# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1884_S44 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 44 The Lutheran Pioneer. Ordination and Installation at Little Rock. | the home where he has been loved and honored, the leper goes out a helpless outcast. Hence- forth no friendly door opens to welcome him; no voice in accents of kindness fulls upon his ear. Unable to toil, he begs from door to door, and sleeps where the night overtakes him; to satisfy his hunger gladly taking such food as is “thrown to him’’; no fear of defilement now, for who so vile as he? And so the months and On Sunday, Nov. 16th, by appointment, the writer ordained and installed Mr. George Allen- bach, the new Missionary of the Little Ruck Colored Mission. Rey. J. Miller assisted at the ordination. Ordination services were held in the German Lutheran Church in the morning;, and install- ation services were held in the evening in the Colored Mission Church, where a large and deeply interested congregation was gathered for the occasion. May the Lord add His blessing, guide- and strengthen the new missionary in his laborious and difficult office, and make him a blessed means of doing much good and of making many “wise unto salyation.’”” C.F. OBERMEYER. Address: Rev. George Allenbach, Lutheran Missionary, 1213 Rock Str., Little Rock, Ark. + - oP o> oe Lepers in India. years drag wearily on, the awful disease doing its deadly work, until the maimed and scarred stump that remains scarcely seems the tenement of a human soul. The people of India provide asylums and hospitals for animals, and to pet and pamper the sacred cow, or the revered monkey, is re- garded as an act of great merit, but to relieve the sufferings of their stricken fellow creatures they feel no responsibility. But though the heathen inhabitants of this land are thus indifferent to the woes of their countrymen, Christians have been moved to pity, and all over the land there are now asy- lums for lepers. Many of these asylums, though receiving grants-in-aid from Government, are A correspondent of a New York paper writes: A stranger in India visiting a bazar, or any public place, will be shocked at the wretched beings by whom he will be immediately sur- rounded, each one asking an alms. Mothers are in the throng and thrust upon the notice of the visitor a puny hahe, a sightless child, or under the superintendence of Christian mission- aries, who, while dispensing the bounty put into their hands for the physical relief of the sufferers, have also a care for their immortal souls. Some of the noblest, most devoted mis- sionaries that India has known have been spe- one with a hideous deformity. Children are leading about a blind father or mother. The maimed are there; and crawling at his feet and imploring his pity and his pence are crea- tures in all stages of wretchedness and defor- mity. The Jeper, too, is there, and holds up before the dismayed visitor his hands frightful with the ravages of the pitiless disease that is consuming his life; or, leaning on a stick and hobbling painfully along, directs attention to his stumps wrapped in loathsome rags; or, if these members are sound, he implores the vis- itor to look upon his marred visage. Leprosy in India is painfully prevalent, and is found both in the mountains and the plains. It is said there are at least 125,000 of these wretched sufferers here, and one authority places the number at 200,000. The Jast census shows that the disease is spreading in some parts of India. In Berar the census of 1870 gave _the number of lepers as 1,439, or six in every 10,000. The census of 1880 gave the number as 3,748. In the city of Bombay alone there are now 430 lepers. The condition of no class of persons is so de- plorable as that of the lepers. Not only are _ they the victims of a loathsome and incurable disease, their life a ‘‘living death,’’ but they “are outcasts, homeless and helpless. When the ‘terrible disease makes its appearance in a men- ber of a household, the afflicted one is cast out iends and henceforth has neither name cially interested in the lepers. During the last decade the work has been greatly extended, and has produced most gratifying results. Le- pers, as a class, are most accessible, and receive the ‘glad tidings’’ with peculiar joy. The large leper asylum in Almora has been in the care of the veteran missionary of the station, the Rev. J. H. Budden, for more than thirty years, and his loving labors have been greatly blessed. Between the years 1864 and 1879, two hundred and seventy-two converts from this asylum received Christian baptism, and many others have since confessed their faith in Christ. Asall the lepers, Christian and non-Christian, receive like treatment, there can be no selfish motive to induce them to profess a fuith which they do not possess. Some of the converts from the leper community have been bright examples of the power of Christ to change the heart, for “even these poor victims are often slaves to avarice, lust, malice, and all the other hateful passions of sinful men.’ — +o e+ The Dude and the Indian. It is easy to decide which of the two young men was the gentleman, in the following story from an exchange: “On a Fort Wayne train approaching Chi- cago there was a short-statured, straight-haired, copper-colored Indian, going back to the reser- vation after a trip to the Indian school at Car- lisle, Pa. He wore a nice suit of clothes which fitted him badly, and a paper collar without any necktie. -He attended strictly to his own | business, and was unmolested until a young sprig came into the smoking car from the sleeper. ‘An Indian, I guess,’ said the young chap, as he lighted a cigarette. And then, approaching the son of the plains, he attracted general attention by shouting, with strange gestures: ‘Ugh, heap big Injun! Omaha? Sioux? Paw- nee? See great father? Have drink firewater? Warm Injun’s blood!’ “The copper colored savage gazed at the young man a moment, with an ill-concealed expression of contempt on his face, and then he said, with good pronunciation: ‘You must have been reading some dime novels, sir. Iam go- ing back to my people in Montana, after spend- ing three years in the East at school. LI advise you to do the same thing. No. I do not drink whisky. Where I live gentlemen do not carry whisky flasks in their pockets.’ “The cigarette was not smoked out, and, amid a general laugh, a much crestfallen young man retired to the sleeping coach.’’ ——st +o or oe In many instances the Bible has remarkably proved itself by Jong-forgotten texts which have come back to the memory, and by words upon scraps of paper which have flashed converting truth into the mind. A farmer one Sunday returned from church where he had heard the text, ‘The ox knoweth his owner, but Israel doth not know, my people do not consider.’’ Going into his farm-yard, a favorite cow came towards him to lick his hand; and the farmer, who had been up to this time quite an ungodly man, burst into tears as he thought, ‘Why, that’s it! that poor creature knows me, and can be’grateful to me, and yet I have never thought of and never have been grateful to God.” Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, New ORLEans, La. fe EV. LUTU. ST. 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