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_ freighted with their usual burden of lifeless
_ clay. They proved indeed to be human forms,
not in clay but in stone, “‘graven images,’’

-and self-denying labors are infusing new vigor

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‘carved saints,’’ consigned to a prominent
Romish priest of that city, and will no doubt

—‘ Apr all teachers?” asks St. Paul. This | occupy a prominent place in some of the chapels

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

and in the devotions of some of their worship-
pers. Another part of the cargo of the same
ship, consisted of a dozen casks of arrowroot,
manufactured and sent by the Christian natives
of the New Hebrides as a contribution to the
Protestant Mission funds. Can there possibly
be a stronger or sharper contrast? In the
boxes graven images, to aid the people of Nova
Scotia to worship! In the casks, the thank
offering of the natives of the South Seas who
have been turned from idols to worship the
living and true God!

—Tne air we breathe has much to do with
the health and vigor of our bodies. So the
home influence which surrounds us has much
to do in moulding character, and in shaping
our course of life. This was certainly so in the
case of the late Dr. Alexander Duff, for many
years a missionary in India. He tells us that
his father was a man of profound missionary
spirit—a man with whom love for Christ’s king-
dom was a passion. The cause of modern mis
sions was much upon his lips. He ‘rejoiced in
tracing the triumph of the gospel in different
lands.’”’ To interest his children in the subject,
he procured pictures of Juggarnauth and other
heathen idols, and spoke of them in such a way
as to show the awful sin of idolatry, and to
excite the compassion of the children towards
the poor blinded idolaters. These talks on hea-
thenism were also sure to be well mixed with
statements of the love of Jesus for perishing sin-
ners. Is it any wonder that the mind of young
Duff was well instructed touching the condition
of the heathen, and that his heart beat for them
in loving sympathy—asympathy which ripened
in Jater years into an active and unreserved
consecration to the cause of Christ in India?

should be remembered by those who get the
mistaken notion that they are sent to publicly
preach the Gospel without having been pre-
pared for the work and without having been
called into the holy office of the ministry. We
recently read of a young colored man in the
South who professed conversion and wanted to
preach at once. His elders, however, thought
he was not fitted for this important work; but
he wellnigh staggered them by relating a
vision, in which he had plainly seen the letters
*«G. P. C.”? which, he believed, could mean
only ‘‘Go preach Christ.’? But a white-haired
colored uncle slowly arose and told the ambi-
tious young brother that, while he had no doubt
seen the letters in a vision, he had failed in the
interpretation. They probably meant, ‘‘Go
pick cotton,” or ‘‘Go plow corn.”’ This settled
the matter.

—Some time ago the red beretta was brought
from Rome for the new Romish Cardinal,
Mr. Gibbons, of Baltimore. The beretta is a
red hat differing from the hat worn by the
priests only in its color, and in that it has four
points at the top instead of three, the difference
between tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee. The
poor man has now gone all the way to Rome
to get still another hat—the Cardinal’s hat.
Surely there will be no occasion for Mr. Gibbons
ever to go bare-headed.

—A NOBLEMAN who had been overcome by
anger, sent word to his neighbor, John Brown,
that neither he nor any member of his family
should ever again undertake to come upon his
property. Brown sent back word with the
messenger to tell his master that, if he or any
of his family desired to come upon his lands,
he would rejoice to allow them to do so, but if
any of them wished to come into his house this
would please him still more. The answer over-
came the wrath of the neighbor, and he came
and was reconciled to Mr. Brown.

—NEar the close of the eighteenth century,
the East India Company refused to allow Eng-
lish missionaries to go by their ships to India,
and they were thus driven to take passage on
vessels of other countries. In striking contrast
is the following from the recently issued Blue
Book of the Government of India: ‘‘The

"Government of India cannot but acknowledge
the great obligations under which it is Jaid by
the benevolent exertions made by the six hun-
dred missionaries, whose blameless example

— Po oe

Mohammedanism.

To-day six millions in Europe—onc-half of
the dark sons of Africa—and more than one
hundred millions in Asia, are under the great
delusion of Islam. In spite of the famous
“‘crusades’’ the Holy Land is still in the hands
of the Moslems, and 2 Mohammedan mosque
occupies the very spot where Solomon’s Temple
stood three thousand years ago. In the old
land of the Pharaohs there are now eight mill
ions of followers of the False Prophet. They
crowd the banks of the Nile, and repose under
the shadow of the pyramids. In the Soudan,
where ‘‘E Mahdi”? made himself so notorious,
there are over thirty millions of fanatical be-
lievers in the greatimposter. The Turkish em-
pire has twenty millions. From the deck of
the vessel as you approach Constantinopel you
can count the minarets of 90 mosques, the
most famous of which was once a Christian
church. In the Jand of the Hindus over forty
millions believe in the great Prophet, and the
most beautiful building in the world is a Mo-

into the life of the great population under Eng-
lish rule.””

—A snort time since the Steamer British
Queen landed her cargo in Halifax. Part of
it consisted of what seemed half a-dozen large
coffins, which from their weight appeared to be

hammedan tomb (Taj Mahal) in Agra, India.
In the ‘Celestial empire’’ five millions have
turned from Confucius to Mohammed. Ac-
cording to the best and Jatest statistics, Mo-
hammed is revered as the prophet of God by
one hundred and seventy-five millions of the
human race. Think of it—one in eight of the
population of our globe listen to muezzin’s
call, and turn their faces toward ‘holy’? Mecca
when they pray!

BOOK-TABLE.

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Schulen. Cencordia Publ. House, St. Louis,
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This is a most beautiful German Reader of 117
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skillfully arranged, leading the child step by step
in its reading exercises. The paper, illustrations
and binding are good, and the type clear and
distinct.

PRUEFUNGSTAFEL fuer Kommunikanten. By Rey.
P. Brand, Pittsburgh, Pa.

This is an excellent little manual well adapted to
aid Communicants in examining themselves before
partaking of the Lord’s Supper. Any number of
copies can be obtained by addressing Rev. P. Brand,
72 S. 18th St., Pittsburgh, Pa. Price per copy
10 cts.; postage free.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, :
New ORLEans, La.

EY. LUTIT. ST. PAUT’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 trom 2 to 4.

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CIIURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.

Divine aernices at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday
evening.

Sunduy School meets at 9 o’clock.

Adult catechumen class meets at 714 Tuesday evening.

N. J. Bakke, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCI.

Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CAROLLTON.
Divine services at 103¢ o’clock Sunday morning and 734
o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School ut 9 o’clock.
Ava. Bunoponr, Misstonary.

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

Divine service Sunday evening at 714 0’ clock.
Bandey, School from 10—12. oo
Satechumen class meets from Inead: é,
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday avoning enue:
G. ALLENBACH, Missionary.

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