# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1896_S28 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) — ‘no satisfactory substitute. “spend tlie half-hour in gossiping with members of their respective classes, and others in tell- 28 The Lutheran Pioneer. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —One of the graduates of our Lutheran Seminary at St. Louis will go to South Africa to enter the mission field. —Tnue Lutheran Missouri Synod, at its re- cent sessions, resolved to take up mission work among the deaf mutes, of whom there are up- wards of 40,000 in the United States. There are in St. Louis 300 adult deaf mutes and nearly the same number of children; in Chi- cago they number 1000, in Milwaukee 240, in Peoria 80. Speaking of the importance of this work, Rev. Reinke says: During the two years that I have labored among these poor people I have become convinced that we, as a synod, ought to begin mission work among them. What an immense field opens up to us among these deaf mutes. Language is no hindrance. They all use the language by signs. At the services held I have often had before me Germans, English, Swedes, Nor- wegians, Poles, Bohemians, and French. Four candidates, who finished their studies in St. Louis in June, have learned this lan- guage by signs and are ready to serve these deaf mutes with the preaching of the Gospel. —Dr. Durr once told an Edinburgh au- dience, that if the ladies of that city would give him the cost only of that portion of their silk dresses which swept the streets as they walked, he would support all ‘his mission schools in India. —In Hawaii 60 per cent. of the entire pop- ulation-are to be found in the churches on the Lord’s day; there is not a native that can not read and write; there is a large percentage of the native population in the day schools; and one church with 500 members is building a church edifice to cost £8000, while contribu- ting £800 a year to missions and charity. —Tuirry years ago there was no organized evangelical church or school house in Mexico ; the statistical result of twenty-five years’ sys- tematic work is as follows: Centers of opera- tion, 90; congregations, 615; ordained mis- sionaries, 60; assistant missionaries and wives of ordained and assistant missionaries, 60; lady teachers, 67; native preachers, ordained, 111; native preachers, unordained, 164; na- tive teachers, 177; other native helpers, 94; grand total of foreign and native workers, 782; churches organized, 444; communicants, 17,000; probable adherents, 50,000. —A writer in one of our exchanges says: “T am convinced more fully each year that the Sunday school is one of the weak points in the Church to-day. It has crowded ont the old catechetical method of teaching Scriptural truth, and in the great majority of cases gives Many teachers ing stories with more or less of carefully pre- paces systematic Bible instruction of which there is preciouslittle. If any brother preacher doubts this let him critically question the Sun- day school children in his parish: I have been doing this, and I am heavy of heart because of the results. What is the remedy?’’? The remedy is for the churches to erect parochial schools. —A rToucniNG incident is related of two Mohammedans in Asia Minor, desiring the Word of God, but hiding it for fear of perse- cution. One bought the Scriptures in Span- ish, and learned the language, that he might read it in safety. Another walked 100 miles and paid $1.50 for a copy —all he could spare from a year’s work. — Aw affecting incident connected with the massacre at Oorfa was that of a mother, in whose presence her two sons were caught by the mob, while men with drawn swords, ready to cut them down, demanded of the young men that they should accept the Moslem faith. But the mother called out to them, ‘‘Die, but don’t deny the Lord.’’ ‘They stood firm and were immediately cut down. — Tue annual report of the Bible Societies’ Committees of Japan for the year 1895 reveals a most remarkable work accomplished in the distribution of the Scriptures. The most sig- nificant item concerns the circulation of the Scriptures in the army and navy. “An entire change is manifested in the officials in refer- ence to the possession and reading of the Bible by soldiers. The total number of copies of Bibles, Testaments, and portions circu- lated was no less than 257,578. —In China, Dr. Griffith John, of the Lon- don Missionary Society, reports the opening of a mission station at Tsan Shih, ‘‘the row- diest place in Hupeh in former times.’’ ‘‘A great change,’’ he proceeds, ‘‘has come over the place, and now the head of the gentry is inviting me, in the name of the gentry and the people, to come and establish a mission there. The missionaries have often been pelted out of the place. It is a joy to be able to say that all that has passed away, and that even Tsan Shih has become friendly. Speaking of Hu- nan, you will be glad to learn that the society has received the gift of a house and land in that province. A man, named Li Yeukeng, was baptized by me seven years ago. He has just returned to Hankow for the first time since his baptism. All these years he has been busily engaged in Christian work among his own people in the county of Heng Shan. He opened a free night-school for the children of the place, in which he has been teaching from Christian books. Now there are four whole families there who have given up idolatry and are seeking, baptism. A number of children have committed some of our Christian books to memory. Mr. Li has handed over his house and a large piece of land connected with it to the society. The deeds are in our possession. The Society is the first Protestant mission to hold property in Hunan.’’ OUR BOOK TABLE. ADOLF Fr. Tn. BIEWEND, weiland Professor am Concordia Seminar und Director des Gymna- siums zu St. Louis, Mo. Ein Lebensbild von H. Wyneken. Concordix Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 30 cts. The Missouri Synod will next year celebrate its Golden Jubilee, and it must be interesting and edi- fying for every lover of our church to read of the “days of small things,’? when the foundations were laid. The work was well done by those able, learned, pious, and self-denying men whom God raised up for the service of His Church. One of those men Was the lamented Prof. A. Biewend, whose interest- ing biography, so well written by Prof. H. Wyneken, we heartily recommend to our readers. Tue CoNcoRDIA MaGaAZzINE. Vol. I., No.7. Tor- nado Number. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price 10 cts. per number; $1.00 per year. This number of the Concordia Magazine will be especially welcome to its readers. Besides other instructive and entertaining matter it brings an in- teresting and copfously illustrated article on the great tornado that recently befell the city of St.Louis. We again heartily recommend this Maga- zine, whose object is to furnish the Christian family with a pure literature, and thus guard against the influences of the anti-Christian publications of the times. Acknowledgment. The following mites for the St. Louis Storm- sufferers have been received by me from my pupils, I. Dept., Mt. Zion, Louis Butler, Julia Parks, John Allain, Wade Allain, each 10 cts. Cash Montgomery, Rita Jolly, Allen Percy, Alfred Hennen, Geo. Thompson, Augustine Edmore, Manuel Dean, Henrietta Guines, Rosalinda Anderson, Arth. Brown, Benj. Wilcox, Viola Collins, Albert Noré, Joe Quilling, Robt. Halsey, Louisa Pease, Theod. Simpson, Albert Simpson, Mary Brown, Bertha Harris, Paulina Jackson, Lizzie Hammond, Briscoe Perkins, Sidonie Robinson, Eddie Harris, Ada Da- vies, Louis Brown, Maggie Kier, Sidonie Delagrade, ‘Sam. Kier, Alex. Harding, Victoria Leonce, Mamie Anderson, Emily Anderson, Bessie Harding, each 5 cts. Total, $2.15. Thanks, dear children, thanks! Eve. R. VIX. 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. Sunday evening at 7% o'clock. Wednesday evening ut 1% o'clock. Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% o' clock. Singing School at 734 o’clock Monday evening: F. J. LANKENAUD, 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 School meets at 9 o'clock. Adult catechumen class mects at 74 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 776 o'clock Thursday evening. Sunday School at 9 o'clock. J. W. F. KossMANN, Missionary. Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church. Springfteld, Ill. Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening. Sunday School at 3 o'clock Pp. M. Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings. Singing-school Tuesday evening. eee TERMS: < Tue Lurueran Pioneer is published monthly, Perens in advance at the following rates, postage included, to-wit: ween D 020 5.00 Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent to one address. All business communications to be addressed to “Concordia Publishing House,” St. Louis, Mo. ‘All communications concerning the editorial de- ment to be addressed to Prof. R. A- Biscnorr, mcordia College. Fort Wayne, Ind.