The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1885, Page 16

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‘The orrerecen Pioneer.

rich farmer in West Virginia. A year ago he
sent his mother, who was helpless, to the poor-
house, but the authorities, knowing her son to
be able to give her better accommodation than
she could get at the infirmary, compelled him
to take her home. He then built her a pen in
the yard and gave her the same care as he
gave his horses. During the extreme cold
weather of the winter she suffered much, and
her limbs were frozen. One night, in the cold
weather, she crawled from her cold pen to her
son’s door and begged admission, which was re-
fused, according to the story told by one of her
grandchildren. Next morning she was found
in the yard frozen to death. As soon as the
neighbors learned the facts they organized in
order to secure the punishment of the miserable
wretch. God says: ‘‘Cursed be he that setteth
light by his father or his mother,’ Deut. 27, 16.

—‘WHERE ARE THE NINE?”’—A physician
in one of the large charitable institutions of
New England devoted to the cure of bodily in-
firmities, told an attendant to note’the number
of patients, who expressed thanks for their re-
covery. The result was that out of 3,000
patients whom he attended: in a given time,
only three expressed any gratitude to the
physicians who were instrumental in restoring
them to health.

—THERE are now 264 evangelical congrega-
tions in Mexico, with 30,000 permanent ad-
herents.

—Tue Lutheran Church of Denmark has
the honor of being the first to send the Gospel
to the West Indies, ‘as well as to the East
Indies.

—Tue Norwegian Lutheran schools among
the heathen in Madagascar gained twenty
thousand children last year.

—Ir is noted by the{Christian World (Lon-
don) that the last three Lord,Chancellors of
England, the eminent lawyers Earl Cairns,
Lord Hatherly and.the Earl of Selbourne, have
all been Sunday-school teachers, and well
known for their Christian character. }

—TxE Universities Mission of England has
‘been engaged for a number of years in educat-
ing boys in the mission schools of Zanzibar,
Mombasa, and other places on the African con-
tinent. Many of these boys were torn from
their homes in the interior of Africa and sold
into slavery. These young men are now going
back to Lake Nyassa, where they are to be
stationed in the towns along its coast in the
missionary work. A little steamboat, costing
$15,000, has been built for their use. It is to
be taken in small pieces to the lake, where it
will be put together. It will leave the young
men at the villages to which they are assigned.

—LarGeE numbers of colored people who
emigrated to Kansas a year or two ago now

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—GENERAL Gorpon, the hero of Khartoum,
who was killed by the hands of traitorous Arabs,
was known not only as a brave soldier of the
British Crown but also as a valiant soldier of
the Cross of Christ. There is a pathetic’ in-
terest attaching to one of his last letters that
reached England. Writing to his sister General
Gordon said in that letter: ‘(Remember our
Lord did not promise success or peace in this
life—He promised tribulation, so if things do
not go well after the flesh, He still is faithful.
He will do all in love and mercy tome. My
part is to submit to His will, however dark it
may be.’’

—Dourine the six years preceding 1871,
when General Gordon was stationed at Graves-
end, on the Thames, he led a singularly de-
yoted life. No wonder that the poor boys
whom he befriended chalked on the fences the
well-meant tribute, ‘‘God bless the Kernel!’’
The following is taken from a sketch of his life
and labors at Gravesend: ‘‘He lived for others.
His house was school, and hospital, and alms-
house, in turn; was more like the abode of a
missionary than of a commanding officer of
engineers. The troubles of all interested him
alike. The poor, the sick, the unfortunate,
were ever welcome, and never did suppliant

knock vainly at his door. He always took a
great delight in children, especially in boys
employed on the river or the sea. Many he
rescued from the gutter, cleansed them and
clothed them, and kept them for weeks in his
house. For their benefit he established read-
ing classes, over which he himself presided,
reading to and teaching the lads with as much
ardor as if he were leading them to victory.
He called them his ‘kings,’ and for many of
them he got berths on board ships. One day
a friend asked him why there were so many
pins stuck, into the map of. the world all over
his mantle-piece; he was told that they marked
and followed the course of the boys on their
voyages, that they were moved from poiné to
point as his youngsters advanced, and that he
prayed for them as they went, night and day.”
—From this Christian life there is a Jesson
to be learned by the blaspheming infidel who
in a lecture recently spoke of the ‘‘meanness
of Christians as contrasted with the generosity
‘of infidels.’”’” A New York paper well says:
‘We might ask the foolish lecturer whether a
poor stranger was ever known to inquire where
the infidels of the town lived, or whether a
person in any. sorrow was ever known to seek
out/an infidel to afford him comfort. Will the
‘man who goes about ridiculing Christianity
_ tell his audience the next time he lectures
here they can find an infidel hospital, or ref-
ny kind for er or distress, or any
composed of infidels which seeka out
es the suffering, in this country or in
on the face of the earth?””

to be leaving for New Mexico and other points
inthe Southwest.

—A correspondent of a New York paper re-
ports this tharacteristic fact: ‘‘A poor one-
armed Jad who is doing his best to support his

find the climate too severe, and are reported |.

mother, sisters and brother, the father being a
miserable drunkard, has been in my employ
in the capacity of office boy for several years.
Recently, thinking to increase their scanty in-
come, he started his mother in a small grocery
store. It is in a Roman Catholic neighbor-
hood, and most of the customers were of that
faith. They did quite well for a time in a
small way until one day a priest came along
asking for a subscription to some Catholic in-
stitution. The mother told him politely that
she was a Protestant. Since that day her trade
has been completely broken up.’’

—W4aand SIN LEE, a Chinaman, who has made
$15,000 at the laundry business, has applied
for admission into the Cornell University to
prepare himself for mission work in China.

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Short Stops.

—In a place of public resort a sceptic was
haranguing a crowd of young men, and was
denouncing the Scriptures. A plain looking
old man, who was standing by, seizing an op-
portunity to reply, said: ‘‘See here, boys, here
is a man reviling the Book which contains the
Ten Commandments, the Lord’s Prayer and
the parable of the Prodigal Son.’’ The infidel
was staggered by the simple statement and the
crowd dispersed.

—A LITTLE girl said to her mother, ‘‘Mama,
do schools ever freeze?’’ ‘No, my daughter;
why do you ask such a question?” ‘Because
they sometimes stop when it gets cold.”

—‘Wuere does Jesus live?’’ asked a mis-
sionary once, in a mission school. ‘Please; sir,
he lives in our alley now, said a little boy who
had lately found the Saviour.

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

Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 734
o’clock NV ecneeaey) evening”
sunday School from 2 to 4.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor, Franklin and Thalla Strs.
pivine: services at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 74 Thuraday
gunday oo ol meets at 9 o’clock.

ult catechumen class meets at 7}4 Tuesday evening.
N. J. Baxxe, Missionary.

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

Divine service Sunda; ay ere evening at 734 o’clock.
* Sunday School from 10—
Catechumen class meets non 7-8 Wednesday, evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.
G. ALLENBACH, A res

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