The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1885, Page 36

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36 The Lutheran Pioneer.

guage, for the use of the natives in Central A Few Sayings on Luther.
Africa. It is the first book printed in Congo.
—‘ Japanese Friends of the Bible’ is the| ‘‘AlI the world,” says Erasmus, ‘‘has agreed
title of a society which numbers 1,800 mem-| With us in commending his moral character.
bers, each of whom is pledged ‘to read a por-| His morals are unanimously praised; it is the
tion of the Scriptures daily.” The title in| highest praise a man can have, that his enemies
Japanese is, ‘Nippon seisho Notomo.’ In| even can find no flaw in him for calumny.”
Japan English is fast becoming what French| Alberus testifies: ‘‘No man could pray more
is in England—an accomplishment of the edu- fervently; no man was a better comforter. ..

cated, and the Bible is being studied by many | He wasa man without guile. He was a terror
of the Japanese. to liars and equivocators. He loved integrity

— A VETERAN missionary who has recently and hated pride. He abhorred intemperance

returned to his chosen field in South Africa |#24 licentiousness.””

writes back: “Yesterday I again put my foot Even that old fox, Leo X, could say, ‘That
on this dark land. May health, power, and |S#me brother Martin is a man of talent, and
great grace be given me to do some work yet all that is said against him is mere monkish
—to preach, to teach the mystery of Christ to jealousy.” ‘
these many peoples; to bea faithful messenger Melancthon says: “Whoever has known him
of the home church to these sons and daughters and seen him familiarly will allow that he was
of this benighted land. Let Christ be lifted up |® ™ost excellent man, gen tle and agreeable m
in all our home pulpits, that he may draw men society, not in the least obstinate nor given to
more and more, and that more missionaries disputation, yet with all gravity becoming his

may be sent out to preach Christ to those who character. If he showed any great severity in
eeowihimn ote combatting the enemies of the true doctrine, it

—A xox in Philadelphia read of duels and | “*® from no malignity of nature, but from ardor
other barbarous things, and while depressed, and enthusiasm for the truth. I have often
for some reason, placed himself in front of a aye found jim jshedding, bitter, tears: jena
mirreriandiwithtatrerolreri sential bullet| Oey 28 earnestly to God for the welfare of
through his brain. It is another lesson to phos Ohbrob ga tie) devoted part of\eachiday,to

teach the pernicious effects of bad literature reading the Psalms and invoking God with all

Good reading is as important as good food; the/feryor of his sou.
there cannot be perfect health without it.

—On the 16th of May was organized in
San Francisco a church consisting wholly of
Japanese Christians. This organization has
grown out of a Gospel Society organized by a
few Japanese, nearly eight years ago, and who
have kept up meetings for the study of the
Bible continuously since.

— Mexico and South America are said to
receive three-fourths of the Bibles shipped from
New York to foreign mission stations.

— Cam has discarded the Roman Catholic
religion as the religion of the state, and has
announced perfect liberty to all churches.

— From the Workman we clip the following:
In the year 1870 the Foreign Missionary
Society of the Established Lutheran Church
in Finland sent its first laborers among the
heathen tribes in Ovambo-Land, in the south-
western part of Africa. Only in 1883—thirteen
years later—were the first’ converts baptized!
Since then, in Ondonga, on four occasions,
baptisms have occured, so that the number of
the baptized adults is now 36. It is only four
years ago that all who received the Christian
faith were persecuted. Now, by God’s great

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Tae editor of the Japanese paper, Jigi
Gbimbo, with his whole family, having em-
braced Christianity, has issued a manifesto
calling on the Japanese people to do the same.

— Atreapy the missionaries on the Congo
have penetrated a thousand miles into the
interior of Africa. Fourteen Protestant mis-
sionary stations have been erected.

—Ir is stated that Mrs. Jefferson Davis
drives six miles on Sunday morning to teach a
colored Sunday school.

— A RIcH miser was offered the plate on the
occasion of a charity collection. ‘I have
nothing,”’ said he. ‘Then take something,
sir,’ said the lady collector. ‘‘ You know I
am begging for the poor.’’

—TxeE Independent says of the Lutheran
Church in America: ‘‘The Lutherans of
America have a history of which they must
not be ashamed. The first Protestant Church
of America was built by the Lutheran Swedes,
about 1638, at Wilmington, Delaware, and
mission work was commenced among the In-
dians before John Eliot put his foot on Ameri-

can soil. Luther's Catechism was the first
book of Christian instruction ever translated
into any Indian tongue of the land, and Lu-
theran missionaries preached the gospel to the
red men forty years before the coming of
William Penn. One hundred years ago there
were about two dozen Lutheran pastors in this
country, whose congregations numbered about
6,000 members. To-day her roll has the names
of 3,700 pastors, and her communicant member-
ship is about 900,000. For fifty years, on an
average, the Church has doubled the number

of her ministers every ten years, and the
number of her members every fourteen years.
Of late years she has proportionately increased
more rapidly than any other denomination in
the land. A careful statistician says that she
is growing at the rate of about 62,000 members
and 320 congregations each year, or nearly one
congregation and 160 members each day of the
year. Naturally a good deal of this growth is
owing to immigration, and to the honor of the
Lutheran Church it must be said that she fully
understands her mission in this regard, and is
working with might and main to do justice to it.’’

— Tue established religion of Iceland is the
Lutheran, and the population is said to be in-
dustrious, moral, honest and pious. The work
of the Church there is very encouraging.
Their new university buildings are expected
1o be ready for dedication by Reformation Day
of the present year.

KS The loss of the manuscript for this num-
ber caused a delay in its publication which our
readers will kindly excuse.

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 744

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

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.

Divine serviced at 7)4 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday
evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult 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 pundey evening at 7}4 o’clock.
Sunday School from 10—12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.

G. ALLENBACH, Missionary,

TERMS:
Tae Lurneran Pioneer is published monthly,
payable in advance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wit:

_—A NorweEaIAN ship on its way to South mercy, 200 African children are in the mis- 1Co 95
Africa and Madagascar landed in England, | sions, and as many as 500 adults attend church 10 Copies : 1.21$2,00
haying on board fifteen Lutheran missionaries| at the three mission stations. One of the re- 2 es ai
and five children. Among them wasanephew|sults of Christian teaching is that the new| lub rates only allo eienaratohosene
to one address.

king, Itana, when he ascended the throne, for-
bade human sacrifices, and likewise that certain
women and advisers of his predecessor should
be slaughtered. The South African Finnish
mission now numbers seven European laborers.

of the Zulu chief Cetewayo, who has been for
tudying in Stockholm, and now re-
missionary to his people.

_SwEpisH missionary has recently trans-
fed the Gospel of John into the Congo lan-

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