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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Txe Caurca MEsseNGER says of the Primer
recently published by our Publishing House in
St. Louis: ‘‘ For a number of years the German
Lutheran Synod of Missouri has been engaged
in preparing and issuing a set of English Readers
for the use of the week day schools. We have
We now have
It contains
60 pictures, an illuminated title page and 31
lessons. The lessons are also supplied with the
necessary English script, so that the pupil
learns to write as well as spell and read. The
Primer compares very favorably with and in
some respects surpasses any English Primer we

noticed some of these before.
the first of the series—the Primer.

-know of.”

—PArENTs can not be too careful in watch-
ing what their children read. The sensational-
ism of the day is creating only too sad a havoc
At
one day last week, two
twelve year-old boys, named Davidson and
Parker, after reading a dime novel, prepared
Davidson had a hatchet
and Parker a revolver, which was accidentally
discharged, striking Davidson in the forehead,

with the morals and lives of children.
Grosvenor, Mich.,

a sham Indian fight.

killing him instantly.

—Tue Icelandic population of the United
States and Canada numbers between five and
‘six thousand souls, of these probably a little
Jess than one-half reside in Manitoba, and the
rest almost exclusively in Dakota and Min-

nesota. They are constituted into thirteen

churches, six of these being in Dakota and two
As yet there are but two Ice-

in Minnesota. -
landic pastors in this country, namely, Rev.
Hans B. Thorgrimson, of Mountain, Pembina
Co., Dakota, and Rey. Jan Jjarnason, of Win-
nepeg, Manitoba, Canada.

mentioned place, these two pastors and twenty-
eight lay delegates were present. A constitu-
tion for an Icelandic Lutheran synod was
adopted, and now lies before the congregations.

_—TsE Moravian church carries on missions
in Greenland and Labrador, among the North
American Indians, in the West Indies, in Cen- |.
tral and South America, in South Africa; Aus-
tralia and Central Asia: it has seventeen so
‘called Missionary Provinces, three hundred |.
"and. twenty-three, missionaries, male. and fe-
male, besides. more than fifteen hundred native
assistants and more than eighty-one thousand
“converts ‘under instruction ; ; its mission schuols
number two hundred and fifteen, at which
‘nearly. seventeen thousand children and young
‘people, in charge of two hundred and eighty-
three teachers, are educated, the entire annual
cos! of f this work being about lh 000

At the recent Ice-
landic Church Conference, held at the first

Francisco. Large numbers have arrived re-
cently on account of.the Japanese conscription
laws. There is a Japanese Gospel Society of
sixty members. Ten of these are Christians,
and one is an elder ofa church in Japan. A
missionary has been appointed to labor wholly
among these men.

—TueEre were in Dakota Territory 46 Nor-
wegian. Evangelical Lutheran pastors at work
last year serving 178 congregations and 31
preaching points.

—Ir seems to be generally agreed now that
the punishment for murder in the first degree
should be nothing less than death on the gal-
lows. After trying the penalty of imprison-
ment for life for seventeen years Minnesota has
returned to capital punishment, and a bill to
the same effect was narrowly defeated in the
Senate of the Michigan Legislature last winter.
It has been found that leniency to wilful mur-
derers encourages crime and increases the perils
that society incurs from .the presence of bad
and dangerous men. The Bible says: ‘‘ Whoso
sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood
be shed,” (Gen. 9, 6.).

_ —A READER sends as the following statistics:
The Norwegian Lutheran Synod is composed
of three district Synods: the Eastern 30,503
communicants, 105 parochial schools, 208 con-
gregations and 60 pastors; the Minnesota Dis-
trict 25,609 communicants, 135 parochial
schools, 269 congregations and 70 pastors, and
the Iowa District 20,419 communicants, 82
parochial schools, 187 congregations and 54
pastors. Total in Synod 144,272 souls, 76,532
communicant members. Parochial schools 322,
Sunday-schools 263, congregations 664, pastors
174 and professors 11.
Synod, as of the Conference, serve many con-
gregations and preaching points; 37 pastors of
the Synod serve five congregations, 9 serve each
six, 1 eight, 2 nine, 2 ten and 2 eleven each,
Thus large districts are occupied and few Nor-
wegian settlements are without some attention.

The Bible Committee of the Norwegian Lu-
theran Synod have-printed the New Testa-
ment at their publishing house, Decorah, Iowa,
in the Norwegian language. Lack of funds
prevent them at present from publishing the
Old Testament also. - The Synod has a travel-
ing missionary in the East and one in the
West, and also some colporteurs. Receipts of
the Synod for last year: Jubilee Fund $6,265,
Synodical Treasury $7,018, Education $10,982,

Beneficiary Students $2,231, Foreign Missions |:

$2,327, Freedmen’s Mission $205, Australia
Mission $100, Indian Mission $274, Jewish
Missions $500, Home Missions $271, Orphans
$371, church in Sioux Falls, Dak., $137; Her-
mannsburg Foreign Mission Society $31. Total,
‘| with some other objects, $47,224. Receipts of
,|the Norwegian Lutheran Publishing House at
| Decorah, Ja., for the last three years were
$99,799.50, net profits $8,238, assets $50,-
|| 165.91, liabilities $16, 239. 77. Net assets
$33,926.14.

The pastors of the |=

Short Stops.

—In social conversation with his staff one of
them asked General Joe Johnston how many
times he had been wounded. THe replied,
“eight times.’ The staff remarked that he
was the most unfortunate General in this re-
spect that he had ever known. ‘No, sir,’’ said
he, ‘‘the most fortunate; for it was only by
the mercy of God I was not killed upon either
occasion.”’

—Two laborers were trying to place a stone
in position on the foundation wall of a new
building. A crowd was standing around, look-
ing on, and each one offering his criticism and
counsel freely and loudly, but not one lifting
so much asa finger to help. ‘That reminds me
of Church-work,’”’ said a passer-by to another. .
“Why?” ‘“Because,’’ was the reply, ‘two
men are doing the work, and twenty are doing
the talking.”

—Pruxce Bismarck’s wife is one of the most
regular church-goers in Berlin. The noble lady
goes to the house of God plainly dressed and
takes her seat among the common people; there
is no distinguishing mark about her but her
reverent manner. The number of the receipts
of her charity is great, but the number of those
who know her to be the wife of the Emperor's
‘best man” is is very sally

BOOKS RE CEIY ED.

Srorres FRoM Bisce History for Home and
School. Illustrated. Pilger Book Store, Read-
ing, Pa. Price 40 cents.

Nur ern Kinp aus ISRAEL.
based on the Old Testament narrative of Naa-
man’s leprosy and his healing through the
prophet Elisha. — Pilger Book Store, Read-
ing, Pa. Price 50 cents.

Ey: nora Lutheran niColor ed Ghareliees
New Or1Eans, La.

EV. LUTH. 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. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine nertices at 714 Sunday ‘evening and at 74 Thursday
evenin,
Sunday School meets at 9 o'clock
Adult catechumen class meets at M% Tuesday evening.

N. J. BAKKE, Missionary.
pS Se ees Pore eh ee
St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Charch,

Cor. Rock §- 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.

Divine service punderiey evening at 74 o'clock.
Sunday School from
Catechumen class meets trom 7—S Welnesday evening.
pinging schoo! from 8—9 Wednesday evening.
. G. ALLENnAcH, Missionary.
——— eEEeEEeE—Ee
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