The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1887, Page 32

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32 The Lutheran Pioneer.

the news of the Charleston earthquake reached | — DurinG a single century the translations

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.
Philadelphia, the Chinese residents promptly |of the Scriptures have increased five-fold; the

he | Subscribed $1,200 as their offering to the | Evangelical Missionary Societies, ten-fold; the Wi
h, stricken city. . number of missionaries, fifty-fold; contributions //

—A memser of a church was prostrated by in moneys, twenty-five-fold; the circulation of
illness, and complained bitterly to his pastor the Bible, thirty-fold; and the number of con-
that only one or two persons had come to see | verts from heathenism, thirty-five-fold. y
him. ‘My friend,’’ said the minister, “ you} — Rev. W. Swanson 25 years ago went to
have been a professing Christian for thirty |China and found but five small churches at
years. During this time how many sick have|treaty ports.. Now he goes from Canton to
you visited?”’ ‘O,’’ he replied, ‘‘it never Shanghai, and could sleep nearly every night
struck me in that light. I thought only of the |in a village having in it a Christian Church.
relation of others to me, and not of my. rela-| —Tue Protestants in Italy have 300 churches,
tion to them.” and it is estimated that 10,000 members have

—In one of the great picture galleries of been converted from Romanism.

Windsor Castle in England are several precious] /— Tue Danish Missionary Society cares for
caskets. The Queen entered one“day with a| 7000 Esquimaux converts in Greenland.

small book in her hand, and asked the keeper} — In a select company the conversation

of these treasures which was the most rare and | chanced to turn upon a minister who had fallen
valuable of all the caskets. He showed her|into sin, when one of the ladies present sneer-
one made of pure rock crystal, ornamented ingly remarked: ‘‘ Here you can see what the /
with gold and enamel. In this casket the| preachers generally are!” The subject was
Queen placed a little book — General Gordon’s changed, and the objectionable life of a lady of
pocket Bible, annotated and marked by his} the nobility was spoken of, when the Lutheran
own hand, and in this precious casket will re- Bishop Brockmand, having said something re- .
main this most precious relic of one of Eng- lating to the case, concluded his remarks with f
Jand’s greatest heroes.

— AGarmsr THEATRES. —‘‘An effort was|instance, that all our ladies are of such a
made early in the present century to establish | character.” .

a theatre at the capital of one of our Middle —= = a
States. A clergyman of the place, believing

it would be an injury to the communily, gath-
ered the female portion of his congregation to-
gether and urged them not only to refuse to
attend the representations themselves, but to
exert their influence to persuade others to do
the same. His advice was taken, and although
the town soon after became a city, for more
than balf a century every effort to establish a
theatre in it proved a failure.”’

— Ar Shamachi, a mountain city of the
Caucasus, there is a Lutheran congregation of
native Armenians in charge of two pastors, one
of whom is the Rev. Johannes Pera, who grad-
uated at the mission school of Hermannsburg.
He preaches four times each Sunday and twice
each week day.

— Mission work is carried on by Swedish
Christians in Lapland, East and South Africa,
and on the Congo, in South and Central India,
and in the Caucasus.
y/—In less than fifty years the cannibal Sand-
wich Islands have been Christianized, and now
send missionaries to other lands. In fifteen
years the cannibals of Fiji have 22,000 church
members, 57,000 children in schools, and half

— A minty king recently came into t
New York Stock Exchange. It was Deat
the king of terrors. ‘The Vice-President had
ascended the platform to make the formal
announcement of the death of a member. He
had done so with genuine feeling and descended.
Instantly he was seized with faintness and in a
few minutes was dead. All paths ‘‘lead but to
the grave.’’ The Stock Exchange did no more
business on that day; but will the event give
any of its members, or any who read of it, any
deeper sense of the truth so concisely stated in
God’s Word: ‘No man is sure of life?’’ The
lesson of al] death is: ‘‘So teach us to number
our days, that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom.’”

— A mItion of dollars a word is said to
have been the value of a sentence spoken by
the presiding judge of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania recently. The question before
the court was whether it should reverse the
decision of the court below, forbidding the
transfer of a large block of stock in the Beach
Creek, Clearfield and Southwestern Railroad
Company from one holder to another. Having
listened to long and elaborate arguments by
counsel on both sides, the court decided to con-
firm the decision of the lower court. The judge
pronounced the decision in eleven words. He
said: ‘‘ Decree affirmed and appeal dismissed
at the cost of the appellants.”’ The ownership
of more than eleven million dollars was deter-
mined by those few momentous words. The
parties concerned must have listened to them
with breathless attention. It would be so with
the words in which God’s message offering eter-
nal life to the world is conveyed if men realized
their full import as they do the words involvy-
ing the possession of money, John 5, 39.

—AT a public meeting, one of the orators
addressed the assembly as follows:—‘‘ My dear
brethren, it has been the usual custom for an
audience to testify their approbation of the
speaker by clapping their hands; but I beg to
recommend to your adoption a new method of
clapping, less tumultuous, and much more pleas-
ing; when you leave this place, clap your hands
info your pockets, and clap your money into
the plate held to receive it, and the Lord give
it His blessing.’’ This address had the desired
effect.

—THE ancient school-master, Jacob Trebo-
nius, was accustomed, when he entered his
school, to take off his hat to the boys, alleging

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 Sund:y 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 eer oes at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 7}4 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 7}¢
o’clock Sunday evening.

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

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service Sunday evening at 714 0’clock.
Sunday School from f0-ig, 6. 20
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from S—9 Wednesday evening.
G. ALLENBACH, Missionary,

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ago there were no Protestants in Chiaa; nine
provinces are now supplied with mission sta-
tions, and there are thousands of converts. In
1878 the missions of the world report for the
year 60,000 converts. Blessed feet of the em-

— OF the five hundred Chinese now Jiving in
Philadelphia, about one-quarter attend Christ-
lan Sunday-schools. One is studying for the
ministry and expects to return to China as a
missionary. As an illustration of the unselfish

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