The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1883, Page 8

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"trade is deeply to be deplored.’’

_ living in tolerable comfort. They have their|archs of Africa. He disdains to hold theolog-

_ day-laborers, earning not more than ten cents
‘a day. Yet most of them give something, and | try come into his dominions on one condition.

8 The Lutheran Pioneer.

they are giving more and more liberally each | That condition was that Queen Victoria should:
year.” Mr. Howland speaks of certain Chris-| give him one of her daughters in marriage.
tians in this region who live on $6 a year, who] For the present the missionaries are laboring
yet contribute of what they have—possibly atj elsewhere.

times only a handful of rice from their scanty} —WE lately read in a paper, published in
store. the State of Ohio, that the Lutheran Church,
—A RECENT writer on Bible lands says: ‘‘Of | instead of carrying on a mission among the
all ‘the seven churches of Asia,’ Smyrna alone | colored people of the South, ought to go to
is living still. It was with considerable inter-| Africa to do mission work. As soon as that
est I worshipped at the English Church and{| writer’s love for the colored people in Africa
saw written over the communion-table the mes-| moves him to start for the Dark Continent we
sage, ‘To the angel of the.church in Smyrna,’| will let our readers know.

closing with the thrilling promise, ‘Be thou
faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown

of life.’’’
—Tna_e Maori Christians.of New Zealand are

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Tue Lurueran Cuurcs suffered a great
Joss in the death of Rey. C. P. Krauth, D.D.,
L.L.D., Vice Provost of the University of
Pennsylvania, and Professor in the Lutheran
Theological: Seminary of Philadelphia. From
the toils and struggle of life he was called to
rest by the Master on the 2nd of January, aged
59 years.

—Tse Lureran OrpHans’ Home near
Mount Vernon, N._Y., lately. received the sum
of $8,000 from the estate of the late Mr. Baum
of New York city.

—Tue New Luraeran Cotrece at Mil-
waukee, Wis., was dedicated on the 3rd of
January. The grounds and buildings cost
$32,000.

_—TuERE are supposed to be forty thousand
Scandinavian Mormons in Utah and surround-
ing settlements, and of these, about one-fourth
are Swedes. There are over fifty places where
they are gathered in great numbers and where
preachers and school-teachers would be needed.
The Swedish Augustana Synod has opened a
mission among these poor deluded people.

—Wuite Madam Nillson, the ‘Swedish
Nightingale,” was at Denver, Col., she twice
attended services in the Swedish Lutheran
Church of that city. On leaving she placed in
the hands of the pastor $300 for charitable ob-
jects and $150 for the church.

—Tae Lurseran Cuorcu in Finland is the
national or established church. The whole
country is divided into parishes with a full sup-
ply of church-schools. The number of clergy
is about 800 and these minister to a population
of nearly two million souls. The University
has about 100 professors and lecturers and a

library of 300,000 volumes.

—Tne Missionarres to China have united
in a memorial to the British Parliament, setting
forth the evil effects of the use of opium, and
asking the removal of the clause of the treaty
with China which legalizes the opium traffic.
This traffic is declared to be ‘‘ wholly indefens-
ible on moral grounds, and that the direct con-
nection of a Christian government with such a

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Short Stops.

i tive j lyi chen feed “Mik Money’ ror Missrons.—A_ Chris-
very active in supplying churches for them! tian woman of Maine recently died. At a pe-
selves. Six new churches, all built at their! riod some years before her death she had been
own expense, were opened in different districts] in the habit of selling the milk from their one

last year, and three or four others are in|cow which the family did not require. She
saved the money she got from this source from

Lek Shee year to year, and requested on dying that it
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—Tue LEY ASS of Patagonia can now read might be devoted to foreign missions. The
the life of Christ in their own language, as the| widow's mite was lately handed in to the Sec-
Gospel of Luke has been translated into it by} retary of the Foreign Mission Society. It
Rev. Theodore Bridges, who has labored among pmcunied to $300. Is there not other “ milk-
them for twenty-five years. money,
mera peer aia wales *, .
—Lowroo, the heroic Chinese Evangelist, « Eaa Moyex”’ ror Mrsstons.—A little girl
Wea tease Tato alavier . | had a friend who gave her a hen the first of the
WhO sold Aumseit Into slavery some years 1g0 10) year, She named the hen ‘ Missionary,” and
order that he might go to Demarara to preach | sold enough eggs to amount to $1.00, and gave
the Gospel there, has been so blessed that he| the money to missions when the missionary col-
has now a church of 200 persons, which sustains| !ection was taken up in Sunday school. Her
native missionaries who preach in out stations. hen has now twelve little chickens, and they

ss F are all missionary.
—In 4 rarer read by or American lady be-|  Bany’s Money ror Misstons.—<A poor col-
fore one of the recent missionary conventions, | ored woman in the West Indies, after dropping
a statement was made that may well startle| her own little gift into a missionary collection,
every Christian into renewed activity in the| put a small coin into the hand of her baby,
cause of missions. She asserts that seven hun-|*24 guiding it to the contribution-box, there
dred millions of human beings are living on let the little one drop it in. Some delay was

. caused by this, at which the collector became
this earth who never heard the Word of God) impatient, when the mother said: ‘Have pa-
—a number so vast that the mind is almost} tience, brother, I just want to bring the little
overwhelmed, and one’s heart sinks in the effort | thing up to it.’’

t . . 4 ss . f ———— a —
2 realize it ; If all the missionaries of all the “BOOK-TABLE.
Christian societies in the world could be equally 7 -

7" DER HEIDEN WEINNACHTEN. Line Erziihlung aus
divided among them, there would be but one dem Leben im fernen Westen. Von Hermann
missionary to half a million of people. In Pate ae Bio:

C A nis is an interesting and instructive story of
many parts of China and Japan there is but} western life by Rey. H. Fick, a well-known author
one to four million. In provinces of Western pe the Lutheran Church. ‘The story illustrates the

* ss 17: important Bible truth that sinners can find peace
China, containing five millions of people, not not by any efforts of their own, but by the free
one missionary has penetrated. Even in India, | grace of God in Christ Jesus, the Saviour of sinners.

«ott Price, 25 cts. per copy; $2.65 per doz. Address
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fs here the largest number of societies EES work Messrs. Reitz & J ung, 3928 Jefferson Ave., St.Louis,
ing, and where they have been working the| Missouri.
longest, there is but one to 400,000. 855 | senate wrnneg

—Kane Mresa is more troublesome to the
missionaries than any other of the petty mon-

. —A Missronary VILLAGE has been started
as an experiment, near Zaffermal, India. The
conyerts have built for themselves comfortable
little houses. They cultivate small farms, or
patches of ground in the neighborhood, and are

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Litrte Kock, Ank. yr

caer 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.

ical argument with any of the missionaries. It
TERMS:

is enough for them that h
t of ei territo pie eeaers eas pclae Tue Lutneran Pioneer is published monthly,
out of his territory. ving tired of all the payable in adyance at thie following rates, postage

own schools, and in these are children, and old
‘men and women—fathers and mothers, and
grandfathers and grandmothers—all acquiring

together the simplest elements of education. religions he knew, he sent three commissioners | included, to-wit:
—OnzE of the most noticeable things about the | to England to obtain further information as to i CoPhg
the ecclesiastical and political outlook. These 2

‘churches in missionary lands is their liberality.
From Southern India, Mr. Randall reports to
the Missionary Herald, that most of the 2,501
church members connected with the. Madura
‘Mission, ‘‘are from the lowest castes, and are

ate fy fi) GF. 9.00
commissioners returned with a long report,| Giub rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent

which he refused to let his people see. But, | to fone no reas, a

after hearing what they had to tell about Eng- eines commun icakons 10\pe addressed to
ng-| Luth. lish “« M. GC. Bar-

land, Mtesa announced that he would let the SACS SLOGSEMG Te bre oee

aon Agt., St. ous Mo. Sateen
missionari i . communications concerning the editorial de-
maries of any persuasion from that coun ent toibeladdressedtovPror 1R--A.Bisonorr!

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