The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1889, Page 12

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—ThneE 13th day of January was a day of re-
joicing for the Lutheran people in New Orleans.
On that day the ‘‘First English Evangelical
Lutheran Church of New Orleans, La.’’ was

dedicated to the service of the Triune God.

It. being a beautiful day, the church was
crowded to the utmost, many members of our
German Lutheran churches taking part in the
services. May God bless the English Lutheran

mission in New Orleans.

—F rom one of our exchanges we learn that
our English Lutheran mission in Baltimore is
A church building

in a prosperous condition.
was recently bought, the Sunday school and
church services are well attended.

—Tnxose who are foolish enough to suppose,
that the establishment of English Lutheran
* missions for the public preaching of the pure

Gospel truth, will make all hearers Lutherans
in a short time, will of course be disappointed,
and might soon be discouraged. Not all who
hear the truth in any language will embrace it.
But never is it proclaimed in vain. It is for
us faithfully to labor, leaving the result to God;
but to work in -the full confidence that our
labor shal! not be in vain in the Lord.

—A man, who himself did ‘‘a good deal
of shouting’’ formerly, writes in one of our
exchanges: ‘‘I judge no man, but when IJ hear
men shouling and telling long experiences about
a clean heart, when they have not paid the
preacher, and they know he is living on short
rations, and his family really in want, I some-
how can but think the brother has missed his
way, and instead of being on shouting ground
is just hollering about in the woods to.keep up
his faith without works.’’

—Or the 10,000 people who make up the
population of Greenland, the reports say that
8250 are members of the Lutheran Church. ©
. —Missions AMONG THE Mornons. —The
Mormons in Utah are the American Moham-
medans, and therefore a proper subject for
missionary treatment. The first attempt to
preach the true gospel among them was made
in 1865. It was met by fierce opposition.
But ‘the faith overcometh the world,’’ even
‘such a wicked world as Mormonism, and now
there are 37 Christian churches, 59 ministers,
92 day-schools, 226 teachers and 7000 scholars.
The Presbyterians are the strongest. The
Swedish Lutherans began their work only a
short while ago, and they have some business
there, because thousands of their countrymen
have been beguiled by the soft words of the
crafty Mormon elders to leave their mother
church and to join the Mormon abomination.
_ —In the matter of benevolence we who live

-in Christian Jands may learn a lesson from the
"recent converts from heathenism. The native

pastor in Erlaly, Ceylon, sends a report of the

‘four methods of giving employed by the women

of his church. First, the tithe of their earn-
; second, the offering of trees, which is the

ings;

ting apart by each family of a cocoanut tree,

the produce of which they sacredly devote to
benevolent purposes; third, the offering of labor,
which means a certain amount of time devoted
to work in the interests of the church; and
fourth, there is the handful of rice, which is
reserved from every day’s meal. Thus con-
stantly and with great self-sacrifice do these
humble Christian women give continually, out
of their love for Christ and for his kingdom.
May his children in more favored lands possess
a spirit like theirs.

—A COLORED boy from Central Africa, who
had been robbed by slave hunters, and after-
wards released by a German traveler in Africa,
was brought to Germany by the latter, and
put under the care of his mother in a country
town. The boy went there to school, and was
baptized recently.

—lIn the midst of the Himalaya Mountains,
in Northern India, is the old town of Almora.
The London Missionary Society has a station
there. The daughter of one of the missiona-
ries, a Miss Budden, has chosen for herself a
peculiar field of labor. She gathered around
her poor widows, who were cruelly treated at
home, and the wives and children of lepers,
and settled with them in a lonely valley, a four
days’ jcurney distant from Almora. Miss Bud-
den and her company carry on farming so suc-
cessfully that they are self-supporting; only
the plowing is done by men.

—A New Testament in one hand and a re-
volver in the other while preaching the gospel,
is a striking combination. Thus the heroic
missionary, Dr. T. C. Trowbridge, who died re-
cently in Turkey, was sometimes forced to ap-
pear as he carried the message of repentance
and salvation to the Koordish tribes. ‘‘In
perils oft”’ are many yet who carry the gospel
into the regions beyond.

—A Carecuist of one of the mission stations
in the great merchant city of Canton, in South
China, was so much taken up with his work
among his countrymen, that, when a number
of them hired out as ‘‘coolies,” and left Can-
ton for Demerara, in Central America, he sold
himself likewise as a coolie, and went along
with the men. He made good use of the long
days of the voyage, and preached the gospel
day and night. After they had reached De-
merara, he worked like the rest, and worked
hard, in order to purchase his liberty, and to
be a free man again. But before that time he
had already gathered a congregation of his
fellow-coolies, and when he was free he built a
church and worked’ so diligently among his
people, who were all poor like himself, that
they, in spite of their poverty, collected so
much money among themselves as to build a

chapel and to support  catechist in far-off

Canton. .

— AN Irish priest of the pope’s sect told a
man who had a Bible in his possession that ‘the
had no business with the Bible; for St. Peter
said it was not the Word, but the milk of the
Word he ought to have,’’and the priest pointed
to 1 Pet. 2, 2 where the apostle says: ‘As new

SEID STARK IN DEM HEREN.

pa:
in

born babes desire the sincere milk of the Word.’’

“IT know that well,” replied the poor Irishman,
‘*but for fear the milk should be adulterated,
I like to keep the cow that gives it with me in

the house.’’

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Pircrru SonGs, by Rev. I’. W. Herzberger, Hege-

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This beautiful little volume contains 35 eminently

devout poems by one of our own number, Inboring
in weakness and bodily infirmity.
words of these Pilgrim Songs by which the author
appeals to the hearts of his readers, but sweeter far
are the thoughts to which he invites their considera-
tion.
volume rich spiritual refreshment and comfort in
his pilgrimage through this valley of tears to the
happy land.
may be had from the author or from the publishers,
Louis Lange & Co., 368 Dearborn Str., Chicago, Il.

Sweet ure the

The Christian pilgrim will find in this little

The price of the book is 35 cts., and

Worte freundlicher
Erinnerung an unsere christlichen Jucnglinge.
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
Price 15 cts.

A handsomely bound little volume, full of whole-

some advice for the boys of our confirmation classes.
May it be placed in many hands, and may God bless
its mission.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORr.Eans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
13 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 CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.

Divine services, at 734 Sunday evening and at 734 Thursday

evening.
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.
CaARnOLLTON.
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 734 0’clock Sunday evening and at 7%
* o’clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
Avo. Bureporr, MissionaRY.

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

Divine service Sandey evening at 734 o’clock.
Sunday School from 10—12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday cvening.

G. ALLENBACH, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Chureh,
Springfield, Ms. i

Sunday School at 2.30 r. »1.
Divine Service at 3.30 r. u.
H.S. KNAbenscucu, Missionary.

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