The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1888, Page 36

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

_ The Outlook from the: Editor’s Window.

—ArT the recent meeting of the Synodical
Conference in Milwaukee, Wis., the report of
our Mission Board, which we published in a
former issue of our paper, was read and dis-
cussed. Conference resulved to recommend to
all its congregations to take up a collection for
the erection of new missionary chapels in New
Orleans and Springfield, Il]. Let us all Jearn
how to give from the following item.

- —In one of the mission congregations in
Jamaica a collection was to be taken for mis-
Slonary purposes. One of the brethren was
appointed to, preside, and resolutions were
| adopted as follows: 1. Resolurd, That we will
‘all give. 2. Resolved, That we will give as the
| Lord has prospered us. 3. Resolved, That we
' will give cheerfully. Good rules, that might
each be clinched with a Scripture text. Then
the contribution began, each person, according
-to custom; walking up to the communion table
tto-deposit his gift under the eye of the presi-
ding officer One of the most well-to-do mem-
‘bers hung back uutil he was painfully notice-
able; and when he at last deposited his gift,
the brother at the table remarked, ‘‘Dat is
Zeordin’ to de fust resolushun, but’ not ’cordin’
tu de second.”’_ The member retired angrily to
Ais seat, taking back his money; but conscience
or pride kept working until he came back and
doubled his contribution with a crabbed ‘Take
dat, den.” The brother at the table again
spoke: ‘Dat may be ‘cordin’ to de fust and
‘secund resolushuns, but it isn’t ’cordin’ to de
third.’”’ ‘The giver, after a little, accepted the
rebuke, and came up a third time, with a still
Jarger gift and a good-natured face. Then the
faithful president expressed his gratification
thus: ‘“‘Dat’s ’cordin’ to all de resolushuns.”’
Are our gifts according to all the resolutions?

—HERnkzE is another story on giving: A poor
factory gir] brought for missions almost 8 francs
($1.50) to an agent of the evangelical associa-

tion who was traveling in France. When he
hai showed his astonishment at this large gift,
she. answered : ‘‘When did I give my last gift?’
—‘On the 18th of June,”’ said he, ‘‘a credit of
6 francs was given’ you.’’—‘‘Well,’’ answered
she and:counted on her fingers, ‘‘that was five
months ago and during that time I would have
Worn out at least four pairs of shoes on the
dancing-floor, had I not learned to know the
Gospel. You yourself may figure it out, I stil]
have a profit.”

—Awnp here.is another: Shortly before the
Franco-Prussian war a collector for missions
came into a village of Germany. A married
couple lived there who were accustomed to give
three dollars every year as a missionary gift.

At bis work the man is, having all kinds of
_ thoughts of. care: How hard the times are, and
how much harder may:they yet become! He
_ thinks, no one can expect me to give this time
three dollars for the mission; half that amount

‘will answer. ~ In the evening he reaches his
home, and the first thing he says to his wife is:

“Listen, dear wife, the times are very bard, so
this time we will give only half of our usual
sum for missions.’’ With astonishment she
looks at him, but then says tohim: ‘‘Yes, dear
husband, the collector has been here, and I
also thought the times are hard, who knows
how they will he next year, and whether we
can then give anything for the missionary
treasury. Therefore I thought certainty is
certainty, and gave with the three dollars for
this year also the three dollars for next year.”’
“Yes, certainty is certainty,’ said the man, and |
ashamed he went into his closet and thanked
God that He had given him such a pious and
believing wife.

—A Farmer in the neighborhood of Bremen
left the sum of $20,000 to the congregation of
his village for a new church. He thought his
family relations were wealthy enough, and an
increase of riches would not profit them, whilst
the Church of Christ is going a begging. This
is a proper sentiment, yet few people harbor it
when they make their will.

— CHARLES GROVER, 2 merchant at Liver-
pool, England, died lately. What is that to
us? Please, listen a short while. That mer-
chant was a very successful business-man and
a.very honest one, too, for he kept his vow to
the Lord as long as he lived—and he died in
his 75th year—to give the largest (hear!) share
of his lawful gain to the Lord. For fifty years,
he contented himself with one-tenth of his in-
come, and devoted the other nine-tenths to the
building-up of the Church. He did not take
much stock, as we say, in the numberless
societies, guilds, unions, associations of which
we have too many, but quietly built one church
after the other, and put good men into their
pulpits. He belonged to those old-fashioned
Christians, who feel the truth of the wise saying
(Book of, Wisdom 16, 12): ‘‘Neither herbs nor’
Jiniment will heal them, but it is Thy Word,
which healeth all.’’? He was right. The remedy’
for every sickness in the spiritual world is the
Word and the Sacraments, and the more fre-
quently it is applied, the better it will work.

—A Pastor preaching the iext, ‘Beware
of covetousness,’’ said: ‘‘Last Sunday night the
collection in this house amounted to $1 80, and

the dollar was thrown in by a brother from |

Richmond, Va., who happened to be here, and
did not know any better. The other 600 of
you dropped in the eighty cents:”

—Dr. Jonas once gave alms to a beggar
with the remark: ‘‘Who knows when the Lord
will give it back again!’’ Luther, who was
present, thereupon said: ‘‘As though the Lord
had not long since given you this.’”

—‘“WHEN I look at the congregation,” said a
|London preacher, ‘‘I say, ‘Where are the
‘poor?’ When I count the collection in the ves-
try say, ‘Where are the rich?’””

_—WELL, that will do. There are’ plenty

{items on giving in this “Outlook.” As we close
|Our window we again remind our readers that
\the Synodical Conference resolved to aid our
|mission': work among ‘the colored people: by |,

taking up a collection in all our congregations.
We hope none of our readers will be like the
Irishman who said in reference to certain legis-
lation, ‘‘Z’m in favor of the law, but agin its ex-
ecution.”’— The window is closed.

o<—> ee oO

Minds Like Sieves.

A simple Hindoo woman went to receive her
weekly Bible lesson, when the lady missionary
fuund that she had remembered but little of
what she had taught her the week before. Be-
ing discouraged, she said, *tIt seems no use
teaching you anything; you forget all I tell
you; your wind is just like a sieve; as fast as
I pour water in it runs out again.”’

The woman looked up at the lady missionary,
and said: ‘* Yes, it is very true what you tell
me; my mind is just like a sieve; Iam very
sorry I forgot so much; but then you know
when you pour clean water into a sieve, though
it all runs out again, yet it makes the sieve
clean. I am sorry I have forgotten so much
of what you told me last week, but what you
did tell me made my mind clear, and I haves
come again to-day.”’

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New Or.Eans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
118 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 CITURCIT.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 7}4 Sunday evening ond at 74 Thursday

evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 7}4 Tuesday evening.
N. J. BAKKE, Missionary.

EY. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CARROLLTON.
Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 7%
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 734
o’clock Thursday evening.

Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
Aca. Burcporr, MIssIonaRy.

St. Pauls Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark,

Divine service panley, evening at 74 0’ clock.
Sunday School from [0—12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.

G, ALLENBACH, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,
Springfield, Ills.
Sunday School at 2.30 pr. u.

Divine Service at 3.30 r. u.
H. C. Wynexen, Missionary.

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