# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1891_S24 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 24 The Lutheran Pioneer. SSO seated.’ Then we each bow twice very low, so low that our foreheads nearly touch the floor. Then the Japanese says, ‘Thank you,’ and I say, ‘No trouble at all;’ and then we both touch our foreheads to the floor again, taking long-drawn breaths so that they can be dis- tinetly heard. Then I say, ‘O-ma-rika-ka-ri- masw’ which is, ‘Let me hang on your honor- able eyelids;’ or, in good English, ‘I am glad to see you.’ Then, asI understand s0 little of the language, I have an interpreter called in, and after going through all those bows again, she does the rest of the talking. I get pretty tired sometimes, sitting on my heels, and when I go to see a Japanese I have to remove my shoes before entering the house, and then my feet get pretty cold. But it has to be done, for it is a great insult to the Japanese host to keep the shoes on.’’ —TxeE United Presbyterian has the follow- ing to say about the mission and work of our Church: ‘“‘The Lutheran Church has grown to be the Jargest in this country. It is contin- ually receiving an immense immigration from the lands in which the doctrines of Luther gained the ascendency, a class of people as far removed as possible from the immigrants from southern Europe. They are industrious, quiet, and moral. They enter into the spirit of our institutions and quickly adapt themselves to the new circumstances. The Lutheran Church is preaching the Gospel in twelve different lan- guages in the United States, a fact that shows the value of that Church to our country. It is doing a work from which many are practically excluded.’ —Denmark.—Among the laws passed by the recent Danish Parliament, is a law provi- ding for the better observance of Sunday. All shops are to be closed on Sundays and holy- days after 9 A. M., except on the Sundays be- fore Christmas and New Year, when they may be opened after 4p. x. In all factories work shall cease at 9 A. wu. unless by special permis- sion; yet all working people are to have at least half of the day to themselves. This law, which has already been signed by the King, goes into effect on June 3d. —Mexico.—Till 1873 Mexico was strictly Roman Catholic. No other denomination was tolerated. Since that time Protestantism has been growing. There are now 98 ordained ministers and 242 assistants in the field. There are 310 congregations, 63 churches, 247 preach- ing places, 16,407 members and 28,840 other regular attendants at service. They have 132 Sunday-schools with 5829 scholars, 79 parochial schools numbering 2819 scholars, 3 theological | P seminaries and 39 students of theology. There are also 10 printing houses from which 11 peri- odicals are issued. ——s oe oe The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —Tue Rev. C. L. Jaxzow, member of the English Lutheran Mission Board of the Mis- souri Synod, recently visited the missionary stations in Virginia and Maryland and reports them to be in a flourishing condition. —A new edition of our English Lutheran Hymn Book has become necessary and will soon be published. —Ar the recent meeting of our English Lu- theran Conference in St. Louis the Rev. Dall- mann of Baltimore was chosen editor of the Taitheran Witness and the Revs. Bartholomew, Spannuth, and Wagner sub-editors. —Txe Bible has now been translated into sixty-six of the languages and dialects of Africa. —On Tuesday, February 17th, the largest missionary party that has ever landed upon the shores of China, reached Shanghai from San Francisco. A band of no fewer than thirty-five men and women, to be followed the succeeding week by ten or fifteen others, constituted the company, which had been sent by the Scandi- navian Churches of the United States, to labor in connection with the China Inland Mission. - —S§rncE 1868, the year in which freedom of worship was guaranteed to Protestants, 12,000 citizens of Spain have left Rome for the Gos- pel. The Spanish Protestants have 120 houses of worship, 100 schools, with 160 teachers and 6000 pupils, 60 pastors and 40 evangelists, 6 church-papers, 3 orphanages and 2 hospi- tals. A large number of Protestant periodicals printed in Spain are sent regularly to Mexico, Chili and Argentine. —SweEpEN.—The City Mission Society of Stockholm, during the last quarter of the past year, distributed 238 copies of the Bible, New Testament and Psalter, and 6333 copies of other books. 2787 visits were made in Hospitals and drinking places. Services have been held reg- ularly in various parts of the city, and have been well attended. The managers regret that the Jack of working forces makes them unable to extend their forces further. —Rey. Dr. JonnsTon, a Jamaica mistion- ary, has been for some time training as mission- aries a number of colored men belonging to his church in Jamaica, and is about to start a mis- sion in Africa of colored men for their own race. This movement will be watched with interest, and, if successful, will greatly help to colve the question of reaching Africa’s millions with the Gospel. The cry may some day be, ‘‘Afri- cans for Africa.’’—In such a case our colored Lutheran schools and churches should furnish their full quota. —A_ MNISSIONARY, now at work in Japan, gives the following amusing account of ‘‘so- ciety calls,’’ as made in that country. She says: ‘When a Japanese caller comes to see me we-both kneel down on the floor, Jeaning back on our heels, and I say ‘.O-ka-ki-na-sai,’ _ -which, literally translated, means, ‘Hang your “honorable hips;’ or, in our words, ‘Please be ‘No man shall die in his sins, except him, who, through disbelief, thrusts from him the forgiveness of sin, which in the name of Jesus is offered to him.’’—Luther, her scholars to learn to give. therefore, for doing some work for her, so that each girl might have something of her own to give away for Jesus’ sake. a new scholar—such a wild and ignorant little heathen that the teacher did not try to explain to her what the other girls were doing. people casting gifts into His treasury. He not say of this African girl, ‘‘She hath cast in more than they all’’? A Rich Gift. The teacher of a girls’ school in Africa wished She paid them, Among them was The day came when the gifts were handed in. Each pupil brought her piece of money and laid it down, and the teacher thought all the offerings were given. hugging tightly in her arms a pitcher, the only thing she had in the world. table and put it among the other gifts, but be- fore she turned away she kissed it. But there stood the new scholar, She went to the There is One who watched and still watches Would Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, New ORLEANS, La. EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL. 113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 734 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 even Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock. Adult catechumen class meets at 734 Tuesday evening. N. J. BAxxe, Misstonary. EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH. Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas. CARROLLTON. Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 73% o’clock Wednesda: evening. Sunday School at 9 o’clock. EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL. Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str. Divine services at 73 0’olock Sunday evening and at 734 o’clock Thursday evening. Sunday School at 9 o’clock. Ava. Buneporr, MissionaRy. St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church, Cor. Rock & 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark. Divine service gundaviers evening at 734 o’clock. Sunday Schoo! fro: Catechumen class meets fom 7—8 Wednesday evening. Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening. Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church, Springfield, Ills. Divine services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 8 o’clock Sanday, eyening: Sunday School at 3 o’clock Pp. Catechumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings. Singing-school Tuesday evening. H. S. Knasenscuvun, Missionary. 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