The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1886, Page 44

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—A LApy of our acquaintance recently
brought home to her children a fine cat, to
their great delight. One of the little boys ex-
pressed his satisfaction to his sisters, as follows:
‘‘Tsn’t God-good? I asked Him for a kitty,
and He has given me a cat.’’ That dear child
brought up under the influences of a Christian
home had learned a lesson that grown people
are very slow to make their own. © How often
we fail to recognize the great mercy of our
heavenly Father! The child was right. God is
good. He has given us more than we asked for.

—WHEN Mr. Taggart was on a missionary
tour, he lodged one night at a public house not
far from Albany. In the evening a man from
Albany came in and gave an account of some

‘rather striking event which had just occurred,
accompanying his statement with many pro-
fane expressions. Mr. Taggart, after hearing
him for some time, turned to him and said:
‘Sir, you are a stranger to me, but you appear
to be a person of intelligence, and I should be
willing to take your word without an oath, and
I presume the rest of the company would like-
wise.” The man immediately apologized to
Mr. T., and said that his mother had taught
him better, and that he was ashamed of him-
-self for using such language, and thanked the
stranger for having reproved him.

—Wrra profound sorrow the congregation
at Ebenezer, Ga., have discovered that their
dear old house of worship, built upon the bank
of the Savannah River by the Saltzburgers over
one hundred years ago, was seriously damaged
by the great earthquake. So violent was the
shock that it rang the bells of the church; and
cracks in the wall are found above every window.

—Accorpine to the Lutheran Almanac of
Brobst, Diehl & Co., for 1887, the ‘American
Lutheran Church”’ numbers 4009 pastors, con-
gregations 7104, and 947,144 communicants.
Over against last year this is a net gain of 175
pastors, 341 congregations and 34,402 com-
municants.

—Rey. Jonn Houcuron and wife, mission-
aries to the Gallas in East Africa, were cruelly
murdered by the Masais, a marauding tribe
who were making a raid for cattle. Mrs.
Houghton was killed in the mission house, and
her husband, hearing her screams, was hasten-
ing to her relief when he was speared.

—A YOUNG missionary from the West, a
delegate to the American Home jMission So-
ciety, writing to his wife from Saratoga, re-
ports that among the fashionable crowd he saw
one young lady ‘‘whose costume was worth
just one meeting-house, forty cottage organs
and twenty-three Sunday school libraries.

—Tue Rev. John McKim, one of the mis-
sionaries in Japan, describing the funeral of. an
aged convert, says: ‘“‘She was very anxious
that all the heathen neighbors should be re-

" quested to look at her body after she was dead.
_ Her reason was this: The Japanese have a
dreadful belief that the bodies of dead Chris-

tians are nailed inside the coffin in the form of

across! This old woman’s request was made
in order that her neighbors might know the
falsity of the belief. I had a carpenter make the
coffin and bring it to my house, where the tailor
we usually employ trimmed it very neatly.’
—TaeE details have been received of the mas-
sacre of native Christians of Ugunda, Africa,
by order of King Mwanga. The massacre be-
gan in June and was directly due to the refusal
of a Christian lad, acting as the King’s page,
to commit an abominable crime. Many Chris-
tians were tortured, mutilated and speared, and
thirty-two were burned alive together. The ap-
peals of the missionaries for the cessation of
atrocities were unavailing. The fate of these
unfortunates did not swerve the candidates for
baptism, and within a week after the massacre
many natives were baptized at their own desire.
Leaflets containing extracts from the Scripture,
prayers and hymns in the Ugunda language

are freely bought by the people, although their
possession involves the danger of punishment.

—Tue diary of Bishop Hannington, who
was put to death by order of King Mwanga,
of Ugunda, Africa, has been published. Giv-
ing the details of the last week of his life, he
describes the arrival of his party at Lubwas,
where a chief at the head of a thousand troops,
demanded ten guns and three barrels of pow-
der. The chief asked Bishop Hannington to
remain with him for a day; and the latter con-
sented. While taking a walk the bishop was
attacked by about twenty natives. He strug-
gled with his assailants, but became weak and

faint, and was dragged violently a long distance | _

by the legs. When his persecutors halted they
stripped and robbed him, and imprisoned him
in a noisome hut full of vermin and decaying
bananas. While he was lying there ill and
helpless, the chief and his hundred wives came
out of curiosity to feast their eyes upon him.
On the next day he was allowed to return to
his own tent, where, though still ,ill, he felt
more comfortable. He was still guarded, how-
ever, by the natives. He remained in bed dur-
ing the following days, parties of the chief’s
wives, out of idle curiosity, coming daily to
see him. He was allowed to send messages to
friends, but he believes they were intercepted.
On the seventh day he wrote that the fever
continued, that at night the place swarmed
with vermin, that the guards were drunk and
noisy, and that he was unable to sleep. At last
he became delirious. On the eighth day he was
unconscious. His entries on this day are brief:
“No news. A hyena howled all night smelling
asick man. I hope he will not have me yet.’
This is the final entry. It is believed that
shortly after writing this he was taken out and
put to death. Throughout the week there are
frequent entries referring to the comfort he
derived from reading the Psalms.

—On the busy streets of Canton, China,
teeming with its fifteen hundred thousand in-
habitants, are now opened fifteen Christian
chapels, where the missionaries and the native

ministers preach the gospel, not on Sunday
only, but daily, and from two to four hours
each day.. The audiences vary .from a few
scores to several hundred. After the sermon
Chinese evangelists continue the services. Free
conversations and discussions follow; rooms are
at hand for private conferences; and Christian
books and tracts are kept in readiness, and dis-
posed of in large numbers. ‘The time when
the preaching-halls are thronged the most is
during the hottest months in the summer—
July, August and September; and the best
time of the day to gather audiences is from
noon until three o’clock—the hottest part of
the day. The missionaries seize the oppor-
tunity, however, exhausting as the work must
be. Thousands and tens of thousands of visit-
ors to the city have heard the gospel in these
chapels, and have carried it hundreds of miles
into the interior. The missionary encounters
these in the most remote places on his inland
tours, and sometimes listens with surprise
while they repeat the substance of the dis-
courses which they have heard.

BOOKS RECELVED.

Sraty’s Lurneran Year Book and Uistorical
Quarterly. Containing an Almanac, Calendars,
and Daily Readings, For the year of our Lord
1887, and also an interesting History of the
Early Lutheran Settlements in the United
States. Edited and published by Rev. S. Stall,
Lancaster, Pa. Price, 25 cents.

DER LUTHERISCHE KALENDER fuer 1887. Brobst,
Diehl & Co., Allentown, Pa. Price, 10 cents.

REGISTER zUM ‘‘ LUTHUERANER’’. Jahrgang 1 bis 40.
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
Price, 40 cents.
Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,

NEw ORLEANS, La.
EY. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.

113 Annette Str,, between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 734

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

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.

Divine merylcey at 7)4 Sunday evening and at 714 Thursday

evening.

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

N. J. Baxxe, Missionary,

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CAROLLTON.
Divine services at 103¢ o’clock Sunday morning and 74
o’clock Sunday evening.

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

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