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and exclaimed : “Mother, it was my penny
after all that I lost; the other one belongs to
the poor heathen.’? She smiled and said:
“So I thought right away. But see, here is
your penny also. After you had gone to bed
I found it under the wardrobe.’? his boy
grew and waxed strong in spirit; and,in due
time he became a missionary to Africa, where
he also died in Christ and in peace.

of which few copies were left unsold on the
island; and urgently asking for a further sup-
ply of 5000 copies. In its way, the letter is
an interesting illustration of the extent to
which the Bible is becoming the people’s book
all the world over.

—lIr is reported that as a result of the great
assistance given to the famine-stricken peo-
ple of Shantung, China, in 1889, when over
$200,000 was distributed and-over 100,000
lives saved, a great many have been drawn to
pay especial attention to Christianity as the
religion which influences people for such deeds
of kindness and mercy, and during 1890 it is
said that over a thousand persons were bap-
tized, whose attention was drawn to the re-
ligion of Christ by the fact that the mission-
aries were so prominent in securing this aid
and distributing it. Not by any means were
all these recipients of aid, but they saw what
was being done for their fellowmen and com-
pared the fruits of Christianity with the fruits
of heathenism. Y

—TEn years ago, so an exchange tells us,
there were 8000 Jews in Jerusalem; to-day
there are more than 30,000. ‘There are 50,000
Jews in other parts of the Holy Land, making
80,000 for the whole of Palestine.

—Tne Evangelical Bible Society of Russia,
founded in 1831, has since its establishment
disposed of 1,091,180 copies of the Script-
ures. Of these 305,501 were the Bible en-
tire; 759,650 New Testaments; 25,029 Psal-
ters. ‘These were printed in all the languages
spoken by the Evangelicals of the Empire.
The Society has its headquarters at St. Peters-
burg, but has 17 section committees. The
Central Committee has at present control of a
capital of 28,400 rubles, and its chairman is
appointed by the Czar. Heretofore the print-
ing of these Bibles was done in Germany, but
now it will be done in Russia.

—Here is a story with a moral. The story
is true, and we will leaye the reader to draw
out the lesson for himself. When Walter
Bagster was a little boy his mother gave him
two pennies one eyening and said: ‘‘One of
them you will giye for missions, to convert
the poor heathen, won’t you?’’ He made no
reply, but wished to play with the coins a
while, before putting one into his mission box
and the other into his sayings bank. Pretty
soon he came to his mother weeping and said:
“One of the pennies has rolled away, and I
can not find itanywhere!’’ ‘Well, Walter,”’
said his mother, ‘twhich penny did you lose,
your penny or the one for the poor heathen?”
This seemed to be a hard problem to solye.| Tnx Lutueran Pioneer is published monthly,
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finally replied: ‘‘My penny I have got yet; ppeluded sto wits
it was the other penny that I Jost.?? Fis
mother said it was time now to go to bed and
asked him to consider the matter again and to
tell her in’ the morning which penny he had
lost. He Seemed to be buried in deep thought
as he kissed his mother good-night. The next
morning he came running with beaming face

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Oor English Lutheran mission has again
suffered a great loss. On the 26th of De-
cember, only nine days after the departure of
the Rey. F. Adams at St. Louis, the Rey. A.
S. Bartholomew departed this life at Chicago,
Tils., where he had been faithfully and suc-
cessfully laboring in an English Lutheran mis-
sion field. The Lord’s thoughts are not our
thoughts, and our ways are not His ways. We
bow to the will of God, for by faith we know
that He deals with us in wisdom and kindness,
and that all afflictions must be beneficial in
their results. May God comfort the bereaved
and mourning and send laborers to take the
place of the departed.

—QOonr missionary at New Orleans, the Rev.
¥F. Lankenau, reports our mission work in the
city to be in a prosperous condition. From

: a private letter to us we clip the following:
“The work is going on here quite well, and
I expect soon to confirm a number of cate-
chumens whom I have gained while here.
Our Christmas services were well attended,
the children answered and sang well, and had
it not been for the Fourth of July noise out-
side, caused by the shooting of fire-crackers
and toy-pistols, and by the tooting of
trumpets of all shapes and sizes, I would have
thought that I was back again in ‘‘dear old
Adams County.’’ Adams county, in Indiana,
you know, is the home of our missionary, and
an Adams county boy always remembers his
home, especially at Christmas time. This
item ought to move the good people of Adams
county to take up an extra collection for our
mission work.

—TueE Moscow missionary society numbers
12,000 members and receives $150,000 an-
nually.

— Tue 32,000 native Chinese Moravian
Christians gave, year before last, $38,000 for
missionary work.

—Ar Oyamada, Japan, the church of one
hundred members has built a church costing
$1300, of which they paid $900 themselves.

—A MEDICAL missionary in China recently
treated fourteen men in one day who repre-
sented elevén of the eighteen provinces of the
Empire.

—Tne Chinese Government has fully com-
pensated the missionaries in Honan for the
injury to their property by a mob only three
months ago.

—Tue four gospels have been translated
into Uzbek, the language of 2,250,000 people
' in Central Asia, and published by the British

- and Foreign Bible Society. —
| —Te work of telegraph building in South
' Africa is pushed far ahead of railroad enter-
_ prise. Savage Africa will thus le joined with
civilization by electric wire. ;
COMMUNICATION has recently been re-
from Samoa, bearing testimony to the
ng the natives for the English
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Acknowledgments.

Received of Rev. F. J. Lankenau from Mt. Zion
church for Building Fund $24.15; for Widows and
Orphans $4.75. Total, $28.90.

A. F, LEONHARDT, Local Treas.

New Orleans, La., Nov. 3, 1891.

Received of Rey. F. J. Lankenau from Mt. Zion
church for General Mission $7.40; Building Fund
$10.05; Mission in North Carolina $6.40. (23.85.)

From St. Paul church for Mission in North Caro-
lina $3.10 Total, $26.95.

A. F. Leonuarpt, Local Treas.

New Orleans, La., Jan. 4, 1892.

Received from little Joe and Henry Smith 25 cts.
for our Mission In North Carolina.

God bless the boys! Let others follow their ex-
ample! AUG. BuRGDORF.

New Orleans, La., Jan. 18, 1892.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New Orveans, La.
EY. LUTH, ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 744
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 9 to 10%.

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 744 Sunday evening and at 74 Thurs-
_ day evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 74% Tuesday evening.
F, LANKENAU, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CUURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CARROLLTON.
Divine services at 3.0’clock Sunday afternoon and 744
o'clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o'clock.

EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL,
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 7% o’clock Sunday evening and at 74
o’clock Thursday evening.

Sunday School at 9 o'clock. :
AUG. BURGDORF, MISSIONARY.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church.
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service Sunday evening at 74 o’clock,

Sunday School from 10—12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.

Ey. Luth, Holy Trinity Church,
: Springfield, Ill. .

Divine Services at half past 10 o'clock Sunday morning

and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening.

Sunday School at 3 o'clock Pp, a. 2

Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.

Singing-school Tuesday evening.

If. S. KNABENSCHUH, Missionary.

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