The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1885, Page 32

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—A. Meyer, one of the graduates of our
Seminary at St. Louis, has accepted the call
of the English Lutheran congregation in Webs-
ter county, Mo. With the consent of the con-
gregation, Rev. Meyer will also carry on the
English Lutheran mission opened by our West-
ern District some years ago. He needs the
assistance of praying and paying Christians in
this good work. ‘The treasurer of this mission
is Mr. C. Lange, 509 Franklin Ave., St. Louis,
Mo. All contributions should be sent to his
address. _

_ —Iny Dakota Territory the Missouri Synod has
14 pastors, 32 congregations and 54 preaching
stations.”

—Tnae Norwegian Orphans’ Home at Witten-
berg, Wis., under the care of Pastor Homme,
is in a flourishing condition. It has 40 orphans
and 8 aged persons. The orphan farm of 27
acres, which was donated by the railroad com-
pany, is too small.

—A PROMINENT criminal lawyer of California
has recently made the following refreshing an-
nouncement in a San Francisco paper: ‘‘ Here-
after I will not defend any of the criminal
class. I prefer to aid in sending that class to
State prison, where they more properly belong,
rather than keeping them free to prey upon
the community, as I have heretofore done to
my sorrow.”

—Wauue Judge Walton was holding a term
of the Supreme Court, at Augusta, Me., he
sentenced a man to seven years in prison for
a gravecrime. The respondent’s counsel asked
for a mitigation of the sentence on the ground
that the prisoner's health was very poor. ‘Your
honor,” said he, ‘‘I am satisfied that my client
cannot live out Half that term, and I beg of
1 you to change the sentence.’’ ‘Well, under

: those circumstances,” said the judge, ‘‘I will
change the sentence. I will make it for life
instead of seven years.’’

_ —A nussionAry in India tells of a man who
rejected a kingdom for Christ. His name is
U. Bor. Sing. He was the heir of the Rajah
of Cherra and had been conyerted to Chris-
tianity. He was warned that in joining the
Christians he would probably forfeit his right
to be king of Cherra after the death of Ram
Sing, who then ruled. Eighteen months after-
ward Ram Sing died; the chiefs of the tribes
met together, and unanimously decided that
Bor. Sing was to succeed him as king, but that
his Christian profession stood in the way. Mes-
senger after messenger was sent to U. Bor. Sing
urging him to go to the missionaries to recant.
He was invited to the native council, and there
asked to put aside his religious profession, and
that then they would acknowledge him as their
King. His answer was: ‘‘Put aside my Chris-
_ tian’ profession! I can put aside my head-dress
mf cloak, but as for the covenant I have

made with God, I cannot for any consideration
“put that aside.”’ Another was therefore ap-

in his .

—W<anroben Brush, of Sing Sing Prison, made
the statement at, the meeting of the Prison
Association at Saratoga, that ‘‘one cause greater
than all others that leads to prison is disobe-
dience in the family.”’

—ArT a missionary meeting at Saratoga re-
cently an enthusiastic female hearer cast her
watch and chain, worth $100, into the treas-
ury, insisting that they should be sold and the
proceeds be used to carry the Gospel to the
heathen. The secretary of the society has ad-
vised her to think the matter over deliberately,
and if at the end of three months she persists
in making the offering, it will be accepted.
There ought to be no “sober second thought”’
in such matters.

— SEVERAL ‘‘young ladies and gentlemen
of the highest social standing”’ were not long
ago arrested and fined for disturbing worship
in a Missquri town, by writing notes and talk-
ing in church. Served them right!

—A FOREIGN Romish paper sends forth an
appeal for the ‘Conquest of the Congo Ter-
ritory in Africa.’’ For whom are those terri-
tories to be conquered by the Pope’s mission-
ary? For Christ? Oh, no! In countries where
the Romish missionaries have had it all their
own way, they have only succeeded at the best
in giving the people a new set of images and
superstitions in place of the old ones.

—TxeE ex-Empress Eugenie of France re-
cently wrote to a friend: ‘‘I am left alone,
the sole remnant of a shipwreck which proves
how fragile and vain are the grandeurs of this
world.’’ No new truth; but this great truth did
not seem true to her until she experienced it.

—A Romisn priest recently said in a speech
to the poor people of his church that he had
“‘frequently noticed one peculiarity about many
of those who say they have nothing to eat, and
that is, they cannot be said to have-nothing to
drink; and the presence of this kind of nourish-
ment explains very often the lack of all the
other.”’

—A coop story-is told of an aged clergy-
man, known to many of us, who met a man
loudly declaiming against foreign missions.
“Why,” said the objector, ‘‘doesn’t the church
look after the heathens at home?”? ‘We do,’’
said the clergyman quietly, and gave the man
a tract.

—Awn old stocking of the late Pope, Pius IX,
threatens to become a rival of St. Jacob’s Oil.
A priest in Italy afflicted with rheumatism pre-
tends to have: been cured by being touched
with a piece of the Pope’s old stocking. Our
little Pioneer neither recommends St. Jacob's
Oil nor the Pope’s stockings nor any other
stockings.—We close our window. -

Spain.

The New York Observer says: We have
read of the ‘‘gospel of dirt,’’ and have wondered
what sort of religion it means. Here is the
explanation: The Protestants in Madrid found

The Lutheran Pioneer.

that it would not do to send converts to be-
nursed by Sisters of Mercy in the Roman
Catholic hospitals. They were constantly im-
portuned to confess and return to the Church
of Rome.
two sisters in the largest hospital in Madrid
from bed to bed.
of clean linen; at each bed they asked if the
patient had confessed.
mative, he was provided with clean linen; if
the contrary, he got none.
made to do duty in making the patient ‘‘con-
fess’’ to a priest.
Madrid have now a hospital of their own, with
eight beds in it.
ants in Madrid, and perhaps so small a supply
of beds is sufficient.
kept clean.

Mr. Fliedner says he once followed
They carried a large basket
If the answer was affir-.
Thus “dirt”? was

Well, the Protestants in
There are not many Protest-

At any rate they will be

BOOK-TABLE.

BIBLISCHE GESCIICUTEN FUER UNTERKLASSEN.

Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
Price 25 cts.; postage 4 cts.
This charming little book contains 35 Bible stories.

from the Old Testament and 42 from the New Testa-

The stories are well selected and given in

ment.
the words of the Bible. The book is most beauti-
fully illustrated and the paper, binding and printing

are excellent.

SERMONS ON THE First ARTICLE OF TILE CREED.

Translated from the German of Dr. Ph. Spener,
by Rey. 0. S. Oglesby, Lithopolis, O. Printed
at the Lutheran Book Concern, Columbus, O.

We are glad to see the well known sermons of

Spener on the Catechism in the English language.
If the present venture proves a success other por-
tions of the original will be translated and pub-
lished.
we hope he will be encouraged to continue in the
good work he has thus begun.

The translator has done his work well and

pavaniss in advance
inc

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORr.Eans, 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 eet icee at 714 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday

evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.

Adult eatechumen class meets at 714 Tuesday evening.
N. J. Baxxe, Missionary.

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

Divine service pandey, evening at 7)4 o’clock.
Sunday School from 10—12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—S Wednesday evening.

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

TERMS:
Tue LuTHERAN Pioneer is published monthly,
at the following rates, postage
uded, to-wit: :

to one address. ate

All business communications to be addressed to

“Yuth. Concordia Publishing House,” M. C. Bar-
Agt., St. Louis, Mo.

communications concerning the editorial de-

to be addressed to Pror. R. A. BiscHorF,

D ent
Boucordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.