The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1892, Page 20

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The Lutheran ‘Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Tue School House of the German Luth-

_ eran Orphan’s Home at Wittenberg, Wis.,

was totally destroyed by fire on the night of

’ April 1. The upper story was used as a dor-

mitory for the children, but with extraordinary

effort the little ones were awakened and es-

caped with their lives. .By great exertion the

main building was saved from the flames, so

that the orphans.and their friends can sing of
mercy.

—A ponor of $20,000 to the work of for-
eign missions was being spoken of as a most
magnificent giver. ‘‘Not quite so,’’ was the
answer. ‘'I know of at least one more gen-
erous giver. Well, that gift is known to very
few except the Lord. ‘The other day I was
calling on a friend of mine, a very aged man,
who told me with tears running down his
cheeks, that his only son was about to leave
home for missionary work in a far away land.
The father had discovered that the young man
felt called of God for such purpose, but was
tarrying at home for his sake. ‘How could
I keep him back?’ said the old man, ‘I
had been praying all my life, ‘‘Thy kingdom
come;’’ and with all the pain of parting with
my boy, with the certainty I shall never see
him again on earth, there is deep joy in giving
him up for Christ’s sake.’ ”’

—Tur Rey. I’. Larsen, who is at the head

* of the Mission School for the Indian youth, at
Wittenberg, Shawano County, Wisc., writes,
that there are now 155 Indian boys and girls
in the school-under Christian training and ex-
cellent discipline.

—Tne Kirketidende reports the donation of
a valuable farm near Stoughton, Wisc., by
G. Skraalen and wife to the Norwegian Luth-
eran Synod, for an Orphan’s Farm School.
The Home of the Synod will be removed from
Madison, Wisc., where it now occupies the
old Seminary building. Friends in Stough-
ton have contributed $1,500 towards the nec-
essary changes.

—Yne ‘poor prisoner of the Vatican’’ has
not done badly. The Roman correspondent
of a Paris paper states that Leo XIII. has de-
posited in a bank, for the use of his successor,
his savings of $1,000,000, acquired during his
occupation of the Papacy. Yet Romanists in
some places are taught to pity the old man in
his poverty and privation!

—Pomark, Queen of Tahiti and Morea, was
seventy years of age when she died. At her
birth the first missionaries had just landed in
the South Seas; at her death three hundred

_islands were evangelized. :

—Tne customs of the Chinese in regard to
burials are very strange. At the funeral of
a man there is great parade, especially if he
be a person of high rank, and many mourn-
ers are hired to carry battle-axes, banners,
and ornamental designs. The reason for this
even the Chinese themselves can not give, the
custom is so ancient. Bands of music accom-

‘| pany the procession, and paper money is scat-

tered to the winds to pay the passage of the
soul. The only possibility of a woman having
such an elaborate funeral is the fact of her be-
ing old, and having grown-up sons to honor
her memory; the oldest son is always chief
mourner. A funeral is always an expensive
affair with the Chinese, and for this reason
many are left unburied for years, or until there
are three or four to be buried, and one fun-
eral ctoes for all.

—Rev. GrorGre GRENFELL, of the Congo
Mission, says that in Central Africa there
is an area 4000 square miles larger than the
whole of Europe still unoccupied by a single
missionary; that the centre of Africa can not
permanently be evangelized by white men,
but the greater part of the work must be done
by the natives themselves, and the natives are
showing their fitness for the task.

— Ir is a short time since the Bible was a
forbidden book in Italy. It was not safe for
one to be found with a copy of it in the city of
the pope. But now there are many Protestant
churches in Rome, and all through the coun-
try the Bible is freely sold. The report for
the past year shows the sale of 7,509 full co-
pies, 16,827 copies of the New Testament,
and 143,212 copies of portions of the Scrip-
tures, an increase of 13,778 over 1890. These
sales are not to foreigners or evangelicals, but
for the most part to the Roman Catholic popu-
lations of the remote provinces, where the voice
of the evangelical preacher may not be heard
for along time. Dr. A. Meille says, ‘‘I feel
justified in saying that no book is so largely
bought, or finds so many readers in Italy at
present, as the word of God.”’

—TueE Independent gives the following sum-
mary of mission work in India: Churches and
societies supporting missions, 37; stations,
8,777; missionaries, 1,727, of whom 924 are
male and 803 female; native preachers, 2,961;
congregations, 1,605; communicants, 249,-
492; schools, 6,993; pupils, 294,167; Sun-
day-school scholars, 124,603.

—Tue American Bible Society has decided
to make an exihibit at the World’s Fair in
Chicago in 1893 similar in many respects to
that in Philadelphia in 1876, when specimens
of Bibles were shown in over 200 different
languages. It is proposed, also, to provide
for the sale of Scriptures, and for their free
distribution to foreign visitors.

—Aunt Dinan could shout and sing with
the best of the church members. It was
common at the missionary meeting to sing the
hymn, ‘‘Fly abroad, thou mighty Gospel,’’
while the collection was being taken, and
Aunt Dinah always threw her head back, shut
her eyes, and sang away lustily till the plate
had passed. Old uncle Moses, the collector,
observed her habit, and one evening stopped
when he came to her, and said: ‘‘Look-a-
heah, Aunt Dinah, you needn’t be a-singing,
‘Fly abroad, thou mighty Gospel!’ if you
doesn’t give nothin’ to make her jfly!’”

BOOK-TABLE.

WILLIAM MorGan. Ein geschichtlicher Beitrag
zur Beleuchtung des Logenwesens von Pastor A.
Krafft. Price 15 cts. Address: Rev. J. Frosch,
Elmira, Waterloo Co., Ontario.

PFINGSTLIED. Fuer zwei Singstimmen oder zwei
Violinen mit Pianobegleitung, componirt von Fr.
Faerber. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis,
Mo. Price 80 cts.; $3.00 per dozen.

SYNODALBERICHT des California- und Oregon-
Districts. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis,
Mo. Price 15 cts. The subject treated in this Syn-
odical Report is: ‘‘Was ist zum Aufbau unserer
Kirche an dieser Kueste erforderlich?”

SYNODALBERICHT des suedlichen Districts. Con-
cordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price 18 cts.
This report treats of the importance of the pure doc-
trine of Holy Baptism for Christian faith and life.

Acknowledgments.

Received per Rev. F. J. Lankenau from the Mt.
Zion congregation for the Building Fund, $17.55;
from the Mt. Zion Sunday School, $5.00. Total,
$22.55. A. F. LEONHARDT.

New Orleans, La., April 6., 1892.

Received the following subscriptions for the month
of March:

Laura Hurles § .25; Wilhelmina Husband .25;
Albert Brown .25; Felicie Benjamin .50; Louisa
Green .25; Frances Austin .25; Henrietta Davis .25;
Eliz. Hubbard .50; Sam’ Tibbs .25; Nannie Bullard
-25; Mathilda Thomas +10; Emma Thomason .25;
Ellen Redford .25: Clara Redford 255 Abraham
Hurles .10; Jane Hill .25. Total, $4. 20.

R J. LANKENAU,

New Orleans, La., April 6., 1892.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New Orveans, La.

KY. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Div Ang services at 10 o'clock eels, morning and at 74
"clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 9 to 10%.
KV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra,
Divi Foes serv! EaCeay at 744 Sunday evening and at 74 Thurs-
a
sunday 8c School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 714 Tuesday evening.

F. LANKENAQ, Missionary.

EY. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CARROLLTON.

“Divine services at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon and 74
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM OHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.

Divine services at 7/4 o’clock Sunddy evening and at 7%
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 pundaye) evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School from 10—12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from S—9 Wednesday evening.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,
Springfield, Ill.
Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at8 o’clock Sunday ev, ening.
Sunday School at 3 o’clock ¥. M
Catechumen class meets Aondiy and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.
H. S. KNABENSCHUM, Missionary.

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