The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1892, Page 12

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12 The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor's Window.

—Mnr. Hecur, who recently died at Pleasant | and some among thorns. This we must expect
' Ridge, Ill., madea number of bequests to our
Lutheran church—$1,500 to the Lutheran Or-| it lead us not to sow at all? Nay, it should
phans’ Home near St. Louis; $1,500 to the] rather lead us like the Indians, to sow more
Lutheran Orphans’ Home at Addison; $750] bountifully, lest with scanty sowing, the crows,
to the Lutheran Deaf and Dumb Asylum in| the worms, and the squirrels get the whole har-
‘Michigan; $750 for the support of indigent| vest. If we sow bountifully we may rest as-
young men studying for the ministry in our} sured of this, that the good seed of truth will
Lutheran Seminary at St. Louis; $500 for| find its way to some hearts, and bring forth
pastors’ and teachers’ widows; and $1,000] fruit—thirty, sixty, and a hundred fold.
for our Colored Lutheran Mission work in the} —A remarkof an old minister iscommended
South. May many of our wealthy men follow | to all preachers who are tempted to complain
his example.
—As we are thinking of liberal givers, we| congregation, perhaps, as you will want to ac-.

shall here relate a story that comes very handy. | count for at the day of judgment.’’ fi
At a missionary meeting at Hamilton, Ontario,| —Sreaxrne of the growth of the Lutheran
John Sunday, an Indian preacher, in closing | Missouri Synod, one of our exchanges says:
an address, spoke as follows: ‘‘There is a/‘*The Synod now has 305,000 communicant
gentleman who, I suppose, is now in this} members; nearly 80,000 children in her pa-
He is a very fine gentleman, but a] rochial schools, taught by 1,364 teachers, in-
very modest one. He does not like to show] cluding pastors; 1,043 students in her educa-
himself at these meetings. I do not know} tional institutions, about all of whom are pre-
how long itis since I have seen him, he comes| paring for the teacher’s oflice or for the min-
out so little. Iam very much afraid that he|istry; eight or nine Orphans’ Homes, with
sleeps a good deal of his time when he ought] 488 inmates, including the Deaf and Dumb at
\to be out doing good. His name is Gold.| Norris, Mich., and pays over $40,000 a year
Mr. Gold, are you here to-night, or are you} for the support of her institutions. For other
sleeping in your iron chest? Come out, Mr. | than local purposes, the churches contributed
Gold; come out and help us do this great] over $155,000. The publishing house in the
work, to preach the gospel to every creature. | past year issued nearly 200,000 volumes for
Ah, Mr. Gold! you ought to be ashamed of| the schools and churches.’’
yourself to sleep so much in your iron chest.| —Awn Englishman visiting Lutheran Swe-
Look at your white brother, Mr. Silver; he|den, and noticing the care in educating chil-
does a great deal of good while you are sleep-| dren, inquired if it was not costly. He re-
ing. Come out, Mr. Gold. Look, too, at| ceived the suggestive answer: ‘‘Yes, it is
your brown little brother, Mr. Copper; he is| costly, but not dear. We Swedes are not rich
everywhere. Your poor little brown brother] enough to let a child grow up in ignorance,
: is running about, doing all he can to help us. | misery and crime, to become a scourge to so-
Why don’t you come out, Mr.Gold? Well, if| ciety as well as a disgrace to himself.’’
you won’t show yourself, send us your shirt,} .—Our Lutheran pastors in Chicago publish
that isa bank note. ThatisallI have tosay.’’| The Little City Missionary. The issue is
John Sunday’s call is very timely and may} 40,000 copies, and is distributed among the
well be re-echoed in the hope that it may reach | German non-church goers.
the ears of Mr. Gold or those who have him in] _—A soy who was present with other blind
custody. “The silver and the gold are mine, | pupils at the examination of the Training In-
saith the Lord of Hosts,’’ but the gold seems| stitution at Beirut, Syria, replied to the ques-
to be obtained with much more difficulty than} tions of the astonished Turkish officials:
the silver or the copper. : ‘ **T am alittle blind boy. Once I could see;
—WE copy the following from an exchange: | but then I fell asleep—a long, long sleep. I
“©. Torrison and wife, are members of the} thought I should never wake. And I slept
Norwegian Lutheran church of Manitowoc, | till a kind gentleman, Mr. Mott, came and
Wis. They are blessed with a family of eight| opened my eyes. Not these eyes,’’ pointing
sons—all of whom are studying for the min-| to his sightless eyeballs; ‘‘but these,”’ lifting
istry.’” up his tiny fingers; ‘these eyes’’ (meaning
| —We are told thatit is a custom among the} how he could read the embossed Bible with
Indians, when they are sowing maize, to put| the tips of his tiny fingers); ‘‘and O! they see
en grains of cornin theground. One was| such sweet words of Jesus, and how he loves
ked why this was done. “*Well,”” said the] the blind.’” Another boy, placing his fingers
ndian, “we put in one grain for the crows,| first on his poor, blind eyes, and then on his
another for the worms, and a third for the| heart, said: ‘‘It isdark here, but it is light
els, and we expect that the rest will bring | there.’’
> —Che Indians teach us a lesson] —Tue Independent in a statistical summary
ssionary work; they teach us how| of the work done by the missionary societies
liberally, and not to be disap- | of the world, puts the number of stations oc-
that we sow does not bring forth | cupied at 10,311; male missionaries 3,775, fe-

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house.

of a small congregation:—‘‘It is as large a}

fruit.—Our Savior teaches us that some will) male 2,539 ; native preachers 11,979 ; churches
fall by the wayside, some on stony ground,| 2,419; communicants 605,807; schools 11,-

960; pupils
as good seed sowers. But what of it? Should] lars, 319,282.

575,829, and Sunday-school scho-

—TneE census of 1891 showed that there

were in India 124,000,000 women, of whom
21,000,000 were returned as widows, of whom
there were under nineteen years of age,
669,000; under fifteen years of age, 286,000;
under nine years of age, 79,000.
figures were undoubtedly within the appall-
ing truth.

All these

Acknowledgments.

Received per Rev. F. J. Lankenau from the Mount

Zion congregation for the Building Fund $6.00; for
General Mission $9.55; from Sylvana Joseph for the
N. GC. Mission $1.00. Total, $16.55.

A. F. Leonuarpt, Local Treas.
New Orleans, La., Feb. 15., 1892.

Received for Mt. Zion Building Fund the follow-

ing subscriptions for January: America Davis $ .25;
Caroline Hardy .50; James Hubbard .25; Wilhelmina
Hosband .25; Felicie Benjamin .50; Elizabeth Hub-
bard .50; Samuel Tibbs .50; Nannie Bullard .25.
Total $3.00.

F. J. LANKENAU.
New Orleans, La., Febr. 20., 1892.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORLEANS, La.
KY, LUTI. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL,
113 Annette Str, between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services at 10 o'clock Sunday morning and at 74

o'clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 9 to 10%.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 7!4 Sunday evening and at 744 Thurs-
day evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 7)3
F. LANKE:

‘Tuesday evening.
NAU, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CARROLLTON.
Divine services at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon and 734
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o'clock. s

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL,
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str,
Divine services at 744 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.
Diyine service Sunday evening at 714 o'clock.
Sunday School from 10—J2.
Catechumen class meets from 7—S8 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 P. M.

Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.

Singing-school Tuesday evening.

Hl. 8. KNABENSCHUI, Missionary.

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