The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1881, Page 24

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solemnly said, ‘‘It is fourteen years since it
pleased God to call me by His grace, and to
reveal His Son in me; before that time I was
dead, dead in trespasses and sin; only since
then I have been alive.’’—He spoke the truth
in the Bible sense of the word life, and the only
sense in which existence is enjoyable here or
endurable hereafter. ‘‘This is the record, that
God hath given to us eternal life, and this life
is in his Son. He that hath the Son Hath
life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath
not life.’’ (1 John 4, 12.)

Catharine with the Great Faith.

Durrne the past year the Lutheran Church
of Russia has contributed $30,000 for home
missions in the interior of that country.

A mos of Roman-catholic fanatics lately
murdered a Protestant native preacher and one
of his companions near Apezaco, Mexico,
whither he was returning from a preaching ap-
pointment.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

Rey. F. W. Husmann, of Euclid, Ohio, one
of the pioneers of the Lutheran Church in the
West, fell asleep in Jesus on the 4th of May.
His last words were those sweet words of the
Saviour: ‘‘God so loved the world, that he
gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever be-
lieveth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life,’’ John 3, 16.

Tse LurHeran Synod of Missouri, Ohio,
and other States, which held its sessions lately
at Fort Wayne, Ind., resolved to erect a new
Seminary building at St. Louis, Mo. $100,000
were appropriated for this purpose.

Dmecror E. A. W. Krauss, of Addison,
Ill., has been chosen editor of the Lutheran
Almanac of the Missouri Synod. The Rev.
P. Beyer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., will write a his-
tory of the Lutheran Church in Chicago for
this almanac.

Durie the last three years the Lutheran
Publishing House at St. Louis sold 71,040 Ger-
man Hymn Books and 13,100 German Bibles.
The ‘‘Lutheraner’’ has 12,800 subscribers;
“Lehre und Wehre,’’ 1200; ‘‘Schulblatt,’’
600; ‘‘ Homiletical Magazine,’’ 900.

TERE are 128 orphans in the Lutheran
Orphans’ Home, near St. Louis.

From the report of the Lutheran Emigrant
House at New York we learn that 5,779 per-
sons enjoyed the benefits of the house during
the past year, who paid, while many thousands
were fed gratuitously.

165 sTupENTS attend the Norwegian Lu-
theran College at Decorah, Iowa, of which
number considerably over 100 have the min-
istry or the office of teacher of parochial schools
in view.

THE sTORM which swept over Dayton, Ohio,
on May 14th, damaged the chapel used by the
English Lutheran mission at that place. Efforts
have already been made to find another suit-
able place of worship.

Tar LurHEeRAN Deaf and Dumb Asylum at
Norris, Mich., has forty mutes in attendance.
The pupils are not only taught the ordinary
school branches, but also learn the catechism
and biblical history.

In Pants, France, there are said to be 30,000
Lutherans, having 24 pastors.

LUrseERAN MISSIONARIES in South Africa
have established a colony of Kaffir Christians
at Middleburg. The converts have built a
handsome church of brick, that will accommo-
date 1500 worshipers, and also a series of

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The Power of Satan.
According to an East-Indian newspaper.

Rey. Caldwell, one of the missionary bishops
in East-India, relates the following:

“A priest appeared at the devil-temple be-
fore the expectant visitors. A caldron was
over the fire and in it was lead in a molten
state. ‘Behold!’ calmly cried the priest, ‘the
demon isin me. I will prove to you all the
presence within me of the omnipotent divinity.’
With that he lifted the caldron and poured the
liquid lead over his head. Horns were blown,
tom-toms beaten, fresh logs of resinous wood
flung into the fire and goats sacrificed. The
priest staggered about a little and then fell
down in a fainting fit. Three days afterwards
he died in a horrible agony. But his mind was
clear and calm to the last. The last words he
uttered were: ‘Nané satya sami.’ That is: I
am the true Lord. In the midst of his fearful
torture and even in the hour of death he believed
with the fiercest certainty of faith, that his
body was the inviolate shrine of the demon he
adored. That demon was to him the Supreme.
With that indwelling demon he identified him-
self. So he died with a cry denouncing his
own divinity. This is terrible, but it is true.’’
(This happened in the Tinnevelly District in
the South of India.) F.
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Short Stops.

In a little village there lived’a plain old lady,
whom the neighbors, on account of her piety,
called ‘‘Catharine with the great faith.’’ A cler-
gyman, passing through the place, heard of her
and determined to pay her a visit. Drawing
near to her humble dwelling he met an aged
woman carrying 2 bundle of sticks out of the
woods near by. ‘Are you Catharine with the
great faith?’’ he inquired. ‘‘Whether I have
great faith I know not, but this I know, that
I have a great Saviour.”

Old Fashioned.

A gentleman states that, when a boy, he was
one day in the office of his grandfather, who
held a position under the Federal government,
and wishing 'to write, he was about taking a
sheet of letter-paper from the desk. ‘‘What
are you about there?’’ said the old gentleman.
“Getting a sheet of paper only,” said he. ‘‘Put
it back, sir, put it back,’’ exclaimed the strictly
honest official, ‘‘That paper belongs to the govern-

ment of the United States!’’
Luke 16, 10. ‘‘He that is faithful in that which
is least is faithful also in much.”’

A Book of Three Leaves.

An old minister used to carry about a little
book with only three leaves, and no words in
it. The first leaf was black, the next scarlet,
the last white. Day by day he looked at it,
and at last told what it meant, something in this
way: ‘‘Here is the black leaf that shows my
sin, and what it deserves. Then comes the red
page to tell me of Jesus’ blood. I look at it,
and weep, and look again. Lastly comes the
white leaf—a picture of my dark soul washed

in the cleansing fountain and made clean.’’
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Tne LurneraNn Pioneer is published monthly,
payable in advance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wit:

— THAT was a very good illustration of faith
in God’s promises given by old Uncle Jones.
Pointing to a brick wall he said, ‘Dar is a
brick wall, and de Lord he stands there and
say to me: ‘Jones, now I want you to go troo
dat.’ I ain’t gwine to say, ‘Lord, I can't.’ I got
nuffin to do about it. All I have to do is to
butt against de wall, and it’s de Lord’s business
to put me troo.”’

— Carprnav Richelieu, like many educated
Roman-Catholics, had but little faith in his own
creed. A dull priest, the Abbe Malot, once
expressed to him a doubt as to how many
masses would save a soul. ‘‘Pho!’’ replied the

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on Palm Sunday.
Tue efforts of the Lutherans in New York
to establish a Lutheran Hospital in that great
“city bid fair to be successful: Over 800 mem-
bers have already joined the society formed
for this purpose.

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-
et Agt., St. Louis, Mo. ee

All communications concerning the editorial de-

artment to be addressed to Pror. R. A. BiscorF,
mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.

How old are you?

A gray-haired friend once asked a young man
his age, and then said that he himself was four-
teen years old. The young man gave a look of
surprise and inquiry, when the old man