The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1882, Page 24

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24. The Lutheran Pioneer.

Short Stops.

Tnreortant TO Ministers ry InprAna.—The
Rev. H. Sieck, who recently accepted a call as
missionary to Erie, Pa., did a good work for
all ministers in Indiana before he left the State.
He published a pamphlet which bears the title:
‘Laws of Indiana important to ministers of the
Gospel, compiled from the last Statutes of 1881,
with notes and forms.’’ This careful compila-
tion will be of special value to ministers in In-
diana. The pamphlet can be had at the Pil-
ger Book Store, Reading, Pa., for 25 cents.

A Nose Lecacy.—A servant-girl in Phila-
delphia, who? had been in early life left an
orphan herself, gave and bequeathed in her last
will and testament $500.00 to ‘‘The Lutheran
Orphans’ Home at Germantown in the State of
Pennsylvania.’’

Romiso Countries.—Italy has of all States
of Europe the smallest number of native in-
habitants who are able to read. In France,
another Romish country, there are more sui-
cides than anywhere else.

Romiso Persecutron.—The Roman Cath-
olics of Naples, instigated by the priests and
monks in the city, are showing the persecuting
spirit of Popery by threatening those who at-
tend Protestant meetings, and by seeking to
prevent them from securing places where to
hold their meetings.

JaPan.—An editorial in a Tokio, Japan, pa-
per estimates the martyrs to Christianity at
280,000. - While opposed to Christianity, the
writer thinks it cannot be put down by force,
and that the government should tolerate it, re-
peal its laws against it, which are not enforced,
and leave each man to believe or reject it as he
pleases.

WE tt Done!—A friend in the West writes:
‘‘As an encouragement for the PionrEr I de-
sire to inform you that our good little friend
will have more than 75 new homes to visit on
his next journey. I have 76 subscribers now
and hope to get more, and I rejoice in my suc-
cess.” May many of our readers go and do
likewise.

A Srory.—Recent readings remind us of a
story. A certain Circuit Judge was always
sure of meeting some sneering remarks from a
self-conceited lawyer when he came to a certain
town in his rounds. The lawyer even threat-
ened to let the world know his opinion of the
Judge as far as his voice reached. ‘This was
repeated one day at dinner, when a gentleman
present said, “Judge, why don’t you squelch
that man?’’ The Judge, dropping his knife
and fork, and placing his chin upon his hands,| Suniinysschoe every Sunday at 10 4. xt.

Divine services at 7:30 every Sunday and Wednesday even-

and his elbows on the table, remarked: ‘Up]| ing
in our town, a widow woman has a dog that, | ===

whenever the moon shines, goes out upon the ; TERMS:
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night.” Stopping short, he quietly resumed Traded steraierie Be Grete Dagon ae
eating. After waiting some time, it was asked:

“Well, Judge, what of the dog and the moon???
—‘Oh, the moon kept right on,’? he said.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Darwin, the infidel scientist, acknowl-
edged himself sold when his little niece asked
him what a cat has that no other animal has.
He gave it up after mature deliberation, and
then the sly puss answered, ‘‘kittens.”’

—TxAar was a wise remark of Old Uncle,
when he said, ‘‘ Ef de descendants ob de roos-
ter what crowed at Peter was ter make a noise
ebery time -a lie is told dar would be such a
noise in de world dat yer couldn’t hear de hens
cackle.”

—Tracuers must have great patience. By
losing their patience they themselves suffer the ,
greatest loss. ‘‘I remember,” says a celebrated
teacher, ‘‘ hearing my father say to my mother:
‘How could you have the patience to tell that
dull boy the same thing twenty times over?’
‘Why,’ said she, ‘if I had told him but nine-
teen times I should have lost all my labor’.”’

—A Missionary in China saw a small boy
wearing an earring and was told that many
mothers put such rings into the ears of their
sons when young to deceive the gods in the be-
lief that the little fellows are girls, and hence
are too insignificant for the deities to take them
away by death. This shows how little those
people value the girls, and how very little
their gods are supposed to know.

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WE can not live on probabilities. The faith
in which we can live bravely and die in peace
must be a certainty, so fur as it professes to be
a faith at all, or it is nothing.

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Ir is not grace in any way that is not grace

‘in every way.—Augustine.

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Gop wants us to believe Him, not to judge
Him. :

A Day or Joy.—Easter Sunday was a day
of special joy to the Lutheran Trinity Congre-
gation at Springfield, Hl. In the evening of
that day a young colored gentleman, by the
name of N. L. Berkhalter, was baptized in the
Ey. Luth. Trinity Church, after having been
instructed for some months in the Lutheran
Catechism by the Rev. F. Lochner. Mr. Berk-
halter had come to Springfield ‘‘in order to
learn the German language and earn much
money,’’ but God, in His great mercy, brought
him to the saving knowledge of the pure Gos-
pel. He will enter our Seminary at Spring-
field to prepare himself for mission work among
the colored people. May God’s richest bless-
ings be with him unto the end of his pilgrimage.

Wetcome!—The first number of a new Eng-
lish Lutheran church paper has come to hand.
It is called ‘‘The Lutheran Witness’’ and is
‘fedited and published under the auspices of
the Cleveland District Conference’ by the

Rev. C. A. Frank, Zanesville, O. It is a semi-
monthly quarto of 8 pages, presenting a great
variety of instructive and interesting reading
matter. We do not doubt that it will find the
support which it well deserves. The subscrip-
tion price of the paper is but $1.00 per year,
and it can be had by addressing ‘‘ The Lutheran
Witness,’ 16 Harvey St., Zanesville, O. We
bid the ‘‘ Lutheran Witness’’ a hearty welcome
and hope that, by the grace of God, it may at
all times be a true witness of the pure Gospel
truth.

A Goop Work.—The young men of St.
Paul's and Immanuel’s congregations at Fort
Wayne, Ind., formed a Lutheran Young Men’s
Association. They have comfortable and beau-
tiful rooms, will soon have a good library and
attractive reading-room. Lectures on inter-
esting topics will also be held now and then.
This Association will surely do a good and
necessary work among the young men of our
city. We wish it God speed.

$7000.00.—The Lutheran Trinity Church at
Cleveland, O., Rev. H. Niemann, pastor, was
relieved of its debt by a present of $7000.00.
—The Lutherans of Milwaukee recently bought
a valuable piece of property for $7000.00, on
which a Lutheran college is to be erected.

New Lureran Seminary.—The Jnuthera-
ner, in one of its recent numbers, brought.a
handsome engraving of the new Concordia
Seminary at St. Louis, about to be erected by
the Missouri Synod. The Lutheran, of Phila-
delphia, says of this Seminary: ‘‘When fin-
ished it will be, beyond all question, the hand-
somest, largest, and most convenient building
devoted to educational purposes, owned by Lu-
therans in this country, and may challenge com-
parison with any theological seminary in this
country.” The Seminary is to be completed by
September ist, 1883, which will be our Luther
year; for in that year we commemorate the
400th anniversary of Dr. Luther's birthday.

Money - Box.
For THE NEW CHAPEL IN NEw ORLEANS:
From Miss L. W. in W. $1.00; from K. M. Nupen
- R.A. B.

in Iowa $1.00.

St. Panl’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Litt.e Kock, Ark.

Chapel on corner of 12th and Rock Sts.
Sunday-school meets every Sunduy at 2 0’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 meets every Sunday in ‘‘ Sailors’ Home’?
on Erato St. at 2 o’ clock.
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.

Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent
to one address.

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