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his spear, and thirty years ago the print of his
bloody foot could be seen. Now it is a dull,
rusty stain.

—To a party of Irish pilgrims the pope lately
said, ‘We live on charity, for all we had has
been taken from us.’’ Just think of the poor
pope living in a house with 11,000 rooms, and
strolling around in his beautiful gardens, mu-
seums, and galleries, and sometimes carried in
a chair quilted with white satin. Think of the
apostle Peter living in such a house and carried
in such a chair; or of Paul—the tentmaker.
Oh, the poor pope. We close our window.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —A Hrnpoo paper published in Bengal
speaks as follows of the excellence of the Bible:
—Oor Lutheran Immigrant Mission at New |‘‘It is the hest and most excellent of all Eng-
York distributed about 30,000 tracts, 3000 Lu-}lish books, and there is not its like in all the
theran Almanacs and more than 20,000 church | English language. As every joint of the sugar-
papers during the past year. $60,400 passed | cane, from the root to the top, is full of sweet-
through the missionary’s hands. 6230 persons | ness, so every page of the Bible is fraught with
were assisted on their westward journey, and|the most precious instruction. A portion of
employment was obtained for 107 persons. |that Book would yield to you more of sound
$480.00 were given to the entire destitute and | morality than a thousand other treatises on the
$5,500 loaned to those in temporary need. |same subject. In short, if any person studies
3,600 letters and postal cards were received | the English language with a view of gaining
and 2,952 were written by the missionary. wisdom, there is not another book which is
—Ir is stated that 7000 books and pamphlets | more worthy of being read than the Bible.’’
on Luther appeared last year in Germany| —Tne American Bible Society’s colportage
alone. 40,000 addresses were delivered on the| work for the year ending October 31 has been
same subject. as follows: ‘‘Over 500 different men have heen
—Tue Lutheran Scandinavians in Minne-| employed for a longer or shorter period. They
sota and Dakota give a cold shoulder to the| have rendered 46,674 days of service, visiting
Mormon missionaries. It is reported that six-| 650,940 families. They found 87,080 families
teen of those missionaries were lately sent} without a Bible in their homes, and supplied
among the Scandinavians in those regions, who | 66,546 of these families, besides 37,556 indi-
worked hard to make converts, but finally sus-| viduals. Thus they have put in circulation
pended their efforts, complaining that the|349,010 copies-of the Scriptures. Of these
‘‘wicked Scandinavians would not receive them | 277,585, of the value of $105,710.84, were sold,
in their houses, nor listen to them, nor have |and 71,425, of the value of $17,688.09, were
anything to do with them.’”’ Good! given. A statement was made respecting the
—Mr. F. H. Trsserrs, one of the survivors | distribution of Bibles in Matanzas, where large
of the City of Columbus disaster, relates the|numbers of Cubans have manifested a desire
following incident of a ‘stout man’’ near him | for evangelical instruction. Report was also
in the rigging who was terribly afraid to die: | made of Mr. Milne’s tour across the continent
“YT told him to pray, but he said he couldn't. | of South America from Buenos Ayres to Arica,
I told him that there was little chance for life, |in Peru, the results of his sales being every-
and he should take the opportunity to make | where encouraging.”’
his peace with God. A young man near me| —ApeEMAMA, one of the Gilbert Islands, a
was in great mental distress. He told me he|group of the Pacific Ocean, was formerly in-
didn’t know how to pray and couldn’t, he had |habited by naked savages. These wild and
Ted such a wicked life. At last he said: ‘I| barbarous men have, however, been transformed
will not go before my Maker with a pack of | by the power of the Gospel. Through the de-
cards in my pocket’ and he threw his cards| voted Jabor of the Rev. Hiram Bingham, the
overboard, but he perished with the wreck.’’ | language of the natives was reduced to writing
—TxE population of India is two hundred |a quarter of a century ago, and then followed
and fifty millions—five times that of the United | quickly the translation of the New Testament,
States. One hundred and ninety of these mil-| the fourth edition of which has just been pub-
lions are Hindus, whose gods are incarnations | lished by the American Bible Society.
of wickedness and lust; fifty millions are Mo-| —'TuHere are now in Spain about 5,000 Evan-
hammedans, a larger number than own the | gelical Christians, with perhaps 3,000 additional
sway of the Sultan.. The English language is|attending, more or less regularly, the various
spreading at such a rapid rate in India that| mission services. In Madrid there are five
the people are readily accessible to evangelistic | Protestant chapels, and about five hundred
effort in English. The vastness and variety of |regular members. In Seville there are some
the field afford scope for the greatest variety of |300 members, the remainder being found in
talent, and for an unlimited number of workers. | Corunna, Oviedo, Bilbao, San Sebastian, Valla-
—Onz of the foremost men of the day is the |dolid, Salamanca and Barcelona, and a few
Chinese Prime Minister, Li Hung Chang, who | minor stations. 3 2
is called, not inaptly, the Bismark of China.| —T. V. Harrison, of Clark County, Mo.,
Most of the material progress in the empire, |has a Bible with a history. It was printed in
during the last fifteen years, is the result of his}1700, and in 1738 belonged to Joshua Swank,

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Short Stops.

—A Dance to be recommended :—Fashion-
able young people are calling upon somebody
to invent a new dance. Suppose somebody in-
vents one wherein the young lady dances around
the house and helps her mother at housework
—how would that step take?

—Sunpay Scnoo, Lisrary Booxs.—The
Sunday School Library often does more harm
than good. One Sunday morning a father said
to his son: ‘‘Glad to see you dressed for Sun-
day School, George; it’s the first time you have
been for six weeks.’’ George: ‘‘I know it,
father; but Tom Green says the new pirate and
cannibal books have come, and I’m going every
Sunday, steady.’’

BOOK-TABLE.

PASSIONSPREDIGTEN von G. Stoeckhardt. Concor-
dia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price 85 cts.
postage paid.

This handsome volume contains eighteen valuable
sermons on the sufferings of Christ. In a most
masterly manner the sufferings of Christ are pre-
sented as a mirror in which we behold the greatness
of God’s wrath over sin and also the greatness of
God’s grace for all sinners.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churehes,
NEw Onveans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.

Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 7%
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.
EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor, Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine aetyices nt 714 Sunday evening and at 714 Thursday
evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 714 Tuesday evening.
N. J. Bakke, Missionary.

St. Panl’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Littte Kock, Ank.

Chapel on corner of 12th and Rock Sts.
Sunday-school meets every Sunday at 2 0’clock.
Divine services at 3 o’clock and 7 o’clock.

TERMS:
Tne LuTHERAN Pioneer is published monthly,
payable in adyance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wit:

wise and far seeing policy. Though not anjan ancestor of Mr. Harrison, who was then 1¢
-avowed Christian, he shows a lively interest in| living in Eastern Kentucky. In that year a 10 Copies « $2100
Mission work, substantial proof of which may | party of Indians led by Simon Girty were 3 We ito Be

prowling near, and one transfixed Mr. Swank’s
body with his spear, who fell to the ground
with the open Bible beneath him, the point of
the spear cutting from the ninth chapter of
Esther to the seventeenth chapter of I. Samuel.
The Indian set his foot on the Bible to pull out

be in the hospital at Tientsin founded
ough his generosity. In a public address
t longrsince, he declared that the religion of
be a power of good since it led its

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meordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.