# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1894_S24 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 24 The Lutheran Pioneer. ————————————————————————————————e—e———————————— The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. | next evening there were a number again wish- | gelist tours stopped at this island for a few ing to hear his news, and he read a few more} days; and here, so long after, was the fruit. —Oor Lutheran people in Michigan re-| verses in Luke’s book. This occurred several|The calico shirts had been worn but once a cently dedicated with appropriate ceremonies} times, till there were a good many interested, | week, carefully preserved for the Lord’s Day, a large and handsome Home for Aged People| and wishing to read the book for themselves. | and the only way to keep the day which they near the beautiful city of Monroe. No other copies could be procured there, so|knew was to meet others and tell what they —A mucH needed Lutheran mission among | they took the one volume which they had, and | could remember of the wonderful story ! the deaf and dumb has been begun by the/ taking it to pieces leaf by leaf, made a good) —Nerw Bible Versions have been produced Rey. A. Reinke of Chicago, Il]. Being well} many copies of it, and gave each man a copy, | in large numbers during the present century. acquainted with the language of signs, he, by} and then every evening they met and read it. |In 1804 there were only 57. Now there are means of that language, makes known to these} ‘‘Afterwards a preacher came to the town and | 395, if we include a few incomplete editions. poor people the way of salvation. Not only in} preached the doctrine of the Lord Jesus in the | Of the translators Germany furnished 70, and Chicago, but also in other cities this mission is} streets and lanes; when, to his surprise, his|its Mission Societies published nearly 25 ver- hearers said to him: ‘What ye are preaching | sions. The most credit is due to British trans- —Tue two young missionaries sent out by | volume of a book be compared to a seed which the Lutheran Synod of Wisconsin to labor| fell in good soil and brought forth fruit ?’’ among the Apache Indians in Arizona have} —Tne preacher undoubtedly meant to say found a mission field ripe unto the harvest. | ‘‘collection for the poor,’’ but with prophetic they passed the winter months among the In-| and the prophecy was fulfilled the same hour. dians, instructed their children, studied their] —In the Celestial Empire, and in Korea language, and gained the confidence and love} and Japan as well, where parents are much of the people among whom they are to work. | thought of, while wives are held in slight es- May God continue to bless their labors for| teem, the Scripture is a sore stumbling-block the poor Indian. j : which speaks of a man leaving his father and —From the letter of our missionary our} his mother and cleaving unto his wife. readers will learn that Carrollton station in] —A uEATHEN cHIEF on one of the South Sea New Orleans has been given up by our Mission| Islands once said toa missionary : ‘That must “Board, since the people there did not appre-| be a good Word which you preach, for I see ciate the blessings intended for them. Per-| that those of my countrymen who have received haps, in some future time, Carrollton will pre-| it now do what formerly they did not do, and sent a better opening for Lutheran mission| what we do not do, —they love their enemies ; work. Meanwhile we know by the promises] and it is a good thing to love.one’s enemies.”’ of God that the labor of our missionary has} —A pisTiNGoIsHED native of Japan was so : not been in vain. prejudiced against Christianity that he for- : —Oor mission af Meherrin and Keysville, | bade his son to attend the mission school; but ie Va., is still prospering despite the opposition| he changed his mind after he had carefully Soe shown by the enemies of the pure Word of| observed the daily walk of Christians and aie * God. The schools and church services are|compared their patience and meekness with well attended and the missionary is permitted | the bitterness and arrogance of their enemies. to see the fruits of his labor. “There must after all be something-real about " —Ar Eisleben, Germany, Luther’s native| Christianity,’’ he said to his son, ‘‘it will be town, a grand monument is to be erected to| better for you to attend the school again.” the Reformer’s memory. This is to be aco-| —Dr. J. G. Paron tells an affecting story Jossal statue in bronze. of a visit to a neglected island in the Pacific, —TnE number of Bibles distributed during) where he found, to his amazement, though no - 1892, in Germany, by German Bible societies, | missionary was there or had been sent there, amounted to 326,700. The British Bible So-| there was a sort of Sunday keeping. ‘Two old ciety distributed 237,200 in the same territory. | men, who had a very little knowledge of the ‘The latter Society distributes annually 80,000) truths of the Gospel, were keeping track of copies of the Holy Scriptures among Roman| the days, and on the first day of each week Catholics. - they laid ordinary work aside, put on a calico _ —Tne Swatow Church News tells a bright] shirt kept for the purpose, and sat down to 3 story of how the Gospel finds its way from| talk to those whom they could call about them, point to point in China. A Chinaman went) and in a simple way recited the outlines of a inSouth China. InShanghai he bought acopy|one Jesus. Dr. Paton inquired where they 4 “of St. Luke’s Gospel. On his way home he| had learned this truth, and they answered that looked into it, liked it, and read it again. | long before a missionary had visited the island When he reached home his neighbors wished | for a week or two, and had given them each a ar his news from Shangai. So he told| shirt, and told them something of this story 2 all he had met with and all he had seen,| of Jesus. He asked if they could remember he mentioned the book he had) the name, and they said, ‘Yes, it was Paton.” ad a little of it to-them. he| Thirty-three’ years before he had in his evan- , With self-denial and under many hardships| unconsciousness he said ‘‘poor collection,’’ | do the angels carry out God’s will?’’ answers followed. directly.’’ their heart.’’ And after a pause a quiet little girl added: ‘They do it without asking any questions.’’ carried on. On the first Sunday in June Rey. Reinke began mission work in Fort Wayne.| we already know, we have long worshiped | lators who have done the bulk of the work. May God’s richest blessings rest upon his| Jesus and have ceased to worship the idols —>—-ee- se -— labors!” which we once worshiped.’ May not this Angels A teacher was explaining to her class the words concerning God’s angels, ‘‘Ministers of His who do His pleasure,”’ and asked: ‘‘How Many One said, ‘'They do it Another, ‘‘They do it with all A third, ‘‘They do it well.’’ Exchange. "on business to Shanghai from his native place| wonderful story they had once heard about | P' Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, New ORLEANS, La. EY. LUTH. ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL. 113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny. Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at ™ o’clock Wednesday evening. Sunday School from 9 to 104. F. J. LANKENAD, Missionary. EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH. Cor. Frdnklin and Thalia Strs. Divine services at 744 Sunday evening and at 734 Thurs- day evening. Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock. Adult catechumen class meets at 734 Tuesday evening. E. W. Kuss, Missionary. EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL. Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str. Divine services at 7}4 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 ee at3i4 o'clock. Sunday School at 10 o’cloc: Catechumen class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday evening: Singing-school from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening. Cas. H. RUESSKAMP, Missionary. Ey. Luth, Holy Trinity Church, ; Springfeld, Il. Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening. * Sanday School at 3 o’clock P. 1. Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings. Singing-school Tuesday evening. 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