The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1891, Page 16

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

Gospel of Christ, even such unnatural mothers
without natural affection may be and have
been lifted-up and taught the worth not only
of their children, but of their own immortal
souls.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—TueE editor has been sick for several weeks
and hopes that the readers will excuse the late

appearance of the April number. ; —TuE circulation of the Holy Scriptures in
—In this number of the PronzER we give the Italy has greatly increased within a few years.
readers picture of one of the school pore The agents of the British and Scotch societies
recently erected for our Colored Mission ERO report sales for the past year as follows: Bibles,
Orleans. By the liberal contributions of our! 4 56 New Testaments, 14,055, portions, chiefly
people our Mission Board was enabled to erect) 21, 131,795—a total of 152,427. This is
two new school houses, in which four hundred / or. than double what it was ten years ago,
children can be easily seated. although the number of colporteurs is smaller.
—Mr. J. KAuFFMANN has taken charge of | The sales of gospels is more by 20,000 than in
one of the classes of St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran | 1889. It is only thirty years since the Madiai
school at New Orleans. May God abundantly | were imprisoned in Florence for having some
bless the work of this new laborer in our Mis-} Bibles in their possession, and it is less than
sion field. that since the Grand Duke promulgated the
—Txe Finnish Lutherans of this country | penalty of death for conversion to Protest-
have a Bible Society, with headquarters in antism.
West Superior, Wis., which prints the Bible in} —A Missionary named Letzen, with his
the Finnish language. The Finnish Lutheran wife, is certainly to be written with those who
pastors are very active in opening new mission | Jove their fellow-men. For thirty years he has
fields for the ten new ministers they expect | been preaching and working at a station in the
from Finland the coming summer. Thibetan mountains, without the sight of a
—Tue census report reveals the fact that/ European face, and with the postoffice four-
during 1890 Christianity gained in this country | teen days distant.
over one million adherents, and 4,867 preachers, | —Sranzey tells us that in the great forests
and 8,494 churches. of Africa live a race of people who are of fine
—Txe Christian life, among the converts | form and of light coppery color. They pierce
from heathenism as among us older Christians, the upper lip and stick wooden pegs, iron rings,
is a growth. Barbarous and sinful habits are |Or shells in the hole thus made. In the same
only gradually subdued. Such was the ex- forests are found another and very different
perience of an African convert on the ‘‘gold|kind of people. He calls them pigmies. They
coast’? with whom the missionary remonstrated | re not much more than four feet high. They
for beating his wife even after he had become | are filthy and uncivilized. They eat snails,
a Christian. “If you only knew,”’ replied the mice, caterpillars, white ants, and many things
negro, “how bad my wife is) then you would | that we would scarcely touch.
see that I can not do otherwise.’’ “Very well,’’| —Curisrian life among islanders of the
said the missionary, ‘‘then beat your wife, but | New Hebrides seems to be still vigorous. Rev.
only under one condition. Whenever you are|/Mr. Lawrie reports that the native congrega-
tempted to beat your wife, take your New | tions on Aneityum have built a large hurricane-
Testament and read the 13th chapter of first| proof church to take the place of the one re-
Corinthians; then you may beat your wife.” cently blown down, and that they have defrayed
A few weeks later, when the missionary again | the cost of the whole by contributions of dry
visited his parishioner, the latter said: ‘Now | cocoanut and arrowroot. ‘The natives denied
I can not beat my wife any more; after] themeelvesall their little luxuries for six months
reading those words I have no inclination to|in order that this might be accomplished.’ At
do 80.” the dedication service one native said that “by
—In Africa a mother was going through the | the raising of this new church we are raised
streets with her little daughter by her side. Ajindeed.’’ And another said, ‘‘We are like
trader, before whose booth she had paseed, |thirsty travelers; to-day we have seen water;
offered her a string of glittering beads for her |#nd we have drunk.’ It is now reported that
child whom he would like to have for a slave. |the island of Tonga has come into the list of
The mother looked at the beads with longing | wholly Christian islands in the New Hebrides
eyes. The little one falls down before her and} group. On five islands of the group, the scene
begs the mother to keep her and not give her|0f Mr. Milne’s Jabors, no heathen are to be
to the strange man. But a stroke with the
string over the face of her prostrate daughter |0n the island of Tanna in the New Hebrides
is the mother’s only answer. The trader keeps|group, though it has been occupied by mis-
the weeping child. The miserable ornament |#ionaries for over twenty-one years,
- is dearer to the mother than her daughter.| —Tye Negroes of Brazil not
This is 2 true and characteristic illustration of | their heads heavy burdens, eae
post-office one will
and then place a
place.

one of the darkest phases Of heathenism. Itis| when taking a letter to the
_ all dark, indeed, but some parts are blacker} place it on top of his head
than others. Yet, under the power of the! stone on it to keep it in its

found. Yet we are told thereare 5000 cannibals | in

Heathen Goodness.

Two young Afghan orphans presented them-
selves at the Missionary Hospital at Amritsar,
on English territory. They were asked about
their circumstances.

‘We are orphans,”’ they answered.

‘‘Have you no relatives who can take care
of you?”’

‘‘We have an uncle who has been very good
to us.”

“Why does he not take you under his roof?”

“He has taken away all the property that
our father left us.’’

“But in return he will doubtless feed and
clothe you?”’

“Oh, no! But he has been very good to us:
he has not killed us.”

They related further that, not knowing how
long the ‘‘goodness’’ of their uncle would last,
they had thought it prudent to put the frontier
between themselves and him.—The Missionary
Herald.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORveEans, 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 Strs.
Divine services at 734 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday
evening.

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

N. J. BaAxxe, Missionary.

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

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.

Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.

Divine services at 734 o’clock Sunday evening and at 7

o’clock Thursday evening.
Sunday Schoo) at 9 o’clock.
; Ava. Buroporr, MissionaRY.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock & 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service Sanday. evening at 734 o’clock.
0—12

Sunday School from 5
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Is

Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,
Springfeld, Mis,
Divine services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 3 o’clock pr. x.
Catechumen class meets Monday und Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.
H. 8. Knanenscuun, Missionary.

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