The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1882, Page 16

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16 The Lutheran Pioneer.
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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. A SMALL congregation of full-blooded Chicka-| pin: he took no notice of it; but soon his fin- |
saw Indians lately gave $400 for Foreign Mis-| ger and arm began to swell, and in a short time |
sions. . he died. A small, but deadly serpent was
Tue Greek Testament in the ancient tongue |afterwards discovered among the books. So
is now, by order of the Greek Government, |also many have received, while reading a
read in its 1,200 schools, which have 80,000 | pernicious book, a wound, which, though it
pupils. seemed but slight, proved fatal to the soul.

Tue triumph of Christianity over heathen-|Oh! that the young may listen to advice from
ism was well illustrated by the master of an | those who know the danger, and not rashly try
English vessel, who at a large missionary meet-|to gather flowers, where such serpents lurk.—
ing, said he was present at a cannibal feast on | Selected.
one of the Fiji Islands, presided over by the
King. Six years later he was upon the same
spot where the cannibal feast was held, and
united with an assembly of 3,000 persons in
Christian worship, and heard the same King
publicly avow his reception of Christianity.

A musstONnary in Ceylon writes as a ‘‘notice-
able fact’’ that where Christian women are
married to heathen husbands, generally the in-
fluence in the household is Christian; whereas,
when a Christian man takes a heathen woman
he usually loses his Christian character, and
the influences of the household are on the side
of heathenism.

AccorDING to certain statistics, 141 Lu-
theran churches were built in this country dur-
ing last year.

TWENTY-SEVEN missionaries to China and
Japan recently left San Francisco on one
steamer.

Tue Ey. Lutheran Immanuel’s Congregation
of St. Louis, made vacant by the departure of
the lamented Rev. J. F. Buenger, has extended
a call to the Rev. S. Keyl, Emigrant Missionary
at New York City.

QO. Sremon, Ph. D., has been called to the
vacant professorship of Concordia College, Fort
Wayne, Ind. The call will be accepted.

A FARMER and his wife, in sending from
their Illinois home $100 to the treasury of an
Eastern Mission Board, express their joy that
God has put into their hands a little more
money which they can devote to His work.
They say, ‘“‘The past year has been an un-
usually prosperous one for farmers in our local-
ity, and from reports we think it has been so in
many States. Oh, that God’s treasury might
receive a due proportion of the surplus. If
we give as we have been prospered the past
year, the receipts from the farmers will be
more than doubled.’’—Hoping that the receipts
from our Lutheran farmers will be doubled,
we—close our window.
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Serpents in Books.

Pror. H. WYNEKEN of our Lutheran Sem-
inary at Springfield, Ill., is doing good mission
work among the colored people of that city.
The Sunday-school is very well attended and
the children gladly learn the Catechism, the
Bible History, and the grand old Lutheran
hymns. ‘The Professor is ably assisted by sev-
eral students of the Seminary who take a lively
interest in this mission work.

Our Colored mission church at Little Rock
has been without a pastor for some time. The
Rey. Obermeyer, pastor of the German Lu-
theran Church of that city, kindly took charge
of the mission during the vacation. We are
glad to hear that the mission church will now
be again supplied with a pastor who will devote
all his time to the mission work among the col-
ored people. May God bless the dear Colored
Lutherans of Little Rock who have remained
faithful to their Church during the long time
of vacancy.

Many Lutheran immigrants are settling in
Arkansas, and so there is a traveling mission-
ary needed for that State. We are therefore
glad to hear that F.. Herzberger, one of the
graduates of our Lutheran Seminary at St.
Louis, has accepted the call as traveling-mis-
sionary for the State of Arkansas.

Warne about immigrants reminds us of a
rumor which lately went the rounds of the
press. This rumor said that the pope wanted
to join the emigrants, wishing to have more

‘‘elbow-room.’’ But the pope would surely
not find a palace in this country like the one
he is living in now. The Palace of the Vatican,
in which the pope lives, has eleven thousand
rooms, and from the latest census papers,
which was filled up by one of the prelates of
the pope’s household in Rome, it appears that
there are over five hundred persons living in
the Vatican, nearly one half of whom are fe-
males. No wonder one of the Eastern papers
suggests to the pope to settle in Salt Lake City
with his large household, male and female.

TxerE are 520 religious Journals in the
United States, divided as follows: Adventist,
14; Baptist, 73; Christian, 2; Congregation-
alist, 15; Campbelite, 12; Dunker, 3; Epis-
copalian, 32; Evangelical Association, 12; Mo-
ravian, 7; Israelite, 16; LurHeran, 82; Men-
nonite, 7; Methodist, 75; Mormon, 6; Pres-
byterian, 39; Quaker, 6; Reformed, 10; Ro-
man-catholic, 67; Spiritualist, 6; Swedenborg-
ian, 3; Unitarian, 5; Universalist, 7; United
Brethren, 7; non-denominational, 14.

MILWAUKEE seems to be a healthy place for

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Lutheran Church in Russia.

Russia is at present the largest empire in the
world. Embracing more than half of Europe
and much more than a third of Asia, it has an *
important future. The fortunes of the Lu-
theran Church in Russia are closely bound up
with those of the country. In all parts of
Russia, from the Baltic to the Pacific, from the
peninsula of Kola to Tiflis, there are Lutheran
churches and associations. But, the members
belong to the very diverse nationalities, speak-
ing different Janguages. The circumstances
of the congregations are very different also.
There are great stretches of country, inhabited
entirely by Lutherans. Then there are im- r
mense parishes with but a meagre Lutheran
population.

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THE grave, on receiving Christ, imagined it
had received a victim; but, on the morning of
the third day, it discovered it had received a
conqueror.

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From the Bible we learn that every doctrine,
every duty, and every hope, are so intimately
blended with the fact of Christ’s resurrection,
that the denial of the latter leads to the instant
and total annihilation of the former.

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“INQUIRER.” —Whether anything of the kind was |
said, and in what connection it was said, we do not
know. The writer from whom, we suppose, you
got the information, is well known for the reckless-
ness of his statements. We, atleast, do not deem
it worth our while to examine the writings of aman |
who will build up an article on the basis of colored {|
reports, and will then look around with the airofa {|
bull on a hill-top. {

W.B.—Oh, yes. Building air-castles may be a |
harmless business as long as you don’t try to live |
in them.
J. H. M.—Silence is a hard opinion to beat, you |
know. {

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church. |

LitT1g 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.

TERMS:

THe LuTHERAN PionxER is published monthly,
payable in advance at the following rates, postage

There are serpents which lurk among the

Lutheran churches to flourish. Recently the | flowers of literature. Many books, which con- gmoluded, to-wit: is
new and beautiful St. Mark’s German Lutheran | tain beautiful flowers of thought, are very 10 Copies nae “s2'00
5.00

dangerous. Infidelity has struck its poison-
fang into many a young heart, while the eye
has been resting on such dangerous writings.
Some were stung fatally, and when they least
expected it. A gentleman in India, while
searcling for a book among several others, felt
a slight pain in his finger, like the prick of a

Church was dedicated in that city. It was
erected at a cost of $7,000, has 600 sittings,
and is the seventh church in that city belong-
ing to the Wisconsin Synod. In addition to
these there are five churches in connection
with the Missouri Synod, and two Norwegian
churches in the southern part of the city.

to one address.
All business communications to be addressed to
»,Luth. Concordia Publishing House“, M. C. Bar
THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo.
‘All communications concerning the editorial de-
rtment to be addressed to Pror. R. A. BiscuorrF, -
mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.

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