The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1884, Page 36

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—ArT the recent meeting of the Evangelical
Lutheran Conference at Cleveland, Ohio, much
time was devoted to the interests of our Colored
Mission. It was resolved to carry on this mis-
sion With greater vigor than heretofore. .

—WE have received the reports of the Lu-
theran Orphan Asylums at Addison, Ill., and
at St. Louis, Mo. In the Home at Addison
there are 102 children. The receipts during
the past year were $8452.25, ‘the expenditures
$4479.49. In the Home at St. Louis there
are 80 children. The receipts during the past
year were $10821.66, the expenditures $9684.02.

—Txe Lutheran Hospital at St. Louis has
found a new home in a large and beautiful
building near the Concordia Seminary. There
were 82 patients in the Hospital during the
past year.

—From the Catalogue of the educational
institutions of the Lutheran Missouri Synod we
see that these institutions are in a prosperous
condition. During the past school year there
were about 900 pupils and 34 professors. Of
these the seminary at St. Louis had 107 stu-
dents and 6 professors; the college in Fort
Wayne 176 students and 7 professors; the

practical seminary at Springfield, Ill., 189 stu-
dents and 4 professors; the teachers’ seminary
at Addison, Ill., 151 students and 7 professors.
The Synod also has preparatory schools at Con-
cordia, Mo., Milwaukee, New York, St. Louis
and New Orleans, with together 267 scholars
and 12 teachers.

—FIvE years ago there were but two Ger-
man Lutheran congregationsin Arkansas. Now
there are eleven with seven church buildings.

—WNIneE years ago there was but one Lu-
theran missionary and a struggling congregation
in northwestern Wisconsin. Now there are
seven pastorates and about 24 congregations.

—TneE most of the large number of Norwe-
gians in this country are Lutherans. The
largest body is the Norwegian Synod, with its
184 pastors, 607 congregations and 72,676 com-
municants.

—Txe Norwegian missionaries among the
Zulus in Africa have suffered along with the
others from the troubled condition of the coun-
try, yet they are able to report many evidences
that the gospel has taken deep root among their

people. Of their stations, Ekome, Ekombe,
and Ugoje, lie in the so-called Reserve, while

tions. If, as has been estimated, the numerous Short Stops.
Bible societies and private publishers have
issued as many more copies, the number of
copies of the Scriptures printed would about
equal a copy for every family now living on the
globe.

—TueE following we clip from the Protestant
Standard, which speaks for itself: ‘‘The four
hundredth anniversary of Luther’s birthday
brought out 7,000 publications regarding him
as a reformer. We do not wonder that the
Roman priests gnashed upon the Protestants
and tried to stem the great wave of popular
feeling evoked by Luther’s memory. But the
protests and twaddle of the pope’s lacqueys have
been swept under as with a tidal wave.”

—Dr. Brown of Edinburgh, formerly a
Romish priest and Professor of Metaphysics and
Theology, has renounced Romanism and become
a pastor of a Protestant church in Scotland.

—TueE residents of Galicia, the northeastern
province of Austria, are petitioning the Em-
peror to expel all Jesuits from that province.
Their demands are so extortionate that the
people are unable to pay the government taxes
and keep from starvation.

—THERE are nearly one thousand Romanist
converts in the Protestant churches of Rome,
as the result of ten years’ mission work.

—In Bolivia, South America, where, in 1877,
a devoted Italian Bible colporteur was cruelly
murdered on account of religious hatred, two
agents of the Bible Society last year passed the
same region, were kindly received, and sold
581 copies of the Scriptures in four days.

—Forry-OnE years ago thirteen missionaries
met in Hong Kong to consult as to the means
of working .to the best advantage in China’s
five newly-opened ports. Nineteen years ago
there were ninety-one missionaries at work in
the seaboard provinces of the empire. To-day
there are four hundred and twenty-eight—a
large number, it is true; but what are they
among so many, now that the whole empire is
open to Christian laborers? ;

—Wau Sr Les, a Chinaman, who has
saved over $15,000 in the Jaundry business,
has applied for admission to the Cornell Uni-
versity. He says that he has been converted
to Christianity, and that he intends to go out
as a missionary to China. .

—Onz of our exchanges has this remark on
the gift of a late member of its church: ‘Our

—A Sporrine Man said, after hearing Bob
Ingersoll’s (infidel) lecture: “It was a spicy
thing to laugh at for an hour, but not a very
cheering doctrine to have around when there
is a funeral in the house.’’

—WHAT CAN you po?—There was once a
man who wanted to be made an elder in a
church. His pastor began to question him
about his qualifications for the office. ‘Can
you teach?’’ ‘*No, I am not educated.’’
‘Well, what can you do?” “If anything is
brought up in the session that I do not like,
I think Ican manage to raise an objection.”
Whether his ambition was gratified by an ap-
pointment to the eldership is not stated, but it
is safe to say that a good many men like him
have had church offices of some sort. Very
able men in the objecting line are not rare.

—Curar Nororrery.—The New York Tri-
bune said recently: ‘‘The readiest way for a
mediocre man to gain notoriety is for him to
proclaim himself an infidel and attack the
Bible. His blows may be as feeble as a hen’s
pecking, but they are sure to attract notice,
because of the holy and tender regard in which
the object he assails is held by the noblest part
of the race.’’ It requires no more genius to
obtain notoriety by infidel assaults on the Bible
than it does to obtain it by murder or burglary
or any other conduct that shocks the moral
sense of the community.

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Too many of us are like the little girl, who,
at the close of her evening prayer one day,
said, ‘‘Now, good-by God; good-by Jesus
Christ; I’m going to Boston to-morrow.’’

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New OR.LEaAns, La.
EY. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str,, between Claiborne and Dirbigny.

Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 714
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.

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

Divine services at 7}4 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 S—9 Wednesday evening.

church and missions were handsomely remem-
bered last week in a liberal gift from the hands
of Mother Sarah Schafstall, of Fairfield Co., O.,
recently deceased. She gave $50 to Japan,
$50 to Germany and $50 to the Ohio Conference,
to be used at their own discretion. Many have
given more money, but none greater gifts, for
she gave all she had.’’

—In reply to several inquiries we state that
the editor of this paper did tender his resigna-
tion at the recent sessions of the Synodical Con-
ference, but, we are sorry to say, it was not
accepted, and we—close our window.

the other three stations are in the country that
was restored to Cetewayo. At the former
station the mission house and church have been
rebuilt; and a seminary has been established,
" where four students are taught.
_ —For the last thirty-four years the Bible
ies of England and America have printed
-ten thousand copies for each business day.
an outlay of almost $65,000,000,000,
hundred and forty-five million copies
riptures have been published by these
eties since their formation in 1804 and

TERMS:

Tax LuruEran Pronger is published monthly,
payable in adyance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wit:

1 Copy
10 Copies .
Dy UT

BO Rei etsensesssess 9.00

Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent
to one address.

All business communications to be addressed to
“Luth. Concordia Publishing House,’”’ M. C. Bar-
THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo. maths

communications concerning the editorial de-
pareaent to be addressed to Pror. R. A. BiscHorr,
mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.

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