The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1889, Page 24

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Txar is gratifying news coming to us from
the far West. Our church has gained a strong
foothold in Helena city, Montana, through the
faithful labors of our missionary, Rev. J. Meyer.
Weclip the following from a Helena city paper:
‘“‘The corner stone of the First German Evan-
gelical Lutheran church was laid Sunday after-
noon with appropriate services. The Sunday
school children marched in a body from the
Helena Business College to where the church
is building, where a large congregation had
assembled. The ceremonies were conducted
by Rev. J. H. W. Meyer. Copies of the Helena
papers and other articles were placed in the
stone before it was sealed. Hymns were sung
by the choir during the laying of stone. Two
excellent addresses were made, one in English,
the other in German, the former by Rev. Mr.
Dreyer, of Minnesota, and the latter by Rev.
Mr. Bartling, of Butte. A collection was taken
up and quite a sum of money taken in, which
will go towards defraying the expense of build-

‘ing the church. The Lutherans expect to be
in their new building by cold weather.”

—A FRIEND of ours, who we hope will soon
set his able pen in motion in the interest of our
English Lutheran mission work, sends us the
following interesting item on our English Lu-
theran mission church in New Orleans. An
English Lutheran congregation was organized

“in that city about a year ago, the Rev. Th.
Huegli being called as its pastor. The con-
_ gregation is getting along well. An English
Lutheran Parochial school has been opened
and is well attended. On Palm Sunday fifty
persons were confirmed after having been in-
structed in our English Lutheran Catechism
by the pastor. The average attendance at the
* English services is 200. And it is stated that
the work of the English congregation has not
brought any loss_to our German Lutheran
churches in New Orleans, The attendance at
the German services has not in the Jeast dimin-
ished since the organization of the English Lu-
theran congregation. It has been proved that
the Lutheran Church is not limited in its work
to the members of German Lutheran congrega-
tions, but can reach and gather in any class of
people that need the Gospel. Lutheran mate-
rial can be found wherever there are souls to
gave, for Lutheranism is the Gospel, and it is
for all. Let us therefore not forget our duty
in regard to our English Lutheran mission
work.

—THE semi-centennial jubilee of Concordia
College, Ft. Wayne, Ind., will be celebrated
on the 25th and 26th of June. The congrega-
tions in the vicinity, graduates of the College
and friends of the institution will be invited.

_ —TWENTY-FIVE years ago a traveling mer-
chant gave a New Testament, which was wholly
-and “news,” to a lad of sixteen, in the
al of Rio Grande do Sul, and forgot all
it. One year ago, upon revisiting Porto

waters’’ in the shape of a school, in which
nearly one hundred boys and girls daily listened
to the reading of the New Testament from the
lips of the same lad, now a married man; and
had the pleasure of listening to the story of his
conversion, and of his resolution to distribute
his small loaves and fishes among the hungry.

—ANDREW FeErRGusON, an old negro, for-
merly a slave, has presented Louisville Pres-
bytery, Kentucky, with a complete equipped
church built on a spacious lot, the furnishings
including a fine organ. It is to be held as a
place of worship for colored people. This last
gift is only one of many more by Ferguson
since he secured his freedom. He is janitor of
a bank, earning about a dollar a day, lives
alone in a little attic, and does his own cooking
and washing. He is now in his 70th year.

—A LITTLE Chinese boy whose name was Ah
Fung had been taught at one of the mission
schools at Ningpo to read the Bible, and to
go to Jesus in prayer whenever he was in need
of help. When he was about nine years of
age, his father took Ah Fung with him on one
of his trading expeditions to the Korean capital.
By some mishap, while there, the boy was
stolen and sold to the governor, who presented
him to his wife. She made him her page, and
he would often attempt to tell his young mis-
tress of the Saviour he loved and trusted, but
without avail, until one day the reaper Death
took away her baby girl; and then, in her
great loneliness and sorrow, she recalled the
words of her little page about Jesus and His
love, and asked him to tell her the story again.
Day after day did this Christian child talk of
the Saviour, until she, too, came to love this
same Friend.

—TxeE Missionary relates the following ins-
tance of the divine efficacy of the divine Word:
At a missionary meeting in England, one of
the speakers related an anecdote of a little
boy, who, having heard it said that for every
penny subscribed a verse of Scripture might
be translated into a foreign language, went
home and begged that he might subscribe a
penny, and be the means of translating a
verse: ‘‘and,’’ said the little fellow, “I should
wish it to be that verse, ‘For God s0 loved the
world, that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life.’”? At the
same meeting another speaker arose and stated
that Rey. Daniel Corrie, afterwards bishop of
Madras, was one day sent for to visit a dying
Brahmin. He went, expecting to find him
sunk in heathenism and superstition. ‘To his
surprise he found him a true believer in Christ,
and rejoicing in the hope of Heaven. Mr. Cor-
rie inquired how he had been brought to the
knowledge of the truth. ‘‘Do you remember,”
said the poor man, ‘distributing verses of
Scripture at such a place?” naming the village
where he lived. ‘‘ You gave one to me, and
the verse was, ‘For God so loved the world,
that He gave His only begotten Son, that who-
soever believeth in Him should not perish, but

have everlasting life.’ That verse was the
means of my conversion.’’

—A Burmese convert was being addressed
by a missionary in reference to his devoting
himself to preach the Gospel to his country-

men. The missionary frankly told him that
he should be able to give him only eight shil-
lings a month, instead of the thirty he was
now getting as a boatman. ‘Can you go for
eight shillings?’’ The man sat thinking. It
was hard for him to make up his mind to go.
At last he looked up and said, “I cannot go
for eight shillings, but I can go for Christ.”’

BOOK-TABLE.

A SERMON ON CONVERSION by Rey. G. IF. Spie-
ker, D.D. A plain testimony against the anxious
bench system with its errors and dangers. Price
10 cents per copy. T. Dich], Allentown, Pa.

OuTLINES oF CnurcnH History. Illustrated.
Second Edition. Pilger Book Store, Reading, Pa.
Price per single copy 60 cts.; by the dozen $5.00.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New Ortrans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CIIAPEL.
113 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 Strs.
Divine GeeS at 744 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.
CaRnoLiTon.
Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 73
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 734 o’clock Sunday evening and ‘at 73¢
o’clock Thursday evening.
Sunday Schoo) at 9 o’clock. 5
Ava. Buraponr, MrssionaRrY.

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

Divine service Sunday evening at 734 0’clock.
Sunday School from 10-12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from S—9 Wednesday evening.
G. ALLENBACH, Missionary.

‘Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,  -

Springfield, Mis,
Sunday School at 2.30 pr. a.
Divine Service at 3.30 r. u.
H.S. KNABENscnum, Missionary.

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