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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Tne Martin Luther Collegerecently opened
in New Ulm, Minn., numbers at present thirty
five scholars and there are fair prospects for a
steady growth.

’  —A Brste society agent called on 3,210
families in Concord, N. H., recently, and
found 29 only with copies of the Bible. He
sold 629 copies and gave away 107.

—WrrtrEnserc will on June 24th next sol-
emnly commemorate the four-hundredth anni-
versary of the birth of Bugenhagen, and dedi-
cate to his honor a monument on the church

* green in front of the parsonage which was once
his official residence. Bugenhagen was pro-
fessor of theology and pastor at Wittenberg in
1522. He was a devoted friend of Luther and
assisted him in translating the Bible. He
preached the: funeral sermon of the great Re-
former. i
~ —Wuere in 1804, there were only 150 pastors
in the Protestant Church in France, there are
now more than 800, and in some purely Catho-
lic districts Protestant churches have sprung
up of late years.

—A pasror in Texas writes: ‘‘ Holding ser-
vices at a place one time I took up a collection
for the support of missions. There was a poor
old Jady present who I noticed dropped a $5
gold piece in the hat. I knew she was very
poor and not able to afford so much, and
thought she had intended to throw in a quarter,
but made a mistake. So next day I met her
husband and said to him: ‘Look here, your
wife put a $5 gold piece in the hat yesterday;
I think she must have made a mistake.’ ‘No,
no,’ he replied, ‘my wife didn’t make no mis-
take. She don’t fling often, but let me tell
you, when she flings she flings.’ ””

—E. A. Goopnow, of Worcester, has pledged
the sum of $10,000 to the Huguenot Seminary
of South Africa.

—THE missionaries of the London Mission-
ary Society in the Loyalty Islands have been
ordered, by the French authorities, to cease
teaching in their own language, as they wish
the natives to receive instruction in French,
and, of course, in the Romish faith. A fort-
night was allowed in which to consider the

matter, and the missionaries stood firm, saying

that they would obey no government agent in
religious matters.
- —Missionanres in far-off countries, like
Burmah, say that a great deal of infidel liter-
ature is being distributed among the natives,
especially among teachers. Bundles of docu-
ments, including Ingersoll’s lectures, in the
_ native tongues, are sent into towns and vil-
_ Jages for free circulation.
__ + —You talk of converting India to Chris-
inity,”” said the Hindoo to a missionary; ‘‘you
t as well talk of cutting down that forest,”
ting to a forest some ten miles in extent,

dle: for another ax, and another, and

every tree shall be laid low.”

several places.

sermon of an hour's length is deprecated, and

ready for another equally long!”’

degraded castes of Tinnevelley and the devil-

‘with a single ax.’’ ‘Done,’ said the Euro-
ut then every tree that I level shall

another, and until the forest shall resound, and

—A LETTER from Japan says: ‘‘Villages are
now opening near all the towns and cities where
work is carried on, and the first to hear and
follow are the most influential persons in the
These village people are even

more eager to hear than the townspeople. A

the preacher urged to stretch a point, and give
them at least a two hours’ discourse! And
when that sermon is ended the audience is

—Tue increase of the Christian population
in the province of Madras, India, in the ten
years from 1871 to 1881 was 165,682, or over
80 per cent. The Government Census Report,
from which these figures are taken, says: “It
is ‘in no sectarian spirit that this may be de-
clared wholly a matter for congratulation.
There is no enlightened Madras Brahmin who
does not rejoice equally with the missionaries
to see the work of the latter in redeeming the

worshipers of South Canara from their debased
cults to a pure faith and a higher morality.”

—aAn English merchant from India recently
lectured in London on Foreign Missions. In
his lecture he said: ‘‘The first thing to be put
in the forefront of Missions is preaching the
gospel—going out in the highways and byways
preaching the good news that Jesus Christ died
and rose again to save fallen man. I fear there is
not so much of that going from village to village
proclaiming the glad news as one would like.”

—J. A. Marcanay, the distinguished news-
paper correspondent whose remains were brought
from Constantinople, a few months ago and
buried in Perry Co., O., says of the inhabit-
ants of Greenland after having visited and be-
come acquainted with them: ‘‘They are all
good Christians and Church-going people, be-
longing as do all the Esquimaux of Greenland,
to the Lutheran faith, to which they have been
converted by the kindly influence of the Danes.
They have a neat little church where they hold
religious services every Sunday. To all appear-
ances they are happy, and lead a quiet, innocent
and virtuous life in their little sea-bound world.”’

—A Brooxtyn Justice has established a
valuable precedent in the matter of indecent
show-bills. “A bill-poster charged with putting
up such bills in public places was brought be-
fore the court, tried and convicted. The Justice
in passing sentence took occasion to remark on
the demoralizing effects of indecent posters, and
said- that he proposed to use his influence in
putting a stop to the nefarious business. He
will certainly have the support of all respect-
able people in his efforts.

—Kine Leororp, of Belgium, being asked
once the secret of his enthusiasm and interest
in the evangelization of Africa, for which he
had contributed over a million of dollars,

replied, “‘ When the Lord took away my only

son I felt that I had nothing to live for, until
‘God seemed to say, ‘Live for Africa.’’’

ses,
Moses, why don’t you say Moses?’’ said the
other.—How many people who ‘‘mean Moses’’

say Moses?

Short Stops.

—TuERE are a goodly number of authors

and talkers who write and speak after the fash-
ion of the young theological student, who, on
delivering his first sermon before the celebrated
Mr. Simeon, of Cambridge, thundered out the
following sentence:—‘“Amid this tumult the
son of Amram stood unmoved.”’ ‘Stop there!’”
interrupted his critic.

by the ‘son of Amram

‘Whom do you mean
72”? «Please, sir, Mo-
“Then if you mean

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replied the orator.

—A CONVERTED actor once pointed a Chris-

tian friend to a play-house in which he used
to perform and said, ‘‘Behind those curtains
lies Sodom.””

—Awn Irish priest told a man who had a

Bible in his possession that ‘‘he had no: business
with the Bible; for St. Peter said it was not
the Word, but the milk of the Word he ought
to have,’’ and he confirmed his assertion by
1 Pet. 2, 2.: ‘‘As new born babes, desire the
sincere milk of the Word.”” ‘I know that well,
please your reverence,” replied the poor man,
“but for fear the milk should be adulterated,
I like to keep the cow that gives it with me in
the house!”

BOOK-TABLE.

Tne Primer for Ey. Lutheran Parochial Schools.

Price 20 cents. Concordia Publishing House,
St. Louis, Mo.
This is a splendid little Primer, well adapted as a
first book for the little ones. It is beautifully illus-
trated, admirably printed and handsomely bound.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
“New OriEans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 74

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

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

Divine services at 7% Sunday evening and at 714 Thursday

evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 Tuesday evening.
N. J. BAxxe, Missionary.

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

Divine service punday evening at 714 o’clock.
Sunday School from 10—12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—S Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from S—9 Wednesday evening.

i G. ALLENBACH, Missionary.

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