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>, inmates of this institution, 750 are papists. It
|! might almost be called a monastery of the

- Department, and in the course of half an hour's

_ the infidel was stunned and soon left the Secre-

fraud. Large sums of money were raised in

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

era and earthquake. The correspondent of the
London Times has been instituting a rigid in-
quiry, and he found that such a fund was un-
known in Granada, and he could only trace
$20 in that province. - Even the editors, who
are supposed to know almost everything of such
a public character, were in a state of profound
ignorance with regard to this fund, as were also
professors in the University. The same lack
of knowledge was found in Malaga about the
munificence of the Londoners. Through the
aid of some Spanish gentlemen, the correspond-
ent found that vast sums of money had been
received by the late Archbishop and his suc-
cessor for the sufferers, and that simultaneously
a wave of ecclesiastical building and restoration
had passed over the whole region, and that
these ecclesiastical frauds had appropriated the
funds raised for the sick and the dying to carry
out their own clerical schemes of propagandism.
This malappropriation should be traced out by
the proper civil authorities, and these miscre-
ants compelled to make speedy restoration.
The correspondent found, also, that they had
not even kept any memoranda of the sums re-
ceived and disbursed. in their church building.

— A New York Lapy was not long ago re-
quested to add her name to a subscription list
for charitable purposes. ‘‘I cannot,’’ was the
reply. ‘I did all I could. afford to do for char-
ity during the winter. I went to the charity
ball, the kirmses, and attended a number of
private theatrical entertainments given for
charitable purposes.‘‘ We hope there are none
of this class in our churches.

—A Pastor in Kansas rides 40 miles on horse-
back to meet his appointments, and preaches
four times every Sunday, at a salary of $200
per annum.

—Peruars this is the pastor to whom the
following story refers: ‘‘Are you enjoying your
dinner?” asked Bobby of the minister who was
taking a Sunday dinner with the family. ‘‘Yes,
Bobby,’’ responded the minister pleasantly.
‘‘Mamma said this morning that she thought
you would, as she didn’t suppose that with
your small salary and big family, you got much
to eat from one week’s end to another.”

—TxeE Norwegian Lutherans in the interior
of Madagascar in 1885 baptized 1521 persons,
and received 21 Roman Catholics, and 62 In-
dependents and Friends into their congregra-
tions, making the entire number of their mem-
bers now 6446. They have 1678 candidates
for baptism, an average attendance on worship
of 35,000 persons, 30,000 children in the
schools, and 636 native preachers and teach-
ers, 5 of whom are ordained. They have also
on the West Coast, 50 baptized, reported dur-
ing the year, and 600 or 800 attendants at
church, with 3 native teachers.

—Txe Augsburg Confession was recently
translated into Chinese. Wong a Chin, a cat-
echet of the Berlin Mission to Hong Kong,
was ordained in order to become pastor of a
native church and had to testify his adherence
to the fundamental doctrines of our church.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Tue N. Y. Herald had reports telegraphed
it on a recent Sunday from some of the prin-
cipal cities as to how the day was being ob-
served. Chicago reported that the beer saloons
and theatres were all opened. Cincinnati wired
that her theatres were in full blast, and thou-
sands attending an immense socialistic picnic.
St. Louis had 10,000 of her citizens at a base
ball match. Louisville telegraphed that its
horse racing, balloon ascension and base ball
grounds were all thronged. New Orleans ditto.
How do you spend Sunday?

—How Do You Srenp Sunpay? To a
Christian friend who asked this question, a
business man laughingly replied, ‘‘Oh I have
no time to go to church; I spend Sunday in
settling my accounts.” ‘‘Permit me to remind
you,” answered the other solemnly, “that the
judgment day will be spent in the same way.”

—TueE Romish Archbishop Corrigan of New
York paid a visit to Blackwell’s Island a few
Sundays ago, and ‘confirmed 119 convicts in
the penitentiary there. It is a curious fact, or

‘rather not at all surprising, that of the 1200

pope’s church.

—SENSATIONAL preachers twist and contort
the Bible in a most shameful manner. A min-
ister in Philadelphia preaching ou the Press,
contorted one of the grandest passages to his
purpose. His text was ‘‘Day unto day uttereth
speech.”’ This is as bad as the Western eccen-
tric on the same theme, who took, ‘‘And he
sought to see Jesus, but could not for the press,’’
or as Dr. Talmage, when he preached a Thanks-
giving sermon on Machinery from the text,
‘And it was said in my hearing, O wheel.’”’

—TaeE correspondent of a Philadelphia paper
writes: Bob Ingersoll, the infidel lecturer,
called upon Secretary Lamar at the Interior

conversation said scores of witty things, which
Lamar, lying back upon the sofa in his private
office, enjoyed immensely. Ingersoll finally
made some remark in ridicule of Christianity.
There was*a momentary pause when he fin-
ished, and the Secretary jumped to his feet,
throwing his long hair with an impatient gest-
ure back from his forehead. In.a very earnest
manner he confessed his faith in Christ, and
Him crucified, and said he hoped to see the
day when Ingersoll would come to the same
saying belief. An awkward silence followed,

tary’s office. -
_ —Henre is an example of Roman Catholic

don for those who were damaged and ruined
Spain about a year ago by an earthquake,
r the poor whom the cholera left in a
f destitution. It was called the Mansion
Fund. ‘The Provinces of Granada and

—Pasror ScuNeEtLer, of Bethlehem, now

preaches regularly at Hebron, the ancient city
where Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were buried.
The gospel has not been preached there since
1187, when the city fell into the hands of Sal-
adin.

—TueE new burgomaster of Prague, in Bo-

hemia, is the first Protestant who has held that
office in two hundred years.

—Ar Sfax, in Tunis, workmen have come
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upon baptismal founts covered with mosaics,
which are clearly Christian in origin. A
Christian church with remains of mural paint-
ings has been found in Constantinople, under-
neath a mosque.

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Saved.

A gentleman who escaped from the wreck

of the Atlantic telegraphed to his brother in a
distant city the single word ‘saved.’
though the message was, it was one of joy,
and so highly did the brother value it, that he
has had it framed and hung up in his office.
Christ said to the man whom he had healed,
“Go home to thy friends and tell them how
great things the Lord hath done for thee, and
hath had compassion on thee.”
such an-announcement should bring to them
who have been anxious for the souls of their
kindred ?
worse wreck than that of the Atlantic, and to
a better hope than that of home and country.

Brief

And what joy

They are ‘‘saved’’—saved from a

Acknowledgment.

Received from Mrs. Mary Smith $1.00 for our

Colored Mission,

Mobile, Ala., May 24., 1886. LroroLp WanL,

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEans, La.

EY. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
413 Annette Str,, between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 7%

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

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 74 Thursday
evening:
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 7)4 Tuesday evening.
N. J. Baxxe, Missionary.

EY. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
1 Cano.tton.
Divine services at 103f o’clock Sunday morning and 73g

o’clock Sunday evening.

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

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

Divine service pansy 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. ALLeNnnacn, Missfonary.

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