The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1887, Page 36

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36 : The Lutheran Pioneer. .

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. |2.800,000 souls; 2,500 of these eonverts are _ BOOK-TABLE.

ordained ministers of the gospel, placed over
Christian congregations; 27,000 are employed
as evangelists to their heathen fellow country-
men, and a Jarge number are acting as volun-
tary agents in preaching and teaching in Sab-
bath schools, and engaged in other works of
Christian usefulness. The children of these
converts, with a large number of the children
of the heathen, are receiving secular and reli-
gious instruction in the day schools.

—A ONE-ARMED saw-miller, losing his occu-
pation, became a colporteur of the National
Bible Society of Scotland. After service of
some years in his home land, studying all the
while the varicus systems of printing for the
blind, he was transferred to Peking, China.
To read an ordinary Chinese book one must
learn some 4,000 characters; to read, say,
“Jack the Giant-killer,’’? one must master 1,200
characters. This man, Mr. Murray, reduced
the sound of Chinese speech to 420, and devised
a system of dots to represent them. He next
took an orphan beggar-boy, blind from his
birth, washed, clothed and housed him, and
taught him to read by weans of the dots.
Others were taken in the same way and taught.
The Scriptures were printed in this style; and
now many blind men may he seen reading the
Bible on the street corners of Peking to the
astonishment of their fellow-countrymen.

‘— Kwanertunce is a province of China, and
its principal city is Canton, with a population
of one and a half millions—greater than that
of New York. In this Province, the Berlin Mis-
sion for China has five European missionaries
at work, who have baptized 884 persons. These
live in 138 different townships, among the
twenty millions who make up the populations
of the province. ‘These figures show that this
one province of China has a population equal
to nearly five times that of Pennsylvania, among
whom 834 baptized persons are but as a drop
in the sea. Nevertheless ‘‘The kingdom of
heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman
took, and hid in three measures of meal, till
the whole was leavened.’’— Our Church Work.

‘—Tue present population of the empire of
Japan is 38 millions; the number of Japanese
Christians is 50,000, which number is large
enough, considering the fact, that the gospel
was first preached in Japan only 80 years ago.
These 50,000 are a powerful leaven, and its
working is felt all over the islands and in every
part of society.

—TaE loftiest church spire in the world is
that of the Lutheran cathedral of Ulm. When
finished, in June, 1889, it will reach a height
of 540 feet, 28 feet higher than the spires of
Cologne.

—A NEw missionary society has been estab-
lished in Germany, with headquarters in Ber-
lin, for the purpose of carrying on missions in
the Fast African colonies of the German Empire.

— Missionaries have, in the past eighty
years, formed and reduced to writing over forty
languages. ;

Dr. Martin LUTHER’s COLLoQuia ODER TISCH-
REDEN. Zum ersten Male berichtigt und er-
neuert durch Uebersetzung der beiden Haupt-
quellen der Tischreden aus den lateinischen
Originalen. Price $4, postage, 50 cts. Con-
cordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.

Our Publishing House has issued another volume
of the splendid American edition of Dr. Luther's
Works. This, the XXII. Volume of Walch’s edition,
contains by far the best collection of Luther’s “Table
Tulk”’, Prof. Hoppe, the learned editor, having for
years made a special study of the litterature bear-
ing upon the contents of this volume.

— AN affrighted mother had a narrow escape
at Port Ewen, N. Y., recently. She was rock-
ing her child to sleep when she heard a buz-
zing sound similar to that made by a bee. At
the same time she felt something on her back
to which she paid no particular attention. Af-
ter a few moments, the buzzing sound being
again heard, this time close by the side of her
head she looked around, and was horrified to
see a snake of large size. The reptile quickly
wound itself around the upper part of her arm,
and its tongue darted in dangerous-proximity
to her fuce. Uttering a loud cry, she threw
her child to the floor and ran out of the house,
screaming for help. The noise brought a num-
ber of neighbors to the scene, by whom she was
rescued from her dangerous assailant. Soon
after her arm began to swell, the coils of the
snake being plainly visible by black and blue
ridges. She had been sitting on the grass du-
ring the evening, and it is supposed that the
snake must have attached itself to her dress.
Had the mother been Jess prompt in putting
her child out of harm’s way, and seeking as-
sistance, one or both might have lost their lives.
If a similar promptitude was shown when the
soul is in peril under the assaults of Satan,
many might be saved who perish eternally by
trusting to their own strength until it is too

-Jate. s .
—TuHE Swedish Mission among the Jews has
“an missionary who is une of their own converts
—Brother Wolfe. Filippus Gordon, a convert,
says the first mission was established in Sweden
in 1874. ‘The same year the Lord awakened
a Lutheran pastor who, with indescribable zeal,
commenced a Jewish mission. He was ridiculed
by all. The Jews were here despised, and the
people cared not to hear of the subject. He
began to publish a mission paper, which gradu-
ally won friends for the cause. In a few years
about twenty Jews have come to the knowledge
of the truth as it is in Jesus, and altogether
sixty have received care and instruction. The
converted Jews of Sweden do not live in the
same place, but correspond frequently and en-
courage each other in the faith. The love of
Christ has united them all, and Pastor Lind-
“strom, the founder of the mission, is especially
a man full of the love of Christ. His converts
are his children.”
—Txe Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia
is a Lutheran, and because she would not iden-
tify herself with the Greek Church, when the
terms: of her marriage settlement entitled her
to remain a Lutheran, she barely escaped be-
_ ing assassinated. é
* —Mission Harvest.—Eight hundred and
‘seventy thousand edults, converts from among

REFORMATION ALBUM. Forty-Four Pictures from
the History of the Reformation, with Explana-
tory Text. Price, $1; per dozen, 75 cts; per
hundred, 50 cts. Theodore Wischan, Reading,
Penn.

Acknowledgment.

Received for the Organ in the Ev.-Luth. Mount
Zion Church from: Albert While $0 40, Joe Mose-
ley .25, Sam. Hurley 1.00, Richard Morris 1.40,
Robert McCullum .40, Jos. Charlt .05, Jno. Lewis
15, Chas. Fixher .05, Frank O’Reed .55, Clara Fisher
-15, Louisa Thomas .15, M. Reed .10, M. Brady .40,
k Henderson .75, C. Hagins .20, Al. V
cdw. Miller .15, B. LL. Miller .25, Anna -
Foster .10, Lottie Lotz 5.00, George
év.-Luth. St. Paul’s S. S. 5.00, Ev.-
ity S 2.00, 2 00, James
Hubbard .50, Mrs. Am. Davis 1.00, Mrs. L. Hurley
-50, Mrs. C. Hardy 1.25, Mrs. Hosbond .25, Mrs.
Mary Brown .50.

New Orleans, La., Aug. 15, 1887. N.J. BAKKE,

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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 7%

o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalix Strs.
Divine petyices at 744 Sunday evening and at 7)4 Thuraday
evening.

Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
z Adult catechumen class meets at 74 Tuesday evening.

N. J. Bakke, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CITURCH.

Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CAROLLTON.
Divine services at 1034 o’clock Sunday morning and 7%
o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
Aua. Buncporr, 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 To— a2. i bela ook
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.

G. ALLENuACH, Missionary.

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“Church of Christ as the result of Protestant
“missionary labor. These, with their families
ependents, form Christian communities
d over almost every portion of the hab-
“numbering in aggregate at least

Bingen, Adams Co., Ind.

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