The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1889, Page 32

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Tue good old minister of Blairmally is no
stickler for. etiquette, and likes his visits to
members of his flock to be as informal and

homely as possible. Recently, calling unex-
pectedly, he surprised a member in the midst
of washing a lot of clothes. She hurriedly hid
behind the clothes-horse, and told her little boy
to say that she was out. ‘‘Well, Jamie,’ the
visitor said, ‘‘and where’s your mother?’”’ ‘‘My
mother’s no’in; she’s doon the street on a mes-
sage.’ ‘‘Indeed,”’ replied the minister, with
a glance at the bottom of the screen, ‘‘well, tell
her I called; and say, that the next time she
goes down to the village she might take her feet
with her.’

—Tue Chinese city of Canton with its

. 1,500,000 inhabitants numbers 663 idol-tem-
ples, 83 Buddhistic nunneries, 195 priest- houses,
658 open shrines, 974 idol-stores, 67 idol-fac-
tories and 12,500 persons living off idol-worsbip
at an expense of about one million dollars an-
nually.

—Sar a heathen to a missionary, ‘‘ There
must be something in your religion which
“makes you come all the way out here to tell us
of it. Iam sure I would not go so far to tell
you of mine.’’ :

—TneE present population of the Sandwich
Islands embraces 20,000 Chinese, 7000 Japa-
nese, 12,000 Portuguese and 6000 Americans
and Europeans, with about 90,000 native Ka-

-nakas. There are 52 native churches, all self-
supporting, with 4400 members. Last year
they contributed for the support of their pas-
tors; foreign missions, church erection and other
religious purposes nearly $25,000. There are

. also 6 Chinese churches, one Japanese, 10 En-
glish. and one German Lutheran.

—Kixc Henry VIII. spared the life of a

: murderer, because of the earnest request of a

ee number of his influential courtiers. Not long

_ afterwards the same man committed a second
murder. As the courtiers were again petition-

- ing him, the king became affrighted, and said:
“That man took only the life of the first; but

_ Lam guilty of the life of the second, because
of my not haying carried out the law.”’ Full

of repentance because a murder had been com-
mitted through his culpable indulgence, he
‘ordered the murderer to be executed at once.

: —Tnae Orphans’ Home at Wittenberg, Wis.,

' under Rey. Pastor Homme, has published a
: ‘Norwegian translation of the New Testament,

_ _with the so-called Altenburg notes. This is an

~~ — invaluable book and is used by tens of thou-

' sands of devout people at their morning and

" evening worship.

—lIr is reported that an appeal for fifteen

missionaries, made to the students in a train-

ing institution in Fiji, to hazard health and life

‘among the dangerous people and unhealthy

imate of New Guinea, was answered by forty

'—Tae Indian Witness says: At the present

@ there are, in round numbers, about half a

The Lutheran Pioneer.

million Protestant Christians in India.
half of these are comparatively recent converts, | Africa can only be healed by the efforts of
and it is too'soon to expect them to exert a very |Christendom. Those nations which formerly
perceptible influence on their neighbors, but | tolerated slavery, notably England and America,
even allowing for this, the little body of Chris-| are firat called to bring the healing power of
tians forms a most important factor in the body | the Gospel to unbappy Africa.

politic of the empire. It will not be long till
the half million will be a million, and many
of our readers will live to see the day when
there will be ten million Protestant Christians
in India. When that day comes these ten mil-
lion. Indians will be the leaders of Indian
thought and Indian progress. Their voice will
be more potent in England than the voice of
all India is to-day. They will be bolder in-
novators than any men in India now, and they
will be recognized by all classes as the natural
leaders of the Indian people.

—A HerMAnnsBuRG missionary in South
Africa relates that he had a blind girl in his
catechetical class who was about 20 years old.
If she could not see, she could at least hear,
and so earnestly and eagerly did she take in
every word, that she.knew as much and more
of God’s Word than the rest. This poor girl
had a heathen mother who was persuaded in
her old age to join a class of catechumens. On
asking questions, he was surprised to learn that
she knew the Ten Commandments by heart.
He knew she could neither read nor write, and
he asked her how she had Jearned them. He
was told that her blind daughter had taught
her the catechism. |

—TueE late king of Shebro, West Africa,
when on his death-bed, committed his son to
the American missionaries to be sent to this
country for a Christian education. Having ob-
tained this, he lately returned to Africa with
his wife as a Moravian missionary. He pro-
poses to translate the Bible into his native tongue,
and to publish a journal, having learned the
printer’s trade while here.

—JAPAN.—Two years ago a society was or-
ganized among the women of Japan, whose
members agreed to read portions of the Script-
ures daily, and to pray for each other. This
society numbers 2500 members, who are scat-
tered all over the country.

—‘‘TueE liberality of the Japanese Chris-
tians,” says Miss Clokey, President of the Pres-
byterian Women’s Missionary Society, ‘‘is far
beyond the average churches of America, and
so faithful are the native preachers and teachers,
that if all the American and European mission-
aries were recalled from the field, the good work
would still be carried on.’?

—THE missionaries in Central Africa tell us,
that at least ten thousand slaves cross Nyassa

every year. ‘‘I once looked into the hold of a |i

slave-dhow,”’ says one of them, ‘“‘and saw eighty
or ninety little children there. Oh, friends, if
you had’ seen those eyes gazing up into yours,
you would pray earnestly that this ‘open sore,’
as Livingstone called it, might be healed. The
slave-trade in Africa is carried on entirely by
Mohammedans who know no mercy and look
upon the heathen negroes as brutes only fit to

One-| be killed.’’ This ‘open sore” on the body of

—Tuere are five hospitals for lepers in Nor-
way, three of which are in the old fishing-town
of Bergen. These unfortunates are tenderly
cared for by Lutheran Deaconesses, who in the
love of Christ do not shrink back from the

most repulsive sicknesses.
—————9 1 ere

A German minister, in speaking of the se-
curity of God’s people and the precious prom-
ises of the Bible, said: ‘‘ How often the words
‘Fear not’ occur in the sacred volume! I
have counted up into the seventies, and I
thought that was enough. I need not look
for any more.”

A LITTLE girl, gasping for her last mortal -
breath, said, ‘‘ Father, take me!’’ Her father,
who sat, dissolved in tears, by her bedside,
lifted herinhislap Shesmiledsweetly, thanked
him, and said, ‘‘I spoke to my .heavenly Fa-
ther,’’ and died.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.

113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 73%

o’clor iy enesdsy, evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.

Divine services at 734 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday

evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 7}4 Tuesday evening.

N. J. BAKKE, Missionary. _

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CARROLLTON.
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 73g o’clock Sunday evening and at 734
o’clock Thursday evening. 2

Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
Ava. Bureporr, MissionaRy.

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

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

G. ALLENBACH, Missionary.

ce ee ae ear
Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,
Springfteld, Mis.

Sunday School at 2.30 rp. m.
Divine Service at 3.30 r, 2. :

H. S. Kxanenscucn, Missionary.

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