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seated.’ Then we each bow twice very low, so
low that our foreheads nearly touch the floor.
Then the Japanese says, ‘Thank you,’ and I
say, ‘No trouble at all;’ and then we both
touch our foreheads to the floor again, taking
long-drawn breaths so that they can be dis-
tinetly heard. Then I say, ‘O-ma-rika-ka-ri-
masw’ which is, ‘Let me hang on your honor-
able eyelids;’ or, in good English, ‘I am glad
to see you.’ Then, asI understand s0 little of
the language, I have an interpreter called in,
and after going through all those bows again,
she does the rest of the talking. I get pretty
tired sometimes, sitting on my heels, and when
I go to see a Japanese I have to remove my
shoes before entering the house, and then my
feet get pretty cold. But it has to be done, for
it is a great insult to the Japanese host to keep
the shoes on.’’

—TxeE United Presbyterian has the follow-
ing to say about the mission and work of our
Church: ‘“‘The Lutheran Church has grown
to be the Jargest in this country. It is contin-
ually receiving an immense immigration from
the lands in which the doctrines of Luther
gained the ascendency, a class of people as
far removed as possible from the immigrants
from southern Europe. They are industrious,
quiet, and moral. They enter into the spirit of
our institutions and quickly adapt themselves to
the new circumstances. The Lutheran Church
is preaching the Gospel in twelve different lan-
guages in the United States, a fact that shows
the value of that Church to our country. It is
doing a work from which many are practically
excluded.’

—Denmark.—Among the laws passed by
the recent Danish Parliament, is a law provi-
ding for the better observance of Sunday. All
shops are to be closed on Sundays and holy-
days after 9 A. M., except on the Sundays be-
fore Christmas and New Year, when they may
be opened after 4p. x. In all factories work
shall cease at 9 A. wu. unless by special permis-
sion; yet all working people are to have at least
half of the day to themselves. This law, which
has already been signed by the King, goes into
effect on June 3d.

—Mexico.—Till 1873 Mexico was strictly
Roman Catholic. No other denomination was
tolerated. Since that time Protestantism has
been growing. There are now 98 ordained
ministers and 242 assistants in the field. There
are 310 congregations, 63 churches, 247 preach-
ing places, 16,407 members and 28,840 other
regular attendants at service. They have 132
Sunday-schools with 5829 scholars, 79 parochial
schools numbering 2819 scholars, 3 theological | P
seminaries and 39 students of theology. There
are also 10 printing houses from which 11 peri-
odicals are issued.

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Tue Rev. C. L. Jaxzow, member of the
English Lutheran Mission Board of the Mis-
souri Synod, recently visited the missionary
stations in Virginia and Maryland and reports
them to be in a flourishing condition.

—A new edition of our English Lutheran
Hymn Book has become necessary and will soon
be published.

—Ar the recent meeting of our English Lu-
theran Conference in St. Louis the Rev. Dall-
mann of Baltimore was chosen editor of the
Taitheran Witness and the Revs. Bartholomew,
Spannuth, and Wagner sub-editors.

—Txe Bible has now been translated into
sixty-six of the languages and dialects of Africa.

—On Tuesday, February 17th, the largest
missionary party that has ever landed upon the
shores of China, reached Shanghai from San
Francisco. A band of no fewer than thirty-five
men and women, to be followed the succeeding
week by ten or fifteen others, constituted the
company, which had been sent by the Scandi-
navian Churches of the United States, to labor
in connection with the China Inland Mission.
- —S§rncE 1868, the year in which freedom of
worship was guaranteed to Protestants, 12,000
citizens of Spain have left Rome for the Gos-
pel. The Spanish Protestants have 120 houses
of worship, 100 schools, with 160 teachers and
6000 pupils, 60 pastors and 40 evangelists,
6 church-papers, 3 orphanages and 2 hospi-
tals. A large number of Protestant periodicals
printed in Spain are sent regularly to Mexico,
Chili and Argentine.

—SweEpEN.—The City Mission Society of
Stockholm, during the last quarter of the past
year, distributed 238 copies of the Bible, New
Testament and Psalter, and 6333 copies of other
books. 2787 visits were made in Hospitals and
drinking places. Services have been held reg-
ularly in various parts of the city, and have
been well attended. The managers regret that
the Jack of working forces makes them unable
to extend their forces further.

—Rey. Dr. JonnsTon, a Jamaica mistion-
ary, has been for some time training as mission-
aries a number of colored men belonging to his
church in Jamaica, and is about to start a mis-
sion in Africa of colored men for their own race.
This movement will be watched with interest,
and, if successful, will greatly help to colve the
question of reaching Africa’s millions with the
Gospel. The cry may some day be, ‘‘Afri-
cans for Africa.’’—In such a case our colored
Lutheran schools and churches should furnish
their full quota.

—A_ MNISSIONARY, now at work in Japan,
gives the following amusing account of ‘‘so-
ciety calls,’’ as made in that country. She
says: ‘When a Japanese caller comes to see
me we-both kneel down on the floor, Jeaning
back on our heels, and I say ‘.O-ka-ki-na-sai,’

_ -which, literally translated, means, ‘Hang your

“honorable hips;’ or, in our words, ‘Please be

‘No man shall die in his sins, except him,
who, through disbelief, thrusts from him the
forgiveness of sin, which in the name of Jesus
is offered to him.’’—Luther,

her scholars to learn to give.
therefore, for doing some work for her, so that
each girl might have something of her own to
give away for Jesus’ sake.
a new scholar—such a wild and ignorant little
heathen that the teacher did not try to explain
to her what the other girls were doing.

people casting gifts into His treasury.
He not say of this African girl, ‘‘She hath cast
in more than they all’’?

A Rich Gift.

The teacher of a girls’ school in Africa wished
She paid them,

Among them was

The day came when the gifts were handed in.

Each pupil brought her piece of money and laid
it down, and the teacher thought all the offerings
were given.
hugging tightly in her arms a pitcher, the only
thing she had in the world.
table and put it among the other gifts, but be-
fore she turned away she kissed it.

But there stood the new scholar,

She went to the

There is One who watched and still watches
Would

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEANS, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny
Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 734

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
even
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 Tuesday evening.
N. J. BAxxe, Misstonary.

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

Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 73%
o’clock Wednesda: evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 73 0’olock Sunday evening and at 734
o’clock Thursday evening.

Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
Ava. Buneporr, MissionaRy.

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

Divine service gundaviers evening at 734 o’clock.

Sunday Schoo! fro:

Catechumen class meets fom 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,
Springfield, Ills.
Divine services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sanday, eyening:
Sunday School at 3 o’clock Pp.
Catechumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.
H. S. Knasenscuvun, Missionary.

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