# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1885_S8 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) The Lutheran Pioneer. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —A PrrrsBurGH correspondent states that the largest denomination in the cities of Pitts- burgh and Alleghany is the Lutheran with 11,350 members. —Ir has been said that only the common people, and not the men of high standing among the heathen in India, are won for Christ by the work of the missionaries. Recently, however, a Moslem of considerable influence in Calcutta renounced Mohammedanism and accepted the Gospel. He had been a champion of Islam against Christian teachers. Another, in Northern India, who has adopted Christian- ity, has been abandoned by his Mohammedan wife, and is, of course, subjected to bitter per- secution by his former heathen friends. —Tae New York Evening Post publishes a letter from Montreal regarding the immoral- ity existing among the Romish clergy in that province of Canada. A priest at the Cathedral was removed from the pulpit in a helpless state of intoxication. Two others were brought into court charged with scandalous living and gross immorality. Several cases have also recently occurred which are opening the eyes of the people of the Province to the fact that the management of the asylums and other institu- tions conducted by the Romish Sisters of Mercy is not just asit should be. ‘The startling fact that a sane woman can be confined in a lunatic asylum for three years to gratify the vengeance of an unfaithful husband, as proved by the recent trial of Mrs. Lyman, has also had the effect of rousing the public mind to the dangers attending institutions conducted by the nuns with no proper system of Government or med- ical.inspection. —A MIss{onaRy society of married Christian Chinese women-in San Francisco meet monthly and support a Bible agent in their native Jand. —Tse New York Independent says: The publication of the various Lutheran year books and almanacs again emphasizes a fact that has been noticed before. ‘The statistics all go to show that in the somewhat remarkable growth of this denomination within the past decade or two, the various bodies have increased in pro- portion as they are distinct and outspoken in their confessionalism. —Two of the most influential of the African ‘King Mtesa’s daughters have been received in- to the Mission church in Uganda, since which time they have been engaged in giving instruc- tion to others. One of the king's favorite ‘daughters, who formerly came to the mission- aries for instruction, died not long since of smallpox. The missionaries trust that she -had found the pearl of great price. ‘There is @ great change since that day, not very long ago, when the King of Uganda impressed the first explorers with his skill in the use of fire- _ arms by marching out some of his women as _ —TdE prison inspectors of Rhenish Prussia three fourths of-the prisoners under their care become lawless through drunkenness. —Four years ago the Romish bishop of Montreal visited Rome, and, as is common with relic hunters of his sect, bought a lot of old bones said to be those of St. Claudius and St. Juliana. The elated bishop bore back his prizes to Canada and with much ostentation presented the bones to two of his churches. Special altars were erected for the reception of the precious relics and amid great pomp and ceremony they were blessed. The Romish people rejoiced in the possession of such “holy gifts,’”’ and when parts of the bones were burnt, they invested thousands of dollars in the ‘‘sacred dust.’’ It now turns out that the relics are not genuine at all. A cunning Jewish relic merch- ant doing business in Rome palmed the old bones off upon the bishop as the real thing, but whose they were when living no one knows. The bogus relics will now be cast out, but how will the poor people get back their money? The Romish sect: received many thousand dol- lars from this source, but then this sect never returns the money it has once gotten hold of. It would soon be bankrupt if it had to return all the money out of which the Romish people are daily cheated. Poor deluded souls! Their money is thrown away even if such relics were genuine. We thank God for the pure gospel light of salvation through Christ alone given to us through the Reformation of Dr. Martin Luther. + oo + Short Stops. —Deront, a Romish priest, was a rather tedious speaker. His custom was to tell his hearers over and over again the praises of the Romish saints, and especially of the founder of the Jesuits. One day he in his sermon com- pared him with all the angels, and could find no place honorable enough for him, and at a loss for further words cried out: ‘“Where shall we place this great man?’”’ A gentleman in the congregation, whose patience was exhausted, arose and said: ‘‘Since you are so puzzled, you may give him my place, for I am going.’’ —Bora pisnonest. ‘How is it, Mr. Brown,” said a miller to a farmer, “that when I came to measure those ten barrels of apples I bought from you I found them nearly two barrels short?’”’ Singular, very singular; for I sent them to you in ten of your own flour barrels.’ ‘Ahem! Did, eh?’’ said the miller, ‘*well, perhaps I made the mistake.’’ —WHEN a pagan embassador asked Queen Victoria the secret of England’s national great- ness, she gave him a Bible and said: ‘That is the secret of the greatness of England.” ——— 3a Take the Safe Path, Papa. __A father, who was picking his way carefully along the mountain side, heard the voice of his child, saying, ‘Take a safe path, papa, I’m if fathers would only, while climbing the rugged hill of life, notice that as they walk, so their children coming on after them will walk, how much more careful they would be about their path. ————> + oo Ah! coming after you.” When a Mother’s Duty begins. A mother once asked a clergyman when she should begin the education of her child, which she told him was four years old. ‘Madam,’ was the reply, ‘“‘you have lost three years al- ready. From the very first smile that gleams over the infant’s cheek your opportunity begins.’” BOOK-TABLE. Picture or Curist; size 2432 inches. 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