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The Lutheran Pioneer.

ted, the largest of all in the district. Duke
Vladimir, whose wife is 2 German princess,
attended the services and presented the con-
gregation with the gift of $30,000.

— Wnaen Mr. Tennent was traveling in Vir-
ginia, he lodged one night at the house of a
planter who informed him that one of his
slaves, 2 man upward of seventy, who could
neither read nor write, was yet eminently dis-
tinguished for his piety and for his knowledge
of the Scriptures. Having some curiosity to
learn what evidence such a man could have of
their divine origin, he went out in the morning,
alone, and without making himself known as a
clergyman, entered into conversation with him
on the subject. After stating some of the
common objections of infidels against the au-
thenticity of the Scriptures, in a way calculated
to confound an ignorant man, he said to him,
“When you cannot even read the Bible, nor
examine the evidence for or against its truth,
how can you know that it is the word of God?”’
After reflecting a moment, the negro replied:
‘*You ask me, sir, how I know the Bible is the
word of God: I know it by its effect upon my
own heart.’

—OnzE of the officers of the English army,
in Egypt, asked an Egyptian why he believed
in the Mahdi, the false prophet, and the an-
swer was, because he can work miracles. The

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—TueE present issue closes the volume of
our LurseRaNn PionEER for 1886. Our Pio-
NEER has grown up to be a bright little boy
of eight years. His stockings are now larger.
than they were in the past; and as he hangs
them up in the merry Christmas season, he
expects a Christmas gift from all our readers
and friends. He is a very modest little fellow
and all he expects from every reader is the
name of a new subscriber for the next volume.
Now fill up the stockings with your Christmas
gifts! Please don’t disappoint the dear little
chap. It would make him so sad, you know, to
take down these stockings without finding his
Christmas giftin them. He gladly promises to be
a good boy in the future, to make his monthly
trip more regularly than in the past year, and
to be better than in the years gone by.

—Tuar was a good answer given by old
uncle Ned on Christmas day. He was out in
the garden singing songs of joy over the glad
Christmas news of a new-born Saviour. Some
one said to him, ‘‘ You seem happy to-day, old
uncle!’’ ‘Yes, massa, I’se jus’ tinking,” said
uncle Ned. ‘‘ What are you thinking of?”
asked the gentleman. ‘‘O,’’ said old uncle,
se jus’ tinking ef de Christmas crumbs that
fall from the Master’s table in dis world am so
good, what will de great loaf in glory be?”’

—A Missionary in China writes home that
what an American family throws away in a
year would keep a dozen Chinese families; and
what a Chinese family throws away in the same
time would not feed a mouse.

—Youne McCall, of the Livingstone Congo
Mission, as he lay.dying, prayed, ‘‘Lord, I give
myself, body, mind and soul to Thee. I con-
secrated my whole life and being to Thy ser-
vice; and now, if it please Thee to take myself,
instead of the work which I would do for Thee,
what is that tome? Thy will be done.”’

—In one of the great heathen temples in
Japan, the devotion of the worshipers consists
in running around the building one hundred
times, and dropping a piece of wood into a box
at each round, when, the wearisome exertion
being ended, the worshiper goes home tired
and very happy at the thought of having done
his god such worthy service. Are there not
some ‘‘Christians’’ whose activity is very simi-

lar to this, and of about as much value? They
are ever on the street, running to all sorts of
meetings, and ever bustling and hyrrying from
place to place. ‘They feel and talk as if they
were rendering most valuable service, and
solace themselves in their weariness with the
comfort that they are doing great good and will
have rich reward. Yet really they are accom-
plishing nothing. Their exhausting labor is
really only running round and round the tem-
ple; no cause is advanced by it, God’s name is
not honored in it. :
_ —Jw Slawauka, near St. Petersburg, 2 new
a Finnish Lutheran Church has been consecra-

place.
that?’’ he asked. The Egyptian was appalled,
and could not say a word.

—THERE is now a railway in Asia Minor
which traverses. some of the country in which
the Apostle Paul performed his missionary
labors. It runs near the sites of several of the
‘«Seven Churches,’”’ mentioned in the Book of
Revelation. Trains leave Smyrna three times
a day.

—Tse Lutheran Church in Finland, for
some years past, has been successfully carry-
ing on a mission in South Africa. This mis-
sion recently received a reinforcement of four
missionaries.

—AND now, as we close our window, the
little PronEER with his bright’ blue eyes and
a sweet catching smile reminds all our readers
not to forget that Christmas gift for him in this
merry Christmas season. He wishes them all

A Harry Curistaas!

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(For the ‘‘Lutheran Pioneer.’?)
English Lutheran Conference in Missouri.

Our ‘English Lutheran Conference of Mis-
souri”’ recently met in annual session in Barton
Co., Mo. This Conference comprises seven
pastors and congregations, all in ‘perfect har-
mony with the Synodical Conference, as to
doctrine and practice. The reader can gather
this much from our doctrinal discussions at the
last convention. The first thesis we spoke on

officer, having a glass eye, took it out, tossed it |)’
up in the air, caught it and put it back in its}!
“Do you think the Mahdi could do|’

reads: A truly Lutheran congregation acknowl-
edges all power of the Church to be vested in
the congregation of true believers, and, con-
sequently, rejects all authority of the clergy, or
man in general, in matters of doctrine and con-
science. It was shown that the ‘‘ power of the
Church’ is of aspiritual nature and consists prin-
cipally in the exercise of the Office of the Keys.
This power of remitting and retaining sin is en-
trusted to the pastors by ‘‘the congregation of
true believers,’ and ministers exercise it by
virtue of their office and in the name of the Tri-
une God. The second thesis was on ‘‘close
communion.’’ Our reasons for practicing it
were fully stated and can be learned in detail
from the minutes shortly to appear in print at
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
At this session we were happy to receive as
an additional member Rey. Wm. Dallmann of
the St. Paul’s Congregation, Webster Co., Mo.
—tThere will now be two missionaries active on
the English mission field. May they find an
abundant harvest. A. M.

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BOOK-TABLE.

Ecce Homo! A beautiful Chromo representing the
head of the Saviour crowned with a crown of
thorns. It is published by the Pilger Book
Store, Reading, Pa. Price 50 Cts.

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 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 eee at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday
evening.

Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.

Adult catechumen class meets at 7}4 Tuesday evening.

N. J. Baxxe, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CAnoLtToN.

Divine services at 103 o’clock Sunday morning and 74
o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
Ava. Bunaporr, MisstonaRy.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service Sunday evening at 714 o'clock.
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Sunday School from 3
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.

Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.
G. ALLENnAcu, Missionary.

TERMS:

Tae LurHeran Pronzer is published monthly,
payable in advance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wit:

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Club rates only allowed if all copies ‘are to be sent
to one address. ‘

All business communications to be addressed to
“Tuuth. Concordia Publishing House,” M. 0. Bar-
THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo. .

All communications concerning the editorial de- ~

ent to be ad to Rey. R. A. Biscrorr,
ingen, Adams Co., Ind.