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eral severe beatings, and finally lighted lamps Acknowledgments.

were held to the soles of his feet and the palms
of his hands till they were charred. Prepara-
tions were being made to kill him when the
police arrived on the scene. In three other
cases Hindu lads who had been baptized were
poisoned until they became mental wrecks. In
these cases the poisoners were relatives.

—TueE Punjab News has the following interest-
ing incident: Recently the Rev. Moulvie Ima-
duddin was asked by arich and influential Mo-
hammedan to come and see him on important
business. When he reached the place he was
very cordially received and hospitably treated.
After some time the business was broached.
His host took him into an inner room. There
he found about forty Mohammedan gentlemen,
including some Moulvies and well-to-do influen-
tial persons. They carefully shut the door, and
having taken every possible caution against in-
terruption and eavesdropping, they said to him,
“Now you are alone with us and God. We
charge you by the living God, to whom you
will one day give account, answer our questions
truthfully. The Lord judge you if you deceive
us.” The Moulvie said, ‘God is my witness.
Ask, and I will answer truly.” Then they
said, ‘“‘We see you are a man of learning and
worth. Why did you become a Christian?”
“For the salvation of my soul,’’ the Moulvie
replied. ‘Could you not find salvation in Is-
Jam, O brother.”” ‘‘No.”’ ‘Tell us why not.”
Dr. Imaduddin then preached Christ Jesus to
them. They listened attentively, and only in-
terrupted him now and then to ask pertinent
questions. He stayed three days, and each day
was spent in converse about the things of Christ.

—Do missions pAy ?—A seaman, on return-
ing home to Scotland after a cruise in the Pa-
cific, was asked, ‘‘Do you think the missionaries
have done any good in the South Sea Islands?’
“J will tell you a fact which speaks for itself,”
said the sailor. ‘‘ Last year I was wrecked on
one of those islands, where I knew that eight
years before a ship was wrecked and the crew
murdered; and you may judge how I felt at
the prospect before me, if not dashed to pieces
on the rocks, to survive for only a more cruel
death. When day broke, we saw a number of
canoes pulling for our poor ship, and we pre-
pared for the worst. Think of our joy and
wonder when we saw the natives in English
dress, and heard some of them ‘speak in the
English language! On that very island the
next Sunday we heard the gospel preached.
I do not know what you think of missions, but
I know what I do.’

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

Received of Rev. N. J. Bakke for the Building~
Fund of the Ev. Luth. Mount Zion Church from
the Mount Zion Church Treasury $80.00, from the
Mount Zion Sunday School 45.00.

Subscription paid by the following members of
Mount Zion: Mrs. America Davis 1.15, Mr. Pl.
Green .25, Mrs. Wilhm. Hosbond 1.00, Mrs. Camilia
Johnsen .15, Mrs. Mary Brown .50, Mrs. Lucy Arm-
strong .50, Mr. Nick. Bladen .25, Mrs. Carol. Hardy
1.00, Mrs. Henr. Anderson .50, Mrs. Sophia Page
1.00, Mrs. Francis Austin .50, Mrs. Lottie Daniels
.50, Mrs. Minnie Perkins .10, Mr. James Hubbard
-25, Mrs. Elizb. Hubbard 1 00, Mrs. Louise Green
1.00, Mr. Robert Johnsen .50, Mrs. Henr. Davis .35,
Miss Rosalie Williams .25, Mrs. Mary J. Humes .60,
Mrs. Mary Reid .10, Mr. Samuel Tibbs .50, Mrs,
Lizzie Pease .50, Mrs. Rebecca Rowlie .50, Mr. James
Harris .25, Mr. Stephen Perkins .20, Mrs. Amelia
Williams .25. Total $138.55.

New Orleans, La, Dec. 10, 1889.

A. F. LEONWARDT.

—No person living will again date a letter
without using ‘‘9”. At the present writing
there are a few weeks left yet of the closing
year and the 9 stands on the extreme right—
1889. In the new year it will take the second
place —1890, where it will remain ten years.
It will then move into third place —1900, and
there will rest a century, if the Lord tarry.

—Accorp1n¢ to the latest statistics compiled
by Mr. T. H. Diehl for the ‘Lutheran Ka-
Tender for 1890,’ our ‘‘American Lutheran
Church”? numbers at present 4591 ministers,
7862 churches, and 1,086,045 communicant
members. The increase over the previous year
is 187 ministers, 357 churches, and 52,678 com-
municants. The death-roll of 1889 has the names
of 54 ministers, the oldest of whom had reached
87 years, 4 months and 25 days, whilst the
youngest was only 26 years, 6 months and
6 days old.

—Tue British and Foreign Bible Society has
issued during the past year 4,206,000 copies of
Bibles, Testaments and portions of the Script-
ures, ‘a larger number than ever before. The
total income of the society for the past year was
$1,215,840. Its work encircles the world, pre-
paring the way for missionaries and strengthen-
ing their hands.

—THERE are 40,000 wild Indian children in
this country. Of this number, all told, there
are but 12,000 gathered into the Government
and Mission schools, leaving 28,000 children to
whom no school opens its doors, and to whom
no Christian missionary comes. There are at

least sixty whole tribes upon whose darkness no
ray of Gospel light has fallen, as pagan and as
gavage as were their ancestors when the first
white man landed upon these shores!

—Au1 glory to God for the refreshing fact,
that the Word of God is now accessible—as to
languages —to nine-tenths of the population of
our globe, while at the beginning of this cent-
ury it could be read only by about one-fifth!

—STANLEY puts the population of Africa at
260,000,000.

—THERE are still more than 10,000,000
square miles of unoccupied districts in various
heathen Jands, where missionaries thus far have
never entered.

—Tae Christians on the Sandwich Islands

have sent out since 1852 seventy-five mission-
aries to other islands in the Pacific.

—Tnue September number of the Afissionary
Review says: The demand for the Arabic Bible

is so great that although the printing presses in

Received for the Bethlehem Chapel Building Fund
from Mrs. Mary Johnson $1.50.

New Orleans, La., Dec. 16, 1889.
AuG. BuRGDORF.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New Orveans, La.

EY. LUTI. 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,

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra.
Divine Gaye at 74 Sunday evening and at 734 Thursday
evening.

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

N. J. BAKxkE, Missionary.

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

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

EY. LUTH. BETHLENEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 734 o’clock Sunday eveni: d at
o’clock Thursday evening. ) CVS
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
Ava. Buraponr, Missronary.
EEE
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, o 4
jumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.
G. ALLENBACn, Missionary.

a ee i ABP FLARE YEN
Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,
Springfield, Mls,

Sunday School at 2.30 r. x.
Divine Service at 3.30 r. x.

H. S. KNAnenscuvn, Missionary.
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TERMS:

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payable in advance at the following rates, postage
uded, to-wit:

Beirut are working day and night, pace can not
be kept with the orders. Ome: 10 Coles
— One of the missionaries of the China Inland | Gescmonriacue Sxizzx der Ev. Luth. St.Johannis- 50 ae pacts stare = 9:00

Gemeinde zu Harlem, N.Y. By Rev. H.C. Steup.

Our German Lutheran congregation In Harlem,
N. Y., recently celebrated the twenty-fifth anniver-
sary of its organization, and this neatly printed
pamphlet presents the interesting history of the
church-which has been so richly blessed by God
during the past twenty-five years. The pamphlet
‘an be had for 25 cts. by addressing: Rev. H. C.
Steup, 172 E. 117th Str., Harlem, N. Y.

Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent
to one address.

All business communications to be addressed to
‘Luth. Concordia Publishing House,” M. 0. BAR-
THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo.

All communications concerning the editorial de-

ent to be addressed to Prof. R. A. BiscHoF¥,
mcordia College; Fort Wayne, Ind.

Mission, a Scotch gentleman worth a million, is
_ living in China on twenty-five cents a week,
“using all his fortune in the work.

| —In the Ponjab persecution has become more
bitter than ever. A Hindu lad, who announced
his determination to be a Christian, received sev-