# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1905_S32 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 32 The Lutheran Pioneer. . NEvER Too Otp To Learn. — Anxious to be able to read her Bible, Kate Evans, a colored woman of 73 years, persevered until she had mastered the ele- mentary grade of the Night School at New Haven, Conn. She was formerly a slave, but she was an eager student, attended school regularly, and com- pleted her course ‘‘with high honors.” Tue Biste Brines Peace. — At a mission fes- tival in New Guinea a native convert arose, seized a spear, and addressed the congregation as follows: ‘*As a heathen this spear was my constant compan- ion.. Wherever I went and whatever I did, whether sitting down to eat or lying down to sleep, the spear had to be at hand, for we were never safe. Now we can rest in safety, and why? This book’? (holding the Bible above his head) ‘‘has brought us peace and security, and we need the spear no longer.’’ ZeEALous IN Mission Work.—A slave woman named Ogunro, living in the Kale country west of the Niger, longed for freedom, and worked hard until she secured it. Then she traveled to another region to enjoy life. There she was converted to Christ. This gave her a new longing. What she now longed for was to tell the,Kale people, among whom she had been a slave, what good things she had learned. She went back to Kale, worked hard, earned money, got a church built, and late in 1903 she placed the church at the disposal of the nearest Christian pastor. The Church Missionary Intelligencer now reports that five young men from Kale have been baptized through these efforts of the former slave. . The Christian name given to Ogunro in bap- tism was the appropriate one of Dorcas. An Exampre or Liseratity.—A farmer in Northern India lost his crops through drought; he was starving, and, moreover, he was attacked by leprosy. He lost heart, left his little bit of land, and became a beggar. Wandering into Allahabad, he was taken to a leper asylum. There he heard for the first time of Jesus Christ, began to read the Bible, and found in it supply for a long list of needs. ‘The British and Foreign Bible Society has now “received from this broken-down, leprous farmer a thank offering of $1.20, which the man saved for the purpose, steadfastly followed through months, by eating a part only of each day’s ration. _ HeEArHen Cruetry.—The following story re- lated by Mrs. W. White in China well illustrates the heathen cruelty of the Chinese and the little value placed by them upon human life: “‘Twenty years ago, when I went into the prov- ince of Kwang-Tung, there were 40,000,000 people there, of which 20,000,000 were women, and not a woman doctor among them all, and:the men would rather let their wives die than allow a man to cross the threshold to treat them. “*T remember once going to the house of a man whose wife was ill. While treating her I suggested to the husband that he had better give the wife the best room in the house and let the cow occupy the apartment then used by the woman. ‘**But the cow might die,’ said the man, ‘and it costs more to get a cow than a wife.’’’ OUR BOOK TABLE. ACHTZEHNTER SYNODALBERICHT DES Iowa- DIstTRICTs. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 25 cts. This pamphlet contains the second part of a highly in- structive paper on the Bible doctrine of the Lutheran church concerning Justification. STATISTISCHES JAURBUCH der deutschen ey.-luth Synode yon Missouri, Ohio und andern Staaten fuer dus Jahr 1904. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 30 cts. This Statistical Year Book brings the full statistics of the largest Lutheran synod in America. Acknowledgment. Received for colored missions of the missionaries from their congregations: John C. Schmidt, Greensboro, N. C., $12.00; K. Kretzschmar, New Orleans, La., 25.00; F. J. . Lankenau, New Orleans, La., 25.00; J. Kossmann, New Orleans, La., 25.00; M. Weinhold, Mansura, La., 10.00; John McDavid, St. Louis, Mo., 3.00; J. Ph. Schmidt, Con- cord, N. C., 10.00. St. Louis, March 15, 1905. A.C. Bureporr, Treas. Evangelical Lutheran Colored’ Churches. NEW ORLEANS, LA.‘ St. Paul's Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St. ; F. J. Lan- kenau, Pastor. Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and.7.30 P. M.; Wednesday, 7.30 P. M. Mount Zion Church, Franklin and ThaliaSts. ; K. Kretzschmar, Pastor. Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 Pp. m.; Thursday, 7.30 P. M. Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.; J. W. F. Koss- - mann, Pastor. 5 sonivine Services: Sunday, 10 A. M. and 7.30 Pp. M.; Thursday, 30 P. Mf. M SPRINGFIELD, ILL. Holy Trinity Church; L. E. Thalley, Pastor. Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 a. M. and 8 P. 31. TERMS: TuE LUTHERAN PIONEER is published monthly, payable in advance at the following rates, postage included, to-wit: IELOEY) Rap cunsood sodeehacricabaaiote $ .25 1O}Coplesiicrcrrceecrre occu tiemecieeitoe 2.00 OOF BeOS OCU GOOSGOOE GHHE AOD 5.00 (of OO Sd pac ananodie boldaaco Haan 9.00 Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent to one address. —In St. Louis by mail or carrier, 35 cents. All business communications to be addressed to Con- cordia Publishing House, Jefferson Ave. and Miami St., St. Louis, Mo. : 2 All communications concerning the editorial depart- ment to be addressed to Prof. R. A. BiscHorr, Conover, Catawba Co., N.C.