The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1881, Page 12

Transcription machine transcription, uncorrected

⤓ Download .txt · copy text

12 ‘The Lutheran Pioneer.

Little Arlette.

Nearly seven hundred years ago, on a cold,
rainy evening, five persons stood together in a
little room in one of the poorest streets in the
German city of Cologne. There were four men
and alittle girl. It was plain they were hiding,
for chilly as it was, they dared not light a fire.
At last the bitter cold was more than they
could bear, so they ventured to make a small
fire. They had scarcely begun to warm them-
selves, when soldiers burst in and seized them
all. They were taken to prison and soon
brought before the judges. ‘Then it was found
that their only crime was that they worshipped
God, and would not pray to the virgin Mary
or the saints. ‘They were condemned to be
burnt to death, but a pardon was-offered them,
if they would forsake Christ. Three of the
men said at once they could die, but they could
not be unfaithful to their Lord. The fourth,
named Robert, hesitated; he was the father of
the little girl, Arlette, and her mother had not
been dead many weeks. But soon he decided
like the rest. The judges coaxed and threat-
ened Arlette. They told her they could not
save her from being burnt alive, unless she
promised to leave her father’s religion. She
told the pope’s people steadily, ‘‘I cannot for-
sake the faith.’ In less than a week the five
were led to the place of execution. The four
men were tied each to a stake, and the fagots
heaped around them. They placed Arlette
against.a stake, but did not tie her. Then they
set fire to the fagots, and some kind-hearted
man pulled the little girl away, and said he
would save her from the dreadful death, and
bring her up not to serve her father’s God.
“T cannot forsake the fuith’’, said Arlette again.
And before they could stop her, she ran to her
father and caught hold of his hand and stood
by him in the flames. In a few moments Ar-
lette and her father were in heaven together.

You and I may be thankful that we have
not to bear a cross like little Arlette, but we
can love the Saviour as well as she did, and be
as firm as she was in refusing to do anything
that will grieve Him.— E. D.

Robert G. Ingersoll.—If the grand jury acts
according to the instructions of the judge, Mr.
Ingersoll may find out that he made a mistake
in going to Delaware with his rehash of old
arguments against Christianity.

In THE YEAR 1831, Mr. Girard, of Philadel-
phia, bequeathed two and a half million dollars
to build the Girard college for the education of
white male children. One of the provisions in
Girard’s will is that no clergyman shall be per-
mitted to enter the building or tread the grounds
of the institution. Any infidel can enter its
walls and talk to its students, but no messenger
of Christ can tread there. And what has been
the result? An Eastern paper says, ‘The
Girard College education has proved a great
failure and all admit it. After the young men
are through with their book education, and are
wanting places to learn trades, no one wants
them in hisshop. Their habits have become
lazy and idle and no one is willing to have
anything to do with them. The ghastly walls
of the institution stand as a monument of con-
fessed failure. The curse which Stephen Girard
meant should fall on Christianity, has fallen on
his own will and purpose.’’

Our LurHeran Ipnucrant Mission at New
York distributed over 40,000 tracts and 2080
almanacs, besides many church papers, during
the year 1880. $41,723.11 passed through the
missionary’s hands. 1829 persons were assisted
on their westward journey, and employment
was obtained for 71 persons. $421.20 were
given to the entirely destitute and $4240.99
loaned to those in temporary need. 2830 letters
and postal cards were received, and 2032 were
written by the missionary.

Monuments have been erected in the Lu-
theran grave yard at Addison, Il]., in memory
of the Rev. A. G. G. Francke, late President
of our School Teachers’ Seminary, and the Rev.
Prof. J. C. W. Lindemann, late Director of the
same institution.

Rev. C. Orpen, of the Lutheran Wisconsin
Synod, has opened a new Lutheran Orphans’
Home at Green Bay, Wis.

QOur® Luraeran Printinc House at St.
Louis has published a Reader for the higher
classes of our Parochial Schools. This reader
completes the series of German Readers.—A
series of English Readers is being prepared and
will soon be published.

Anp now we will tell our readers where we
live. ‘This seems to be necessary. Letters in-
tended for the editor of this paper have been
sent to St. Louis and even to Buffalo, N. Y.
Our paper is printed at St. Louis; but from
this it does not follow'that we live there. In
our times of rail roads and telegraphs an editor
may live thousands of miles away from the
place where the paper is printed. And we did
receive a call from a Lutheran congregation in
Buffalo; but from this it does not follow that
we accepted the call and moved to that city.
No! We live in the beautiful city of Forr
WAYNE, in the good old State of Inprana.
Here we close our window. ale

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

Tae Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio intends
to enlarge its Book Concern. The President
of the Publication Board (Rev. R. Herbst,
55 E. Fulton Str., Columbus, Ohio) calls upon
all the members of Synod to send in loans of
$5.00, for which satisfactory notes will be given,
payable two years after date.

FROM THE ANNUAL REPORT of the Treasurer
of the Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and
other states we learn that the receipts of the
general treasury were from the congregations
$9877.27, and from the profits of the Publishing
House at St. Louis, $33,811.68, balance on
band from last year, $2705.64; total $46,394.59.
The expenses of the year were $32,971.50. So
there are over thirteen thousand dollars in the
treasury.—Out of the Mission Treasury $2,980
were paid for mission work among the colored
people, and $4,229 for Home Missions, chiefly
in the Western States.

Tar Evy. Lura. Zion’s CONGREGATION,
which lost its pastor by yellow fever in 1879,
has been supplied in the person of Rev. P. Roe-
sener, of Rose Hill, Texas.

THE TOTAL sux given by Christians for the
carrying on of their missions throughout the
world during 1880 is estimated at $8,000,000.

Ir is said that during the present century
the Lutheran population of our country has in-
creased as that of no other Protestant denomi-
nation, though the membership of the Church
has by no means increased in proportion. In
1833 the Lutheran population in the United
States was estimated to be 750,000. In 1852
it was estimated to be two millions. And now
it is estimated to be over three millions.

Pror. Dr. G. SeyFFARTH, who is now in
his 85th year, has published a new book on the
“Universality of the Deluge.’” The entire
profits of the book will be given to the Lutheran
Wartburg Orphans’ Home, near New York
city. It can be had for 20 cents by addressing
“Pilger Book Store, Reading, Pa.’”’ :

Tar same Lutheran divine has also sent a
communication to the American Philological
Society, in which he gives the interpretation of
the hieroglyphics on the New York obelisk,
lately brought over from Egypt and placed in
Central Park. He reads one of the sentences:
‘The man who perished in the Red,Sea,’”’ and
thus finds in the old stone 2 witness to God’s
Word come to America after 3747 years to re-
buke infidelity.

InGrrsoxt, the infidel lecturer, lately de-
livered one of his blasphemous harangues in
Delaware. ‘The judge of the criminal court
attended the lecture, and a few days afterward
informed the grand jury that, in the state of
Delaware, there is a law to punish the sin of
blasphemy, which provides that the blasphemer
shall be bound to the whipping-post, and pub-

Tiely flogged. He therefore charged them to
diligently inquire and make true presentment
respecting the blasphemous discourse of one

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church.
Litre Rock, Ark.

Chapel on corner of 12th & Rock Strs.
Sunday-school meets every Sunday at 2 o'clock.
Divine services at 3 o’clock and 7 o’clock.
During the season of Lent, extra services will
be held on Thursday nights.
ee
TERMS:

Tne Lutneran Pioneer is published monthly,
payable in adyance at the following rates, postage
included, towits i $28

0’ oe
10 Py rH

505... i

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. é e
~All communications concerning the editorial de-
parenent to be addressed to Pror. R. A. BiscHoF¥:

oncordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind. :