The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1890, Page 36

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

— A GENTLEMAN in Montreal, while having
some excavations made in his cellar recently,
came upon a small wooden box, which on
opening was found to contain a, bible. The
work is said to be in a good state of preserva-
tion and to be a Lutheran Bible, published in
Amsterdam in 1669 by S. Des Marets, profes-

The Outlook from the Editor's Window.

—A DISTINGUISHED scholar is reported to
have said of his pastor: ‘I have sat under his
ministry for thirty years, and in all that time
he has never once touched my heart.’’ That
pastor can not have been a preacher of the
Gospel. Or, perhaps, the fault may have been
in the hearer; he may have been so pre-
occupied with his learning that he failed to re-
spond to his pastor’s appeals.

— ALL missions at work among the Santals

in India report numerous accessions and rapid
development. At the present rate of progress,
in a few years Santalistan will be as thoroughly
christianized as Tinnevelly now is. The Nor-
wegian Lutheran Mission has a membership of
5272 at 14 stations. More than 400 were bap-
tized last year. Mr. Campbell, of the Scotch
Free Church, reports very hopefully of his
section of the field; he can not provide teachers
fast enough to instruct the people, who are
anxious to embrace the Christian faith.
' —TxeE Congregationalist packs a sermon into
this paragraph: Said a traveling man in our
hearing the other day: ‘‘I’ve covered six thou-
sand miles within the last year, and have been
asked to drink, probably, more than that num-
ber of times, but nobody has once asked me to
go to church, or seemed to think I have a
soul.”” ‘But have you been where Christian
people were?’’ ‘‘Yes,’’ was the rejoinder,
I've boarded with them a good deal of the
time.’”’ We wish we could believe that this is
an altogether exceptional case.

—Ar a conference of the missionaries of
China recently held at Shanghai the subject of
Bible translation had an important place.

Three mixed translations were decided upon,
into the old classical, modern classical, and
Mandarin languages, each to be made by
twelve members selected from the British,
American, and German Protestant missionary
bodies. A fourth committee is to superintend
and make arrangements for the publication of
translations into various dialects, and a fifth to
prepare an annotated edition of the Bible
specially for Chinese.

—A CONVERTED Chinaman on the Pacific
coast sold himself to work as a coolie in New
Guinea for the sake of working among his own
countrymen, and before he died he personally
Ted to Christ 200 of his companions. How
many of such heroic lives have no written an-
nals, save in God’s “book of remembrance”!

— CuristrAns in Greenland very seldom, if
ever, absent themselves from public worship
on account of the weather. When it is so cold
that their breath freezes and forms icicles on
their faces, they go long distances, through
snow, and ice, and storm, to the house of
prayer. Men, womenand children go. Through
much greater sacrifice than the Christians of
‘more fayored lands, do the poor Greenlanders
obey the injunction: ‘‘Forsake not the as-
sembling of yourselves together, as the manner
of some is.’”

Holland, and his son.

and secreted by one of the early
settlers. It has been deposited with the Sav-
ings Bank in Montreal by its owner for safe
keeping.

—A MIssIONARY, laboring at Stanley Pool,
Central Africa, among a race called the Bate-
kers, describes their habits and his own trials
to a friend in London: ‘They are very wild
and given to fighting. They always go about
with their knives and spears, ready to kill any-
one. In fact, one has to be very careful in
walking among this people. Iam on the best
terms with all the natives. The people buy
slaves, and fatten and kill and eat them. This
is an awful land to Jive in. During my stay
here I have had nine fevers.”

— A LABORER among the Indians in Rupert’s
Land gives a striking illustration of heathen
unrest. A young Indian of the Rainy River
tribe was of considerable promise and much
liked by all the Indians. A little before he
died, when surrounded by a large band of
singers and the whole Indian faculty of medi-
cine, who had exhausted their arts in the vain
effort to restore him to health, he asked to be
heard, and gathering all his strength, he ut-
tered these words: ‘“‘I am dying; I am miser-
able! You have kept me from the light, and
now I do not see which way I am going! Your
way is all darkness; I can not goin it. You
have Jed me the wrong way. You are all
blind; Ido not want you any longer!”

—A GENTLE and kindly old minister had
rather an alarming way of checking the con-
versation when it touched personality. ‘Of
course,’ he would say when a parishioner told
him, ‘in confidence,’’ some tale which de-
tracted from the reputation of another, ‘“‘of
course, I shall feel at liberty to tell him ex-
actly what you say. He ought to know, -for
his own good.” And after that depressing
threat, the talebearer was usually very willing
to hold his peace.

—Anoruer ‘hoy preacher,’’ age 14, is to
the front in Tennessee and Georgia. ‘To say
that he has preached would be to indulge in a
reckless misuse of terms.’’ ‘‘Let him go home
and attend school,” is the homely counsel of
the Nashville Christian Advocate,

— ANOTHER instance of the spread of the
Gospel through the agency of native preachers,
says the Missionary Outlook, is the formation of
a missionary suciety among the pupils of the
Huguenot Seminary, at Wellington, South
Africa. It proposes to send from its ranks
missionaries to labor among the heathen of
Africa.

Books Received.

SynopaL-Bericut der evang.-luth. Synode von

Missouri, Ohio und anderen Staaten, versam-
melt als Sechste Delegatensynode im Jahr 1890.
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
Price 20 cts.

From the Publishing House of the Martin Luther

sor of theology in one of the universities of | Orphan Asylum, West Roxbury, Mass., we received
It is a French version] the following two pamphlets which we heartily
and is illustrated, and was no doubt owned recommend to all our readers that understand the
Huguenot German language:

1. BLUETEN AUS DEM KIRCHLICHEN LEBEN, dar-

geboten vom ‘‘Lutherischen Anzeiger.”’ Price

10 cts. per copy; $1.00 per dozen.

2, ORDNUNGS-REGELN FUER GEMEINDE-VERSAMM-

LUNGEN, gesammelt von A. H. W. Kirchhoff.
Price 5 cts. per copy; 50 cts. per dozen; $3.00
per hundred.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New Or.Eans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. 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.
Divine services at 714 Sunday evening and at 7)4 Thureday
evenin

Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 714 Tuesday evening.

N. J. BAKKE, Missionary.

EY. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CaRnoL.Ton.

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 74
o’clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
Ava. Bureponr, Miss1onakyY.

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

Divine service Sanday. evening at 714 o’clock.
Sunday School from {0—12. 5
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8S—9 Wednesday evening.

G. ALLENBACH, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,
Springfield, Ms.
Divine services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 8 o’clock pr. ar.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.
H. S. Kxanenscuom, Missionary.

TERMS:

Tae LurHeran Pionesr is published monthly,
payable in advance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wit:

Olub 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. O. Baz-
THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo.

‘All communications concerning the editorial de-
partment to be addressed to Prof. R. A. BiscHorr,
Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.