The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1892, Page 44

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Ix our October issue the picture which
was to go with an article: ‘‘Luther Starting
for Magdeburg”’ was, by some mistake, left
out, and we apologize to our readers.

—Our missionary at Little Rock, Ark.,
was installed at that place by the Rev. I. W.
Miller, on the 25th of September. The Colored
Mission School, which had been closed for a
year, has been reopened with 17 pupils. May
God again bless our mission at Little Rock as
in years gone by.

—THREE young ‘men from Zululand are
studying at the Norwegian Luther College at
Decorah, Iowa. At Roanoke College there
are a number of Indian students.

—Four ministers are at work among the
Slovakian Lutherans of our land, but it ‘is
claimed that a dozen are needed to meet the
spiritual needs of their countrymen.

—TueE Leipzig Missionary Society, which
has been doing its foreign missionary work in
Southern India, will also now take up the mis-

- sions of the Bavarian Society in East Africa.

—Tue railroad from Jaffa to Jerusalem is
finished at last, and the first locomotive reached
therein August. Regular trains will soon run
on the road. Tourists in Palestine will find
this more pleasant than riding donkeys or
camels.

—CnineEsE SurerstiTion.—A missionary in
China writes: ‘‘The superstition of the Chi-

: nese is almost ridiculous. Mothers are in
“great dread lest evil spirits may take their
{sons away. They give the boys girls’ names,

} dress them in girls’ clothes, and put rings in

- i their ears, to make the passing spirit believe
they are girls. I have not been able to per-

 suade our nurse to stop calling my little boy

. + ‘girl.’ Children are required to wear a look-

ing glass on their caps, so that the evil spirit

may be frightened away by the reflection of

his own ugly face.”” 5
70 y —Awn Eastern paper, speaking of the fruits
eS of mission work, says: ‘‘The Rev. John G.
ee Paton, for many years a missionary to the
rie heathen of the New Hebrides Islands, is visit-
ing in this country. Mr. Paton has given
i thirty-four years of his life to mission work in
- the South Sea Islands. He says that in the
early years of the mission the islanders re-
sented the intrusion of the men of God, and
put many of them to death. Cannibal feasts

in those days were of frequent occurrence,
"and it took a man of great nerve and fighting
qualities to stand his ground. The- natives
_ were addicted to the most heathenish customs
"imaginable. Their only form of religion was
the worship of idols. - Their gods, they thought,
med human sacrifices at frequent intervals

idol before which hundreds of children had
been killed in the most horrible manner. From

mising material a large number of
e been obtained, Mr. Paton says.

cities of Japan, and is meeting with a ready
sale.

to Christianity in Urnmiyah, Persia, suffered
many things for his steadfastness in the faith.
Not long ago he was taken captive to Tobreez
and threatened with death. The Shah hearing
of the affair sent a telegram from Teheran de-
claring religious freedom for all Persia. Mirza
was set free, and the persecution of Christians
is at an end.

GESCHICHTE DER LUTHERISCHEN KIRCHE IN AME-

> pease their wrath. Mr. Paton shows an |-

and care. The work has been executed in a most ex-
cellent manner, indicating at once the most patient
research and the utmost candor and impartiality.
It will prove of great interest and value to every
Lutheran, and we hope that the book may realize
a sale commensurate to its worth.

Christian natives. Cannibalism has been done
away with and industrial pursuits have been
introduced.”

—‘“THERE are more missionary societies
represented in India to-day than in any other
section of the world. There are more mis-
sionaries, more schools, more churches, more
communicants, a wider opportunity for every
form of Christian endeavor, the use of every
weapon of Christian warfare, the application
of every Christian principle.’”’ And well may it
beso; forthe population numbers 288,000,000,
and the idols worshiped 330,000,000. Of the
women 40,000,000 are shut up in Zenanas,
23,000,000 are widows, and 79,000 were wid-
ows before they were nine years of age. Only
one woman in 800 is under instruction, and
but one Protestant missionary is found to
500,000 of the population.

—Tnze heartlessness and hardness of hea-
thenism are strongly reflected in the following
incident, reported by Missionary Reade. He
writes: ‘‘During the late cholera I was called
to see a boy of five years, who had been
attacked by the scourge. The child lay in the
arms of his father, surrounded by a crowd,
weeping and wailing. Among these there was
also a girl ten years of age. I reproached the

parents for not sending the child away, as
she would surely take the disease.
following day the girl became sick, and the
boy died.
bewailed the dead boy, whilst hard by the
sick daughter was lying and crying in vain for

On the

The parents and relatives loudly

a drink of water. Not a person concerned
himself about her-; and when I upbraided the
mother for treating her daughter soinhumanly,
she replied: ‘The boy is dead; what does the
girl amount to?’ ’’—Strange picture of mater-
nal love! Such is the depravity of heathenism
that a mother can forget her child.

—A ‘Lire or Lutuer,’’ written by a Japa-
nese professor for his countrymen, lately ap-
peared in the windows of the bookstores in the

—Minza Israuim, a Mohammedan convert

BOOK-TABLE.

RICA von A. L. Graebner, Professor der Theo-
logie am Concordia College zu St. Louis. Erster
Theil. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis,
Mo. Price $2.50; postage 380 cts.

This is a grand book, written with much labor

The Lutheran Pioneer.

FESTKLAENGE. Predigten ueber Festtexte des Kir-
chenjahrs von Dr. C.F. W. Walther, Consors
Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price $1.75

A recommendation of these sermons of the la-
mented Dr. Walther on the lessons for the festival
seasons of the churchyear would be superfluous
The excellence of Walther’s sermons is well known,
and we doubt not that the book will find a ready sale.

“Gop BE MERCIFUL To ME A SINNER”’, or The Doc-
trines of True Christian Repentance, Justifica-
tion, Faith and Life as shown from Scripture
by the venerable Dr. M. Luther. Published by
the Sewing Circle of the German Evangelical
Lutheran Trinity Church, Zanesville, O. Price
8 cts., postage lct. Address all orders to Rey.
C. A. Frank, 16 Harvey Str., Zanesville, O.

This neatly printed pamphlet of 22 pages gives us
an English translation of Dr. Luther’s grand ex-
position of the story of the Pharisee and the Pub-
lican. The excellent tract, in which the way of
salvation is made plain in Luther’s matchless style,
deserves a wide circulation.

Acknowledgment.

Received from Mt. Zion (col.) congregation per
Rev. F. J. Lankenau $27.65 for Building Fund.

A. F. LEonuARDT, Local Treasurer.
New Orleans, La., Oct. 11., 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 74
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 9 to 104.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 74 Sunday evening and at 74 Thars-
day evening.
Sunday Schoo! meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 74 Tuesday evening.

F. LANKENAU, 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 714 o’clock Sunday evening and at 74
o’clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
AUG. BURGDORF, MISSIONARY.

Evang. Luth. St. Paul’s Church.
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.

Divine service Sunday afternoon at 344 o’clock.

Sunday School at 10 o’clock.

Catechumen class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday
evening.

Singing-school from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.

Cras. IT. RUESSKAMP, Missionary.

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 rv. M.

Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.

Singing-school Tuesday evening. ~

H. S. KNABENSCHUH, Missionary.

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