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down the cheek. In the case of those who
have lost the greater portion of their hands it
is needful to place the sacred elements in their
mouths. Those who have hands with unsightly
sores upon them, with a delicacy touching to
witness, carefully cover the receiving hand with
a portion of their dress. Never has the ‘Gloria
in Excelsis’ sounded in our ears so sweet and
divine as when, at the close of such a service,
it has resounded in full chorus from the lips
of those leper communicants.”

—Rev. W. Kasis, a Lutheran missionary,
says of the girls’ school attached to Zion’s
Church at Trichinopoli: ‘‘Twenty years ago
no heathen girl was yet to be seen in our
school. Now many are coming. There is no
more grateful task than the instruction of little
Tamil girls. Quiet and yet joyous, easy to
guide ‘and of responsive intellects, they make
the work of their teachers light. What joy it
affords us to scatter the seeds of life in their
childlike hearts, and through them to see it
borne into families which otherwise are in-
accessible to our preaching.”

—Onz of the China Island missionaries tells
of a singular marriage which came under his
notice, and which illustrates the Chinese ideas of
the spirit world. It happened that two persons
died at about the same time—a young woman
of twenty who had never been betrothed, and
@ young man who had never been married.
The friends of the man thought, “ What will
this poor lonely spirit do in thé other world
with no one to wash his clothes or cook his
food?’’ So they brought the dead bodies, and
-placed them side by side, and went through
the wedding ceremonies, feasts, etc., in the
morning, and in the evening had funeral rites.
Then the spirits were supposed to be pro-
vided for.

—TueE word of God in the form of a Chinese
New Testament has found an open door in the
palace of the young Emperor of China. Several
persons belonging to the imperial household,
are inquirers after the truth.

—TueE poor Armenian Protestants, connected
with the American Missions in Asia Minor,
know a good deal more of the Christian grace
of giving than any or most of the well-to-do
American Protestants, Lutherans included.
These Armenians earn 14 cents a day and board
themselves, nevertheless they give $4.80 per
member for religious and educational purposes.

—A Cnrnese Church at San Francisco,
numbering only 76 members, all of whom are
servants or laundrymen, contributed $1000 for
religious purposes last year, and sent $60 to
China for a mission-chapel.

—Tue Lutheran Tamils in S. India con-
tribute one month’s earning annually to the
Churchbuilding-fund of the Leipzig Mission.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—TneE editor’s window has been removed to
Ft. Wayne, Ind., and all exchanges and letters
intended for the editorial department of the
PIONEER are to be addressed to Concordia Col-
lege, Fort Wayne, Ind.

—A SunpDAY-SCHOOL missionary of the Pres-
byterian Board, who labors among a mixed pop-
ulation in Minnesota, writes: ‘‘A Lutheran boy
of 12 or 14 will put to shame the average Amer-
ican of five and twenty in his knowledge of Bible
history and fundamental truths.” The labor of
our Lutheran Parochial school teachers is surely
not in vain.

—A wasu-pay in India is far different from
a wash-day in our country. We are told that
‘tall over India the clothes are washed by men,
and they have a curious way of doing it. They
carry the clothes away in large bundles on their
own backs, or tied up in two bundles, and thrown
over the back of a cow like panniers. Then
they take them to a tank or pond, and in that
they place a broad, flat stone, in shape like our
wash-boards. They stand this slanting, part in
the water, and part out. Then dipping the
garment to be washed in the water, they beat
it on the stone again and again to cleanse it,
and then the hot sun bleaches it. You would
hardly believe how clean and white they be-
come. But the process wears out the clothes
very rapidly, and if you had any buttons on
them you need never expect to see them again.
The work is done marvelously cheap. A washer-
man will do all the washing for one person, as
many pieces as he chooses to have, for about a
dollar and a halfa month.” This is a comfort
in that hot country where one needs to change
s0 often.”’ 2

—TueE Lutherans of Norway support a pros-
perous mission on the great island of Madagas-
car. It was given to their faithful missionaries
to baptize 9579 natives during the Jast three
years; the number of communicant members
rose to 15,950; 40,000 children are attending
the schools, which are taught by 872 teachers.
Sixteen native pastors, who were carefully
trained, assist the Norwegian missionaries in
the care of 300 churches.

*—Iw an asylum in Calcutta there is a ‘‘Jeper
church’’ which has numbered as high as forty
members. At the end of one of the wards
they obtained permission to place a communion-
table, a reading-desk, and other church con-
veniences. Without saying a word to the
missionaries they formed the plan, and out of
their poverty paid for the furnishing of their
little chapel. Here they worship, and at times
celebrate the Lord’s Supper together. One
who has often served them describes the scene
as affecting beyond description: ‘‘The poor
people epread clean mats on the floor around
the communion table; on these they kneel, the
men on one side, the women on the other, ‘The
ponses are distinctly and devoutly made.
‘Now and then you may see a-sightless eye
) heaven, and often a big tear rolling

. Tue spiritual riches of the
finitely transcend worldly riches and honors.
They are durable; ‘‘whosoever drinketh of

of men.

to Martin Luther for help.
and was in great need.
him, and in real distress looked about to see if
there were anything he could give.
fell upon a silver cup which had been presented
to him by his prince, the Elector of Saxony.
His wife was present and looked her disapproval,
but Luther seized it, and crushing the sides to-
gether, pressed it upon the young man, saying,
“T have no need of a silver cup.”

The Silver Cup.

We are told that a poor student once came
He had no money
Luther longed to help

His eye

BOOK-TABLE.

AMERIKANISCHER KALENDER fuer deutsche Luthe-

raner auf das Jahr 1890. Concordia Publishing
House, St. Louis, Mo.
The Lutheran Almanac, issued annually by our

Publishing House at St. Louis, has become a wel-
come guest in thousands of our German Lutheran
homes.
excellent reading matter.
the timely, interesting, and instructive article on the
“burning question’? —the school question.
tains also the usual valuable statistics and informa-
tion concerning the Synodical Conference. Of course
all our German readers will want it.
but 10 cents.

It comes again this year well supplied with
We mention especially

It con-

The price is

orest eaints in-

the water that I shall give him, shall never
thirst;’’ this world cannot satisfy the souls

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORLrEans, La.
EV. LUTH. 8T. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
13 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny

Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 734
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 74 Thursday
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.
CARROLLTON.
Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 7%
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 73¢ o’clock Sunday evening and at
“clock Thursday evening. u . tt

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Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
Ava. Buraponr, MissionaRY.

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

Divine service Sunday evening at 74 o'clock.
Sunday School from 10-12, 5 Bs
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from S—9 Wednesday evening.

G. ALLENBACH, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Woly Trinity Church,

Springfield, Ills.
Sunday School at 2.30 p. sr.
Divine Service at 3.30 p. x.
‘ I. S. KeAnenscnvm, Missionary,

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