# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1895_S32 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) The Lutheran Pioneer. ing merit by vegetarianism, thus not causing the death of any animal; but their merciful — Our English Lutheran Synod of Missouri} creed had not included girl-babies in the list and other States held its fourth convention in| of animals to be spared. I noticed a similar the Church of the Redeemer, Ft. Wayne, Ind., | contrast a few days ago. The body of an in- Aug. 7—14. In ten years this synod has| fant floated by the boat, and some of the men more than multiplied the original number of | thought it a huge joke, poked it with a bam- ministers by seven, congregations by five and | boo pole, and indulged in heart-sickening mer- a half, and communicant membership by | riment. eleven. It then had five ministers, six con-| —CannrBaLtsm is by no means extinct, but gregations and 320 communicants. To-day it|is practiced in sections of benighted Africa reports thirty-eight ministers, thirty-four con-|on an extensive scale. Dr. S. L. Hinde, a gregations and 3362 communicant members, | member of the Congo Medical Service, tells with 2711 persons in Sunday schools. of the horrible condition of things in the re- —A very successful English Lutheran par- | gions which he visited. Let one paragraph of ish school is that of our First English Luthe- | his sickening account suffice: ‘‘At N’Gandu, ran church, New Orleans. It enrolled 110|the chief headquarters of Congo Lutete, we scholars, and has two teachers. found that the chief had gathered together —Oovr Lutheran congregations in Michigan | about 10,000 cannibal brigands, mostly of the have a handsome Old People’s Home at Mon- | Batatela race. Through the whole of the Bat- roe, Mich., erected about a year ago. It has/atela country and from the Lurimbi north- accommodations for 46 inmates. A hennery,| wards, for some four days’ march, one sees, which netted 29 per cent. on the investment, |as I said at the Royal Geographical Society, and a greenhouse to supply the Monroe mar-| neither gray hairs, nor halt, nor blind. Even ket with potted plants, are among the means | parents are eaten by their children on the first used to make it self-supporting. The admis-| sign of approaching decrepitude. N’Gandu, I sion-fee is $500, which may be reduced ac-| may tell you, is approached by avery handsome cording to circumstances by the trustees. pavement of human skulls, the top being the —Norwecian Lutherans began to preach | only part showing above the ground. I counted the gospel in Madagascar in 1867. Their Ja-| more than one thousand skulls in the pave- bor of love was greatly blessed by the Lord. | ment of one gate alone. Almost every tree There are twenty-five Norwegian missionaries | forming the boma, or fortification, was crowned there, assisted by sixty native pastors; the} with a human skull.’’? ‘Thus the modern ex- number of churches is 500, and of communi-|plorer confirms the scriptural declaration: cants, 25,000; of parochial schools, 500, and |‘'The dark places of the earth are full of the of pupils, 35,000. There are 85,000 adult Lu-| habitations of cruelty.” therans in Madagascar. —In Illustrated Africa, Bishop Taylor says: —Ir is reported of a clergyman that some-|‘‘Heathenism is the same stupid, God-dis- times when he looked over his congregation| honoring thing. The Lystrians proclaimed he said to himself: *‘Where are the poor?’’ | that the gods had ‘come down in the likeness - but when he came to count the offerings he|of men.’ As I passed through Pungo An- wondered, ‘‘Where are the rich?”” The num-|dongo a few days ago a king from the interior ber of coppers and nickels was amazing. came to open up trade with our people in —Some idea of the importance of mission-| Pungo; so I suggested to Brother Shields, ary effort in India can be obtained from the|our missionary, that he might arrange a cot fact that its population in 1891 was more than|in my room for the repose of his majesty for 287,000,000, or about one-seventh of that of| the night. Next day he said to Brother Shields, the globe. “The increase in the preceding de-|‘I heard in my own country of the bishop cade was about 28,000,000. By the last cen-| with the long beard. He is not a man at all; sus, there was found to be only 2,284,380 pro-|he is a god come downto men. Last night fessing Christians among so many. when he came into the bedroom, I saw him —‘“Herinc Hanp’’ gives this as an ex-| take off his head (wig) and lay it down by his ample of the inhumanity of heathenism: ‘‘Bet-| bed, and yet he had a head same as before. ter raise her or not? What do you think?’’|I was scared nearly to death and trembled The questioner was a Chinese farmer; we had|all over. If he had touched me then, I would been preaching in his village, and he followed | have died. He is the god that piled up these us away from the crowd to make this import-| great Pungo mountains. If I could have got ant query. Farmers at home are sometimes | out of the room I would have run for my life; in doubt in regard to animals a trifle deformed | but the god was between me and the door whether or not to raise them; but did you/and I couldn’t get out. When I go home to "ever know a farmer in America to go about|my people I will tell them that I saw a god, ‘asking advice on a point like this? ‘‘I have|and came near to the end of my life.’”? He female child and she has six toes on 2 foot; | could not be induced to risk his life in that many of the neighbors tell me I better not|room again. : Taise her; her feet can never be made tolook| —Nor long ago a fire broke out in a For- . What do you say?” The ‘‘ncighbors’’|mosa village, and two houses were soon wrapped in flames. Qne of them was saved, The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. the house of a heathen Chinaman; the owner of the other house is a Christian who happened to be away from home, and as nobody tried to save his house, it was burned down. There * was great laughter among the villagers at the Christian’s misfortune. ‘“That is the worth of your religion,’’ they said to him.