The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1886, Page 8

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

this granite block with a boiled carrot.’ The
policeman declined to arrest him, saying that
he was simply a harmless crank.’

—THE United States Supreme Court has a
Bible which has been in constant use since
1808. It was printed at Oxford in 1799. On
the fly leaf is written ‘‘ United States Supreme
Court, 1808,’’ and every justice of the court
and every attorney who has been admitted to
practice before the bar since that date has been
sworn upon that Bible. It is a small volume
and the binding shows the marks of frequent
usage, particularly where the fingers clutch it
in administering and taking an oath.

—A READER on the Pacific coast sends us
the following: There is a very wealthy man in
our town who is rather close and stingy in the
management of his wealth, and woe to the un-
happy debtor who fails to meet his obligations.
He has a number of houses which he rents.
In one lives a widow, with two children, who
sews and washes to provide for herself and
little ones. New Year's came and she was un-
able to pay the rent. The little ones knelt in
prayer and audibly set forth their wants. It
so happened that the rich owner of the house
came just then to collect his rent, and, per-
ceiving the children in prayer, he halted until
they had finished. He listened to their words
and his heart was melted. He turned and
went to town. Coal, groceries, etc., were soon
hurrying to the widow’s house, and the next
time the mailcarrier came along he handed her
a receipt for a year’s rent in advance.

— Wm. Carey, the shoemaker, the pioneer
of modern missions, himself translated the Bible
into 40 tongues or dialects.

—Tuae Lutheran Missionary Society of Fin-
land commenced in 1870, baptized its first con-
verts in Ovambo-Land, Africa, in 1883, and at
present 20 colored children are in the mission
and 500 attend church, who are served by 7
missionaries.

—Tue Bible Society of Great Britain has
sold in nine “months 950,000 copies of the
peany New Testament.

— 41,000 copies of the Scriptures in the
Turkish language have been distributed among
the Musselmans.

—TxeE Moravian Church devoted $96,800
to their twelve Missions Jast year. They have
116 stations, 282 missionary agents, and 28,820
communicants attached tothem. —

—OF all the missionaries of the American
Board, fourteen per cent are children or grand-
children of missionaries.

—TaERE is not a single missionary in the
Valley of the Amazon.

—A JAPANESE convert was recently baptized
in Berlin, the second within a short time. He
has returned as a missionary to his native
pee

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—No tess than 46 Norwegian Lutheran
pastore are Jaboring in Dakota. Under their
care there are 173 organized congregations,
and more than this number of preaching sta-
tions.

—Iw THE fifteen German Lutheran ‘‘ Mis-
souri’ churches of New York City and vicinity
there are more than 3000 children enrolled in
the parochial schools.

—Tue following is an actual occurrence.
A Bible agent called on a lady and wanted to
sell her a new family Bible. She replied that
the one she had was good enough for her use,
that she had used it for a long time, etc. The
agent asked to see it, and when opening it a
pair of spectacles fell out, whereupon the lady
exclaimed: ‘‘ Well, I declare, if their ain’t my
specs I lost two years ago!”

—Sonre newspapers and much of the cheap
literature of the day are not much more than
primers for the instruction of young criminals
in ways of darkness. Several boys recently
arrested in Elmira for burglary and counter-
feiting admitted that they learned from a Sun-

- ~ day paper how to make counterfeit moulds.

—A noumBeER of Hartford, Conn., young
ladies have organized a club called ‘The
Tongue Guard.’’ Each member has to put a
cent into the treasury when she says anything
against any one. It is understood that the
several banks in Hartford are eagerly bidding
for the privilege of taking care of the club’s
money.

—WokTH RECORDING—the remark of one of
our pastors who came into his Sunday school
room in the days of the Moody and Sankey

E furore and found some one at the organ exe-
cuting ‘‘ Hold the Fort,’’ in which some very
strange language is put into the Master’s mouth.
‘Where did Jesus ever say such a thing? Put
up that book: we don’t sing lies in our Sunday
school. There is our motto, pointing to the
words, ‘A mighty Fortress is our God,’ dis-
played on the wall, ‘we don’t hold uno fort,’
but our fortress holds. us.’’

—Over the door of one of the ernie?
pet churches of New York, have been cut in the
be stone these words: ‘‘The poor have the Gospel
: preached to them;’’ some miscreant wrote
= under these: ‘‘ Only not here.”’
ss. —Awn infidel recently declared in a New
; York paper that he had left the church and
had been converted to infidelity, and his aim
would henceforth be to overthrow Christianity.
‘The ee York Tribune made this reply: ‘‘In-
ed; that reminds us. Some nights ago a
ran across a chap eel where a

in the admission of members. A play-actor,

partment in a newspaper, were refused until
they changed their business.

—TxE native churches of Japan are strict

story-teller, and editor of the ‘personal’? de-

— Misstonary effort in Japan produced less
than one convert a year for the first thirteen
years; now there are 120 churches, 8,000
communicants, and not less than 250 native
preachers.

—TuE native evangelical church at Teheran,
Persia, recently sent $30.28 to the Board of
Foreign missions for Mission work in Corea.

—TneE result of fifty years’ gospel work in
the Fiji Islands is that there are now 900
churches, 1,236 chapels, 55 native ministers,
1,785 local preachers, 26,880 communicants,
and 40,651 children in the Sabbath-shools. All
this with a population of only 100,000.

— During the past nine years the London
Missionary Society has sent twenty-three mis-
sionaries to Central Africa, of whom ten have
died and nine have retired from the service.
But, in spite of these immense losses, the work
is to be vigorously prosecuted.

— Tue ancient Hindoo faith has met with a
severe shock. It is an article of faith with the
Hindoos that the sacred city of Benares cannot
be shaken. by an earthquake, because it does
not rest on the earth at all, but upon the back
of a tortoise. The earthquake which visited

Hindostan gave Benares a good shaking up, *

and many rickety buildings came tumbling to
the ground.

—Carervt statistics compiled by the Jfis-
sionary Herald show that there are in China
connected with American societies 235 mis-
sionaries with 707 native helpers and 10,541
communicants; with British societies, 280 mis-
sionaries, 647 native helpers, and 14,044 com-
municants; and with Continental missions, 29
missionaries, 96 native helpers, and_1,700 com-
municants. Including the wives of missionaries
there are 857 foreign laborers.

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 7344
o’clock W ednesday evening?
Sunday School from 2 to 4

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

Divine services at 744 Sunday evening and at 734 Thursday
evenin

Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.

Adult catechumen class meets at 7}4 Tuesday evening.

N. J. BAKxe, Missionary.

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

Divine service Sunday evening at 714 o’ clock.
Sunday School from 10—12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—S NVednesany, evening.

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

TERMS:
Tue LurHerRaN Pionxer is published monthly,
payable in advance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wit:

9.00

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

All business communications to be addressed to
“Luth. Concordia Publishing House,” M. C. Bar-
ree Agt., St. Louis, Mo.

All communications concerning the editorial de-
partment to be addressed to Pror. R. A. Biscuorr,
meordia eollege: Fort Wayne, Ind.