# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1899_S20 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 20 The Lutheran Pioneer. Tue dwelling-place of the African is a grass or mud hut of circular shape and fifteen or twenty feet in diameter. The floor is made of hard-pounded mud and in the middle is a mud fire-place from which the smoke curls up through a hole in the roof. He requires very little furniture, for he squats on the floor and rolls himself up in his blanket at night, with his head on a wooden block for a pillow. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. An exchange says of our mission: The ex- perience of the Synodical Conference in its mission work among the colored people of the South is such as to encourage to larger effort in that direction. Seven years ago they had but a single missionary in North Carolina; now there are eight laborers in the field, and their work is carried on in as many different counties of the state. Fourteen congregations and stations have regular services, and in con- nection with six of these there are parochial schools, taught in some cases by the mission- aries and in others by special teachers. Ix Armenia 328 Christian churches have been converted into Mohammedan Mosques, and 568 have been destroyed by the Turks. Five hundred and ninety-nine thousand dol- lars ($599,000) were contributed last year by native Christians in heathen lands. Tue mission districts of the Lutheran Mis- souri Synod in India are threatened with a visitation of the dreaded pest. In the province of Mysore, which adjoins the Missouri terri- tory, 10,559 deaths occurred within a few months. May God graciously protect our missionaries. In a recent number of the Leipzig ‘‘Mis- sionsblatt,’”’ it is stated that the Queen of Nepaul, in North India, recently committed suicide in horror at the disfigurement which an attack of smallpox had caused in her features. The king, who was passionately attached to her, first wreaked his vengeance on the phy- sicians who had attended her in her illness, and cut off their noses and their ears. Then he flew at the higher game and attacked the gods themselves. Out of the great temples he brought the idols, planted loaded cannon before them and bade the gunners fire. In terror at the proposed blasphemy, they re- fused. Thereupon the king hanged several of them. . The survivors then submitted, and the guns were fired and the idols were blown to pieces. Tue Lutheran Mission congregations in Per- sia have four services on Sundays. Two in the morning at 6 and 8 o’clock, given chiefly to singing psalms. At 9 o’clock there is Bible study and Sunday school, attended by old and young. Then in the afternoon there is preach- ing, and the whole congregation attends. ‘Ane not things in a worse condition than before the missionaries came to the Sandwich Islands?’’ asked an agnostic of Kamehameha, king of the Sandwich Islands. The king an- swered : ‘‘Why, sir, you have done three things since you came in my presence, which, but for the missionaries, would have cost you your life.” ‘‘What are they?” asked the astonished agnostic. ‘‘First, you walked into my pres- ence, instead of crawling on your hands and knees. You crossed my shadow, and you sat down in my presence, either of which offenses must have been punished with death.”? The agnostic was silenced. . In speaking of the bitter hostility of the Buddhists to Christianity, and the vigorous assault recently made upon if, Dr. DeForest says, ‘‘Every such battle is in reality a victory for Christianity, for it impels a new and wider circle of people to inquire, What, after all, is Christianity ?”’ A convERTED Chinaman on the Pacific coast sold himself to work on a coolie in New Guinea for the sake of working among his own coun- trymen, and before he died, he personally led to Christ two hundred of his companions. How much zeal should shame our selfishness and indifference! Atwora is the capital of the Kumaow dis- trict in the north-west province of India, where there is a leper asylum. Ujiala is a bright-eyed, pleasant-faced lassie of nineteen years. She was married, as usual, in her early girlhood. Her husband put her away Owing to the disease, and left her to support herself how she tould. Was it not terrible to lave all life’s hopes crushed at that early age? But she was brought to the asylum, and there, through eagerly listening to what some of the inmates had to tell her of the life to come, and of Jesus, the Way, the Truth and the Life, she became inspired with a new hope, and 5 sae the missionary asked her why she wanted to ) be baptized, she said: ‘‘I want to be a fol- ; Brot Jee, who forgives and helps.’’ So "having come to a knowledge of Christ, even lonely life became radiant with joy- In these days, says an exchange, when we hear and read so much about the disorder in Cuba and the Philippines and the difficulties experienced in managing the people, and the discussions necessarily arising as to how to handle this great problem, it may he inter- esting to know that there is one country in| pa the world which gets along with a single po- liceman. This is Lutheran Iceland, a land which is remarkable in many ways, but in none more than this. Iceland is peopled by the descendants of Vikings, including many famous warriors and heroes, but they are churchly and God fearing people, and so law abiding that they have no need of police- men. The solitary officer, in spite of his ap- parently great responsibilities, has a very easy time. He is maintained more for ornament and dignity than for use. The Icelanders think it would not do to have a capital with- out a policeman, and so they keep one. While we are studying municipal problems it may be interesting to investigate the Police Department of Reykjavik. The Iceland po- lice force is large in one sense. Its single member is six feet high, broad shouldered, and handsomely uniformed. Iceland is an is- land 39,756 square miles in extent, or but little smaller than the State of Ohio, and has a population of 70,927. Acknowledgment. Received for colored missions of Rev. J. C. Schmidt, Missionary, from Grace Congregation in Greensboro, N. C., $12.00, and from Claudine Dos- well 1.00; of Rev. F J. Lankenau, Missionary, New Orleans, La., from Mount Zion Congregation 25.00, and from St. Paul’s Congregation 25.00; of Rev. J. Kossmann, Missionary, from Bethlehem Congrega- tion in New Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rev. D. H. Schooff, Missionary, from his congregation in Me- herrin, Va., 12.00; of Rev. J. Ph. Schmidt, Missio- nary, from "Grace ‘Congregation in Concord, N. C., 10.00; of Rev. George Shutes, Missionary, from Grace Congregation in Gold Hill, N. C., 6.00, and from Concordia Congregation in’ Rockwell, N. C., 9.07 A. C. BuRGporr, Treas. St. Louis, Mo., April 22, 1899. Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, New ORxxEanNs, 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 744 o'clock. Wednesday even ng! Ry 1% 0 oicloee Sunday School: Sunday morning at 1! cule catechumen class mects at oy ° Sco ‘Tuesday venin Singing School meets at 734 o'clock Friday evening. EV. LUTH. MOUNT ZION CHURCH. Cor. S. Franklin and Thalia Stra. Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Sunday evening at 734 o'clock. Thursday evening at 7% o'clock. Sunday School: Sunday morning at 914 o’clock. Adult A SEES class mects at 734 vorclock Friday ev Young: "Peoples? Concordia Circle antl Singing School meet Wednesday evening at 744 o' F. J. SOR a ienlonaeys EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL. Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str. Divine services: pane naayie evening at o'clock. ays evening at 734 o’clock. Sunday School at ne orcloe Adult catechumen class ev _ ‘Tuesday at 734 o'clock and after the divine service on Thursday cvening. Choir practice at 734 o’clock on Tuesda evening and after divine service on Thursday even! ng Circle for Young People ects at the school every Tucs- day evening at 734 o'clock. J. W. F. Ko8sMANN, Missionary. Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church. Springfield, Ill. Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning Sunday School mesorciock P.M ° at chame molass meets Monday and Friday evenings. Singing-school Tuesday evening. SS —— TERMS: Tue Lurneran Pioneer is published monthly, able in advance at the following rates, postage ln uded, ee it: 50 see + 9.00 poe rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent pn address. business communications to be addressed to “den euain Publishing House,” Be Loule Mo. Va All communications Soncerning tie editorial de- artment to be addressed to Prof, R. A. BiscHorr, mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.