The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1886, Page 36

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

tions already occupy that field. The report on

our missions at Little Rock and New Orleans
Our schools in New Or-

was very favorable.
leans are crowded, and there is.not room enough
for all that apply for admission. May God con-
tinue to bless our mission work.

—SpeakinG of our Immigrant Mission at
New York, the Independent says, ‘‘ Next in im-

sion, controlled by the Missouri Synod, the
largest single Lutheran Synod in America. It
used in this work nearly $70,000 during the
past year, and has recently secured an excel-

. lent building near Castle Garden for its pur-
pose. It has agents in Baltimore, Bremen and
Hamburg. Although the youngest of these
societies, it is doing the greatest amount of
work of them all.

—A Goop story is told of a country clergy-
man, who went to the city to find a model to
improve his own style. He finally settled on
Dr. Talmage, as having a style the most effect-
ive and easy to copy. The Sunday aftér his
return, the people were astonished to find the
old pulpit gone and alittle stand set in its place,
but when the clergyman arose, announced the
hymn, and then in thunder tones exclaimed,
“Let us pray!’’ the deacons, quite convinced
that their quiet little pastor had suddenly gone
crazy, rushed to the platform, carried him home
by force, and applied hot water bottles to his
head. The moral of it all is, ‘‘Be yourself.’’

/  -—tr has been discovered that the San Kau-

ron and Kassoi rivers in Central Africa are
navigable, thus making accessible the eastern
portion of the Congo Free State.

—THE missionary among the Lepers of Mo-
lonai is beginning to pay the penalty of his
heroism. Shut away from all civilized and
healthy humanity, he has for years been a will-
ing prisoner in the island, in which are col-
lected and confined the lepers of all the neigh
boring Sandwich group. For a long time,
though cut off from the outward world, he con-
tinued in good health, though alone among the
dead. But the stroke has fallen at last. Ina
letter written recently he says: ‘‘Impossible
for me to go any more to Honolulu, on ac-
count of the leprosy breaking out on me. The
microbes have finally settled themselves in my
left leg and my ear, and one eyebrow begins tu
fall. Iexpect to have my face soon disfigured.

' Having no doubt myself of the true character
‘of my disease, I feel calm, resigned, and hap-
“pier among my people. Almighty God’ knows

iction I say daily, ‘Thy will be done.’”” .

ald, in Saxony, to which place his par-

—Ar the recent meeting of the Lutheran
Synodical Conference much time was devoted
to the discussion of the report of our Committee
on Colored Missions. After due deliberation it
was resolved to discontinue the missionary sta-
tion at Meherrin, Va., since other denomina-

portance is the Castle Garden Immigrant Mis-

sat is best for my sanctification, and with that

early home of Martin Luther, at

ents moved when he was an infant, has been
restored to the condition in which it was at that
time, four centuries ago. It had become much
dilapidated, but will now be occupied by a body
of deaconesses, who will care for the sick and
poor. 3

—TueE British and Foreign Bible Society em-
ploys 60 canvassers in France, who annually
sell 120,000 copies of the Scriptures.

—Socrerres operating in every Roman
Catholic country in Europe, as well as out of
Europe, report frequent cases known to them,
of men losing their business and families exiled
from their homes because they have embraced
the Evangelical faith, all through the influence
of the priests.

—Ir is stated as an illustration of the power
of special prayer offered for the safety of mis-
sionary vessels, that for 120 years a ship has
annually left England for the Moravian mis"

sion in the Arctic regions of this continent, and

not a single ship or passenger has been lost by

storm, iceberg or wreck.

—ANOTHER of the English missionaries on
the Congo has fallen. When dying, he said,
“‘Work on, brethren; don’t let the loss of your
men hinder you. Never give up; hope always.’’

—TueE King of Sweden has received a peti-
tion with 136,694 signatures entreating him

that ‘‘energetic and stringent measures may

be taken for the suppression of the immoral

literature by which the land is disgraced and
injured.””

—PROTESTANT missions in Japan were com-
menced in 1859. There are now over 10,000

communicants, besides the nominal Christian

population. The number of churches is over

one hundred and forty. Mission work is making

marvelous progress.
—IT is interesting to note that Iceland has

been recently visited by a German statistician,
and that he bas furnished interesting data of
that land. The Icelanders, it appears, are all
Lutherans.

Some French missionaries tried
very hard to make converts, but without any
result. There are one Roman Catholic, one
Methodist, four Unitarians, and three Mor-
mons to be found among a population of 72,445
souls (census of 1880). The island is divided
into twenty deaneries, with 141 pastorates.
The head of the clergy is the Bishop of Rey-
kjavik. There are 292 churches.

—TxeE American missionaries sixty years ago
landed on the Sandwich Islands. They found
the people half-naked savages, eating raw fish,
abandoned to sensuality, and without the mate-
rials of commerce, except the sandal-wood of
their mountains. The missionaries began with
heroic and radical treatment. They aimed to
make these savages Christians. Success en-
dorsed their method. Then followed the life
of industry and commerce. In 1881, the value
of the islands’ export was $6,714,726, and its
imports amounted to $4,547,976. In 1884, the
value of the trade between these islands and
the United States was $5,546,116. The profit
on Jess than ten years of this trade, at 12} per

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cent., would pay the entire cost of the Mission,
$200,000, up to 1869, when the Christianized
nation was left to its own resources.

—Tne receipts of the British and Foreign
Bible Society for the past year were £238,391,
or, in our currency, $1,156,196.35, those of the
American Bible Society were $523,910.59, a
total of $1,680,106.94; their total receipts for
their entire history have been $71,639,682.42.
The total issues of the British and Foreign Bible
Society last year, were 4,123,904, and of the
American, 1,437,440, a total of 5,561,344, and
for the last two years, 11,270,551, being a frac-
tion over 18,000 for every working day of these
years. The total issues of these societies amount
to 155,198,215 copies.

—TueE little Chinese Presbyterian Church,
in San Francisco, last year gave $158 to For-
eign Missions, $91 to Home Missions. The
Chinese of Los Angeles sent to a native helper
in China $36 to open a mission school.

—Tue Arabic Bible, for which the United
Presbyterian Board of Publication appropriated
$2000, is finished, and is selling rapidly in Alex-
andria, Egypt.

NOTICE.

All exchanges, and all communications con-
cerning the editorial department of the Lutheran
Pioneer are to be addressed to

Rey. R. A. Bischoff, Bingen, Adams Co., Ind.

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 7%
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
one astyices at 714 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday
Sunday Se hool meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 714 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.
AuG. Buncponr, Missionary.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service pomaey evening at 734 o’clock.
0—12.

Sunday School from 5
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.

G. ALLeNnacn, Missionary.

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