# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1905_S56
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The Lutheran Pioneer.

Scuoor closing days are upon us, and the heat
has been telling on teachers and pupils for months
past, yet the attendance must be termed a good one.

WE note with sorrow the death of the Rev. H.

C. Schwan, D. D. He was a good friend of our

‘ missions, and never failed to visit one or more sta-

tions as often as he came to New Orleans on his
itinerary as president of the Missouri synod.

‘‘TaE Industrious Willing Workers,’’ composed
of members of Bethlehem Chapel, are still hard at
work, and they succeed admirably in assisting the
station in taking care of its indigent members.

On June 25th, the day on which, now 875 years
ago, the Augsburg Confession of the Lutheran church
was delivered before the Diet (Congress) at Augs-
burg, the confirmed members of Bethlehem Chapel
will hold a reunion. Invitations will go out as far
as California, where several of her members have
gone to live who still attend to the Lutheran church
in their distant homes. J. KossMann.

Constantine and the Miser.

Constantine the Great, in order to reclaim a
miser, took a lance and marked out a space of
ground the size of a human body, and said to him:
“Add heap to heap, accumulate riches upon riches,

extend the bounds of your possessions, conquer the.

whole world, and in a few days such a spot as this
will be all that you will have.”’

OUR BOOK TABLE.

HYMNAL FOR EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN MIssions. Con-
cordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price,
.. 80 cts. : :

This well-printed and handsomely bound Hymnal con-
tains 199 of our best church hymn, many of them being
translations of our well-known German Lutheran hymns.
The book may also well be used as a school hymnal in Eng-
lish Lutheran Parochial Schools.

KATECHISMUSPREDIGTEN UEBER DAS ERSTE UND ZWEITE
: HAUPTSTUECK von C. C. Schmidt, Pastor an der ev.-
luth. Gemeinde zum heiligen Kreuz in St: Louis, Mo.
pon Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price,
1.25. ;

“'* This first volume of sermons on the Catechism supplies
a long-felt want, and supplies it well. In simple and direct
style it sets forth and applies the Bible truths contained in
the first two principal parts of our Catechism. May the

companion volume soon follow!: Sermons on the Catechism
have always been recommended in the Lutheran church.
In’ the Saxon Articles of 1580 we read: ‘Since there is
“119- preaching more necessary than that on the Catechism,
which contains the sum and substance of the whole Bible,
of the Old as well as of the New Testament, and since

‘by the highly educated.

there may be drawn from it all other sermons intended to
instruct the simple and to strengthen their faith, the pas-
tors are to make the preaching of the Catechism their chief
care, in order that the congregation, particularly the young
people, may the better learn to understand it, and to under-
stand at all times what is being preached.’ And Dr. Rudel-
bach, the great Lutheran theologian, says: ‘It is incredible
to hear what great good, sermons on the Catechism have
done. Let it not be said that they are rarely listened to
For it must be remembered that,
gauged by present standards, these are not the real church-
goers. But wherever a true Christian education has taken
the place of the so-called education of the unbeliever, there
learned men too will be gathered in great numbers to hear
the Word. And they will be found in just those places in
which the Word is preached most simply and yet most pro-
foundly, as it can be done in sermons on the Catechism.
Their taste, formerly spoiled and depraved by all manner
of unwholesome food, will find here true life-giving nourish-
ment, a nourishment which, on account of its charming
simplicity, never produces loathing nor satiety.”

Acknowledgments.

Received for Colored Missions from Holy Trinity Church
in Springfield, Ill., $6.80; from Grace Church in Greensboro,
N.C., 12.00; from Mount Zion Church in New Orleans, La.,
25.00; from St. Paul’s Church in New Orleans, La., 35.00;
from Bethlehem Church in New Orleans, La., 25.00; from
St. Paul’s Church in Mansura, La., 10.00; from Grace Mission
in St. Louis, Mo., 3.00: from Concordia Church in Rockwell,
N.C., 5.00; from Zion Church in Gold Hill, N.C., 4.00; from
Grace Church in Concord, N C., 10 00, and collection during
the conference, 10.00; of Prof. N. J. Bakke from Mrs. Rho-
die Norwood, Charlotte, N.C., 1.00.

For Chapel in Salisbury, N. C.: Of Rev. J. Kossmann,
New Orleans, La., collection during the conference, 9.50;

‘from Grace Church in Greensboro, N.C., 5.00; from Trinity
-Church in Elon College, N.C., 1.51.

For Immanuel College: Of Rev. J. Kossmann, New
Orleans, La., collection during the conference, 6 00.
St. Louis, June 17, 1905. A.C. Burcporr, Treas.

Received of Miss A. S. Overn, Salt Lake City, Utah, for
Colored Missions $2.00. Many thanks! R. A.B

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 Pp. m.; Wednesday,

7.30 P. M.
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and ThaliaSts. ; K. Kretzschmar, Pastor.
are Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. M.; Thursday,
30 P.M.
Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.; J. W. F. Koss-
mann, Pastor. : 2
Divine Services: Sunday, 10 A. M9. and 7.30 Pp. M.; Thursday,

7.30 P: M.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Holy Trinity Church; L. E. Thalley, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 A. M. and 8 P. u.

TERMS:
TnE ‘LUTHERAN PIONEER is published monthly, payable
in adyance at the following rates, postage included, to-wit:
$

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. : Z

All communications concerning the editorial depart-
ment to be addressed to Prof. R. A. Biscnorr, Conover,
Catawba Co., N.C. : ,