The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1892, Page 36

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Ar the recent session of the Evangelical-
Lutheran Synodical Conference in New York
City, the report of our Mission Board for mis-
sion work among the colored people of the
South was admitted and discussed. Several
of the missionaries were present and pointed
out the necessity of greater activity in this
important mission field. New churches and
schools will be built, and the widows and or-
phans of the missionaries working in this field
will be supported out of the treasury of the
Conference. The subject of Foreign Missions
was referred to the several Synods for dis-
cussion.

—Tuenre are some dialects into which the
Bible has never been translated. Last year
nine translations were made — four for Africa,
two for Russia, and one each for China, New
Hebrides, and West Indies.

—Tne dark places of the earth are still full
of the habitations of cruelty. Next to canni-
balism the most terrible practice in the Congo
basin is that of human sacrifices on the occa-

“sion of the funeral ceremonies of important
persons. The richer the family of the de-
ceased person, the more numerous are the
victims. Since far up the tributaries slaves
can be bought much cheaper than on the
Congo, canoe parties are sent for hundreds
of miles for the sole purpose of buying vic-
tims for human sacrifices. They are blind-
folded, bound to a stake in a sitting or kneel-
ing posture, and a single blow of the skillful
executioner’s knife beheads them. Though
men form the greater number of victims, wives
or female slaves are often strangled and thrown
into the open grave, or buried alive in it.

—TueEre are 50,000 Lutherans in South
Africa. In addition to these colored natives,
there are also several thousand white Lu-
therans. The total population of Cape Col-
ony is given as 2,227,000, of whom 751,500
are reported as belonging to the evangelical
churches. Among these the Lutherans are
very numerous.

-——GerorGE F. Pentecost, D. D., writes from
India in the Independent: ‘‘You can pick out
the children of the Christian native from those
of the heathen while they are playing together
in the same village street. The Christian chil-
dren are better clothed, better fed, brighter
in face, and cheerier in manner than those of
the heathen.’’ ‘‘Godliness is profitable unto all
things, having promise of the life that now is,
and of that which is to come.”’

*—Mn. C. D. Franke, who died in Charles-
ton, 8. C., July 10th, bequeathed $100,000 to
the founding of a hospital and home to be
known as ‘‘The Jacob Washington Franke
Lutheran Hospital and Home”’ in memory of
his deceased son. This is the largest charita-
-ble bequest ever made by any resident in the
history. of that city.

—TneE census statistics show that there were

in the prisons of the United States, in 1892,
82,329 persons charged with crimes of various
kinds. There were 7,386 accused of murder,
of whom 393 were women.

—Ir is twenty years since the London Mis-
sionary Society sent its first workers to New
Guinea, and the progress during this time has
been something wonderful. If, as we ought,
we reckon Australia as a continent, New Gui-
nea is the largest island in the world. Port
Moresby has been one of the principal sta-
tions, but recently a new island, Kwato, has
been occupied, and an institution is to be
established there for the training of native
teachers. The summary of the missionary
work in the island is given in The Chronicle
of the London Society as follows: ‘‘‘There are
fifty-three stations dotted along the southeast
coast, a.staff of six missionaries, over thirty
South Sea Island teachers, and some twenty
New Guineans. ‘There are more than 2000
children under instruction, and between 400
and 500 church members; while last, but not
least, the Rev. W. G. Lawes, the senior of the
New Guinea staff of missionaries, during his
recent visit to England, took through the press
the whole of the New Testament in the Motuan
dialect; all of which things are fraught with
encouragement and promise for the future.’’

—Curist1an missionaries in Turkey have
been much hampered in recent years by petty
interference on the part of fanatical Moham-
medan officials. ‘The annoyances and hin-
drances have been steadily increasing. The
chief sufferers are American missionaries. In-
stead of granting permission to circulate re-
ligious literature, as provided by treaty, and
has been the custom, the officials, on some
flimsy pretext, either confiscate or detain it in
bond for an unreasonable time. Another hin-
drance is in connection with the holding of
religious services in school-houses and resi-
dences. Conditions are imposed, in order to
exercise this privilege, that are well-nigh im-
possible of fulfillment. Efforts are being made
through official channels to have relief given,
but oriental diplomacy moves with tantalizing
slowness at best, and where there is also fanat-
ical opposition to be encountered, the delay is
greatly aggravated.

—Tne New Zealand census shows 1197
churches and chapels, and 400 other build-
ings used for worship, with sittings for 278,000,
or about one-half of the population. The num-
ber attending services is 197,000, of whom
40,785 are Presbyterians, 37,252 Episcopa-
lians, 20,525 Roman Catholics, 27,106 Wes-
leyans, and 14,442 belong to the Salvation
Army.

—Tne Japanese community in San Fran-
cisco and surrounding towns number about
2,500, and is being added to at the rate of
one hundred a month. During the past six
months more than four hundred are said to
have been converted.

—News reached England of fresh troubles

in China. In two or three places in the
eastern provinces of Fuh-Kien, and also in the
inland province of Sz-Chuen, some of the Chi-
nese have been trying to stir up a bitter feeling
against the missionaries and native Christians.
Some readers may have heard of the great city
of Kiong-Ning in the Fuh-Kien province. For
years no Christian missionaries might enter it,
but about eighteen months ago two lady mis-
sionaries were able to go and see their Chinese
teacher, whose home was in the city. Outside
the gates of the city a native medical student,
under one of the medical missionaries, Dr. Rigg,
opened a little dispensary and hospital, and
all seemed going on well. But last May a
Chinese mob attacked the mission premises,
and Dr. Rigg only escaped with extreme diffi-
culty from a most horrible death. Two ladies
were also attacked at a town not far removed
from Kiong-Ning, and were for some time ex-
posed to considerable danger. We can only
afresh ask God to overrule all the opposition
of the heathen for the increase of Christianity
and the spread of the Gospel in those dark
places of the earth ‘‘where Satan’s seat is.’’

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New OrxEans, La.

EY. LUTH. 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%.

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra.
Divine services at 744 Sunday evening and at 714 Thurs-
day evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 74 Tuesday evening.

F. LANKENAU, Missionary.

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

Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 7%
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 74 o'clock Sunday evening and at
o'clock Tnuredays evening. a v vs
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 P. M.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.
H. 8. KNABENSCHUN, Missionary.

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