# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1886_S16
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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Recentix the New York Herald directed
one of its force to ‘‘interview”’ a gentleman,
of whom that paper says, ‘‘Among New York

_ managers whose opinions on theatrical matters,

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second to none, is Mr. A. M. Palmer.’’ In
he says: ‘‘I think that the stage to-day is a
greater evil than any other institution we have.
Nothing else does so much harm to the young
men and young women of this city.”’ <A dis-
tinguished actor, agreeing with Mr. Palmer's
statement, says, ‘‘Those who have no selfish
motives in view must admit that the drama,
of the present day at least, in this country is
full of evil influences.

people of America, as a body, is of a coarse

and vulgar nature. The Hindoo of India

would turn with disgust at such exhibitions
which are sought after and applauded on the
stage of this country.’’ The testimony of such
men can not be met by the sharp words, ‘“‘You
know nothing about it. You are narrow-
minded bigots. You are entirely behind the
age,” etc.
—WHEN the stage was better than it is at
present, a lady of high rank in England said,
‘tT do not hesitate for 2 moment to pronounce
the theatre to be one of the broadest avenues
that lead to destruction; fascinating, no doubt
it is, but, on that account, the more delusive
and the more dangerous. Let a young man
once acquire a taste for this species of enter-
tainment, and yield himself up to its gratifica-
tion, and he is in danger of becoming a lost
character, rushing upon his ruin. All the
evils that can waste his property, corrupt his
* morals, blast his reputation, impair his health,
imbitter his life, and destroy his soul, lurk in
the theatre. Myriads have cursed the hour
when they first exposed themselves to the con-
tamination of the stage. If the Scriptures are
to be obeyed, the theatre must be avoided.’’
—Mr. Georce Muier, the head of the
famous Orphan Homes, at Bristol, England,
announces that he received last year $207,790
in answer to prayer, and without in any way
soliciting a penny from any human being.
Beats —WHEN people depart from God's word,
Satan Jeads them into all kind of fanatical de-
lusions. A sect which has grown up in Russia,
the last fifteen years, is called the ‘‘nest for
godly people.” The head-quarters are in the
fortress town of Bender. The members dig a
grave-like hole in the ground, cover it with a
" wooden lid provided with apertures, crawl into
“the hole, and stay there until they die from
unger. - They say they are communing with
God; and pas to see saints and devils in

based on long experience and observation, are

his statement regarding the theatre of our day

I unhesitatingly state
that the taste of the present theatre-going

seven children have been received by him for
instruction. They belong to four different In-
dian tribes, viz., to the Oneida, Winnebago,
Stockbridge, and Pottawatomie tribes.

—Mr. Henry M. Srantey, the African ex-
plorer, relates that when he started on his tour
through the ‘‘ Dark Continent,’’ he took in his
baggage a large collection of books. But as
the number of his men was lessened the books
had one by one to be left by the wayside, only
the Bible going through to the end.

—On one of the New Hebrides, in the South
Pacific, is the lonely grave of a missionary, the
Rey. John Geddie. A marble slab bears the
following inscription :

When he came here, there were no Christians;

When he went away, there were no heathen.

—Tae Examiner has information that two
Russian Protestants who were accused by Rus-
sian “‘popes”’ because of their religious belief,
were sentenced to death by the court. Their
wives, children, and relatives were also brought
into court, and when asked whether they would
give up their belief they said, ‘‘Do with us
what you please, but we will abide by the same
faith.” They were sent to prison, but they
read the Bible there to their fellow-prisoners.

—Mr. C. T. Srupp, the Cambridge Univer-
sity athlete, on going as a missionary to China
offered Mr. Hudson Taylor, the founder of the
China Inland Mission, the whole of his large
fortune of £100,000. Mr. Taylor refused it,
but Mr. Studd insisted, and put it in the hands
of trustees, who pay the interest to the mission
of which he is now one of the self-denying mis-
sionaries.

—TnuenE are five Chinese Sunday-schools in
Chicago, with 682 teachers and 760 pupils.

—TEn missionaries recently sailed from San
Francisco for Japan and other missions beyond.

—Or the native Christians in the Japanese
churches only one-fourth are females.

—Tne result of fifty years’ gospel work in
the Fijii Islands, is that there are now 900
churches, 1236 chapels, 55 native ministers,
1785 local preachers, 26,880 communicants,
and 40,651 children in the Sunday-schools.
All this with a population of only 100,000.

—TuERE is a lady missionary on the west
coast of Africa, the only white Christian for
some hundreds of miles around, and no means

of travel but by a skiff up and down the river.

She has the training of young men and women,
not only in their education and Christian life,
but in their every day pursuits, and she is
happy and glad to be able to go where no one

else with less of Christ wants to go.

—Ir is a suggestive fact that at Locknow,
India, there is a native press employing nine
hundred workmen, which issues largely the
sacred writings of the Hindoos and Moham-
But this is not the worst, A native
publishing firm at Lahore translates European
infidel publications as fast as they appear and
disseminates them in the various languages of

medans.

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India. The truth is, Satan was never more on
the alert and active, knowing that his time
is short.

—Two blind Christians may be seen nearly
every evening at the bazaar at Allahabad,
reading from the Hisdustani New Testament
printed in raised letters, to a large audience of
Hindoosand Mohammedans. The strange sight
of two of their blind countrymen able to read
attracts a large crowd.

—A Romisu priest took a walnut, and said
to his people, ‘The outside is green and bitter
and represents the Lutheran; the hard, black
part represents the Calvinist, who is black and
hard;’’ then cracking the walnut, he said,
‘this represents the Roman Catholic Church,” '
and lo! the inside was rotten!

—AN old pastor, when asked why he didn’t
preach on the topics of the day, replied, ‘‘ Why
can’t you let one poor clergyman preach on the
topics of peralags

BOOK- TABLE.

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MADAGASKAR. Eine Missionskirche der Neuzcit.
By Rev. A. E. Frey. Brobst, Diehl & Co., Allen-
town, Pa. Price 35 cts. per copy.

The mission church of Madagascar has well been
called a martyr church. The interesting history of
this church is here told in a very entertaining and
attractive manner.

Tuts Is My Bopy.—A good picture of the Colloguy
at Marburg, representing all the distinguished men
who were present on that memorable occasion. It
shows Luther in the act of writing on the table tho
words, ‘‘ This is My Body.’’ Price $1.00. Address
Theo. Wischan, Reading, Pa.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New OR.Eans, 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.
WED Gales at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 714 Thursday
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Sunday’ Se jool meets at 9 o’ clock.

Adult catechumen class meets at 7)4 Tuesday evening.
N. J. Baxxe, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CARROLLTON.
Divine services at 10!4 o’clock Sunday morning and

o’clock Sunday, evening.

Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
AuG. BurGcporr, Misstonary.

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St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock §- 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.

Divine service Sunda evening ‘at % o’clock.
Sunday School from ton
Catechumen class meets im 1-8 Wednesday, evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.
G. ALLENBACH, ‘ituslonery?

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uded, to-wit:

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