# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1908_S88
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The Lutheran Pioneer. -

Misstonary Lire 1n AtasKa.—A friend of
missions writes: “A great obstacle to mission work
in Alaska is the fact that life in many parts of
Alaska is really accompanied by much suffering and
hardship. I talked the other day with a young mis-
sionary who had just returned upon her furlough,
and she said that she and her husband had gone
as bride and groom to the extreme northern part
of Alaska, where for six months of the year they
lived in darkness and where the mail came but once
a year. ‘One year,’ she said, ‘we missed the mail,
so we were two years without news from the home
land. Our sufferings were intense, but we never
for a moment lost the consciousness of the presence
of Christ.? And another missionary told me that
he had taken his wife as his helpmeet into Alaska.
Being frail at the best, she gradually wasted away
in the cold of the north, faded like a flower, and
died, and yet he, with his breaking heart, went on
attempting to lead people to know the Savior.”

He Gave His Best.

An old minister once gave to a poor young
servant his best pair of stockings. A few days after-
ward, the mother preparing the wash and not being
able to find the good pair of stockings, said to her
husband: “My dear, did you not take out the new
pair of stockings ?”

“Yes,” said the pastor, “I gave them to poor
John.”

“But why did you give him your best pair, why
did you not give him a pair of poor ones?”

‘Upon this the old man took a long, steady pull
at his pipe, and chuckling, said: “Mother, poor
ones he had himself.” :

Please Take Notice !

While the postal authorities have not yet caused us
any inconvenience or expense on account of the new regu-
lations concerning second-class: mail which were promul-
gated early in the year, still it is not impossible that the
rigid enforcement of the new laws may oblige us at any
time to pay postage many times as high as at present
on all. copies mailed to delinquent subscribers, and. for
that reason we politely suggest to our subscribers that it
will be to our mutual advantage if all subscriptions are
paid now, as the subscriptions for 1909 will be due in
January.’ If you receive your periodical direct by mail
and are in doubt as to the expiration of your subscrip-
tion, kindly consult the address stenciled on the wrapper
in which your paper came. If the left lower corner shows
“JAN 08,” for instance, then you still owe for the cur-
rent year; if it reads “JAN 07,” you are two years in
arrears. Concorpia PusLisuine House.

BOOK TABLE.

GoLDENES JUBILAEUM der Gemeinde zum Heiligen Kreuz
zu St. Louis, Mo. Louis Lange Publishing Co., St.
Louis, Mo. Price, 50 cts., postpaid.

This is a well-written history of one of the oldest Lu-
theran congregations in St. Louis. It is a plain record of
the mercies and blessings of God enjoyed by the congrega-,
tion in church and school since its organization fifty years
ago. The handsomely bound and profusely illustrated
little book will prove of interest, not only to the members
of the congregation, but also to its many friends through-
out the Synod.

AMERIKANISCHER KALENDER fuer deutsche Lutheraner auf
das Jahr 1909. Concordia Publishing House, St.
Louis, Mo. Price, 10 cts.

Besides the usual calendar and statistical matter, this
useful annual contains 24 pages of instructive and edify-
ing reading matter, also a brief article in memory of the
late Prof. F. Lindemann, the faithful and able editor of
the Almanae for 21 years.

Acknowledgment.

Received for Colored Missions: From St. Paul’s Church,
Charlotte, N. C., $10.00; Bethlehem Church, Monroe, N. O.,
2.50; St. James’. Church, Southern Pines, N. C., 5.00;
Mount Zion Church, Rocks, N. C., 8.50; Mount Olive
Church, Catawba, N. C., 5.75; Bethlehem Church, New
Orleans, La., 25.00; Mount Zion Church, New Orleans, La.,
35.00; St. Paul’s Church, Mansura, La., 3.35; Grace
Chureh, Concord, N. C., 15.00; St. Matthew’s Church,
Meherrin, Va., 11.45; Mount Zion Church, Meyersville,
N. C., 2.50.

St. Louis, Mo., October 17, 1908.

Henry. A. SCHUENKEL, Treas.
1447 John Ave.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. a. and 7.30 P. M.;
Wednesday, 7.30 Pp. af.
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts.; Ed. C.
Krause, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. x. and 7.30 P. M.;
Thursday, 7.30 Pp. 2.
Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.;
G. M. Kramer, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 1] A. Mm. and 7.30 P. M.;
Thursday, 7.30 p. x. Sunday School: Sunday, 10 A. 3f.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Holy Trinity Ohurch; James Doswell, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 a. wm. and 8 P. M.

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