The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1884, Page 24

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—From May 7th—17th the Lutheran Synod
of Missouri, Ohio and other States held its ses-
sions in the beautiful chapel of the new semin-
ary at St. Louis, Mo. There were present 284
delegates, and a large number of visitors from
different parts of the United States and Canada.
The truth that every doctrine of faith must be
taken from those passages of Scriptures in
which God expressly reveals that doctrine
formed the subject of the doctrinal discussions.
Most of the sessions were devoted to business
matters. The interests of the Synod’s educa-
tional institutions and mission work among the
Jews, Immigrants and colored people were con-
sidered and the necessary provisions made.

—WE have received the annual report of
the Martin Luther Orphans’ Home, Boston,
Mass. 41 orphan children and several aged
persons are provided for in this Home, which
is kept up by the voluntary contributions of
Lutheran congregations.

—Tue Luther statue was unveiled at Wash-
ington on May 21. A correspondent writes:
“There were about 7,000 spectators. Justice
Miller, of the Supreme Court, presided, and
Senator Conger, of Michigan, delivered an
address. The cord attached to the flag cover-
ing the statue was then pulled, and as the dra-
pery fell, disclosing the face of the great Re-

former, the Marine Band rendered Luther's fa-
mous battle hymn. The statue is doubly ap-
preciated in Washington as a change from the
line of statues of the military heroes with which
the city is so liberally ornamented. Just now
the Luther statue glistens like new copper, but
a few years’ exposure will tone it to the rich
bronze hues of the statues near it. Near by are
the statues of Gen. Thomas, and McPherson,
and Scott. In this neighborhood of warlike
heroes on horseback the figure of Martin Luther
has a certain grandeur as we behold the great
Reformer in his simple ministerial robes and
carrying the Bible in his left hand.’’

—More than two-thirds of the boys, nearly
all that could read, in the New York House of
Refuge, Randall's Island, had been in the ha-
bit of reading vile and trashy publications. So
says the superintendent. Many other boys are
on the same road to ruin.

—TaE son of a wealthy farmer near Muncie,
Ind., recently committed suicide, and the cause
given for the horrible deed was the excitement

‘occasioned by reading dime novels and other
pernicious literature.

—Ir is claimed that the Missouri botanical
gardens, near St. Louis, have a complete col-
lection of living specimens of all the plants
‘mentioned in the Bible. ahs
_ —TneE annual report of the British and For-
ign Bible society: presents, in one view, the
immensity of the circulation of the Scriptures

all the time, and in all parts of the
ible globe. This one Society has issued du-
e past year, of Bibles, Testaments and por-
ut 10,000'a day; 2 total of 2,938,000;

Add

and from its organization, 93,053,000!
to this the Hibernian Society’s issues, 65,675;
the issues of the National Society of Scotland,
468,775, and those of the American Bible So-
ciety, 1,524,773, and we have a total issue for
the past year, by four great societies, of 4,989,-
224 copies. And to this must be added the
issues of many smaller societies, of private
enterprise, and the vast multitude of the re-
vised New Testaments, if we would compass
the work of publishing the Scriptures as re-
corded in 1881—2. This is simply prodigious,
falling not much short of six and a half or
seven million copies. But we do not get the
full significance of this work till we follow the
colporteurs of a great society like this into
every nook and corner of the habitable globe
—about 300 scattered throughout Europe, and
200 in the regions beyond.

—TaeE Reformed Messenger says: A Phila-
delphia clergyman was to receive an educated
parrot as a fee for marrying a couple, and
loaned the groom two dollars and a-half to buy
a cage in which to bring it home, but never
heard of the parties afterwards.

—Tue late Mr. Marquand, of Connecticut,
once said to one who thought to do him a favor
by preventing an applicant for aid from calling
upon him: ‘‘I do not thank any man for com-
ing between me and a solicitation for any
worthy cause.’”’ A Christian should never be
troubled because he is asked to give. If he
cannot give he may well be sorry; but if he
does not wish to give he ought to be more than
sorry—he should be alarmed. Lack of money
is by no means s0 sad as is the lack of a dis-
position to contribute of what one has. A man
often shuts the door in the face of his best
friend when he shuts off an appeal to his
benevolence.

—Ar one of the May meetings in Boston a
distinguished D. D. said in vindication of his
course as a Christian preacher and reformer,
*T am not afraid of the devil!’’ Another said
in reply, {‘That is not the great point, but
this: ‘‘Is the devil afraid of you, Doctor?”’
We must have good evidence that the father
of lies is afraid of our influence.

——_2—- oe —e

Short Stops. —

—An Fastern Paper thinks that-‘‘one reason
why the world is so unwilling to join the
church, is because the church is so very willing
to join the world.”’ There is much truth in this.

—TnaeE first American flag was made hy Lu-
theran ladies, members of the Old Swedes
Lutheran Church in Philadelphia.

—Many persons count their losses off the
Lord. The way it is done is illustrated by a
little girl who coaxed two nickels from her
father, saying she would spend one for candy
and the other she would give to the mission-
aries. Before executing her expressed inten-
tions she lost one while at play, and running to
her mamma, said: “‘O mamma, I have lost my
missionary nickel.’? — Seep oc

The Lutheran Pioneer.

—Many parents may learn a lesson from
the colored mother who led her toddling baby
to the table in the church, and lifted him up
that he might drop his penny into the basket
from his own fingers. ‘‘Have patience, brud-
der,’’ she said, to a scowling deacon; ‘I want
to bring him up to it.’’ She had struck the
right principle. If men and women ought to
give to support and spread the Gospel, the
children should be brought up to do so, that
they may carry on the work when their par-
ents have gone to their reward.

—In St. Peter’s church in Rome there is
room for 54,000 persons, hut there is no room
for the Gospel in that temple of the pope.

—TueE Boox Trur.—A colored man was
once told by a friend that some man had said
the Bible was not true. Now, this poor man
had never thought anybody could doubt the
Bible; but his quick way of disposing of the
novel difficulty was, ‘‘Dat Book not true!
Why, I take it into my house, and I sit down
and read it, and it make my heart laugh.
How can it be a lie dat make my heart laugh?
I was a drunkard, thief, and liar, and dat book

talk to me and make me a new man. Dat
book no lie.’’

BOOK-TABLE.
LuTuER’s LETTER ‘to his little son Hans. With

five illustrations. Pilger Book Store, Reading,
Pa. Price, by the dozen @ 6 cts.; by the hun-
dred @ 5 cts.; single copy 8 cts.
A charming little book for the little ones.
same can be had in German.

SacreD Praces. By Rev. E. Greenwald, D.D. Pil-
ger Book Store, Reading, Pa. Price, 50 cts; by
the dozen @ 35 cts.; by the hundred @ 30 cts.

This excellent work on Sacred Places is ‘‘designed
for the older scholars of the Sunday School.” By
its use tliey will be made acquainted with the sacred
places mentioned in the Holy Scriptures and will
thus be aided in their Bible study.

The

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 74

o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.

EV. LUTH. MI. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.

Divine services at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 714 Thursday

evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’ clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 7/4 Tuesday eveping.

N. J. Bakke, Missionary.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Litre Kock, Anx.

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 0’clock.

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