The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1888, Page 24

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_Oroomiah is a blind Armenian from Harpoot,

led by a one-eyed deaf man, he goes boldly from
Village to village preaching the Gospel. His

see the wonder—a blind man reading. —

24 The Lutheran Pioneer.

—TueE Kaffirs in South are great
talkers and they like né etter than to
hear their own voices; This "Is ‘ONe Of the rea-
sons why Methodism‘takes with them so quickly.
The Lutheran missionaries insist upon the study
of the Word, -and recommend. praying in the
closet, r@leg:distasteful to the fickle and vain
Kaffir. Tle Methodist missionary, of the other
hand, has the fashion of requesting Brother A.
and Sister B. and even the baby-boy C. to offer
prayer, without inquiring whether they are~
baptized. The Kaffir feels himself, or herself,
or itself, highly flattered and starts at once,
ending the long utterancé with loud shouts and
wild gestures. The Methodists are reporting
success, etc. It is the same method every-
where fitted to the wants and+wishes of the old
Adam. So

—A Morner gave her little boy two bright,
new pennies, and asked him what he was going
to do with them. After a moment's thought
the child replied: ‘‘I am going to give one to
the missionaries, and with the other I am going
to buy a stick of candy.’’ After awhile he re-
turned from his play and told his mother that
he had lost one of his pennies. ‘‘ Which did
|you lose?’’ she asked. ‘‘I Jost the missionary
penny,” he promptly replied. How many
grown people are like that little boy!

—One of the first acts of Emperor Fred-
erick III. of Germany was to cause the inser-
tion of the words ‘Thy servant’’ in the gen-
eral prayer in public worship, wherein the
supplication for the ruler reads now as follows:
““O Lord, let thy mercy be great on the Em-
peror, our royal Sovereign, Thy servant.’’
—TueE fo]lowing is a translation of the Em-

peror Frederick’s favorite hymn, which is be-
ing exhibited in all the music shops in Berlin.
The words are by Ernest von Willich, composed
at twelve years of age, when the boy lay on
the bed from which he never rose again. The
hymn, and the tune to which it is set, pleased
the present Emperor so much that he often
ordered it to be sung, and so it has got to be
accepted as his favorite.

When the Lord me sorrow sends

Let me bear it patiently,

Lifting up the heart in prayer,

= Comfort He will not deny.

Therefore let there come what will
In the Lord my heart is still.

Though the heart is often weak,
In despair and all forlorn,

When in days of utmost pain,

Not a day of joy will dawn,

Tell it: Let there come what will,
In the Lord all pain is still.

So I pray, oh, Lord my God,

That my faith and hope may stand,
Then no care I know, nor heed,
Guided ever by Thy hand!
Therefore let there come what will,
In the Lord my heart is still.

—TueE German Foreign Office has had a
large frame-house constructed at Hamburg for
shipment to Kameroon in West Africa, where
it will be put up as a public school-house. The
teacher is the son of Missionary Christaller, and
was born on one of the stations of the Basle
Mission in Africa. :

—Moravrans have a noble missionary record.
During the last century 25,000 of them have
been sent to ‘mhe regions beyond,’ while
$300,000 have b} !n expended yearly, and nine
vessels kept busy in the interests of Missions.
This small band of disciples may well put us
all to the blush by their liberality and self-
consecration.

—Ir is not generally known that idolatry of
the gross kind is also practiced in America.
But such is the case, particularly among the
Chinese on the Pacific coast. Two images of
Chinese gods, standing in front of a temple at
Portland, Oregon, were recently set on‘fire by
an incendiary. Qne of them was entirely con-
sumed and the other badly damaged. ‘The

The Outlook from the Editor's Window.

—From the report of our Mission Board we
learn that the labor of our missionaries among
the colored people is not in vain. At all the
stations the services are well attended, and we
may hope that the pure Gospel seed will bring

forth its fruit. The Sunday schools in New
Orleans number 343 and the day schools 279
pupils. In Little Rock there are 60 pupils in
the Sunday school and 94 in the day school;
in Meherrin, Va., 45 in the Sunday school and
34 in the day school; in Springfield, Il]., 80 in
the Sunday school and 31 in the day school.
A chapel is to be built in Springfield and
another in New Orleans. Three more mission-
aries ought to be sent out this year to carry on
the work. Dear reader, it takes money to
build chapels and to support missionaries.
Please, don’t forget it. ‘‘Let us not be weary
in well-doing; for in due season we shall reap,
if we faint not,’’ Gal. 6, 9.

—Oour English Lutheran congregation in
Baltimore, Md., is growing steadily. There are
at present 19 voting members—an increase of
11 since its organization. The Sunday school
is attended by 80 scholars.

—In the Capital of our country the pope’s
people recently laid the corner stone of their
University, which is to be under the control of
Jesuits. In an open letter the Rev. Coxe of
New York serves the following notice on the
Romish prelates: ‘‘ When I give evidence be-
fore a committee of Congress on the subject of
chartering your university, I shall appear be-
fore them without one Protestant opinion or
historic statement. I shall be prepared with
popes and doctors of theology, judicial decisions
of your own universities, of eminent Roman
Catholics in all parts of the world; and I shall
prove by their testimony that the Society (of
Jesuits) is a conspiracy against freedom, against
law, and against the moral foundations of so-
ciety itself.’’

—A Pustic School Reader, for the use of
the Swedish Mission in Central Africa, has just
left the press, and will immediately be for-
warded to its destination. The author is Mis-
sionary Vretlind, who labored six years in that
district.

—Rey. R. Lecuier, the oldest Basle mis-
sionary in China, visited Sweden last Fall, by
invitation of the many friends of the cause in
that northern kingdom. Not less than 40
Chinese boys are supported by Swedish Sunday
schools. The students in the two universities

Eyangelical 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 744
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.
EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 734 Thursday
evenin

Sunday Sc! ool meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets nt 734 Tuesday evening.
N. J. BAKKE, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CARROLLTON.
Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 724
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 73¢ o’clock Sunday evening and at 74
o’clock Thursday evening.

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

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

Divine service pone”, evening at 7}4 o’clock.
Sunday School from 10—12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from S—9 Wednesday evening.

G. ALLENBACH, Missionary.

TERMS:

of Upsala and Lund are deeply interested in| worshipers at this shrine at once repaired the payable in adyance at the following rates, postage
the work of foreign missions. damaged image and brought him an offering of |™ med, ewes
—Onz of the most successful missionaries in| xtra large size in order to.appease his anger. 10 Copies

—Accorpine to a London paper, the New
Testament in Arabic is in demand in the land
of Moab. In one day a colporteur sold fifty-
four copies—fiour being the purchasing power.
When night came every receptacle in the col-
porteur’s house was filled with flour, and not a
copy of the Scriptures remained unsold,

Turkey. He knows the Bible thoroughly, and

riding on a miserable little donkey, which is to one address.

THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo.

blindness protects him, and the people crowd to
ingen, Adams Co., Ind.

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‘uth. Concordia Publishing House,” M. 0. Bar-

All communications concerning the editorial de-
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