# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1892_S44 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —Ix our October issue the picture which was to go with an article: ‘‘Luther Starting for Magdeburg”’ was, by some mistake, left out, and we apologize to our readers. —Our missionary at Little Rock, Ark., was installed at that place by the Rev. I. W. Miller, on the 25th of September. The Colored Mission School, which had been closed for a year, has been reopened with 17 pupils. May God again bless our mission at Little Rock as in years gone by. —THREE young ‘men from Zululand are studying at the Norwegian Luther College at Decorah, Iowa. At Roanoke College there are a number of Indian students. —Four ministers are at work among the Slovakian Lutherans of our land, but it ‘is claimed that a dozen are needed to meet the spiritual needs of their countrymen. —TueE Leipzig Missionary Society, which has been doing its foreign missionary work in Southern India, will also now take up the mis- - sions of the Bavarian Society in East Africa. —Tue railroad from Jaffa to Jerusalem is finished at last, and the first locomotive reached therein August. Regular trains will soon run on the road. Tourists in Palestine will find this more pleasant than riding donkeys or camels. —CnineEsE SurerstiTion.—A missionary in China writes: ‘‘The superstition of the Chi- : nese is almost ridiculous. Mothers are in “great dread lest evil spirits may take their {sons away. They give the boys girls’ names, } dress them in girls’ clothes, and put rings in - i their ears, to make the passing spirit believe they are girls. I have not been able to per- suade our nurse to stop calling my little boy . + ‘girl.’ Children are required to wear a look- ing glass on their caps, so that the evil spirit may be frightened away by the reflection of his own ugly face.”” 5 70 y —Awn Eastern paper, speaking of the fruits eS of mission work, says: ‘‘The Rev. John G. ee Paton, for many years a missionary to the rie heathen of the New Hebrides Islands, is visit- ing in this country. Mr. Paton has given i thirty-four years of his life to mission work in - the South Sea Islands. He says that in the early years of the mission the islanders re- sented the intrusion of the men of God, and put many of them to death. Cannibal feasts in those days were of frequent occurrence, "and it took a man of great nerve and fighting qualities to stand his ground. The- natives _ were addicted to the most heathenish customs "imaginable. Their only form of religion was the worship of idols. - Their gods, they thought, med human sacrifices at frequent intervals idol before which hundreds of children had been killed in the most horrible manner. From mising material a large number of e been obtained, Mr. Paton says. cities of Japan, and is meeting with a ready sale. to Christianity in Urnmiyah, Persia, suffered many things for his steadfastness in the faith. Not long ago he was taken captive to Tobreez and threatened with death. The Shah hearing of the affair sent a telegram from Teheran de- claring religious freedom for all Persia. Mirza was set free, and the persecution of Christians is at an end. GESCHICHTE DER LUTHERISCHEN KIRCHE IN AME- > pease their wrath. Mr. Paton shows an |- and care. The work has been executed in a most ex- cellent manner, indicating at once the most patient research and the utmost candor and impartiality. It will prove of great interest and value to every Lutheran, and we hope that the book may realize a sale commensurate to its worth. Christian natives. Cannibalism has been done away with and industrial pursuits have been introduced.” —‘“THERE are more missionary societies represented in India to-day than in any other section of the world. There are more mis- sionaries, more schools, more churches, more communicants, a wider opportunity for every form of Christian endeavor, the use of every weapon of Christian warfare, the application of every Christian principle.’”’ And well may it beso; forthe population numbers 288,000,000, and the idols worshiped 330,000,000. Of the women 40,000,000 are shut up in Zenanas, 23,000,000 are widows, and 79,000 were wid- ows before they were nine years of age. Only one woman in 800 is under instruction, and but one Protestant missionary is found to 500,000 of the population. —Tnze heartlessness and hardness of hea- thenism are strongly reflected in the following incident, reported by Missionary Reade. He writes: ‘‘During the late cholera I was called to see a boy of five years, who had been attacked by the scourge. The child lay in the arms of his father, surrounded by a crowd, weeping and wailing. Among these there was also a girl ten years of age. I reproached the parents for not sending the child away, as she would surely take the disease. following day the girl became sick, and the boy died. bewailed the dead boy, whilst hard by the sick daughter was lying and crying in vain for On the The parents and relatives loudly a drink of water. Not a person concerned himself about her-; and when I upbraided the mother for treating her daughter soinhumanly, she replied: ‘The boy is dead; what does the girl amount to?’ ’’—Strange picture of mater- nal love! Such is the depravity of heathenism that a mother can forget her child. —A ‘Lire or Lutuer,’’ written by a Japa- nese professor for his countrymen, lately ap- peared in the windows of the bookstores in the —Minza Israuim, a Mohammedan convert BOOK-TABLE. RICA von A. L. Graebner, Professor der Theo- logie am Concordia College zu St. Louis. Erster Theil. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price $2.50; postage 380 cts. This is a grand book, written with much labor The Lutheran Pioneer. FESTKLAENGE. Predigten ueber Festtexte des Kir- chenjahrs von Dr. C.F. W. Walther, Consors Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price $1.75 A recommendation of these sermons of the la- mented Dr. Walther on the lessons for the festival seasons of the churchyear would be superfluous The excellence of Walther’s sermons is well known, and we doubt not that the book will find a ready sale. “Gop BE MERCIFUL To ME A SINNER”’, or The Doc- trines of True Christian Repentance, Justifica- tion, Faith and Life as shown from Scripture by the venerable Dr. M. Luther. Published by the Sewing Circle of the German Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church, Zanesville, O. Price 8 cts., postage lct. Address all orders to Rey. C. A. Frank, 16 Harvey Str., Zanesville, O. This neatly printed pamphlet of 22 pages gives us an English translation of Dr. Luther’s grand ex- position of the story of the Pharisee and the Pub- lican. The excellent tract, in which the way of salvation is made plain in Luther’s matchless style, deserves a wide circulation. Acknowledgment. Received from Mt. Zion (col.) congregation per Rev. F. J. Lankenau $27.65 for Building Fund. A. F. LEonuARDT, Local Treasurer. New Orleans, La., Oct. 11., 1892. 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 74 o’clock Wednesday evening. Sunday School from 9 to 104. EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH. Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs. Divine services at 74 Sunday evening and at 74 Thars- day evening. Sunday Schoo! meets at 9 o’clock. Adult catechumen class meets at 74 Tuesday evening. F. LANKENAU, Missionary. EY. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH. Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas. CARROLLTON. Divine services at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon and 74 o'clock Wednesday evening. Sunday School at 9 o’clock. EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL. Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str. Divine services at 714 o’clock Sunday evening and at 74 o’clock Thursday evening. Sunday School at 9 o’clock. AUG. BURGDORF, MISSIONARY. Evang. Luth. St. Paul’s Church. Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark. Divine service Sunday afternoon at 344 o’clock. Sunday School at 10 o’clock. Catechumen class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday evening. Singing-school from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening. Cras. IT. RUESSKAMP, Missionary. Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church. Springfield, Ill. Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening. Sunday School at 3 o’clock rv. M. Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings. Singing-school Tuesday evening. ~ H. S. KNABENSCHUH, Missionary. TERMS: Tue LurweraNn Pioneer is published monthly, ayable in advance at the following rates, postage included, to-wit: 50“ Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent to one address. All business communications to be addressed to “Concordia Publishing House’, St. Louis, Mo. All communications concerning the editorial de- artment to be addressed to Prof. R. A. BiscHorr, oncordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.