# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1896_S42 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) ‘AA 'The Lutheran Pioneer. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —A LuTHERAN deaf-mute congregation has been organized in Chicago by the Rev. Reinke, who for some years has been doing effective mission work among the deaf mutes of our He has been holding mission serv- ices in the language of signs in many of the Two young mis- sionaries have recently entered this long neg- lected field to assist in the work among these afflicted, who are shut out from the ordinary country. large cities of the West. means of worship and religious instruction. May God richly bless this proclamation of the Gospel in the language of signs! —Tne Quakers of North Carolina in con- vention assembled decided that the public schools do not meet the requirements of the Society of Friends. The newspaper report states: ‘The Friends want to see every child in the State educated and will do all they can towards this end, but they are going to see that those belonging to their own denomina- tion are cared for in this respect, without be- ing dependent upon the State.’’ It would be well if all Lutherans would come to the same decision and provide schools in which their children are educated, not only for this world, but for the world to come. —Tne American Bible Society has pub- lished in all 61,705,841 copies of the Bible in nearly 100 Janguages. Last year’s issue was 1,750,128 copies. Distribution is made in all parts of the world, among pagans, Moham- medans, Jews and Christians. ‘The work was yery encouraging during the past year, ex- cept, of course, in Turkey, where persecution is raging. —Maps1 Rausin, a Christian Turk, a mer- chant from Constantinople, arrived récently in New York. He said he was a witness in August of the three days’ massacre of Arme- nians by Turks in the streets of Constanti- nople. ‘‘During the butchery,’’ he said, ‘‘I saw processions of wagons piled high with the bodies of the slain passing through the streets on their way to the Bosphorus. The corpses were not buried, but dumped into the sea. I could hear half-dead wretches crying to be taken out from the heaps of the slain. The Turkish soldiers I saw rushing about with pistols and the unattached Turks with clubs. Spies would point out an Armenian, and the Turkish soldiers would strike him on the head. When the spies pointed to the house of an Armenian the Turks would break in the door and kill men, women and children. If the Armenians hid on the house-tops the Turks would pursue them to the roof and compel : them to jump into the street. Thirty thou- Band people were slaughtered.” —Rey. Dr. Rosertson, a Canadian minis- ter of note, states that in the Canadian church _ $20,000 are now given annually to foreign ‘missions by congregations that were founded as home mission stations within the last twenty ears. It is a striking illustration of the truth | Le EP Pe eT ene Pe Te that ‘‘the very best way to help foreign mis- ‘sions is to establish home missions.’’ —Iw an appendix in his report on the trade and general condition of British Central Africa, Sir H. Johnston gives the history of the Uni- versities’ Mission and the later settlements of other societies, and says: ‘‘No person who desires to make a truthful statement can deny the great good effected by missionary enter- prise in Central Africa. There are some mis- sions and some missionaries out here of whose work nothing but praise can be uttered, though much just criticism might be written on their mode of life, which in some instances is sin- gularly and needlessly ascetic and uncomfort- able. Asceticism is all very well in a whole- some part of England, or in an equally healthy North African desert ; but any attempts to live carelessly, uncomfortably, and too frugally in the exceedingly unhealthy climate of Central Africa must sooner or later result in the per- manent disablement of the missionary’s health, or his death, and can serve no useful or godly purpose whatsoever. I think that if Euro- peans are expected to live in Central Africa and to carry on an active work, whether it be educational, religious, commercial, or polit- ical, they should first of all be comfortably housed, and secondly, they should eat the best of food. If they will do this, then they may hope-to be able to spend ten or fifteen years of their life in Central Africa without serious deterioration of their health. About mission work in other parts of the world I have no direct knowledge but I can say of all mis- sion work in British Central Africa that it has only to tell the plain truth and nothing but the truth to secure sympathy and support.’’ — Tue region in West Africa north of Cape Colony and south of Angola belongs to Ger- many, and German missionaries have been at work among the Hereros and other tribes occupying this section. Recently a German military oflicer, Lieutenant Von Francois, has issued a volume on “‘The Nama and Damara in German Southwest Africa,’? in which he gives the following remarkable testimony to missionaries and the work they have accom- plished: ‘‘What merchants, artisans, and men of science have done for the opening up and civilizing of this country is as nothing in the balance compared with the positive results of missionary work. And this work means so much the more, because all self-regarding motives, such as always inspire the trader or the discoverer and are to be found even in the soldier, are absent in the missionary. It must be an exalted impulse which leads the mis- sionary to give up comfort, opportunities of advancement, honor and fame for the sake of realizing the idea of bringing humanity into the kingdom of God, into sonship to God, and to instil into the soul of a red or black man the mystery of the love of God. Self-interest is put aside and the missionary becomes a Nama ora Herero. He gives continually, not only from the inner treasure of his spiritual ; life and knowledge; in order to be able to do that, he must unweariedly play now the arti- san, now the farmer, now the architect; he must always give presents, teaching, improve- ments— never take; he must not even expect that his self-sacrifice will be understood. And to do this for years, decades even, that truly requires more than human power; and the average mind of the European ‘adventurer, hardened in self-valuation and self-seeking, can not understand it. I used not to be able to understand it; you must have seen it to be able to understand and admire.’’ OUR BOOK TABLE. ERZAEHLUNGEN FUER DIE JUGEND. 34. Baendchen. In der neuen Heimath. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 25 cents. An interesting and entertaining story of an immi- grant family that passed through the troubles and sorrows of pioneer life and realized the comforting truth ‘that all things work together for good to them that love God.” It will be read with profit and delight by both young and old. Acknowledgment. During the months of July, August, and a part of September, the undersigned received the following sums from the different congregations at New Or- leans, La., from St. Paul: $8.50, Mt. Zion: $2.00, and Bethlehem: §5.65. Total: $16.15. I herewith again express my hearty thanks for the same. May the Lord bless the cheerful givers! EM. BURTHLONG. Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, New ORLEANS, La. EY. 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 744 o’clock Monday evening. F. J. LANKENAUD, Missionary. EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH. Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs. Divine services at 734 Sunday evening and at 744 Thurs- day evening. Sunday Schoo! meets at 9 o'clock. ° Adult catechumen class meets at 74 Tucsday 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 7}4 o’clock Thursday evening. Sunday School at 9 o'clock. J. W. F. KOSSMANN, Missionary. Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church. Springfeld, Ml. ; Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 8 o’clock Sunday cvening. Sunday School at 3 o’clock YP. a. Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings. Singing-school Tucsday evening. oe TERMS: Tae LurueraNn Pioneer is published monthly, pevauie in adyance at the following rates, postage included, to-wit: 1 Copy 9.00 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- partment to be addressed to Prof. R. A. BiscHorr, mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.