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Ordination and Installation at Little Rock. | the home where he has been loved and honored,
the leper goes out a helpless outcast. Hence-

forth no friendly door opens to welcome him;
no voice in accents of kindness fulls upon his
ear. Unable to toil, he begs from door to door,
and sleeps where the night overtakes him; to
satisfy his hunger gladly taking such food as is
“thrown to him’’; no fear of defilement now,
for who so vile as he? And so the months and

On Sunday, Nov. 16th, by appointment, the
writer ordained and installed Mr. George Allen-
bach, the new Missionary of the Little Ruck
Colored Mission.

Rey. J. Miller assisted at the ordination.
Ordination services were held in the German
Lutheran Church in the morning;, and install-
ation services were held in the evening in the

Colored Mission Church, where a large and
deeply interested congregation was gathered for

the occasion.

May the Lord add His blessing, guide- and
strengthen the new missionary in his laborious
and difficult office, and make him a blessed
means of doing much good and of making many

“wise unto salyation.’”” C.F. OBERMEYER.

Address: Rev. George Allenbach,
Lutheran Missionary,

1213 Rock Str., Little Rock, Ark.

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Lepers in India.

years drag wearily on, the awful disease doing
its deadly work, until the maimed and scarred
stump that remains scarcely seems the tenement
of a human soul.

The people of India provide asylums and
hospitals for animals, and to pet and pamper
the sacred cow, or the revered monkey, is re-
garded as an act of great merit, but to relieve
the sufferings of their stricken fellow creatures
they feel no responsibility.

But though the heathen inhabitants of this
land are thus indifferent to the woes of their
countrymen, Christians have been moved to
pity, and all over the land there are now asy-
lums for lepers. Many of these asylums, though
receiving grants-in-aid from Government, are

A correspondent of a New York paper writes:

A stranger in India visiting a bazar, or any
public place, will be shocked at the wretched
beings by whom he will be immediately sur-
rounded, each one asking an alms. Mothers
are in the throng and thrust upon the notice
of the visitor a puny hahe, a sightless child, or

under the superintendence of Christian mission-
aries, who, while dispensing the bounty put
into their hands for the physical relief of the
sufferers, have also a care for their immortal
souls. Some of the noblest, most devoted mis-
sionaries that India has known have been spe-

one with a hideous deformity. Children are

leading about a blind father or mother. The

maimed are there; and crawling at his feet
and imploring his pity and his pence are crea-

tures in all stages of wretchedness and defor-
mity. The Jeper, too, is there, and holds up
before the dismayed visitor his hands frightful
with the ravages of the pitiless disease that is
consuming his life; or, leaning on a stick and
hobbling painfully along, directs attention to
his stumps wrapped in loathsome rags; or, if
these members are sound, he implores the vis-
itor to look upon his marred visage.

Leprosy in India is painfully prevalent, and
is found both in the mountains and the plains.
It is said there are at least 125,000 of these

wretched sufferers here, and one authority
places the number at 200,000. The Jast census
shows that the disease is spreading in some parts
of India. In Berar the census of 1870 gave
_the number of lepers as 1,439, or six in every
10,000. The census of 1880 gave the number
as 3,748. In the city of Bombay alone there
are now 430 lepers.

The condition of no class of persons is so de-

plorable as that of the lepers. Not only are
_ they the victims of a loathsome and incurable
disease, their life a ‘‘living death,’’ but they

“are outcasts, homeless and helpless. When the
‘terrible disease makes its appearance in a men-
ber of a household, the afflicted one is cast out
iends and henceforth has neither name

cially interested in the lepers. During the last
decade the work has been greatly extended,
and has produced most gratifying results. Le-
pers, as a class, are most accessible, and receive
the ‘glad tidings’’ with peculiar joy.

The large leper asylum in Almora has been
in the care of the veteran missionary of the
station, the Rev. J. H. Budden, for more than
thirty years, and his loving labors have been
greatly blessed. Between the years 1864 and
1879, two hundred and seventy-two converts
from this asylum received Christian baptism,
and many others have since confessed their
faith in Christ.

Asall the lepers, Christian and non-Christian,
receive like treatment, there can be no selfish
motive to induce them to profess a fuith which
they do not possess. Some of the converts from
the leper community have been bright examples
of the power of Christ to change the heart, for
“even these poor victims are often slaves to
avarice, lust, malice, and all the other hateful
passions of sinful men.’

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The Dude and the Indian.

It is easy to decide which of the two young
men was the gentleman, in the following story
from an exchange:

“On a Fort Wayne train approaching Chi-
cago there was a short-statured, straight-haired,
copper-colored Indian, going back to the reser-
vation after a trip to the Indian school at Car-
lisle, Pa. He wore a nice suit of clothes which

fitted him badly, and a paper collar without
any necktie. -He attended strictly to his own |

business, and was unmolested until a young
sprig came into the smoking car from the sleeper.
‘An Indian, I guess,’ said the young chap, as
he lighted a cigarette. And then, approaching
the son of the plains, he attracted general
attention by shouting, with strange gestures:
‘Ugh, heap big Injun! Omaha? Sioux? Paw-
nee? See great father? Have drink firewater?

Warm Injun’s blood!’
“The copper colored savage gazed at the

young man a moment, with an ill-concealed
expression of contempt on his face, and then he
said, with good pronunciation: ‘You must have

been reading some dime novels, sir. Iam go-
ing back to my people in Montana, after spend-
ing three years in the East at school. LI advise
you to do the same thing. No. I do not drink
whisky. Where I live gentlemen do not carry
whisky flasks in their pockets.’

“The cigarette was not smoked out, and, amid
a general laugh, a much crestfallen young man
retired to the sleeping coach.’’

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In many instances the Bible has remarkably
proved itself by Jong-forgotten texts which have
come back to the memory, and by words upon
scraps of paper which have flashed converting
truth into the mind. A farmer one Sunday
returned from church where he had heard the
text, ‘The ox knoweth his owner, but Israel
doth not know, my people do not consider.’’
Going into his farm-yard, a favorite cow came
towards him to lick his hand; and the farmer,
who had been up to this time quite an ungodly
man, burst into tears as he thought, ‘Why,
that’s it! that poor creature knows me, and can
be’grateful to me, and yet I have never thought
of and never have been grateful to God.”

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,

New ORLEans, La.

fe EV. LUTU. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.

113 Annette Str , between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 7%

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

EV. LUTII. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra.

Divine pery ces at 714 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday
evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen cluss meets at 7/4 Tuesday evening.
N. J. Baxxe, Missionury.

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

Divine service Sunday evening at 74 0’ clock.

Sunday School trom 10—12.

Catechumen class mvets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.

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