The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1882, Page 20

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20 The Lutheran Pioneer.

ditions. Before the year was out he wrote to
a young minister, begging him to come out and
bring plenty of Bibles and begin preaching,
for he said he had ‘‘become convinced that a
place without Christians, and churches, and
Bibles, was too much like hell for any living
man to stay in’’.

—Anp a wealthy heathen, not a professing
Christian, in Burmah, India, seeing the differ-
ence between those towns where missionaries
labor and others, offered to support a mission-
ary if he should be sent to Youngoo.

—‘‘I wit not learn a trade!”’ exclaimed a
Chicago lad to his father. But this business
of learning a trade was for him only a matter
of time, for within a year that young man was
studying harness-making in State prison.

A younG minister, somewhat distinguished
for self-conceit, having failed disastrously be-
fore a crowded audience, was thus addressed
by an aged brother: ‘If you had gone into
that pulpit, feeling as you now do on coming
out of that pulpit, you would have felt on com-
ing out of that pulpit, as you did when you
went up into that pulpit.’’

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Every heavy burden of sorrow seems like a
stone hung around our neck, yet they are often
like the stones used by the pearl divers, which
enables them to reach the prize and to rise en-

riched.
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DaniEL WExsTER said that when he went
to church he did not want to hear a rehash of
the newspapers of the previous week, or a po-
litical discussion, but the Gospel.
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WE do not become righteous by doing what
is righteous, but having become righteous we
do what is righteous.— Luther.
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Grace and glory are inseparable joined—he
that gets the one may be certain of the other.

when preaching would begin. A service was
at once arranged, and a sermon was preached
on the wharf. 4

Tue Leipsic ‘‘ Lutheran Missionary Society,’’
whose work is among the Tamils of India, re-
ports the total number of converts thus far
about 12,000. Last year 544 were added to
the Church. The society employs 19 ordained
missionaries and 58 catechists for 460 towns
and villages. In addition to these there are
173 teachers in 128 schools, with 2,438 scholars.

In spite of all the difficulties which have at-
tended the missions in Madagascar, the great
African island, during the last years, the prog-
ress of the good work is highly encouraging.
The Norwegian Lutheran Church has at pres-
ent 3,038 children in its mission schools.

AntHony Comstock, of New York, in the
ten years during which he has been working
for the suppression of vice, has secured the ar-
rest of 582 persons, 251 of whom were sen-
tenced to pay fines aggregating $63,931. He
has seized and destroyed 27,584 pounds of im-
moral books and 203,238 pounds of obscene
pictures. :

OF the “‘ Lutheran Symbolics,’’ published by
Prof. M. Guenther of our Seminary at St. Louis,
the Rev. Dr. Krotel, editor of the Lutheran,
says: ‘‘This is- the completest work of the
kind, for popular use, that we know of, and
the man that studies it carefully, or even ex-
amines it somewhat. superficially, when he
wants to know the different views held—cannot
fail to understand, what the Lutheran Church
teaches upon all the points of difference. We
have often wondered why this book had never
been translated into English.”

Tue Lutheran St. Paul’s congregation at
Ft. Wayne, Ind., Revs. Sihler and Sauer, pas-
tors, has become so large as to make it neces-
sary to branch off another congregation in the
southern part of the city.

Tue Rey. C. J. Homme, of the Norwegian
Lutheran Synod, has secured some valuable
property at Wittenberg, Wis., for the new
Lutheran Orphans’ Home, and is diligently at
work in the erection of the necessary buildings.
Pastor Homme also publishes a semi-monthly
paper, ‘‘ For Young and Old’, and we are glad
to hear that contributions for the Home are
steadily coming in from churches and indi-
viduals.

OF late a new sect was started in Minnesota
who call themselves Dreamers. They have a
dream interpreter and are governed in their
conduct by their dreams. A wag says, ‘‘ Cheese
and mince pies distributed at night would break
up the whole ‘church’.”? The man is right.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

Tue Rev. A. BaErter, formerly of Mobile,
Ala., has been called as English Lutheran mis-
sionary for the Western States. He is already
at work in this large and important field. May
God bless his labors! Christians should re-
member this most important mission in their
prayers and-not forget to support it by liberal
contributions. They are to be sent to Mr.
C. F. Lange, 509 Franklin Ave., St. Louis,
Mo. If sent to the treasurers of the different
synods it should be stated that the contribution
is intended for the ‘English Lutheran Mission.”’
May God open the hearts and hands of His
people, so that this important work can be car-
ried on to the saving of many souls.

Tue Rev. H. C. Scuwan, President of the
Missouri Synod, lately visited our missionary
stations in the South and found them in a pros-
perous condition. The labor of our mission-
aries has not been in vain. Read the beautiful
story of Eddy Wood, which we publish in this
number of the PIoNEER, and see what a great
blessing God is bestowing upon the colored
people through our Lutheran schools. We now
must have another chapel for the congregation
and school which up to this time have assembled
in the old and rickety building, called ‘‘Sail-
ors’ Home.””? And there is at present an op-
portunity for purchasing a valuable church-
property for $3,500. Ob, may the sweet little
story of Eddy Wood move many of our readers
to contribute something for this purpose.

Wrrtine about missions and thinking of
those large fields where the harvest is plenteous
whilst the laborers are few, we are also re-
minded of the many catechumens who were
lately confirmed in our churches and among
whom there surely is many a pious and. well-
gifted boy who could be sent to one of our col-
leges to prepare himself for the ministry. We
hope our pastors will not forget this; and may
all our readers ‘‘pray the Lord of the harvest,
that He would send forth laborers into His
harvest’, Luke 10, 2.

THE TENNESSEE SYNOD, at its recent con-
vention, passed the following resolution:

Whereas, the spiritual interests of the col-
ored people, in our territory as elsewhere, are
sadly neglected, and,

Whereas, their worship, where they have any
at all, partakes more of the form of heathenism
than Christianity, be it

Resolved, that the ministers of this Synod
make all efforts in their power to educate re-
ligiously the colored people, by preaching,
lecturing, and catechisation, with a view sooner

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Littie Kock, Ark.

Chapel on corner of 12th and Rock Sts.
Sunday-school meets every Sunday at 20’clock.
Divine services at 3 o’clock and 7 o’clock.

Colored Lutheran Churches in New Orleans, La,
MOUNT ZION COLORED LUTHERAN CHURCH.

Sunday-school mects every Sunday in ‘'Snilors’ Home?!

on Erato St. at 2 0’cloek.
Divine services at 3 o’clock every Sunday and at 7.30 every

Thursday evening.
ST. PAUL’S COLORED LUTHERAN CHURCH.
Chapel on Clayborn St., between St. Bernard and Annette.

Sunday-schoo) every Sunday at 10 a. x.
Divine services at 7.30 every Sunday and Wednesday even-

ing.

TERMS:
Tux LurHerRaN Pronger is published monthly,
ayable in advance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wit:

or later of getting men of their own color to| We close our window
look after the spiritual interests of their race ; t CoPyes
‘in connection with the Lutheran Church. 25°
Tue sound of the church-bell has been heard Short Stops. 50. pease) 9 ;
for the first time in Alaska. When the bell pols patna allowed if all copies are to be seD
‘All business communications to be addressed to

»Luth. Concordia Publishing House“, M. C. Baz

THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo. :
Al adliestetines concerning the editorial de-
ent to be addressed to Pror. R. A. BiscHoF?

mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.

—Aw infidel young lawyer, going to the
West, made it his boast that he ‘‘ would locate
in some place where there were no churches or
Bibles’, He found a place which met his con-

for the Chilcat Mission, presented by a lady,
reached the New Takoo mines, it was set up on
the wharf and rung. Miners and Indians
were drawn by the sound, and wished to know

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