# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1891_S40 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) | | i E i i I. 40 The Lutheran Pioneer. she clapped her hands, and I almost thought she would sing, but at any rate she told us her spirit was singing within her for joy.’’ —Tue printing of the whole Bible in the language of the Sunda Islands (Dutch East Indies) is now complete, as appears by the Orgaan of the Netherlands Missionary Society. Between three hundred and four hundred per- sons have been engaged upon it. — Moravian Work. — The work of the Moravian Church since 17382, has spread rapidly, and at present there are 135 stations in many lands, with 87,263 persons in congregations. The missions are in Greenland, Labrador, among North American Indians, in the British and Danish West Indies, in South America (Surinam and Demerara), Central America (Mosquito Coast), South Africa, Australia, N. W. India (Thibet), Alaska. Above 40,000 members of the congregations are British sub- jects. There are 355 European and native missionaries employed in the various fields; 20,629 scholars are under instruction in 235 day schools, and more than 15,000 scholars in 113 Sunday schools. of the chief and their children take the lead. In October last, the chief, Mtwaro, who was much beloved by his people, died. Before his death he charged his son and his headmen to treat the missionaries well. His son, who is now his successor, is a nice young man, twenty- three years of age, who has been a regular attendant at school and a faithful pupil. It was feared that with his new responsibilities and honors he would be turned from his previous course of life, but on the day he put off his mourning he came for a lesson, and promised to come to the school as often as he could. —A Swenpise Lutheran mission society has opened two mission stations in Alaska. —THERE comes a great cry from Africa. One chief writes, ‘‘Rum has ruined my coun- try.’’ All appeals to the civil authorities of the countries from which it is exported have been refused. The largest part of the rum shipped to Africa and the Pacific Islands comes from the United States. —Lepers in India were treated with shock- ing inhumanity before Christianity entered that country. Many of them were buried alive. The English rulers have put a stop to this custom, and for fourteen years there has been a special Christian mission to the 135,000 lepers in India. —Txe Missionary Herald in its July number reported a letter from Bishop Tucker, then at Uganda, Africa, giving some account of the remarkable opening in that region. Speaking of the congregations in Uganda, he says: “Every Sunday a church, built by themselves, is simply crowded from end to end. A little after sunrise you hear the tramp of many feet. What can it be? Why, the people are coming in crowds to the house of God, and there they sit, either singly or in groups, reading their Testaments and prayer books, and being in- structed by the better instructed among them- selves. It is a great feature of the work in Uganda that the people teach one another. There are numbers of Christians in the country who have learned to read, and have learned to know Christ, who have never been taught by any white man atall.” Bishop Tucker believes that the people of Uganda have such a peculiar aptitude for teaching that the evangelists al. |. ready set apart, and others like them in days to come, will prove most efficient laborers for the kingdom of Christ. They will be supported entirely by the native Church, and he believes that from among these people a great company of preachers can be raised up to carry the Gos- pel message throughout the interior of Africa. The people of Uganda show a great love for reading, so that many of them will do three months’ work very readily for a New Testament. Bishop Tucker speaks of a sister of the late King Mtesa, a very taciturn woman, who came several days to see him, but sat in silence. At last she summoned courage enough to ask for a| © jenn mcarems. ae tea Horie to be addesssed to New Testament. The change that came over aconcor dia Publishing House,” St. Louis, Mo. that woman when she got her new possession | _All communications concerning the editorial de- was remarkable. ‘‘She smiled, she laughed, ae ap rg hea Seige The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —From the letter of Rev. Oehlschlaeger in this number of the PIoNEER our readers will learn that God is prospering our mission at Meherrin, Va. Our colored people there re- cently dedicated with joy and thanksgiving their new church and school-building to the service of God. May the Lord continue to bless the people of Meherrin! —Tue Rev. Bakke having accepted the call to work among the colored people in North Carolina, Rev. F. Lankenau, a graduate of our Springfield Seminary, has become his successor in New Orleans and has already entered that important field of labor. —TaE pulpit of our colored church at Little Rock, Ark., is still vacant. May God soon supply this our oldest missionary station. —WNor less than 4,000,000 copies of the Scriptures, whole or in part, were circulated last year by the British and Foreign Bible Society—an increase of 130,000 over the year 1889. Altogether the society has issued ninety- five versions of the Scriptures and circulated 120,000,000 copies in three hundred languages. On account of the enlarged openings for the distribution of the Bible, a strong endeavor is being made to improve the society’s returns. During the first six months of 1890 it is said that 21,000 copies of the publications of the Bible Society were-sold in the city of Rome and its environments,-and that the New Testament has been adopted in many of the schools as a reading book. — WHEN the Moravian Church had but 600 members it began to send out foreign miasion- aries. The Mission Field of the Reformed Church says, in comment: ‘‘Suppose every church of 600 members supported one foreign missionary. And they could easily do it. One dollar a member.” —TxeE Board of Directors of the London Missionary Society has decided to add 100 additional missionaries to the society’s staff be- fore the centenary is celebrated in 1895. This will inyolye an increased annual expenditure of not less than $25,000. Their present force includes 138 ordained missionaries. The native force is very large, including 1224 ordained preachers and 4195 teachers and helpers. The fields occupied by the society are South Africa (Namaqualand and Bechuanaland), China (Canton, Amoy, Shanghae, Hankau, Wuchang, Tientsin, Peking, etc.), India (Bengal, Madras, Travancore), Madagascar, and a large number of the islands of the South Pacific. —Tue Livingstonia Mission of the Scotch Free Church began its mission among the ’Ngoni more than a yearsince. This proud and war- loving people dwell on the highlands west of Lake’ Nyassa. The annual report of this work is encouraging, and a good impression has been made upon the people. The Sunday is kept, and good and attentive audiences are secured. A brick school house, 64 by 20 feet, has been built. At the Sunday morning service the wives Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, New ORLEANS, La. EV. LUTH. 8ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL. 113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny Divine earrices at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 734 o’ esday evening. Sunday School from 2 to 4. EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH. Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra. pivins Da sexrices at 734 Sunday evening and at 734 Thursday Sunday 7 School meets at 9 o’clock. Adult catechumen class meets at 714 Tuesday evening. F. LANKENAU, Missionary. EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH. Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas. CaRROLLTON. Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 7% o’clock Wednesda: evening. Sunday School at 9 o’ clock. EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL. Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str. pine services at 73 o’clock Sunday evening and at 734 Thursday evening. ‘Sunday ‘Bhool at 9 o’clock. Ava. Burcpory, MissionaBY. St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church, Cor. Rock ¥ 12th Stra., Little Rock, Ark. Divine service AOR evening at 7}4 o’clock. Sunday School Catechumen class meets on 7—8 Wednesday evening. Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening. Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church, Springfield, Mls. Divine services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening. y Randky, School at 3 o’clock P. x. Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings. Singing-school Tuesday evening. H. S. Kwanenscnun, Missionary. TERMS: Tae LurHEeran Pionger is published monthly, payable in miadyance at the following rates, postage aan Wit 60 9.00 Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent rdia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.