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The Lutheran Pioneer.

the baby lay. Willing men leaped from the}done in the hope that the gospel of Jesus
train, but instead of finding a mangled, life-| Christ, our Saviour and Redeemer, may al-
less corpse, the little one was found sitting | ways be preached in its purity in our churches,
on a pile of gravel near the track. He was| and the sacraments be administered according
uninjured, except a slight bruise on his fore- | to the original purposes, so that all who hun-
head. The mother was almost frantic with | ger for eternal life may be edified in our holy
joy on finding her darling unhurt. It was a| faith through the Holy Spirit. In this sense
miraculous escape. I have entered upon this work, and by this
—A missionary says: ‘‘Turn to your arith-| writing I wish to testify to the world, that
metic and see how long it will take 1270 mis-| this work is undertaken to the glory of God,
sionaries in China to reach the 400,000,000 | before whom I bow in humility, and to whom
heathen, if they use the personal method. |I dedicate all my life. Blessed be His holy
And really, nearly all the converts in China| name in Christ Jesus our Lord!’’
are made in this way. Suppose you seek the} —SrVERAL years ago a movement was in-
aid of every Chinese Christian, and then you | augurated among college students in America
would have a force of 50,000. Let the 50,000 | to secure the pledge of students to enter on the
visit each one person a day and talk with him | missionary work. Nearly 6000 have pledged
two hours, and let them labor in this way for| themselves to enter the foreign field. It is
365 days in the year, and only 18,250,000 per- | stated that about 350 have already entered on
sons would be reached in one year. At this|the work. Some,500 are in the theological

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Tnxe German Lutheran congregations of
ae the Missouri Synod in Fort Wayne, Ind., have
Lee begun English Lutheran mission work in that

city. A beautiful church building has already
been purchased and there will be English serv-
“ices held every Sunday. A pastor will soon
be called who is to devote all his time to this
“i important work.

—Tne Workman of Pittsburgh says: The
**English Lutheran Synod of Missouri and
other States’’ is making encouraging prog-
ress in the establishment of English Lutheran
congregations. Most of these are composed
of the younger members of the large German
city churches. Pittsburgh has already two
such congregations—one in the city proper,
the other on the Sonth Side. A similar move-

ment has been started in Albany, N. Y., the

i. Rey. John Henry having entered on his labors} rate it will require more than 20 years for| schools, and 125 in medical colleges.

E ; on the 11th of September. On last Sunday | every person in China to hear the Gospel once. | ——

Fe the Rev. Charles Morhart was installed as pas-| But is one hearing sufficient? Go and preach] : Acknowledgment.

By: tor of a newly organized English church in the Gospel to the Chinese, and you will find] Received per Rev. F. J. Lankenau from the Mt.
Baw Washington, D.C. Baltimore has just dedi-| that it requires days and weeks of teaching | Zion congregation for the Building Fund $41.45.
f cated its second English church and installed] before they really know what the nature of : ae UC ONMARDT) LLOCAUL CCeuter:
es - >, . : 5 : ars

fox a pastor. St. Paul, Minn., has for some time/ the Gospel is. And the native Christians of Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,

past had a similar organization, of which the

Rey. Detzer is pastor. New Orleans, La., has

a large and rapidly increasing congregation.

Buffalo, N. Y., has one or two mission sta-

tions with English services. Akron, O., has

* another; St. Louis another with a fine church,

and Chicago another, under the care of Pas-

tor Bartholomew. There are doubtless others,

_ which we do not recall, but the indications

> are, that instead of suffering from the con-

‘stant drain of their younger members to the

world, or to the hungry sects which are ‘‘wait-

ing to devour them,’’ they are bending every

‘energy to provide believing pastors who will

- ~ gather them into churches, worshipping in the

language of their native land, and, perpetu-
ating their faith in the new world.

—WE are glad to hear that the English Lu-
theran Concordia College at Conover, N. C.,
-opened with 79 scholars in attendance. May
God bless the labors of our brethren in the

China cannot yet be relied upon for this work.”
—Tne American Bible society is not idle, |”
as is shown by the statistics of last year. It
printed and issued 913,678 copies of the Bible,
or parts of it, which is more than two books
per minute of the working days. During the
seventysix years of this society’s existence
it has issued 55,531,908-copies of the Bible.
Since the beginning of this century there has
been printed over 530,000,000 copies of this
book. It has been translated into twohundred
languages and is accessible to two-thirds of
the human race, or a billion people. It is esti-
mated, however, that there are still 500,000,000
souls who have no knowledge of the Bible.
—A munisTeER tells in the Zreasury an in-
structive story about giving. In one of his
charges a wealthy man regularly contributed
every Lord’s day five dollars for the support
of the Church, and as regularly a poor widow
put in five cents, all she could spare, as she

NEw ORiEans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services at 10 6’clock Sunday morning and at 734
o'clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 9 to 1044.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalla Strs.
Divine services at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 74 Thurs-
day evening.
Sunday School mects at 9 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 744 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 74%
o’clock py cdneaaay evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

IPs

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 744 o’clock Sunday evening and at 7}
o’clock Thursday seeming: y 5 %
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
AUG. BURGDORF, MISSIONARY.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church.
_ Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service ponavercning at 744 o’clock.

- : { Sunday School from I
é South: ns E. supported herself and six children by taking Catechumen class meets from 7—S Wednesday evening.
; —A rrienp of the Proxzer in St. Louis|in washing. One day the former came to the| .5iging-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.

‘sends us the following item illustrative of
God’s care over little children. Mrs. Lewis
Nosek and her 18-month old baby of St. Louis
had been visiting Mrs. Nosek’s parents in
_ Cleyeland, O., and Friday were returning to
" their Western: home on the Big Four passen-
ger Train No. 4. While the train was bowl-
ing along at a speed of forty miles an hour
2ar Russelvania, O., baby Nosek became fret-

minister and said that the latter ought not to
pay anything, and that he would pay the five
cents for her every week. The minister called
to tell her of this offer, which he did as deli-
cately as he could. What was her reply as
the tears started to her eyes: ‘'Do they want
to take from me the comfort I experience in
giving to the Lord? Think how much I owe
to him. My health is good, my children keep

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 Pp. M.
Catecliumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.
H. 8. KNABENSCHUH, Missionary.

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—Tnex Empress of Germany is credited with
being a devoted Christian. She has become
the patroness of a scheme to build a Protestant
church at Bethlehem, and in connection there-
with published the following: ‘*This work is

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