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person among the two hundred millions who,
if he can read, cannot have the access to the
Scriptures in his own tongue.”” When we con-
sider the scholarship, work, expense and pa-
tience that are needed to achieve such a result,
we will conclude that no cause of the world to-
day has afforded so great an example of benefi-
cent earnestness. It places foreign missionary
work on a splendid elevation.

—A Great Orrer. — We learn from the
Examiner that a citizen of London has offered
to the Missionary Union here a mission in
complete working order at one of the best points
on the Congo River in Africa. ‘‘ This mission
has heen hitherto sustained by the personal
contributions of one of the wealthiest and most
excellent Christian Jaymen of London. He
does not propose to withdraw his co-operation
from it, but believes it to be for the interest of
the mission that it should be placed perma-
nently under the direction of a fully organized
missionary society. Hence his offer to transfer
the mission with all that appertains to it to the
Missionary Union.”’

— From ZuLuLanp. — We have been filled
with horror at the news of the murder of a
missionary in Zululand by the Zulus— Rev.
Mr. Schroeder, of the Hermannsburg Luth.
Mission. He was a young unmarried man
(his intended being on her way thither for
marriage,) of considerable promise as a missio-
nary — singularly meek and inoffensive — who
had given no known cause of offense beyond
the fact of his being a missionary. He appears
to have been killed while he sat at a table, in-
tently studying a book, the murderer giving
the fatal stab from. behind. He was alone.
The house was afterward ransacked, and what-
ever was carried off was destroyed.

.—Mission 1n Inpra.—The Leipsic Lutheran
Mission, whose fields include the Tranquebar

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—A new Paper. —‘‘The Lutheran Messen-
ger’’ is the name of a new paper published in
the German language by our brethren in Cali-
fornia in the interest of our Lutheran congrega-
tions and missions on the Pacific coast. We
bid it a hearty welcome and wish it God speed.
The price of the paper is $1.00 per annum.
Business Letters are to he addressed to Rev.
J. H. Theiss, 666 Sixth St., Oaklund, Cal.

—LUTHER JUBILEE IN InpIA.—The German
missionaries in Ranchi, India, held a grand
demonstration in honor of Martin Luther, in
which thirty-five thousand native Christians
took part. What a striking comment on the
far-reaching influence of a single life, that the
children of the jungle should thus be found
celebrating the birth of one who lived and
died on the other side of the globe four centu-
ries ago!

—LurueErR JUBILEE In Arrica.—In Africa,
too, Luther memorials were held in all the
churches of the German colonists, as well as in
the native congregations, gathered from the
heathen by the different German missionary
Societies. The Gospel of the grace of God,
which was restored to the Church through
Dr. Martin Luther, was proclaimed in the
Dark Continent in many tongues 400 years
after his birth.

— Boys anp Bap Books. — Several boys in
! Milwaukee, the sons of respectable parents,
were convicted recently for setting buildings
on fire “just for fun.’’ They had been for
some time reading dime novels and other cheap
and trashy publications. They began their
course of crime by stealing at home until that
diversion became too tame, and advanced in
wickedness until they set buildings and houses
on fire. One of the books mentioned by them
as haying great influence with them was pub-
lished Jast March by a Chicago firm, and has
already reached a sale of 400,000 copies.
Another book by the same author, of the same
pernicious character, and published since, has
sold to the extent of 100,000 copies.

—Inpure Lirerature.—In reply to the
peaen Rene of the Grand Jury at the Phila-
elphia Criminal Court, Judge Arnold said:
hat you say with regard to the exhibition
of obscene pictorial papers in shop windows and

at stands in the street comes with particular

force and timeliness. It will apply also to the

display of obscene posters. These things con-

stitute a crying evil. A society ought to be

formed for the suppression of them, just as

societies have been formed for the eradication

of other evils. I remember the time when

such pictures as some theatrical managers and

ik publishers of a certain order of pictorial papers
f now show with impunity would have had to be
clandestinely exhibited, if at all, for fear of an

tions, 455 other stations, 20 missionaries, 9
travelling preachers, 66 Catechists and 67
helpers. There are 133 parochial schools with
174 teachers and upwards of 3000 scholars.
During the past year 633 heathen were baptized,
and 253 confirmed. Upwards of 14,000 com-
municants are found in the churches of the
mission.

—Awn Arrican Missionary. — A native
from the interior was converted at Natal, re-
turned to his own people as a missionary, and
for nine years has been laboring among the
heathen and savage people, unknown, unpaid,
unvisited by missionaries, and unrecognized by
any church. In this time several hundred
have been converted through his labors; and
at one time he and two hundred converts were
driven from their own tribe because they were
Christians, and compelled to find homes in a
strange country. The preacher and the people
have remained true to Christianity in the face
of persecution. The place now occupied by

‘indictment. But these managers and pub-|the preacher is two hundred miles in the in-
lishers have grown bold with toleration. They | terior from the farthest station, and his out-
‘scatter their vile prints broadcast to pollute so- | stations reach within fifty miles of the Limpopo

river, the northern houndary of the ‘Transvaal.
It is now proposed to take up the work, send
an English missionary there, and carry on the
mission vigorously.

—Iboratry in Cura, — Dr. Nevius has
made an estimate that there are, or were, in
round numbers, about three hundred thousand
idol temples in China; and at the rate of ten
idols to each temple, there would “be three
million idols’ These temples he estimates to
have cost at least one billion dollars! And the
money which is spent annually by this people

ciety. The effect upon the minds of youth and
upon some people who are not young is demor-
_ alizing to the Jast degree. It is high time that

_ steps were taken to wipe out the evil.’’ -

y Mission Work. — Very few persons con-
sider the amount of work that is done in the
way of sending the gospel to the heathen. The
Intelligencer remarks, and no doubt, truly, that
_ “tin India there are nineteen principal dahipusges
and of dialects, yet such has
f the Christian Church dur-
that there is, perhaps, not a

mission in India, has now 19 Principal Sta-| =

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in worship and in the repairs of these buildings,
as well as the building of new ones, is simply
beyond conception. In Soochow, one of the
largest temples has recently been overhauled
and repaired, at an expense, it is said, of
seventy thousand dollars—largely given by
one man, who thereby is supposed to get great
merit.

— BInte ror THE Zutus 1N A¥rrica. — The
first edition of the entire Bible in the Zulu
language has been received at the mission sta-
tions in that country, from America, where it
was printed by the American Bible Society,
under the superintendence of Rev. S. C. Pixley.
The translation has been made from the origi-
nal Janguages, and much Jabor has been be-
stowed upon it by different members of the
mission during the Inst thirty-five years. The
price is only six English shillings, and two
shillings for the New Testament.

—Banner Srarre.—Connecticut must be the
banner State for foreign missionaries, no less
than thirty-two having gone out from the one
sparsely settled county of Tolland.

— Oxp srupEnr. — One of the students in
the University of Berlin is 69 years of age. He

jis a Lutheran Missionary from South Africa,

desirous to promote the preaching of the Gospel
hy medical practice (i. ¢., benevolent) among
the heathen. He is said to be a very bright
student, most anxious to become an efficient
surgeon.

— On a WHEELBARROW. — Among the diffi.
culties encountered by missionaries in China,
as well as other countries which lie far behind
in the march of progress, is the lack of trans-
portation. Dr. Nevin, a missionary in China,
made a tour in Shantung of 1,000 miles on a
wheelbarrow of his own invention, drawn by a
powerful mule.

BOOK-TABLE.

Martrx Lutuer. A Memorial Volume for Schools
and Families. Illustrated. By Rev. Enoch
Smith. Brobst, Dichl & Co., Allentown, Pa.
Price 60 cts.

This handsome volume gives a plain, interesting,
and reliable account of Luther’s life and work. It
is intended especially for the young people, but the
older people will also read it with profit and
pleasure. -

Money - Box.

Received of Mr. Jonas Piper sen. per Rey. C. En-
gelder, Punxutawney, Pa., $5.00 for our Colored
Mission. A. C. BurGponrr.

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

Chapel 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’clovk.
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