# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1896_S32 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 32 ‘The Lutheran Pioneer. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —From Prof. Dau’s letter in this issue of the Proneer our readers. will learn that God has taken the beloved wife of our missionary, She was a true missionary’s wife, faithfully sharing with her husband the Iasbors, and the sorrows, May the Lord comfort our dear missionary in his sad bereavement. The life of faith has many When our Lord’s dealings with us are dark, He says: ‘‘What I do ye know not now, but ye shall know hereafter.’’ This is frequently the only comfort we can grasp, and it is ours to trust God even in darkness and wait for light, know- ing ‘‘that all things work together for good to Rey. Bakke, to her heavenly home. and also the joys of the mission field. trials, and often very sore trials. them that love God.”’ -—We have received the Catalogue of Con- cordia College, Conover, N. C., giving the names of the students and also an account of the thorough work done during the past school year. Concordia College is of great impor- tance for our church in the South. May God bless its work also in the future. The Cata- logue may be obtained by addressing Rev. Prof. W. Dau, Conover, N. C. —Iy Chinese families, one of the most reg- ular attendants at church is pretty certain to be the baby. If the mother goes she never dreams of leaving baby at home, and in any good-sized congregation there will be a con- siderable sprinkling of these small creatures. When they are good and go to sleep (the best of babies can’t do better in church) they are probably laid carefully on their backs on the bench, or even on the floor, while mamma fans the little half-yellow, half-pink face and list- ens as best she canto the sermon. When they are naughty —arfkl what with heat, mosqui- toes, and Chinese singing, even a Chinese baby can be exasperated into naughtiness— they rave and scream and refuse to be com- forted, much as other babies sometimes do at home. When babies in China are a month old they have their first birthday party. Their heads are shaved, and they are dressed in ‘no end of clothing, just the same shape as grown-up people’s, consisting of trousers and jacket, and a cap which so completely covers oi them that you can only see part of a tiny face. About four o’clock the guests arrive. All are supposed to give a present—a toy, clothing, or a piece of silver wrapped in red paper. When any of the Christians have a ‘‘party’” of this kind they invite the missionaries, and they have to eat all kinds of funny things, such as birds’-nest soup, which is very good, sharks’ fins, and eggs that have been buried for years and have turned black, using, of course, not knives and forks, but chopsticks. _ —Tuene has been discovered in Birming- ham, in the very center of Christian England, ‘says the Hartfort Times, a factory, where idols “are made for heathen nations! Many attempts to obtain admission to the factory have been made, but a strict watch is kept upon out- siders anxious to pry into the secret chambers where the heathen gods are made, and report- ers, especially, are prevented from entering the works. Idols of all kinds are turned out, representing the gods of all heathen nations, from Ookai to Timbuctoo. The export trade to heathen countries is a fairly large one, al- though more gods are sent out to foreign deal- ers in curios in the bazars of Cairo, Damas- cus, Columbo, etc., for sale to unsuspecting travelers anxious to take home some memen- tos of their stay abroad. The price of gods varies greatly. You may get a’‘Birmingham made one in a London curiosity shop for half $100 for an especially ugly one, ‘‘stolen,’’ ac- cording to the dealer, ‘‘by a sailor during the Chinese war!’’ In the Cairo bazar, however, the price of a first-class god of this kind may run up from $100 to anything. A traveler says that there is little difficulty in detecting a god of native make from one of the Bir- mingham manufacture. The first generally displays some slight irregularity or change of design due to the native working by hand, while the Birmingham god is correct in form. The trade in idols is kept such a close secret that it is difficult to estimate the output, but there is no doubt the trade is a fairly large one, and that some enterprising Birmingham men make money in the business. This is a shame for ‘‘Christian England.’’ —Tuar was a good remark of the African king in Zambesi to a veteran missionary on the occasion of his recent return to Europe on a furlough: ‘‘Ah, if I am not saved it is not your fault. You have given yourself no rest, but neither have you given me any.”’ —‘“Tne late Irenwus Prime was on one oc- casion the guest of President Pierce at the White House. While there he attended the noonday reception. Foreign ministers, sena- tors, governors, distinguished strangers and fair women had congregated to do honor to the chief magistrate of a mighty nation. Just as the President was about entering the re- ception room, he put his arm around the neck of the genial Irenmus at his side, and said: ‘After all, the man who preaches the Gospel and wins men to heaven has the highest oflice on earth.’ And a greater than President Pierce said: ‘I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry.’ ’’ —A tone article might be written on boys and girls as givers. With a little attention and intelligent direction and encouragement they may be trained to become the most cheer- ful and ardent givers that we have in our con- gregations. A little girl in a church at Ash- land, Va., was one of a band of workers to raise money to complete their church building. She had earned by her own work a consider- able sum, when 2 friend heard her express a great desire to OWn a canary bird. It was suggested that she could easily buy one from & crown, or you may run up the petty bill to |— her own purse. ‘‘O,’’ she replied, ‘‘I can’t get a thing for myself while I have that church on my shoulders!’’ Some of the colored people in Augusta, Ga., were taking monthly — collections to build a church. A little girl six years old said she must have a nickel, for next Sunday was ‘throwing in’? Sunday. Her mother said she shouldn’t give her one, for she spent the last one for candy, and she ought to have saved that. So she went off with a basket on her arm, picked up bones, and sold them for five cents. Then a friend gave her another, and she remarked, ‘‘I be- lieve I’ll put this in too, for that chureh must be built !”’ LETTER BOX. W. M.—Men who reject the Bible are prepared to accept any theory, however absurd, any error, however glaring, because ‘‘the mind of the flesh {s enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be,’’ Rom. 8, 7. L. R.— Have ordered the Catalogue to be sent to you. Do you know what Luther says on choosing acollege? ‘I am afraid,” says he, ‘that universi- ties will prove to be the great gates to hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scrip- tures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scrip- tures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.’’ 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 74 0’clock. Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock. Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% o'clock. Singing School at 744 o'clock Monday evening. F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary. EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH. Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs. Divine services at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 7% Thars- day evening. Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock. Adult catechumen class meets at 74 Tuesday evening. E. W. Kuss, Missionary. EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL. Cor. Washington Avenuc and Dryades Str. Divine services at 714 0’clock Sunday evening and at 1%4 o'clock Thursday evening. Sunday School at 9 o'clock. J. W. F. KOSSMANN, Missionary: Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church. Springfield, Ill. 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 meets Monday and Friday evenings. Singing-school Tuesday evening. See ee _—_ ara TERMS: Tue Lurneran Pionzer is published monthly, payable in advance at the following rates, postage included, to-wit: Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent to one address. d All business communications to be addressed to “Concordia Publishing House,” St. Louis, om] a All communications concerning the editorial de- artment to be addressed to Prof. R. A. BiscHOF?, mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.