# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1885_S24 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 24. - The Lutheran Pioneer. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —Txe Caurca MEsseNGER says of the Primer recently published by our Publishing House in St. Louis: ‘‘ For a number of years the German Lutheran Synod of Missouri has been engaged in preparing and issuing a set of English Readers for the use of the week day schools. We have We now have It contains 60 pictures, an illuminated title page and 31 lessons. The lessons are also supplied with the necessary English script, so that the pupil learns to write as well as spell and read. The Primer compares very favorably with and in some respects surpasses any English Primer we noticed some of these before. the first of the series—the Primer. -know of.” —PArENTs can not be too careful in watch- ing what their children read. The sensational- ism of the day is creating only too sad a havoc At one day last week, two twelve year-old boys, named Davidson and Parker, after reading a dime novel, prepared Davidson had a hatchet and Parker a revolver, which was accidentally discharged, striking Davidson in the forehead, with the morals and lives of children. Grosvenor, Mich., a sham Indian fight. killing him instantly. —Tue Icelandic population of the United States and Canada numbers between five and ‘six thousand souls, of these probably a little Jess than one-half reside in Manitoba, and the rest almost exclusively in Dakota and Min- nesota. They are constituted into thirteen churches, six of these being in Dakota and two As yet there are but two Ice- in Minnesota. - landic pastors in this country, namely, Rev. Hans B. Thorgrimson, of Mountain, Pembina Co., Dakota, and Rey. Jan Jjarnason, of Win- nepeg, Manitoba, Canada. mentioned place, these two pastors and twenty- eight lay delegates were present. A constitu- tion for an Icelandic Lutheran synod was adopted, and now lies before the congregations. _—TsE Moravian church carries on missions in Greenland and Labrador, among the North American Indians, in the West Indies, in Cen- |. tral and South America, in South Africa; Aus- tralia and Central Asia: it has seventeen so ‘called Missionary Provinces, three hundred |. "and. twenty-three, missionaries, male. and fe- male, besides. more than fifteen hundred native assistants and more than eighty-one thousand “converts ‘under instruction ; ; its mission schuols number two hundred and fifteen, at which ‘nearly. seventeen thousand children and young ‘people, in charge of two hundred and eighty- three teachers, are educated, the entire annual cos! of f this work being about lh 000 At the recent Ice- landic Church Conference, held at the first Francisco. Large numbers have arrived re- cently on account of.the Japanese conscription laws. There is a Japanese Gospel Society of sixty members. Ten of these are Christians, and one is an elder ofa church in Japan. A missionary has been appointed to labor wholly among these men. —TueEre were in Dakota Territory 46 Nor- wegian. Evangelical Lutheran pastors at work last year serving 178 congregations and 31 preaching points. —Ir seems to be generally agreed now that the punishment for murder in the first degree should be nothing less than death on the gal- lows. After trying the penalty of imprison- ment for life for seventeen years Minnesota has returned to capital punishment, and a bill to the same effect was narrowly defeated in the Senate of the Michigan Legislature last winter. It has been found that leniency to wilful mur- derers encourages crime and increases the perils that society incurs from .the presence of bad and dangerous men. The Bible says: ‘‘ Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed,” (Gen. 9, 6.). _ —A READER sends as the following statistics: The Norwegian Lutheran Synod is composed of three district Synods: the Eastern 30,503 communicants, 105 parochial schools, 208 con- gregations and 60 pastors; the Minnesota Dis- trict 25,609 communicants, 135 parochial schools, 269 congregations and 70 pastors, and the Iowa District 20,419 communicants, 82 parochial schools, 187 congregations and 54 pastors. Total in Synod 144,272 souls, 76,532 communicant members. Parochial schools 322, Sunday-schools 263, congregations 664, pastors 174 and professors 11. Synod, as of the Conference, serve many con- gregations and preaching points; 37 pastors of the Synod serve five congregations, 9 serve each six, 1 eight, 2 nine, 2 ten and 2 eleven each, Thus large districts are occupied and few Nor- wegian settlements are without some attention. The Bible Committee of the Norwegian Lu- theran Synod have-printed the New Testa- ment at their publishing house, Decorah, Iowa, in the Norwegian language. Lack of funds prevent them at present from publishing the Old Testament also. - The Synod has a travel- ing missionary in the East and one in the West, and also some colporteurs. Receipts of the Synod for last year: Jubilee Fund $6,265, Synodical Treasury $7,018, Education $10,982, Beneficiary Students $2,231, Foreign Missions |: $2,327, Freedmen’s Mission $205, Australia Mission $100, Indian Mission $274, Jewish Missions $500, Home Missions $271, Orphans $371, church in Sioux Falls, Dak., $137; Her- mannsburg Foreign Mission Society $31. Total, ‘| with some other objects, $47,224. Receipts of ,|the Norwegian Lutheran Publishing House at | Decorah, Ja., for the last three years were $99,799.50, net profits $8,238, assets $50,- || 165.91, liabilities $16, 239. 77. Net assets $33,926.14. The pastors of the |= Short Stops. —In social conversation with his staff one of them asked General Joe Johnston how many times he had been wounded. THe replied, “eight times.’ The staff remarked that he was the most unfortunate General in this re- spect that he had ever known. ‘No, sir,’’ said he, ‘‘the most fortunate; for it was only by the mercy of God I was not killed upon either occasion.”’ —Two laborers were trying to place a stone in position on the foundation wall of a new building. A crowd was standing around, look- ing on, and each one offering his criticism and counsel freely and loudly, but not one lifting so much asa finger to help. ‘That reminds me of Church-work,’”’ said a passer-by to another. . “Why?” ‘“Because,’’ was the reply, ‘two men are doing the work, and twenty are doing the talking.” —Pruxce Bismarck’s wife is one of the most regular church-goers in Berlin. The noble lady goes to the house of God plainly dressed and takes her seat among the common people; there is no distinguishing mark about her but her reverent manner. The number of the receipts of her charity is great, but the number of those who know her to be the wife of the Emperor's ‘best man” is is very sally BOOKS RE CEIY ED. Srorres FRoM Bisce History for Home and School. Illustrated. Pilger Book Store, Read- ing, Pa. Price 40 cents. Nur ern Kinp aus ISRAEL. based on the Old Testament narrative of Naa- man’s leprosy and his healing through the prophet Elisha. — Pilger Book Store, Read- ing, Pa. Price 50 cents. Ey: nora Lutheran niColor ed Ghareliees New Or1Eans, La. EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL. . 113 Annette Str,, between Claiborne and Dirbigny. Divine services at-10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 7% o’clock Wednesday evening. Sunday School from 2 to 4. EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH. Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs. Divine nertices at 714 Sunday ‘evening and at 74 Thursday evenin, Sunday School meets at 9 o'clock Adult catechumen class meets at M% Tuesday evening. N. J. BAKKE, Missionary. pS Se ees Pore eh ee St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Charch, Cor. Rock §- 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark. Divine service punderiey evening at 74 o'clock. Sunday School from Catechumen class meets trom 7—S Welnesday evening. pinging schoo! from 8—9 Wednesday evening. . G. ALLENnAcH, Missionary. ——— eEEeEEeE—Ee TERMS: Tux LuTHERAN Pioneer is published monthly, payable in advance at the following rates, postage included, Atewits A. German Story - 9.00 Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent to one ad All business communications to be addressed to *Tuth. Concordia Publishing House,” M. OC. Bar- THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo. _All communications concerning the editorial de- ent to be addressed to Pror. R. A. BiscHoFF, cordin College, Fort Wayne, Ind.’