The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1881, Page 8

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‘The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

Our sissronary at New Orleans has begun
his mission work among the colored people of
that place. The services are well attended,
and the school is steadily growing in numbers.
Another Day School is to be opened for the
colored people in Claiborne Chapel, under the
care of Mr. C. Berg, a cousin of our faithful
missionary at Little Rock.

Tue Church Messenger publishes the following
letter from a Lutheran family in Kansas:
“How glad we are that a Lutheran minister
is coming out here. Our hearts long and are
hungry for the preached word and the voice of
a Lutheran pastor. We wish two of our chil-
dren to attend Catechetical instruction, and
there are several others who would be glad to
enter the Catechetical class. A class could be
begun with at least seven, and doubtless others
would enter after the work was once begun.
There are a goodly number of our Lutheran
people in this vicinity, and if the man who is
sent out here is a Lutheran Christian, and
could preach some German, we have no doubt
but that he would, by the grace of God, gather
a flourishing congregation in a few years. Tell
the missionary to bring some Catechisms with
him and come right here to our house. If he is
an unmarried man he can board and lodge with
us; if he is a man of family, we have a house
into which we will let him move. Just have
him come here to our place.’’

Tus reminds us of an address. Of an ad-
dress? Yes. Here it is: Mr. C. F. Lange,
509 Franklin Ave., St. Louis, Mo. It is the
address of our Treasurer who has been ap-
pointed to receive contributions for the support
of an English missionary in the West. Luth-
erans that enjoy the great blessings of God’s
pure Word should gladly pray and pay for the
spread of the Gospel in our Western States.

A woman, who had for some time heard her
husband pray’ ‘‘Thy Kingdom cometh,’’ but
had seen no cash going in that direction, once
said to him, ‘‘Now, John, I think it is about
time to help the kingdom of God to come by
the expenditure of a little cash, or dry up on
the subject altogether.”’

Two burglars lately broke into St. Matthew’s
Lutheran Church in New York, and were
operating on an iron safe in the secretary's
room when they were surprised by the sexton,
who went in to light a fire. They had already
broken off the knob of the safe and were about
blowing it open with powder when disturbed.

THE installation of Rey. C. A. Frank as
Professor of Theology, and Rev. G. H. Schodde,
Ph. D., as Professor of the Latin language and
literature, took place in the college chapel of
the Lutheran University at Columbus, Ohio,
on the 13th of January.

Ex-Goy. Rice, of Massachusetts, has pre-
sented to the Library of Roanoke College,
Virginia, a rare old Latin Bible, printed in
the year 1477.

A NuMBER of Lutheran pastors of New York “It’s Better Higher Up.”

city, at a conference held on the 7th of Janu-

ary, discussed and adopted a plan for the es-
tablishment of a Lutheran hospital in that
great city. The plan will be laid before the
congregations for their approval.

In GERMANY preparations are already being

was sick and near unto death.
garret five stories up.
lady who often visited her, and always found

her very cheerful.

There is a story of a poor old woman, who
She lived ina
There was a Christian

This visitor had a lady

friend of wealth who constantly looked on the
dark side of things, and was always cast down,
although she was a professed Christian. She
thought it would do this lady good to see the
bed-ridden saint, so she took her down to the
house. When they got to the first story the
lady drew up her dress and said, ‘‘How dark
and filthy itis!”” “It’s better higher up’’, said
her friend. They got to the next story, and
it was no better, the Iady ‘complained again,

made for the celebration of the 400th anni-
versary of Luther’s birthday in‘the year 1883.

In South Africa the Lutheran Church is
growing steadily. There are also many German
Lutheran congregations there, whose pastors
have now formed a synod.

THe Lutheran Swedes have at all times
shown a great interest in the mission work in
Lapland. Princess Eugenie, sister of the reign-

ing Swedish King, is said to be taking a lead-
ing and effective part in the work, in personal
labor and by means of self-sacrificing gifts,
even to the selling of the greater part of her
jewels, in order to support it.

THE officers of the great railways, such as
the New York Central and the Pennsylvania,
have ordered the ‘“‘flash’’ literature out of
their stations, and forbidden its sale on their
trains. Well done!

Tue creditors of the bankrupt Romish Arch-
bishop of Cincinnati have not yet been paid
one cent. The failure occurred two years ago,
and the liabilities are about four million dol-
lars. We wonder there are no ‘‘Sisters’’ with
white bonnets going about and begging gifts
for the ‘‘ poor’’ Bishop from kind-hearted Prot-
estants.

Tue Irish Catholics who have been per-
suaded by several Romish Bishops to form a
colony in Minnesota, have suffered greatly this
winter. A reporter found them starving and
without any means to protect themselves
against the severe cold.

Tne Lutheran Almanac, published in Bal-
timore, gives the following statistics of the Ev.
Lutheran Synodical Conference: Pastors, 1176;
congregations, 1990; parochial schools, 1064;
number of souls, 554,505.

Tue Hon. Smron Cameron, formerly United
States Senator from Pennsylvania, donated the
house in which he was born in Lancaster Co.,
Pa., to the Lutheran church at that place, in
memory of his deceased wife, who was a
member of a Lutheran congregation.

As we go to press the sad news reaches us of
the death of Rev. Theodor Biltz, pastor of the
Lutheran Church at Morris, Tl. He departed
this life on the 17th of January, aged 24 years.
The deceased was a graduate of our Lutheran
Seminary at St. Louis and a son of the Rey.

F. J. Biltz, President of the Western District

of the Missouri Synod. :
THE wealthy miser lives as a poor man here:

but he must give account as a rich man in the

day of judgment.
—s +o o>

A BELIEVER’S dying day is his crowning day.

but her friend replied, ‘It’s better higher up.’’
At the third floor it seemed still worse, and the
lady kept complaining, but her friend kept say-
ing, “It’s better higher up.”’
to the fifth story, and when they went into the
sick-room there was a nice carpet on the floor,
there were flowering plants in the window and
little birds singing.
bed-ridden saint—one of those saints whom
God is polishing for His own temple—just
beaming with joy.
must be very hard for you to lie here.’’
smiled and said, ‘It’s better higher up!’’
and if things go against us, my friends, Jet us
remember that “It’s better higher up.’’
soul that is filled with this hope sees a bright
side to every cloud, and hears a cheerful song
above all storms and all sorrow.

At last they got

And there they found this

The lady said to her, ‘‘It
She
Yes,

The

DIED,
On November 29th, 1880, after a lingering illness,
Catharina, beloved wife of Alex. Einwaechter, in
the 71st year of her age.

She emigrated to this country from Baden in
1829, and shortly afterward connected herself with
the first German Lutheran congregation of Balti-
more. In 1834, she was united in the holy bonds
of matrimony to Alex. Einwacchter, and attended
the above congregation so long as the truth was
taught. With her husband and others she after-
wards founded the second Lutheran Church of Bal-
timore, of which Rev. Hespert was the first pastor,
succeeded by Fathers Wyncken and Keyl. In 1867,
when a separation took place in said congregation,
she became a member of Rev. C. Frincke’s congre-
gation, and remained a faithful member of the Luth-
eran Church until her death. She had selected as
her text Hebrews 10, 39., on which Rey. C. Frincke
preached in German. Rev. E. L.S. Tressel preached
in English on Job 19, 25. She was one of the pio-
neers of the Lutheran Church in Baltimore.

Money - Box.
Received for our Mission among the Colored
People from P. Schlesinger $1.00. R.A. B.

TERMS:
Tue Lutneran Pioneer is published monthly,
payable in adyance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wit:

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All business communications to be addressed to
»Luth. Concordia Publishing House“, M. C. Bar-
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All communications concerning the editorial de-
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oncordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.