The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1880, Page 52

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

TuE pastors of the German Lutheran congre-
gations and the teachers of the Lutheran pa-
rochial schools at New Orleans have begun to
publish a small monthly devoted to the interests
of the Lutheran Church and congregations in
the South and, especially, at New Orleans. It
is called ‘‘Der Suedbote’’ (the Southern Messen-
ger), and is not quite the size of the PIONEER.
The first number contains brief sketches of the
several Lutheran churches at New Orleans;
also a sketch of the work of the Missionary
Association of these churches; announcements
of meetings of churches and associations etc.
Price, 25 cents per year. Address Jacob Broder,
Box 1279, New Orleans, La.—Though this new
periodical has but a local importance in the
Church, being only the voice of Southern minis-
ters to Southern congregations, it may be of
some interest to Northern Lutherans who desire
to inform themselves about the condition and
trials of Lutheranism in the South.

Rey. F. Wemmann has charge of the Moss
Point, Miss., English Lutheran mission. He
has established a parochial school, which prom-
ises well. - The mission was begun by Rev.
J. F. Doescher, and is under the care of the
New Orleans Missionary Association.

THE Mission-Board of the Synodical Confer-
ence calls for contributions to erect a school-
building at Little Rock, Ark., capable of holding
the large number of children attending the
colored mission schoo] at that place. The first
donation for that purpose was received froin
Mr. G. D. Simen, Allegheny, Pa., who sent
ten dollars. Next?

Rey. L. WaGner will go to San Francisco,
Cal., having accepted a call of the Lutheran
church there. He will be the associate pastor,
while Pastor Buehler will be Pastor primarius.

~ Lutheran mission-work in California will be
greatly increased and carried on with vigor, as
Rey. Wagner goes there at the instance of. the
Home Mission Board of the Missouri Synod.

Arkansas has but two German Lutheran
and one English Lutheran congregation. Of
Lutheran missions there are the Colored Luth-
eran at Little Rock and two German missions.
This state greatly needs a traveling missionary
to look up and gather the Lutherans that have
settled in all parts of the state. The stationary
ministers can do no more than they have done,
because their own charges are but missions
demanding all of their time and attention, and
requiring an enormous amount of labor and
exertion. ; M—,

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‘ (For the ‘‘Lutheran Pioneer.??)
The True Time for Repentance.

It is NOW! Repent just now and no later!
Alas! how many postpone their repentance to
old age, or reserve all thoughts of repentance
for the time of sickness or the hour of death!

Perhaps you are one of this kind? Is it right?
Is it right, is it just, is it fair, to give the up-
right part of your life to the devil, and then to
devote the lame and limping part to God?
Ought you to give the devil your health and to
reserve your sickness for God? Ought you to
let the devil-have the fresh blossoms of your
life and offer the withered remnants to God?
Is it fair to willingly relinquish the present to
the devil and let God have the future? The
present is certain, the future uncertain. Will
you divide your life so as to make the devil’s
share your blooming, robust, active youth, while
God’s share consists of your limping, decaying,
lame, sickly, wrinkled old age? Will you re-
serve your piety for the time when your hair
shall turn gray and white? Perhaps you will
not live long enough for one single hair to change
its color. And who is your best friend? The
devil is your enemy. God is your Friend. ‘To
the friend we must give the very best of our
goods. To God, therefore, belongs the best
part of our lives, when we are young and strong;
when we are enjoying good health and plenty;
when the cold hand of death is not already
upon us. Consider also, who offers and gives
thee the best things, God or the devil? Which
is the best, heaven or hell? When you are un-
able to serve the devil and sin as in thy youth-
ful days, then you want to begin to serve God.
The devil rejects you; therefore you want God
to take you. What do you consider God to
be? Only a servant of Satan. O hearken to
wise counsel! Repent not only when sickness,
old age or death is upon thee, but Now, gust
now, while sin seems sweetest to thee. Hasten!
before the gates be closed. Purchase in time,
ere the opportunity be lost. Do you know
how much time of grace and how many oppor-
tunities to repent you will have? 5
(From the German.)
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Ingersoll Silenced.

Shortly after Robt. G. Ingersoll] (the blas-
phemous infidel) was defeated in his race for
the governorship of Illinois, he was one day
boisterously and blasphemously proclaiming his
infidelity on board of a railroad train between
Chicago and Peoria. After being for some
time offensively voluble he turned to a gentle-
man near him, and defiantly demanded: “Tell
me of one good and great result that Christian-
ity has ever accomplished?”? The gentleman,
not wishing to open an argument with the
‘bonster, hesitated to answer. The train had
stopped and all was silent in the car.

Just then an old lady of 80 years, who sat
just behind Mr. Ingersoll, touched his arm with
her trembling hand, and said: “Sir, Ido not
know who you are, but I think I can tell you
of one glorious thing that Christianity has
done.”

“What is it, Madam??? said Ingersoll.

“Tt has kept Robert G. Ingersoll from being
governor of the great State of Illinois.”’

Tf lightning had at that moment flashed

through the car, the effect would not have been
greater. Ingersoll turned literally pale with
rage, and remained silent. The grand old
woman lies under the prairie daisies now, but
her courageous act ‘‘swells sweet, and bléssoms
in the dust.” Selected.

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A MAN may as well think of buying light
from the sun, or air from the atmosphere, or
water from the well-spring, or minerals from
the earth, or fish from the sea, as think of buy-
ing salvation from God with any kind of price.
The sun gives his light, the atmosphere its air,
the well-spring its water, the earth its minerals,
the sea its fish: all man has to do is to take
them and use them. So God has given salva-
tion to man. All he has to do is to take it by
faith, use and enjoy it. P, 8.

Our Critic’s Corner.

Wuat ts a ‘‘Lurgeran’’? or, Why do you
call yourself a ‘‘Lutheran’’?

This valuable Tract, translated from the German,
gives a clear, distinct, and comprehensive, not to
say exhaustive, answer to the above question. Its
20 pages 8yvo teem with precious truths, precious in
all times and lands, but especially precious and
needed in our time and in our land swarming
with all sects and ‘‘denominations’”’ that, however
they differ among themselves, yet are united and
one in their opposition and hostility to the Lutheran
Church, because it claims to have alone the Gospel
pure und unadulterated. A Lutheran not knowing
why he is a Lutheran, is, therefore, in a very
dangerous position, amidst all the jecring and
sneering foes surrounding him. How easily may
he be drawn away from a Church opposed by all,
and not known and appreciated by himself! No
one who reads, digests, and retains in memory and
heart the truths set forth so plainly and conyinc-
ingly by the above-named Tract, will find himself in
such a deplorable plight. It is sent by Rev. J. L.
Trauger, Petersburgh, O., for 5 cts. per copy, 50
cts. per dozen, $4.00 per hundred. The proceeds
are, moreover, given to the Church.

Bisuica, Hisrory in the Words of Holy
Scripture, with Engravings, Maps, Quest-
ions and Notes, for Sunday and Weekday-
Schools. Reading, Pa.: Pilger Book Store.
Price: Boards 30 cts., Cloth 35 cts. per
copy; per dozen $3.00 (3.60); per hun-
dred $20.00 (25.00). 5

This book of 188 pages 8vo gives the History of

the Old Testament in 52 Stories, together with a

valuable Table comprising the ‘Prophecies con-

cerning the Saviour”, and an Appendix containing

a short, but sufficient and lucid history of the Jews

after the return from Babylon down to the time of

Herod and Pontius Pilate. It gives all the Title

promises, and gives it abundantly and nicely, just

as you would expect it from the “Pilger Book-

Store”’, a publishing-house laboring incessantly and

successfully to furnish our Lutheran Church with

truly Lutheran Books, at once practical and cheap.
CRITIC.

TERMS:
Tue LurieraNn Pioneer is published monthly,
payable in adyance at the following rates, postage

included, to-wit:
1 Copy

Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent
to one address.

All business communications to be addressed to
»Luth. Concordia Publishing, House“, M. C. BaR-
THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo. 2 Ange

All communications concerning the editorial de-
partinent to be addressed to Pxor., R. A. BiscHorF,
Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.