The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1889, Page 16

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

’ —Oor colored brethren in Springfield, IIl.,
had a day of rejoicing recently. The new mis-
sion chapel, erected by our Mission Board, was
dedicated to the service of the Triune God. The
sermons on that occasion were listened to by a
large number of attentive hearers. May God
bless His word to the salvation of many souls.

—From the annual report of our missionary
at New Orleans we learn that our work among
the colored people in that large city is pro-
gressing slowly. _ The schools are very well at-
tended, but-in their work among the older
people our missionaries find many difficulties
and experience many sad disappointments.
They, however, labor on joyfully, enoning that
their, labors cannot be in vain.

—Whbo can tel] the results of his labors?
To how many will the Jast day alone reveal
the results! This point is well illustrated by
the following anecdote told by a pastor of Eng-
land in a book recently published. He says:
A friend of mine, a layman, was once in the
“company of a very eminent preacher, then in
the decline of life. My friend happened to re-
mark what a.comfort it must be to him to
think of all the good he had done by his gift
of eloquence. The eyes of the old man filled
with tears and he eaid, ‘‘You little know! You
little know! IfI-ever turned one heart from
the ways of disobedience to the wisdom of the
just, God has withheld the assurance from me.
I have been admired, and flattered, and run
after; but how gladly I would forget all that,
to be told of.a single soul I have been instru-
mental in saving!’’? The eminent preacher en-
tered into his rest. There was a great funeral.
Many pressed around the grave who had often-
times hung entranced upon his lips. My friend
was there, and by his side was a stranger, who
was so deeply moved that when all was over
my friend said to him, ‘‘You knew him, I
suppose?’’ ‘‘ new him,” was the reply. ‘‘No;
I never spoke to him, but I owe to him my
soul!””

_—TseE Lutheran Home for the Deaf and
Dumb at Norris, near Detroit, Mich., an in-
stitution of the Missouri Synod, provides 22
boys and 17 girls with a Christian education.

—Tae Gosrer as A Crymizer.—What the
gospel can doin the way of civilizing savages is
thus told by Zhe Church: ‘‘Twelve years. ago
the Modoc Indians were uncivilized heathens.
Now they are a community of industrious farm-
ers, with half their number professing Chris-
tians. It cost the United States Government

81, 848,000 to care for 2200 Dakota Indians’

seven years, while they were savages. After
they were christianized it cost, for seven years,
$120,000, a saving of $1,728,000.”

+ —Sanmoa:—Concerning the religious condi-

3 tion of this group of islands, a recent writer

ub tae pany. are reading much and talk-

nations to contend about this beautiful group
of islands. John Williams, the martyr of Er-
romanga, went there nearly sixty years ago
and established missions. He returned again
to find his missions flourishing and making
converts. Since his day the work of education
and the formation of churches has gone on
steadily, and large numbers of the inhabitants
are Christians by profession and are walking
worthy of their vocation. A half century ago
these lands would have been worth very little
to any nation of Europe or America. Chris-
tianity bas preceded the consul and the ship
of war and made these fine islands on the Pa-
cific fit places for the planting of colonies and
the upbuilding of commerce. We hope that
jealousies:among Christian nations will not mar
the work of the men who rescued them from
heathenism. =

—A FARMER who had recently listened ‘to an
exposition from the text found in Isaiah, ‘‘The
ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s
crib; but Israel doth not know, my people
doth not consider,’’ was giving food to his stock,
when one of his oxen, evidently grateful for
his care, fell to licking his bare arm. Instantly
with this simple incident the Holy spirit flashed
conviction on the farmer’s mind. He burst into
tears and exclaimed, “It is all true. How won-
derful is God’s Word? This poor dumb brute
is really more grateful to me. than Iam to God,
and yet I am in debt to him for everything.
What a sinner I am.’’ : The lesson had found
its way to his heart and wrought there effect-
ually to lead him to Christ.

—Forry years ago Dr. Morrison was ad-
dressing, in a locked inner room, two or three
Chinese, who listened in peril of their lives;
now there are in China some 50,000 converts.
“Do you think,” asked the captain of the thip
who took him out, -‘‘that you can make an im-
pression on the 400,000,000 of Chinese?’’
“No,” he answered, “but God can.’

—TweERE recently died at Montpellier,
France, an old servant woman, who had given
in the course of years no less than $2000, the
result of most careful economy, to the French
Protestant Foreign Mission Society. She loved
missions, regularly read the missionary jour-
nals, and never prayed without mentioning by
name M. Coillard, an old missionary in South
Africa.

—Aw unknown German lady has given
$75,000 towards the erection of a children’s
sea-shore: hospital near Hamburg.

—A PHILADELPHIA colored woman brought
her baby to be baptized the other day, and,
when asked what name she preferred for it,

chose the word ‘‘Amen,’’ as she liked its sound |.

and it was in the Bible.

- —A NATIVE missionary in ‘Balgaria recently
told of his father’s conversion through the
means of a little Bulgarian Testament costing
but a penny. At one time the leaves of the
Testament were cut out and scattered through-
out the country. “A man found’ a, part’ of a
leaf, on which’ were the words “‘God’? and

He -had never heard of a God of

‘*love.””
love, so he carried the leaf to a missionary to °
ask the meaning; and through this litile torn
leaf he found the God who so loves us as to die
for us.

BOOK-TABLE.

Erstes Lesesucn fuer Ey. Luth. Schulen. Con«
cordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price,
25 cents.

This is the First in a new Series of German Readers,
issued by our Publishing House in St. Louis. The
Second Reader was published last year, and the
others are soon to follow. These Readers possess
many advantages which other Readers do not have.
Care has been taken to grade these Readers in ac-
cordance with the age for which each one is in-
tended. The reading exercises are excellent, and
they are supplied with many and very good illus-
trations.

MyFimst Boox in Sunday-School and Home. 12 Bib-
lical Narratives given in very simple language,
together with Luther’s Catechism, with Prayers
and Hymns. 2d Edition. Pilger Book Store, -
Reading, Pa. Price, single copy, hound in cloth,

- 26 cents; by.the dozen, $2.9 25; by the hundred,
$17.00.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
: New Or.eEans, La.

EY. LUTH. 8T..PAUL’S CHAPEL.
13 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine eervices 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 GREED at 74 Sunday evening and at 74 pee)
even!
Sunday Schoo} meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 74 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 7%
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CUAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 7} o’clock Sunday evening and at 73¢
o’clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
Ava. Bunaporr, MissionaRY.

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

Divine service pooner eres evening at 714 o’clock.
Sunday School
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.
G. ALLEensacn, Missionary.

_Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,

Springfield, Mls.
Sunday School at 2.30 pr. »1.
Divine Service at 3.30 r. x1.
H. S. KNApenscnum, Missionary.

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