# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1896_S12 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) - arrow-root for the market, they make money is bewitched, I see, and if you pass over it 12 The Terthecern Pioneer. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. |of souls. A missionary was recently visiting a high-caste woman who had lost her child. As she sat talking, a cockroach walked across the floor, and she was about to brush the in- sect away, when the mother cried, ‘‘Don’t harm it, I beg you; my little baby’s soul is in that cockroach.’”’ —Ir will be remembered that, some two years since, two Swedish missionaries were slain by a mob at Sungpu, China. A report now given in China’s Millions shows that the blood of these martyrs was not shed in vain. It seems that a Chinese lady read of the faith and patience of these missionaries and was so impressed by what she was told of their lives and their deaths that she traveled to another city in order to ask the missionaries about the religion which could produce such fruits. “What is it,’’ she asked, ‘‘that makes you Jesus people so different from us? We call you ‘foreign devils ;? our people have mar- tyred two of your teachers who only did good to our people, and you show no revenge and receive me as a friend.’’ She was told that this was the teaching of Jesus, who died for us when we were enemies. This lady, who was termed ‘‘the Chinese Queen of Sheba,” continued for two weeks with the missionaries to learn of their faith and doctrine, and then returned to her own city to tell her neighbors: “These Jesus people know how to love their enemies.”” : —Tuen:E are 30 islands in the New Hebrides group, which are stretched over about 350 miles. These people were until a few years ago ignorant heathen, but now most of them are Christians. There are twenty different languages used on this group of islands. The Scriptures haye been published in whole or part in seventeen of these languages. Not many years ago cruel heathen customs pre- vailed among these people, such as eating their slain enemies, killing their children, strangling their widows, and the like more. The Gospel of Jesus Christ has driven all this from the South Sea Islands. —Many years ago the Emperor of India built a tomb for his deceased wife. It took twenty thousand workmen seventeen years to build this magnificent structure, and it cost twenty millions of dollars. It stands on a marble platform 400 feet square. There are many beautiful ornaments of agate and jasper. Here are two of the inscriptions found on it: “The world is a bridge; pass over it, but build not upon it.” “The world is an hour; give its minutes to thy prayers, for the rest is unseen.”” The tomb is surrounded by a beauti- ful garden or park, and is one of the curiosities for sight-seers in India. —Ar the funeral services of Dr. A. J. Gor- don, a Chinaman sent 2 sum of money with the following note: “‘Goon Moy gives the in- closed for missions instead of flowers, as he thinks Dr. Gordon would have desired.’” _—A New York pastor quotes a Southern Slave, of the old times, who replied to one —Last June a colporteur of the American Bible Society who was distributing Bibles in Brazil, was ordered by an officer, under direc- tion of the Catholic priest, to give up his books. He had forty-seven Bibles, fifty Testaments and one hundred Gospels. They were all taken to the market-place, saturated with oil, and burned. —Tnue fact that also a Peruvian Mayor has had publicly burned the Bibles and other stock of the American Bible Society’s local agent, affords anotheY illustration of the unchange- able character of Rome. Wherever she has the power, she does not hesitate to show her bitter hostility to the Bible, and those who think she has changed with the times are blind to the facts of current history, as well as that which records the events of the past. — SrvEN years ago, when Italy had not the religious liberty which the country now pos- sesses, the police were sent one night to search the rooms of a young man who was supposed to have a Bible. The young fellow did not appear at all disturbed by this inroad of the police, but sat calmly by while they turned over‘all his papers, broke open his cupboard, and ransacked his room from end to end, even ripping up his sofa and chairs to sce if the for- bidden book were hidden in the stufling. No Bible was discovered, and the police went away baffled. The Bible was, however, hang- ing in a net from a nail just outside the win- dow sill! —TueE converts on the Island of Aneityum in the New Hebrides set a good example in the matter of benevolence. Having been taught by Dr. and Mrs. Inglis how to prepare enough in this manner to pay entirely for the Bible which Dr. Inglis had translated into their language, and are now giving the proceeds of the industry to the Free Church of Scotland, which sent out their missionary. The contri- bution of this year will amount to about $500. The natives also keep up twenty-eight village schoolhouses in Aneityum. —Speakinc of the late massacre in China, f missionary at Rabai, East Africa, writes: *tNone can fully realize such a scene who have not experienced it. ... Oh, the darkness of heathen lands, and the deadness of souls for whom Christ has died! Our people here are 0 superstitious that even when they are hay- ing some of their dances, if the leader in the dance stops in the middle, and pointing toa certain spot on the ground, says, “That place fore I do you will die; but if I pass over and you follow, it will be all right, and will come to you’—the people so t y believe it that they are afraid to disobey eir leader, but meekly follow behind.” reason given for the sufferance of Hindu houses, is their superstitious rooted belief in the transmigration who said, ‘‘I hear your master has gone to heaven,’’ with the remark: ‘‘I’se afraid he has not gone dar, fur I neber heard him speak o’ dat. When he go to the Norf, or to de Verginny Springs, he allus be gettin’ ready fur weeks. I neber see him gettin’ ready fur goin’ to heben.’’ OUR BOOK TABLE. Concorpia MaGazINE. February, 1896. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. The price of this excellent monthly, which we recommended to our readers in the last issue, has been reduced to $1.00 a year. The Lutheran Standard says of this Magazine: ‘'In illustrations, letter press, and well designed cover it is as thoroughly Ameri- can in its enterprise as any of the cheaper monthlies, Its contents-are fresh and varied, and throughout have a churchly impress.’’ — LaNGuaGe Lessons for Common Schools. Part I. Concordia Publishing House, St.- Louis, Mo. Price 10 cts.; per dozen 8 cts. each. Eminently practical! It is just the book we need for our schools. Let every teacher get a copy and examine it for himself. We doubt not that he will gladly introduce it in his school as a welcome help in teaching English. DER HAUPTGOTTESDIENST DER EV.-LUTH. KIRcHeE, zur Erhaltung des liturgischen Erbtheils und zur Befoerderung des liturgischen Studiums in der americanisch-lutherischen Kirche erlacutert und mit altkirchlichen Singweisen versehen von Friedrich Lochner, Pastor. Price, $2.00. Con- cordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. This is a valuable addition to our American Luthe- ran literature by the venerable Rev. Lochner. Every pastor and teacher may learn from the study of this book the ‘‘meaning and beauty of the liturgical ser- vice of our dear Lutheran church.”’ Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, New ORvEans, La. EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL. 113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny. Divine services: Sunday morning at 10% o'clock. junday evening at 734 o'clock. Wednesday evening at 744 o'clock. Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% 0! ‘clock. Singing School at 7}4 o’clock Monday evening. F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary. EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH. Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs. 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