The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1884, Page 16

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16 ‘The Lutheran Pioneer.
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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. | amount given to foreign missions at $6,000,000; | the town, the Livingstone Island Mission has
to-day there are 2,829 missionaries, a gain of |commenced building operations. The gardens
829, and the foreign mission contributions are | and banana-groves near the station are already
$8,967,500, a gain of nearly $3,000,000. yielding a large amount of food, while the
—In a colportage tour in Italy, the Rey. |Stock-breeding establishments are so far ad-
Mr. Eager found a surprising amount of ignor-| Vanced that the question of supplies for the
ance. In one place of ten thousand inhabitants | future seems likely to be easily settled. ‘The
the almost universal response to his offer to sell | Belgian King has given orders for the con-

the New Testament was, ‘We do not know] struction of a light-draught steamer for Mr.
how to read.’’ Stanley’s use on the upper waters of the Congo.

—TuE whole Bible has been translated into | /4¢ day is near at hand when the dwellers on
mineiA Rica languages, the New Testament the banks of this river, a thousand miles from
into nineteen, and parts of. the Bible into the ocean, will be startled by the whistle of a
thirty-one. steamer. The explorer, if not a missionary

Tae Swedish\ Cather! Mission ‘station’ at himself, should be followed at once by the mis-
McKullo, East Africa, now includes 76 mem- | °"™Y- -
berstianaieetarns baptisms during the year —Mr. STANLEY judges, from what ie has
covered by its report of G converts and 9 Christ- seen of the density of the population of Central
ian children. The boys’ school contains 43 Africa, that the Congo River basin must have
pupils, who are arranged in four classes. Be- | #9:900,000 residents. :
sides their native language the boys are taught| —No more items, and so we close our window.
Ethiopic (the church language of Abyssinia),
Swedish and German, history, geography,
mathematics, and religion. ‘The missionaries
attach particular importance to the discipline
of learning language, and they profess to find
that it is well for the pupils to know Swedish,
so that newly-arrived missionaries can begin to
instruct them at once. Swedish literature is
also largely depended upon as a medium of in-
struction.

—Tue British and Foreign Bible Society,
whose Bible depot at Alexandria was burned
during the rebellion of Arabi Pasha, waived
its claim for damages from the Egyptian Goy-
ernment. This was done for the reason that a
committee ascertained that the amount would
ultimately be drawn from the impoverished
taxpayers of the country. ‘The appreciation
of the Egyptian Government of this act of dis-
interestedness has been fully shown by Cherif
Pasha, who, in the name of the Khedive, has
sent a communication thanking the Society.

—An ‘‘Anti-Bad Literature Society”? is in
process of formation by the Evangelical Min-
isterial Association of Pittsburgh and Alle-
ghany. It proposes to’exert its influence to
arrest the rising tide of bad books, newspapers,
pictures, etc., a great work, a needed work.

—TIne London Daily Telegraph has an in-
teresting letter from Stanley Pool on the Congo
River in Africa, where Mr. Stanley himself has
now established his headquarters, and which
has recently become a centre of missionary
operations. The Pool is described as an ex-
panse of the Congo, twenty-five miles. long by
sixteen broad, abounding in islands, on which
are many hippopotami, elephants and buffaloes,
The town bears the name of Leopoldville, in
honor of the King of Belgium. Mr. Stanley
has a comfortable dwelling, with offices and
storehouses for the expedition, and there are
many neat houses for his Zanzibar helpers.
The English missionaries haye rented from the
Association, of which Mr. Stanley is agent, a
few acres for a nominal sum. Not far from

—Oor Colored Lutheran Day Schools are
well attended. In New Orleans there are 215
scholars, in Little Rock 116, in Meherrin, Va.,
40 scholars.

—Oor Loureran Hospirat in New York
City publishes the following report for the past
year: Patients treated, 107; Prescriptions,
1287; average daily expenses for each patient,
562 cents; receipts from different sources,
$6,836.12; expenditures, $6,210.01; balance
in treasury, $426.11.

—Two hundred and seventy-two new Lu-
theran houses of worship were dedicated in
this country last year, says the New York Wit-
ness. Of these, 162 were built by German,
62 by English, 7 by German-English, 26 by
Swedish, 7 by Norwegian, 7 by Norwegian-
Danish, and 1 by Danish congregations.

—From the report of our Lutheran Immi-
grant missionary in Baltimore we learn that
during the past year 1185 persons were assisted
on their westward journey and for many of
them employment was obtained. $8,565.47
passed through the missionary’s hands. $653.95
were loaned to those in temporary need, and
the entirely destitute were taken care of. 724
letters and postal cards were received and 656
were written by the missionary.

—In our Lutheran Churches at Ft. Wayne,
Ind., there will be 145 confirmed this year: In
St. Paul’s congregation, 68; Emmanuel’s, 51;
Zion’s, 26.

—In Milwaukee, Wis., there are 4634 pupils
in the Lutheran parochial schools of the churches
connected with the Wisconsin and Missouri
Synods.

—LourHer, it appears, was not forgotten
even among the Japanese! In Osaka, a city
of 375,000 inhabitants, a meeting was held of
upwards of 600 educated Japanese, among
whom were many leading statesmen, attor-
neys, physicians and’ men of letters. A very
able address was delivered in the Japanese by
# native converted to Christianity, concerning
Luther's Life and Work.

—Tse German Emperor has sent a copy of
the Bible to the Emperor of Japan, commend-
ing the principles of the Holy Book as a safe
basis for governments.

—Ar a sale of books a few days since in
New York City a copy of the second edition of
the Bible, as translated into the Indian language
‘by John Eliot, was disposed of for $950. It is

one of three of this edition known to be in ex-
“istence, the other two being in public libraries.
It was published at Cambridge in 1685.
__ —TsE Unitarian church at Elizabeth, New
ffered a young Christian lady of that
nual salary of $1500 if she would
le Unitarian choir. But she nobly de-

offer on the ground that she could
urch denying Christ’s divinity.
3 ago the number of missionaries
1 timated at 2000, and the

Wuen Moscow was burning, there was a
party dancing in the palace right over a gun-
powder magazine. They did not know the
flame was approaching, so the leader of the
festivity shouted, ‘‘One dance more!’ and the
voice was taken up through the palace, and
the cry was, “One dance more!”’ and the music!
played, and the feet bounded, and the laughter
rang out; but suddenly, through the fire and
the smoke and the thunder of the explosion,
eternity broke. Alas! that some will dance on
in their sins, and their frivolities, and their
worldliness, until in an hour that they know
not eternity breaks in and they are destroyed,
and that without remedy.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORLEANS, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 734
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.

EV. LUTH. Mr. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine Services at 7)4 Sunday evening and at 714 Thursday
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Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen cluss meets at 7% Tuesday evening.
N. J. Bakke, Missionary.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Litrce Rock, Arx.

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

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