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The Lutheran Pioneer.

‘The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Our Colored Mission at Meherrin, Va.,
now numbers 76 souls, 33 communicant mem-
bers, 105 pupils in the Sunday school, and
66 pupils in the day school.. The catechumen
class numbers 11 pupils. ‘he members of
the mission are all very active, .and the mis-
sionary is doing his work with a joyful and
thankful heart. :

—Ar the Grande Ligne School a French
Testament was given to a little girl of Romanist
parents, who was for four months at the Grande
Ligne School. She went home still a Romanist.
Her father asked her if she had a Bible. She
said she had. ‘You must give it to me or put
it away, never to take it out.’’ She put it in
the bottom of her trunk, and the treasure re-
mained hidden for ten or twelve years. ‘Then
she was married and had more liberty. She
began to read the Testament in the family ;
she and her husband were converted. ‘Their

zeal led them to labor for one of her brothers
who was at her father’s house. After many
months of labor and prayer the brother was
converted. ‘The three united in labor for a
sister. She was led to Christ, and so on until
the whole family of sixteen children besides
the parents were converted. A brother wrote
in 1886: ‘Through that little Testament,
given to Julia at Grande Ligne thirty-five
years ago, and in answer to the prayers of
Madame Feller that followed it, our families,
numbering eighty-five souls, are all in the
light.’’

—Tuenrs is a Japanese Christian-who puts
on his door the following notice every morn-
ing before he starts for his day’s work, which
is far from his home: ‘‘I am a Christian, and
if any one likes to go in and read my good
book while I am out, he may.’’ What a
‘simple and original way of obeying the direc-
tion, ‘‘Let him that heareth, say, Come.’’

—TueERE was a little boy who went to a
missionary meeting, and when he came back
he said nothing, but sat by the fire looking
at his baby sister in her mother’s lap. In the
morning it was just the same. His mother
asked him if he were well, and he said he was.
‘But oh, mother!’’ he cried, ‘‘they told last
night how the heathen mothers throw their
little girl babies away! Only think, how
shocking! ‘There’s my nickel. I meant to
buy a top with it, but now—the missionaries
shall have it all!”

—Art the recent meeting of the African
Society at Cologne details were given of
frightful cruelties in connection with maraud-
ing expeditions in Marunji and Kizabi in which
numberless victims were slain. Attempts were
made to march the captives to Kirando, and
on the way great numbers of old women and
children were drowned. The haste in which
the march was made led to the complete ex-
haustion of many who, formed a ‘part of the
caravan, and twenty or thirty, and sometimes
even fifty, were daily killed. But in spite of

all this it is said that 2000 slaves arrived at

| Kirando in one day.

—‘‘Wuat have you gained by becoming a
Christian???’ was the question propounded to
a convert from heathenism, who, by profes-
sion of faith in Christ as a Saviour and in
Christianity, had lost family, friends, every-
thing in this world. ‘‘Much, everything,’
was the answer. ‘‘I can now look upwards
to a God reconciled and loving, and say, ‘Our
Father, who art in heaven.’ ”’

—ALone the West African coast there are
now 200 churches, 35,000 converts, 100,000
adherents, 275 schools, 30,000 pupils. 35
dialects or languages have been mastered,
into which portions of the Scriptures and re-
ligious books and tracts have been translated
and printed, and.some knowledge of the Gos-
pel has reached about 8,000,000 of benighted
Africans.

—Rev. Josern ANNaND, 4 missionary in
the New Hebrides, writes to Gospel in All
Lands: *‘One of the finest sights that I have
seen in the New Hebrides I saw at Tongoa in
June this year. On a grassy hillside were as-
sembled nearly 600 natives, nearly all clothed
gaily, and joining most heartily in singing
sacred songs, and reverently bowing their
heads in prayer. Fifteen years ago I hap-
pened to be one of three missionaries who
were on Tongoa seeking to open the island
for teachers or a missionary. On the Sunday
we spoke briefly to the people on the same
hillside; but what a different congregation!
Then we addressed a company of naked painted
cannibals that were almost constantly at war,
killing and devouring one another. Now
what a changed scene! I fancy no sane man
could witness those two assemblies and not
exclaim, ‘Behold what miracles and wonders
God has wrought among the Gentiles.’ ’’

—A voor blind girl in England brought
$7.50 to her pastor for the cause of missions.
He said to her, **You are a poor blind girl
and can not afford to give so much."? ‘‘I am
indeed blind,’’ said she, ‘‘but can afford to
give this amount better, perhaps, than you
suppose. I am by trade a basket maker, and
can work as well in the dark as in the light.
During the last winter it must have cost the
other girls making baskets who have eyes,
more than $7.50 for candles to work by, which
Ihave saved; and, therefore, hope you will
take it for the missionaries.”’

—WHITEFIELD was once preaching at Exeter,
on Psalm 51, 17.,‘‘A broken and a contrite
heart.’’ He says that after the service a man
came up to him with a pocketful of stones,
and a big one in his hand, and told him in
tears, ‘‘Sir, I came here to hear you this day
with a view to break your head, but by the
grace of God you have broken my heart.’?

BOOK-TABLE.

‘CLUTHERAN WITNESS”? TRACTS.
Wm. Dallmann. :

No.1. The Eldership in the Lutheran Church. By

Rev. Theo. Engelder. Contents: Origin of Elder-

Edited by kev.

ship. Its neccessity. Importance of the Eldership
Office. Qualifications of an Elder.

No. 2. The Sacrament of Holy Baptism. By Rev.
Wm. Dallmann. Contents: The Nature of Holy
Baptism. Its Benefits. Its Efiicacy. Its Meaning.

No. 3. This tract is a translation of Dr. C. F. W.
Walther’s sermon on Luke 14, 1—11. It treats of
the freedom from the sabbath of the Old Testament
which Christians have obtained through the Gospel.
The sermon shows 1. from what the Christians are
made free by the Gospel, and 2. from what the
Christians are not made free by the Gospel.

We heartily recommend these tracts to our read-
ers. They deserve a wide circulation. Price of
No. 1 and No. 2: 1 cent a copy; 10 cents a dozen;
80 cents a hundred. Price of No.3: 2 cents a copy;
20 cents a dozen; $1.60 a hundred. Postage to be
paid by the buyer. To be had of Philip C. Treide,
238 South Broadway, Baltimore, Ma.

Acknowledgments. -

Received per Rev. F. J. Lankenau from Jf. Zion
Congregation for General Mission $5.65; for Build-
ing Fund $6.10. From St. Paul Congregation $5.00,
Day School $5.00 for General Mission. Total,
$21.75. A. IF. Leonnarpt, Local Treas.

New Orleans, La., March 8., 1892.

Received the following subscriptions for February
from members of Mt. Zion congregation: America
Davis $ .25; Caroline Hardy .50; Virginia Eugene
.25; James Hubbard .25; Felicie Benjamin .25; Eli-
zabeth Hubbard .50. Total, $2.00.

F. J. LANKENAU.

New Orleans, La., March 8., 1892.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEanNs, La.

EV. 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 104%.

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

KY. 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.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 744 o’clock Sunday evening and at 734
o’clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
AUG. BURGDORF, MISSIONARY.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Chureh.
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service Sunday evening at 744 o'clock.
Sunday School from 10—12. nitte
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.

Ey. Luth, Holy Trinity Church.
Springfield, IN.
Divine Services at half past 10 o'clock Sunday morning
and at8 o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 3 o'clock vp. M.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening. :

H. 8. KNABENSCHUH, Missionary. ;
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