# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1891_S28 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 28 The Lutheran Pioneer. stone's dead body 1500 miles through hostile country and restored it to his friends in En- gland, where the body lies in Westminster Abbey to-day. Susi was thanked by vote of Parlia- ment, and received a handsome and substantial recognition from the Queen and British Goy- ernment for his faithfulness and devotion to Livingstone. —Dnr. Cross, of the Free Church of Scotland Missions on Lake Nyassa, Africa, has upon the roll of his school the names of 300 children res- cued from slavery. —IsLanps OF THE SEA.—At a recent meet- ing of native Christians at Port Moresby, New Guinea, the collection taken for the missionary cause consisted of $37 cash, 320 spears, 65 shell armlets, 92 bows and 180 arrows, besides shields, drums, shell necklaces, feathers; and other or- naments. Most of the people have no money. —Txe colporteurs of the American Tract Society during the past year visited 113,683 families. Of these, 5719 had no Bible, and The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —From New Orleans we received the sad news of the death of one of our laborers in the Colored mission-field. J. Kauffmann departed this life on the 19th of May. On the 22d of February he had been installed as teacher in our St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran school. His faithful labors were but for a short time. The Lord soon called him home to his eternal rest. : May He comfort the bereaved, and may He | also supply the great want of laborers in our mission-field! ‘‘The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few: Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.’’ —TsE 31st of May was a day of rejoicing among the Lutherans at Springfield, Il]. On that day the new building for our Lutheran Seminary was dedicated with appropriate serv- ices, The structure is 100 feet long, 60 feet deep, and has three stories, It contains two large lecture rooms, a chapel, and dormitory room for 100 students. More than 7000 people attended the festival services on dedication-day. —TaeE Missionary Review says that the chief religions of the world may be classified accord- ing to the number of adherents, as follows: Christianity, 450,000,000; Confucianism, 390,- 000,000; Hindooism, 190,000,000; Moham- medanism, 180,000,000; Fetichism, 150,000,- 000; Buddhism, 100,000,000; Spirit Worship, 50,000,000; Shintoism, 22,000,000; Jews, 8,- 000,000; Parsees, 1,000,000. Total, 1,449,- 000,000. —SIncE Protestantism entered Mexico, about twenty-five years ago, sixty-six Protestants have given their lives for their faith. —THIRTEEN years ago there were 13,515 Prot- estant communicants in all China. Now there are 37,287. There are now 1300 missionaries at work in this far-off heathen land, 520 or- ganized congregations and 61 hospitals. - -—Irisstated that when Stanley started upon his search for Livingstone he took, for his per- sonal use, a collection of books weighing about two hundred pounds. Each was carefully se- lected, each highly prized. As he advanced, his baggage had to be lightened. Reluctantly he dropped out one book after another, so that when he was three hundred miles from the coast only the Bible, Shakespeare and three other books were left. When at last he reached Livingstone, Stanley's library was reduced to one book, and that was the book—the Bible. —Tne Bible is steadily finding its way into ‘Darkest Africa.’’? At the request of arch- deacon Jones-Bateman a supply of 1000 copies = of the new edition of the Book of Joshua and | 1000 of the new edition of Judges, in the Swa. a the Bible. This shows that the Bible still holds its preéminence over all other religious books among the destitute classes of our country. —Anonc the fifty millions who speak the Spanish language there are comparatively very few who know the Gospel in its purity and who have the holy Scriptures in their homes. The language brought in 1492 by Columbus and his Spanish companions to America was soon learned in ‘the beautiful lands that Spanish warriors conquered, and the people of Mexico, Central and South America are now counted among the millions that from Jerusalem to the uttermost parts of the earth speak that tongue. There are sixteen republics in the Western Hemisphere where people speak the Spanish language. Copies of the Holy Scriptures, trans- lated into Spanish, have been sent by English Central and South America, Cuba and Porto Rico, and the humble poor have gladly received the glad tidings from those who have studied the Scriptures thus obtained and imparted in the loved language of old Spain. —Arnrica.—There are now thirty-three steamers on the Upper Congo.—The number of missionary stations in Africa now exceeds five hundred.—The country of Uganda, Cen- tral Africa, is represented as having become almost a desert through the dissensions of the people, which have continued a long time.— A native Christian in Uganda will work three months for a copy of the New Testament in Swahili.— Only a limited edition has been pub- east Africa, is likely to be exterminated by the ravages of rum furnished by the white men.— hili language, is being sent to the Universities mission at Zanzibar. This is but a single ex- ‘ample and limited to one locality of the influx _ of the stream of sacred literature. _ —Sosr, the colored servant of Dr. Living- stone, the explorer, recently died in Zanzibar. He and another servant. carried Dr. Living- pany covering nearly come. all the remainder of his life, serving him as a constant reminder that, peli nosceyer curses his God shall bear his sin.’ 13,588 were destitute of all religious books but | ____ speaking Christians to homes in Spain, Mexico, |. lished.—One whole tribe of Zulus, in South- The government of the Congo Free State has granted a large concession to a commercial com- . all of the southeastern'| to pouioadax part of its territory. . This will probably lead) ” to the opening of the country water ‘han if, a Concorl Pita et ede it were left to the government to effect. The: company is called “The Company of Katanga.’” —A new line of monthly steamers to the Congo has been started, which will run from Antwerp direct to Matadi in twenty days.—The first locomotive on the Congo Railway is now at work, —_—_—. -o-