The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1882, Page 28

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

ConcorprA Cottece.—The school year in
our College at Fort Wayne, Ind., will close
July 15th. The graduating class, numbering
22 scholars, passed their examination in writ-
ing (Latin, Greek, German, English, and Math-
ematics) during the month of June. The oral
examination of the graduating class, together
with the examination of the other five classes,
will take place July 11th to 15th. And then
vacations will come, and silence will reign in
our large and beautiful building, and on the
play-grounds the voices of the merry boys will
no longer be heard.

Misston Worx.—At a recent confirmation
in the English Lutheran church at Castor, Bol-
linger Co., Mo., Rev. L. M. Wagner, pastor,
thirteen persons were confirmed. Among these
there were three mothers and one father, one
of the adults having-been first baptized. There
were also three children baptized, and one
woman received from another congregation.

Nosre Girr.—Our ‘‘Money Box” is well
filled this time. Our missionary acknowledges
the receipt of $10 for our Colored Lutheran
church at New Orleans. We call the attention
of our readers to this noble gift; for it was
given by a poor hard-working woman who loves
her church. It is an example well worthy of
imitation.

A Day or Joy.—The 26th of May was a
day of joy in our Lutheran Seminary at Spring-
field, Il]. On that day the 70th anniversary
of Rey. Prof. A. Craemer’s birthday was cele-
brated with appropriate ceremonies by the stu-
dents and friends of the Seminary. The ven-
erable Professor has faithfully and successfully
served the Church as professor in this Semin-
ary for 28 years. May, by the grace of God,
each succeeding year of his service be as rich
in results as have been the years that are past.

Festiyats.—During the beautiful months
of May and June our Lutheran Orphans’
Homes celebrated their annual festivals. We
lately read of two such festivals. The one was
held near St. Louis, Mo., and the other near
New York city. At the one 1000 persons were
present, and at the other 3000.

Lorser’s Works.—Another volume of Lu-
ther’s Works has just left the press of our Pub-
lishing House at St. Louis. The Rey. Dr.
Passavant, editor of the Workman, says of this
republication of the complete works of Martin
Luther: “It is the greatest literary and theo-
logical event which has yet occurred in our
American Church. That which would be con-
sidered scarcely possible in Germany at pres-
ent, or at least that from which the leading
' publishing houses of the Fatherland would

shrink back from fear of bankruptcy, has been
undertaken in America with the conviction
even of financial success, and in the certainty
of the most important religious results. To all
our pastors who can read German—and every
_ one should study German, even if for no other
purpose than to sit at the feet of this great

World’s teacher—we commend this magnificent
publication. It is sold at a price so low that it
may be said to be within the reach of all. No
one is so poor that by self-denial or extra ex-
ertion he cannot procure the successive volumes.
They will constitute the choicest and safest
theological library —and without them no
library can be considered complete.’”’ The vol-
ume just published contains Luther’s sermons
on the Gospel Lessons. The price of it is
$4.75; postage, 50 cts. Address Concordia
Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.

“HE YET LIverH.’’—Dr. Luther still lives
in his writings and by them many have been
brought to the knowledge and comfort of the
Gospel. The Principal of a Colored Females’
Seminary in North Carolina lately said to a
party of visiting ministers that ‘‘he, though a
Presbyterian, had ever loved .the Lutheran
Church, that, when in spiritual and theological
darkness and trouble, Lither’s writings were
the only teaching that led him to the true light.”’

A New Semmnary. — The Pennsylvania
Synod, at its recent convention, resolved to
“erect a new Lutheran Seminary, worthy of the
cause and name, and with reference to all pres-
ent and future necessities.” The Seminary is to
be erected within the corporate limits of Phila-
delphia, but outside of its closely built streets.

Gaza.—The old Philistine city of Gaza, with
a population of 20,000 people, has had no mis-
sionary until within three years. The Church
of England now has a dispensary there where
the poor receive medicines and advice free of
charge. Each applicant is required to hear a
portion of Scripture read and to carry away a
Christian tract in Arabic. Four schools have
been opened for Greek and Moslem boysand girls.

Brste Worx.—The Board of Managers of
the American Bible Society, appreciating the
destitution which still exists in large sections
of our country, propose, for the fourth time in
the history of the Society, to inaugurate meas-
ures for a re-canvass of the entire country in
the most thorough manner for the supply of
those who are found to be destitute of the
Scriptures. The whole matter has been re-
ferred to appropriate committees to consider
the best method for inaugurating the work,
and securing the hearty co-operation of all who
may be relied upon to favor it.

ArricA.—There is a colony of Christian
Kaffirs in Middelberg, in the Transvaal, Africa,
the result of 20 years’ labor by a Lutheran
missionary. A handsome brick church, built
by Kaffir hands, affords accommodation for
1,500 worshippers, and rows of brick-built
workshops resound with the noise of industrial
pursuits. Wagons, furniture, and wood and
iron work, are turned out in abundance.
Schools have been provided for the children,
and the mission owns 80,000 acres of good
land, once prairie wilderness, but now divided
into small farms, and worked under the super-
vision of the missionaries.

Wispow.—We don’t know what to report
under this heading, and so we close our window.

Short Stops.

—A Dourcu farmer at the Cape seeing a
poor Hottentot reading the Bible, scornfully
remarked, ‘‘That book is not for such as you.’”
“Indeed it is,” was the reply. ‘‘ How do you
know that?” ‘‘Why, my name is in it,’’ said the
Hottentot. “Your name! Where?’ ‘Here,’”
said the man, reading: ‘‘Jesus Christ came into
the world to save sinners—sinners—that’s my
name, and the book is for me.’”’

—A CLERGYMAN informed his people, at the
close of his sermon, that he intended in a few
days to go on a mission to the heathen. After
the congregation was dismissed 2 number of the
members waited for their pastor, and, crowd-
ing around him, expressed their astonishment.
at the new turn in his affairs, asking him where
he was going, and how long they would be de-
prived of his ministrations. He said to them,
““My good friends, don’t be alarmed. I’m not
going out of town.’’

—InpartiaL Testrony.— Luther's expla-
nation of the Lord’s Prayer was translated into
Italian. An eminent Romish priest in Italy
read it with deep emotion. Not knowing that
it was written by Luther, he said: ‘Blessed
are the hands that wrote this book! Blessed

are the eyes that read it, and blessed are the ~

hearts that pray thus.’’

—A MIssIonary on the Congo River in Africa
writes: ‘‘I intend starting off this afternoon to
‘post’ the news.’? He had to walk 140 miles,
and then sail over one hundred down the river
in a boat.

Tr is better to be defeated in a good cause
than be successful in a bad one. ;

Money - Box.

Received for the Colored Lutheran Church in New —

Orleans, La., of Mrs. W. M. C. Wright $10.00.
N. J. Bakke.

Received for our Colored Mission of E. K—r in
Wisconsin $1.00. For the new chapel in New-Or-
leans per Rey. W. Lothmann, Akron, O., of K. F.
50c.; F. H. 25c.; C. B. 50c.; G. B. 50c.; E. B. 25c.;
G.H. $2.00 (profit from the sale of PloNEER) ; N. H.
10c.; M. K. 50c.; A. K. 75c.; W. L. G5c.

Many thanks! R. A.B. -

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
LittLe Kock, Ark.
Chapel on corner of 12th and Rock Sts.
Sunday-school meets every Sunday at 2 o’clock.
Divine services at 3 o’clock and 7 0’clock.

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

Sunday-school mects every Sunday in ‘‘ Sailors’ Nome’?
on Erato St. at 2 0’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.

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

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