The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1893, Page 16

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16 The Lutheran Pioneer.

—lIr is now 150 years since the first Hotten~
tot was baptized by the Moravian missionary,
George Schmidt. There are at present in Cape
Colony, under the direction of the Moravian
Church, 11 flourishing stations, with 22 mis.
sionaries and about 9300 souls in their care;
1 normal school and 19 common schools at
the stations, with 2200 scholars ; 2 ordained na-
tives, 2 assistant native ministers, and about
150 native assistants.

—Tuoueu all the world is said to be open
to the Gospel, there are yet some languages
in which it is not uttered. The British and
Foreign Bible Society added nine new trans-
lations of the Scriptures last year to its list.
Four of these are for Africa, two for the Rus-~
sian Empire, one each for China, the New
Hebrides and the West Indies.

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world did you get that?”’ she asked, ‘I’ve been
looking for it for six months.’”’

—As we go to press the sad news reaches us| —DLake TaNGAnyIKA, East Africa, is the
of the death of the Rev. J. H. Jox, of Logans-| field for a curious kind of mission work. The
port, Ind. He departed this life and entered | Roman Catholic missionaries build strong forts,
the joy of his risen Lord in the morning of| with loopholes. A man skilled in war super-
the 2Istof March. He was one of the pioneers] intends a military department. The priests
of our Lutheran church in the western states, | buy children from the natives and from slave
an able, faithful, and hard-working servant| dealers; then teach the little ones to work and
of Christ, always zealous in the cause of the| to be good disciples of the Pope. This is not
Master. During his long ministry he did much | the course Christ’s apostles adopted.
mission work among the German settlements} —Tuenz is a story of a minister who plead
in Wisconsin and Indiana. The late Dr. Sihler}so earnestly for foreign missions that, when
in his Autobiography says of Rev. Jox that|he asked for those who would volunteer to
God used him in many cases to bring hardened | enter upon the work, his own daughter came
sinners to repentance and faith in the Saviour} forward promptly and offered herself. Taken
on their dying beds. ‘‘They that turn many| by surprise, the father said: ‘‘Oh, daughter,
to righteousness shall shine as the stars for/ I did not mean you.”’ How easy to talk with
ever and ever.”’ fervor without meaning much:

—Oor mission at Charlotte and Lexington,| —Muzra Asraunam is a convert from Islam,
North Carolina, is in a prosperous condition. | whose steadfastness and Christian zeal in per-
Since the erection of the neat chapel at Char-|secution are at present exciting not a little
lotte the number of the church members has| interest in Persia. He was arrested for preach-
increased. From 60—80 children attend the} ing Christ. He was beaten and tormented and
mission school, and twelve children are being| cast into prison. For three weeks he was in
prepared for confirmation. A chapel seems| prison in Oroomia, and afterward in Tabriz.
to be needed at Lexington, since the services} He persisted in confessing Christ. He has
must be held in the Court-house, and the/ won the heart of his jailer, receiving, in con-
colored people there are rather superstitious} sequence, liberty to see his friends, read his
and do not like to attend services held in the} Bible, and speak to his fellow-prisoners. Ten
court-room. It is said that an innocent man| out of the eleven criminals in jail he has won
was at one time sentenced to death in that] over to Christ. Thousands of Moslems are
room, and the people think he still pays his| having their attention thereby called to the
nightly visits to that awful place. claims of Christianity.

—A Lurneran Home for the aged is to be} —Gen. WasnincTon is said to have stopped
erected at Monroe, Michigan, by our brethren | his horse, as he was once riding along a coun-
in that state. Another has been established| try road, to administer this rebuke to a pro-
at Arlington Heights, near Chicago. fane ploughman: ‘‘My friend, I am older than

—A LurHeran Orrnan Asr_um of the Mis-| you, have many times been placed in positions
souri Synod is being built near Fremont, Neb. | of difficulty and danger, and have had many
Another, with a Home for the Aged, will be| things to perplex and annoy me, and I have
located near Baltimore, Md. always found, that it did no good to get an-

—From the report of our Immigrant mis-| gry; and that neither broken ploughs nor any-
sionary at Baltimore we see that this work has| thing else can be mended or made better by
been blessed during the past year. Many| the use of profane language.”’
church papers and tracts were distributed) —In Bengal, India, persons traveling among
among theimmigrants. 1700 persons were as-| the villages will constantly come across a pile
sisted on their westward journey. $14,126.60] of stones placed under the shadow of a large
passed through the missionary’s hands. $900] tree or in a hill for the purpose of being
were loaned to those in temporary need and| worshiped. It is believed there that every
$100 were given to the entirely destitute. 938 | large tree, hill-top and stream are haunted by
etters were received, and 767 were written by| gods and demons which are to be dreaded.
5 the missionary. There is no doubt that much] Hence worship is performed under the trees
| __ good is being accomplished by our mission-| with the object of propitiating the evil beings
: aries at New York and Baltimore for the tem-| supposed to dwell in them. ‘The stones are
_ Poral and spiritual welfare of the emigrants} looked upon as the symbol and abode of the
seeking our shores. god; red paint is smeared upon them, and

—Some people have a very handsome Bible offerings of rice, milk, fruit and flowers are

on thedrawing-room table, yes. But do they| presented to them daily. In some cases, | P'
’ | included, to-wit:

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

Acknowledgment.

Received per Rev. F. J. Lankenau from the Mt.
Zion (Colored) Church and School for their Build-
ing Fund, $21.75. : A. F. LEONMARDT.

New Orleans, La., March 1, 1893.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New OrzeEans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services at 10 o'clock Sunday morning and at 7%
o'clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 9 to 104.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 744 Sunday evening and at 744 Thura-
day evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 744 Tucsday 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.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 744 o’clock Sunday evening and at
o'clock uredaceventon! ud u %

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 314 o’clock.
Sunday School at 10 o'clock.
Catechumen class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday

evoning:
Singing-school from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.

Cus. H. RUESSKAMP, Missionary,

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfeld, Til.
Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 3 o’clock Pp. x.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday cyenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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the other day, I opened a Bible on the drawing-| — Iris said that oneout of every 100 heathen
m table while waiting for my friend. There} converts becomes a missionary, but only one
ded piece of paper inside, and it was| out of every 5000 Christians born and reared

coul help seeing it, ‘recipe for|in Christian Iands, except in the Moravian
id came in at the moment ‘Church, which has one missionary to every

aehys acre in the/65 members at home. Joncordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.

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