The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1889, Page 28

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28 The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Oor Colored missionary station at Meher-
rin, Va., is temporarily served by Mr. Brauer,
a student of our Seminary at Springfield. The
mission is reported to be in a prosperous con-
dition. Rey. Oehlschlaeger, of Richmond, Va.,
recently visited the station and confirmed seven
persons. The services were well attended and
all the members of the congregation, together

with the newly confirmed, partook of the Lord’s

Supper.
—WE are sorry to hear that Rev. ‘#. Kna-

benschuh, our missionary at Springfield, IIl., is
broken down by hard work. Our Committee has
given him leave of absence for a few months.
May the Lord soon restore him to health and
to our mission-field. ~

—Our Colored Lutheran Bethlehem’ con-
gregation at New Orleans needs a school-house.
This must not be forgotten. In the last number
of our German missionary paper the missionary
again makes an earnest appeal to all friends of
our mission to assist him by contributions for
the erection of a school-building for the Colored
children in New Orleans. During the past year
many children were refused admission for want
of room. Is this to be done again in the com-
ing school-year? No! That is not the way to
carry our mission-work. Bethlehem congrega-
tion must have a new school-building. If every
friend of our mission will contribute but a small
sum, the building will soon be erected.

—TsAT was a wise word of an old Colored

man who gaid to the missionary: ‘‘It is better
to be in the mouth of an elephant than in bad
company.” ‘‘Why?”’ said the missionary. “‘ Be-
cause,” said he, ‘‘a mad elephant can only hurt
the body and kill this life; but bad company
hurts the soul and makes it suffer in the life to
come!’? i
—TBE missionaries in Africa speak highly of
the affection and fidelity of the native African.
Mr. F.S. Arnot tells the story of a young lad
who was with him and heard his master pray-
ing one night for water. The lad started off in
the dark night, going miles alone through a
country infested by wild beasts, and returned
the next day with joy, bringing with him to his
master a calabash of water.

—AT a Missionary Meeting, the brother of
the late Mr. Comber gave from his own ex-
perience one hopeful incident, touching from
its very simplicity. He was restless one even-
ing, sitting out, weary and disheartened, in the
bright tropical moonlight, when one of the boys
in the school, an attentive but shy and quiet
little fellow, crept up to him timidly and asked
if he might speak tohim. When he was en-
couraged to say on, out came the earnest words
—how welcome to the teacher's ear! —: ‘‘I do

_ want to be a child of God, truly.”
___ =A-Crosep Door.—Thibet is the only
er ‘known country on earth not open to missions.
Tr has an area of 750,000 square miles, about

as large 8 asall the territory in the United States
: 22 Missiseippi river. The greatest length

from east to west is 1500 miles, and the popula-| know that God has taken our oxen and He is

tion is estimated at 8,000,000. It is the strong-
hold of Buddhism. Lhassa, the capital, is the
“Rhome”’ of the Buddhists, and the Dalai
Lama is the Buddhist pope. He is supreme in
both temporal and spiritual things. One mon-
astery has about 5000 Buddhist priests, and
there are about 60,000 in the country. Thibet
is virgin soil for missions. The country is tribu-
tary to China.

—A GENTLEMAN in New England has given
$100,000, and Japanese gentlemen have sub-
scribed about $70,000, to found a Christian
University in Japan, according to a plan pro-
posed by the Rev. Joseph Neesima, of :the
American Board. The Collegiate Institution
which Mr. Neesima has been building up for
some years, contains more than nine hundred
students.

—A HIGH government-official of India re-
cently wrote home: ‘‘ Perhaps it may surprise
some:to learn that Christianity in India is
spreading four or five times as fast as the or-
dinary population, and that the native Chris-
tians now number nearly a million souls.” This
testimony has been abundantly confirmed by
the ablest living authority on Indian statistics,
Sir William Hunter. While native population
in India was increasing at the speed of 10 per
cent. in ten years, the increase of the Chris-
tian population was chronicled at the rate of
60 per cent.

—FinxanD, on the Baltic Sea, formerly be-
longed to Sweden, and most of her people to
the present day are better acquainted with the
Swedish language than with the Russian, the
language of their present masters. The Fins
are good Lutherans, and although they are
faithful subjects of the Czar of Russia, they
steadfastly refuse to adopt the creed and cus-
toms of his church, the Greek-Catholic. -The
Lutheran Church of Finland is divided into
two bishoprics (dioceses); the one of Abo is
presided over by an archbishop, the other, of
Borgo, by a bishop. There are about 250 par-
ishes in Finland and nearly every pastor has
one or more assistants in his parish work.
The Fins delight in church-going in spite of
their cold and windy climate, and the minis-
ters are expected to hold regular Bible-meet-
ings in the farmhouses or in the orchard in
Sumner. -

—Tne Magwamba Christians in South Africa
are full of zeal. A poor woman came to the
missionary and asked for food, but she meant
by that the Word of God. Another woman,
going to church during harvest, was asked by
some heathen, what would become of her corn
during her absence, as nobody was in the field
driving off the birds. She simply answered:
“My soul thirsteth for the Word;’’ and her
corn was not damaged. Some men had lent
their team of oxen to the missionaries for a

journey. Coming home, the oxen died of
weakness. The missionaries offered to pay the
damage, but the men refused to hear of it, say-
ing: “Did any one hear us grumble? We

right in all His ways. Your money would
make us covetous. The Lord will provide!”’

BOOK-TABLE.

LUTHER’s REFORMATION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON
America. A Lecture by Rey. Adolf Biewend.
Second Edition. M. L. Orphans’ Home, West
Roxbury, Mass. Price 10 cts.

This is an excellent pamphlet, well adapted to
show the people of our country how much they owe
to Luther's Reformation. It deserves a wide circu-
lation. The price of the pamphlet is 10 cts. and
the net proceeds are given to the Martin Luther
Orphans’ Home at West Roxbury, Mass.

—

Acknowledgment.

A handsome marble-top table and plush table-
scarf valued at $12.30, the gift of Mrs. Mary Thomp-
son of “Bethlehem,” were received for our chapel
last week. Many thanks to the kind donor!

AuG. BURGDORF.

New Orenns: La., June 19, 1889.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEANS, La. 7,

EY. LUTH. 8ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
13 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Diving serrices at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 74

ck Wednesday Senne:
_ Sunday School from 2 to 4

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stre.
Divine services at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday
evening.

Sunday Sc! ool 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.
Cannox.ron.

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 73; o’clock Sunday evening and ‘at 7%
o’clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
Avo. Buraeporr, MissionaRy.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service ‘fom 10 evening at 734 o'clock.

Sunday Bohool iro
Catechumen class meets ho 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from &—9 Wednesday evening.

G. ALLENBACH, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,

Springfleld, Mis.
Sunday School at 2.30 Pr. 21.
Divine Service at 3.30 Pr. u.

H. 8. KNAnENscrivn, Missionary.

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