The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1890, Page 24

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

—Iwn heathen countries Protestants occupy
500 separate mission fields, containing 20,000
mission stations, supplied by 40,000 mission-
aries. In these 20,000 mission stations there
are 500,000 sunday-school-scholars.

—One hundred and twenty-five years ago
there were only 4,000,000 copies of the Bible
extant, now there are upwards of 200,000,000
copies in circulation throughout the world.

—Tne Lutherans of Norway are very active
in the work of foreign missions. The whole
kingdom is divided into eight collection districts;
900 collectors are regularly gathering contri-
butions, and 8000 societies are praying and
working for the cause. The country gave last
year $50,000. The Norwegians have 10 sta-
tions and 82 churches among the Zulus in South
Africa; and 300 churches with 16,000 adult
members in Madagascar.

—A RELIGIous newspaper printed in China
has the following: ‘‘At Pekin there is a pious
lady, the wife of a foreign merchant, who spends
her time in doing good. One day she went on
a visit to the home of a Manchu lady of high
rank. She took copies of the Holy Scriptures.
A young lady was present who took great in-
terest in the conversation. She heard the old
story of the gospel of Jesus, who died for a
world of sinners. The young Jady bent for-
ward to catch every word, and when the Chris-
tian visitor had concluded she said, ‘I am glad
you have come to tell me this. Some day I
will have a place built where people can meet
to worship this God, and hear this gospel
preached.’ This young lady is now the Em-
press.of China.’’

—TueE German Emperor and his family are
building a Lutheran church at Schreiberhahn,
Silesia, in the midst of a bigoted Roman Catho-
lic population.

—A Brannan in Calcutta told a missionary
that he had read through the New Testa-
ment eighty-three times and the Old Testament
twenty-seven times.

— ProGRess In JAPAN.—The Hochi Shimbun,
the organ of the Liberal party in Japan, has
the following: ‘‘Although Christianity has not
made rapid strides, yet from the beginning
there has been advance. Slowly and steadily,
step by step, progress has been made, and to
this onward movement there has been no stop.
If Christianity has secured one inch of advan-
tage in the forward movement, that one inch
has been held; if she has taken one step in ad-
vance, that step has been guarded; if any prog-
ress has been made, that advanced position has
been strongly held. Truly, no advantage gained
bas been lost; and little by little the Christian
estate is enlarging her borders, her strength is
increasing, and we must admit that the progress
of Christianity has been strong, deep-rooted and

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—TneE loss of manuscript in the mail is the
cause of the late appearance of this number
of the PronEER.

—A German paper reports a shocking case

of cruelty practiced by the nuns of the Francis-
can Convent at Schoenbrun. A girl of sixteen
was placed by her mother im the school as a
boarder. The child, though not absolutely,
silly, was rather weak-minded, and her parents
hoped that intercourse with other children of
her own age might improve her mental facul-
ties. No sooner was the unfortunate girl left
unprotected than the nuns began a brutal and
systematic course of ill treatment. For the
slightest fault she was strapped down on a bed
and whipped unmercifully with a riding-whip
till the blood flowed. Another favorite mode
of punishment was to dash jugs of icecold water
over the unfortunate victim whenever she cried
to go home or expressed a desire for other
food than the hard crusts and pieces left from
the sisters’ table that were thrust at her. When
the mother arrived at Schoenbrun to take the
girl away for her holidays, she was horrified at
the change in the child’s appearance; five months
ago she had been the picture of health, and now
she was reduced to a. walking skeleton covered
with bruises. A doctor at Munich, after an
examination, declared that she must have been
half starved and beaten with some blunt instru-
ment, there being hardly a square inch of the
girl's body that was not bruised black and blue.
The case has just been brought before the police
court at Munich and has created great excite-
ment in that city.

—In Rome there are several thousand priests
who make their living solely by reading mass.
Especially in the 323 churches of the Eternal
City an almost endless number of masses are
ordered from all the ends of the globe. The
regular pay for each mass has been 2.50 francs.
Now the General Vicar of Rome has ordered,

- that the priest reading the mass shall receive
only 1,20 francs and must hand over the rest to
the treasury of the Church. Of course the
lower clergy are more than dissatisfied with this
innovation. In a number of papers bitter com-
plaints are being made about the Jamentable

condition of these priests. A priest recently
published in the Zribuna an article that at-
tracted a good deal of attention. He stated
that there are in Rome no less than 500 prelates

_ and monsignori who do nothing but draw a
monthly salary of 1000 to 1500 francs, and five
hundred ecclesiastics of the higher orders doing

‘nothing, who draw from 700 to 1000 francs a
month. “2 ,

_ —Tae Lutheran Tamils in S. India con-
tribute one month’s earning annually to the

Church-building fund of the Leipzig Mission.

—In Egypt along the valley of the Nile are
sen mission stations and 70 sunday schools, num-

—A ToucHING appeal comes from the native
Christians of Canton to the churches of Great
Britain, entreating them to exert themselves
to procure the abolition of the opium traffic,
that the Chinese’ may be released from this

yoke of bondage and the obstacles be removed
which it places in the way of the gospel.

—In Canton, China, with its 1,500,000 in-
habitants, are fifteen Christian chapels, where
missionaries and the native ministers preach
the Gospel, not on Sunday only, but daily, and
from two to four hours each day, to audiences

varying from fifty to several hundred. After
the sermon these evangelists continue the serv-
ices. Free conversations and discussions follow;
rooms are at hand for private conferences, and
Christian books and tracts are kept in readiness,
and disposed of in large numbers. The preach-
ing halls are thronged during the hottest months
—July, August and September—and from noon
till 3 o’clock—the hottest part of the day. Tens
of thousands of visitors to the cities have heard
the Gospel in these chapels and halls, and have
carried it hundreds of miles into the interior.
The dialect used by most of the missionaries in
preaching is the Punti, or pure Cantonese, by
which they have access to 20, 000, 000 of people.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored fowurahess
New ORr.eEanNs, La.

EV. LUTH. 8T. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny
Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 7%

o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4,

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra.
plying ne waxy ices at 74 Sunday evening and at 74 ‘Thursday

Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 74 Tuesday evening.
N. J. BAKKE, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CITURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CannoLLTon. ¥
Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 734
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 7 o’clock Sunday evening and at 744
o’clock T! hursday evening.

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

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

Divine service qundey er evening at 714 o’clock.
Sunday School from
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.

G. ALLENBACH, Missionary.

Ab Luth. Holy Trinity Church,
Springftld, Mls.

Divine services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday Gs ane, ig.
Sunday School at 3 o’clock r.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Fri iday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.
H.S. KNAbenscuon, Missionary.

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