The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1883, Page 16

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The Lutheran Pioneer,

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—InsTEAD of a picture from Luther's Life
the present number of our paper, by special
request, brings the picture of the Mount Zion’s
Colored Lutheran Church in New Orleans, La.,
which has been described by two of our corre-
spondents in the January and March number
of the PIONEER.
—From the office of the Workman, Pitts-
burgh, Pa., a series of “Tracts for the Churches”
will be issued during the Lutheran centennial
year. The aim of the tracts will be to get the
facts and doctrines of the Reformation among
the English speaking people of our country.
The first one, from the pen of Rey. Dr. A.
. Spaeth, of Philadelphia, has just been received.
The subject is: ‘Luther, an Ensample for our
Time.’ It is the able sermon which was
preached at the opening of the General Council
at Lancaster, Ohio, and its wide circulation
will, no doubt, result in lasting good to many
of our English speaking people. The price is
24 cents a copy for large or small quantities,
postage included.

—As a memorial of the 400th birth year of
Luther a large statue of the great Reformer
will be placed in one of the public squares of
Washington city. The Committee which has
the matter in charge recently issued its circular.
It recommends ‘‘the duplicating of the central
figure of the world-renowned Worms group.
In if Luther appears in colossal bronze, about
113 feet in height, and standing upon a pedestal
of about equal height. He is clad in the min-
isterial robes of his time, bearing upon his left
arm a copy of God’s Word, upon which his
closed right hand rests, whilst with upturned,
earnest face he appeals to God for the triumph
of the Gospel.”” This commanding figure will
cost in Europe $4,500, to which must be added
$2,500 for transportation, granite pedestal, and
incidentals.

—Oor Lurseran Hosprrat in New York
city publishes the following report for the past
year: Patients treated, 113; prescriptions, 442;
average daily expenses for each patient, 653
cents; receipts from different sources, $6,514.42;
expenditures, $6,096.46; balance in treasury,
$417.96.

—F rom papers sent to us we learn the sad
news that the large, beautiful Lutheran Church
in Logansport, Ind., Rev. J. H. Jox, pastor,
was recently destroyed by fire. The parsonage,
which stood near the church, was also destroyed.
May God comfort the pastor and his flock in
their sad affliction. :

—Ovr Lutheran Immigrant missionary in
Baltimore_is doing a good work among the
emigrants who come over from the old country
to finda home in our land. During the past
year 904 persons were assisted on their west-
‘Ward journey, and for many of them employ-
ment was obtained. $7,264.70 passed through

the missionary’s hands. $669.90 were loaned
‘to those in| temporary-need, and the entirely
destitute were taken care of. 685 letters and

postal cards were received and 605 were written
by the missionary.

—Rev. A. Barrier, our English Lutheran
missionary in the Western States, traveled
through many counties of Missouri, Kansas
and Arkansas during the past year. Although
not many new congregations were organized,
still the missionary has been doing a blessed
work. He was enabled to preach: the pure
Gospel to many an assemblage of attentive
hearers. Many a soul thus had the opportunity
of learning the way of salvation, and from
God’s promise we know that His blessing will
rest upon the preaching of the Gospel.

—On the 6th of April a Conference will be
held in San Francisco by the Lutheran pastors
and teachers on the Pacific coast, to which all
the members of the Synodical Conference are
invited. Now, don’t all go. -

—tTwo infidel works, Tom Paine’s ‘‘Age of
Reason’? and Voltaire’s ‘‘ Philosophical Works,”
were lately seized by Canadian custom officers
on the ground of immorality. The collector
refuses to return them to the publishers; and
when asked what he meant to do with the books,
made the good reply, ‘‘I suppose, I ought to
make a bonfire of them.”

—Danish LUTHERAN missionaries went out
to India-as early as 1705. In 1730, the con-
verts numbered 415 souls in the Madras mis-
sion; in Tanjore congregations existed, repre-
senting 1,140 members; in Tranquebar there
were 1,189 native Christians. In the next ten
years the numbers were swelled to 4,000. The
Danish missionary Kirnander arrived in Cal-
cutta in 1758, and erected in that city the
church which is still called ‘‘The Mission
Church.”

—Tne imperative need of enlarged efforts
for educating and evangelizing the colored
people in this country is seen from their rapid
increase. When the Revolutionary war began
there were 500,000 slaves in this country; when
the Emancipation took effect twenty years ago
there were four millions; and the census of
1880 shows a colored population of six million
five hundred and eighty thousand seven hun-
dred and ninety-three.

—Tue Augustinian Society, formed by Ro-
mish priests in Lawrence, Mass., received for
many years the savings of confiding members
of the pope’s church. This Romish ‘savings
bank” was recklessly managed and the result
was a great failure. About one-half million
of dollars have been lost to the depositors,
among whom are many poor hard-working
women whose life-long savings have thus been
swept away by the incompetent, reckless priests.

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Norutne does so establish the mind amid the
railings and turbulence of present things, as
both a look above them and a look beyond
them—above them to the steady and good Hand
by which they are ruled; and beyond them, to
the sweet and beautiful end to which by that

| Hand they will be brought.—Jeremy Taylor.

Short Stops.

—To a young infidel who was scoffing at
Christianity because of the misconduct of some
of its professors, a preacher said, ‘Did you
ever know an uproar to be made because an
infidel went astray from the paths of morality???
The infidel admitted that he had not. ‘‘Then
don’t you see,’’ said the preacher, ‘‘that by ex-
pecting the professors of Christianity to be
holy, you admit it to be a holy religion, and
thus pay it the highest compliment in your
power?”’ The young man was silent.

—Onz of Beecher’s admirers once told a Lu-
theran pastor enthusiastically that Beecher had
engaged to write the life of Christ. “I did
not know,”’ said the pastor, ‘‘ that Beecher was
acquainted with Christ.’’

—A PREACHER not far from Boston found
himself at one time in a sad dilemma. He
stopped in his sermon and said, ‘“‘If I speak
softly those of you who are in the rear cannot
hear me; if I speak loud I shall certainly wake
up those who are close to me.’’

—Jounny came home from school the other
day very much excited. ‘‘What do you think,
pa? Joe Stewart, one of the biggest boys, had
an argument with the teacher about a question
in grammar!” ‘What position did he take?”’
‘« His last position was on a chair, with his face

down.’’
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Lerr rr to Gop.—In Western Africa the
Church Missionary Society has a school for
colored children. A little girl who attended,
when one of her fellow pupils had beaten her,
was asked, ‘‘Did you beat her again?’’ She
answered, ‘“‘No; I left that to God.’’ It was

right. Vengeance is His.

BOOK-TABLE.

TROST UND LABUNG FUER KRaNKE. By Rev. Hugo
Hanser. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis,
* Mo. Price, 25 cts. per copy; postage, 5 cts.
This little book is well called ‘‘Comfort and Re-
freshment for the Sick.”? After having led the sick
to the knowledge of sin it points them to the Say-
jour, the true Physician, in whom alone comfort
and refreshment can be found. The Philadelphia
Lutheran says of the little book: ‘*The whole treat-
ise.is thoroughly evangelical and eminently prac-
tical. It is well worthy of translation and of gen-
eral circulation. It would be an admirable book to
put into the hands of the catechumens, and would
give wholesome instruction to all concerned about
the salvation of their souls.’’

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

1 on corner of 12th and Rock Sts. .
Sunday at 2 o'clock.
and 7 o’clock.

Chay
Sunday-school meets eve!
Divine services at 3 0’cloc!

TERMS:

Tre LUTHERAN Pioneer is published monthly,
parable in advance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wit:

1 Copy 25
10 Copies oon 00.
25 Sse

to one address. 9
All business communications to be addressed to

»Luth. Concordia Publishing House“, M. C. Bar-
THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo. é Soe
‘All communications concerning the editorial de-
ent to be addressed to Pror. R. A. Biscnorr,
mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.