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40 The Lutheran Pioneer.

she clapped her hands, and I almost thought
she would sing, but at any rate she told us her
spirit was singing within her for joy.’’

—Tue printing of the whole Bible in the
language of the Sunda Islands (Dutch East
Indies) is now complete, as appears by the
Orgaan of the Netherlands Missionary Society.
Between three hundred and four hundred per-
sons have been engaged upon it.

— Moravian Work. — The work of the
Moravian Church since 17382, has spread rapidly,
and at present there are 135 stations in many
lands, with 87,263 persons in congregations.
The missions are in Greenland, Labrador,
among North American Indians, in the British
and Danish West Indies, in South America
(Surinam and Demerara), Central America
(Mosquito Coast), South Africa, Australia,
N. W. India (Thibet), Alaska. Above 40,000
members of the congregations are British sub-
jects. There are 355 European and native
missionaries employed in the various fields;
20,629 scholars are under instruction in 235
day schools, and more than 15,000 scholars in
113 Sunday schools.

of the chief and their children take the lead.
In October last, the chief, Mtwaro, who was
much beloved by his people, died. Before his
death he charged his son and his headmen to
treat the missionaries well. His son, who is
now his successor, is a nice young man, twenty-
three years of age, who has been a regular
attendant at school and a faithful pupil. It was
feared that with his new responsibilities and
honors he would be turned from his previous
course of life, but on the day he put off his
mourning he came for a lesson, and promised
to come to the school as often as he could.

—A Swenpise Lutheran mission society has
opened two mission stations in Alaska.

—THERE comes a great cry from Africa.
One chief writes, ‘‘Rum has ruined my coun-
try.’’ All appeals to the civil authorities of
the countries from which it is exported have
been refused. The largest part of the rum
shipped to Africa and the Pacific Islands comes
from the United States.

—Lepers in India were treated with shock-
ing inhumanity before Christianity entered that
country. Many of them were buried alive.
The English rulers have put a stop to this
custom, and for fourteen years there has been
a special Christian mission to the 135,000 lepers
in India.

—Txe Missionary Herald in its July number
reported a letter from Bishop Tucker, then at
Uganda, Africa, giving some account of the
remarkable opening in that region. Speaking
of the congregations in Uganda, he says:
“Every Sunday a church, built by themselves,
is simply crowded from end to end. A little
after sunrise you hear the tramp of many feet.
What can it be? Why, the people are coming
in crowds to the house of God, and there they
sit, either singly or in groups, reading their
Testaments and prayer books, and being in-
structed by the better instructed among them-
selves. It is a great feature of the work in
Uganda that the people teach one another.
There are numbers of Christians in the country
who have learned to read, and have learned to
know Christ, who have never been taught by
any white man atall.” Bishop Tucker believes
that the people of Uganda have such a peculiar
aptitude for teaching that the evangelists al. |.
ready set apart, and others like them in days
to come, will prove most efficient laborers for
the kingdom of Christ. They will be supported
entirely by the native Church, and he believes
that from among these people a great company
of preachers can be raised up to carry the Gos-
pel message throughout the interior of Africa.
The people of Uganda show a great love for
reading, so that many of them will do three
months’ work very readily for a New Testament.
Bishop Tucker speaks of a sister of the late
King Mtesa, a very taciturn woman, who came
several days to see him, but sat in silence. At
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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—From the letter of Rev. Oehlschlaeger in
this number of the PIoNEER our readers will
learn that God is prospering our mission at
Meherrin, Va. Our colored people there re-
cently dedicated with joy and thanksgiving
their new church and school-building to the
service of God. May the Lord continue to
bless the people of Meherrin!

—Tue Rev. Bakke having accepted the call
to work among the colored people in North
Carolina, Rev. F. Lankenau, a graduate of our
Springfield Seminary, has become his successor
in New Orleans and has already entered that
important field of labor.

—TaE pulpit of our colored church at Little
Rock, Ark., is still vacant. May God soon
supply this our oldest missionary station.

—WNor less than 4,000,000 copies of the
Scriptures, whole or in part, were circulated
last year by the British and Foreign Bible
Society—an increase of 130,000 over the year
1889. Altogether the society has issued ninety-
five versions of the Scriptures and circulated
120,000,000 copies in three hundred languages.
On account of the enlarged openings for the
distribution of the Bible, a strong endeavor is
being made to improve the society’s returns.

During the first six months of 1890 it is said
that 21,000 copies of the publications of the
Bible Society were-sold in the city of Rome and
its environments,-and that the New Testament
has been adopted in many of the schools as a
reading book.

— WHEN the Moravian Church had but 600
members it began to send out foreign miasion-
aries. The Mission Field of the Reformed Church
says, in comment: ‘‘Suppose every church of
600 members supported one foreign missionary.
And they could easily do it. One dollar a
member.”

—TxeE Board of Directors of the London
Missionary Society has decided to add 100
additional missionaries to the society’s staff be-
fore the centenary is celebrated in 1895. This
will inyolye an increased annual expenditure
of not less than $25,000. Their present force
includes 138 ordained missionaries. The native
force is very large, including 1224 ordained
preachers and 4195 teachers and helpers. The
fields occupied by the society are South Africa
(Namaqualand and Bechuanaland), China
(Canton, Amoy, Shanghae, Hankau, Wuchang,
Tientsin, Peking, etc.), India (Bengal, Madras,
Travancore), Madagascar, and a large number
of the islands of the South Pacific.

—Tue Livingstonia Mission of the Scotch
Free Church began its mission among the ’Ngoni
more than a yearsince. This proud and war-
loving people dwell on the highlands west of
Lake’ Nyassa. The annual report of this work
is encouraging, and a good impression has been
made upon the people. The Sunday is kept,
and good and attentive audiences are secured.
A brick school house, 64 by 20 feet, has been
built. At the Sunday morning service the wives

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEANS, La.

EV. LUTH. 8ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny
Divine earrices at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 734

o’ esday evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra.
pivins Da sexrices at 734 Sunday evening and at 734 Thursday
Sunday 7 School meets at 9 o’clock.

Adult catechumen class meets at 714 Tuesday evening.
F. LANKENAU, Missionary.

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

Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 7%
o’clock Wednesda: evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’ clock.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
pine services at 73 o’clock Sunday evening and at 734
Thursday evening.
‘Sunday ‘Bhool at 9 o’clock.
Ava. Burcpory, MissionaBY.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock ¥ 12th Stra., Little Rock, Ark.

Divine service AOR evening at 7}4 o’clock.
Sunday School

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

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,

Springfield, Mls.
Divine services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening. y
Randky, School at 3 o’clock P. x.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.
H. S. Kwanenscnun, Missionary.

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