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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. | there must have been fully 800 present. The
: same earnest attention was apparent, and the

same spirit of devotion. I can never be suf-
ficiently thankful to God for the glorious privi-
lege of being permitted to preach to these dear
members of Christ’s flock.”

—Tue contrast between the foreign mis-
sionary situation of threescore years ago’ and
that of to-day in reference to the opportunities
for labor is most striking. Formerly the ques-
tion was, Where shall good openings for Jaborers
be found? Now the question is, Where shall
enough men be found to fill the most promising
of the openings? A recent number of Zhe
Indian Witness well says: ‘‘The foreign missions
of united Christendom are beginning to present
the appearance of a youth who has not only

HYMNS, FOR THE USE OF ENGLISH LUTHERAN Mis.
sions. Compiled by Rev. J. G. Gochringer by
order of the Ev. Luth. Conference of Arkansag
and Tennessee. Price 5 cents per copy, 50 cents
per doz., 100 for $3.00. Address Rev. J, A.
Friedrich, Chattanooga, Tenn.

This collection of hymns is to supply the want of
our traveling missionaries who can not carry any
large number of hymn books with them as they go
from one station to the other. It is a very good
selection and will prove very convenient and useful
in our mission work.

~ —F Rom our German mission paper we learn
the glad news that God has opened a new field
in North Carolina to our missionaries among
the colored people in the South. Three colored
Pastors with five congregations have applied for
admission to the Synodical Conference and have
asked us to aid them in their work among the
colored people of North Carolina. Our mis-
sionaries have visited the brethren in that state
and report the field to be a very promising one.
May God bless our work in this new field of
labor.

—Aw aged Christian woman had been in
the habit of selling the milk from their one
cow which the family did not require. She

Two LecTuREs on the questions: What is the Ey,
Lutheran Church? and Why do we Lutherans
of the Synodical Conference establish and ma{n-
tain Parochial Schools? By Rev. R. Eirich,
Hamlin, N. Y. Price 15 cents per copy; $1.50

saved the money she got from this source from outgrown his clothes but looks half starved, per dozen.

year to year, and requested on dying that it} because all he eats goes to growth and none to| This excellent pamphlet deserves a wide circulas

might be devoted to foreign missions. When fatness. The churches of Europe and America| tion. The second lecture especially, treating of our
Parochial Schools, will do much good among our

are steadily increasing their appropriations to
foreign missions, but the work is increasing at
a far more rapid rate. There must be an im-
mense increase in the missionary zeal and liber-
ality of the churches.”’

—Desparcaes from Shanghai announce that
fresh attacks are continually being made upon
the Christian missions in the interior. In one
case troops sent by the Chinese government to
quell the disturbances joined the rioters.

—Tue first'section of the little railroad which
is to connect Jaffa with Jerusalem has been
completed, and tourists are now able to travel
by rail from Jaffa to Ramleh, about one third
the distance. It will not be long before pilgrims
to the Holy Land will be whisked in an hour
from the sea to Jerusalem, to the great disgust
of camel owners and stage proprietors.

—Tue work done among the Chinece on the
Pacific Coast is now beginning to bear fruit of
a very hopeful kind. Here are two illustrations:
One thousand Chinamen, members of the Chris-
tian Church in California and Oregon, have sent
two missionaries to their native land, organized
a foreign missionary society, with one thousand
dollars to start with, and have also contributed
twenty-two hundred dollars to home missions.
Lun Foon, a member of a Mission Church in
San Francisco, gave up a good business and
returned to China to do missionary work at his
own charge. He has built a mission property
in foreign style of architecture, with preaching
hall and school rooms.

—Rey. W. G. Lawes, at the late anniver-
sary of the British and Foreign Bible Society,
said that at a missionary meeting in New
Guinea, held a few months ago, one of the
speakers picked up a spear and said, ‘This
used to be our constant companion; we dared
not go to our gardens without it; we took it
in our canoes; we carried it on our journeys;
we slept with it by our side, and we took our
meals with it close at hand; but,” said he,
holding up a copy of the Gospel, ‘we can now
sleep safely because of this; this book has
brought to us peace and protection, and we no
longer require the spear.” wong cee

the widow's mite was handed in to the Secretary
of the Foreign Mission Society it amounted
to $300.

—A LITTLE GIru had a friend who gave her
a hen the first of the year. She named the
hen “Missionary,’’ and sold enough eggs to
amount to $1.00, and gave the money to mis-
sions when the missionary collection was taken
up in Sunday school. The hen now has twelve
little chickens and the little girl says they are
all missionary.

—A Brsre acenr called on a lady and
wanted to sell her a new family Bible. She re-
plied the one she had was good enough for her
use, that she had used it for a long time, etc.
The agent asked to see it, and when opening it
2 pair of spectacles fell out, whereupon the lady
exclaimed: ‘‘ Well, I declare, if there ain’t my
specs I lost two years ago.”

—ALone the West African coast there are
now 200 churches, 35,000 converts, 100,000
adherents, 275 schools, and 30,000 pupils.
Thirty-five languages or dialects have been
mastered, into which portions of the Scripture
and religious books and tracts have been trans-
lated and printed, and some knowledge of the
Gospel has reached about 8,000,000: of be-
nighted Africans.

—A_ MISSIONARY, in writing from Uganda,
Africa, uses’ the following language: ‘How
shall I find Janguage to describe the wonderful
work of God’s grace which has been going on
in the land? ‘Truly, the half was not told me.
Exaggeration about the eagerness of the people
here to be taught there has been none. No
- words can describe the emotion which filled my
heart as on Sunday, December 28th, I stood
up to speak to fully 1000 men and women,
who crowded the church of Uganda. It was
@ wonderful sight! There, close beside me,
was the Katikiro—the second man in the king-
dom. There, on every hand, were chiefs of
various degrees, all Christian men, and all in
their demeanor devout and earnest to a degree.
The responses, in their heartiness, were beyond
anything I have heard, even in Africa. There
Was & second service in the afternoon, at which

countrymen, many of whom are prejudiced against
our Parochial School system.

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 Stra.
Divine services at 714 Sunday evening and at 734 Thuraday
evening.

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

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 73 0’clock Sunday evening and at ™%
o’clock Thursday evening.

Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
Ava. Bunoporr, Missronany.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service fanday evening at 714 o’clock.
Sunday School from {0—12.

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

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Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,
Springfteld, Mis.
Divine services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 3 o’clock r. a1.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings,
Singing-school Tuesday evening.
H. S. KNanenscuun, Missionary,

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