The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1880, Page 12

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12 The Lutheran Pioneer.

gospel annually cost the American people Our Critic’s Corner.

$12,000,000. But he should remember, that
lawyers annually draw $70,000,000 out of the
American people’s pockets. Which cost the
most, and which are least necessary of the two?
That is not all. ‘The millions spent for the
gospel’’, says the Lutheran Standard, ‘‘prevent
the expenditure of millions more”, viz. for
lawyers, police, armies. The influence of the
gospel as a gospel of peace between nations and
individuals and as a- preservative of good order
and due respect of the one for the rights of
others, is beyond dispute. Still more. Take
away the gospel or check its influence, -in a
short time there will be no security for any-
thing. The world will not only be morally,
but financially corrupt. ‘Real estate will then
be worth about as much as it was in Sodom and
Gomorrah. What substitute can be offered for
the religion of Jesus Christ?’’ None; at least
not Bob Ingersoll’s insane harangues. Read
Psalm 14, v. 1. x.

Items.

Tse Danisa LuTHeran Misston in Green-
land has eight stations, ten missionaries, and
7847 members.

Tae LuTHERAN CaurcH in America has five
missionary journals, of which three are in the
German and two in the English language. The
sixth (English) will soon be published. :

Ir 1s sam, that there is a Lutheran con-
gregation in Siberia, at the outermost Eastern
station of the Russian Dominion, near the
Chinese city of Aljun.

Moss Port (Miss.). English Lutheran Mis-
sion numbers 17 members. 39 pupils attend
the parochial school. 4 persons are being in-
structed previous to their confirmation.

Rey. RupprRecutT was recently appointed
traveling missionary for the state of Iowa, to
visit, gather, and preach to the Lutherans
scattered over the state and not yet organized
into congregations. SS ee

Luraerays are settling in Italy, Europe, inj. Tae ResurRECTION of Christ and the for-
large numbers. At Naples there is a parochial] giveness of sins stand or fall together. Re-
day-school attended by 130 children and con-)cognize Christ risen, and you recognize sin for-
ducted by 3 male and 3 female teachers. At|given. The moment you take your eye off a

Salermo, near Naples, another German Luth-}risen Christ, you lose the full, deep, divine,
eran Church has been established. peace-giving sense of the forgiveness of sins.

Tae LurHeran Orruans’ Home at Dayton, | The richest fund of experience, the widest range
Ohio, is in a very prosperous condition. Dur-| of intelligence, will not do as a ground of con-

. ing the past year, the first year of its existence, | fidence. Nothing, in short, but JESUS RISEN.
there were 31 children in the Home, and at . Selected.
the close of the year five others had applied for
admission.

THE Report or LurHeran Hosrrrar, Asy-
lum, and Orphans’ Home at St. Louis is pub-
lished. In the Hospital there were 72 sick
persons, in the Asylum 18 old persons, and in
the Orphans’ Home 78 orphans during the
past year.

Tae Ey. Luts. Swepisn Aucustana Synop
has, for some time, conducted a mission among
the Indians. Three young Indians are now
being educated in the Swedish college at Rock
Island, Ills., for missionary duty among their
race. Several Swedish students are preparing
for the same purpose.

Miwavxkee, Wis.—The most beautiful of
all the churches in this most Lutheran city, the
Ey. Luth. Church of the Holy Trinity, was
dedicated on Sunday April 11th. It is built in
the form of a cross, in gothic style, 55142
feet. The two towers are respectively 200 and
128 feet high.

A cotony oF IceLanpic LurHerans having
settled in Manitoba, in British America, but
finding it impossible to prosper and being re-

Tue Lire or Luruer in Picture and Verse.
- A Jubilee Offering in Commemoration of
the 850th Anniversary of Luther's Smaller
Catechism. Translated from the German
of Rev. J. A. Darmstaetter, by Rev. G. H.
Trabert, Lebanon, Pa.—Reading, Pa.:
Pilger Book-store. 1879. Price: Paper
20 cts.; per 100 $15.00; Cloth 25 cts.;

per 100 $18.00.

To begin with a confession, we are not very par-
tial to a “‘poetic” history or an historical “‘poetry”’.
As a general case, to which, of course, exceptions
are occasionally found, either history or poetry, if
not each of them, scems to come off a loser by a
rhyming treatment of history. We prefer, in this
case, a good, clear, concise, and graphic prose, un-
trammeled by the requirements of metre and rhyme.
But this may be a peculiar notion of ours. And,
aside from this, we do not hesitate at all to join our
“esteemed contemporaries’’ (for example, the ‘Lu-
theraner’’ of St. Louis, Mo., regarding the German
Edition) in heartily recommending this very nicely
gotten up little book of about 50 pages to. The
pictures, 25 in all, are, partly, excellent. We would
name, especially, the two pictures of Luther, one
on the front of the fine cover, and the other opposite
the beautiful title-page of the book, and those re-
presenting, respectively, the Pope’s majesty ; Luther
nailing his 95 Theses against Indulgences to the
church-door (1517); Luther at the Dict at Worms
(1521) ; Luther at the Wartburg (do.) ; the Sermon;
Concluding the Translation of the Bible.—The letter-
press, on tinted paper with an ornamental bordcr,
is very good; the price lower than we would have
expected.

Tue Grace or Givine: Lecture by Rev. M.
Rhodes, D.D., Pastor of St. Mark’s Eng.
Evang. Lutheran Church, St. Louis, Mo.
Philadelphia, Pa.: Lutheran Publication
House.

My Dury To THe Cuurcn. or wuicn I AM A
Memper; and A Curistran Home, both
by the same Author and Publisher.

These Tracts or Discourses contain many a good
and christian sentence. But, we regret to say, the
Pioneer’? can not recommend them to his readers
in general. Well-meaning and poetically eloquent,
no doubt, the Author is; but he has not the true
Lutheran ring in his voice. He lacks not only the
grand and always most cloquent and effective sim-
plicity of biblical language and style, but, worse
than this, also of unadulterated biblical truth and
doctrine. ‘Great moral principles and experiences
underlie and grow out of it’ (viz. systematic be-
nevolence, the Author’s hobby, it seems). “It isa
subject, indeed a doctrine of divine revelation—a
purpose of God—a method of grace, just as it is the
most spiritual truth of the Scriptures’? (Grace of giv-
ing, p. 3.).—‘*You are bought with a price, therefore
give; not because you can give much, or little, but
because it is a duty, and you can thereby worship
and glorify God. The Holy Ghost has even given us
the method of our alms-giving. It is not to be left to
the impulse of a moment, nor to be a duty performed
at long intervals. ‘Upon the first day of the week
let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath
prospered him.’—1 Cor. 16, 2.” (My duty etc.,
p. 13.)—“I enter now into no discussion about the
divine obligation and sanctity of the Christian Sab-
bath. All that must be conceded, if it can be shown
that the Lord’s day is a day for the family’ etc.
(A Christian Home, p. 18.)—“God gave tt (the
cuiajee Sabbath) for no such purpose” etc. (do.
p. 19.)—

These sentences will suffice for intelligent Lu-
theran readers to show what we mean, and to justify
our judgment. Want of space prevents us from

Txov shalt know that the Bible is a book
which makes the wisdom of all other books to
be foolishness, because none teach eternal life
but it. To read many books will not so much
advance our learning, as often to read through
this same book; by this we shall advance in
religion, as well as in the knowledge of the
world.—Jnither.

—~+ oo >

Curistrans and pious persons have greater
treasures than the wicked. For although the
wicked flourish in this world and are held in
great esteem, yet they have not God.—Luther.

*WaHEN you hear the Gospel inviting you to
come to Jesus, then say not, I can’t come, I
am a great sinner—that is the very reason why
you should come.

—————- 0 <a 0

When I am poor, I feel no poverty, I think
I have everything in abundance; for I have
Christ, who can give me every hour what I
need, although I have nothing.—Luther.

duced to want, now intends to settle in Dakota| Hz that walks most “with Christ will know | going into furthey particulars. CRITIC.
Territory. This will bring them nearer to the | most of the'glory of Christ. =
Lutheran Church in the United States, and TERMS:

Tne Lurneran Pioneer is published monthly,
payable in adyance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wit:

TxHose days are lost in which we do no good ;

will enable the Norwegian Synod to do more
those worse than lost in which we do evil,

for the spiritual welfare of these people, than
could be done hitherto. ‘

_ Rozert InceErsoxx, the prince of American
infidels, complains that the ministers of the

W3en you bury a quarrel, do not put up a
tombstone. .