The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1885, Page 48

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —Tne Rev. Mr. Parkhurst, in his tour] house with the University buildings. Some
around the world did not see a single new/ adjoining ground has been acquired by the
heathen temple. All the pagan worship was| University, and made into a public garden, in
in old dilapidated temples. Not very long ago| which a beautiful fountain has been erected
there were 100,000 idol-gods in Raratonga;| that is connected with historic and artistic bs
but a young man lately visiting the British] memories.
Museum saw among the wonders there the! _ Jy Montreal, Canada, a Romish priest |
first Raratonga idol his eyes ever beheld,| denounced the Bibles of Protestants in the | =
though he was born and lived nineteen years following words: ‘‘Protestants are very sociable
in Raratonga. and polite with their Bibles. They send their |
—A Cunistran Ruter. Paul Kruger, the} agents throughout the country with tracts and |
President of the courageous little Transvaal! Bibles; and now I repent again, aud I want tu
Republic in South Africa, during his recent] be understood, that the church forbids you to
tour through Germany, visited the Mission| read those Bibles. If you have any of them in
House in Berlin. The students were surprised | your house burn them; and if you don’t want
at the earnest Christian tone in which he spoke| to burn them bring them to me and I will burn
to them. ‘‘Young brothers,’’ he said, ‘‘I be-|them.’’? Such is the temper of the Romish
seech you to know and preach nothing but our} priests all the world over. They hate the Bible
Lord Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. I did] from which the people learn the Saviour of
not seek Him, but He sought me, and—God | Bethlehem as the only way to heaven.
be praised! —found me.... Some from your] __Brrore we close our window we would |
midst are now in the Transvaal making known] ;emind our readers that thisis the best time |
the Saviour, and two of my children are re-| sending in the names of new subscribers for
ceiving instruction in the Mission school. IJ yy next volume. Our PronEEr, being a very
assure you that my government will support/ modest little fellow, wants no other Christmas
the Mission in the strongest manner, and seek present this year. We hope our dear little pet
to remove all obstacles out of the way.”’ will not be disappointed.

—Tae new German Colonies in Africa are A Harry Curistmas To A!
by no means completely heathen lands. Bre- ;
men Missionaries work in Congoland for years
and conduct a theological seminary with 27
native students. They translated the Bible,
the catechism, a hymn-book and a number of
school books into Ewe. In Angra Pequena
there are Rhenish Missionaries since 1840, and
labor on eight stations among the Namaqua
and Herero. Lutheran Missionaries from Fin-
land preach in the Owamba district. Mem-
bers of the Church of Prussia propose to build
churches in Usugara on the east coast.

—Accorpine to present indications two
races of men must soon become extinct— the
Laplanders, and the Maoris of New Zealand.
The Maoris have decreased from 1,000,000 in
Captain Cook’s day to 45,000 at the present
time, at which rate they will entirely disappear
by the year 2,000. The Laplanders are rapidly
dying out, their present number being only
30,000. But this reduction in numbers of the
world’s population is more than counterbalanced
by the remarkable increase of the colored

A Lerter in a Canada paper says of the
heathen Indians of the far North-west: ‘These
Indians are superstitious and still worship idols.
Aslam writing this letter I look out and see
fires built on the hill to strange gods, and I
hear the sad and doleful cry or song of the
medicine man as he is practicing his evil art
over the prostrate form of some sick person
lying in yonder camp. A few weeks ago they
had their sun-dance. At this dance (which
they have once a year) the braves of the tribe
are chosen. If a young man can dance for
three days, constantly looking at the sun,
eating or drinking nothing, he gets the title
‘A Brave.” A person visiting the dance on the
third day would never wish to see it again.
See these young men, perhaps six or eight, a
spike is passed through the skin on the breast,
and about this spike a cord is wound and the
cord tied to a rope over head, and there they
hang in agony.”

—TaeE Charleston (S. C.) News says: ‘‘A
letter of our Beaufort correspondent describes
a deplorable condition of morals and manners
among the colored people on the Sea Islands.
There is no lack of what they call ‘religion’
even in the most benighted districts, but it is
a miserable ‘religion’ on the part of many who
are regular church-goers. Instances have been
known, indeed, where preachers have been
deprived of their charges for speaking plainly
on this point, and in one case the offender was
expelled without ceremony for ‘insulting’ his
congregation by insisting upon a due observ-
ance of one of the Ten Commandments. If
left to themselves, the colored people on the
islands will sink to. the lowest level of degrada-
tion in a few generations, and it is, therefore,
incumbent upon their friends, North and
South, to look more closely after them than
heretofore.” ‘

—A CORRESPONDENT of the Journal of Com-
merce has recently written among notes of a
carriage journey in New Hampshire, some
account of the country churches there, and
the condition of religion among them at the
present day. He says: ‘‘Within a few weeks
I have heard sermons in several country
churches. In each of these sermons the

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Curist is come to be thy Light f
Shining through the darkest night; ra
He will make thy pilgrim way f :
Shine unto the perfect day. |
Take the message! let it be
Full of Christmas joy to thee.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEans, La.

EY. LUTI. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.

Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 744
o’clock Wednesdny evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine seriees at 7)4 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday
evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.

Adult catechumen class meets at 714 Tuesday evening.
N. J. BAKKE, Missionary.

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St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service pundeys erening at 714 0’clock.

minister told his hearers that he had studied | population in the United States. Sunday School from poe tual
—TueE Jews of the world numbered 6;377,- -Singing-school from $9 Wednesday evening. =

his subject with great care, and was thoroughly
conyinced of the doctrine he presented. In
_ each case the doctrine was heresy. It was sad
Sunday after Sunday, to hear this same self-
_ assertion, ‘I have made up my mind on this
subject,’ the man preaching himself and his

602 last June, according to statistics gathered SA aie a amon

by the Geographical Society in Marseilles, and
were distributed as follows: Europe 5,407,602;
Asia, 245,000; Africa, 418,000; America,
800,000; Australia, 12,000. Nearly a third

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and Hungary come next. In the three Scan-
dinavian kingdoms, Denmark, Sweden and
Norway, there are 7,000 Israelites all told.
—Lurtser’s house at Wittenberg has been
thoroughly renovated according to a plan
adopted by the late King of Prussia, Frederick
William ITV. A colonnade now connects the

_ and for all delivered to the saints.”?

—A FAmous stone formerly stood in front
of the chief heathen temple at Bau, in the Fiji

ids, against which, in the days of paganism,
16 heads of innumerable victims of cannibals’
vies were dashed. It has now been trans-

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