The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1882, Page 48

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

Mission Boarp.—At the recent meeting of
the Ev. Lutheran Synodical Conference in
Chicago, Ill., Rev. Prof. F. Pieper, Rev. C. F.
W. Sapper and Director A. C. Burgdorf were
chosen members of our Colored Mission Board.
All moneys for our Colored Mission must be
sent to the Treasurer of the Board, Director
A. ©. Burgdorf, 1829S. 7th Str., St. Louis, Mo.

WELL pone!—Our Lutheran congregations
in St. Louis, Mo., have subscribed $23,000 ‘to-
wards the building of the Lutheran Seminary
in that city. The entire cost of the Seminary
will be $133,000.

Aw APPROPRIATE PRESENT.—Mr. Diener, of
Chicago, Ill., has presented an ornamental
stone which is to be placed above the entrance
of our new Seminary at St. Louis. On the
stone the humble ‘‘log-college”’ is most beau-
tifully carved which was erected by a few Lu-
theran ministers in Perry Co., Mo., in the
year 1839. d

New Haven.—At New Haven, six miles
East of Fort Wayne, a new Lutheran church
was dedicated on the 14th Sunday after Trin-
ity. A large number of Lutherans from Fort
Wayne participated in the festivities of the day.

A Larce Scxroor..—Upwards of 900 pupils
attend the parochial school of the Lutheran
Zion’s Church in Chicago, Ill., Rev. A. Wagner,
pastor. Another school-house had to be built,
which was recently dedicated by Prof. Selle of
Addison, III. :

From Zutucanp.— The Norwegian Lu-
theran missionary, Optebro, writes from Zulu-
land that the circumstances there are much
more favorable to the mission with which he is
connected than they were before the war. Since
the end of the war he has baptized twenty
adults and he has thirty under instruction.
At all the stations, except the two youngest,
a Jarger or smaller number of Zulus have con-
fessed the faith. Day and night schools are in
full operation. Means are needed to build
permanent mission-houses, school-houses and
churches, instead of the present reed huts.

AwmonG THE InDIANS.—Among the 275,000
Indians reported in the United States there are
219 churches and 30,000 church members.
One of the Chickasaw Indians proposed to the
American Bible Society to pay half the cost of
supplying the school children of his tribe with
New Testaments, if the society would pay the
other half. The Bible Society accepted the
offer, and forwarded him a box of five hundred
‘New Testaments, which he is now distributing.

_ A Cruet Kinc.—King John, the monarch
who rules Abyssinia with a rod of iron, is
‘severely opposed to missionaries. He ‘has
banished a party of them who recently arrived
‘at Massowah. These missionaries had distrib-
uted some Bibles to the natives, but, under the
‘influence of the native priests, King John
‘caused search to be made for these in the
houses and huts. In cases where copies of the

The next number
And so

Bibles were found the owners were chained | his Christmas gift this year.

and otherwise treated with great cruelty. of our paper will open a new volume.

A Nosie Prince.—Prince Galitzin, a young | this is the best time to work for the circulation
Russian nobleman, converted by a Bible given | of our little monthly. Please, don’t forget
him at the Paris Exposition, proposes to build} that Christmas gift. The little Pronerr wishes
thirty Bible kiosks, and to fit up seven Bible|our readers all a happy Christmas, and the

He intends to travel for seven | window is closed.
(For the ‘‘Lutheran Pioneer’? .)

Church News.

carriages.
months in Russia with Mr. Clough, of Paris,
whom he has engaged to have charge of these
carriages; declaring that since Christ laid down

his precious life for him, he will give his time
and fortune to his service. The English Conference of Missouri held its

A Noster Princess.—The Lutheran Princess | last sessions in Salem Ev. Luth. Church, Spring-
Eugene, of Sweden, recently donated $50,000 | dale, Ark., from Oct. 20—25., 1882. ‘The dis-
towards the erection of a Lutheran Swedish | cussion of theses on the characteristics of a well-
Church in Liverpool, England. grounded Lutheran Congregation occupied the

A Goop Cuance.—The old slave-market of | greater part of the time. Besides the regular
Zanzibar, Africa, where formerly 30,000 slaves} business of Conference, a fund was created
were sold annually, has been transformed into | for the purpose of assisting in the work of Eng-
mission premises, with a church, mission-house | lish missions, and for aiding in the support of
and schoo], under the charge of the Univers-|some worthy young men who are endeavoring
ities’ Mission to Africa, started in 1859 at the | to obtain an education suitable for entering the
suggestion of Dr. Livingstone. ministry in behalf of the English population.

Wuat ir costs.—It costs much money and | Specifying for what purpose, all contributions
many precious lives to found Christianity in| to this very important fund should be sent to
the great continent of Africa. The nineteenth | Mr. D. N. Linebarger, treasurer, Springdale,
representative of the Universities’ Mission has| Washington Co., Ark., who will thankfully
just fallen a prey to the climate. He died at | acknowledge the same in the ‘‘ Witness.’’

Lake Nyassa, far in the interior of the con-| Revs. Prof. M. Guenther and A. Baepler
tinent, and before much perceptible progress | rendered most valuable aid toward making the
had been attained. Nevertheless, the king- | sessions of Conference interesting and profitable.
dom of Christ must go on, and men must not . W.
‘‘count their lives dear unto”’ themselves when a
called to ‘‘testify of the Gospel of the grace of
God.”’

BOOK-TABLE.
LutTneEr’s REFORMATION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON

AMERICA. A Lecture by Rev. Adolphus Bie-

Lance Grrts.—Mr. W. C. Jones, of Eng- wend. Sullivan & Parsons, Printers of ‘The
Lutheran Witness,’’ Zanesville, Ohio, 1882.

land, has given the Church Missionary Society The wide circulation of this interesting pamphlet
the splendid sum of $360,000 to be applied in | will greatly aid in making the people of our country

these ways: 1. The establishm acquainted with the history and the blessings of
y stablishment of colleges Luther’s Reformation. The net proceeds from the

for training pastors, evangelists and medical | sale of the pamphlet will be devoted to our English
missionaries: 2. Th ‘. Home Mission. Price, 10 cents per copy. Address.

U Sanuk port of native agents Rey. A. Biewend, 34 Alleghany Str., Roxbury,
employed by the Society; 3. The development

Boston, Mass.
of native churches by helping them to provide | Der Luruertscue KaLeNpER fir 1883. Brobst,
their own pastors, churches and schools; and Diehl & Co., Allentown, Pa.
4 sags This well known German Almanac has made its
4. The P romotion of evangelistic work on the appearance in its usual form and with its usual
part of the native churches themselves. This | variety of instructive reading. It is especially full
: . . in its statistics, giving a complete list of the min-
makes poe. $650,000 he has given to foreign isters, educational and charitable institutions, peri-
missions within ten years. odicals, missions &c. of all the ehuirehies coalling
REMARKABLE Gurrs.—Rev. F. A. themselves Lutheran, which makes the Almanac
An G: Rev. F. A West, valuable for reference. Price, 10 cents per copy.
after a missionary address, was asked by a | —==——————————
poor servant girl to take the wages she had been Acknowledgment.
saving some years for the heathen, and count- A Received for the support of eae en EGU at
i = . pringfield, Ill., per Rey. W. G. Polack of N. N.
ing what she handed him, found it $250. Hay-|$5'90° of Rev. Hi. Albrecht in Minnesota $1.00, of
ing consecrated it to Christ and the heathen, |N. N. $1.00, of Mr. M. Weinhold, Frohna,. Mo.,
he could not persuade her to take any of it 0:00: CL SAREONEE
back. Dr. Newton tells us of a blind basket-
maker who brought him a pound note,
to send it to some missionary! The poor

= TERMS:
Wishing} Tae LurHeran Pronzxr is published monthly,

girl payable in advance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wit: ~

said that the pound was what the candles 1 Copy 25
would have cost her to work by if she had not 10 Copies eae eee -$2.00
95 “o al

been blind; but not needing the candles, she ae su
had saved the money, and wished it to help} Giub age only allowed if pce be sent
tell the ee of Christ. to pone paniees! Ben ts ive cldresedtta

Curistmas Girr.—Before we close our win- De eer Re MnC -
dow we would most humbly make known to le Se onde Bee iranian
our friendly readers that our dear little PlonEER

All communications concerning the editorial de-
wishes a large number of new subscribers as

partment to be addressed to Pror. R. A. Biscnorr,
mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind: :