The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1883, Page 4

Transcription machine transcription, uncorrected

⤓ Download .txt · copy text

4 The Lutheran Pioneer.

sionary to Australia. He is stationed at Syd- God’s Way of Giving.
ney, where there are at least 600 Scandinav-
ians. He has already organized several con-
gregations and the prospects for effective work
are good. He has a laborious task, as may be
inferred from the fact, that he has to travel
over a circuit of 1100 miles. At Sydney he
has charge of an important Seaman’s Mission.
Nor Yrr.—Several years have passed by,
and the millions of which the Romish Arch-
bishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, swindled confid-
ing Romanists are not yet paid. In their ap-
peal to the pope the creditors say that “after
three years of patient waiting, the creditors,
many of whom have lost all the proceeds of
labor earned in a life time of toil, are becom-
ing desperate, and that many of the poorer
creditors have died from want, while others
committed suicide, and others still have be-
come insane from despair.’’
Srrone LANGUAGE, BUT TRUE.—The Prot-
estant Standard says of the collecting of ‘‘Peter’s
Pence”’ for the pope: ‘‘The hat was lately
passed around for the benefit for the poor old
pope. Churches that are overloaded with debt
and poor people who scarcely know how they
are going to pull through the winter are ob-
liged to come down with the stamps to support
a great loafer in gilded trappings and a princely
palace with a small army of beggarly wretches
to wait on his lazy ‘ Holiness.’”’
Tuanxs!—From many of our friends we re-
ceived letters of greetings during the holidays.
One was even sent over the ocean from Bavaria
in Germany. We heartily thank our friends
for their words of encouragement and for the
interest they take in our paper. \ Wishing all
readers a Happy New Year, the little PlonEER
closes the window.
—. ~~ +

_New Year’s Greeting to the Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

By Dr. Martin Luruer.

Sraristics.—In Brobst’s Almanac for 1883
the statistics of the Lutheran Church in America
sum up as follows: Synodical Conference:
ministers 1,117, congregations 1,881, communi-
cants 288,117; General Council: ministers 849,
congregations 1,607, communicants 235,002;
General Synod (North): ministers 847, con-
gregations 1,355, communicants 128,229; Gen-
eral Synod (South): ministers 141, congrega-
tions 239, communicants 18,362; Independent:
ministers 475, congregations 1,048, communi-
cants 116,077; Total: ministers 3,429, congre-
gations 6,130, communicants 785,787.

Rarm Growrs.—The North American Re-
view says: ‘“‘During the century just passed
the population of the United States has in-
creased elevenfold, and churches have in-
creased thirty-sevenfold, and while a hundred
years ago there was one church to every 1,700
inhabitants, there is now one for every 529.”
This does not afford much encouragement to
Col. Ingersoll in his crusade against the God
of the Bible.

Incresse.—Fifty years ago there were 502
mission stations in foreign lands. There are
now 5,765, an increase of elevenfold. Fifty
years ago there were 656 ordained missionaries,
native and foreign. There are now 6,696, or
an increase of more than tenfold. Then there
were 1,256 other laborers and assistants. Now
there are 33,856, an increase of nearly thirty-
fold, and forming a total army of over 40,000
Jaborers in the mission field. :

SPREAD OF THE BIBLE.—In 1800, there were
four millions of Bibles, translated into thirty
different languages, and in spite of all the at-
tacks made upon the Bible by the many in-
fidels of the present century, there were, in the
year 1880, one hundred and sixty-five millions
of Bibles translated into two hundred and six
languages over the whole world. ‘There have
been more editions of that one Book printed
and scattered throughout the Jand, every edi-
tion containing many thousand volumes, than
there have been single volumes of any other
book that ever was printed in this world.

Orrnans’ Homwe.—A Lutheran Orphans’
Home is to be established in New Orleans, La.,
by the Lutheran congregations of that city.

A Goop’Caristmas Present.—A pious
widow, member of the Lutheran congregation
in Butler county, Pa., Rev. F. Wilhelm,
pastor, has presented to the Ey. Lutheran Con-
cordia Synod a farm of 50 acres, on which a
Lutheran Asylum for orphans and aged people

If the Lord, in His dealings with you were
to adopt your plan of giving everything at
once, then, on the first day of January, you
might have in your possession altogether enough
to meet your every want for a whole year. To
that amount, however, no further additions
could be added until the year was out. Now,
suppose you and others should be treated in
that way, what would be. your condition and
the condition of others, say, at the end of six
months? You see, such an arrangement would
not answer at all. But the plan which the
Lord does adopt does answer. He gives you
enough to satisfy all your wants for the year,.
but instead of giving it all at once, he gives
only a little at a time, and often; in a word,
he gives your daily bread. He gives every
day only what the wants of the day require;
and so, the whole supply lasts throughout the
year, and keeps you comfortable to the end.
Whereas, if you were given all at once,-your
experience with it might be a very sad one
indeed.

———> ~<a +
Ir tribulation takes all away from us, it still
leaves God; for it can never take God away.
Nay, indeed, it brings God to us.—nuither.

BOOK-TABLE.

THE GOLDEN ALPHABET FOR THE YOUNG. Pilger
Book Store, Reading, Pa.
A charming little book with Bible pictures, Bible
texts and gems of Christian poetry. Price, 25 cts.
per copy; $2.15 per doz.; $16.00 per hundred.
BLUETHEN AUS EDEN. 10 illustrierte Bibelworte in
feinstem Chromodruck. Brobst, Diehl & Co.,
Allentown, Pa. Price, 50 cts.

12 EHRENKARTEN FUER SONNTAGSSCHULEN. Brobst,
Diehl & Co., Allentown, Pa. Price, 40 cts.

Acknowledgment.

1. Received for the decoration of Mt. Zion Church
on Franklin St. of Mr. Wright 1.00, Mrs. Wright
5.00, Mr. Brown 50c., Mrs. Brown 50c., Mr. Moseley
1.00, Mrs. Moseley 1.00, Mrs. Mary Jones 1.00, Mrs.
C. Seymore 1.00, Mr. Arthur Woods 50c., Mr. E. R.
Vix 5.00, Mr. Albin Stumpf 1.50, N. N. 50c.

2. For the Christmas-tree of Mr. N. ioi, St. Charles,
Mo., 10c., Mr. F. K. Skoy, New York, 1.00, Mr. L-
S. M. 2.00, Rev. G. Runkel, Aurora, Ind., 1.00, Mr.
Wm. Neitzel, Watertown, Wis., 1.00, Rev. G. F. C.
Seemeyer, Schumm, O., and his pupils, 1.27.

8. For the Church on Franklin St. per Rev. G. Run-
kel of Mr. A. Laumann, Aurora, Ind., 5.00.

New Orleans, La., Dec. 13th, a

In response to the humble request made by
the dear little Pronrrr, at his last call here,
we send him eight new subscribers for a Christ-
mas present, six of which have been gathered
by a young lady. This makes in all one hun-
dred and fifteen new homes for the PionEEr,
which the Lord has permitted us to open to
him during the year that is now coming to an
end, and we desire to thank our little friend|.
for his kind visits and sweet testimonies of the
Truth. We believe he is a true servant
of Jesus Christ, and we think he does his
Master’s work well; therefore we accept his
Christmas-greeting with all our heart and re-
turn the same most heartily to him, wishing
him at the same time a very happy New Year!

We hope that he may find a permanent home

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

casrel on corner of 12th and Rock Sts.
Sunday-school meets every Sundiy at 2 0’clock.
Divine services at 3 o’clock and 7 0’ clock.

TERMS:

Tne LurHeran Pioneer is published monthly,
payable in advance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wit:

is soon be opened.
_ _ Active Youre Men.—The members of the| and man friend 1 Copy .. 25
: Dee i y warm friends at all the places he 10 Go
_ Lutheran Young Men's Association of St. Louis | has visited during the past year, and thatchis 25 fe “5.00

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

friends will use their best efforts to bring him
many, many more new homes. A. G. H.
oo oe
Waen I am pressed with thoughts about
worldly or home cares, I take a Psalm, or a
saying of Paul, and go to sleep on it.—Duther.

_ are busily engaged in raising subscriptions
ong themselves for a monument of Luther,
placed in our new Seminary in that city,
on the 400th anniversary of Luther's birth.
‘Mission 1x Avsrraia.—The Norwegian
ran Synod, about a year ago, sent a mis-

»Luth. Concordia Publishing House“, M. C. Bar-
by Agt., St. Louis, Mo. pk
All communications concerning the editorial de-
artment to be addressed to Pror. R. A. Biscuorr,
mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.

All business communications to be addressed to ©