The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1885, Page 28

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The Liathberan Pioneer.

*The Outlook from the Editor’s. Window.

"—Sreaxine of the valuable late work of
the Egyptian Exploration Fund in the Land
of Goshen the New York Tribune says: ‘Those
Jabors conducted by learned investigators with
untiring’ zeal are not only adding greatly to
the store of human knowledge, but are con-
firming in the most remarkable manner Bibli-
cal record and geography.’”

— WHEN Bugenhagen was pastor at Lubeck
he established the good custom of: preaching
on Luther’s Catechism, in all the churches of
the city, four times a year. For 350 years
this good custom has been observed. At
present the services are held twice a year, in
the spring and in the fall.
children of the city schools are obliged to
attend.

—TxE Catholic Examiner makes the follow-

ing statement: ‘‘There are upwards of 10,000
Protestant children attending Catholic educa-
tional institutions in the United States. No
statistics published give the number in both
Canada and Roman Catholic countries. Par-
ents, who place their children under such
tutelage were branded by Father Gavazzi on
his recent visit to this country as ‘‘ Protestant
fools.’” Father Gavazzi is the very best
-authority. The Popish Church may well exult
over the gullibility and supreme folly of these
recreant Protestants, as nineteen-twentieth of
these children become perverts to Rome and
then become the most aggressive propagandists.

— In orveR to break up a Protestant school
in New Mexico the Jesuits made the children
believe that the school-house was in the poses-
sion of the devil, that the Protestant teacher
held nightly consultations with the evil one,
and that something terrible would happen to
them if they went near the place. With such
Romish lies they broke up the school:

—How WELL it would be, if missionary
workers abroad and at home would follow the
example of Bushnell, who, with a frame so
frail that he dared not promise an ordinary
lifetime to Africa, yet consecrated one day at
atime, and thus spent four and thirty years
in its deadly climate.

> —In consequence of a great migration of
Zulus some generations ago, numerous power-
ful tribes about Lake Tanganyika can be
‘reached in that language, and Zulu evange-
lists, trained in South African missions, have
done excellent ‘work among them.

_ = —In tHe year 1809, two youths from the

_ Sandwich Islands found their way to the

ited States, and many persons who saw

em became interested in’ the regions from

ich thi came. In 1819, seventeen persons

first ‘they met with much opposition from
rho were there, and their work.
slat gi for a ‘number of

All the Protestant

Shavies ‘by. the American Board.

‘theathen”’:. When a decrepit old man entered
a Madison Avenue car recently twenty-one
Americans: saw him reach up trembling to
catch hold of a strap. They saw that he was
unable to reach it because he couldn’t straighten
his back, so they permitted him to lean on his.
stick. They must have felt severely rebuked
when a Japanese young man rose at the front
of the car, and, springing nimbly to the old
man’s side, took him tenderly by the arm and
led to his seat. ‘Then he tipped his hat to the
white head and took his stand in the middle
of the car.

labors patiently, and at last the fruit began to
appear. In 1828, about 2,500 of the natives
became interested in the Christian religion.
From 1838 to 1843, a period of five years, as
many as 27,000 persons were admitted into the
churches. In 1850 the Hawaiian Missionary
Society was formed at Honolulu and began to
carry on missionary work on other islands. In
1863 the Hawaiian Church was established,
and asked for no further help from the Ameri-
can Board. The country is now Christian and
has a Christian government of its own. All
this was accomplished in less than fifty years.

—Iw a recent speech in London Mr. Stan-
ley, the African explorer, paid a warm tribute
to the missionaries. At first, he said, he did
not understand them, but getting to know
them better, he finds them devoted men doing
hard work for very little pay, and amit great
hardships.

—TueE rebel Riel in Canada is a devout
Roman Catholic. His house is five miles from
Winnepec, Manitoba. In it is, framed and
covered with glass, a large nail about four
inches in length which Pope Pius IX. sent to
Louis Riel, accompanied by a medal, in recog-
nition of his service in the rebellion of 1869.
The Pope, so assert the family, represented
the nail to have come out of the cross upon
which our saviour was crucified. The family
thoroughly believe the story and keep a light
burning constantly underneath the place where
it is hanging on the wall. The nail has a large
head on it, and resembles much a nail used for
hanging pictures. Louis Riel always carries
the medal hung around his neck and hopes
success from it in all his riotous and sinful
doings. Riel’s mother is about seventy-five
years old. She is still active, but grieves day
and night over the impending fate of her son,
as she fears he will be hanged as he deserved it.

—Inpecenr and sensational literature has
been put under legal bans in Connecticut by a
statute which imposes a fine of $50 or less and
imprisonment for three months or less, or both,
at the discretion of the court, upon every
person, who shall sell, lend, give or offer, or
have in his possession with intent to sell, lend,
give or offer, any book, magazine, pamphlet or
paper devoted wholly or principally to the
publication of criminal news or pictures and
stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime. -

—TueE infidel colony founded five years ago
in Barton county, Missouri, has not been a
success. A correspondent of a St. Louis paper,
who spent a day and a half in the new town
called Liberal, says that the experiment is a
failure; that the town, instead of keeping pace

Short Stops.

—A Generous Christian giver, who had re-
cently failed in business, was heard to observe
the other day: ‘‘Heretofore I gave out my
abundance, now I feel what I give; it is only
now that I have begun to give.’ This remark
is worthy of being chronicled as a reproof to
many, and an example to all.

—Aw old colored woman, praying for a cer-
tain slanderer, said: O Lord, won’t you be
kind enough to take the door of his mouth off,
and when you put it on again just hang it on
the gospel hinges of peace on earth and good
will to men?”

—TueE poet Tasso was once reproved for ex-
posing himself to shipwreck, by venturing on
the dangerous sea. ‘‘And yet,’’ he replied,
““we every night go without fear to bed, where
so many die every hour. Believe me, death
will find us in al] parts; and those places that
appear to be the least exposed are not always
the most secure from his attacks.”

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 74
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.
. EV. LUTI. ML. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine Lye at 74 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thuraday

ven
Sunday School 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 Sirs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service meet ren evening at 74 o’clock. -
Sunday School from
Catechumen class meets re 7—S Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.
G. ALLENBACTI, Missionary.

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