# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1901_S12 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) _ children, by having them adopted by Lutheran That is heathenism. 12 The Lutheran Pioneer. — The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. | ants lots of saints’ pictures, printed like post- age stamps, and told them to eat them because they were blessed remedies for hunger, colic, and the like. The Polish peasants devoured the Jesuits’ stamps by the handful, and the fathers pocketed dimes by the handfuls.’’ 1 Care ror Orrans. —The Evangelical Lu- theran Children’s Friend Society, of Wiscon- sin, which recently held its fourth annual meet- ing, is doing a most excellent work and has been very successful. The object of this so- ciety is to care for orphaned and neglected A Lesson mx Grvixc. — A minister says that in one of his charges a rich man regularly gave, every Sunday, five dollars for the support of the church. A poor widow was also a mem- ber of the same church, who supported her- self and six children by washing. She was as regular as the rich man in making her offer- ing of five cents per week, which was all she could spare from her scant earnings. One day the rich man came to the minister and said that the poor woman ought not to pay any- thing, and that he would pay the five cents for her every week. The pastor called to tell her of the offer, which he did in a considerate manner. Tears came to the woman’s eyes as she replied: ‘‘Do they want to take from me the comfort I experience in giving to the Lord? Think how much I owe to Him! My health is good, my children keep well, and I receive so many blessings that I feel I could not live if I did not make my little offering to Jesus each week.”’ parents, whilst for a number of years they remain under the supervision of the society. During the four years of its history the so- ciety cared for 240 children, of whom 188 now remain under the supervision of the society. Of the children received during the last year, 88 were from the bounds of the Synodical Con- ference; 28 came from outside of this body. Anizona.— Onr Lutheran missionary among the Indians in Arizona writes that he held very interesting Christmas services in the mission schools at San Carlos and Rice stations. The missionary traveled 28 miles on horseback to get a Christmas tree. The services were well attended and enjoyed by both old and young. Mapacascar. — After laboring twenty-five years, the Norwegian Lutheran missionaries had the pleasure of ordaining two natives from the Sakalawa people, occupying the western part of Madagascar. There are at least seventy native pastors belonging to the Lutheran mis- sions in Madagascar. A Beaurtirut Exvetorre.—A poor servant girl in London, who had attended the ragged schools and received many benefits from them, one evening, at the close of school, put into the minister’s hand, much to his surprise, a note which contained a half sovereign ($2.40). Her entire wages were only $40 a year. She offered this as a thanksgiving tribute to God for the blessing she had received from the schools, very modestly and beautifully re- marking that it was not much. “But, sir,’ said she, ‘‘I have wrapped it up with an ear- nest prayer and many tears.’’ Here is, in- deed, a most rare and beautiful envelope. Would that our offerings to missions, to the Lord’s work generally, were always enclosed in such golden envelopes, were always accom- panied by a fervent prayer. THE BrBxe 1N Curva. — Last year the Ameri- can Bible Society alone spread 514,295 copies of the Bible in China. Dr. Hykes, the colpor- teur, reports that they have been scattered in thousands of towns and villages, throughout eighteen provinces. ‘There is a great demand for Christian Scriptures far beyond what we can supply with our limited funds. The dread- ful outbreak of the Boxer rebellion may retard the work in the North, but vast regions are as yet undisturbed.’’ Romisa CaurcH iN THE Paiiprimes. — In a letter from these islands a private in the United States army, speaking of the Filipinos, says, ‘‘Many of the vices of these people are undoubtedly due to Spanish misrule and to the Romish church, which has a great influence overthem. This influence is not used to im- prove their morals, but for the benefit of the priests and friars. The Roman Catholic church as it is in these islands is very little, if any, better than paganism.’”’ Well, the Romish church herself claims to be the same at all places. She at all places ‘is very little, if ‘any, better than paganism.”’ She teaches sal- vation, not by grace through faith in Jesus, but by man’s works and man’s sacrifices, A Toucuine Incipent. —The still form of a little boy lay in a coffin surrounded by mourn- ing friends. A mason came into the room and asked to look at the lovely face. ‘You won- der that I care so much,’’ he said as the tears rolled down his cheeks, ‘‘but your boy was a messenger of God to me. One time I was coming down by a long ladder from a very high roof and found your little boy close be- hind me when I reached the ground. He looked up in my face with a childish wonder and asked frankly, ‘Weren't you afraid of falling when you were up so high?’ and before I had time AS ed to answer he said: ‘Ah, I know why you were 25 7 ae _ Tricks Ji —“The J ” i h , Gi) Gr sotece socsvoseres EO Oo pe: Sete as © Jesuits,” | not afraid— you had said your prayers this} Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be Ssys an exchange, ‘‘are not above playing| morning before you went to work.’ ‘I had not | t© one address. ‘mean tricks, if there is money in them. Those Jesuit fathers who were on a preaching tour Galicia, Austrian Poland, sold to the peas- prayed, but I never forgot to pray from that day to this, and by God’s blessing I never will.”” “Concordia Publishing House,” et ea a de- The Fountain. “If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink,’’ said the Lord, ‘‘and out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.’? The believer then is, as it were, a fountain out of which the life-giving waters flow copiously. He is like one of those drinking-fountains at the corners of our streets, whereat on thirsty days crowds slake their thirst. Yet, remem- ber, the fountain is but the medium through which the waters flow; it is the water itself which supplies the need. It is Christ, not our- selves, whom we must minister to those who seek happiness. —_—X—X—X—_— Acknowledgment. Received for colored missions of Rey. J. Ph. Schmidt from Grace Church in Concord, N. C., $10.00; of Rev. J. Kossmann from Bethlehem Church in New Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rev. F. J. Lankenau from St. Paul’s Church in New Orleans, La., 50.00; of Rev. J. C. Schmidt from congregation in Elon College, N. C., 10.35; of Ed. E. Stuckert from St. Paul’s Church in Mansura, La., 20.00. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 16, 1901. A. C, BuRGpoRF, Treas. 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 9% o'clock. Sunday evening at 734 o'clock. Wednesday evening at 714 o'clock. Sunday School: Sunday morning at 1034 o'clock. Adult catechumen class mects at 734 o’clock Tuesday evening. Singing Schoo] meets at 734 o’clock Friday evening. ¥. J. LANKENAU, Missionary. EV. LUTH. MOUNT ZION CHURCH. Cor. S. Franklin and Thalia Stra. Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Sunday evening at 74 o'clock. Thursday evening at 7% o'clock. Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% o'clock. Adult catechumen class mects at 734 o'clock Friday evening. Young Peopless, Concordia Circle and Singing School meet Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock. KARL KreTzscuMaR, Missionary. EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL. Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str. Divine services: pan ay, evening at 74 o'clock. Thursday evening at 734 o'clock. Sunday School at % o'clock. Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at 734 0'clock and after the divine service on Thursday evening. Choir practice at 7% o’clock on Tuesday cvening and after divine service on Thursday even: ng Circle for Young People meets at the school every Tucs- day evening at 734 o'clock. J. W. F. KossMANN, Missionary. Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church. Springfteld, Mi. Divine services at half ppaat 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 8 o’clock Sunday cvening. Sunday School at 3 o’clock P. M. Oatechumen class meets Monday and Friday cvenings. Singing-school Tuesday evening. __.. SS eee TERMS: Tux Luraeran Pionxer is published monthly, payable in advance at the following rates, included, to-wit: All business communications to be addressed to All communications concernin artment to iF) addreased to Prof. R. A. BIscHOF?s meordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.