The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1889, Page 48

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

—TueE mail steamer ‘‘Congo” from the West
Coast of Africa and the Canary Islands, brings
news of the most revolting human sacrifices.
The old king of Eboe died a few months ago,
and his funeral ceremonies were made the occa-
sion of the sacrifice of at least forty human
beings. More were held in readiness to be sac-
rificed when certain traders arrived and put an
end to the horrible butchery. Verily, Africa
needs the Gospel.—Indian Witness.

—TueE Missionary Herald says, ‘The heathen
shame us by their gifts in the service of their
gods. A statement is made by Rev. Mr. Noyes,
of Canton, that $200,000,000 are spent annually
on ancestral worship alone. He found that the
ratio of gifts to income in the case of several
families about which he inquired, ranged from
one-fifth to one-third, and that in no case were
the gifts so small asa tithe. Yet we know that
the vast majority of the Chinese are wretchedly
poor, living only from hand to mouth. To say
that it is impossible for Christians to give a
tithe is to say they cannot do for Christ what
the heathen do for their idols.”

—TueE Western "Presbyterian tells of a blind
girl who gave a dollar for missions. She said,
“T am a basket-maker, and asI am blind I can
make my baskets just as easily in the dark as
in the light. Other girls have, during last Win-
ter, epent more than a dollar for light. I have
no such expense, and so have brought this
money for the poor heathen and the mission-
aries.”

—A Curese Christian lady brought her
jewels one morning to her husband to build an
opium refuge; and when he expressed surprise,
she said, ‘‘I have taken Christ for my adorn-
ment, and surely that is enough for any Chris-
tian woman.”

—A CG&RISTIAN MISSIONARY, on entering a
new field in China, was kindly received by the
Mandarin, who promised to do all in his power
tohelphim. “Ihave not heard your doctrine,”
said he, ‘‘but I haveseen it. I have a servant
who was a perfect devil, but since he received
your doctrine he is another man, and I can now
trust him.”

—W5EN Ko-chet-ing, a Karen convert, vis-
ited America he was urged on a certain occasion
to address a congregation in respect to their
duty to send out and support more missionaries.
After a moment of downcast thoughtfulness he
asked with evident emotion: ‘(Has not Jesus
Christ told them to doit?’’ ‘Oh, yes,’’ was
the reply; ‘‘ but we wish you to remind them
of their duty.”’ “Oh, no!” said the Karen;
‘if they will not obey Jesus Christ, they will
not obey me.”

—Tuenr— is alittle church at Benita, Africa,

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—THE present number closes another volume
of our PronEer. We hope the friends of our
paper will not forget that the beginning of a
new volume is a good time for the opening of
new homes to our little traveler.

—Have you paid for the PionEER? The
end of the year is a good time for all delinquent
subscribers to send in their subscription money.
Here is the way a down east editor relieved
himself after an experience which is only too
common in newspaper offices: A man who owes
us over two years’ subscription, put his paper
back into the post-office Jast week, marked ‘“‘ Re-
fused.’’ We have heard of many mean men.
There is a man who used the wart on his neck
for a collar button, the one who pastured a goat
on his grandmother's grave, the one who stole
coppers from a dead man’s eyes, the one who
got rich by giving his five children a nickel
each to go to bed without supper and then steal-
ing the nickel after the children were asleep;
but for downright meanness the man who will
take a paper for years, never pay anything for

it, mark it ‘‘ Refused,’”’ and then stick it back
into the post-office is entitled to the first pre-

mium.

—AND a western editor announces that unless
delinquent subscribers pay up more promptly, he
will be obliged not only to run a ‘‘patent in-
side,” but also to’secure patent insides for his
wife and children. We do not announce any-
thing of the kind, but kindly remind our
readers of their duty to send their subscription

/ money promptly to our Publishing House at
St. Louis.

—A “GosPEL TEMPERANCE’’ meeting was re-
cently held at Grimsby Park, Ontario. The
speakers were Rey. Mr. Lucas, of Toronto, and
Mrs. Bradley, of England. Mrs. Bradley, after
denouncing the use of intoxicating liquor in
every case, touched upon the nature of the
wine made by Christ at the marriage feast, and
asserted that “if she thought this wine was in-
toxicating she would go back on her Saviour
and join Bob Ingersoll and his crowd of un-
believers.’’ Judging by her own blasphemous
language we should say that this person when
she goes “‘to join Bob Ingersoll’? will have a
yery short road to travel. A woman who de-
clares that she would renounce Christ if it were
shown to-her that the Son of God differed in
judgment from herself, is only a Christian in
mame,

—Ronmisa.—The papal church has its own
methods of suppressing the truth. It is well
known that its emissaries are at the National
Capital using and abusing the government for
its purposes. Joseph Cook says that the men

__#ent from Boston to Washington to investigate
in regard to Romanism reported that ‘‘there

does not go out of the capital of this nation any
‘telegraph dispatch over the lines of the Asso-
ciated Press touching Roman Catholic interests,
githout being first submitted eeoman, Cath-

of the elder ones copy their notes on paper, and

towns near,

where on Sunday mornings a number of boys
and girls are to be seen with slates in their
hands, taking notes of the sermon; and some

give them to other native Christians, that they
may use them at meetings they hold in the

BOOK-TABLE.

Dr. Martin Lutners SAEMMTLICHE SCNKIFTEN.
Band XIX. Concordia Publ. House, St. Louis,
Mo. Price $4.50.

Another volume of Dr. Luther’s Works has been
issued by our Publishing House. It contains some
of the most important polemical writings of Luther.
against the Romish church, and it would be well if
these writings of the great Reformer were read far
and wide in this our land, where Rome puts forth
all its energies to gain control of everything. Rome
may change its methods, but its spirit is the same
as at Luther’s time. It is the spirit of Antichrist.

Lust UND FrREUDE. Gedichte und Geschichten mit
Bildern fuer die Kinderwelt. T. H. Dich], Allen-
town, Pa. Price 35 cts.

A charming little book, which will bring joy to
the little ones in the merry Christmas time. — a¥2

GEMEINDEORDNUNGSREGELN FUER GEMEINDEVER-
SAMMLUNGEN. Gesummelt von A H. W. Kirch-
hoff. Price 5 cts. Address: Martin Luther
Orphans’ Home, West Roxbury, Mass.

Acknowledgment.

Received for the Bethlehem Chapel Building Fund
from Mrs. Leah Reed $2.00, Mrs. Julia A. Hender-
son 1.00, N. N. 5.00.

New Orleans, La., Noy. 16, 1889.

AUG. Bureporr.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored charciea!
New ORLEaNS, La.

EV. LUTH. 8T. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
13 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny

ee services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 73
oc! ednesday evening.
atts School from 2 to 4,

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra.
ppivine pe sery ices at 734 Sunday evening and at 74 Thursday
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 7}4 Tuesday evening.
N. J. Baxxe, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CARROLLTON.

Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 734
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

EY. LUTH. BETOLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.

Divine services at 7}¢ o'clock Sunday evening and at %
o’clock Thursday evening.

Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

Ava. Buroponr, Missionary.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock & 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service ponds evening at 714 o’clock.
Sunday School tro m 10-12
Catechumen class meaty non 1-8 Wvenenday, evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.
G. ALLENBACH, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,
Springfield, Mls.

Sunday School at 2.30 r. mu.
Divine Service at 3.30 rp. a.
Il. S, KxAnenacrom, Missionary.

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Concordia College, Fo:t Wayne, Ind.