# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1884_S20 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 20 The Lutheran Pioneer | The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —Oor Lutheran pastors in Pittsburgh have started a new paper in the interest of the Con- The first number of the ‘‘ Pittsburgher Kirchen- und The little messenger starts on his journey very lively, and there is something charming about him, which, we doubt not, will open him many Lu- The price of the monthly is 25 cts. per annum and it can be had by ad- dressing Mr. E. H. Myers, 645 Liberty Str., cordia Orphan’s Home near that city. Waisenbote’’ has been received. theran homes. Pittsburgh, Pa. —TueEne are five German Lutheran churches in Pittsburgh in connection with the Synodical These churches support eleven parochial schools in which more than 1000 pu- Conference. pils are daily instructed. —Tne Protestant churches are making rapid headway with religious work in Mexico. Their mission schools are crowded with children and the number of their communicants is steadily increasing. It appears to be the policy of the Government to foster the growth of the Prot- estant churches with a view to weakening the influence of the Romish church, which has been in times past, and is yet, a hindrance to the growth and prosperity of the country. —Says the Christian Advocate: tween the stake and the river. —Awn establishment for the production of cheap Bibles for general distribution occupies ‘the ground in Coldstream, Scotland, on which stood the priory from which, in the reign of Henry VIII., the Pope’s legate published a bull against the printing of the Scriptures. —Tae remarkable interest taken in Christian mission by the average Scotchman was singu- The pro- larly shown recently at Aberdeen. prietor of the Devanha House at that place, who is an officer of the Free Church, erected a canopy, with seats for 1200 persons, and called @ missionary convention. The canopy was found Jarge ‘enough for the morning session, but in the afternoon large numbers were com- pelled to find seats on the lawn outside, and in the evening the greater part of the Jawn was covered with an audience numbering about =i 5000. Think, says the Foreign Missionary, of the proprietor of some Saratoga hotel erecting such a tent on his lawn for a foreign mission- ary meeting; and what is perhaps stranger still, think of such an audience of Americans —1200 in the morning, a large number in the afternoon, and 5000 in the evening, turning _ out to hear speeches on foreign missions! ‘DURING a visit made to New Guinea and “Times change. There is a Bible-stand near the Piazza della Signoria, in Florence, where Savonarola was burned at the stake in 1498. A resident thus writes: ‘The ashes of the celebrated prior of S. Marco were thrown into the Arno, but the Word for which he and many others suf- fered is now being publicly sold midway be- and native teachers spent a night on Darnley Island, when a project was formed to establish a mission on another of the islands, named Murray Island. Some of the natives of the island in question seemed specially intent on intimidating the teachers, and convincing them that a mission. there was perfectly hopeless. “There are alligators there,” said they, ‘‘and snakes and centipedes.’’ ‘““Hold!’’ said Tepeso, one of the teachers; ‘‘Are there men there?” ““Oh, yes,’’ was the reply, “there are men; but they are such dreadful savages that it is no use your thinking of living among them.” “That will do,’”’ responded Tepeso. ‘*Where- ever there are men, missionaries are bound to go.’ A noble reply, worthy a disciple of Him who commands his followers to ‘‘Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.”’ —Mavuraisa district, with a city of the same name, in the south of British India, its eastern boundary being the strait or gulf which separ- ates the island of Ceylon from the mainland. It is the seat of mission work, regarding which we find noted the following: ‘‘A christian church has been built with stones from the ruins of a heathen temple, by the native con- verts connected with the Madura Mission.’’ —Tue Church Missionary Society reports that a bribe of £5,000 was refused by a native missionary in India. His old invalid aunt came and embraced his feet, saying, ‘‘I will give 50,000 rupees up to you this moment if you will only come with me and promise not to be a Christian.’’ He answered her, ‘‘I cannot sell my soul for money.’” —In India there exist special mission socie- ties for the care of lepers. Within a year twenty-eight have been baptized in several asylums in the north of India—nineteen in one day in one place. —Bur very little attention is paid in China to the education of women. A lady missionary, who has been teaching and traveling for nearly ten years in China, says that out of eight hun- dred women whom she had visited, only four could read at all, and only one could read the Chinese language well. —TneEnrE is a Chinaman at work in Tahiti, in the South Sea Islands, who expends $20 a month out of a salary of $25, for Bibles to dis- tribute among his countrymen. —Recent letters from the agent of the American Bible Society in Japan state that a number of Japanese Christians have presented a formal and earnest appeal to be allowed to take part in the work of translating the Old Testament. They speak of the blessings which had come to them through the New Testament, which had been already published and widely circulated; of the evils which would ensue if the remaining work was not properly done; and of the want of uniformity in style which would mark a translation produced by the labors of many different scholars working apart.. —Aw editorial in a Tokio, Japan, paper est- While opposed to Christianity, the writer thinks it cannot be put down by force, and that the government should tolerate it, repeal its laws against it, which are not enforced, and leave each man to believe or reject it as he pleases. —ACCORDING to the Gospel in all Lands, the Rev. Thomas Crosby writes that there never was a greater interest taken by the Indians among whom he labors in the study of the Bible than now. ‘‘We have had as many as sixty and eighty old people meet after the Sunday morning service, to commit to memory the text in their native tongue. These old * people, many of them gray-headed and with staff in hand, seem to delight to stay for the — text, and thus they go off with one more verse of God’s Word to comfort and bless them. One old woman said: ‘Missionary, you think, per- haps, that I forget all the good words. No, I have a little box full of pebbles, and I have a text in my heart for every pebble I put into it.’” _—_—_—> - o