The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1888, Page 28

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Some of the Hottentots in South Africa
are very eager for Bibles, and the ways they
take to get them are various. One young man
said to the missionary, “If you will let me
have a Bible I will do three days’ work in your
garden.’’ So the missionary agreed, and reck-
oning the man’s labor at a quarter a day, he
paid seventy-five cents to the Bible Society and
gave his workman a copy of the Scriptures.
Four people brought goats, worth a dollar a
piece, and two brought lambs worth seventy-
five cents each, for these they got Bibles. In
the Sunday-school, when the missionary told
them there were Bibles to be bought, one said,
“J have a goat, I shall buy a Bible for my-
self.’ And another little boy said, ‘‘Grandpa
must give me a goat to buy a Bible with,” and
another said, ‘‘I will run and ask my father
for a goat.’”” Thus were the goats turned into
Bibles. *

—Al TRAVELER in Norway writes thus: “I
like the Norwegians. I have seen much of
them, having for that purpose traveled very
slowly, and learned enough of their language
to talk with them. They are the most honest
people I have ever known. Doors are rarely
locked, yet all property is safe. All can read
and write. Probably no country in the world
has such uniformity in religion. All are Lu-
therans; and I was told that ninety-nine hun-
dredths, at least, of all the adults belong to
the Church.”’

—A New York paper relates the following
incident, which, it says, actually occurred: A
father who openly denied the Christian religion
and was a professed infidel, observed his little
son intently reading the Bible. ‘‘What book
are you reading?’’ he said sternly. The little
boy looked up abstractly and said, with eyes
swimming in tears, ‘‘ Father, they crucified
Him!’ The professed unbeliever stood still.

It was 2 word in season. God had spoken to
him through the lips of his child. Ere long
the scales fell from his eyes. His soul was
prostrate at the foot of the cross, seeking peace
and pardon from the Saviour he had rejected.
And now he is among those who testify to the
truth of Christ’s religion—to his promise:
‘Him that cometh to me, I will in no wise
cast out.’”

—TaE sin with which we are born, which
we have inherited from our first parents, is
called ‘‘original sin.’’ A pious minister who
had preached this doctrine of God's Word, was
afterwards waited on by some persons who
stated their objections to the doctrine of original
sin which he had preached. After hearing
them he said, ‘‘I hope you do not deny actual
sin too?’? ‘No,’’ they replied. The good man

‘expressed his satisfaction at their acknowledge-
ment; but, to show the folly of their opinions
in’ denying a doctrine so plainly taught in
Scripture, he asked them, “Did you ever see
a tree growing without aroot?”?  —s-_—-

—Onz of the Methodist bishops relates: ‘‘I
once heard a man, very illiterate, who fixed on
the passage of bringing into the Church ‘dam-
nable heresies,’ and, mispronouncing the word,
he announced for his text, ‘damnable hearsays,’
and proceeded to give a very proper rebuke to
the slanders of the day.’’ It was a bad blunder,
and everybody is ready to laugh at the slip.
But was it as bad as. that of the Boston
preacher who preached on the text, “Why
seek ye the living among the dead?”’ and dis-
cussed the theme, ‘‘The Importance and Utility
of the Study of Latin?’’? There was at least
some underlying truth in the ignorant man’s
mistaking heresies for hearsays; but in the
Boston preacher's effort the Gospel was entirely
“‘dispensed’’ with.

—Tue late Emperor William of Germany
was at one time presented with a curious pen,
that supplies itself with ink while writing. The
old Kaiser thanked the donor and said: ‘I
should like to own a pen that would write only
what is good and true; and then I wish all our
journalists and reporters might each have one
just like it, and use no others.”

—A Sours Sea Istanper is said to have
offered the following prayer, which might be
appropriate on the lips of many who pride
themselves on a high civilization: ‘‘O God,
we are about to go to our respective homes.
Let not the words we have heard be like the
fine clothes we wear, soon to be taken off and
folded away in’a box till another Sabbath comes
round. Rather, let thy truth be like the tattoo
on our bodies, ineffaceable till death.

—A Lavenaste Incmenr occurred in one
of the churches on an Easter Sunday. ‘The
clergyman announced that the offerings would
be applied to reducing the debt on the church.
During the singing of the music, while the
collection was being taken up, the tenor, who
is a German, had a solo in which occurred the
words, ‘‘and the dead shall be raised’? He
succeeded in electrifying the congregation by
giving out at the top of his voice, “Und ze
debt shall be raised in ze twingling ov an eye.””

—Nor long ago a ship was wrecked upon
the reefs of an island in the Pacific. The
sailors, escaping to land, feared lest they might
fall into the hands of savages. One climbed
a bluff to reconnoitre. Turning to his com-
panions, he shouted, ‘“‘Come on! here's a
church!” A simple story, but one involving
a profound question: Why was it safer for the
shipwrecked men to go where a church upreared
its cross than where there was none?’ That
question probes the skepticism of our time to
the heart.

—Darwin, the infidel scientist, acknowledged
himself sold when his little niece asked him what
a cat has that no other animal has. He gave
it up after mature deliberation, and then the
sly puss answered, “‘kittens.’?

——Taey were speaking of a miser who had
just died. ‘‘Did he leave anything?”’ asked
Smith. ‘‘He had to,” was the short answer

of Mr. Jones.

The Lutheran Pioneer.

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—‘‘I suppose the bells are sounding an alarm -
of fire,”’ sneeringly said a man as the church
bells were calling the worshipers one Sunday
morning; to which a clergyman, who was pass-
ing, replied, ‘‘Yes, my friend; but the fire is
not in this world!’ i

—A Grocery firm in a Missouri town makes
the following liberal offer: ‘‘Any man who
drinks two drachms of whisky per day for a
year, and pays ten cents a drink for it, can
have at our store 30 sacks of flour, 220 pounds
of granulated sugar and 72 pounds of good
green coffee for the same money, and get $2.50
premium for making the change in his expen-
ditures.”’ °

—Awn exchange had a hard question put to
it, thus: ‘‘A brother wants to know what he
ought to do with a member who owns 200 acres
of fine Jand and has several thousand dollars
in the bank, and yet could only be induced to
give fifteen cents for missions?’’ Why don’t
the brother ask something easy in this hot
summer weather? We give up answering such
hard questions in these hot days of July and
against all such questioners we close our window.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORLeEans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 14

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

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine sexy ices at 744 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday
Sunday School meets at 9 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 Tuesday evening.
N. J. BAKKE, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CannoLuiton.
Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 74
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 73; o’clock Sunday evening and at 734
o’clock Thursday evening.

Sunday School at 9 0’ clock.
Ava. Buroponr, Missionary.

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

Divine service under evening at 714 o’clock.
Sunday School from 10—12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from S—9 Wednesday evening.

G. ALLENBACnH, Missionary.

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Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,
Springfield, Ills.
Sunday School at 2.30 pr. x.
Divine Service at 3.30 r. x.
H. C, WyNexken, Missionary.

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