The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1886, Page 20

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20 The Lutheran Pioneer.

Gospel for many hundreds of years. He said
to the missionary who had won him to Christ,
‘What! is it possible that for hundreds of
years you have had the knowledge of these
glad tidings in your possession, and yet have
only now come to preach them to us? My
father sought after the truth for more than
twenty years, and died without finding it.
Why did you not come sooner?’’—

the address, ‘2004 Chestnut street,’’ but no
city wasnamed. The Norwegian with whom
the bit of personal property had been left sent
it to “Mr. Brooks, 2004 Chestnut street,
U.S. A.,” and naturally it came to Phila-
delphia. The occupant of that house, receiv-
ing the package, forwarded it to Mr. Brooks,
who doubtless does not believe that the Lu-
therans of Norway are a heathen people in
need of Methodist ‘‘ missionaries.’’

—TaE famous cedars of Lebanon are taken
care of by the authorities. There’ are 397 of
them—22 more than in 1810, and 373 more
than in 1573, when they were counted by the
German botanist, Ramvolff.

—A curtrous and noteworthy statement has
been published in regard to the great River
Euphrates. It appears that this ancient river
is in danger of disappearing altogether. Of
late years the banks below Babylon have been
giving way so that the stream spread out into
a marsh until steamers could not pass and only
a narrow channel remained for native boats.
Now this passage is becoming obliterated with
the probable result that the famous river will
be swallowed up by the desert.

—TBE once powerful community of the Sa-
maritans, in Palestine, has shrunk to 151 souls,
who live altogether at Nablus, the ancient She-
chem. The community consist of 53 men, 46
women, 36 boys, and 16 girls. The Samari-
tans being so exclusive as to intermarry only
with members of their own sect, the scarcity
of young women will have the effect of still
further reducing their number in the immediate
future. The members of this interesting com-
munity still bring offerings on Mount Gerizim,
and are ruled by a High Priest, the present
holder of that office being named Jacob, son of
Aaron, the Priest.

—In Madagascar, as Jate as 1857, nearly
two thousand people were put to death for ad-
hering to the Christian faith. There are now
1200 churches, and 71,586 communicants. The
native churches during the past ten years have
given nearly $1,000,000 for the spread of the
Gospel.

—Two HUNDRED laborers in the South Seas,
lately sent to the London Missionary Society
$465, over $2.33 each; and 10,000 converts of
Missions in Sierra Leone and the gold coast,
raised Jast year a jubilee fund of $75,000, or
an average of seven and a half dollars each.

—TneE Chinese Recorder states that Rev. J. R.
Wolfe, of the Church Missionary Society, with |:
two Chinese Christians sent out by the Foochow
church, sailed from Shanghai, to begin a thor-

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—“ STONEWALL JAcKson,”’ then a professor
in the Virginia Military Institute at Lexing-
ton, just before the war, organized a Sunday-
school for colored children, which is still in
operation. This school has set on foot a sub-
scription for a monument to Gen. Jackson.

—TaeE first Protestant Church in Alaska was
Lutheran. It was organized at Sitka through
the efforts of a Creole who, for his worth and
ability, had been made Governor of the colony
and President of the large Alaska Fur Com-
pany. A church building was erected by him
for the resident Lutheran Finns and ‘‘half-
breed’? families, of whom quite a number were
in the Company's service. When Alaska was
purchased by the United States, the old Rus-
sian ‘“‘Alaska Fur Company”’ ceased to exist,
and the small congregation of Finlanders was
scattered, the pastor returning home to Fin-
land. The property reverted to its original
owner, and was disposed of for some secular
purpose. It wasa small but neat building of
wood. ;

—Txe total number of Germans in Austra-
lia is about 75,000 souls. In all there are 72
German Lutheran pastors on the island, each
of whom serves from three to four congrega-
tions. The ‘‘ Evangelical Lutheran Synod of
Australia,”’ in South Australia, Victoria, and
New South Wales, numbers 24 pastors, 80
preaching places, 40 congregational schools,
6,000 communicants. It maintains a parochial
school-teacher’s seminary at Hahndorf, and a
German High School in connection with the
large congregation at Adelaide.

—TueE Canstein Bible House, at Halle, has
printed 6% millions of Bibles since 1712. There
are 26 Bible societies in Germany which dis-

. tributed 515,000 copies last year.

—RECENTLY a lady belonging to a popular
church sold her necklace and some other pieces
of jewelry she was wearing and put the pro-
ceeds, amounting to nearly $250, into the fund
for foreign missions. ~ If all the money ‘ex-
pended by the professed followers of Christ for
useless adorning was poured into the treasury
of the Lord, our Mission Board would be well

__ supplied. .

_ —Txe Baptists claim that immersion is the
only scriptural method of baptism, although it
has again and again been proved that this is a
comparatively modern view. It appears from
the recently published Life of Bunyan, the
author of Pilgrim’s Progress, and one of the
most shining lights in the records of the Baptist

Puiure Henry said: ‘‘There are two things
we should beware of: that we never be a-
shamed of the gospel, and that we never be a
shame to it.”

BOOKS RECEIVED.

EINE UNION IN DER WaurueEiTr. In commemora-
tion of the 350th Anniversary of the Wittenberg
Concord of 1536. By Rey. G. Goesswein. Price
50 cents. Concordia Publ. House, St. Louis, Mo.

TANZ UND THEATERBESUCH. By Rev. Prof. C. F.
W. Walther, D. D. Price 20 cents. Concordia
Publ. House, St. Louis, Mo.

BIBLISCHE GESCHICHTEN FUER MITTELKLASSEN.
Illustrated. Price 50 cents. Concordia Publ,
House, St. Louis, Mo.

Acknowledgment.

Received for the Ev.-Luth. Trinity Church in Car-
rollton from the following members of Mount Zion
congregation: Mrs. C. Hardy $1.00, Mrs. Wright
$3.00. Many thanks to the cheerful givers.

New Orleans, La., April 19, 1886.

AUG. BURGDORF.

Received of N. N. in Lafayette, Ind., $5.00 for
our Colored Mission. Many thanks!
R. A. Brscuorr.

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 Sundzy morning and at 74
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 714 Sunday evening and at 734 Thursday
evenings

Sunday School meets at 9 0’ clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 714 Tuesday evening.

N. J. Bakke, Missionary,

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CaARoOLLTON.
Divine services at 10! o’clock Sunday morning and 734
o’clock Sunday evening.

Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
AuG. Burcporr, Missionary.

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

Divine service Gunday evening at 7)4 o’clock.
Sunday School from 10—12.
Catechumen class mects from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from S—9 Wednesday evening.

G. ALLENBACH, Missionary.

TERMS:
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church, that he had his children baptized in| oughly Chinese mission in Corea. Mr. Ah Hok, | included, to-wit:
the Episcopal parish church, which means of |a wealthy Chinese Christian, gave $1,000 to Sia bt tetany son
start this mission, and went with them to Corea Pe ol aaa 1) 5.00
00

' course that he believed in infant baptism and
_ that they were not baptized by immersion.

‘Tre Rey. Phillips Brooks, now of Boston,
merly of Philadelphia, where he dwelt
04 Chestnut street, left behind a pair of
ta glasses while traveling in Norway
‘ago. Graven on the glasses was

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to help settle them in the work.

—A_ TON of ropes made from the hair of
the women of Japan is used in building the
$3,000,000 Buddhist temple at Kioto.

—A CONVERTED Buddhist was amazed when
he heard that the Christian world had the