The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1886, Page 32

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—AN excited mother dropped her infant in
the East River, last July. As the steamer Laura
M. Starin was returning from Glen Island, she
passed an excursion barge off Astoria, N. Y.
Many people on the barge waved their hand-
kerchiefs, and among them was a woman on
the upper deck, who had a baby on one arm.
While waving her handkerchief, she dropped
the baby overboard, and, as it struck the water,
she fainted and fell on the floor. Two men
were in a rowboat near the barge, and they
quickly pulled to the spot where the child fell,
and were able to rescue it before it was drowned.
When the mother recovered consciousness, her
babe was placed’in her arms. It is seldom
that a mother is guilty of carelessness so gross,
in respect to the life of her child, but there is
reason to fear that there are many parents
quite as careless about the eternal life of their
children. They are so engrossed with what is
passing in the world, and so eager to share in
any pleasure within their reach, that they pay
no heed to the spiritual interests of those com-
mitted to their charge. Ps. 127, 3.

—A STRANGE story comes from Bradford
Junction, W. Va., says the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat, concerning a farmer there. Simon
Wilcox was formerly an enthusiastic church.
member, but on Thursday, when he surveyed
the ruin of his crop wrought by a hailstorm,
he began to curse God for allowing such de-
struction, and vented a tirade of horrible blas-
phemy. In the midst of his curses he was
suddenly stricken with paralysis and could not
leave the spot. There his neighbors found him,
and their story is that they could not release
him; that he was surrounded by a circle of
intense heat, and that when they tried to push
him out of it with a pole the pole burned off,
and that it was not until toward evening that
the mysterious heat disappeared, and he fell
down unconscious and was picked up a raving
maniac.

—WueEn Von Ranke, the great historian,
was eighty-nine, he was engaged upon a History
of the World, based upon the broadest grounds,
and of course of immense scope. To a person
who visited him at that time, he said, ‘“‘A
countryman of yours recently asked me whether
I hoped to finish my history. I answered, ‘that
is not of so much interest to me as might be
= ; supposed. If the dear God wills that I shall
Ey finish it, so shall it be; if He wills otherwise,
a Tleave it. In either case-I am content.’”’

—A poor Indian maiden was turned ‘‘from
idols to serve the living and true God,” and
the heathen chiefs threatened to torture and
‘then burn her. With triumphant faith the
defenceless girl exclaimed—‘“‘If you burn me,
“my new Chief’’ (Jesus) ‘‘will go into the fire
‘with me, and He and I shall Jaugh at the

port of a missionary at Pekin. At a
nt examination he repeated the entire New

Testament without missing a single word or
making one mistake. He is now committing
to memory Dr. Martin’s ‘Evidences of Christ-
ianity.”’

—Tnue Chinese are often spoken of as very
slow to receive the Gospel, yet the Jfissionary
Herald tells of a crippled Chinese woman who
came a long distance to hear a missionary of
the cross. When she came the second time,
she was asked what she remembered of the
sermon of the previous Sunday. She replied,
“T am old, and my heart is thick, and I have
no memory. I only remember two things.
That God is my Father in heaven, and that
His Son Jesus died on the cross for my sins.”
Certainly that old woman of Shanse listened
to some purpose, aud bore unconscious testi-
mony to the faithfulness with which the Gospel
was preached by that missionary. How many
sermons in this country were as effectually list-
ened to last Sunday? and how many of them
were suited to convey similar instruction to
their hearers?

—Onz of the missionary ladies who spoke at
the meeting of the Woman’s Board of Foreign
Missions in Minneapolis reminded the ladies
that they could not be overtaxing themselves
for missions while they gave $25,000,000 a
year for kid gloves and only $5,500,000 to con-
vert the heathen.

—Ir is no,uncommon experience,’ said Dr.
Hall, ‘‘for me to receive a letter from a hired
servant, regretting that she would be unable
to come the next Sunday, as it was her day to
stay at home, and inclosing perhaps five, and,
in one case, ten dollars for the foreign mission-
ary collection.”’

—Wirsiw a year or two there have been
three English papers established in India to
oppose Christianity. Two of them have died,
and the third was about to do so, when some-
body in England furnished the funds for its
continuance. How bitter is the enmity of some
to the religion of Christ. How strange that
men should be found in a Christian country to
expend money for such a purpose. It is evident
that the offence of the cross has not ceased, but
it is encouraging to know that the cultivated
Hindus are not sufficiently interested in infi-
delity to sustain papers in which it is advocated.

—Some years ago the English troops, after
hard fighting, defeated the Zulu nation in
South Africa and took their king, Cetewayo
prisoner. He died after having been brought
to England, where they made a show of him,
but his son is living yet and has just now re-
turned to Zululand, not as a warrior, but as a
messenger of peace. ‘The prince spent six years
in Sweden, preparing himself for the life and
labor of a Lutheran Missionary among his own
people.

—In the Annual Report of the National
(Lutheran) Missionary Society of Sweden, lately
held at Wisby, Princess Eugenie is mentioned
among those who by their liberal gifts have
aided the Society in its work among the poor.
The Princess has manifested her further interest

in the work of the Mission by consigning a
sealed bequest to the President of the Society,
with the following superscription: ‘My wil),
made 1885, in behalf of Wisby State Mission,
under the auspices of the church, to be opened
and read in the presence of the directors, at my
death.’? By this unknown gift the’ future
efficiency of the State Mission will, no doubt,
be greatly increased. Others, including the
Duchess of Dalarne, have likewise aided the
Mission to a greater or less extent.

—Tne Rev. Dr. MecVickar, in a recent ad-
dress gave some very striking facts. In less
than fifty years the cannibal Sandwich Islands
have been Christianized, and now send mission-
aries to other lands, In fifteen years the can-
nibals of Fiji have 22,000 church members,
57,000 children in schools, and half the popu-
lation are church goers. In Madagascar, in
1861, there were 2,000 Christian martyrs, and
from the 50 converts left there have since
sprung 5,000. Forty years ago there were no
Protestants in China; nine provinces are now
supplied with mission stations, and there are
thousands of converts. In 1878 the missions
of the world report for the year 60,000 converts.

—Mr. W. T. Russevt, a Scotch gentleman
formerly resident in Calcutta, has given $85,000:
recently for Christian female education in India.

—Proresrant churches are multiplying in
the city of Rome, the foundation of the twenty-
second one having recently been Jaid.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New Orzeans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 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 734 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday
- stening:
Sunday School meets at 9 o’ clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 7}4 Tuesday evening.

N. J. BAKKE, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CAROLLTON.
Divine services at 103¢ o’clock Sunday morning and 73
o’clock Sunday evening.

Sunday School at 9 o’ clock.
AvG. Burcporr, MIssionaRY.

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St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Liltle Rock, Ark.
Divine service pondey, evening at 714 o’clock.
Sunday School from 10—12. *
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.
G. ALLENBACH, Missionary.
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