# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1886_S32 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 32° The Lutheran Pioneer. See The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —AN excited mother dropped her infant in the East River, last July. As the steamer Laura M. Starin was returning from Glen Island, she passed an excursion barge off Astoria, N. Y. Many people on the barge waved their hand- kerchiefs, and among them was a woman on the upper deck, who had a baby on one arm. While waving her handkerchief, she dropped the baby overboard, and, as it struck the water, she fainted and fell on the floor. Two men were in a rowboat near the barge, and they quickly pulled to the spot where the child fell, and were able to rescue it before it was drowned. When the mother recovered consciousness, her babe was placed’in her arms. It is seldom that a mother is guilty of carelessness so gross, in respect to the life of her child, but there is reason to fear that there are many parents quite as careless about the eternal life of their children. They are so engrossed with what is passing in the world, and so eager to share in any pleasure within their reach, that they pay no heed to the spiritual interests of those com- mitted to their charge. Ps. 127, 3. —A STRANGE story comes from Bradford Junction, W. Va., says the St. Louis Globe- Democrat, concerning a farmer there. Simon Wilcox was formerly an enthusiastic church. member, but on Thursday, when he surveyed the ruin of his crop wrought by a hailstorm, he began to curse God for allowing such de- struction, and vented a tirade of horrible blas- phemy. In the midst of his curses he was suddenly stricken with paralysis and could not leave the spot. There his neighbors found him, and their story is that they could not release him; that he was surrounded by a circle of intense heat, and that when they tried to push him out of it with a pole the pole burned off, and that it was not until toward evening that the mysterious heat disappeared, and he fell down unconscious and was picked up a raving maniac. —WueEn Von Ranke, the great historian, was eighty-nine, he was engaged upon a History of the World, based upon the broadest grounds, and of course of immense scope. To a person who visited him at that time, he said, ‘“‘A countryman of yours recently asked me whether I hoped to finish my history. I answered, ‘that is not of so much interest to me as might be = ; supposed. If the dear God wills that I shall Ey finish it, so shall it be; if He wills otherwise, a Tleave it. In either case-I am content.’”’ —A poor Indian maiden was turned ‘‘from idols to serve the living and true God,” and the heathen chiefs threatened to torture and ‘then burn her. With triumphant faith the defenceless girl exclaimed—‘“‘If you burn me, “my new Chief’’ (Jesus) ‘‘will go into the fire ‘with me, and He and I shall Jaugh at the port of a missionary at Pekin. At a nt examination he repeated the entire New Testament without missing a single word or making one mistake. He is now committing to memory Dr. Martin’s ‘Evidences of Christ- ianity.”’ —Tnue Chinese are often spoken of as very slow to receive the Gospel, yet the Jfissionary Herald tells of a crippled Chinese woman who came a long distance to hear a missionary of the cross. When she came the second time, she was asked what she remembered of the sermon of the previous Sunday. She replied, “T am old, and my heart is thick, and I have no memory. I only remember two things. That God is my Father in heaven, and that His Son Jesus died on the cross for my sins.” Certainly that old woman of Shanse listened to some purpose, aud bore unconscious testi- mony to the faithfulness with which the Gospel was preached by that missionary. How many sermons in this country were as effectually list- ened to last Sunday? and how many of them were suited to convey similar instruction to their hearers? —Onz of the missionary ladies who spoke at the meeting of the Woman’s Board of Foreign Missions in Minneapolis reminded the ladies that they could not be overtaxing themselves for missions while they gave $25,000,000 a year for kid gloves and only $5,500,000 to con- vert the heathen. —Ir is no,uncommon experience,’ said Dr. Hall, ‘‘for me to receive a letter from a hired servant, regretting that she would be unable to come the next Sunday, as it was her day to stay at home, and inclosing perhaps five, and, in one case, ten dollars for the foreign mission- ary collection.”’ —Wirsiw a year or two there have been three English papers established in India to oppose Christianity. Two of them have died, and the third was about to do so, when some- body in England furnished the funds for its continuance. How bitter is the enmity of some to the religion of Christ. How strange that men should be found in a Christian country to expend money for such a purpose. It is evident that the offence of the cross has not ceased, but it is encouraging to know that the cultivated Hindus are not sufficiently interested in infi- delity to sustain papers in which it is advocated. —Some years ago the English troops, after hard fighting, defeated the Zulu nation in South Africa and took their king, Cetewayo prisoner. He died after having been brought to England, where they made a show of him, but his son is living yet and has just now re- turned to Zululand, not as a warrior, but as a messenger of peace. ‘The prince spent six years in Sweden, preparing himself for the life and labor of a Lutheran Missionary among his own people. —In the Annual Report of the National (Lutheran) Missionary Society of Sweden, lately held at Wisby, Princess Eugenie is mentioned among those who by their liberal gifts have aided the Society in its work among the poor. The Princess has manifested her further interest in the work of the Mission by consigning a sealed bequest to the President of the Society, with the following superscription: ‘My wil), made 1885, in behalf of Wisby State Mission, under the auspices of the church, to be opened and read in the presence of the directors, at my death.’? By this unknown gift the’ future efficiency of the State Mission will, no doubt, be greatly increased. Others, including the Duchess of Dalarne, have likewise aided the Mission to a greater or less extent. —Tne Rev. Dr. MecVickar, in a recent ad- dress gave some very striking facts. In less than fifty years the cannibal Sandwich Islands have been Christianized, and now send mission- aries to other lands, In fifteen years the can- nibals of Fiji have 22,000 church members, 57,000 children in schools, and half the popu- lation are church goers. In Madagascar, in 1861, there were 2,000 Christian martyrs, and from the 50 converts left there have since sprung 5,000. Forty years ago there were no Protestants in China; nine provinces are now supplied with mission stations, and there are thousands of converts. In 1878 the missions of the world report for the year 60,000 converts. —Mr. W. T. Russevt, a Scotch gentleman formerly resident in Calcutta, has given $85,000: recently for Christian female education in India. —Proresrant churches are multiplying in the city of Rome, the foundation of the twenty- second one having recently been Jaid. Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, New Orzeans, 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 services at 734 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday - stening: Sunday School meets at 9 o’ clock. Adult catechumen class meets at 7}4 Tuesday evening. N. J. BAKKE, Missionary. EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH. Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas. CAROLLTON. Divine services at 103¢ o’clock Sunday morning and 73 o’clock Sunday evening. Sunday School at 9 o’ clock. AvG. 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