# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1895_S12 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 12 The Lutheran Pioneer. a _eee—————e—e—ee—eeaa=aE=EEy(](CUyxoCooaoaEaEeeeeeeooeleooFeeeeeeoooooeoooS=$q$S$S$S$$$0$90B presentation was made by the ministers of the Tsung-Li-Yamen, through Mr. O’Conor, the British Minister, and Colonel Charles Denby, Minister for the United States. Accompany- ing the gift was an address to the dowager Empress. The gift was graciously received. —A misstonary in Mid-China sends an in- teresting account of his ascent of Mount Omei, a ‘‘sacred’’ mountain on the borders of Thibet. “Tt took me two days,’”’ he writes, ‘‘to reach the top of the mountain. There are a great number of temples all the way up the mount, with (so I was told) two thousand priests serv- ing them. The priests are for the most part a poor set of men, who do any kind of menial work about the temple. The mountain is a famous sacred resort.... To reach the top of it you have to climb up from twenty to thirty English miles of steps; there are steps cut out of the rock all the way to the top. It is no easy matter to reach the top, and much more The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —We hear that a substantial school building 2448 feet, two stories high, is to be erected at an early day by Rev. Bakke for our mission among the colored peopje at Concord, N. C. —TueEreE are within the bounds of the Synodical Conference 1653 parochial shools, having 878 male and 143 female teachers; 835 pastors also teach school. —Tue Baltimore correspondent of The Lu- theran World writes: ‘‘We can not avoid, nor do we wish to refuse, giving fullest credit to the most excellent exhibition of business en- ergy and push on the part of the Missouri branch of Lutherans in this country. They are a live and progressive body. In our city they have recently shown, in a substantial way, what they cando. Some months ago an orphan asylum was organized by the six churches here which sre connected with the Missouri Synod. They purchased an excellent property in the western part of the city, and have made needed and ample improvements for the dwelling on it. The total cost of property and improvements is about eighteen thousand dollars. Two members from each of the six churches con- stitute a board of management, which expects to open the institution early in May.” —Txe new German Protestant church in Paris, which opened recently, has received the gift of a magnificent Bible from the German Empress for use in the church services. On the fly-leaf of the Bible the Empress has written with her own hand the text from the Gospel of St. Mark (14, 38): ‘Pray, lest ye enter into temptation.”” —Tue Bible has been translated as a whole into thirteen African languages and dialects, and the New Testament and portions of the Bible into various others, making a total of sixty-six languages for scripture uses. —Ten thousand Christian women in China presented the dowager Empress, on her six- tieth birthday, a copy of the New Testament costing $1200. It is a royal quarto, printed in Shanghai, in large type, on the finest paper; the pages are bordered with gold. It is ele- gantly bound in solid silver boards, made in Canton. The ornamentation is birds and bam- boo in relief, and the workmanship is exquisite. The name of the book, ‘Complete New Testa- ment,’’ is in large characters of solid gold. On the center of the cover is a gold plate, on which is the inscription, ‘‘Classic of Salvation yet I have seen old women over eighty years of age climb to the top. Of course you will understand the reason these poor creatures toil day after day to reach the summit; they believe that thereby they will obtain great merit, and so in this way they prepare for the next world.”’ —Iris just twenty-one years since the edicts against Christianity were removed from the public places,-and though not officially re- yoked, they have now ceased to be regarded as the law of the land, writes the Japan cor- respondent of The Intelligencer. He also re- ports that according to recent statistics there are now in Japan 643 Christian missionaries ; 877 churches (of which 78 are self-support- ing), and 37,400 church members, of whom 3686 were added during the last year. There are also 7393 pupils in Christian schools, and 27,000 Sunday school scholars. ‘There are 286 native ministers, 367 theological students and 665 unordained preachers and helpers. The sum contributed by the native Japanese Christians is given as 62,400 yen, or $40,000. on a Sunday morning, passed a cottage garden and saw a man digging potatoes. He stopped and said, ‘‘AmI mistaken, or are you? I have come nine miles to preach to-day, thinking it was Sunday. As I see you are at work, I suppose I must be wrong, and had better go home.’” The man colored, and, driving his spade into the ground, he said, ‘‘No, sir, you difficult to come down so steep a mountain, | —A PASTOR, going to preach at his chapel} of the World.”” The back is old gold plush. The book was inclosed in a solid silver casket, ‘similar in design to the covers of the book, and lined with plush. The casket rested in & plush-covered box, and this in a teakwood case. The Chinese say that the bamboo is an ‘emblem of peace; the birds are messengers; the design therefore conveys to the dowager are not wrong, but I am; ‘and I will have no more of it. I will be round this afternoon to hear you preach. Nobody has ever spoken to me before, and you've only done your duty.” —A SINGULAR incident is related in an East- ern paper regarding a church which was seek- ing for a pastor and sought that paper’s help. It was found that the church offered an en- mpress a ‘‘message of peace’’ from her hristian subjects. The casket contains ten one half pounds of silver, and the covers ithe book four and one half pounds. The couraging opportunity for the right sort of man, and its needs were accordingly set forth. One of the first letters in response came from a minister without a charge, who expressed an ardent desire to throw his whole energy into just such a field as that described. It turned out that the church in question was the very one which he had been serving only a few months before! —A NORTHERN minister was introduced to a colored minister, and inquired after his work. “T preaches, sah, on Colonel Gordon’s plan- tation.””? ‘‘How many colored people have you there?”’ ‘‘Well, sah, about one hundred and seventy-five.”’ ‘‘And how many have you in the church?’’ ‘Dat ’pends, sah, altogether on de time ob year. In de ’vival times dey’s all members. In de backslidin’ times dere’s nobody members but Uncle Billy and old Aunt Katy.’’ How often is this the case with people that are made Christians only by the excite- ment of ‘‘revival time.’’ : —A younG minister unexpectedly called up- on to address a Sunday school, asked, to gain time: ‘‘Children, what shall I speak about?”’ A little girl on the front seat, who had herself committed to memory several declamations, held up her hand and in a shrill voice in- quired: ‘‘What do you know?’?—We close our window. Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, NEw ORLEANS, La. EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL. 113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny. Divine services: Sunday morning at 10/4 o'clock. Sunday evening at 714 o'clock. Wednesday evening at 714 o'clock. Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% o'clock. Singing School at 734 o’clock Monday evening. F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary- EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH. Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra. Divine services at 744 Sunday evening and at 74 Thors- day evening. Sunday School meets at 9 o'clock. Adult catechumen class meets at 74 Tuesday evening. E. W. Kuss, Missionary. EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL. . Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str. Divine services at 744 o’clock Sunday evening and at 7)g o’clock Thursday evening. Sunday School at 9 o’clock. ‘ AUG. BURGDORF, Missionary. a Evang. Luth. St. Paul’s Church. Cor, Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark. Divine service Sunday afternoon at 34 o'clock. Sunday School at 10 o'clock. oarectnni sity class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday evening. Singingesckool from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening. Cas, Il. RUESSKAMP, Missionary. cin AACE Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church. Springfield, It. Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 8 o'clock Sunday evening. Sunday School at 3 o’clock P. M. Oatechumen class meets Monday and Friday cvenings. Singing-school Tucsday evening. Seen eee area TERMS: Tue Lurneran Pioneer is published monthly, ayable in advance at the following rates, postage included, to-wit: 9.00 Club rates only allowed if al are to besent to one address. All business communications to be addreased to “Concordia Publishing House,” St. Louis, Mo. ‘All communications concerning the editorial de- artment to be addressed to Prof. R. A. Biscnorr, mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.