# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1897_S44
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44 The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Sreaxisc of early Lutheranism in the
West, a writer in Zhe Lutheran says of the
Missouri Lutheran Synod: ‘‘This body was so
strict in its adherence to the confessions of
the Church, as to be constantly abused for its
exclusiveness and bigotry. There were per-
petual, and continued strictures, criticisms
and condemnation of Prof. Walther and his
theology, in our English Church papers, until
we younger men began to think that if we
should ever see Walther, or a real live Mis-
souri Synod man, we should see a man with
a little horn on his head, about the size of the
one described by the prophet Daniel. But,
behold, the ‘little one has become a thou-
sand, and the small one a strong nation’!
Out of the fires and the ashes of persecution
has arisen the largest body of Lutherans in
the United States. Their progress is the won-
der of the world!”’

— Tue United Synods of Wisconsin, Minne-
sota and Michigan are carrying on mission
work among the Apache Indians. Rey. Plocher
is stationed at San Carlos, Arizona, where a
residence for the missionary and a school-
house were built. His Sunday-school num-
bers 110 and the parochial school 20 pupils.
Missionary Mayerhoff is located at Ft. Apache,
90 miles from San Carlos; at present he gives
religious instruction to the children of the
Government school. <A very friendly rela-
tion exists between the missionary and the
Apaches. Synod has recently appropriated
$1150 for a residence for the missionary.

—A TRAVELER in Italy writes: ‘‘Everybody
in Italy knows the Pope is a miser. He lives
for gold. He has made gold his god. Never
@ generous impulse stirs his breast. As all
but the clerical Italian papers say, he has
neyer been known to do a philanthropic action
in his native land. Not one ‘could lay his
finger on a spot’ of Rome or Italy, and say,
‘Here Signor Pecci has done good.’ Then he
is not aking; he is only a straw king—only
@ mock sovereign — only a pretender to a
throne. He has no authority even. He is,
as the world knows, a slave. He is kept in
chains by the Jesuits. He is their tool and
instrument. He is a mere catspaw of these
unscrupulous men of cunning. Yet, that old
man, enslaved to bad men, and to yellow gold
(they should ship him off to Klondike), is the
head of the Papal Church.”

—Tne American Bible Society issued last
year more than one and a half million of
copies of the Scriptures. And this was not a
remarkable year. The distribution was about
equal to the average of the last twenty years.
Its entire circulation since 1816 exceeds sixty-
three million volumes.

_. —Tue ‘Bible basket’’ is an indispensable
uisite in ‘the Hervey group of the South
_ It is neatly plaited the exact
veontain) a thick octavo Bible, a hymn-
‘a lead-pencil, and a pair of spectacles.

Every churchgoer, man or woman, is equipped
with one of these baskets, suspended from the
shoulder. It is the custom to take notes of
the sermon, as the head of the household in-
variably catechises each member on his return.

—A apy in Scotland has given to a Mission
in New York a large sum of money, to open
a mission among the dwarfs of Africa. These
dwarf tribes of Africa are among the most sin-
gular and interesting features of that strange
continent. They were met by Henry M. Stan-
ley in several of his journeys into the interior,
and have more recently been encountered by
the Presbyterian missionaries in the interior
from Gabun. This is apparently their nearest
approach to the sea-coast, but they are sup-
posed to be widely scattered throughout the
dense forests of the Upper Congo Valley.
These dwarfs average about four feet in
height, and are well-proportioned and athletic.
They appear to have no territory exclusively
to themselves, but are distributed among other
peoples, obtaining their living chiefly from
hunting, the products of the chase and the
forests, which they sell to the people about
them. In disposition they are exceedingly
timid and retiring, although fighting fiercely
when attacked, and it has been difficult to
obtain accurate information as to their num-
bers, manner of life, or religious condition.

— In spite of the troubleous times in Mada-
gascar, the Norwegian Missionary Society is
able to report progress from its West Coast
Mission. ‘‘We have had a fruitful year and
great peace,’’ writes missionary Fagereng from
Tullear. ‘The people have been more well-
disposed. Many new places have been oc-
cupied during the year and supplied with
schools. ‘The church attendance has been
good, and the church at the station has often
been too small. It is true, we still meet with
opposition. The heir to the chieftaincy came
one day into one of our schools, and said,
with an arrogant and spiteful look, ‘I hate to
see these Christians teaching anything.’ This
is natural, for this fine young prince cares for
nothing but brandy and evil ways. Yet God’s
Pentecost will come to this region some day,
and I see signs of it already.’

—A roor Japanese woman came to a Chris-
tian teacher and begged her to care for a
ragged, forlorn child, saying, ‘‘Please do take
the little baby. Your God is the only god
that teaches us to be good to little children.”

—A vance folio Bible in the English lan-
guage has been especially prepared as a gift
to the Emperor of Japan, and sent to Yoko-
hama. It will be formally presented at the
first fitting opportunity after the Emperor’s
return to Tokio in the autumn. The gift will
be made in the name of the American Bible
Society, the British and Foreign Bible Society,
and the National Bible Society of Scotland,
which are jointly concerned in the publication
and distribution of the Japanese Scriptures.
The two agents, Rey. Henry Loomis and
Mr. George Braithwaite, of Yokohama, are

to make all the necessary arrangements, in-
cluding the preparation of a suitable letter to
accompany the book. The preparation of this
volume was suggested by the favorable re-
ception which the Dowager Empress of China
gave in 1894, when a beautiful Chinese New
Testament was given to her in the name of
10,000 Protestant Christian women of China.

OUR BOOK TABLE.

AMERIKANISCHER KALENDER fuer deutsche Luthe-
raner auf das Jahr 1898. Concordia Publishing
House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 10 cents.

This welcome yearly visitor comes to us with a
beautiful colored picture representing the Wartburg
and with other illustrations from Luther's life. Be-
sides the usual almanac matter and the statistics of
the Synodical Conference there are 2 number of
pages-of interesting and practical reading. The
almanac will be welcomed in all German Lutheran
homes.

CuRIsTFEST-LITURGIE No. 2. Concordia Publish-
ing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 5 cents; per
dozen, 40 cts.; per hundred, $2.50 and postage.

This Is an excellent new Christmas liturgy of six-
teen pages. Pastors and teachers will find it very
valuable for a children’s service at Christmas time.

—.

LETTER BOX.

Mrs. D., Meherrin, Va, —Though we can not print
your entire letter in the PioneEn, still we read it
with great interest. May God bless you for your
kind words of encouragement.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New Orveans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL.
1625 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Derbigny.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 9 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 7/4 o’clock.
Wednesday evening at To o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% o’cloc!
meals pea tec aieess class mects at 734 ‘orclock “Tuesday

Singing Schoo! meets at 734 o’clock Monday cvyening.

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 7% o'clock.

A ponrocnumen class mects at 734 o'clock Friday

nin,
Young “Fooplest Concorde Circle meets at 7% o'clock
F. J. LANKENAU, ‘Missionary.

EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.

Divine services at 7} o’clock Sunday evening and at 7%
o’clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o'clock.

J. W. F. KoSsMANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.

Springfield, Il.
Divine powces at half pant 10 orcloce Sunday morning
dey erent ing.

class meets SMonaae and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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