The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1884, Page 20

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The Lutheran Pioneer |

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Oor Lutheran pastors in Pittsburgh have
started a new paper in the interest of the Con-
The
first number of the ‘‘ Pittsburgher Kirchen- und
The little
messenger starts on his journey very lively,
and there is something charming about him,
which, we doubt not, will open him many Lu-
The price of the monthly is
25 cts. per annum and it can be had by ad-
dressing Mr. E. H. Myers, 645 Liberty Str.,

cordia Orphan’s Home near that city.

Waisenbote’’ has been received.

theran homes.

Pittsburgh, Pa.

—TueEne are five German Lutheran churches
in Pittsburgh in connection with the Synodical
These churches support eleven
parochial schools in which more than 1000 pu-

Conference.

pils are daily instructed.

—Tne Protestant churches are making rapid
headway with religious work in Mexico. Their
mission schools are crowded with children and
the number of their communicants is steadily
increasing. It appears to be the policy of the
Government to foster the growth of the Prot-
estant churches with a view to weakening the
influence of the Romish church, which has been
in times past, and is yet, a hindrance to the

growth and prosperity of the country.
—Says the Christian Advocate:

tween the stake and the river.

—Awn establishment for the production of
cheap Bibles for general distribution occupies

‘the ground in Coldstream, Scotland, on which

stood the priory from which, in the reign of
Henry VIII., the Pope’s legate published a

bull against the printing of the Scriptures.
—Tae remarkable interest taken in Christian

mission by the average Scotchman was singu-
The pro-

larly shown recently at Aberdeen.
prietor of the Devanha House at that place,

who is an officer of the Free Church, erected a

canopy, with seats for 1200 persons, and called
@ missionary convention. The canopy was
found Jarge ‘enough for the morning session,
but in the afternoon large numbers were com-
pelled to find seats on the lawn outside, and in
the evening the greater part of the Jawn was
covered with an audience numbering about
=i 5000. Think, says the Foreign Missionary, of
the proprietor of some Saratoga hotel erecting
such a tent on his lawn for a foreign mission-
ary meeting; and what is perhaps stranger
still, think of such an audience of Americans
—1200 in the morning, a large number in the
afternoon, and 5000 in the evening, turning
_ out to hear speeches on foreign missions!
‘DURING a visit made to New Guinea and

“Times
change. There is a Bible-stand near the Piazza
della Signoria, in Florence, where Savonarola
was burned at the stake in 1498. A resident
thus writes: ‘The ashes of the celebrated prior
of S. Marco were thrown into the Arno, but
the Word for which he and many others suf-
fered is now being publicly sold midway be-

and native teachers spent a night on Darnley
Island, when a project was formed to establish
a mission on another of the islands, named
Murray Island. Some of the natives of the
island in question seemed specially intent on
intimidating the teachers, and convincing them
that a mission. there was perfectly hopeless.
“There are alligators there,” said they, ‘‘and
snakes and centipedes.’’ ‘““Hold!’’ said Tepeso,
one of the teachers; ‘‘Are there men there?”
““Oh, yes,’’ was the reply, “there are men;
but they are such dreadful savages that it is no
use your thinking of living among them.”
“That will do,’”’ responded Tepeso. ‘*Where-
ever there are men, missionaries are bound to
go.’ A noble reply, worthy a disciple of Him
who commands his followers to ‘‘Go into all the
world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.”’
—Mavuraisa district, with a city of the same
name, in the south of British India, its eastern
boundary being the strait or gulf which separ-
ates the island of Ceylon from the mainland.
It is the seat of mission work, regarding which
we find noted the following: ‘‘A christian
church has been built with stones from the
ruins of a heathen temple, by the native con-
verts connected with the Madura Mission.’’

—Tue Church Missionary Society reports
that a bribe of £5,000 was refused by a native
missionary in India. His old invalid aunt came
and embraced his feet, saying, ‘‘I will give
50,000 rupees up to you this moment if you
will only come with me and promise not to be
a Christian.’’ He answered her, ‘‘I cannot sell
my soul for money.’”

—In India there exist special mission socie-
ties for the care of lepers. Within a year
twenty-eight have been baptized in several
asylums in the north of India—nineteen in
one day in one place.

—Bur very little attention is paid in China
to the education of women. A lady missionary,
who has been teaching and traveling for nearly
ten years in China, says that out of eight hun-
dred women whom she had visited, only four
could read at all, and only one could read the
Chinese language well.

—TneEnrE is a Chinaman at work in Tahiti, in
the South Sea Islands, who expends $20 a
month out of a salary of $25, for Bibles to dis-
tribute among his countrymen.

—Recent letters from the agent of the
American Bible Society in Japan state that a
number of Japanese Christians have presented
a formal and earnest appeal to be allowed to
take part in the work of translating the Old
Testament. They speak of the blessings which
had come to them through the New Testament,
which had been already published and widely
circulated; of the evils which would ensue if
the remaining work was not properly done; and
of the want of uniformity in style which would
mark a translation produced by the labors of
many different scholars working apart..

—Aw editorial in a Tokio, Japan, paper est-

While opposed to Christianity, the writer thinks
it cannot be put down by force, and that the
government should tolerate it, repeal its laws
against it, which are not enforced, and leave
each man to believe or reject it as he pleases.
—ACCORDING to the Gospel in all Lands, the
Rev. Thomas Crosby writes that there never
was a greater interest taken by the Indians
among whom he labors in the study of the
Bible than now. ‘‘We have had as many as
sixty and eighty old people meet after the
Sunday morning service, to commit to memory
the text in their native tongue. These old *
people, many of them gray-headed and with
staff in hand, seem to delight to stay for the —
text, and thus they go off with one more verse
of God’s Word to comfort and bless them. One
old woman said: ‘Missionary, you think, per-
haps, that I forget all the good words. No, I
have a little box full of pebbles, and I have a
text in my heart for every pebble I put into it.’”

_—_—_—> - o<m eo + ee

A SienauL.—Red on a railroad signifies dan-
ger, and says “Stop!” It is the same thing
displayed on a man’s nose.

BOOK-TABLE.

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Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEANS, La.

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

Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 744
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 714 Sunday evening and at 74 Thursday
evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 714 Tuesday evening.
N. J. Baxxe, Missionary.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Litt.e Kock, Ark.

eatvell on corner of 12th and Rock Sts.
Sunday-school meets Sreryisunday; at 20’clock.
Divine services at 3 o’clock and 7 0’clock.

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imates the martyrs to Christianity at 280,000. Bosco College; Fort Wayne, Ind.