# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1896_S4 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) oF Rar ee CEPA yee Frere 4 5 The Lutheran Pioneer. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —WisuninG all our readers a Happy New Year we begin a new volume of our little paper. English publications are multiplying within the bounds of the Synodical Confer- ence; and though we would gladly lay down our pen, still we hope that our little Pioneer will not lose its old friends, but will find a warm welcome in their homes and their hearts. May the Lord who has prospered the paper thus far, still graciously bless our efforts. In His name we begin another volume. —Ovr German mission paper, in its last issue, calls upon our young people to come to the rescue and to contribute towards the erection of the sorely needed church building for our Mount Zion congregation in New Orleans. If the pastors of our congregations will Jay the matter before the young people, we doubt not that the appeal of our Mission Board will be heeded. How ‘‘Uncle Bob’’ would rejoice on the day of the dedication of How we all & new church for Mount Zion! would rejoice! May God speed the day! —Sranpixc in front of the noble cathedral at Cologne, a lady overheard some one behind her say, ‘‘Didn’t we do a fine piece of work here?’”’ Turning quickly, she saw that the speaker was a man in the plainest of working clothes, and on a sudden impulse she said to him, ‘‘Pray, what did you do about it?” “tOh, I mixed the mortar for two years across the street,” washisreply. The tourist thought the little incident droll enough to be worth remembering. But it has its serious side, and viewed from that side, it teaches a helpful lesson. If those of us who seem to have only .& very humble work to do could realize that we are sharers in the whole great plan, should we not be more faithful and more happy? —We hope such a man as is spoken of in one of our exchanges is not found in the Lutheran church. Our exchange says: ‘‘One of our ministers had an experience of great tmeanness. The richest man in his congre- gation, residing on a fine farm about a mile from the city, who was ill five or six months of a disease that did not impair his mental faculties, besought the minister to call fre- quently, both for religious conversation and to help him to while away his lonely hours. The pastor did so, making more than twenty calls, involving some hours of his time on each occasion. The recipient was profuse in verbal thanks and appreciation, professed ex- alted piety, and spoke frequently in public. Just prior to his being taken sick he had ordered one of his men to draw half a cord of green hemlock wood to the church to be used for kindling purposes. He lost nothing by his illness, as he lived on his income. Some months after his recovery it was necessary to raise small sum to supply the deficiency in ‘receipts for the pastor’s salary. He sub- ‘scribed three dollars toward this purpose, and when asked to pay the same deducted the price of the green hemlock, which was one dollar and seventy-five cents, paying over one dollar and twenty-five cents in cash. The minister in speaking of it to his friends was accustomed to say that afterward, whenever that man spoke or prayed in the meetings, he never heard anything but the crackling of green hemlock, though the man had a power- ful voice.”* —Anp another of our exchanges says: The niggardliness of some well-to-do people is astonishing, and when it is screened by the gauze of assumed inability and pretended poverty it becomes contemptible in the ex- treme. President Eliot tells us of a man liy- ing near Boston who was asked to give money to Harvard College, who received the sugges- tion kindly, promised to confer with his wife, and report, and after a few days did report as follows: ‘‘We have talked over the question, and have been all over our accounts. We want to give, but actually find that we must deny ourselves. .Our accounts show that we are spending every year $70,000, and our in- come is equal to just about $70,000. I am very sorry that I have not a cent to give.” And another poor man has been heard of who, when asked to make a subscription to a certain cause, answered with great seriousness, “T am sorry that I can not. I have $500,000 in Suffolk Bank, and it isn’t drawing me a cent of interest.’” —Anp a British paper relates the follow- ing curious accident: ‘‘Last Sunday,’’ said 8 clergyman to his congregation, ‘‘some one put a button in the collection bag. I won’t mention names, I will merely say that only one individual in the congregation could have done so, and I will expect the same member, after the service, to replace the button with a coin of the realm.” After church a well- to-do but close-fisted individual sought an interview with the clergyman in the vestry. ‘*T—er,”? he began, hesitatingly, ‘‘must apolo- gize for the—er—button incident, which I can assure you was an accident. I happened to have the button in my waistcoat pocket, to- gether with a shilling, and took out the former by mistake. However, sir, here is the shilling.” ‘*Thank you,” said the clergyman, taking the shilling and gravely handing him the button. ‘‘By-the-by, sir,’? said the man, “I can not understand how you should have known that it was I who—er—committed the much-to-be-regretted mistake?’? ‘I didn’t know,’’ ‘replied the clergyman. ‘‘Didn’t know! but you said, sir, that only one indi- vidual in the congregation could have done 80.” ‘Just so. You see, sir, it is scarcely possible that two individuals could have put one button in the bag, is it, now?’ said the clergyman, with a bland smile. It was so much easier for the button contributor to say “good day’? than to answer this- puzzling to question, that-he made his bow at once. —In a pretty church in Anciteum is a tablet erected by grateful natives to their missionary. On this tablet is written, in their language, the following: ‘‘When he landed, in 1848, there were no Christians here; and when he left, in 1872, there were no heathen.’” Such a testimony is worth living to achieve. The praises which so often find a place on the tombstone which would perhaps startle the deceased, could he see them, are far less telling than these simple words of those who gratefully record so grand a fact. —Lutuer’s Small Catechism has been translated into Chinese and is used by the Basel Mission in China. OUR BOOK TABLE. CoNncorDIA MAGAZINE. Published Monthly by the Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo., Price, $1.50 per year, single copies, 15 cts. We heartily welcome this beautiful ““Home Maga- zine for Christian Readers.’’? It is a most delight- ful and valuable monthly, especially suited to our Christian homes, supplying a long-felt want. It Is beautifully printed, and its contents are most whole- some, varied, and interesting. We wish it a large circulation. Acknowledgment. Received of the pupils of the Lutheran school at Elmore, O., Rev. G. J. F. Koch, pastor, $2.77 as a Christmas present for Colored Mission. Many thanks! C. A. Kare, Fort Wayne, Ind. Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, New ORLEanNs, 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 734 o'clock. Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock. Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% o'clock. Singing School at 74 o’clock Monday evening. F. J. LANKENAD, Missionary. EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH. Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra. Divine services at 734 Sunday evening and at 7% Thura- day evening. Sunday School meets at 9 o'clock. Adult catechumen class mects at 734 Tuesday evening. E. W. Kuss, Missionary. EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL. Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str. Divine services at 7} o'clock Sunday evening and at 746 o’clock Thursday evening. ° Sunday School at 9 o'clock. Ava. Buraporr, Missionary. Evang. Luth. St. Paul’s Church. Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark. pune merce Buney, terncon at 334 o'clock. jan c) at 10 o’clock. Catechamen “class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday evening. Singin, “school from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening. one Cus. H. RUESSKAMP, Missionary. Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church. Springfeld, Itt. Divine Services at half past 10 o'clock Sunday morning 5 and ace erctoes Banca y.cvening: ant o'c! Me Catechumen ‘class meets Monday and Friday evenings. Singing-school Tuesday evening. —————— TERMS: oy Tax LurneraNn Pioneer is published monthly, payable in-adyance at the following rates, postage included, to-wit: 1 Copy a... 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