# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1900_S40 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) eee aid 40 ; ‘The Lutheran Pioneer. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. On the 2d of September Mr. W. Lohrmann was installed as teacher in our Colored Lu- theran school at Concord, N. C., and on the same day Mr. E. Heintzen was installed as teacher in St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran school, New Orleans, La. May God bless our parish schools. ‘They are doing a grand work among the colored children,’’ said an aged Bishop of the A. M. E. church to us some time ago. When we asked him why his church did not use the same means for doing mission work among the colored people, he replied, ‘‘Oh, it is hard work; we have not the men for such work; you have hard-working men down South.’”? Thank God that He gives us the men ‘‘for such work.’”’ It is a blessed work. Tne Lutheran Wisconsin Synod is vigor- ously engaged in mission work among the Apache Indians. A teacher has recently been installed and sent to the mission field, to in- struct the Indian children in Luther’s Cate- chism. The missionaries will thus be enabled to visit other Indian settlements, where there is great need of the Gospel. Rey. H. HAvcerBerc was recently installed in Zion’s ehurch, St. Louis, Mo., as a mission- ary among deaf mutes. Rev. T: Wangerin, of Milwaukee, conducted the installation service in the sign language. Tux German population is said to be rapidly increasing in Kiauchau, the German colony in China. The Protestant Mission Society is building a hospital at Tsingtow, and mission- aries of the Berlin Society in the same city have issued a translation of Luther’s Small Catechism in the Shan-Tung dialect. They are now preparing a Chinese Lutheran Church- book. Swedish missionaries are laboring in the city of Kiauchau. Tue Religious Tract Society in China re- cently celebrated its twenty-third anniversary. During these 28 years over 13,000,000 copies of Christian books and tracts have been cir- culated. In the 91 years of missionary work in China 3000 missionaries have been engaged, and nearly 100,000 natives have made a pro- fession of Christianity. AccorpixnG to the magazine of the Her- mannsburg Missionary Society, it is due to the “missionaries more than to any other cause that the negroes, or natives in South Africa, re- mained peaceful. Their uprising, which the English feared, would have wrought untold hayoc in the districts where they dwell. _ Ax Indian visited the missionary at a sta- tion recently and said: ‘‘My people are eye- _ blind’and ear-deaf. They do not know any- thing, and your teachers know everything. The Indians know what their fathers and grandfathers have told them, but you have|I shall be very glad if you will receive this the things written in the book.’’ Then he said: ‘I believe; I do believe; I believe everything you say, and I am glad the Sun- day school is here. I like to come, and I am coming every time I can.’’ Ar a meeting in the island of Mare during the annual festival in May, after an address by M. Delord, an old Nata, or native pastor, rose and said: ‘‘My son has asked help for the work of God in New Caledonia. Who will answer? Here are five francs and my new hat!’’ Never did so short a discourse pro- duce so great an effect. On all sides, great and small brought all they could think of, and the front of the platform was soon heaped with garments. The platform was fairly be- sieged with people bringing their offerings. Umbrellas, boxes of matches, articles of all kinds, figured in this singular collection. AMONG means resorted to to induce the gods to send rain, a missionary in India mentions that the wealthy people in Waga gave a feast to the poor; also that, hearing a wailing in the fields one day, she found the village girls were burning their dolls as a sacrifice, but when she asked if they had burned their ‘‘nice dolls from America,”’ they had to say, ‘‘No, we burned our own dolls made of rags.’’ Tue only Bibles allowed to the Mexican Catholics of to-day come in from three to twenty-five volumes, and cost from fifteen to two hundred dollars. Such a thing as a ten or five-cent New Testament or a one-dollar Bible is unknown, because the Roman Catho- lic Church does not want the Mexican people to have the Bible in a cheap edition. The Roman Catholic Church is afraid of the simple Word of God. ————+ +e > 2 A Japanese Giver. Year before last a Japanese of about middle age, and rather poorly dressed, called on a pastor in Kobe at an early hour one morning and asked for a little time for conversation. The request was granted with the expectation on the part of the pastor that the interview would end with a plea for a little money to help a poor traveler on his way. After the usual salutations the visitor said: “T ama Christian. Not long ago I had occa- sion to visit a town in a distant part of the country on business, and one evening I at- tended a prayer-meeting that I found in the place. The evangelist at the close of the meet- ing read a letter from you as President of the Home Missionary Society, and I thus learned that the Society is in special need of funds just now. I am on my way to Tokyo, and since I heard your letter read I have traveled third class on steamer, train and hotel, and have up to this point saved ten yen by doing so. amount and use it for evangelistic work.” The pastor was naturally very much sur- prised at the turn of affairs, and accepted the money with thanks. He asked his visitor what name he should use when printing the gift in the monthly report. The reply was: ‘My name is So and So; but please say ‘a servant of Christ.’’’ Thiswasdone. During the same year another gift of ten yen came from him. Last year he sent fifty yen, and this year he sent one hundred yen. To all others but this pastor the giver is known only as Kirisuto no Shimobe— that is, A Servant of Christ. J. L. Atkinson, D. D. Acknowledgment. Received for colored missions of Rev. Paul Engel- bert, Missionary, from his congregations at Gold Hill and Rockwell, N. C., $18.71; of Rev. John C. Schmidt, Missionary, from Grace Church, Greens- boro, N.C., 12.00; of Rev. J. Kossmann, Missionary, from Bethlehem Church, New Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rev. J. Ph. Schmidt, Missionary, from Grace Church, Concord, N. C., 24.50. A. C. BuRGpORY, Treas. St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 22, 1900. Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, New OrxxkEans, 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}4 o’clock. Wednesday evening at 74 o'clock. Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% o'clock. Adult carecn amen class mects at 734 o'clock Tuosday evening. Singing School meets at 74 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 o'clock. Thursday evening at 734 o'clock. Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% o'clock. Adult catechumen class mects at 73% o’clock Friday evening. Young People’s Concordia Circle and Singing Schoo) meet Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock. ¥. J. LANKENAD, Missionary. EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL. Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str. Divine services: Sunda evening at 4 o'clock. Thureday evening at 714 o'clock. Sunday School at 934 o'clock. Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at 74 o'clock and aftcr the divine service on Thursday evening. Choir practice at 7% o'clock on Tuesday evening and after divine service on Thursday cven' DB Circle for Young People meets at the school every Tacs- day evening at 744 o'clock. J. W. F. KossMANN, Missionary. ae ee ea a Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church. Springfleld, 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. Oatechumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings. Singing-school Tuesday evening. eG TERMS: Taz LurHzraNn Pionxzer is published monthly, pavakic in advance at the following rates, uded, to-wit: 1 Co $ .25 10 Copies me ae * 9:00 Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be seat to one address. : to All business communications to be addressed “Concordia Publishing House,” St. Louis, Mo. 5 ‘All communications concerning the editorial = ent to be add to Prof. R, A. BuscHO¥F: mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.