The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1885, Page 8

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—A PrrrsBurGH correspondent states that
the largest denomination in the cities of Pitts-
burgh and Alleghany is the Lutheran with
11,350 members.

—Ir has been said that only the common
people, and not the men of high standing
among the heathen in India, are won for Christ
by the work of the missionaries. Recently,
however, a Moslem of considerable influence
in Calcutta renounced Mohammedanism and
accepted the Gospel. He had been a champion
of Islam against Christian teachers. Another,
in Northern India, who has adopted Christian-
ity, has been abandoned by his Mohammedan
wife, and is, of course, subjected to bitter per-
secution by his former heathen friends.

—Tae New York Evening Post publishes a

letter from Montreal regarding the immoral-
ity existing among the Romish clergy in that
province of Canada. A priest at the Cathedral
was removed from the pulpit in a helpless state
of intoxication. Two others were brought into
court charged with scandalous living and gross
immorality. Several cases have also recently
occurred which are opening the eyes of the
people of the Province to the fact that the
management of the asylums and other institu-
tions conducted by the Romish Sisters of Mercy
is not just asit should be. ‘The startling fact
that a sane woman can be confined in a lunatic
asylum for three years to gratify the vengeance
of an unfaithful husband, as proved by the
recent trial of Mrs. Lyman, has also had the
effect of rousing the public mind to the dangers
attending institutions conducted by the nuns
with no proper system of Government or med-
ical.inspection.

—A MIss{onaRy society of married Christian
Chinese women-in San Francisco meet monthly
and support a Bible agent in their native Jand.

—Tse New York Independent says: The
publication of the various Lutheran year books
and almanacs again emphasizes a fact that has
been noticed before. ‘The statistics all go to
show that in the somewhat remarkable growth
of this denomination within the past decade or
two, the various bodies have increased in pro-
portion as they are distinct and outspoken in
their confessionalism.

—Two of the most influential of the African

‘King Mtesa’s daughters have been received in-
to the Mission church in Uganda, since which
time they have been engaged in giving instruc-
tion to others. One of the king's favorite
‘daughters, who formerly came to the mission-
aries for instruction, died not long since of
smallpox. The missionaries trust that she
-had found the pearl of great price. ‘There is
@ great change since that day, not very long
ago, when the King of Uganda impressed the
first explorers with his skill in the use of fire-
_ arms by marching out some of his women as
_ —TdE prison inspectors of Rhenish Prussia

three fourths of-the prisoners under their care
become lawless through drunkenness.

—Four years ago the Romish bishop of
Montreal visited Rome, and, as is common
with relic hunters of his sect, bought a lot of
old bones said to be those of St. Claudius and
St. Juliana. The elated bishop bore back his
prizes to Canada and with much ostentation
presented the bones to two of his churches.
Special altars were erected for the reception
of the precious relics and amid great pomp and
ceremony they were blessed. The Romish
people rejoiced in the possession of such “holy
gifts,’”’ and when parts of the bones were burnt,
they invested thousands of dollars in the ‘‘sacred
dust.’’ It now turns out that the relics are not
genuine at all. A cunning Jewish relic merch-
ant doing business in Rome palmed the old
bones off upon the bishop as the real thing,
but whose they were when living no one knows.
The bogus relics will now be cast out, but how
will the poor people get back their money?
The Romish sect: received many thousand dol-
lars from this source, but then this sect never
returns the money it has once gotten hold of.
It would soon be bankrupt if it had to return
all the money out of which the Romish people
are daily cheated. Poor deluded souls! Their
money is thrown away even if such relics were
genuine. We thank God for the pure gospel
light of salvation through Christ alone given
to us through the Reformation of Dr. Martin
Luther.

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Short Stops.

—Deront, a Romish priest, was a rather
tedious speaker. His custom was to tell his
hearers over and over again the praises of the
Romish saints, and especially of the founder
of the Jesuits. One day he in his sermon com-
pared him with all the angels, and could find
no place honorable enough for him, and at a
loss for further words cried out: ‘“Where shall
we place this great man?’”’ A gentleman in
the congregation, whose patience was exhausted,
arose and said: ‘‘Since you are so puzzled, you
may give him my place, for I am going.’’

—Bora pisnonest. ‘How is it, Mr.
Brown,” said a miller to a farmer, “that when
I came to measure those ten barrels of apples
I bought from you I found them nearly two
barrels short?’”’ Singular, very singular; for
I sent them to you in ten of your own flour
barrels.’ ‘Ahem! Did, eh?’’ said the miller,
‘*well, perhaps I made the mistake.’’

—WHEN a pagan embassador asked Queen
Victoria the secret of England’s national great-
ness, she gave him a Bible and said: ‘That is
the secret of the greatness of England.”

——— 3a
Take the Safe Path, Papa.

__A father, who was picking his way carefully
along the mountain side, heard the voice of his
child, saying, ‘Take a safe path, papa, I’m

if fathers would
only, while climbing the rugged hill of life,
notice that as they walk, so their children
coming on after them will walk, how much
more careful they would be about their path.
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Ah!

coming after you.”

When a Mother’s Duty begins.

A mother once asked a clergyman when she
should begin the education of her child, which
she told him was four years old. ‘Madam,’
was the reply, ‘“‘you have lost three years al-
ready. From the very first smile that gleams
over the infant’s cheek your opportunity begins.’”

BOOK-TABLE.

Picture or Curist; size 2432 inches. Louis
Lange, Jr., cor. Clara & Miami Strs., St. Louis,
Mo. Price $2.00.

This is an excellent lithograph after a painting of
Raphael, the ‘‘great master-artist.”’ It represents
the Saviour crowned with thorns and bowed down
under the burden of the cross on His way to Cal-
vary. It depicts with grandeur and simplicity the
deep agony of the suffering God-Man, the unfathom-
able love of the weeping Jesus, bowed down under
the sins of aruined world. We heartily recommend
it to our readers as a most beautiful and belitting -
ornament in every Christian home.

BIBLicaL wisTory. Comprising: Old and New
Testament. Told in Words of Holy Scripture.
Explained by Catechism, Parallel Bible Verses
and Hymn Stanzas, and Illustrated with 125 en-
gravings and Maps. OLD TESTAMENT, 12 mo.,
pp. 150. Price, 30cts.; per doz., $3.00. <Allen-
town: Brobst, Dich] & Co.

Stories From BrisLeE History, for Home and
School. Illustrated. Pilger Book Store, Read-
ing, Pa. Price: Boards, leather back, single ~
copy, 40 cts.; per dozen $3.60; per hundred
$28.00. Cloth 45 cts.; per doz. $4.20; per
hundred $32.00.

The object of the book is “to meet the wants of
the younger children; to increase their love for the
Bible; and to lead the way to the use of the larger
Biblical History.”’

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 Lies at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 7)4 Thursday
evening.
Sunday Schiool meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 7}4 Tuesday evening.
N. J. BAKKE, Missionary.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service sunday evening at 714 o’clock.
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Sunday School from 2.
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.

Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.
G. ALLENBACH, Missionary.

TERMS:
Tse LutHeraNn Pioneer is published monthly,
payable in advance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wit:

Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent

to one address.
All business communications to be addressed to *
“uth. Concordia Publishing House,’’ M. 0. Baz-
THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo.
li communications concerning the editorial de-
partment to be addressed to Pror. R. A. Biscnorr,
mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.