The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1881, Page 28

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28 The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

Tne ‘‘German Lutheran Ministerium of} Lord Jesus was a constant guest in the lowly
Pennsylvania”’ held its 183d Annual Conven-| dwelling of Annie’s parents.

One day little

Wrram three days after the publication of|tion in Pottstown, Pa. Dr. Seiss, of Phila-| Annie went with her mother, as she had occa-

the Revised Version of the New Testament |delphia, was elected President.

The synod de-| sion to call on a rich Jady in a neighboring city.

2,000,000 copies were sold in London, and in| voted one of its sessions to the discussion of its| The lady felt quite an interest in the child, and
one day 300,000 copies were sold in New York | mission work. $5,653.09 were contributed dur-| took her all over-the house to show her all the
city alone. Such a fact is without a parallel in}ing the past year for Home Mission, and| beauties of her comfortable home. Much sur-

the history of literature, and it furnishes an | $2,180.50 for Foreign Mission work.
argument more eloquent than words to prove} THE German mission paper published by the

prised at all she saw, the little thing exclaimed:
“Why, how beautiful! I am sure Jesus

the power the Sacred Scriptures still wield, |General Council has 15,000 subscribers and} must love to come here, it is so pleasant.

amid the infidelity and speculations and world-
liness of the present age.
THREE YEARS AGO the Lutheran Orphans’ | scribers.

Home near Richmond, Ind., was opened with] THE Rev. Dr. Krauth, of Philadelphia, who
three children.
the Home under the care of the kind House | Luther, to be published in 1888, at the anni-
Father, Rev. Dingeldey. A large number of | versary of Luther's birth, reported at the re-
Lutherans recently took part in the Annual | cent meeting of the Pennsylvania Synod, ‘‘ that
Festival; there were about 3,000 guests present | during last summer he had visited the scenes

lately paid $800 into the mission treasury. | Does’nt He come here very often?
The English mission paper has 5,500 sub-|to our house, and we have no carpet home.

He comes

1”?

O how Jesus must love to come here
The lady made no reply, and little Annie

Now there are 62 children in| had been requested to prepare a biography of} asked again:

“‘Does’nt Jesus come here very often?”’
Then, with much emotion, the lady replied:
“T am afraid not.”

That was too much She

for the child.

from abroad. The total receipts for the Home | of Luther's life in Germany; that he had been| hastened to her mother and begged to be taken

an that day were $700.00.

In THE Lurneran Orphans’ Home at Mount | gaged on it, and hoped, with the divine bles-| where Jesus did not come.

Vernon, N. Y., there are 63 children. The | sing, to have it ready by the time specified.”

annual festival of the Home was celebrated on
June 2nd.
A new Lutheran paper has made its appear-

laboring in the past on the work, and was en-| home, for she was afraid to stay in a house

That night the
lady told her husband what had happened, and

An Eastern paper states that a lady over! the question of the child went to the hearts of
eighty years of age walked four miles to place| both husband and wife.
the subscription price for her church-paper in| God’s word, and by the power of the Holy

They began to read

ance. It is a Norwegian one, ‘‘For Gammel og | the hands of her pastor. We call the attention | Spirit they were soon brought to the feet of
Ung” (‘For Old and Young”), and is edited | of those whom it may concern to the good ex-| the Saviour, and Jesus was made a guest in

by Rey. E. J. Homme, of Winchester, Wis., |ample of this worthy old lady.

a member of our Norwegian Lutheran Synod.| ANOTHER good lesson may be learned by
The aim of the paper is to awaken a deeper in-|many in our Christian land from a congrega-
terest in our Lutheran institutions of education | tion in a heathen country. In a certain village
and mercy. Success to ‘‘Gammel og Ung!’’ |in Burmah, India, the people have become so

A LUTHERAN congregation of Norwegians| poor that they are obliged to eat rats to keep
was lately organized in Portland, Maine. from starvation. As the missionary was leay-

Tae Rey. C. Gross, of Fort Wayne, Ind., | ing recently a member of the church put about
celebrated his 25th anniversary as pastor of the

five dollars into his hand, saying, ‘‘ This is our] jittle book.

their home.
Reader, does Jesus come to your home?

BOOK-TABLE.

HErNRicH MELCHIOR MUEHLENBERG. An auto-
biography. With additions and explanations
by Dr. W. Germann. Allentown, Pa. Brobst,
Diehl & Co.

German readers will welcome this interesting

Muehlenberg, the ‘‘Patriarch of the

Lutheran Church on June 22d. Our Pioneer} annual contribution to foreign missions. We} Lutheran Church in America’, here tells us the

makes one of his most graceful bows and sends | can live upon the rats, but the Ka-Khyens can
his best wishes. not live without the Gospel.””

Rey. L. Dornser has taken charge of the WE would recommend this noble act to a
Lutheran mission congregation at Denver, Col. | certain congregation in the State of Vermont

In our Luraeran Semmvary at St. Louis, |of which we lately read. It is composed of
Mo., 30 students passed their examination on | well-to-do farmers who, seeing that their pastor
the 14th of June. After a nine years’ course of | gave an unusually large contribution ‘to foreign
study these young men now enter the ministry missions last year, instead of doubling their
of our Lutheran Church. May God bless|own contribution, jumped backward to the co
their labors!
Our urrrie Pioneer, peeping over our|salary, and made haste to cut it down!
‘shoulder, here puts in a most impertinent
question. He wants to know whether he will|are the kind of people of which old Uncle
now have 30 new homes to visit on his monthly Jones speaks in the following lines, which we
trip. “We tell him that this is not his business | will now let our little Proneer recite whilst we
and that we don’t want to be disturbed by such | slowly close our window:
questions, since the printer is anxiously waiting
for this manuscript. We shall punish our little
PionEER by making him recite a poem at the
close of this ‘‘ Outlook.’’

Tae Lorseran Immanuel’s congregation at
Fort Wayne, Ind., Rey. C. Gross, pastor, re-
solyed, at one of its recent meetings to build
@ new parsonage for $3,500.

THe Wisconsin Sxnop has published Lu-
ther’s Smaller Catechism with explanations in| Little Annie’s parents were rather poor; but
German. The price of the book is 30 cents} they were true Christians loving the Lord and
and is for sale by F. Werner, 436 Broadway, | His precious Word. The Bible and the Cate-
Milwaukee.

lan’s;

stan’s;
De teyenties an’ de fifties goes in payin’ orf deir
rents
But de church an’ de organ-grinder gits ‘de copper
cents!”
0 ge
Does Jesus come to your Home?

Dey scatter all deir picayunes aroun’ de pea-nut|

story of his life, from the beginning until his settle-
ment in Pennsy]vania (1711—1743), and we thus
learn how God prepared him for the arduous work
he had to do among the Lutherans in America. The
book is sold at 90 cents per copy, free of postage.

NACHRICHTEN VON DEN VEREINIGTEN DEUTSCHEN
EVANGELISCH - LUTHERISCHEN GEMEINEN IN
Norp-AMERIKA. Republished with notes &c.
by Brokat Diehl & Co., Allentown, Pa. Vol. I.

0.1.

This is the first number of the long-expected new

n- | edition of the “Halle Reports.’”? It has been pre-

pared for the press under the editorship of Revs.

clusion that they were paying him too much| Ww. J. Mann, D. D., and B. M. Schmucker, D. D.,

with the co-operation of Rev. Germann, D. D.,
pastor in Germany. The value of this new edition

THE members of that congregation perhaps] consists in the important explanatory notes and

additions made by the able editors. The publishers
have also done their part of the work well, and by
issuing it in numbers they place it within the reach
of all. The price of the number is 50 cents. An
English translation of the work is being prepared
for the press.

“De people pays deir bigges’ bills in buyin’ lots an’ LrepERGESCHICHTEN. No. 6. Pilger Book Store,

Reading, Pa. Price, 12 cents.

This number of the series of ‘‘Liedergeschichten”
which we lately recommended to our readers treats
of the well-known hymn of Paul Gerhardt: ‘‘Befiehl
du deine Wege.”’
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TERMS:

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

1 Copy-
10 de!
ply UN Ng

Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent

chism were daily read and studied, and so the} to one address.

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