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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—ThE papers of the past weeks brought full
accounts of the grand celebration of Luther's
four hundredth birthday in all parts of the
world. Our colored Lutheran churches in the
South also had their Luther Day. A descrip-
tion of the celebration in Little Rock, Ark.,
is given in the missionary’s letter which we
publish in this number. Our colored Lutheran
congregation at New Orleans held a grand fes-
tival service on the evening of the 12th of
November. The church was most beautifully
decorated with flowers and a large audience of
colored people listened attentively to the able
discourse of the Rev. G. Franke of Algiers,
Louisiana.

—TueE Methodists, says the Church Messen-
ger, celebrated the birth of Luther for the rea-
son that ‘John Wesley heard on the evening
of May 24th, 1738, in Aldersgate street in
London, Luther's preface to the Epistle to the
Romans and received, as he said, the conviction,
that the Lord had taken away all his sins and
redeemed him from the law of sin and death.”
He was therefore converted (according to Lu-
theran teaching) by the quiet hearing and re-
ceiving of the Word of God, and not by the
violent exercise of prayer, by which modern
Methodists confess to effect conversion.

—Emperor William presented every Protest-
ant school in Prussia with a copy of the beau-
tiful picture ‘‘ Luther and his fellow-laborers
translating the Bible.”

—TueE Magistrate of Berlin resolved to con-

tribute $25,000 to the ‘‘Luther-fund”’ for the
education of children of pastors and teachers.
Other cities will follow the example of the
German capital.
- —Amone the relics of the past stored in the
Markish Museum at Berlin, is Martin Luther's
own Bible. Written on the title page are the
words, ‘‘If Thy Word, O Lord, did not com-
fort me, Ishould perish in misery. 1542, Mart.
Luther, D.’? Rarely, indeed, does so much
interest ‘and importance attach to a particular
copy of this sacred volume as to this. It was
not only the means in the hand of God of illum-
inating the mind of Luther; but, through him,
of rescuing the whole world from the darkness
of Papal ignorance-and error.

—Two Jews, after receiving instructions for
8 months in the doctrines of Christianity, and
manifesting a sincere desire to hecome Lutheran
Christians; were recently baptized and admitted
into Rey. F. Koenig’s church in New York.
These are the first fruits of our Jewish mission
in that city.

—TxeE Crrcuration of Bibles, Testaments,
and portions of the Word of God during the
year 1882 by National societies is thus reported :
By the British and Foreign Bible Society,
2,964,636; by the American Bible Society,
1,676,232; by the Scotch National Bible So-

ciety, 481,166; and by the Hibernian Bible
Society, 57,518, making in all 5,179,547. Be-
_ sides these there are several other Bible socie-

ties in Britain and America, and some on the
Continent of Europe, which print and circulate
Bibles, and there are great numbers printed by
private publishing houses, especially in Ger-
many. Altogether, we think it would be safe
to estimate the whole number of issues from
the press of the Word of God, in whole or
part last year, at something like seven millions
of copies, a considerable portion of which are
distributed gratis. The British and Foreign
Society has agents all over the world ready to
report any opening for the circulation of the
Scriptures, and to superintend the'work. The
American Bible Society is engaged in the great
task of seeing that every family in the United
States is supplied with the Bible.

—TueE pope’s people hate the Bible. While
religious services were being conducted recently
at Wexford, Ireland, a Catholic mob entered
the building, and made a bonfire of all the
bibles and hymn-books that could be found.
One Protestant was attacked and carried down
to the harbor, the intention of his assailants
being to drown him. Some respectable citizens
interfered and saved him. Another Protestant
was chased through the streets and finally
sought refuge in the police barracks. He was
told the police were unable to protect him. He
was seriously wounded. The mob took com-
plete possession of the town, broke the windows
of the Protestant church, and of nearly all the
houses occupied by Protestants. The ladies
who attended the services in the churches were
insulted, and the gentlemen accompanying
them stoned. Several were injured severely.

—A telegram from New York states that
eight novices, who landed in that city on Dec.
4th with a Romish priest of St. Louis, were
arrested for smuggling silk goods under their
skirts. A Jesuit, in defending the nuns in a
Romish paper, says: ‘‘These women appear to
have been doing a little smuggling, which,
after all, is no great crime.’’ The silk was to
be used for making priest’s robes, and the Jes-
uit, no doubt, thinks that the end sanctifies the
means.

_ —TueE Rev. Ruttonji Nowroji, who has charge
of a congregation of 494 Christians, while on a
tour in the vicinity of Arungabad, India,
speaks of a Brahmin school-master who visited
him daily. After many earnest conversations,
when about to part on their last interview, this
Brahmin, joining both hands, with tears in his
eyes, exclaimed: ‘‘I will remember your kind-
ness to my dying day. I know not when God
will permit us to meet each other. But, oh,
sir, let me make one request! In all your
preaching, and at the conclusion of every re-
ligious discourse, call upon my country-men to
learn to read. When they read your Script-
ures they will be convinced that Christianity is
divine, revealing to sinners God’s plan of sal-
vation.””

_—TneE present Christmas number closes the
fifth volume of our paper. Thanking our read-
ers for the interest they have taken in our work
during the past year, we hope they will kindly

assist us also in the future.
ones who hang up their stockings in the merry
Christmas time our little ProncEr will be found

Among the little

too. He expects to get many names of new
subscribers as a welcome Christmas gift. Now
don’t disappoint the little fellow. Whilst he
is hanging up his stockings, we hang up our
scissors and lay down our pen and close our
window.

BOOK-TABLE.

TuE WITTENBERG NIGHTINGALE. By Hans Sachs,
Translated from the German of 1523 by Prof,
C. W. Schaeffer, D.D. Brobst, Diehl & Co.,
Allentown, Pa. Price, 20 cts. per copy; $1.75
per dozen; $12.00 per hundred.

This-is a most excellent translation of that
“master-song’”? of the German ‘Master Singer,’”
Hans Sachs. Dr. Schaeffer says in the Preface:
“The ‘Wittenberg Nightingale’ has always stood
high among the testimonials that have come down
from the earlier periods of the Reformation Era;
and as the memory of Luther and his labors is
specially lively, at the present time, the Song of the
Nightingale, by the shoemaker of Nuremberg, is
here presented, in English rhyme, for the delect-
ation of modern readers.”’

Der LutnEeriscue KaLENDER, published by
Brobst, Diehl & Co., Allentown, Pu., makes its ap-
pearance for the year 1884 with its usual variety of
statistics and instructive reading. Among its ar-
ticles is an interesting biography of the late Dr.
C. P. Krauth, with a portrait. The price is 10 cts,
per copy, 90 cts. per dozen, $6.00 per hundred,

SynopaL-Bericut des Mittleren Districts der Sy-
node von Missouri, Ohio u.a. St. Concordia
Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 20
cts., postage 3 cts.

This pamphlet deserves the widest circulation
among all the members of our German congrega-
tions. Besides the excellent sermon, delivered by
the Rev. H. C. Schwan at the opening of the ses-
sions of the Middle District Synod, it also contains
a full report of the doctrinal discussion on ‘Christ
in the Old Testament.” Read this Report, and you
will not only grow in the knowledge of the Script-
ures, but also in your love of the Saviour, whom
you will find to'be the great object of the Holy
Ghost in the writing of the Old Testament.

PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC for the Common Schools.
of North America. Part First, Integral, abstract

and like Numbers. By H. Duemling, Ph. D. Con-

cordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price 20

cents.

* Answers to the above. Price 15 cts.
WEIUNACHTS-CANTATE von W. Ross. Concordia

Publishing House, St. Louis.
copy; $1.50 per dozen.

Tue Sunpay-Scnoor Hymnau. A Collection of
Music for Sunday and Week-Day Schools. With
full Responsive Services for Sundays and Festivals.
Lutheran Book Concern, Columbus, O. Price 50
cents per copy; $4.00 per dozen.

Price 20 cts. per

Money - Box.
Received of Ida Sorenson 25 cts. for our Colored
Mission. R. A. B.

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

Chapel on corner of 12th and Rock Sts.
Sunday-school meets every Sunday at 2 0’ clock.
Divine services at 3 o’clock anit 7.0’clock.

TERMS:
Toe LurweraNn Pioneer is published monthly,
ayable in advance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wit:

1 Cop a wD
10 Copies -$2.00
5 ighas: - 5.00
Ss 9.00
Club rates only allowed i are to be sent
to one address.

All business communications to be addressed to
yLuth. Concordia Publishing House“, M. C. BAR-
THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo. :
‘All communications concerning the editorial de-
parenent to be addressed _to Pror. R. A. BiscHorr,

cordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.