The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1888, Page 16

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. interest is awakened. The cheapest and most
effective agency for obtaining contributions for
this cause is missionary information.

—TueE pope is surely fond of the princely
glories of this vain world. ‘‘I rely,’’ said he to
the Austrian Catholic pilgrims, ‘‘on the in-
fluence of all Catholic people to solve the pres-
ent insupportable position, and to enable me to
regain the temporal power which is essential
to the Church.’’? Poor man! How different his
views from those of Christ, ‘‘Whose kingdom
was not of this world.”’

—TueE native Christians in Southern India,
mostly very poor people themselves, on hearing
of the distress among some Christians in far off
Africa, sent $400 to the Society for the relief
of their suffering brethren.

known donor with a beautiful altar piece, rep-
resenting the incident described Matth. 14,
80. 31. The painting was executed by Prof.
Schoenherr, of Dresden.

—TaE following dispatch makes known a
strange revelation in regard to the churches
in the State of Maine. The dispatch says:
‘The Journal finds, as the result of an elab.
orate investigation, that one third the churches
in Maine are closed on account of lack of sup-
port, and that one half the people of the State
are non-church-goers. The returns from the
canvass show that out of 1362 churches in the
State 417 are vacant. The reasons given by
many non-church-goers are printed by the
Journal. Out of the vast collection of excuses
it is found that spite and personal differences
are the foundation for much of the absenteeism.
Some said that they had no time to go tochurch,
others needed better clothes; some said there
was. too much formality, others thought there
was not formality enough.”’

— One of our faithful Lutheran missionaries
in South Africa recently wrote: ‘The last ap-
plicants for baptism could not be received on
account of their. want of due preparation. I
could have received them, if I chose to admit
those people after the fashion of other preachers,
the Methodists, for instance. A young woman
recently applied for membership and presented
a certificate from a Methodist missionary.in the
Transvaal. She had been baptized three years
ago and had partaken of the Holy Communion
several times. She expected to unite with us
during the Advent season. It is my custom to
rehearse the fifth part of our Catechism with
all communicants on the day before Communion
Sunday. Idid not expect the woman to know
the fourth and fifth parts by heart, but I hoped
she would be able to recite the three first parts
without Luther’s explanation. But I was not
prepared to see that she did not even know one
of the Ten Commandments, and of the Creed
and the Lord’s Prayer she did not know a par-
ticle. She was not able to answer the simplest
question relative to the Order of Salvation!”
Surely it is nothing but a dangerous delusion
to sing and to say, ‘‘Jesus, lover of my soul,”
and not to know who Jesus is and why the soul
is in need of Him. But-such woeful ignorance
is not only met with on the Dark Continent;
we have only too much of it in this ‘‘great
Christian land,” and here among those who
like to talk about the ‘‘cold formalism’? of the
Lutheran Church.—Church Messenger.

—A PASTOR for twenty-five years states he
has not in that time collected $25 for home
missions from men who are opposed to foreign

——Tae Rey. H. C. Scuwan, President of the
Missouri ‘Synod, who lately had occasion to
visit the chapels and schools of our Colored
Mission in New Orleans, reports them to be in
a flourishing condition. A new chapel is being
built, so that in the near future we shall have
four Lutheran chapels and schools for the col-
ored people of that great city. The schools are
overcrowded, each having about 100 scholars
on its roll. Many apply in vain for admittance,
there being no more room. The applications
for admittance are so numerous that it would
be easy to fill four or five more schools with
colored children anxious to receive an educa-
tion in a Lutheran mission-school. May God
continue His blessing and move the hearts of
many Christians to help us in this important
mission-work.

—Tse Statistical Year-Book of the Synod
of Missouri, Ohio and other States for the year
1887, issued by Concordia Publishing House,
St. Louis, Mo., has been received. An Eastern

“paper well calls it ‘‘a marvel of compact in-
formation.”’ ‘‘It easily surpasses anything yet
published in the way of accurate and full sta-
tistics of this section of the Church, and it ought
to be on the table of every Lutheran pastor
who wishes to keep posted on the growth of
his church.” Here are a bundle of statistics
taken from the Year-Book: The Missouri Synod
has 984 ministers and 620 parochial school
teachers, who respectively have the care of
459,376 baptized members and teach 71,504
children. There is a total of.1424 churches
and 544 preaching places with 266,000 com-
municant members; however, only 678 of
these churches are officially connected with
the Synod, though served by pastors of the
Synod. Last year the baptisms numbered
83,391, and those admitted to communion by
confirmation were 13,724. The twelve districts
of the Synod contributed offerings for educa-
tion, orphans and widows, Synodical treasury
and missions amounting to $107,463.71, of
which $382,589.62 was devoted to the Home
Missions. The enormous business of the Pub-
lishing House of the Missouri Synod, which
employs 59 hands, can be guessed at from the
fact that it printed and sold 34,500 hymn
books, 13,600 Bible histories, 50,000 readers,
26,000 arithmetics and 154,000 copy books.
This Report for 1887 also contains lists of in-
stitutions, papers, Synodical officers and other
interesting information that shows how well
equipped is this great Synod to do a vast work
for German Lutheranism in the Western States.

BOOK-TABLE.

Eis Ist Notun. Worte freundlicher Erinnerung an
unsere confirmirte weibliche Jugend. Concor-~
dia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo., Price:
single copy 15 cts.; per dozen $1.40.

This is a dainty little volume written for the con-
firmed girls of our churches. In plain and loving
words it points them to faith in the Saviour as the
one thing needful and also tells them how to keep
in the way of faith and holiness in the midst of the
many temptations of this sinful world.

LutTueran Tract No. 2. The doctrine of Justi-
fication.

This Lutheran tract of ten pages is published by
our Committee for English Home Mission. It pre-
sents in a plain conversation between two men the
Bible truth in regard to the important doctrine of
the sinner’s justification and deserves a wide circu-
lation. 2 copies 5 cts.; per dozen 20 cts. Address
F. Dette, 710 Franklin Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEANS, La.

EV. LUTH. 8ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 74 :

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

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH. :
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stre. i
Divine services at 714 Sunday evening and at 714 Thursday t
evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 7)4 Tuesday evening.
N. J. BAxxe, Missionary.

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EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
. CARROLLTON.
Divine services at 10}; o’clock Sunday morning and 734
o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock. ‘a
Ava. Buraponrr, MissionaRY.

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

Divine service pundey evening at 7)4 0’ clock.
Sunday School from 10—12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening. 1

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

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~~ ‘scholars and six teachers, Zion’s 400 scholars
and four teachers. Gee

. —Tse Lutheran congregation at Terre

Haute, Ind., was recently presented by an un-

—A New Yorx paper well says: People
will not become interested in missions unless
they know something about them, and they
cannot be expected to give liberally unless their

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parement to be addressed to Rev. R. A. BrscHOFHs
ingen, Adams Co., Ind.