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examples from the Bible. An old gentleman |rectly.’”? Another: ‘‘They do it with all their
frequently interrupted by shouts of ‘‘amen’’|heart.”’ A third: ‘‘They do it well.’’? And,
and ‘‘that’s so.’” The preacher remarked some | after a pause, a quiet little girl added: ‘‘ They
persons might doubt what he told them, and | do it without asking any questions. ”’

say, ‘‘Oh, that’s only what Mr. Reed says, and} —GQrese are generally considered very silly
he doesn’t know much anyway.’’ Just then | creatures; but the story below, from an English
came the familiar interruption, ‘‘That’s so, | paper of a staid old gander who took upon him-
brother.” The house was convulsed with | self the care of a poor blind woman, ought to
laughter, and the pastor smiled, and said, give us a new feeling of respect for the race.
‘Your interruption came in at the wrong place | Tt must have been a funny sight indeed to see
that time, brother.” : the dear old woman finding her way to the

—A coLorED woman is reported to have|house of God led by a gander. But is it not,
been stricken dumb while giving false testi-|too, a touching instance of the care which our
mony recently at a court in Shelby county, | Father has for his afflicted ones? In Germany
Tenn. Soon after beginning her evidence she | an aged blind woman used to be led to church
was asked by the judge, ‘‘Do you know that|eyery Sunday by a gander. He would take
you are lying?’? She then answered, ‘‘Yes, | her to the door of the pew where she sat. As
sir,’ and these were the last words. she spoke. | soon as she was in her place, he would walk
Other questions were asked, but she made no| quietly out of the church and occupy himself
reply. The judge ordered the constable to}in the churchyard, feeding on the grass till the
take her from the room, but she did not move. | service was over and he heard the people coming:
Two colored men were then told to carry her|out of church. Then he would go to the pew
out. It was then discovered that she was in | of his old mistress and lead her home again.
helpless condition; she had been paralized in|Qne day the minister of the church called to
every part; her limbs were motionless, her | see this old person at her own house. He found
tongue had no power. The woman was placed | that she had gone out, and he expressed his
in a wagon and conveyed to her home. She|surprise to her daughter that they should let
never spoke or moved after, but the next even- | her go out alone. ‘Oh, sir!’’ replied the
ing she expired, no antidote applied during the | daughter, ‘there is nothing to fear. Mother is
interval having availed in affording the slightest | not alone; the gander is with her.”’
relief. Gal. 6, 7.

—Tae Mission work in Uganda, Central
Africa, is now carried on secretly. Persecu-
tions, bloody and fiery, have assailed the young
church; the present king, Mwanga, hates the
Christians. Many believers have been clubbed
to death, others have been speared to death,
while thirty-two young Christians were burned
alive on one huge fire. Yet converts keep
coming, and portions of Scripture now available
in the Uganda tongue are in demand.

—Durine last year about $50,000 was con-
tributed to the Church Missionary Society of
England by native Christians in their mission
fields.

—Ir is said that the heathen have no words
with which to blaspheme the God that made
them. It was reserved for men who had heard
of Christ and His salvation, to coin and utter
the terrible blasphemies that often shock our
ears. When Dr. Scudder was returning to
America, from his mission in India, with his
little son, he heard a man on the ship swearing
and blaspheming God. ‘‘See, friend,’’ said the
doctor, accosting the swearer; ‘‘this boy, my
son, was born and brought up in a heathen
country, and in a Jand of pagan idolatry; but,
in all his life he never heard a man blaspheme

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—In a recent interview with a newspaper cor-
respondent, Mr. Stanley, the African explorer,
gave the following remarkable account of his
experience and relations with Dr. Livingstone:
“‘T have been in Africa for seventeen years,
and I have never met a man who would kill
me if I folded my hands. What I wanted,
and what I have been endeavoring to ask for
the poor Africans, has been the good offices of
Christians, ever since Livingstone taught me
during those four months that I was with him.
In 1871 I went to him as prejudiced as the
biggest atheist in London. I was out there,
away from the worldly world. I saw this soli-
tary old man there and asked myself: ‘ Why
on earth does he stop here?’ For months after
we met I found myself listening to him, and
wondering at the old man carrying out all that
was said in the Bible. Little by little his
sympathy for others became contagious; mine
was aroused; seeing his pity, his gentleness,
his earnestness, and how he went quietly about
his business, I was converted by him, although
he had not tried to do it. How sad that the
good old man should have died so soon! How
joyful he would have been if he could have
seen what has since happened there!”’

—TneE Springfield Republican states that a
Boston minister a few days ago had occasion to
look up a very poor family, and climbed up
four flights of stairs in a noisome tenement
house on hiserrand. His tap on the door was
answered by the Rev. Dr. Philips Brooks, with
a baby in his arms. Inquiry revealed the fact
that the woman had been very sick and sorely
needed fresh air, but had no one with whom to
leave her little baby. Philips Brooks found
her out, gave her tickets for a horse-car ride,
and was staying tending the baby while she
enjoyed it.

—A LETTER from a missionary in Japan,
says, ‘‘The schools are very prosperous, as are
all Christian English schools throughout Japan.
There is such a rage for English through the
country that a school is popular if it has no
other advantage than teaching English. But
we are trying to make our schools more than
that. The attitude of the students toward
Christianity has improved very much since
last year. We preach a sermon every Sunday
in the school adapted to student hearers.”

—Dr. WirHERsPOON, one of the first presi-
_dents of Princeton College said: ‘‘Cursed be
all learning that is contrary to the cross of
Christ; cursed be all learning that is not coin-
cident with the cross of Christ; cursed be all

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 734
o’clotk Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.

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

Divine eexvices at 714 Sunday evening and at 74 Thursday
evening.
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.
Ava. Bonoporr, Missionary.

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

Divine service panaey, 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. ALLENDACH, Missionary.
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learning that is not subservient to the cross of |his Maker until now.”” The man colored, 1 Gop 25
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that God had heard him as well as the missionary.

—A TEACHER was explaining to her class the
words concerning God’s angels, ‘‘ ministers of
His who do His pleasure,’”’ and asked: ‘“‘ How
do the angels carry out God’s will?”” Many
answers followed. One said: ‘‘They do it di-

““Amen’’ and ‘That's £0, brother,’” in church
sometimes leads to ludicrous results. An in-
‘stance occurred recently in the Hanson Place
“Methodist Church, in Brooklyn. The Rey.
“George E. Reed, in his sermon, was telling of
the benefits of giving, and illustrated it by.