# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1890_S24 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 24 The Lutheran Pioneer. —Iwn heathen countries Protestants occupy 500 separate mission fields, containing 20,000 mission stations, supplied by 40,000 mission- aries. In these 20,000 mission stations there are 500,000 sunday-school-scholars. —One hundred and twenty-five years ago there were only 4,000,000 copies of the Bible extant, now there are upwards of 200,000,000 copies in circulation throughout the world. —Tne Lutherans of Norway are very active in the work of foreign missions. The whole kingdom is divided into eight collection districts; 900 collectors are regularly gathering contri- butions, and 8000 societies are praying and working for the cause. The country gave last year $50,000. The Norwegians have 10 sta- tions and 82 churches among the Zulus in South Africa; and 300 churches with 16,000 adult members in Madagascar. —A RELIGIous newspaper printed in China has the following: ‘‘At Pekin there is a pious lady, the wife of a foreign merchant, who spends her time in doing good. One day she went on a visit to the home of a Manchu lady of high rank. She took copies of the Holy Scriptures. A young lady was present who took great in- terest in the conversation. She heard the old story of the gospel of Jesus, who died for a world of sinners. The young Jady bent for- ward to catch every word, and when the Chris- tian visitor had concluded she said, ‘I am glad you have come to tell me this. Some day I will have a place built where people can meet to worship this God, and hear this gospel preached.’ This young lady is now the Em- press.of China.’’ —TueE German Emperor and his family are building a Lutheran church at Schreiberhahn, Silesia, in the midst of a bigoted Roman Catho- lic population. —A Brannan in Calcutta told a missionary that he had read through the New Testa- ment eighty-three times and the Old Testament twenty-seven times. — ProGRess In JAPAN.—The Hochi Shimbun, the organ of the Liberal party in Japan, has the following: ‘‘Although Christianity has not made rapid strides, yet from the beginning there has been advance. Slowly and steadily, step by step, progress has been made, and to this onward movement there has been no stop. If Christianity has secured one inch of advan- tage in the forward movement, that one inch has been held; if she has taken one step in ad- vance, that step has been guarded; if any prog- ress has been made, that advanced position has been strongly held. Truly, no advantage gained bas been lost; and little by little the Christian estate is enlarging her borders, her strength is increasing, and we must admit that the progress of Christianity has been strong, deep-rooted and The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —TneE loss of manuscript in the mail is the cause of the late appearance of this number of the PronEER. —A German paper reports a shocking case of cruelty practiced by the nuns of the Francis- can Convent at Schoenbrun. A girl of sixteen was placed by her mother im the school as a boarder. The child, though not absolutely, silly, was rather weak-minded, and her parents hoped that intercourse with other children of her own age might improve her mental facul- ties. No sooner was the unfortunate girl left unprotected than the nuns began a brutal and systematic course of ill treatment. For the slightest fault she was strapped down on a bed and whipped unmercifully with a riding-whip till the blood flowed. Another favorite mode of punishment was to dash jugs of icecold water over the unfortunate victim whenever she cried to go home or expressed a desire for other food than the hard crusts and pieces left from the sisters’ table that were thrust at her. When the mother arrived at Schoenbrun to take the girl away for her holidays, she was horrified at the change in the child’s appearance; five months ago she had been the picture of health, and now she was reduced to a. walking skeleton covered with bruises. A doctor at Munich, after an examination, declared that she must have been half starved and beaten with some blunt instru- ment, there being hardly a square inch of the girl's body that was not bruised black and blue. The case has just been brought before the police court at Munich and has created great excite- ment in that city. —In Rome there are several thousand priests who make their living solely by reading mass. Especially in the 323 churches of the Eternal City an almost endless number of masses are ordered from all the ends of the globe. The regular pay for each mass has been 2.50 francs. Now the General Vicar of Rome has ordered, - that the priest reading the mass shall receive only 1,20 francs and must hand over the rest to the treasury of the Church. Of course the lower clergy are more than dissatisfied with this innovation. In a number of papers bitter com- plaints are being made about the Jamentable condition of these priests. A priest recently published in the Zribuna an article that at- tracted a good deal of attention. He stated that there are in Rome no less than 500 prelates _ and monsignori who do nothing but draw a monthly salary of 1000 to 1500 francs, and five hundred ecclesiastics of the higher orders doing ‘nothing, who draw from 700 to 1000 francs a month. “2 , _ —Tae Lutheran Tamils in S. India con- tribute one month’s earning annually to the Church-building fund of the Leipzig Mission. —In Egypt along the valley of the Nile are sen mission stations and 70 sunday schools, num- —A ToucHING appeal comes from the native Christians of Canton to the churches of Great Britain, entreating them to exert themselves to procure the abolition of the opium traffic, that the Chinese’ may be released from this yoke of bondage and the obstacles be removed which it places in the way of the gospel. —In Canton, China, with its 1,500,000 in- habitants, are fifteen Christian chapels, where missionaries and the native ministers preach the Gospel, not on Sunday only, but daily, and from two to four hours each day, to audiences varying from fifty to several hundred. After the sermon these evangelists continue the serv- ices. Free conversations and discussions follow; rooms are at hand for private conferences, and Christian books and tracts are kept in readiness, and disposed of in large numbers. The preach- ing halls are thronged during the hottest months —July, August and September—and from noon till 3 o’clock—the hottest part of the day. Tens of thousands of visitors to the cities have heard the Gospel in these chapels and halls, and have carried it hundreds of miles into the interior. The dialect used by most of the missionaries in preaching is the Punti, or pure Cantonese, by which they have access to 20, 000, 000 of people. Evangelical Lutheran Colored fowurahess New ORr.eEanNs, La. EV. LUTH. 8T. 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 Stra. plying ne waxy ices at 74 Sunday evening and at 74 ‘Thursday Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock. Adult catechumen class meets at 74 Tuesday evening. N. J. BAKKE, Missionary. EV. LUTH. TRINITY CITURCH. Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas. CannoLLTon. ¥ Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 734 o’clock Wednesday evening. Sunday School at 9 o’clock. EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL. Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str. Divine services at 7 o’clock Sunday evening and at 744 o’clock T! hursday evening. Sunday School at 9 o’clock. Ava. Buroponr, MissionaRY. St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church, Cor. Rock & 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark. i Divine service qundey er evening at 714 o’clock. Sunday School from Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening. Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening. G. ALLENBACH, Missionary. Ab Luth. Holy Trinity Church, Springftld, Mls. Divine services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 8 o’clock Sunday Gs ane, ig. Sunday School at 3 o’clock r. Catechumen class meets Monday and Fri iday evenings. Singing-school Tuesday evening. H.S. KNAbenscuon, Missionary. TERMS: Tue LurHeraN Prionzer is published monthly, payee: in advance at the following rates, postage luded, to-wit: 1 Copy inten tte 25 10 Copies - . rae 25 (A) opcooeeppceconeccoeceoeno “00 Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent to one address. All business communications to be Ca to ‘“Luth. Concordia Publishing House,”’ M. 0. B ean Agt., St. Louis, Mo. Communications concerning the editorial de- parent to be addressed to Prof. R. A. BrscHorr, mncordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.