The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1884, Page 32

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With the Lord.

of our beloved missionary at Little Rock, Ark.

Dear Bro.!

death at Little Rock, Arkansas.

sickness was ‘‘typhoid-malarial fever.””

day, and buried there Wednesday.

ary for Little Rock at once.
Yours Fraternally
C. F. OBERMEYER.
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A Lutheran Missionary Festival.

We clip the following from a Fort Wayne
paper: The Lutheran Mission feast on the

Concordia college grounds yesterday was very
largely attended, not only by the Lutherans

of this city, but also from all parts of the

county. ‘The exercises were held in the beau-
tiful little grove on the grounds, where a

speaker's stand, a band stand, and a large
number of seats were placed in position.

The exercises opened at 10 o’clock with a
selection by the St. Paul’s band, which also
accompanied the singing of the hymns by the
congregation. The sermon in the forenoon
was by Rev. F. Dreyer, of Zion’s church, and
was pronounced hy all an excellent one. The
noon hour was spent in social intercourse and
eating Junch; the majority partook of lunch in
the dining room of the college, which had heen
provided by the Jadies. At 2 o'clock the re-
ligious exercises again began by the singing of
a hymn by the entire congregation, after which
Rey. E. Kaehler preached a sermon, his text
being “Thy Kingdom Come.” After another
hymn, Prof. Bischoff, editor of the Znutheran
Pioneer, spoke about the Lutheran Mission
among the colored people in the south. This
synod now has a regular colored congregation

 at.Little Rock, Ark., two in New Orleans, and
Virginia. Each of these congregations
parochial school connected with the

The following letter informs us of the departure

It is with pain and grief that I bring to you
and to the readers of the ProNEER the sad and
melancholy intelligence of Bro. Meilaender's

Bro. Meilaender, our beloved missionary at
Little Rock, died here last Saturday (July 19.)

- at 5 p.M., after a lingering sickness of 15 days.
When he died he was 25 years and 7 months
old, and had been married but 3 months. His

We do not doubt that he died a blessed_death,
his only comfort, advocate, shield, and strength
on his sick-bed being Jesus Christ, our Saviour.
His aged father from Cleveland, O., hastened
to his sick-bed, but alas, too late; when the
poor father arrived his‘son was already dead.
His father- and mother-in-law from Indian-
apolis, Ind., were present when he died. Bro.
M.’s body was taken to Indianapolis on Mon-

God grant that we may find another Mission-

The collections together with the proceeds
from the lunch amounted to $650.00. The
occasion was a feast long to be remembered by
all the participants.

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Polynesia.

“Tre Joun Wiui1aMs.’’—Three vessels by
this name have been in the employ of the-Lon-
don Missionary Society in caring for its work
in the South Seas. In May last Captain Tur-
pie, who has sailed in this service for twenty-
six years, made an address in London giving
an interesting account of the work he has wit-
nessed while in command of the John Williams.
The home port of the vessel is Sydney, Aus-
tralia, from which place she sails, usually in
March, for Tahiti, four thousand miles, and
the missionary on board visits the islands in
the Austral and Society groups. Captain Turpie
says that in the Austral group instead of heathen
temples with human sacrifices, the natives
build ships, and sail them, export their own
products, and import cotton, and that they
have chartered vessels to go to San Francisco
and bring chapels, paying for them before they
are opened. Of one dark island of the Ellis
group Captain Turpie says: ‘‘I think we were
the first white men that they had ever seen.
We were two hours in effecting ‘a landing
amongst them, and when we did so we had to
stand another hour to be put through heathen-
ish ceremonies to propitiate the gods, lest we
should bring disease into the isiand. When
we asked the old king to allow Christianity to
-be introduced into the island, he said, ‘No; the
gods of Nanomango are my gods; we know of
no other, and do not want you or your message.’
They were herding together at that time like
beasts, and that isa mild way of putting it.
In that island now, under-the care of a young
Samoan teacher, named John, the people have
learned to read and write, and they are reading
the Word of God in their own tongue, for you
will bear in mind that the Scriptures were
translated into their language, as they speak
nearly the Samoan tongue. All this hus taken
place in less than eleven years.” Of New
Guinea, and what has been accomplished there,
Captain Turpie says: ‘Two years ago I was
returning from New Guinea to the Loyalty
group, after landing a devoted band of teachers
there, and in conversation with one of the
teachers belonging to Murray, I said to him,
‘Did you not feel nervous when you were
landed, to do your best at East Cape?’ He
said, ‘No, I did not.’ Isaid, ‘I think I should.’
‘Well,’ he said, ‘here is the difference between
you and me. J know in my own experience
what the Gospel has done for myself. I was
born in heathenism, I lived almost to maturity
in heathenism, and I know what the Gospel
has done at Murray. It has changed the people
of Murray entirely, and I have full faith that
it can change the people of New Guinea. On
that faith I went, and on that faith I will go
back.’ Ispeak from experience as a ship-master

The Lutheran Pioneer.

when I say that ships from Australia bound to
China, to the East Indies, to Ceylon, to Mau-
ritius, avoided the New Guinea coast as they
would the pestilence, and that little or none of
it was known until the London Missionary So-
ciety commenced its work there, and now a
shipwrecked crew may find succor and help
from itsinhabitants. All this has been secured,
though the society only commenced its oper-
ations there some seven years ago.”

Lutheranism on an Island.

A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette,
London, has been describing in a charming
series of letters the primitive island of Rugen,
off Pommerania, in the Baltic Sea. It is a
wild, unfrequented lovely spot, the seat of the
ancient worship of the goddess Hertha, by the
Black Lake, which Tacitus mentions. We ex-
tract a picture of the worship of to-day:

‘‘The entire population of Rugen is Lu-
theran. All is still primitive here, and service
continues to be held out of doors. We went
on Sunday evening, and found the congregation
awaiting the pastor in a semi-circular space cut
out of the forest. Planks were laid on the
mossy turf, and, like the early Christians in
the time of persecution, here we sat till the
pastor should arrive. His gown and bands
were hanging in readiness on a bush hard by,
and when at last he appeared he made his
toilet for the pulpit behind a tree; then, stand-
ing in the midst of us, preached a sermon and
gave forth the hymns, the congregation form-
ing the choir—a pretty, touching ceremonial,”’

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 744
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.

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

Divine services at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 74 Thursday
evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 74 Tuesday evening.
N. J. BAKKE, Misslonary.

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

Divine service pander, evening at 714 0’ clock.
Sunday School from 10—12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Weslnesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.

E. MEILAENDER, Missionary.

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