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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

— Tuis number closes another volume of the
Lurnaeran Pioneer. Gladly would we leave
the editorial chair and let the work be done by
some abler pen, knowing that thereby the sub-
scription list of the ProNEER could be easily in-
creased. There is no need of sending letters
telling us that the work is not done well. We
know all that. But at present we see no way
of giving the paper over into the hands of those
learned and able men. So we must go on for
another year, trusting that the Master will
own our poor service also in the future. Thank-
ing our friends who have helped us in the cir-
culation of our paper, we earnestly ask their
continued and hearty co-operation. The most
welcome Christmas gift for our dear little Pro-
NEER is the name of several new subscribers.
And don’t you forget it.
—Wirx profound sorrow we record the de-
parture from this world on Saturday, Novem-
ber 19, of the venerable and beloved Rev. G.
Schaller, Professor in our Lutheran Seminary
at St. Louis, Mo. He was a learned scholar,
a faithful pastor and teacher, a gentle and
amiable Christian, a devoted disciple of the
Saviour. Our loss is his gain. For it is writ
ten, “They that turn many to righteousness
shall shine as the stars for ever and ever.’’
—From the Baltimore American of Nov. 21st
we clip the following interesting item: A Lu-
theran service was held at eight o'clock last eve-
ning at the Young Men’s Christian Association
Hall, and was conducted by Rev. Mr. Schwoy,
of Alexandria, Va. Besides others, there were
present representatives of the churches in this
city, of the German Evangelical Lutheran
Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States. Af-
ter the services, Mr. Schwoy announced that
the meeting was to take steps towards the es-
tablishment of an English mission of the Mis-
souri Synod of German Lutheran churches to
afford the English-speaking members of the
Church an opportunity to attend services in
English. Rey. Charles Frincke of St. Martin’s,
and Rev. Mr. Johannes were present. A num-
ber of persons remained after the services, by
invitation, to hear the plans for the establish-
ment of the English mission discussed.
—A Lovisvitte clergyman said in his ser-
mon, that if women and men would only dance
in separate rooms he would not object to dan-
cing. It would be just as graceful, he claimed,
and just as healthful exercise, and they could
keep step to the music just the same.— Correct!
—A Missionary writes from West Africa:
‘‘The church numbers thirty members, of
whom twenty-seven were wild savages only
“six years ago, at which time the site of the
present church and station was a wilderness.
Some of these church-members live seventy
miles away, and must pull in their canoes

against a swift current all this distance, in order
_.to enjoy the privilege of gathering at the Lord’s
_ table. Others come a distance of eighteen or
“twenty miles. At a missionary meeting held

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in the afternoon, over seven dollars were given
to send the Gospel to the heathen!”

—A LurHeERAN missionary in South Africa
reports the confirmation of a number of aged per-
sons. Among them were two great-grandmoth-
ers, four grandmothers and two grandfathers.

—Frox English papers we learn that the
house of a Mr. Richard Burnett in Ireland was
forcibly entered by a mob of Roman Catholics,
and under threats he was compelled to make
at least a nominal submission to the Romish
sect, by a form devised by the rioters for the
occasion. Then about the same time a Protest-
ant chapel at Athea, in the west of Limerick,
was broken into, its memorial windows de-
stroyed, the seats damaged, and the Bible
thrown out of doors. Such brutal acts show
the feeling with which Protestants are regarded
by the pope’s people in Ireland.

—TuERE are said to be in India 135,000
lepers, and a society is devoting itself exclu-
sively to relieving their sufferings, and pro-
claiming to them the gospel. Hospitals are
provided, in which the victims of this dread-
ful disease can find shelter, and in one asylum
there are ninety inmates, and in another sixty.
A similar admirable purpose animates the per-
sons who are endeavoring to send missionaries
to the thousands of blind people in China, who
wander about in bands of a dozen or more,
hungry and almost naked, and many of them
afflicted with leprosy. A: Scotchman has in-
vented a system for teaching the blind Chinese
to read, and it is already proving successful.

— Tue native Christians of Tinnevelly, South-
ern India, have sent $400 to the Church Mis-
sionary Society of England as an expression of
their sympathy with the persecuted Christ-
ians in Uganda, Africa. The native Christians
of Madagascar have given £800,000 for the
spread of the gospel within the past ten years.

—Ir is said that out of the native population
of the Fiji Islands, numbering about 112,000,
nearly 100,000 are members of the Christian
Church! Half a century ago they were a fierce
race of cannibals; now there is not one of them
who is a professing pagan.

—TuE mission of the American Board in
Micronesia is composed of forty-six churches,
all self-supporting, with 5312 communicants;
42, common schools with native teachers, also
self-supporting, with 2800 scholars, and six
high schools that train native preachers and
teachers and their wives. There are 178 pupils.

—TaeE London Christian World rightly says
that ‘‘the promise to pay for a newspaper is
neither more nor less sacred than the promise
to pay for a farm.’”’ (Dear reader, have you
paid for your PlonEER?)—We close our window
wishing you all a

, Happy CarisTMas.
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Tink who you are! Is it not true that you
are a poor sinner, and worthy of nothing better
than that you should lie upon thorns? Yet,
whilst your Lord lies on hard straw, in 2 man-
ger, you lie on a soft bed; and still you are

iscontented and complain of great sufferings.
Luther.

DER LUTHERISCHE KALENDER fuer 1888.

Book FoR 1888.
By the aid of numerous charts and diagrams the. -
growth and work of the “Lutheran church”? is made
plain at a simple glance.
tions of Learning are located on a special map of”
the United States, and there are many other dia-
grams.- The engravings are all new. Among them
we find a portrait of Dr. Walther. The price of the
book is 25 cts. and can be ordered from Rey. S.
Stall, Lancaster, Pa.

BOOK-TABLE.

Brobst,
Diehl & Co., Allentown, Pa.
This well known German Almanac has made its

appearance in its usual form and with a variety of
instructive reading matter, bringing also a short
sketch of the life and work of our sainted Dr. Wal- .
ther. It is especially accurate in its statistics,
a complete list of the ministers, educational and
charitable institutions, periodicals and of all the
churches bearing the Lutheran name, which makes
the Almanac valuable for reference.
per copy.

giving

Price 10 cts.

The same can be said of STaLy’s LUTHERAN YEAR
It is a most accurate Year Book.

The ninety-two Institu-

CUuRISTMASTIDE, or Birth of Christ. Told in Pictures

and Words. Pilger Book Store, Reading, Pa.
A beautiful little pamphlet, specially prepared for

teaching the little ones the story of the Christ-Child

in pictures and words.
the dozen 10 cts., by the hundred § cts.

Price 12 cts. per copy; by

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New Or.Eans, 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 meruioce at 714 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thuraday
evening.

Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.

Adult catechumen class meets at 7}4 Tuesday evening.

N. J. BAKKE, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.

Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CAROLLTON.
Divine services at 10% o’clock Sunday morning ond 74
o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
Aua. Bunaponr, MIssIoNaRy. ,

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St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service Bondey: evening at 734 o’clock.
0—12.

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

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

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