The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1892, Page 28

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

numbers 23 communicant members; 25 pupil
attend the Sunday school.

Little Rock as in former years.

bers.

St. Paul’s Church numbers 69 communicant
members; the average church attendance is
200; the Sunday school is attended by 164,
and the day school by 156 pupils.

—Ar Meherrin, Va., our mission has a
beautiful church, a school house, anda par-
sonage. ‘Tlie congregation numbers 34 com-
municant members; the average church at-
+) tendance is 88; the Sunday school numbers
Bea ' 106, the day school 54 pupils. Not far from
; Meherrin there is another missionary station,

where services are regularly held by our mis-

sionary, the Rev. D. Schoof.

—Ar Springfield, Ill., our mission has a
beautiful church property valued at $5,000.
The congregation numbers 40 communicant
members, and the Sunday school is attended
by 75 children.

—Is North Carolina our mission work among
the Colored people is still prospering. In Con-
cord a congregation has been organized which
now numbers 20 communicant members; the
day school is attended by 53, and the Sunday
school by 84 children. Not only in Concord,

_ but also in Reimerstown and at two other
stations services are regularly held by our
_ missionary, the Rey. N. Bakke. In Rey. Phi-
 fer’s congregation a church is being built, the
_ site for the new church having been donated
_ by two English Lutheran congregations.

—Unoccuriep mission territory to the ex-
tent of 4,000,000 square iniles still exists in
‘Central Africa, an area larger than the whole

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_ Congo Mission.

_ —Rey. Davin Hixz, missionary in China,
ugh born to wealth, has cheerfully sup-
| himself for twenty-eight years. His
ther, a magistrate in York, has contributed
he work, and now his son has gone
in the same field.

. the West African coast there are
w 200 churches, 35,000 pupils. ‘Thirty-five

—Our Colored Mission at Little Rock, Ark.

One of the grad-
uates of our Seminary at Springfield, Il]., has
accepted the call to this missionfield, and we
hope our mission work will again prosper in

—Ar New Orleans we have four missionary
stations with two missionaries, four churches,
two school houses, and seven teachers. Beth-
lehem’s church numbers 43 communicant mem-
The average church attendance is 80.
In the day school there are 154, and in the
Sunday school 200 children.—In Carrolton
the average church attendance is 30; the day
school numbers 30 and the Sunday school
60 children.—Mt. Zion’s Church numbers 126
communicant members; the average church
attendance is 150; the Sunday school num-
bers 183, and the day school 181 children.—

to an English gentleman: ‘‘Ah. Sahib! Christ
is all my hope; Christ is my Rest-Stone.’’
The words expressed very beautifully the

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Africans.

Guinea.
ers, and some twenty New Guineans.

five hundred church-members.
been put through the press.

been occupied by two missionaries.
—Tue census of Spain serves us an object

popular education flourishes under Roman
Catholic domination.
Romanism is in supreme control in that coun-
try, and that as regards education and religion,
the inhabitants are exactly what Rome has
made them. Look, then, at these figures:
In round numbers the total population, ex-
clusive of foreigners, is 17,000,000, the fe-
males predominating by about 350,000. Of
this number a little over 5,000,000 can read
and write, while 600,000 can only read, leay-
ing 12,000,000 who can neither read nor write.
—A NeEGRO PreacuHer once elaborated a
new theory of the Exodus—to wit, that the
Red Sea was frozen over, and so afforded the
Israelites a safe passage, but when Pharaoh
with his heavy iron chariots attempted to cross
he broke through and was drowned. <A brother
arose and asked an explanation of that ‘'p’int.”’
Said he, ‘‘I’s been studyin’ g’ography, and de
g’ ography say dat am de place whar de tropics
am, and de tropics am too hot for freezin’ ; de
p’int to be ’splained is ’bout breakin’ through
de ice.’” The preacher straightened himself
up and said, ‘‘Brudder, glad you axed dat
question, for it gives me ’casion to *splain it.
You see, dat war a great while ago, bofo’ dey
had any g’ographies, and befo’ dere war any
tropics.’’ s .
—> ~~ oo >

Christ my Rest-Stone.

In India, where burdens are carried on
men’s heads and on their backs, and not in
carts and wagons and barrows, as with us, it
is customary to provide resting-places for them
along the roads. For this purpose stones are
set up by the side of the hot, dusty, sandy
way, just the right height for a man to rest
his burden on; there he can stand and rest,
till relieved and refreshed he is able to go on
his way. F

A native Christian in Travancore once said

which portions of the Scripture and religious
books and tracts have been translated and
printed, and some knowledge of the Gospel
has reached about 8,000,000 of benighted

—AnonG the newer work commenced by
the London Missionary Society is that in New
There are now fifty-three stations
along the south-east coast, a staff of six mis-
sionaries, over thirty South Sea Island teach-
More
than two thousand children are under instruc-
tion, and there are between four hundred and
The whole
New Testament in the Motu dialect has also
Within the first
year a new station on the Kwato Island has

lesson to demonstrate the extent to which

It is well known that

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man’s sense of the comfort and blessing he
had in his Saviour.

This native Christian had many a time gladly
used the rest-stones by the roadside, and he
was calling the Lord Jesus Christ his Rest-
Stone. He had learnt to know the burden of
sin, and to feel its weight; but finding it too
heavy for him to bear, he had come to the
Saviour with it, had laid it upon Him and
found rest.

Acknowledgments.

Received per Rev. F. J. Lankenau from the Mt.
Zion congregation for the Building Fund the sum
of $17.85. <A.¥F. Leonuarpt, Local Treasurer.

Received the following subscriptions for May: Ca-
roline Hardy § .50, Laura Hurles .25, Sam’] Hub-
bard .25, Sophia Page .50, Lottie Daniels .25, Wil-
helmine Hosband .25, Felicie Benjamin .50, Eliz.
Hubbard .50, Sam’! Tibbs .25, R. B. Johnson .50,
Emma Thomason .25, A. T. Harris .25, Ellen Red-
ford .50, May Cyprian .30, Jane Easter .20, N. N.
$2.00, Sam’l] Hubbard $1.00. Total, $8.25.

F. J. LANKENAU.

New Orleans, La., June 7., 1892.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORLEANS, 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 cvening.
Sunday School from 9 to 10%.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 744 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thurs-
day evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class mects at 744 Tuesday evening.

F. LANKENAD, 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 CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 7'4 o’clock Sunday evening and at 744
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 punday 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 ¥. M.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

4 H. S. KNABENSCHUH, Missionary.

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