The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1889, Page 8

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. “The excellent custom of having the chil-
dren and young people of our Church commit

—From the annual report of our missionary | portions of Scriptures and hymns to memory
in Little Rock we learn that the mission has|seems to have utterly died out. Some people
prospered during the past year. The school | discourage the practice, claiming that the child
room was crowded with pupils and the church | should not be filled with what it cannot under-
attendance was Jarger than in former years. |stand and digest, etc. This is certainly 2 mis-
The good work done in the schoolroom is seen|take. We fully believe the former custom of
from the fact that a sick father was brought to| baving children commit portions of the Bible,
the knowledge of tle truth by his little daughter | and choice hymns of the Church, to be whole-
sitting at his bed and reciting her Lutheran |some mental discipline, as well as spiritually
Catechism which she had Jearned in our school. | profitable. The youthful mind, stored with
In spite of many temptations the little Lutheran | divine truth so tersely expressed in the English
flock holds fast the Lutheran faith, and though | Bible, has a storehouse of comfort to draw from

_ they are very poor they take up regular collec-|in time of need. These verses are the weapons
tions for the payment of the smaller expenses | of the Holy Spirit to combat Satan. Should
of the station. misfortune or sickness overtake an individual

—TxeE Church Messenger says: The Missouri | whose mind is stored with this precious truth,
Synod years ago passed the following resolu-| how comforting to have such to meditate upon,
tion: ‘‘ We regard it to be our sacred duty to} when perhaps ‘his strength will not allow a
organize English congregations as soon as it is| friend to read to him! A man is frequently in
made clear to us that there are sufficient num-|situations where he has no reading, no one to
bers justifying such an organization of such | converse with, nothing but his own thoughts.
persons who understand English better than| How happy if, like David, he can have the
German, and who would be robbed of, or at|truth of God to meditate upon in the watches
least stunted in the benefit derived from the | of the night!
hearing of the Word of God, if the preaching] —IJpoLatry 1x New Yorx.—A temple to
would only be done in the German language.’’ | the Chinese Great Joss has just been dedicated
The Synod is acting accordingly in the different |in New York city with oriental ceremonies.
parts of its Jarge territory, and there will not | The temple is about eighty feet deep by thirty
pass by many years before we hear of English | wide. The extreme rear is partitioned off and
churches belonging to that Synod, in Boston, | fitted up as a sort of Buddhist pareonage and
New York, Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis, San | reception room, while the front is entirely de-
Francisco, etc. voted to Joss. The floor bere is covered with

—Lourser-WatTHER Memorrat Socrery.| bright colored oilclotb. Close up against the
A petition for the incorporation of the ‘Dr. Lu-| walls are massive chairs and centretable of
ther-Walther Memorial Society” was presented | ebony, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, which were

to Judge Klein of St. Louis recently by Mr. |imported direct from China. The walls are
Rudolph Schulenberg, as attorney for the peti-| glazed in snowy white, and hidden almost by
tioners. The object of the proposed corpora-|the great multitude of gorgeous tablets and
_tion, as defined by: its constitution, is “‘the} banners. Every one of these bears a beauti-
erection of a statue to the memory of Dr. Lu-| fully carved motto, the letters of which are in
_ ther and Dr. Walther in the city of St. Louis.’’| raised characters on wood. Some of these
Only those who believe in the doctrines of the | words are gilded to.resemble gold, upon bright,
Evangelical Lutheran Church can be members| green ground, while their bevel-edged borders
of the society. The officers are: A.C. Grote, |are filled with finely chiselled dragons, birds,
President; Theodore Guenther, Secretary, and | and other sacred Chinese animals.
Chas. Steinmeyer, Treasurer. —Anone the many trades followed by the
—A MAN of the world who heard a recent | thrifty Chinese, is that of the public story teller,
infidel oration in New York, was asked what| who makes a good living by it, provided he has
he thought of it. He replied: “It’s a epicy}a good memory and the gift of attracting
thing to Jaugh at for an hour, but not a very |listeners. The Chinese are fond of hearing
cheering doctrine to have around when there |stories, and that is one of the reasons why a
is a funeral in the house.” There is truth in| preacher of the gospel in China can always
~ this. Men may laugh and applaud when the|draw a crowd. Some of those professional
_Dlatant infidel makes his vile flings at God and | story-tellers have become Christians, and they
¥s _ religion, but it will be different when they |are now using their power of speech in the
| come face to face with death. — service of the true God, always and every-
|. —NeEw Zeavanv.—There are 8000 Germans, | where finding people ready to listen to the
: “mostly farmers, settled in New Zealand. They | Bible stories, which are much more beautiful
"are gathered in seven Lutheran congregations; |and pure than their former stories of heroes
all/of them have substantial churches and good | and ghosts. :
parochial echools. There are five Lutheran} —Turxisu Brstes.—OscarS. Straus, United
States Minister to Turkey, reports to the Sec-
retary of State that he has obtained of the
Grand Vizier the necessary authorization for
the Bible House of Constantinople, to print, in

Turkish, 35,000 Bible tracts, consisting of the
Pealms, Proverbs, the four gospels and the
Acts.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE First CONVENTION OF THE
GENERAL ENGLISH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN
CONFERENCE OF MISSOURI AND OTHER STATES,
Price 10 cents. Address Rey. C. F. W. Meyer,
Box 42, Marshfield, Mo.

This interesting pamphlet contains an account of
the proceedings of ovr English brethren, who re-
cently formed an organization on the doctrinal ba-
sis of the Synodical Conference. The pamphlet
contains also the excellent sermon with which. the
first convention of the Conference was opened by
its president, the Rey. F. Kuegele of Koiner’s Store,
Va. We hope the sermon will find many readers,

Dr. Martin Lutner’s SMALL CaATECIIISM, ex-
plained in Questions and Answers by Dr. C.
Dietrich. Abridged Edition. Concordia Pub-
lishing House, St. Louis, Mo.

Those that necd an English Catechism will ba
glad to hear that our Publishing house has issued
the Abridged Edition of Dictrich’s Catechism ‘in a
good English translation. The price of the hand-
somely printed and well bound book is 24 cents,
postage included.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEans, La.

EV. LUTH. 8ST. PAUL’S CIIAPEL.
13 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.

Divine eervices at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 74
o’clock Wednesday evening.,
Sunday School from 2 to 4.

EV.LUTH. MT. ZION CITURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine ner lces at 7% Sunday evening and at 734 Thureday
rening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o'clock,

Adult catechumeh class meets at 734 Tucsday evening.
N. J. BAKKE, Missionary.

EV. LUTI. TRINITY CHURCII.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CamnouiTon. ‘
Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and? 1%
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

sEV. LUTIH. BETMLEMNEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryndes Str.
Divine services rt 73 o’clock Sunda i
o’clack Thursday evening. ee a raiaaes
Sunday School at 9 o’ clock.
Ava. Boroporr, Mrss1onaRy.

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

Divine service Sunday evening at 7% o’clock.

Sunday Schoo! from 10—12. vf bd °.

Catechumen class meets from 7—S Wednesday evening. |

Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening. }
G. ALLennacn, Missionary, i

Ey. Luth. Moly Trinity Church,
Springfield, Ills, :

;
Sunday School at 2.20 r. ut. j
Divine Service at 3.30 r. a1. '
Tl. S. KyAnenscirun, Missionary, |

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