# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1895_S24 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 24 The Lutheran Pioneer. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. — Tue contributions of 418 Sunday schools in the General Synod for Foreign Missions in February was $5,224.04, and from 623 schools the Easter offerings for Church Extension is already $11,032.92, with one hundred schools to hear from. The total collections for foreign f missions, Church Extension and orphans in these schools for the past five years have been more than ninety-seven thousand dollars. ‘The heme mission offerings for the same schools for the same period would probably aggregate $30,000 more. — As we read the above item in one of our exchanges, we were reminded of the thousands of children that attend the parochial and Sunday schools of the Synodical Conference. That they are willing to give when the need of our mission is presented to them has been recently proved by their contributions for our & mission schools in North Carolina. Should ) not pastors and teachers oftener interest our i | children in our mission work and give them an opportunity to aid the cause by their con- tributions ? It would be a yaluable education for the children’s after life. —Reap ‘Uncle Bob’s Letter’’ on our second page and remember that every little helps. “Only a drop in the bucket, But every drop will tell; The bucket would soon be empty Without the drops in the well. “Only a poor little penny, It was all I had to give; But as pennies make the dollars, It may help some cause to live.’ —Sounpay after Easter four children and one adult were Confirmed at Bethlehem Chapel in New Orleans. The teachers, assisted by he the sexton and several young people, had beautifully decorated the house of worship with plants and a profusion of flowers. The children sang a lovely selection from a Can- tata, entitled ‘*Ruth.’’— Another class, com- posed of adults, is being prepared for mem- bership. —'‘JixeD THE S’crETY.’?—An old colored preacher was asked, the other day, how his church was getting on, and his answer was: ‘Mighty poor, mighty poor, brudder.?? When asked the trouble, he replied: ‘De ’cictiés, de ’cieties. Dey is just drawing all the fat- ness and marrow outen the body and bone of the blessed Lord’s body. We can’t do nuffin without the ’ciety. Dar is de Lincum 'Ciety, wid Sister Jones an’ Brudder Brown to run it. Sister Williams mus’ march right in front _ of de Daughters of Rebecca. Den dar is de _ Doycases, the Marthas, de Daughters of Ham _ and de Liberian Ladies.” ‘Well, you have _ your brethren to help in church,’’ was sug- gested. ‘‘No sab. Promis’ LandPilgrims. Why, brudder, left for Mount Pisgah Church but jist de cob. : Dar am the Masons, de _ Odd Fellows, de Sons of Ham, and de Okla- h time de brudders an’ sisters pay all the an’ ’tend all de meetings, dere is nuflin De corn has.all been shelled off and frowed to de speckled chickens.”’ —GreEaT commotion has been caused in some religious circles in England by the dis- covery thata well known firm of metal workers at Birmingham has accepted orders for the manufacture of idols destined to be worshiped in the temples of India. Manufacturers in Birmingham haye supplied India with idols for more than fifty years, as all visitors and residents in that country have known; and the discovery in England seems rather late. — Mr. Hupson Taytor, the founder of the Chinese Inland Mission, and one of the great- est living authorities on all Chinese matters, says: ‘‘To our mind, nothing is more clear than that the Chinese had both the right, the power and the will to stamp out the use of opium in China at the time when they first came in collision with England. We feel con- vinced that but for England they would have accomplished this; and hence we feel that England is morally responsible for every ounce of opium now produced in China as well as for that imported.”’ . —Ir is said that in Japan one seldom or never hears curses or oaths, or anything like that form of profanity. A missionary who tries to explain the teachings of the Script- ures against cursing and swearing has some- times found it hard to make the natives un- derstand just what he means. ‘The Japanese are not in the habit of committing this sin, and the question they naturally ask is, ‘Why should any one want to be so profane?”’ Sure enough! What is the use of it? The person who swears gets no good from it. The man at whom he swears is not hurt by it. To say the least, it is absolutely useless. Alas! that any one in a Christian land should be guilty of the sin! —Ivr is stated there is now at La Rochelle, France, an old man, Jules Zostot, who pos- sesses 2 marvelous memory. He knows by heart all the verses in the Bible. You can ask him at random any of these verses; no mat- ter if it begins a sentence or is a continuation of the preceding verse, he will recite the lines. —Tue Agent of the American Bible Society in Japan reports that in his visits among the soldiers in the hospitals he finds not only Ja- panese but also Chinese. These Chinese come from widely different parts of the empire, and they are much impressed by the practical de- monstration of the blessings which flow from Christianity. On asking a Chinese colonel at Hiroshima, what he thought of Christianity, and if he understood the significance of the red cross that was on the sleeve of every patient, the colonel replied that he knew that it was the teachings of Christ that made peo- ple kind to their enemies. —Some of our well-to-do church members think that 50 cents or a dollar is a large con- tribution to give to missions. Compare what Mr. Baynes, the Secretary of an English Mis- sionary Society, said in his annual address: While sitting in my oflice last week, the door opened and a very rough-looking man entered and laid down on my table £20 ($100) with the words: ‘‘Mr. Baynes, I have saved this for the Congo Mission, enter it as before, re- membering the words of the Lord Jesus, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ You know wholam. I came here Jast year: ’m a London seavenger.’’ I did remember him, for he brought £20 last year for missions! Only a few days ago a young woman brought me £20, saying she was sorry she could not give more. She was a domestic servant and had to support her mother, and it had taken her two years to save this amount. OUR BOOK TABLE. Concorpia PasTIME LipRary. Vol. II. Adrift on the Sea.— Daddy Darwin’s Dovecot. Price 25 cts. ConcorpiA PASTIME Liprary. Vol. III. Three English Seamen.—Capt. William Kid. Price 25 cts. Concordia Publ. House, St.Louis, Mo. Those that have read the first volume of the Con- cordia Pastime Library will be glad to hear that two other volumes have already appeared. The stories published in this ‘‘Library”’ are all carefully revised and can be recommended for the home and the Sunday school library. 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% o'clock. unday evening at 744 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. EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH. Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra. Divine services at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 7% Thurs- day evening. Sunday Schoo! meets at 9 o'clock. Adult catechumen class mects at 744 Tuesday evening. E. W. Kuss, Missionary. EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL. Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str. Divine services at 74 o'clock Sunday evening and at 14 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 314 o'clock. Sunday School at 10 o'clock. Catechumen class mects from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday evening. . Singing-sckool from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening. Cras. H. RuESSKamp, Missionary. Ey. Luth, Holy Trinity Church. Springfield, Ml. Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening. Sunday School at 3 o'clock Pp. x. Catechumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings. 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