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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

" _Frowr the Concordia Publishing House,
St. Louis, Mo., we have received the official re-
port of the recent convention of the Synodical
Conference. The price of the large pamphlet
is 85 cents. Besides the report of our Mission
Board it contains discussions pertaining to the
‘burning question.’’ And as we learn from
the papers of the opponents of the Synodical
Conference that they wish all the people to
read both sides of the question, we trust that
this report, together with other publications
of our synods, will find a wide circulation also
among the members of their congregations.
Please, don’t smile.

—A NuMBER of ladies of the Norwegian Lu-
theran Trinity Church in Otter Tail County,
Minn., Rev. O. A. Normann, pastor, have
formed a Sewing Society with the view of aid-
ing in the mission work of the church. From,
this society we recently received $25.00 for our
Colored Mission. May God bless the kind do-
nors and prosper the work of their hands.

—Oor thanks are also due to several young
lady-friends of our Colored Mission in St. Paul’s
Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Ind., of whom:
we received $8.08 -for our mission among the
freedmen of the South.

—Oour readers surely have read about the
floods along the Ohio River. From the Aurora
News we clip the following description of a
funeral procession upon the water: To-day the.
solemn and impressive scene of a funeral cor-
tege moving upon the face of an angry flood

was witnessed for the first time in the city of
Aurora. It was the funeral of Mrs. Anna I’.
Reichert. ‘The services were held in St. John’s
Lutheran Church, and conducted by, Rev.
Runkle, after which the remais were ;trans-
ported by water to Riverview Cemetery. It
was an impressive scene as the ‘procession
moved slowly and silently along. The high-
way leading to the cemetery, being still sub-
merged by the flood, yawls were brought into
requisition to convey the body and the friends
to the cemetery. Hundreds who were strangers
stood by the margin of the river to behold the
procession of little boats as it moved silently
on the bosom of the swollen Ohio. The sun
shone brightly. All who witnessed the scene
were deeply affected and mournfully watched
the strange procession as it disappeared with
its sacred charge behind the bluff, hard by the
city of the dead.

—From the report of our Lutheran Immi-

t missionary at New York we learn that
83,000 tracts and 3,000 almanacs, besides many
church papers, were distributed during the
year 1882. $78,000 passed through the mis-
sionary’s hands. 5266 persons were assisted on
their westward journey, and employment was
obtained for 227 persons. $664.00 were given
to the entire destitute and $8,645.83 loaned to
those in temporary need. 5,376 letters and
postal cards were received and 3,951 were
written by the missionary.

—TneE LriBRARY of the lamented Dr. Krauth,
late Professor in the Lutheran Seminary at
Philadelphia, is said to be one of the most care-
fully selected in the whole country. It con-
tains about fifteen thousand volumes and is
valued at about $60,000.

—A SECULAR paper writes as follows upon
the increase of the Lutheran Churchin A merica:
‘The Lutheran Church has shown the most
remarkable growth in this country. The mem-
bership has doubled in the last ten years. The
gains reported for 1882 were 62,000, equaling
the total membership of the denomination in
this country a generation ago. This largest
Protestant denomination of the world now
stands third in numbers in this country, and at
the present rate of increase it will soon be the
strongest numerically in the United States.
Her creed is the oldest, and her liturgy one of
the most simple and beautiful.”

— Danis Luraeran ministers were the first
to bring the Gospel to the colored people in the
West Indies. When Count Zinzendorf, in the
year 1739, came to the Island of St. Thomas,
he held an evening service for the colored
‘people of that place. He began his sermon
with Luther’s explanation of the Second Ar-
ticle of the Apostles’ Creed. The colored
people arose and fell in with him to his great
surprise. Lutheran Danish ministers had taught
them the Catechism many years before the ar-
rival of the Moravian missionary.

—A_ Curyese Convert, Kum Ling, has re-
turned to his own country and is the first na-
tive Chinaman who has gone back as a mis-
sionary among his own people.

—TueE Danisn Lurueran Bible Society, in
the sixty-eighth year of its existence, has dis-
tributed 4600 copies of the Holy Scriptures—
one half of them being of the New Testament.
In connection with the British Bible Society,
it has circulated one million of Bibles—one to
every two of the inhabitants of Denmark. In
Norway also the work of circulating the Scrip-
tures is carried on with great zeal.

—Mr. Roserr, who recently left a Romish
cloister in Brooklyn, N. Y., and renounced the
false doctrines of the Romish Church, says in
speaking of his experience in the cloister: ‘‘I
spent four years in the cloister. I thought I
would find there men of charity, men of prayer,
men only living for the good of their fellows
and dedicated to God’s service. But I was
greatly disappointed. I found among them
nothing but selfishness, ignorance, uncharitable-
ness, and a great deal of drunkenness.”

3 4 oo

—Tue English Universities Mission has a
chain of stations along the old slave routes in
Central Africa, from Zanzibar to Lake Nyassa.
They have a church, school-house and mission-
house at the old slave market of Zanzibar, and
180 released slaves were placed there under in-
struction last year. In one village on the line
are 200 persons restored to their. homes from
_| the slave market.

Short Stops.

—Durineé an earthquake that occurred a few
years since the inhabitants of a small village
were generally very much alarmed, but they
were at the same time surprised at the calmness
and apparent joy of an old lady whom they all
knew.

At length one of them, addressing the old
lady, said: ‘‘ Mother, are you not afraid?”

““No,”’ said the mother in Israel, ‘I rejoice
to know that I have a God that can shake the
world.””

—<A PRETTY story is told about the Lutheran
princess Eugenie, sister of the King of Sweden.
She recently sold her diamonds to raise funds
in order to complete a hospital in which she
was interested. When visiting this hospital,
after its completion, a suffering inmate wept
tears of gratitude when she stood by his side,
and the Princess CSET “Ah! now I see
my diamonds : egein:

“BOOK-TAB BL LE.

KEnRE WIEDER! By a Lutheran pastor. Concordia
Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 15
cents per copy.

This charming little book contains words of loy-
ing kindness from the pen of a Lutheran pastor to
one whom he has confirmed but who has gone astray.
From the parable of the prodigal the lost one is
shown the wretchedness and misery of his condition
and also the unfathomable love of his heavenly Fa-
ther who is ever ready to welcome him home. The
little tract can also well be used in our German
Home Mission work. For this purpose a cheaper
edition, with paper cover, would perhaps be more
desirable.

LEBEN UND WIRKEN des Ehrw. E. G. W. Keyl. By
Rey. J. F. Koestering. Concordia Publishing
House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 50 cts. per copy,
postage 5 cts.

‘‘Biography,”’ says Carlyle, ‘‘is the most univers-
ally pleasant, universally profitable of all reading.”
And in this biography our German Christians will
find a most interesting account of the life and labors
of one of the most faithful and successful pastors
of the Lutheran Church in America.

Kort REFORMATIONS-HisTorra. For Skolan och
Hemmet. Med Illustrationer. Engberg & Holm-
berg, 119 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, II.

This is a Swedish translation of Redenbacher’s *
well known German History of the Reformation.
Price, 50 cts. ee copy; posaee 5 cts.

taragniedgment

Received per Rev. G. W. Polack for the support
of English students at Springfield, Ill., of Paul
Hoch 75c., Widow R. Hemmann 60c., N. N. lic.,
collected at the wedding of Mr. M. Hemmann $3.05;
of Rey. A. Baepler $1.00. C. L. Janzow,

Frohna, Perry Co., Mo.

St. Paul’s Color ed Lutheran Church,
LittLtEe Rock, pm

Chapel on corner of 12th and Rock S
Sunday-school meets every Sunday Fe 2 o’clock.
Divine services at 3 o’clock and 7 o’clock.

TERMS:
Tue LurHeraN PionzerR is published monthly,
payable newt adya ance at the following rates, postage
cluded, to-wit

50 9.00

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

All business communications to be addressed to
»Luth. Concordia Publishing House“, M. C. Bar-
THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo.

‘All communications concerning the editorial de-
Parana to be addressed to Pror. R. A. Brscuorr,

mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.