# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1900_S20 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 20 The Lutheran Pioneer. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. As we learn from one of our exchanges, the Rev. J. F. Pfeiffer, one of our missionaries in North Carolina, has accepted the call of an English Lutheran congregation in Cleve- land, O. Our mission station at Winston, N. C., will be supplied with a student from our Lutheran Seminary at St. Louis. Ocr Lutheran Deaf and Dumb Congrega- tion at Milwaukee, Wis., now numbers 22 vot- ing and 41 communicant members. The Lord has richly blessed the work begun but a few years ago. The congregation sorely needs a chapel for church purposes. An appeal for aid will be made to the pupils of our Lutheran schools, which, we hope, will meet with a liberal response. Tue City Missionary. — This is the name of a bright little mission paper published in the interest of our Lutheran city mission at St. Louis and edited by the missionary, Rev. F. W. Herzberger, who is doing a blessed work in that large and growing city. From the paper any one may easily learn that in our large cities there are fields white unto the harvest. Says the Lutheran of Philadelphia: Mis- souri Lutherans are not confining their mis- sion efforts to their own nationality or their own household of faith. They are the only Lutherans who are making an earnest effort to reach the American negro, and now they are laboring among the Italians in Brooklyn where they have an Italian missionary at work. Some Lutherans confine their mission efforts to those of their own race and family. The Scriptural conception of mission work is. ex- pressed thus: ‘‘Preach the Gospel to every creature.’” Tue story is told of an American clergy- man, who, passing through Beirut, said to a friend: ‘*Missionaries here seem to accom- plish nothing.”’ ‘‘You heard Dr. Thomson preach this morning, I presume?”’ ‘‘No, I did not know there was any service.’’ ‘‘Then did you hear Dr. Van Dyck this afternoon?”’ “You don’t mean that he preaches in addition to all his other work?”’ ‘‘Yes, and has a large audience, too. Have you visited any of their schools?’? ‘‘Schools! have they schools also? I am glad to hear it.’’ ‘‘Have you looked in on their press and publication rooms?” ‘What! have they a printing establishment besides?’” ‘*Yes, and it keeps twenty men Constantly busy.’” All of which is rather hard on the clergyman. But is not his ignorance typical of the ignorance of a great many Chris- fians on the subject of missions? A good deal ‘of prejudice and indifference to mission work is based on ignorance of its real merits and In the Shansi Province of China a copy of the Gospel of Mark fell into the hands of a learned man and a priest. The one read the strange book aloud to the other. There was a great deal in it which neither reader nor hearer understood. But they were so im- pressed that they came to the conviction that the book must come from heaven, and they paid divine honors to it for many years. Later on they received a New Testament, and began to worship Jesus and the apostles. When at last a Chinese evangelist came to their coun- try, these two men were the first who joined themselves tohim. They were instructed and baptized, and, filled with zeal for Christ, be- gan to gather two little churches around them. Dr. BorcuGRrevink writes from Madagascar that the outlook of the Norwegian missions is now favorable in all directions. In Ambatola- moy district, which lately had been the weakest part, a French Lieutenant has been appointed as governor, who shows perfect impartiality between Protestants and Catholics. ‘‘Our old persecutor, the native governor of Ambatola- moy, sees it is time to take a reef in his sails, and has been going about rebuking the Catho- lics with downright hard words for their per- secuting spirit. In Ilaka, where only four or five children dared to come at our last visit, we now have at least six hundred children, and a great number of grown-up Christians have ventured to return to us. It is particu- larly encouraging that in two districts, where the persecutions of the Jesuits have been spe- cially severe (Soatanana and Fahisinana), we have never in any year had so rich a harvest of baptisms as in the midst of these very per- secutions.’’ Tue Power OF THE Worp. — Twenty years ago a traveler in Burma left a copy of the Psalms where he stayed. A native read the book, resolved to cast away his idols, learned Psalm 51, and used it as a daily prayer. At last a missionary visited his village and gave him a New Testament. The story of salva- tion filled him with joy. ‘‘For twenty years,’’ he said, ‘‘I have walked by starlight; now I see the sun.”’ Tne Sultan of Morocco, a fanatical Moham- medan, does not think of abolishing the lucra- tive trade of negro slaves in his country. The wicked traflic in human bodies and souls is carried on secretly in the coast cities where the European and American consuls reside. ‘The two capitals, Fez and Morocco, however, have open slave markets with weekly sales by auctioneers and the government gets its per- centage of every purchase. The lot ef the slaves in that benighted country is a miser- able one; their masters who constantly call upon the name of Allah the All-merciful, show no mercy to the poor creatures in their pos- session. (For the LuTHERAN PIONEER.) She was Glad to Die. On the 17th of Febr., 1900, Miss Adie D. Hadley, an esteemed fellow-member of the Ey. Luth. St. James’ congregation at Southern Pines, N. C., was called to the rest that re- mains for the people of God. Once during Miss Hadley’s illness, she re- marked to the writer: ‘‘If it is the will of my Saviour for me to recover, I shall be glad; if not, I shall be glad to die.”’ All members of our Lutheran congregations, also Concordia Circles will sympathize with the members at Southern Pines. : Mary J. Martin, Secretary of Concordia Circle. Acknowledgment. Received for colored missions of Rey. Wm. Pretzsch, Missionary, from congregation in Man- sura, La., $10.00; of Rev. D. H. Schoofl, Missionary, from congregation in Mcherrin, Va., 14.00; of Rev. F. J. Lankenau, Missionary, from Mount Zion Con- gregation in New Orleans, La., 25.00, and from St. Paul’s Congregation in New Orleans, La., 25.00; of J. Kossmann, Missionary, from Bethlehem Con- gregation in New Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rev. J.C. Schmidt, Missionary, from Grace Congregation in Greensboro, N. C., 12.00. A. C. BurGcporr, Treas. St. Louis, Mo., April 21, 1900. Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, NEw ORLEANS, La. EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL. 1625 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Derbigny. Divine services: Sunday morning at 944 o'clock. Sunday evening at 7% o'clock. Wednesday evening at i% o'clock. Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% o‘clock. Adult catechumen class meets at 734 o'clock Tuesday evening. Singing School meets at 734 o’clock Friday evening. EV. LUTH. MOUNT ZION CHURCH. Cor. S. Franklin and Thalia Strs. Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Sunday evening at 7% o'clock. Thursday evening at 7% o'clock. Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9¥4 o'clock. Adult catechninen class mects at 7% o’clock Friday evening. Young Peoples’ Concordia Circle and Singing Schoo} mect Wednesday evening at 74 o'clock. F. J. LANKENAD, Missionary. EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL. Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str. Divine services: Sunday evening at 734 o'clock. Thursday evening at 734 o’clock. Sunday School at 91% o’clock. a Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at 714 0’clock an aftcr the divine service on Thursday evening. a Choir practice at 744 o’clock on Tuesday cvening an after divine service on Thursday even! ng Cirele for Young People meets at the school every Tacs- jay cvening at 74 o'clock. f e es J. W. F. Koss ann, Missionary. Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church. Springfield, Tu. 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 mects Monday and Friday evenings. Singing-school Tuesday evening. ee TERMS: Tue Lurueran PIONEER is published monthly, payable in advance at the following rates, included, to-wit: 1 Py revoce COOCconecooconococencot 3 .25 10 Copies -... 7 --» 2.00 25 a 1 6.00 . 50 eitnevenstceettesice es 9.00 Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent to one address. . ed to All business communications to be ad! “Concordia Publishing House,” St. Louis, Mo; i. All communications concerning the editor pertment{toibeladdressed to Prof. R. A. Bam mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.