# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1895_S36 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 36 ' 'The Lutheran Pioneer. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —WeE must ask our readers to pardon the late appearance of this issue of the LUTHERAN Proneer. Neither the editor nor the Publish- ing House is to blame. We sent our manu- script in time to St. Louis, but it was lost in the mail. Such are the sad experiences of editors that live far away from the place of publication. From one of our exchanges we see that ‘‘there have recently been a num- ber of mistakes of this kind, and if those in authority can find the reckless fellow he will soon be called upon to give an account of his stewardship.’’ Meanwhile we can do nothing but lay the blame on Uncle Sam and go about our business, hoping that: this will be our last experience. We feel like the farmer, who this summer said to us: ‘‘Whenever the crops are short and the times are hard, I lay it to Uncle Sam and go on about my business. I know he does not care what I think or say, but it gives me some relief.”” —Tne Rey. F. H. Meyer was recently in- troduced by Rev. Bakke in his mission field at Gold Hill, N.C. May God richly bless his labors among the colored people in North Carolina. —TneE seventh Sunday after Trinity was a day of rejoicing and thanksgiving for our colored people at Elon College, N. C. On that Sunday they, in the morning, celebrated their mission festival, and in the afternoon six adults, who had been instructed in Luther’s Catechism by our faithful missionary, were confirmed, promising to remain faithful to our dear Lutheran Church. —Oour colored people at Meherrin, Va., re- cently celebrated their first mission festival in connection with their annual school-festival. A large number attended the mission services and rejoiced with the children in the beau- tiful woods of Virginia. Our missionary has opened another mission school four miles from Meherrin. The number of pupils is increasing 80 rapidly, that a school-building will soon have to be erected. —T ne island of St. Thomas has a population ’ of about 17,000 negroes, most of whom were slaves to the Portuguese colonists. Leonard Dober and David Nitschmann were the first Christian missionaries to labor among them. They arrived in 1732. The moral and spiritual condition of the slaves was deplorable in the extreme. The missionaries, however, found them willing to listen to the Gospel, and the poor creatures clapped their hands for joy when they understood the glad tidings that Jesus Christ had died for them also. A planter asked one of his slaves why he always attended "the public services, and added that he could just as well serye God by himself. In reply he elaye pointed to a fire that was burning them and said: ‘‘Massa, see fire, burn- coals, —black coal no good. When coal th coal and set on fire, coal burn— fire. When coal alone, coal not burn, coal aloné no good.’’ ‘This converted slave knew more about the purpose and benefits of Christian fellowship than many members of our own congregations. —A CLERGYMAN, observing a poor man by the roadside breaking stones with a pickaxe, and kneeling to get at his work the better, made the remark: ‘*Ah! John, I wish I could break the stony hearts of my hearers as easily as you are breaking those stones.’”’ The man replied, ‘‘Perhaps, master, you do not work on your knees.” —A missionary in Jamaica was once ques- tioning a little black boy on the meaning of the text, ‘‘Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth,’? and asked him, ‘‘Who are the meek?’? The boy answered, ‘‘Those who give soft answers to rough questions.”’ —Excepr on the thinly peopled east coast, the whole population of Greenland is now Christianized, 8175 of these Christians being under the care of the Lutheran Church of Denmark. There are twelve stations, where three Danish and four native pastors are at work. The Moravians have 1591 Greenland Christians under their care, at six stations. —Awn Indian chief asked concerning the prayer, ‘‘Our Father,’’ saying humbly that he had so sinned, ‘and through so long a life, he could not think:it right to call God Father. His daughter, who.was a Christian, answered, ‘*As many as received Him to them gave He power to become the sons of God,’’ and the father responded reverently, ‘‘Then, I too, by God’s gift, may call Him Father.”’ —One of our exchanges says: We talk of self-denial, but in too many cases it is nothing but a name; the gift represents no real sacri- fice. Rey. M. L. Young reminds the readers of the Lutheran Observer of the sacrifices which some of the heathen are willing to make for the propagation of their comfortless religion: ‘SA traveler has recently given some account of the sacrifices made by Buddhists in the building of houses of worship. He describes a temple in course of erection at Kioto, Japan, which will cost $8,000,000 —the most splendid in the world. It will be a monument of self- denial. Hundreds of workmen, including women, came from all parts of the country and labored on the building for weeks with- out compensation. The ropes used in erect- ing the temple are made of hair, which 20,000 women cut from their heads for this purpose. The 72,000 Buddhist temples in Japan repre- sent the expenditure of an immense amount of money and the self-denial of a people wor- shiping false gods. The gorgeous edifices built by these devotees are a stronghold of their unchristian religion.’’ What are we doing to undermine the strongholds of Satan in the world and build up and strengthen citadels of the living God? —Henz is what one missionary in Africa writes of the objection often raised to sending missionaries to that continent on account of its unhealthfulness: “It is said, ‘So many die.’ And why do they die? Simply because the niggardly giving of Christian people com- pels them to do and risk what no human being can endure in any climate. One man was left with work that at home would employ ten, and then, if the Lord doesn’t work a miracle to keep him alive, it is attributed to ‘the dread- ful African climate.’’’ —A cOLrorTEUR went thirty miles to sell his books at an Indian religious festival, swim- ming a river in flood, and narrowly escaping with his life. All the sale was one solitary Gospel! He carried home the rest of his stock, and a heavy heart with his heavy bag. But next year when he came again, a man ac- costed him, ‘‘Last year you sold me a Gos- pel.”? A living man, a sinning man, had been brought into contact with the Word of God! That was something worth while. But there was more. ‘‘My brother and I have been read- ing it.?’ The colporteur went home with the man, thirty miles away, where he found not only the two brothers, but three or four fam- ilies ready to accept Christianity. Soon after- wards sixteen persons were baptized in, that village. Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, New Or.eEans, La. EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL. 113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny. Divine services: Sunday morning at 10% 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. EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH. Cor. Franklin and Tualia Strs. Divine services at 744 Sunday evening and at 744 Thars- day evening. Sunday School meets at 9 o'clock. Adult catechumen class mects at 7}4 Tuesday evening. E. W. Kuss, Missionary. EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL. Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str. Divine services at 734 o’clock Sunday evening and at 734 o’clock Thursday evening. Sunday School at 9 o’clock. AuG. BurGpoRF, Missionary. Evang. Luth. St. Paul’s Church. Cor. Rock § 12th Sirs., Little Rock, Ark. Divine service Sunday afternoon at 3}4 o'clock. Sunday School at 10 o’clock. Carsonanien class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday evening. Singing-sckool from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening. Cuas. H. RuESSKAMP, Missionary. Ey. Luth, Holy Trinity Church. Springfield, Tit. Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening. Sunday School at 3 o'clock ». m. Catechumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings. Singing-school Tuesday evening. Ee __) —_——————— TERMS: Tue LurneraNn PIonEeER is published ‘monthly, payable in advance at the following rates, postage included, to-wit: Club rates only allowed if a) to one address. All business communications to be addressed to “Concordia Publishing House,” St. Louis, Mo. All’ communications concerning the editorial de- Peument to be addressed to Prof. R. A. BrscHorr, mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.