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The Lutheran Pioneer.

—As examples of Christian liberality among
the Chinese converts, an English paper men-
tions two men who gave $10 each last year to
a preaching fund out of an annual income of
between $70 and $80. Another gave $6 out
of §48 a year. <A third gave $7 out of $54;
two others, $5 each out of $60; and one, $6
out of $36. |

—Tuere are Christian converts in Japan so |
poor that when they change their residences
they can carry all their possessions on their
backs, and their contributions average $8 per |
annum.

—ENCcOURAGING news comes from the Fiji
Islands of the special progress of the gospel
there. Over 100 of the islanders, it is said,
have been propounded for admission to the
communion of the Christian Church, and that
an old chief has contributed $750 toward the
building of a house of worship—one that shall
be both fire and hurricane proof.

—WE see it stated. that the total amount

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—A Brste AGEnt in New Hampshire called
upon a family which was quite poor, in order
to see if they were supplied with the Scriptures,
and after making known the object of his call,
the woman of the house voluntarily told him
she wished to give something to the Bible
Society, and passed to the agent a quarter of a
dollar, requesting him to take out 20 cents for
the use of the society, and give her back
5 cents, since that quarter was all the money
she had. :

—TneEsame agent called upon another family,
the head of which, he was informed, was worth
$50,000. He asked the lady of the house to
contribute something to the Bible Society, as
she was a professing Christian. She handed
the agent a bank bill, at the same time request-
ing him to take out 10 cents for the Bible cause
and give her back the balance. The agent
complied with her request, and kindly thank-
ing her for the donation he had received, he
passed on to the next house. There is indeed
a great difference in people when they are
cnlled upon for some contribution.

—HEnrE is a true Anecdote, and one show-

Societies of the Lutheran Church for the year
1881-2 was $600,000, an increase over previous

the sum given is very creditable to the Luther-
ans. :

contributed to all the German Foreign Mission |

years. If there is no mistake in these figures, }

ing us a very practical way of testing the
character of our Christian profession. An old
Methodist preacher once offered the following
prayer in a prayer meeting: ‘Lord, help us
to trust Thee with our souls.’” ‘“‘Amen,’’ was

—TneE ten thousand converts of the Rhenish
mission in Cape Colony contributed, in 1881,
36,000 marks for church, and 5,000 marks for
school purposes. A mark-may be counted as

about a quarter of a dollar; so the entire con-|

responded by many voices. ‘‘Lord, help us to
trust Thee with our bodies.’”’? ‘‘Amen,’’ was
responded with as much warmth as ever.
“Tord, help us to trust Thee with all our
money’’; but to this petition the ‘‘Amen”’ was
not forthcoming. Is it not strange that when
religion touches some men’s pockets it cools
their ardor at once and seals their lips? Thank
God there are others whose Christianity also
touches their pockets. ;

—MAaAnGar is one of the Hervey’ Islands.
Some fifty years ago its inhabitants were savage
idolaters, many of them debased cannibals.
Now most of the people are members of Christ-
ian churches. When the Bible was translated,
and printed copies were brought to the island,

they bought copies to the value of $387.50.
When a fresh supply of a corrected edition
appeared, their purchases quickly amounted to
$675 in value. When one of their missionaries
bade them farewell recently, they gave him
$300 as ‘‘a token of love and esteem.’’ When
the native brethren of New Guinea needed
boats for their mission work, these Mangaian
Christians sent them $334.50 for that purpose.

—For a record of self-support in mission
fields, we know of none superior to that made
by the Egyptian mission. The native churches

’ haye on their rolls twelve hundred members,
who paid in 1881 for church and school, and
all mission purposes, the sum of $22,730, or an
average of $18.94 per member. For Christian
schools, under the oversight of the mission, the
_ + natives expended $7,100.

tributions of these people amounted to about

$8,000. One college of 274 souls gave 5,380
marks, or $1,300.

—Tue London Freeman says that the native
Christians of Madagascar have given more than
a million dollars during the past ten years for
the spread of the gospel. The Queen has a
private chapel in the palace at Tananarivo.
She is a sincere Protestant and an earnest
helper in the cause of missions.

—A rious African went to a missionary to
present a contribution to send the Gospel to
others. The missionary thought the negro
offered a larger sum than he was able to give,
but the man insisted on giving it, saying, ‘‘The
work of the Lord must be done, and I shall
soon be dead.”

—Mnr. Water C. Jones, who, nine years
ago, gave the English Church Missionary So-
ciety $360,000 for a work in China and Japan,
has recently made a thank-offering of $400,000
for the recovery of his son from sickness. Four
years ago he gave $175,000 to found the Indian
Native Church Missionary Fund.

*—Tne Woman’s Missionary Society of North
Georgia raised during the last fiscal year over
$3,000. *

—Tue children of missionaries residing in
Turkey have formed themselves into a society
for sending the Gospel to “foreign” lands.
The first year their contributions were sent to
the Dakota Indians in America, and last year
they were sent to Africa.

—A LirTLEe boy sends $5.00 and writes:
“We have a little Missionary Society in our
home. I am the president, brother Albert is
secretary, sister Martha is treasurer, and little
brother Rue is collector. We made this money
ourselves.’

—OveE church in Lagos, in Western Africa,
has contributed during the past three years
over $15,000 for church purposes. i

—A LITTLE boy in South Carolina. has sent

} $100 to the Board of Foreign Missions, the

proceeds of the sale of canaries raised by him-

| self.

—Otvr Lutheran churches of Fort Wayne,
Ind., held their mission festival on August 26th
in the Concordia College grounds. The col-
lection taken up for mission work amounted to
over 8600.

—Yovu may call this Outlook an ‘Outlook.
on Giving’”’ and—we close our window.

———— + ome ee

Ir Tots Book Be Trur!—An honest un-
believer, who never heard of the Bible, received
one for a gift, and at once began to read it.

“Wife, dear’, said he, ‘‘if this Book be
true, we are astray.”’

Still he read, and exclaimed, ‘‘Wife, dear,
if this Book be true, we are lost!’’ He con-
tinued to search the sacred Book. God’s gra-
cious Spirit shone on it, and with joy he said:
“Wife dear, if this Book be true, we are saved !”’

Books Received.

Cuunrcu LiturGy for Evangelical Lutheran Con-
gregations. Published by the Lutheran Synod
of Missouri, Ohio and other States. EF

A convenient pocket-edition in flexible covers.

Price $1.00. Address Concordia Publishing House,

St. Louis, Mo. The same can be had in German.

AUS SCHWEREN TAGEN. Drei Erzaehlungen fuer
das deutsch-amerikanische Christenvolk aus-
gewaehlt und bearbeitet. Louis Lange Pub-
lishing Company, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 75 cts.

Mantin LuTueEr im Liede seiner Zeitgenossen, zu-
sammengestellt von Prof. A. Spaeth. Pilger
Book Store, Reading, Pa. Price, 50 cts.

Dr. Davip LivincGsrone und Henry M. Stanley.
Missions-Bibliothek fuer Jung und Alt. IV.
Baendchen. Brobst, Dich] & €o., Allentown,
Pa. Price, 30 cts.

Psstm 96. Reformations-Jubel-Psalm fuer ge-
mischten Chor. Von C. Wonnberger. Pilger
Book Store, Reading, Pa. Price, 25 cts.; per
dozen $1.75.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
LittLte Kock, Ank.

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

TERMS:

Tue LurHeraNn Pioneer is published monthly,
payable in adyance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wit:

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to one address.

All business communications to be addressed to:
»Luth. Concordia Publishing House“, M. C. BaR-
THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo. ay
- All communications concerning the editorial de-

ent to be addressed to Pror. R. A. BiscHOFF;
mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.
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