleren Districts der Sy- node von Missouri, Ohio u.a. St. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 20 cts., postage 3 cts. This pamphlet deserves the widest circulation among all the members of our German congrega- tions. Besides the excellent sermon, delivered by the Rev. H. C. Schwan at the opening of the ses- sions of the Middle District Synod, it also contains a full report of the doctrinal discussion on ‘Christ in the Old Testament.” Read this Report, and you will not only grow in the knowledge of the Script- ures, but also in your love of the Saviour, whom you will find to'be the great object of the Holy Ghost in the writing of the Old Testament. PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC for the Common Schools. of North America. Part First, Integral, abstract and like Numbers. By H. Duemling, Ph. D. Con- cordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price 20 cents. * Answers to the above. Price 15 cts. WEIUNACHTS-CANTATE von W. Ross. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis. copy; $1.50 per dozen. Tue Sunpay-Scnoor Hymnau. A Collection of Music for Sunday and Week-Day Schools. With full Responsive Services for Sundays and Festivals. Lutheran Book Concern, Columbus, O. Price 50 cents per copy; $4.00 per dozen. Price 20 cts. per Money - Box. Received of Ida Sorenson 25 cts. for our Colored Mission. R. A. B. St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church, Littitx Kock, Ark. Chapel on corner of 12th and Rock Sts. Sunday-school meets every Sunday at 2 0’ clock. Divine services at 3 o’clock anit 7.0’clock. TERMS: Toe LurweraNn Pioneer is published monthly, ayable in advance at the following rates, postage included, to-wit: 1 Cop a wD 10 Copies -$2.00 5 ighas: - 5.00 Ss 9.00 Club rates only allowed i are to be sent to one address. All business communications to be addressed to yLuth. Concordia Publishing House“, M. C. BAR- THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo. : ‘All communications concerning the editorial de- parenent to be addressed _to Pror. R. A. BiscHorr, cordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.