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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. :

- WE are sorry to have to record the death of

a dear class-mate of ours. The Rev. J. D. Ja-

cobson, Professor in the Norwegian Luther

College, Decorah, Iowa, fell asleep in Jesus on

the Ist of April. He was well known for his

great learning, his earnest piety and his rare
modesty. ‘‘ His attainments,’’ says one of his
brethren, ‘were so remarkable that he was often
called ‘The walking encyclopedia’.”” The Luth-
eran Church has lost in him a faithful laborer.

He is now ‘‘with the Lord,’’ and our loss is his

gain.

Tue Revs. T. A. Torgersen, of Worth Co.,
Iowa, and K. Bjorgo, of Becker Co., Minn.,
have been called to professorships in the Nor-
wegian Lutheran Seminary, Madison, Wis.
Professors H. G. Stub and J. Ylvisaker have
resigned. The former, we regret to learn, suf-
fers from a painful nervous prostration, and is
obliged to seek rest. May God soon restore our
dear friend and preserve him for further work
in the Church where the laborers are so few.

Our LurgeRaN coLoRED scHoors in the
South are in a prosperous condition. In Little
Rock, Ark., the number of scholars has become
so large that another teacher should be sent
there.—In New Orleans the school in ‘‘Sailors’
Home’’ numbers 150 scholars. It is divided
into two classes, the higher class being taught
by the missionary, Rev. Bakke, and the lower
class by Miss Watson. Mr. C. Berg has taken
charge of the School in Claiborne Chapel, which
numbers 70 scholars.—In Mobile, Ala., the
number of pupils, under the care of Rev. Wahl,
is steadily increasing. In February 60 colored
children attended school regulary.

In Prince Epwarps County, Virginia,
the Lord has opened a new field for our mis-
sion. The Rey. W. R. Buehler, who was
formerly missionary in Africa, found a large
number of colored people in that county who
desired a school for their children, and the
preaching of God’s Word. Rey. Buehler has
already been appointed missionary by our Mis-
sion-Board. Mrs. Buehler has kindly presented
a piece of land to our mission, on which a build-
ing is now being erected. The colored children
and the grown people joyfully look forward to
the time when the Lutheran school will be
opened and services be held regularly. May
the Lord give us a rich harvest!

By THE WAY, would it not be interesting to
read a short letter from our missionaries now
and then in the ProneeR? We could have an
Arkansas Letter one month, and the next month
a Louisiana Letter, and then an Alabama Let-
ter, and then a Virginia Letter. As it is now,
the editor sits here at his window in Indiana,
straining his eyes to see what is going on down
South. And people can’t see so far, not even
here in Fort Wayne. Well, my dear little
PIonEER, if you meet the missionaries, give
them our brotherly greetings and tell them what

we wish. But you must speak in a friendly

and coaxing way, you know, and say “please,
sir,” like a good little boy.

ONE OF OUR’ MISSIONARIES in Kansas pub-
lishes a very interesting report of his work. He
travels over 800 miles in making the circuit of
his large field and preaches at twenty places,
having prospects of adding six or eight more.
The missionary often preached four times in a
week and found the people always willing to
leave their work to listen to the word of God.
The great drought through which they passed
made them thirst after the Waters of Life, and
after hearing the Gospel, they many a time
came to the missionary with tears in their eyes
saying, that the comfort of the preached Word
made them forget all their hardships and in-
spired them with fresh courage.

In tae Lurmeran Orpuans’ Home at
Germantown, Philadelphia, there are 77 or-
phans. In the Asylum for the Aged there are
33 inmates. Seven of the inmates are between
80 and 90'years of age, 2 are over 90, and one
is 97 years old. $21,757.50 were paid for the
building of the Asylum, and $1413.50 for fur-
nishing the rooms.

Tue Ey. Lurgeran Sr. Perer’s congre-
gation of Baltimore has begun mission work in
another part of that great city. Its faithful
pastor, the Rev. E. L. S. Tressel, has also or-
ganized two congregations in Harford county,
Md., which have resolved to call a pastor this
summer.

Tae Rev. O. S. OcLesBee, missionary of
the English District of the Lutheran Joint
Synod of Ohio, is meeting with success in his
mission work. At Dayton an English Lutheran
congregation has been organized, and the mis-
sionary has now begun work at Franklin, Ohio.

THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL of the Lutheran Or-
phans’ Home at Richmond, Ind., will take
place on the first Sunday in May. English and
German addresses will be made, and the Board
of Trustees extends a cordial invitation to all
friends of the orphans.

Tue LUTHERAN MISSIONS in South Africa
suffered severely through the wars raging there
during the past years. Since the war with the
Boers has now come to an end, the missionaries
hope that they will be able to carry on their
Gospel work in peace.

On THE 47H oF Marc a Romish mob broke
into the Protestant Church at Marsala, Italy,
took out the pews and burned them in the
street. The mob then went into the Romish
church and received the blessings of the priests.
Such are the doings of the Romish church in
the country where the pope lives!

Is HOMOEOPATHY considered a heresy in the
pope’s church? A Romish priest at Scudoni,
Spain, has declared from the pulpit that any
sick person belonging to his parish who has
tried to cure himself by homoeopathy will, in the
event of death, be refused the rites of the
church. But suppose a man dies who has tried
to cure himself with the ‘holy water of Lour-
des.’ What then?

Tse wATER of Lourdes, France, you know,
is said by the Romish people to cure all kinds
of diseases, it being ‘‘blessed by the virgin
Mary.’’ It is therefore sent into all parts of
the world as a patent medicine, and there are
superstitious people in the pope’s church who
try it and—get worse. Dr. Hammond, a well-
known physician of New York, says that he
gave water of Lourdes to a Catholic patient,
calling it Croton water, and she became worse;
but when he used common water, telling her
it was from the miraculous spring of Lourdes,
she was quickly improved. Well, if the mi-
raculous power lies only in the name, then our
new water works here in Fort Wayne can give
us all the water of Lourdes we want.

BOOK-TABLE,

MEMORIAL OF REY. Pror. W. F. LEMMANN, late
President of Capital University, who died Wed-
nesday, Dec. 1st, 1880. Ohio Synodical Print-
ing House. 1881.

This pamphlet, containing a biographical sketch
of the departed and the sermons delivered at his
funeral by Professors Loy and Schmid, is a most
beautiful tribute of love to the memory of the
lamented Prof. Lehmann, and will, we doubt not,
be widely circulated among the many friends and
acquaintances of the sainted Professor. The price
of the pamphlet is 25 cents per copy, $2.50 per
dozen, $20.00 per hundred. Address J. L. Trauger,
Agent, Lutheran Book Concern, Columbus, Ohio.

LONGING IN AFFLICTION—COMroORT IN AFFLIC-
TION. Composed by C. Wonnberger for Family
and Public Entertainment. Pilger Book Store,
Reading, Pa. Price 50 cents.

LIEDERGESCHICHTEN. No. III. IV. V. Price per
number 5 cents, postage 1 cent; per dozen 50
cents; per hundred §3.00. Pilger Book Store,
Reading, Pa.

These pamphlets give us most interesting and in-
structive reading. Our dear Lutheran hymns be-
come dearer to us as we read of the many instances
in which God used them to arrest sinners on their
way to perdition or to bring sweet comfort to sor-
rowing and troubled Christians. Parents and teach-
ers can make the learning of our hymns ‘‘easier”’
to the little ones by telling them some of the stories
found in those pamphlets.

THE HYGIENE OF CaTaRRuH with sixteen Illustra-
sone By Thos. F. Rumbold, M.D. St. Louis,
Mo.

This is an excellent book, full of wholesome ad-
vice. Its author has, during the last twenty years,
made the Hygiene of Catarrh a constant study, and
is well known for his great success in treating the
troublesome disease. The book contains 19 chap-
ters treating of such subjects as Protection of the
Head, Clothing, Protection of the Feet, Tempcra-
ture, Ventilation, The Mental and Physical Effects
of Tobacco, &c. &c.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church.
LitTLe 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.

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