The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1888, Page 40

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The Laitheran Pioneer.

he hoped the lightning from heaven would
smite him. What came to pass? Not long
thereafter a terrible thunderstorm arose; the
priest remembered his words; his conscience
was awakened; he hastened to the church,
ordered the storm-bell rung, and fell upon his
knees before the altar imploring God for mercy.
A flash of lightning struck him while there.
When removed, taken home, and afterward to
the church-yard, another stroke smote and
badly burned his dead body. God will not be
mocked!

—A younG lady who recently renounced

Romanism, being told that she was born in a
Catholic church she ought to die in it, promptly
replied, ‘‘I was born in sin, but I have made
up my mind not to die in it.”
_-—A CORRESPONDENT in the New York: Ob-
server thus calls attention to a too common
practice of some in the churches when the
Doxology is being sung. He says: ‘‘I have
always regarded the singing of the Doxology
as.one of the most solemn acts of public wor-
ship and as calling for special reverence on the
part of worshipers. It is a special service of
praise to the Triune God, in which the whole
congregation by rising professedly join. But
I have noticed in the churches of every de-
momination in which I have attended divine
worship that the singing of the last hymn, and
especially the Doxology is'regarded by many
of the people as an announcement that it is
the time for gentlemen to struggle into their
overcoats, in doing which they often require
the assistance of one or two of their fellow
worshipers. Even with this help they annoy
several more of their neighbors, and to this
extent interrupt the worship of God by the
congregation.”

—Dnr. Katuey, a Scotchman, who died re-
cently at a very old age, began to make him-
self useful as a missionary physician fifty years

The Outlook from the :Editor’s Window.

—Txe 17th Sunday after Trinity was a day
of rejoicing for our colored Lutheran brethren
in Springfield, IU. On that day H. Knaben-
schuh, a graduate of our Theological Seminary
in Springfield, was ordained and installed as
pastor of the Colored Lutheran congregation
recently organized in that city by Prof. H.
Wyneken. The Seminary chapel was beau-
tifully decorated for the occasion and a large
number of colored people listened attentively
to the sermon of Rey. Sapper, member of our
Mission Board. Springfield is a promising field
for our Colored Mission. The great want there
now is a chapel for church and school. We
hope it will soon be coming.

—On the 15th Sunday after Trinity two
new laborers entered our Colored Mission field
in New Orleans. A. Scheffler and E. Rischow,
‘graduates of our Teachers’ Seminary, were on
that day installed as teachers of two of our
Colored Lutheran schools in that city. The
‘colored people cordially welcomed the new
Jaborers-in their midst and expressed their
gratitude for the provision made for their chil-
dren by the Lutheran Church. Our missionary

has also received an assistant, Mr. N. Berk-
halter, formerly a colored student in our Semi-
nary at Springfield, assisting him in church
and school. May God bless the. work of our
new laborers in our mission field!

—A MISSIONARY preached the gospel in a
village in Southern India. When he left, an
old woman ran after him and begged him to
tell her once more the name of Him, whom he
preached. He repeated Jesus’ name to-her
until she could pronounce it correctly, but she
‘would not go away until she had got a little
‘book, in which the name of Jesus was under-
lined by the preacher. She could not read
herself, but she could ask her friends to read
that name to her if ever it would happen that
‘she forgot it.

—A Ronis bishop was recently honest
enough to talk out of school. He bluntly says:
‘*We maintain’ that the church of Rome is
intolerant—that is, that she uses every means
‘in her power to root out heresy. But her in-

tolerance is the result of her infallibility. She
alone has the right to be intolerant, because
she alone has the truth. The church tolerates
heretics where she is obliged to do so, but she
hates them with a deadly hatred, and uses all
ther powers to annihilate them. If ever the
' Catholics should becomea considerable majority,

the day of his death. In 1838 he preached the
Gospel on the Island of Madeira, on the west-
ern cost of Africa, where he was thrown into
prison by the fanatical priests. _ His followers
were persecuted to such a degree that 1500 of
them escaped from the island and settled partly
on the Island of Trinidad, in the West Indies,
and partly in Illinois. Dr. Kalley also labored
successfully in Syria and Brazil. He was a
wealthy man, and always paid his way him-
self; one of the few rich who count this world’s
goods for little, and place that joyfully-at the
disposal of the Lord.

—Tue Free Church of Scotland (Presby-
terian) is indeed a grand missionary society.
When new laborers are wanted, the Church’s
Missionary Committee simply makes its want
known to the graduates and students of the
theological seminaries, and there are always
more ready to go abroad than are needed. A
few months ago the committee sent out a call
for 12 men; a few days afterwards not less
than 22 men, mostly university graduates pre-
sented themselves to the Board of Missions.

‘religious freedom in the republic of the United
‘States come to an end. Our enemies know
how she treated heretics in the Middle Ages,
and how she treats them to-day where she has
the power. Weno-more think of denying these
historic facts than we do of blaming the Holy
Pope and. the princes sees church for what
have ight fit to do.”
aoe vo thon priest, in Luther’s time, de-
cae that if the Lutheran doctrine were true,

ago, and continued in his efficient work until | -

—ArT the last Missionary Conference at Cal-
cutta, in India, Mr. Ball said: ‘‘The most
cheering thing in our work to-day is the de-
mand for the Scripture. A Hindu doctor
bought 100 copies of the Gospels recently to
distribute among his friends; and a still more
extraordinary fact is, that a Hindu priest has
bought some Bibles and given them away. The
missionaries who have attended idol-festivals this
year report an unprecedented sale of Bibles.”

—In 14 years 700 Protestant chapels have
been built in Madagascar, making the present
number 1200. There are 80,000 Protestant
communicants, and all the churches are self-
supporting. The Queen, who is a Christian,
recently attended the opening of two churches
at Ambokinauga, a former stronghold of
heathenism.

—TueE Fiji Islands in the South Sea, which
were covered with the darkness of heathenism
only forty years ago, are entirely Christianized.
The last report brings out the gratifying fact,
that of the 116,041 inhabitants of the Islands,
114,067 are regular attendants of the church
or the Sunday-school, a thing not to be met
with in our country, which has enjoyed the
light from on high much longer.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEANS, La’

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CIAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 734
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday school from 2 to 4.
EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalig Strs.
Divine qe ati Sunday evening and at 734 Thursday
eveni ng.
Sunday School meets at 9 0’ clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 7}4 Tuesday evening. .
N. J. BAKKE, ‘Missionary.

_EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CaRnoLiTon.
Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 734
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.

Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.

Divine services at 73¢ 0’clock Sunday evening and at 734
o’clock Thursday evening.

Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

Ava. Buroporr, MissionaRY.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock & 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service a ancerier evening at 734 o’clock.
panaay, School fro:
humen class meets nn 7-8 Wednesdsy evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.
. Gs. ALLENBACH, Missionary.

‘Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,

Springfeld, Ms.
sundsy School at 2.30 r. a.
Divine Service at 3.30 Pr. x.
H. C. Wynexen, Missionary.

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