The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1887, Page 28

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —A ROMISH priest, in Worcester, Mass., re-]| other chiefs of Abbeokuta, a letter in which
cently stated to his congregation that he no-]occurs the following: ‘‘The Queen, and the

ticed that out of the thirty-one applications for | people af England, are very glad to know that
license to sell liquor within the limits of his|Sagbua and the chiefs think as they do upon
parish, twenty-nine came from members of his | this subject of commerce. But commerce alone
own congregation. This proportion undoubt-| will not make a nation great and happy, like
edly is the prevalent one in most of the cities,| England. England has become great and
and the fruitage thereof is seen in the large | happy by the knowledge of the true God and
proportion of convicts in State prisons. Jesus Christ. The Queen is, therefore, very
—From the Latheran Observer we learn that | glad to hear that Sagbua and the chiefs have
in Lutheran Sweden, 98 out of every 100 of |80 kindly received the missionaries, who carry
the people can read and write; in Roman] With them the word of God, and that so many
of the people are willing to hear it. In order
to show how much the Queen values God’s
word, she sends with this, as a present to Sag-
bua, a copy of this word in two languages—
one the Arabic, the other the English.’’
CenTRAL Russta has some of the largest

—a\ concErTeEp student, fresh from a Semi-
nary, tried to convince an old farmer that many
things in the Bible must give way before the
advance of modern science. He assured him
that astronomy, geology, and higher criticism
had completely routed the ideas that prevailed
in the dark ages, and that no intelligent person
now believes in the literal truth of the Old
Testament stories. Finding the old farmer
unmoved, he at last said with some impatience,
““You will admit that it was at least strange
for an ass to open his mouth, and speak like
aman.”’ ‘No,’ replied the old Christian far-
mer, ‘‘I don’t think it was very strange; for
it was not a bit stranger than for a man to open
his mouth, and speak like an ass, as you are
doing now.’’ That settled the silly student.

—TueErE is much nonsense talked in the
name of culture. A Boston preacher recently
stunned his congregation by the following dar-
ing assertion: ‘‘All men are not bad by nature.
The badness of the bad shall never prejudice
my mind against the goodness of the good, the
purity of the pure, the honor of the honorable.”’
It is to be hoped that the mind of this preacher
is not blind to the absurdity of the absurd, the

- emptiness of the empty, the boshiness of the
bosh, and the slushiness of the slush.

—TueE work of the American Bible Society,
the past year, has been large and successful.
According to the annual report, the cash re-
ceipts were $493,358, and the expenditures
were $554,490. During the year 1,675,897
copies of the Scriptures were printed and pur-
chased. The aggregate circulation in foreign
Jands was 521,356 copies. In seventy-one
years the society has issued 48,324,916 copies,
which have been distributed in all parts of the
world.

—Pastor Home, the Norwegian Lutheran
missionary among the Indians in Wisconsin,
reports seven children in the Indian Mission
House in Shawano County, Wisconsin. Four
tribes are there represented. The children
seem to succeed well, although the members
of each tribe cannot understand the speech of

any of the other tribes. Thus, however, they
are driven to use the little English which they
daily learn in the school-room. The pastor re-
ports them handsome and lively youths, and
says that we can hope for more of them for
this work.

—A_ FORMER Romish priest in a recent ad-
dress on Mexico said: No one can visit Mexico
to-day and fail to behold the deplorable result

Catholic Italy, Austria, France and Spain,
only 25 out of every 100 can read and write.

—Canon Fercr, Vicar of Ince, near Wigan,
England, recently told the following: A man
who had once been a Sunday school teacher
became an atheist through attending a lecture
by the notorious Bradlaugh, and on one occa-| Parishes of the Lutheran Church. One of
sion he said, ‘I am going to St. Helen’s, and | these embodies 300 villages, and takes within
if there be a God, let Him meet me on the |its sweep 30,000 souls.
way, as your old Bible says He met Saul of | —Iy England, an edition of the Gospel by
Tarsus, and strike me down, and then I'll be-|St. Mark has been published in Mandarin, in
lieve in Him.’”” On the Sunday after this|raised Chinese characters for the use of the
awful and impious challenge to his Maker he| blind in China. Portions of Scripture have
set out, full of health and vigor, for St. Helen’s, | been printed for the blind in two hundred and
when suddenly he fell to the ground. When|fifty languages, according to the ‘‘ Moon
picked up it was found that half his body was | system.”
paralyzed. He lingered for a few days and =<
then died, but before his death, he sent for
Canon Fergie, saying, ‘‘There is a God.’’ He
received the Holy Communion before he died,
together with the woman who had been a wit-
ness of his blasphemy. Bradlaugh had corre-
sponded with Canon Fergie on this very matter,
and the deposition of this respectable woman
had been taken before a magistrate that the
man really did challenge his Maker to strike
him down.

—Wauitsr a Lutheran congregation at De-
corah, Iowa, was celebrating the Lord’s Supper
recently, a policeman, acting under instructions
from a Prohibition Committee, boldly entered
the church, interrupted the services and pro-
hibited the use of wine. The impudent fellow
was shown the door and the service was con-
tinued.

—Awn African princess is living in Hanover
County, Va. She is 14 years old, and lives in
the family of an Episcopal clergyman, who
was a missionary to Western Africa some years
ago. She is soon to return to her native land
to marry the King, and, with her American
education, she is expected to prove a useful
queen.

—MissIoNARY SOCIETIES engaged in Africa,
have made a thorough investigation of the

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORLEANS, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CIIAPEL.
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 services at 744 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday

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

N. J. BAKKE, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.

Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CAROLLTON.
Divine services nt 103; o’clock Sunday morning and 73¢
o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday Schoo! at 9 o’clock.
Ava. Bunoponr, Missioxary.

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

Divine service punday evening at 714 o'clock.

Sunday School from ry
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.

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

TERMS:

Tue LutHEraN Pioneer is published monthly,
able in advance at the following rates, postage

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of Roman power in that unhappy country. | liquor trade in that continent, and find that in 1 Copy

The people’s religion is a compound of servile |# single year, 8,751,527 gallons of spirits were AS Copies

fear and wild fanaticism. I have seen them | imported from Great Britain, Germany, United 50 :

run to church to pray on the approach of earth-| States and Portugal. Drunkenness is spread-| (lub rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent

to one address.

All business communications to be addressed to
“Tuth. Concordia Bab uaa House,” M. C. Bar-
THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo. IZ

1 munications concerning the editorial de-
ene be addressed to Rev. R. A. BiscHorFF,
Bingen! Adams Co., Ind.

ing at a frightful rate, and the missionaries
think it a cruel thing that the agent of so much
evil should come from nominally Christian lands.

—Tue Earl of Chichester was authorized by
the Queen of England to write to Sagbua, and

quakes, and return home to get beastly drunk
on mescal. I witnessed them go to mass, kiss
the clayey floor of the adobe church, through
devotion, and, on leaving, steal candles from
the vestry of that temple of worship..