# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1899_S12 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 12 The Lutheran Pioneer. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. Is Shawano county, Wisconsin, about 200 miles north of Milwaukee, there are two In- dian reservations. One of these, called the Stockbridge reservation, contains about 100 families and perhaps 500 souls. Last April Rey. Nickel, of the Missouri Synod, estab- lished a preaching place among them, and the work has been progressing in a most en- couraging manner. These Indians are civil- ized and have acquired a knowledge of Eng- lish, so that the services can be conducted in that language. These services, held every two weeks, are well attended, and the con- gregation is said to be attentive and devo- tional, taking a hearty interest also in the singing of Lutheran hymns. Several bap- tisms haye already taken place and the pros- pects for growth seem to be flattering. Ir is said that in 1850 in the Fiji Islands, a man could be bought for seven dollars, butchered and eaten without any one ob- jecting. To-day the Bible is in nearly every house, and on Sunday nine-tenths of the people are assembled in the church for pub- lic worship. Tue owner of a large coal mine in Japan, where 800 men are employed, has invited a Lutheran missionary to visit his mine regu- larly and preach to his people. This operator is not a Christian, but he furnishes a place for meeting, attends himself, and wants the men taught Christianity, because he says it will make them honest, obedient and virtuous. A trite truth which needs to be often re- stated is well told in the following words: “The time to consecrate your purse is when you have a little one. If you wait till it is big and fat you will never do it. And if you fail to consecrate that, you will miss one of the richest blessings of your life. The man or woman who has learned to give has entered upon a path of ever-widening pleasure.’’ And yet how many are deluded by the devil’s lie that all pleasure and personal enjoyment is in hoarding and keeping! Ty the early and cruelest days of West In- dian slavery, Moravian missionaries found it impossible to reach the slaves, so separated were they in sympathy from the ruling classes. At length two consecrated men said: ‘*We will g0 to the plantations, and work and toil under the lash, so as to get close in feeling to those We would instruct.’’ So they left their homes, sold themselves as slaves, and lived in a com- pany ‘of slayes, to get close to the hearts of ‘slaves. Gladly the slaves heard them, because ad thus humbled themselves to their con- —— missionaries of the Paris Lutheran labor on the Island of Madagascar. The Lutheran Church of Norway recently sent twenty additional workers to the same field. The evangelical churches on the island suffered a great deal by the pernicious prac- tices and intrigues of the Jesuits. Tue New Testament has just been trans- lated, for the first time, into one of the Aus- tralian native dialects by two German mis- sionaries. Ix Cape Colony, South Africa, while there are over a million of the population still in the darkness of heathenism, there are no less than 638,000 Christians who exert a power for good in the land. Half of these Chris- tians are of European origin, and the others have been converted from heathen degrada- tion by the power of Christian missions. The regular attendance at Sunday services is es- timated at 267,000, and 80,000 children attend Sunday school. The sum total of contribu- tions for church purposes and mission work for one year is nearly a million and a half dollars. The Christian population is mainly Protestant. There are only about 10,000 Ro- man Catholics in the entire district. In South Africa at large there are about 1,200,000 Prot- estant Christians. The fact that Protestantism has gained such a firm footing and made such extensive operations in Africa affords good promise and bright prospects for the evan- gelization of the dark continent. Tue Universities’ Mission to Central Africa carries on mission work scattered over some 250,000 square miles. In the homes, schools, and workshops there are over 3000 children. The communicants at Easter, 1897, were 1722, and the adult adherents of the mission over 6600. The work is established in four prin- cipal centres, in Zanzibar, Usambara, Rovuma, and Nyassa. On Lake Nyassa, which was until last year a large slave-yielding region, the mission maintains a church steamer. The workers now number 187, including two bish- ops, 26 English and 11 African clergy, and 29 women. Aw EnGiisH Missionary in Persia, in speak- ing of mercy and love as the fruits of Chris- tianity, describes the state of affairs in Persia, where there are no hospitals, no dispensaries, and no lunatic asylums. The treatment of insane people is thus described: ‘‘The poor lunatic is chained, his feet fastened in the stocks, is constantly beaten and half-starved, with the idea that, if badly treated, the devil will the sooner leave him. And then, asa last resource, when the friends have grown tired of even this unkind care of their relatives, the lunatic is given freedom in the desert. His hands are tied behind his back, and he is led out into the desert, and is never heard of again. There are no homes for the blind and crippled, and none for the incurable, in this land.’ OUR BOOK TABLE. Your CONFIRMATION Vow. By Rev. F. Kuegele. Price per copy, plain, 30 cts.; gilt, 40 cts.; per dozen, plain, $2.40; gilt, $3. 20. Address orders to Miss Martha Kuegele, Koiner’s Store, Au- gusta Co., Va. The earnest and practical character of this booklet is most refreshing. Would to God that it were read by the thousands of catechumens of our Lutheran church. Pastors will do well to present it to the confirmed. It will prove a faithful friend, clearly explaining the character and meaning of the vow made on Confirmation day, fearlessly “pointing out the dangers that threaten the young pilgrim on his way to the eternal city, and wisely showing the means to be used, in order to avoid the dangers and to prove faithful to the Confirmation vow. SyYNODAL-HANDBUCH der deutschen ev.-luth, Synode von Missouri, Ohio, u.a. St. Fourth revised edition. Price, 30 cts. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Acknowledgments. Received for colored missions of Rev. J. C. Schmidt, Greensboro, N.C., from his Grace Con- gregation $12.00, from Mrs. Sallie Keck .50, Mrs. Mary Doswell .50, Mr. W. Payne 1.00, Mrs. L. Thompson 6.00, Mrs. L. Kerr 1.00, Mrs. A. Moore 2.00, Mrs. S. Scales 1.00, Miss ‘abon 1.50, N. N. 1.35, and N. N. 10.50; of Rev. . Lankenau, New Orleans, La., from St. Paul’s Congregation 25.00; of Rev. J. Kossmann, New Orleans, La., from Beth- lehem Congregation 25. 00; of Rev. J. Ph, Schmidt, Concord, N. C., from Grace Congregation 10.00. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 22, 1899. A. C. Buraporr, Treas. Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, New ORLEans, La. EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S OHAPEL. 1625 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Derbigny. Divine services: Sunday morning at 9Y o'clock. Sunday evening ae 74% o'clock. Wednesday evening ‘at 74. 0 on nck. Sunday School: Sunday morning at st Adult pa teonamen class meets at ae oO eoloel ‘Tuesday even Singing Se hool mects at 7% o'clock Monday cyening. EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH. Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs. Divine services: punday, morning at 11 o’clock. pondey evening at 74% o’clock. Thursday evening at 7% o'clock. Adult carac humic class mects at 734 o'clock Friday evenin Young Peoples? Concord a} circle meets at % o'clock evening. LANKENAU, Missionary. EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL. Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str. Divine services: panda evening at 7% o'clock. ny evening at 734 o'clock. Sunday School at ny vorclock. Adult catechumen Class every Tuesday at 734 0’clock and after the divine service on Thursday evening. choke puEsctic at 744 o'clock on Tuesday cyening and after divine service on Thursday even: ng. Circle for Young People meets at the school cyery Tacs- day evening at 74 o'clock. J. W. F. KoS8MANN, Missionary. Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church. Springfield, Ill. Divine Services at half etek 10 ake Sunday morning and at 8 o’clock Sun ny, evening. Sunday School at 3 o'clock P. M. Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings. Singing-school Tucsday evening. 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