# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1897_S28 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) } ES Cay Pez <=. i i f F re : iy & is ie 28 The Lutheran Pioneer. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —Ovr colored congregations in New Or- leans also celebrated with appropriate services, the fiftieth anniversary of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other States. — Tne 10th of July brings the twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization of the Lutheran Synodical Conference. Our German mission paper calls upon all congregations to take up a collection for our Colored Mission Treasury on the Sunday nearest to that date. Whata blessing such a collection would be for our Mission Treasury, which is in great need of money. —A Ro»isu missionary on the island of Nonouti in Mikronesia, reports home: ‘‘If any one of these natives wants to become a Catho- lic, he simply says, ‘I love Mary,’ and he is accepted. The blind Protestant missionaries had created a prejudice against Mary among them; but we shall see to it, that Mary will reign alone in Mikronesia!’’ So there is no room for Christ in the Romish mission. The virgin Mary is put in the place of Christ, who slone is ‘‘the Lord of lords and the King of kings,’’ and in whom alone salvation can be found. ‘‘Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be sayed,’’ says the Bible. —Tuis reminds us of a story. When we some years ago visited the late Rey. Dr. Brookes in St. Louis, he told us that a few minutes before we had entered his study ‘Father Ryan’’ had been there to see him. ‘What did you tell him?’”’ we asked. ‘‘I told him,” said the Doctor, ‘‘that Christ and He crucified is not preached in the Romish church. Ryan said that he preaches Christ. I told him that he did not preach Christ as the only Saviour, but that he put many things in the place of Christ. Do you not preach the virgin Mary as the refuge of sinners? Iasked. Then he replied, ‘Only three times a year.’ Ah, said I, that is three times too often.”’ —Miss Mary Kincstey, in her book of travels in Africa, says: ‘‘The belief in witch- craft is the cause of more African deaths than anything else. It has killed, and still kills, more men and women than the slave trade. Its only riyal is, perhaps, the small-pox, the grand kraw-kraw, as the Krumen graphically call it. At almost every death a suspicion of witchcraft arises. The witch-doctor is called in and proceeds to find out the guilty person. Then woe to the unpopular men, weak women and slaves. —An officer under examination by a supe- rior was asked, ‘‘Suppose you with your com- ‘pany were confronted with a large force on your front; suddenly attacked on both flanks, and when you attempted to retreat, found a Jarge force on your rear, what command would you give?’”” ‘‘To prayer!’’ was his answer. — A LoNnG sermon, says an exchange, might be preached on boys and girlsas givers. A little girl in a church at Ashland, Va., was one of a band of workers to raise money to complete their church building. She had earned by her own work a considerable sum, when a friend heard her express 2 great desire to own a ca- nary bird. It was suggested that she could easily buy one from her own purse. ‘‘Oh,’’ she replied, ‘‘I can’t get a thing for myself while I have that church on my shoulders!’’ How many of us take such a personal interest in our mission work as to feel, ‘‘It is on my shoulders?’’ Some of the colored people in Augusta, Ga., were taking monthly collections to build a church edifice. 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 Church must be built !”’ —Iws India alone there are more than half a million lepers, a still larger number in China, two hundred thousand in Japan, while great numbers are found in all other oriental coun- tries. These figures are startling, but they can not of themselves give us, in this favored land, any conception of the misery they repre- sent. No missionary work is more urgent or more fruitful in its results than this, which carries the light of the Gospel among these wretched sufferers, who dwell literally in the ‘Valley of the Shadow of Death.’’ —Sreaxine of the darkness of heathenism, a missionary writes: Chinese parents love their children, especially their boys. ‘Their horrible superstition, however, tells them that children dying of any disease are not real human beings, but demons! An evil spirit which managed to escape from hell, found its resting-place in the soul of a newly born child. The death of a child is in fact the demon’s pun- ishment. No child under ten years is buried in the family plot. The corpse is wrapped in a mat or placed in a basket and handed to a beggar, who carries it away. Twice a week a wagon is driven through the streets of Peking. It is ealled ‘‘Su-ti-toz-hang,’’ i. e., the ‘‘land-ship of mercy.’? It is drawn by oxen with bells on their necks. It has the right of way. The children’s corpses, laid on the street, are thrown on the wagon. When filled with this sad freight, it drives to the ‘children’s ditch,’’ outside of the gate, and dumps it in. No parent or friend will ever accompany the corpse of the demon, which, before its death, was a dear child. —TuHarT was a queer impression which a little four-year-old boy received of a revival preacher. The boy went with his aunt to a revival meeting. The preacher was yery fiery in his deliyery, and the child seemed much interested. ‘‘Mother,’’ said he when he got home, ‘‘I have heard such a great minister; he stamped and pounded and made such a noise, and by and by he got so mad he came out of the pulpit and shook his fists at the folks, and there wasn’t anybody who dared to get up and fight him.’’—We close our window. o<—e-—— Massa’s Journey. A certain gentleman who lived in one of the Southern States of America before the war with the North, had a pious slave, and when the master died they told the slave that the master had gone to heaven. The old man shook his head, ‘‘I’se ’fraid massa no gone | there,’’ he said. ‘*But why, Ben?’’ he was asked. ‘‘Cos, when massa go North, or go a journey to the springs, he talk about it a long time, and get ready. I never hear him talk about going to heaven; never see him get ready to go there.” ——_— ~e«mmeor em Read the Bible Daily. Frederick the Wise of Saxony used to say: “The letter of your king or prince read twice, for it is apt to be of importance; but the Bible, which is the letter of the divine Majesty to you, you must read daily. It speaks of God’s grace to you.’’ Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, NEw ORLEANS, La. EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL. 1625 Annette Str., between Olaiborne and Derbigny. Divine services: Sunday morning at 914 o'clock. Sunday evening at 734 o'clock. Wednesday evening at i% o'clock. Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% o’clock. Adult catechumen class meets at 73g o’clock Tuesday evening? Singing School meets at 7}4 o’clock Monday evening. EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH. Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs. Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Sunday evening at 7% o'clock. Thursday evening at 74 o'clock. Adult catechumen class mects at 744 o’clock Friday evening. Young Peoples’ Concordia Circle meets at 734 o'clock evenin F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary. EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL. Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str. Divine services at 74 o'clock Sunday evening and at 744 o'clock Thursday evening. Sunday School at 9 o’clock. J. W. F. KOS8MANN, Missionary. Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church. Springfteld, Ml. Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 8 o'clock Sunday evening. Sunday School at 3 o'clock P. M. Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday cvenings. Singing-school Tuesday evening. 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