# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1892_S28 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. numbers 23 communicant members; 25 pupil attend the Sunday school. Little Rock as in former years. bers. St. Paul’s Church numbers 69 communicant members; the average church attendance is 200; the Sunday school is attended by 164, and the day school by 156 pupils. —Ar Meherrin, Va., our mission has a beautiful church, a school house, anda par- sonage. ‘Tlie congregation numbers 34 com- municant members; the average church at- +) tendance is 88; the Sunday school numbers Bea ' 106, the day school 54 pupils. Not far from ; Meherrin there is another missionary station, where services are regularly held by our mis- sionary, the Rev. D. Schoof. —Ar Springfield, Ill., our mission has a beautiful church property valued at $5,000. The congregation numbers 40 communicant members, and the Sunday school is attended by 75 children. —Is North Carolina our mission work among the Colored people is still prospering. In Con- cord a congregation has been organized which now numbers 20 communicant members; the day school is attended by 53, and the Sunday school by 84 children. Not only in Concord, _ but also in Reimerstown and at two other stations services are regularly held by our _ missionary, the Rey. N. Bakke. In Rey. Phi- fer’s congregation a church is being built, the _ site for the new church having been donated _ by two English Lutheran congregations. —Unoccuriep mission territory to the ex- tent of 4,000,000 square iniles still exists in ‘Central Africa, an area larger than the whole V _ Congo Mission. _ —Rey. Davin Hixz, missionary in China, ugh born to wealth, has cheerfully sup- | himself for twenty-eight years. His ther, a magistrate in York, has contributed he work, and now his son has gone in the same field. . the West African coast there are w 200 churches, 35,000 pupils. ‘Thirty-five —Our Colored Mission at Little Rock, Ark. One of the grad- uates of our Seminary at Springfield, Il]., has accepted the call to this missionfield, and we hope our mission work will again prosper in —Ar New Orleans we have four missionary stations with two missionaries, four churches, two school houses, and seven teachers. Beth- lehem’s church numbers 43 communicant mem- The average church attendance is 80. In the day school there are 154, and in the Sunday school 200 children.—In Carrolton the average church attendance is 30; the day school numbers 30 and the Sunday school 60 children.—Mt. Zion’s Church numbers 126 communicant members; the average church attendance is 150; the Sunday school num- bers 183, and the day school 181 children.— to an English gentleman: ‘‘Ah. Sahib! Christ is all my hope; Christ is my Rest-Stone.’’ The words expressed very beautifully the 2 s Africans. Guinea. ers, and some twenty New Guineans. five hundred church-members. been put through the press. been occupied by two missionaries. —Tue census of Spain serves us an object popular education flourishes under Roman Catholic domination. Romanism is in supreme control in that coun- try, and that as regards education and religion, the inhabitants are exactly what Rome has made them. Look, then, at these figures: In round numbers the total population, ex- clusive of foreigners, is 17,000,000, the fe- males predominating by about 350,000. Of this number a little over 5,000,000 can read and write, while 600,000 can only read, leay- ing 12,000,000 who can neither read nor write. —A NeEGRO PreacuHer once elaborated a new theory of the Exodus—to wit, that the Red Sea was frozen over, and so afforded the Israelites a safe passage, but when Pharaoh with his heavy iron chariots attempted to cross he broke through and was drowned. ~~ oo > Christ my Rest-Stone. In India, where burdens are carried on men’s heads and on their backs, and not in carts and wagons and barrows, as with us, it is customary to provide resting-places for them along the roads. For this purpose stones are set up by the side of the hot, dusty, sandy way, just the right height for a man to rest his burden on; there he can stand and rest, till relieved and refreshed he is able to go on his way. F A native Christian in Travancore once said which portions of the Scripture and religious books and tracts have been translated and printed, and some knowledge of the Gospel has reached about 8,000,000 of benighted —AnonG the newer work commenced by the London Missionary Society is that in New There are now fifty-three stations along the south-east coast, a staff of six mis- sionaries, over thirty South Sea Island teach- More than two thousand children are under instruc- tion, and there are between four hundred and The whole New Testament in the Motu dialect has also Within the first year a new station on the Kwato Island has lesson to demonstrate the extent to which It is well known that The Lutheran Pioneer. man’s sense of the comfort and blessing he had in his Saviour. This native Christian had many a time gladly used the rest-stones by the roadside, and he was calling the Lord Jesus Christ his Rest- Stone. He had learnt to know the burden of sin, and to feel its weight; but finding it too heavy for him to bear, he had come to the Saviour with it, had laid it upon Him and found rest. Acknowledgments. Received per Rev. F. J. Lankenau from the Mt. Zion congregation for the Building Fund the sum of $17.85.