The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1884, Page 28

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28 The Lutheran Pioneer.

with good paper and good print for the price
of one penny.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—WE have received the first number of a
little Monthly which will be heartily welcomed
by all our German pastors since it suppliesa want
long felt in our church. The name of the
Monthly is Lnturgische Monatsschrift, and its ob-
ject is to present in each number liturgical

_forms for such occasions as are not provided for

in the Liturgy which is used in our congrega-
tions. The first number brings an excellent
liturgical service for the dedication of a church.
The Monthly is edited by Rev. F. Lochner,
of Springfield, Ill., who is known as an able
judge in all questions relating to Church Lit-
urgy. ‘The price is 50 cts. per annum, and all
orders are to be sent to Rev. F. P. Merbitz,
Box 58, Beardstown, Ill.

—ANOTHER volume of Walch’s edition of
Luther’s Writings has Jeft the St. Louis press,
and contains the second part of the celebrated
“Family Sermons” of Luther. In speaking
of this volume the Workman, of Pittsburgh,

—Duriné the present century 150,000,000
copies of the Bible have been printed in 226
different languages.

» —Cuartes Reape, the well-known English
writer, wrote his own epitaph, which is to be
engraved on a plain grave-stone. In this
epitaph he says, “I hope for a resurrection,
not from any power in nature, but from the
will of the Lord God Omnipotent, who made
nature and me. He created man, which na-
ture could not. He can restore man from the
dust, which nature cannot. And I hope for
holiness and happiness in a future life, .not for
anything I have said or done in this body,
but from the merits and mediation of Jesus
Christ. ‘Him that cometh to Me I will in no
wise cast out.’ ‘If any man sin, we have an
advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
Righteous; and He is the propitiation for our
sins.’’”

says: “The printing, paper and binding leave
The Mis-

souri Synod, in the publication of the “ House

Postille’’ so early in the series, has wisely taken
; time by the forelock, before other and imper-
> fect editions could find their way among our
The two volumes, bound in one and
containing nearly 3,000 pages, is sold for the

absolutely nothing to be desired.

people.

small sum of $5.00, and 65 cents postage.

This volume, or the half of the whole, is offered

for $2.75, and 35 cents postage. Our German

pastors could not do a more useful work than
to get old Brother Martin to help them to
preach in every family in their charge.’’  Ad-

dress Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis,
Mo. :

—THE graduating class in our Seminary at St.
Louis this year numbered 38 students.
little Pioneer intends to pay them a monthly
visit in their future homes.

—TuereEare 44children in our Lutheran Deaf

and Dumb Asylum at Norris, Mich. ‘There is
hardly room to receive all that have already
applied for admission for the coming year.
—Txe Wartburg Orphans’ Home, situated
at Mt. Vernon, N. Y., recently celebrated its
eighteenth yearly festival. On this occasion
a new chapel was dedicated. The money for
the erection of this building, about $6,000 in
all, was contributed by an unknown friend.
Sixty-two children find a Christian home in
this institution.
_ —A Missionary in Mexico reports that on
the grogshops in that country the following
frank and significant titles may be seen: ‘‘ The
Vesuvius,” ‘‘The Shipwreck,” ‘‘The Delirium
Tremens,’’ ‘‘The Little Hell.”
the 7th of May the British and Foreign

Our

—Epwarp Smims, in England, is said to be
the oldest organist. He was born in 1800 and
performed his first service when only ten years
old. Since that date, a period of 74 years, he
has continued in the constant exercise of an
organist’s duties, and still conducts a full choral
service without assistance.

—A CHURCH WITH A SINGLE MEMBER.—In
the Presbytery of Lackawanna, Pa., there is a
church with only one member, a woman. But
she seems to be an efficient member, for the
report is that during the past year that church
has raised more money for the Lord’s work
than many churches with fifty male members.

of Pittsburg, Pa., was recently sent to the
workhouse for sixty days for disturbing wor-
ship in one of the local churches, The Christian
Advocate admonishes ‘‘those rough boys and
giggling girls who in some places disturb our
worship”’ to learn a Jesson from his fate. As
to dealing with such offenders, it says sternly,
““Expostulate once privately, once publicly,
then turn the disturbers over to the law.’’

—TueE missionaries in Southern India report,
that during the Luther Commemoration at the
stations of the Basel Society the Jesuits busied
themselves with distributing dirty libels against
Luther among the native Christians. Rome is
the same everywhere.

—Dnr. Jessup said that once while visiting
a Turkish official who had lived for some
months as a neighbor to a brother missionary,
he was told in a burst of confidence that this
brother was a most remarkable man; that his
conduct was, in fact, quite unaccountable, for
in all the time he, the Turk, had lived next to
him, separated only by a wall, he had never
heard his wife scream once or make the least
disturbance. That a man could live with his
wife for a twelvemonth without beating her or
having a family quarrel was quite incompre-
hensible to the Turkish mind.

—Norine the fact that a city councilman |=

Short Stops.

—‘‘ OrreNDED.’’—A certain pastor preached
against the sins prevailing among some of his
people. Thereupon the servant of a rich man
came to him with the complaint: ‘‘You offended
my master in your sermon to-day.’’ The pastor
replied: ‘Your master would not have felt him-
self offended by me, had he not been conscious
of having first. offended my Master—the Lord
Jesus; and if your master will persist in offend-
ing my Master, then let him be offended.’’ Let
all who take offense at their pastor's sermons,
ask themselves, before they complain, whether
they have not greatly offended the Divine
Master, who directs his ministers to rebuke his
offenders.

—Buip Leaders of the Blind. In many a
church it is as that farmer's wife told the
deacon, when he asked her how things looked
in the church: ‘Blind above (in the pulpit,)
and blind below (in the pews): ‘‘ You walk as
you are led.”

— ‘Moruer,”’ said a little urchin when he
came home, ‘‘I have seen such a smart
preacher. He stamped and made such a noise,
and then he got mad; be shook his fist at the
folks, and there wasn’t any body dared go up
and fight him.”’
some preachers.

—TuEeE question put toa noted talkerand theo-
rizer was a very apt one: ‘‘ What bave you
done?”’ It is doing in the world that is val-
uable; talk is cheap and fruitless.

—A Jos.—He who has nothing to do in this
world but to amuse himself, has got the hard-
est job on hand.

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 Gale at 714 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday

evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 714 Tuesday evening.

: N. J. BAKKE, Missionary.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock §- 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.

Divine service pandey, evening at 714 o'clock.
Sunday School from 10—12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.
E. Memasnpen, Missionary.
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