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The Lutheran Pioneer.

were violently attacked by a mob of men and
women who took them for a couple of Protest-
ant deaconesses engaged in a proselyting mis-
sion. The nuns were forced to fly for shelter
before the mistake was discovered.

— Tue Lutheran Church in Russia numbers
at present 457 pastoral charges with 2,677,921
members. There is a Lutheran congregation
to be found even in far-off Kamschatka. It
has 300 members in the town of Wladiwostok
and 1,000 members scattered over an immense
district. The pastor must converse in German,
Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Estish and Lettish.
The pastor at Olonez near Archangel, on the
White Sea, has members living near the North
Cape, and his pastoral visits carry him thousande
of miles away from home. His members are a
company of many languages; setting out on
his tours, he takes along Bibles, hymn books,
agenda and catechisms in five languages.
Another pastor, laboring near the Ural mount-
ains has not less than 81 settlements in his spiri-
tual care.

— Tue Missionary Herald has a tabular
statement of the Protestant mission in China,
from which it appears that there are in the
empire 544 missionaries, representing thirty-
three societies; 1,450 native helpers, with
26,287 communicants.

—Ir is stated that the largest theatre in
Japan was thronged on two successive days by
people listening to sermons preached by native
preachers. Not a Christian Church was in
existence in Japan fifteen years ago and it is
declared not a half-dozen native Christians in
the Empire.

—A Cosnmrree of the American Missiona-
ries at Constantinople write to the American
Bible Society that during the last year ‘46,219
copies of the Scriptures were sold within the
limits of the American Missions in Asiatic
Turkey, of which 12,090 passed into the hands
of Armenians, 3,801 into the hands of Greeks,
and 3,055 into the hands of Turks. That such
a large number of God's blessed truth have
begun to shine in the dark parts of this land is
cause for devout thanksgiving.’’

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

— Rey. J. R. Moser, a faithful servant of
the Lord, departed this life on the 10th of
September, at Gravelton, Mo., confessing his
faith in the Gospel, for the spread of which he
had faithfully labored for many years. He was
born in North Carolina in the year 1813. In
the year 1887 he entered the ministry of the
Lutheran Church. His heart’s desire and
prayer to God was, that the English speaking
people might come to the knowledge of the
pure doctrine of our church. He assisted in
translating the Lutheran Symbolical Books and
Dr. Luther's sermons into English and was also
a true and most zealous friend of our English
Lutheran mission in the Western States. He
has entered the joy of his Lord and now “rests

_ from his labors and his works do follow him.”
Our loss is his gain.

— Speaxine of Luther as a translator, the
Rey. Dr. G. Gottheil, of New York, well says
that after all, Martin Luther remains the
greatest translator of all. He did his work
more than three and a half centuries ago, and
ever since the whole world of letters has been
doing honor to that matchless work of man.
To-day some claimed better facilities in the
discovery of manuscripts and other ancient
material, for the correct translation of the
Bible, than the Church possessed in the days
of Luther and King James, but none claim the
head: and -heart of Luther. - The Church ha
gained Jess in discovery and criticism since
Luther's time than she will lose if she repudi-
ates his translations and neglects his writings. _

— Tue Lutheran church in the United
States preaches the gospel in the following
twelve languages: German, English, Swedish,-
Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Bohe-
mian, Polish, French, Siberian (or Serbian),
Slovakian (or Hungarian), and the Indian.
dialects.

—Noricrne a lady's gift of a large sum of -
money to free a Brooklyn church from debt,
the Catholic Review says the gift was made
‘for the benefit of the souls of her deceased
parents.” It adds: ‘Charity to the church or
to its poor most certainly extinguishes the fires
of purgatory ;”” and declares that such gifts are

good investments. If purgatory can be bridged

by charitable contributions, how much money
would it require to close up purgatory forever.

If one liberal gift extinguishes some of the

fires, surely many gifts should extinguish them

all. It can only bea question of amount. The

false doctrine of purgatory was invented to
_ bring money into treasury of the Romish church.
_ —Tae President of Costa Rica has expelled
the Jesuits and their Bishop from the country
because it is the duty of the government to
prevent the intrigues of this society, which

— HereE-is a story with a moral: “A
certain Jew, when dying, requested his partner
to bury in his coffin the money belonging to
him in the firm. Solomon was outraged by
the request, but his rabbi told him he must
keep his promise to his dead friend. After
the funeral the rabbi asked him if he had
been faithful to his trust. He told him that
he had. ‘Well,’ ‘said the rabbi, ‘what kind
of money did you put in the coffin? Gold or
greenbacks?’ — ‘Neither,’ answered Solomon.
‘I put my check there.’ ‘Yourcheck!’ ‘Yes,
my check is good!’”” Here was a device giving
absolutely nothing, and yet insinuating that
an obligation had been met. So there are
rofessing Christians who give their promise to
pay, and repeat their promise, but never pay,
and yet feel a silent and sometimes a noisy
satisfaction at their own liberality. :

‘THOLIC zeal overreached itself in Dub-
days ago, when two French. nuns

Theatrical Entertainments.

In October 1778 the American Congress
adopted resolutions urging the States to take
the most effective measures for the suppression
of theatrical entertainments as being at war
with religion and good morals, which are the
foundations of liberty and the public welfare;
and declaring that any one in the service of
the United States, who shall take part ina
play, or encourage or attend the same, “shall
be deemed incapable of holding his office and
shall be dismissed from the service of the
United States.’’ — How is this for our boasted
progress?—Lutheran Quarterly for October.

BOOK-TABLE.

Tue First READER. Illustrated. Concordia Pub-
lishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price 20 cents.
The Lutheran of Philadelphia says of the new
Series of Readers issued by our Publishing House:
“The Concordia Publishing House has been en-
gaged in publishing a Series of School Books for
use in Parochial and other schools. The need of
English text-books has been felt and the want will
be met. These books are inferior in no respect to
the very best anywhere issued, and the purity of
tone and spirit in them gives them added excellence.
No other than true and wholesome lessons can be
learned from them. In paper, print, illustrations
and all external aspects they are equal to the best.’?

DER ABENDSCHULE-KALENDER fuer das Jahr 1886.
reals Lange Publishing Company, St. Louis,
oO.

The Louis Lange Publishing Company at St. Louis
is among the first to issue its Almanac for the com-
ing year, and a good German Almanac it is, well
filled with instructive and entertaining reading
matter. The handsome illustrations lend it an
additional attraction. Price 20 cents per copy.

REFORMATIONS-ALBUM,. Pilger Book Store, Read-
ing, Pa. Price $1.00 per copy.

This is a very handsome German Album, contain-
ing 44 Pictures of the precursors of the Reformation,
Luther and his co-laborers, Princes, cities, places
and monuments, all of which relate to the great
Reformation of the Church, with explanatory articles
on the opposite page.

5 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 734

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

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 714 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday
syening:

Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 714 Tuesday evening.

N. J. Bakke, Missionary.

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

Divine service pandsy. evening at 7}4 o’clock.
Sunday School from 10—12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Weélnesday evening.
Singing-school from S—9 Wednesday evening. .

G. ALLENDACH, Missionary.

TERMS:

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payable in adyance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wi

wit:

Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent
to one address. :

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“Luth. Concordia Publishing House,” M. 0. Bar-
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ent to be addressed to Pror. R. A. Biscuorr,
mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.