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The Lutheran Pioneer.

stone's dead body 1500 miles through hostile
country and restored it to his friends in En-
gland, where the body lies in Westminster Abbey
to-day. Susi was thanked by vote of Parlia-
ment, and received a handsome and substantial
recognition from the Queen and British Goy-
ernment for his faithfulness and devotion to
Livingstone.

—Dnr. Cross, of the Free Church of Scotland
Missions on Lake Nyassa, Africa, has upon the
roll of his school the names of 300 children res-
cued from slavery.

—IsLanps OF THE SEA.—At a recent meet-
ing of native Christians at Port Moresby, New
Guinea, the collection taken for the missionary
cause consisted of $37 cash, 320 spears, 65 shell
armlets, 92 bows and 180 arrows, besides shields,
drums, shell necklaces, feathers; and other or-
naments. Most of the people have no money.

—Txe colporteurs of the American Tract
Society during the past year visited 113,683
families. Of these, 5719 had no Bible, and

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—From New Orleans we received the sad
news of the death of one of our laborers in the
Colored mission-field. J. Kauffmann departed
this life on the 19th of May. On the 22d of
February he had been installed as teacher in
our St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran school. His
faithful labors were but for a short time. The
Lord soon called him home to his eternal rest.

: May He comfort the bereaved, and may He

| also supply the great want of laborers in our
mission-field! ‘‘The harvest truly is plenteous,
but the laborers are few: Pray ye therefore
the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth
laborers into his harvest.’’

—TsE 31st of May was a day of rejoicing
among the Lutherans at Springfield, Il]. On
that day the new building for our Lutheran
Seminary was dedicated with appropriate serv-
ices, The structure is 100 feet long, 60 feet
deep, and has three stories, It contains two
large lecture rooms, a chapel, and dormitory
room for 100 students. More than 7000 people
attended the festival services on dedication-day.

—TaeE Missionary Review says that the chief
religions of the world may be classified accord-
ing to the number of adherents, as follows:
Christianity, 450,000,000; Confucianism, 390,-
000,000; Hindooism, 190,000,000; Moham-
medanism, 180,000,000; Fetichism, 150,000,-
000; Buddhism, 100,000,000; Spirit Worship,
50,000,000; Shintoism, 22,000,000; Jews, 8,-
000,000; Parsees, 1,000,000. Total, 1,449,-
000,000.

—SIncE Protestantism entered Mexico, about
twenty-five years ago, sixty-six Protestants have
given their lives for their faith.

—THIRTEEN years ago there were 13,515 Prot-
estant communicants in all China. Now there
are 37,287. There are now 1300 missionaries
at work in this far-off heathen land, 520 or-
ganized congregations and 61 hospitals.

- -—Irisstated that when Stanley started upon
his search for Livingstone he took, for his per-
sonal use, a collection of books weighing about
two hundred pounds. Each was carefully se-
lected, each highly prized. As he advanced,
his baggage had to be lightened. Reluctantly
he dropped out one book after another, so that
when he was three hundred miles from the
coast only the Bible, Shakespeare and three
other books were left. When at last he reached
Livingstone, Stanley's library was reduced to
one book, and that was the book—the Bible.

—Tne Bible is steadily finding its way into
‘Darkest Africa.’’? At the request of arch-
deacon Jones-Bateman a supply of 1000 copies

= of the new edition of the Book of Joshua and
| 1000 of the new edition of Judges, in the Swa.
a

the Bible. This shows that the Bible still holds
its preéminence over all other religious books
among the destitute classes of our country.
—Anonc the fifty millions who speak the
Spanish language there are comparatively very
few who know the Gospel in its purity and who
have the holy Scriptures in their homes. The
language brought in 1492 by Columbus and
his Spanish companions to America was soon
learned in ‘the beautiful lands that Spanish
warriors conquered, and the people of Mexico,
Central and South America are now counted
among the millions that from Jerusalem to the
uttermost parts of the earth speak that tongue.
There are sixteen republics in the Western
Hemisphere where people speak the Spanish
language. Copies of the Holy Scriptures, trans-
lated into Spanish, have been sent by English

Central and South America, Cuba and Porto
Rico, and the humble poor have gladly received
the glad tidings from those who have studied
the Scriptures thus obtained and imparted in
the loved language of old Spain.
—Arnrica.—There are now thirty-three
steamers on the Upper Congo.—The number
of missionary stations in Africa now exceeds
five hundred.—The country of Uganda, Cen-
tral Africa, is represented as having become
almost a desert through the dissensions of the
people, which have continued a long time.—
A native Christian in Uganda will work three
months for a copy of the New Testament in
Swahili.— Only a limited edition has been pub-

east Africa, is likely to be exterminated by the
ravages of rum furnished by the white men.—

hili language, is being sent to the Universities
mission at Zanzibar. This is but a single ex-
‘ample and limited to one locality of the influx

_ of the stream of sacred literature.
_ —Sosr, the colored servant of Dr. Living-
stone, the explorer, recently died in Zanzibar.
He and another servant. carried Dr. Living-

pany covering nearly

come.
all the remainder of his life, serving him as
a constant reminder that, peli nosceyer curses
his God shall bear his sin.’

13,588 were destitute of all religious books but | ____

speaking Christians to homes in Spain, Mexico, |.

lished.—One whole tribe of Zulus, in South-

The government of the Congo Free State has
granted a large concession to a commercial com-
. all of the southeastern'| to pouioadax
part of its territory. . This will probably lead) ”

to the opening of the country water ‘han if, a Concorl Pita et ede
it were left to the government to effect. The:
company is called “The Company of Katanga.’”

—A new line of monthly steamers to the Congo
has been started, which will run from Antwerp
direct to Matadi in twenty days.—The first
locomotive on the Congo Railway is now at
work,

—_—_—. -o-<me

“God is not Mocked.”

A tanner, while washing his hides at a

river, was. suddenly overtaken by a heavy
shower,
raising his fist towards heaven, he cried: ‘“Thou
up there! Must Thou always let it rain when
man least needs it?”’
a stroke of lightning was the reply.
lifted arm was struck and lamed, but other-
wise the blasphemer was uninjured.
for the Almighty to take his soul had not yet

Springing to his feet in anger, and

A crash of thunder and
The up-

The time

His arm, however, was lame during

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New OrveEans, La.

EV. LUTH. 8T. 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 Schoo! from 2 to 4.

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalla Strs.
Divine services at 734 Sunday evening and at 734 Thursday
Sunday So So jcEool meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 7}4 Tuesday evening.
N. J. BAKKE, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CaRROLLTON.
Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 7%
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 73¢
o’clock Thursday evening.

Sunday, School at 9 o’clock.

Ava. Burnaporr, Missionary.

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

Divine service Pandey ert evening at % o’clock.
Sunday School fro:

Catechumen class meets fren 1-8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,
Springfield, Ms.
Divine services at half past 10 lock Gl
and at 8 o’clock Sunday event Me Sundey moms
Sunday School at 3 o’clock r.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.
H. 8. KnAnenscnun, Missionary.

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