The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1886, Page 40

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F 40 The Lutheran Pioneer.

On fourth Sunday of last month (14. p.
Trin.), Mr. Wm. Dalman, a late graduate of
our St. Louis theological Seminary, was duly
ordained and installed by Rev. A. Rader,
President of Conference, in the neighboring
English Lutheran St. Paul’s Congregation, also
in Webster Co., Mo. The services were in-
teresting throughout and were very well at-
tended, despite unfavorable weather. In an-
ticipation of the new pastor the St. Paul’s
Congregation had removed their commodious
church-building to a more favorable site, and
had erected a parsonage.—The newly-ordained
pastor will have charge of the St. Paul and-
Pleasant Hill Congregations, about 10 miles
apart.

In conclusion I know it will please the little
PronEER to learn—since he is a little mis-
sionary himself — that Rev. Wm. Dalman will
devote part of his time to mission duties in the
interests of the English cause. May God crown
his efforts with signal success.

Rev. A. Meyer.

wered evasively and pretended that the sing-
ing disturbed the neighborhood. The same
Mayor refused to permit the opening of Prot-
estant schools which were closed a year ago.
Only a few weeks ago in another Spanish city
the Catholics gathered in rejoicing crowds
around a pile of burning Bibles and Protestant
school books, that had been confiscated and
destroyed under some pretext by the author-
ities. The press next day exulted over the
fact, and mourned that it was not possible to
hope for the return to power of the ‘‘ Holy”
Inquisition to purify the Church of heretics.
As the fulfillment of this ‘‘pious’’ longing
would mean the murder of thousands of Prot-
estants, we believe there is not much likelihood
of its being gratified. It is the same Church
that pretends to be harmless as a sucking dove

this land, but is as fierce as a hungry wolf
n Spain. Yet one of her boasts is that she is
‘always and everywhere the same.”’ Which
f the two characters is her true one?

—A Proresrant Missionary in New Mexico
writes thus of the Romish persecutions in that
country:

‘The Bishop of the Catholic Church was
here some time ago, and instructed the Gov-
ernor of the Pueblos, to order all the boys to
attend the Catholic school, in consequence of
which, I had few scholars for a few days, but
they came in faster than ever, and my school
numbered 72, or averaged 54 for the month.
The bishop was here again last Thursday, to-
gether with two or three priests, and got the
governor to order my arrest if I did not dis-
continue my school at once. Of course, I re-
fused to obey his orders, and opened my school
as usual. I had a few boys (19), who were
not afraid to come to the school, and I went on
with the school as usual. The officers did not
molest me, or attempt to. But the governor
issued orders to the parents not to allow their
boys to attend my school, and threatened to
arrest the boys if they still continued to come
to the school. To-day I called on the gov-
ernor to know the reason of his action. He
told me that the bishop had instructed him to
stop my school, saying that the school was a
eretic school, and that the government would
Inot sustain it any more, and that I had no
right to live in the Pueblo without a license
from the Government, which I could not show
or get.’

—On the great African island Madagascar
no one could read sixty years ago, but now
there are nearly 300,000 on the island who
have some part of the Bible and read it.
f“1~ & fae G43 f/

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—A CORRESPONDENT of The Churchman writ-
ing from Charleston concerning the recent
earthquake, tells the following stories, which
we think will interest our young readers:

“ My little granddaughter, in Asheville, four
and a half years old, had heard her mother
and grandmother, who are there, talk of what
they had heard of the dreadful calamity, until
the little thing became very nervous, and on
last Saturday night, after she had gone to bed,
she said to herself, ‘Dear God, please don’t let
the earthquake come to hurt us to-night,’ and
she turned over and went to sleep. In the
morning, as her little eyes were opened, she
said, ‘Ma, ma, God did not let the earthquake
come last night because I begged Him.’ Sweet
faith of childhood! Another little boy, two
years and nine months old, on the second night
of the disturbance, for it has been every night |
from Tuesday, August 3ist, till to-night, Mon-
day, September 6th, up to this hour no re-
currence yet, but can not tell but a shock may
come ere this is finished. There had been one
severe shake, and the father was walking the
room uneasily, when the little fellow said, ‘Pa,
pa, if God wants to shake the house let Him
shake it, but you come and lie down by me
and go to sleep.’ This was at Summerville,
where there has been so much disturbance.

‘Tn the same place, the first night after the
first terrible upheaval, several families of the
neighborhood, mostly kinsfolk, had gathered in
a large open yard—there were nearly forty
children of all ages among them—when, with-
out a word from their elders, the children all

got together, joined hands in a circle, and knelt
on the ground and offered up their own prayers
in their own words. Did not the angels join
that congregation, and was not He in the midst
of them?”

—A Boy twelve years old recently was the
important witness in a lawsuit. One of the
lawyers, after cross questioning him severely,
said: ‘‘ Your father has been telling you how
to testify, hasn't he?’”

“Yes,” said the boy.

‘* Now,” said the Jawyer, ‘‘just tell us how
your father told you to testify.””

‘‘Well,’’ said the boy modestly, ‘‘ father told
os t me the lawyers would try and tangle me in my
Be testimony; but if I would just be careful and

tell the truth I could tell the same thing every
time.”
‘ * —THE question, ‘‘ What is eternity?” was
put in writing to a French boy in the deaf and
-dumb school, in Paris. He wrote as an an-

BOOK-TABLE.

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THERANER auf das Jahr 1887. Concordia
Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.

This is the time for Almanacs. Everybody wants
one, and we heartily recommend to our German
readers the Lutheran Almanac published at St.
Louis. Its form is larger than that of most Al-
manacs and it is full of excellent reading matter
and contains the usual valuable statistics and in-
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The price is 10 cents.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORLEANS, La.
EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CITAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.

Divine services at 10 o’clock Sundsy 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 Bervices at 714 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday
Sunday Se ool 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 1034 o’clock Sunday morning and 74
o’clock Sunday evening.

Sunday School at 9 o’ clock. .
Ava. Buncponr, 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—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.

G. ALLENnAcn, Missionary.

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the Conference and outside of it of any progress
made in Church matters, or mission respects.
I will give him an item he can relate on his next
circuit. f J

ed the clergyman of the British chapel, on
1 of, imprisonment, to leaye the pulpit, and
gregation to disperse. When the pastor
against the outrage the Mayor ans-