The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1889, Page 20

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steps, and after a thorough search succeeded in
finding $20. Regarding this money as a direct
gift from heaven, she sent it all to the suffer.
ing family.

—In a pamphlet just published in London it
is well said: ‘‘The devil has seldom done a
cleverer thing than hinting to the Church of .
Christ that part of her mission is to provide
entertainment for the people with a view to
winning them into her ranks.’’

—Onze point stands out just now very dis-
tinctly—the Mohammedans of Africa fear that
the spread of Christianity will destroy the slave
trade, and they are murdering missionaries and
burning their dwellings to stay the progress of
the hated faith. In India the Mohammedans
have started a monthly magazine in Calcutta.
with the avowed purpose of ‘‘demolishing Chris-
tianity and setting up a national religion in ita
stead.”

what do the nuns teach you, my child?” asked
the old lady. ‘‘ Reading, writing, sewing, and
religion, ma’am,’’ was the answer. ‘‘And do
they teach you the Bible, too?’’ ‘‘The Bible!
no indeed, ma’am; they would not open such
a horrible book.’”’ ‘‘Such a horrible book!”’
cried the old lady, aghast. ‘‘Why, child, do
you know who wrote it?”’ ‘‘O! indeed I do,
ma’am; the priest told us it was written by the
devil and Luther.” The papists hate the Bible.

—TxeE number of Finlanders in this country
is estimated at 40,000! They are mostly found
in North Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, also in
Chicago, Cleveland and New York. All of
them are Lutherans, and many of them under-
stand the Swedish language, as Finland be-
longed to Sweden before it was added to Russia.
But a good number of them understand only
their own Finnish tongue, which is quite dif-
ferent from other European Janguages. Three
of their pastors, members of the Augustana
Synod, have now started a weekly paper in the
Finnish language.

—Waritine of our English Lutheran mission
church in Baltimore, a correspondent of the
Workman says: The German churches of the
Missouri Synod have united together to plant
an English mission to care for their young
people, and I am happy to say their mission
has become s0 prosperous under Rev. Mr. Dall-
mann, that these mother churches have recently
purchased a Baptist church about to be vacated
for about $6000 for the English daughter.
That is the way to set up the children at house-
keeping. I gratefully record my praise of that
kind of Church extension, and pronounce that
trio of German churches the wisest and noblest
I know of in our whole connection.

—TuE agent of the Bible Society in Tokio,
Japan, has been unable to meet the great de-
mand for the Bible in that city.

—An ANSWER TO HER Prayer.—The Boston
Transcript relates the following: A woman in
West Tennessee went home from church one
Sunday, impressed by a moving appeal which
her pastor had made in behalf of a minister's
widow recently left in want with six children.
What could she give to relieve this case of
suffering? She was herself a widow and poor.
She thought intensely over the matter, and
that night she prayed over it, but no way of
raising the money occurred to her. The next
morning when she went out to sweep off her
doorstep she noticed that the earth on one side
had been freshly thrown up, and something
glittering Jay in the dirt. It was a $5 gold-
piece. During the night a rat had taken it
into his head to dig a hole under the step, and

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—In a Southern paper a correspondent re-
lates by what devilish tricks ignorant people
are perverted by Mormon missionaries. He
says: ‘‘The first Mormon preacher was a man
named Aldrich. I heard his first sermon.
When he got up in the school-house he said
that he would not preach the new gospel un-
leas Gabriel blowed his horn as a sign that he
indorsed his views. Just then a loud blast of
a horn was heard, and then he began his preach-

» ™ ing. The horn business had a peculiar effect
upon some of the congregation, and as it sounded
night after night, just before he preached, many
of the ignorant were perverted. I was only a
school-boy then, but myself and other school-
boys determined to watch the place where the
sound came from, and in a grove of trees not
far from the school-house we found the Gabriel
up a tree with a fish-horn under his coat. We
made him come down and found him to be a
worthless fellow whom Smith had hired to toot
for him. One day when Aldrich was preach-
ing he blew his horn and a lot of old women
came out, thinking the fish and clam wagon
was coming. We exposed the horn trick and
it was the laughing stock of the town. We
used to tell the man to get a horn that was not
a fish-horn, so people need not rush out expect-
ing clams. The most astonishing thing about
the matter was that, although the fraud was
fully exposed and the man who played the part
of Gabriel was caught dozens of times behind

- hedges and outbuildings blowing his old horn
for Aldrich to preach from, there were lots of
people who believed that the new religion was
the only true religion.””

—Rom AnD Missrons.—While the American
churches are evincing a most commendable zeal
in missionary work, American merchants are
doing their share toward the ruin of heathen
nations, particularly in Africa. The slave trade
there is no worse enemy to the Christian cause
than the rum exported in such immense quan-
tities by American business houses. In Ger-

“many the Christian press has been protesting
loudly against the Hamburg merchants for
their sins in this regard. It is time that a
similar crusade be inaugurated in America,
which is evidently the chief of sinners in this
regard. In the last six years’ time 4,618,207
gallons of rum were exported from the country.
Of this amount not over 400,000 gallons went
to other countries than Africa And, besides,
all this exportation of rum during these six
years, except less than 100,000 gallons from
New York, has been sent from Boston. The

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEANS, LA.

EV. LUTH. 8T. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
13 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 73

o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra.
Divine services at 7/4 Sunday evening and at 734 Thursday
suniey Se 00] meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 Tuesday evening. «+
N. J. BAKKE, Missionary.

EV.-LUTH. TRINITY CHURCN.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas. t
CaRnoLLToN.
Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 734
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

EY. LUT. BETHLENEM CITAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue ond Dryades Str.
Divine services at 7} o’clock Sunday evening and ‘at 7}¢
o’clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
Ava. Bureponr, Miss1onaRY.

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

Divine service Sunday evening at 7}4 o’clock.
Sunday School from To-a2,
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 r. us.
Divine Service at 3.30 r. ».

Hi. 8S. KNApenscniun, Missionary.

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amount of rum exported from Boston to Africa} one result of his labor was the resurrection of 1 Copy «.-ersrcesssssessareesscensen $ .25
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* an average of two-thirds of a million of gallons| war her husband had buried his savings, all in BO 1 9.00

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gold coins, under those steps; but he had dug
up the money after the war was over, and
evidently supposed he had recovered the whole.
It seemed that he was mistaken. And now his
widow was not slow to follow the hint given
her by the burrowing rat. She removed the

gnnoually. How many gallons of rum for every
dollar Boston gives for its evangelization?
+ —A LitrLe girl called some time ago upon
in old Christian Jady, and requested her to
be to the Romish convent schools where