The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1890, Page 32

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor's Window.

—Tue Missouri Synod, at its recent session
in Milwaukee, resolved to advocate at the com.
ing meeting of the Synodical Conference the
erection of three new school houses for our
colored Mission in New Orleans. Let us all
help to hasten the day of dedication; for that
day will indeed be a day of rejoicing to our
hard working missionaries and teachers in that
important mission field.

—A LARGE number of young men graduated
this year in our seminaries and have already
accepted calls to work in the Lord’s vineyard.
In colleges and seminaries they have been well
equipped for their work in the church. but
their learning alone will never make preachers
and teachers of them in the New Testament
sense. May they feel that they are ruined
sinners saved by grace, and with the love of
Jesus burning in their hearts, and with ‘‘eter-
nity stamped upon their eyeballs’’ point dying
men to the cross, and live in the intimacy of
personal fellowship with Him who suffered
there. Thus they will find joy in all their
labors and be a blessing to many immortal
souls,

—Txae Salt Lake Tribune says: “The Scan-
dinavians leave the Mormon community in
large numbers. During the last two years
Scandinavian Lutherans have been working
there, since which time more Scandinavians
have returned to their old Church than the
Elders can gain abroad. The Mormons had
great success among the Lutheran Swedes,
Norwegians and Danes; but now the Lutheran
Church makes great efforts to bring these mis-
guided people back again into the old mother
church.’’

—A sHArp American has patented an electric
contribution box for church use. Whenever
a button or piece of tin is deposited in the box
an electric bell rings and informs the congrega-
tion of the fact.

—SreRRA LEONE, on the Western coast of
Africa, at the beginning of this century, was
one of the most degraded places on the surface
of the globe. Ship-loads of slaves were turned
adrift, the place reeked with every kind of
abomination, and no Jess than fifty-three mis-
sionaries and their wives died in twenty years.
Now, under the presidency of a native, Bishop
Crowther—once a slave boy, sold for a horse,
returned as a bad bargain, sold twice for rum
and tobacco, then converted, liberated, or-
dained—the colony is full of Christian places
of worship. ;

—Mirssion work in Madagascar has since
1874 accomplished so much that the children
gre now trained in the schools of the missionary
societies, while there are hundreds of church
__ members apd 800 native pastors.

_ —In 1854 a Japanese nobleman picked up
a Testament he found floating in the Bay of
Yeddo, became interested, had it translated,
read it, and with two others became converted.

While the Day lasts.

Now there are 60 congregations worshiping,
some of them in churches made of the wood of
ruined temples.

—Nor fifty years ago in China, Dr. Morrison,
hiding in a cellar, was engaged in translating
the Bible into Chinese and in locked rooms
was preaching to the few who cared to listen.
Now the Bible can be read in the various
Chinese languages, and there are 100,000
Christians.

—In Fiji, where fifty years ago the natives
were cannibals, it was stated by the Governor in
1879, that out of 120,000 inhabitants 102,000
had accepted the Christian faith, prayers were
offered in their families, and there were 800
good churches. And all this in less than a
lifetime.

—TueE number of homeless and vicious tramps

It will not last long. Your day, my day,
the world’s day, the day of opportunity, the
day of salvation, all days are swiftly passing
away, and the great day, the last day, will
surely and speedily come. Now there is oppor-
tunity for us to work, by and by the time will
be past. While it is day we may work the
work of God and do what He has commanded
us. But if we idle this present opportunity
away it will never return, and the neglect of
to-day may never be repaired. ‘To-morrow will
bring the work for to-morrow, and every day
and every year will bring its appropriate duties.
Let the work of to-day be done to-day, and
then we may calmly await the coming of the
morrow, if the morrow shall ever come.

in Central Germany has decreased 40 per cent.
within the last ten years in consequence of the
increased activity of Home Missions, a specialty

of which is the providing of tramps with work |.

and shelter and the Gospel.

—Tue British and Foreign Bible Society has,
during the eighty-one years of its existence,
issued from its London house alone 29,000,000
of complete Bibles, nearly 32,000,000 of New
Testaments, and 11,845,000 portions of the
Bible. This makes a total of 72,500,000 books
issued from the London headquarters.

—Jw an ordination sermon, delivered before
colored students, a colored divine gave forcible
admonitions to the young preachers. Among
other things he told his young brethren not to
spend too much time before the glass, trying to
make themselves look pretty. It was not at
all likely that they would be successful, but it
was a shame even to try to turn an example of
God’s noblest work into a dude, and very
likely a poor dude at that. ‘‘When you are
preaching,’ he said, ‘‘don’t start out in a sleepy
sort of way, and drone away until you are half
through the sermon, and then start in to make
a ‘home run.’ Preach right out from the be-
ginning, and when you are through stop right
there. Don’t jump around in your pulpit, and
stamp and snort, and bang your Bible, and pull
your hair to get up the ‘power.’ That won't
do it, brethren. You may get your congre-
gation to shouting, and stir the women up, but
it will all be false excitement. If the good
Lord wants to make Himeelf felt, He'll do it
without your making a lot of monkeys of
yourselves. You just preach the Word and
He'll send ‘the ‘power’ without your asaist-
ance.”

The Christian.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEANS, La.

EV. LUTH. 8ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny
Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 736

o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 2

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra.
pivines services at 74 Sunday evening and at 7)4 Thursday

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

N. J. Baxxe, Missionary.

EY. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CARnoLLTON.
Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday, afternoon and 734
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.

Divine services at 7 0’clock Sunday evening and at 7%
o’clock Thursday evening.

Sunday Schoo) at 9 o’clock.

Ava. Bureporr, Miss1ionaRyY.

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

Divine service funder ere! evening at 734 o’clock.
Sunday School fro!
Catechumen class meets ain 7—8 Wednesday evening.

Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.
G. ALLENsacn, Missionary.

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

Divine services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening:
Sunday School at 3 o’clock r.
Catechumen class mects Monday and Friday cvenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.
H. S. KnaAnenscuvun, Missionary.

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