The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1887, Page 40

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The’ Outlook from the Editor’s Window. | and white-washed, and the ceiling is made of | Maxrrin Luruer wrote to his wife, Catharine,
: mosquito netting. At the dedication of this| from Eisleben, in reply to a letter in which she

church not a few walked 15 miles. expressed great anxiety for his safety:

— THERE is an old-time preacher on the] “Dear Kate: Read John’s Gospel and the
Etowah Circuit, in Georgia, who has to make|Small Catechism, of which you once said:
his fifteen mile rounds on foot every Sunday., ‘Everything in this book is said of me.’ You
He has a wife and five children, and a salary of | are so anxious about your God, just as if He was
$200 a year. The Atlantic Constitution is trying | not Almighty. He can create ten Dr. Luthers,
to raise money enough to buy a horse for him. |if the old one were drowned in the Saale, or

—Rev. Dr. Unanosr, for many years a} put out of the way in any other fashion. Do
missionary at Guntur, in India, writes that the | not bother me with your anxieties; I have a
last has been the hottest season he remembers, | better protector than you and all the angels~
and that in one town forty-two houses were/are. He lies in the manger at the breast of
burned by spontaneous combustion caused by | His mother, but at the same time is seated at
the great heat of the sun. Native Christians} the right-hand of God the Almighty Father. -
are praying for rain and relief from heat. Hence be not uneasy. Amen.’’

—THERE are now twenty-seven vessels en-
gaged in missionary work in different parts of
the world under the auspices of sixteen societies;
of these missionary vessels sixteen are running
on the coasts or rivers of Africa, and six among
the islands of the Pacific Ocean.

—A_ Former -Romish priest, M. P. Zaccom,
has published a book in which he shows that
the Roman Catholic church in Spain, in order
to crush the ‘‘heresy’’ of Protestantism, in the
317 years, from 1484 to 1801, has burned
34,658 persons, and has thrown 288,914 into
prison. This was the work of the pope’s Inqui-
sition. ‘ {

—REziai0vs and secular editors, and Christ-
iaus, who out of false charity have pleasant
things to say about Popery, would do well to try
and digest the following, from the Western Watch-
man, 2 Roman Catholic organ, and whose name
is significant: ‘‘Protestantism! We would draw
and quarter it. We would impale it, and hang
it up for crow’s nests. We would tear it with
pincers and ‘fire it with hot irons. We would
fill it with molten lead, and sink it in hell fire
a hundred fathoms deep.’’ This has ever been
the spirit and practise of ‘‘the mother of har-
lots,’’ and occasionally a fit of candor will seize
an editor, or some of the hierarchy will just tell
the bald truth; while as a corrupt Church, so
debasing to the world, in spite of themselves
they will uncover her hideousness and diabolism,
but quite instinctively, as the birth-place of the
Papacy was hell.

~ —Tue Czar of Russia persecutes, banishes and
imprisons the Lutherans who are so unhappily
located as to be within the domains which he
calls his own; yet such of these faithful sub-
“jects as live in Riga lately collected $40,000 in
a few days to build a new church.

—Txe Supreme Court of New Hampshire
decides that ‘‘ the right to worship God accord-
ing to the dictates of one’s own conscience and
reason’’ does not secure to the Salvation Army
the right to worship by beating the bass drum.

—TseE Richmond Religious Herald tells of a
lady who has rented out her fine residence, and
gone into a smaller and cheaper house, that she
may be able to give $1,000 more per annum to
the cause of Christ than she could have done
had she not made the change. Such sacrifices
are very uncommon.

—Tue Lutheran missions in the island of
Madagascar are very prosperous. They have
resulted in the gathering of 5,000 converts in
seventeen different stations, with 50,000 chil-
dren in the schools.

—THERE are now about 7,000,000 Jews in the
world. These are variously distributed. About
60,000 each in Great Britain, Holland, and
France; 500,000 in Germany; about 250,000
in America, and as many more in Turkey. All

BOOK-TABLE.

ABENDSCIULE-KALENDER auf das Schaltjahr 1888,~

The Abendschule Publishing House is among the
first to issue its Almanac for the coming year, and
a good German Almanac it is. It contains 220 pages
of instructive and entertaining reading matter for
our German Christian homes. The engravings lend
it an additional attraction. Price 80 cts. per copy.
Address Louis Lange, St. Louis, Mo.

PRAYERS AND VERSES in Rhymes for Children.
Compiled by Rev.N. P. Heilmann. Pilger Book
Store, Reading, Pa. Price 35 cts.

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Short Stops.

—An earnest Christian farmer, who lives
four miles from church in one of the staid New
England towns, and whose -family consists of
only himself and his wife, sends three teams
every Sunday to take peaple to church who
reside in his neighborhood, and who have no
conveyance of their own.

—‘‘InDEED I don't,” replied Mrs. A., with
some show of asperity. ‘I can keep a secret
as well as any one. It was only yesterday
that Mr. A. told me that it was feared Mr. H.
was short in his accounts, and I haven’t men-
tioned it to a soul, and don’t intend to either.’’

—TaeErr is a church in Olney, Ill., without
a hypocrite in it. The other Sunday the clergy-
man invited the hypocrites to stand up and
show themselves, and not a single person arose.
The pastor must have been greatly pleased.

—TueE Standard snys: ‘There are lots of
people who mix their religion with business,
but forget to stir it up well. Asa result, the
business invariably rises to the top.’’

—ONnE evening, in a parlor at a summer
watering-place, the young people were dan-
cing. One young Jady was not taking any part
in the exercise. ‘‘Does not your daughter
dance?” asked another lady of this young
lady’s mother.

‘*No,’” was the reply. :

‘© Why, how will she get on in this world?”

“T am not bringing her up for the world,”

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEanNs, 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 Thalia Strs.

* Divine Bervices at 7)4 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thuraday
evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’ clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 714 Tuesday evening.

N. J. BAKKE, Missionary.

EV. LUITH. TRINITY CHURCH.

Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CanoLiton.
Divine services at 10} o’clock Sunday morning and 75
o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday Schoo! at 9 o’clock.
Aua. Burcporr, MissionaRy.

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

Divine service Sunda evening at 734 o’clock.
er a ne
lumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening .
G. AuLensacn, Missionary.

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