The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1893, Page 20

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borhood, the impression that the Gospel is
working powerfully among the people in the
manner of the leaven has never been so strong
on me as of late. This working and leaven-
ing does not, as one would wish, always im-
mediately result in numerous conversions, but
often the contrary, in contradiction, opposi-
tion, yea in words of venomous hatred against
Christianity, and especially against the name
of Jesus Christ. Let the preacher declaim
ever so much on the vanity and folly of idola-
try, let him’ paint the sins of the hearers in
the most vivid colors, they will generally be
silent or assent to his words; but scarcely has
the name of Jesus Christ crossed the preach-
er’s lips, when the whole circle of listeners be-
come, as it were, electrified, some run away,
as if to say ‘we will not have this man to reign
over us,’ others begin to scoff, others again,
irritated and provoked by the mention of that
name, abuse the name of Jesus, and very of-
ten it is only the minority that are quiet and
neutral. This name is to them ‘a stone of
stumbling and a rock of offence;’ I have been
told again and again, ‘preach whatever you
like, tell us the truth howsoever you like, we
will listen, we will assent; but do not mention
the name of Jesus Christ; we tell you once
for-all that we won’t have anything to do with
Him.’”

—A CLERGYMAN was annoyed by people talk-
ing and giggling. He paused, looked at the
disturbers, and said: ‘*I am always.afraid to
reprove those who misbehave, for this reason.
Some years since, as I was preaching, a young
man who sat.before me was constantly laugh-
ing, talking and making uncouth grimaces.
I paused and administered a severe rebuke.
After the close of the service a gentleman said
to me, ‘Sir, you have made a great mistake ;
that young man was an idiot.’ Since then I
have always been afraid to reprove those who
misbehave themselves in chapel, lest I should
repeat that mistake and reproye another idiot.”
During the rest of the service there was good
order.

—Every reader of church history knows
the awful seas of calumny through which the
early Christians had to force their way. Chris-
tianity is encountering the same malign force
in China. Griffith John tells the following of
a Chinese student who ventured with quaking
heart to enter a Christian hospital: I asked
Mr. Jen why he hesitated to come to the hos-
pital, and this was his reply: ‘‘I was afraid
that if I once entered I might never come out
again. I thoroughly believed that the for-
eigners did gouge the eyes and cut out the
hearts of men, women and children. I know
now that it is all false; but this is to be as-
cribed to the fact that I haye seen. I be-
lieve that if Chou Han himself could only see,
his feelings would change just as mine have
changed.” Then he told me that in Chang-
sha ninety-nine out of every hundred at least
thoroughly believe these reports about the for-
eigners and their doings.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

— Ox the second Sunday after Easter seven-
teen children were confirmed in our St. Paul
and Mt. Zion Colored Lutheran Churches at
New Orleans, La.

~ —Obtr Mt. Zion missionary station at New
Orleans must soon have a new church build-
ing. The people there have used an old di-
lapidated frame building for church and school
“purposes, but the building is now in such a
condition that it can no longer be used. The
members of the congregation are earnestly at
work to raise $1,000 as their share of the sum
needed for a new building, and since the Syn-
odical Conference at its last meeting resolved
to erect a new building this year for Mt. Zion
in New Orleans, we hope all the friends of our
mission will speedily and liberally come to the
aid of our colored brethren.

—Firreen Scandinavian Lutheran Foreign
Mission Societies abroad employ 114 ordained
missionaries, 42 lay workers, 139 female work-
ers, 26 ordained natives, 1,213 native assist-
ants. All these are at work at 427 mission
stations, among 21,419 native communicants
and 64,000 native Christian adherents, hay-
ing in charge also 391 schools with 31,750
scholars. The total receipts for 1892 amounted
to $226,159.

—Tne last report of the Hawaiian Evangel-
ical Association gives the number of members
of the Hawaiian-speaking churches founded by
the missionaries of the American Board, at
5,427; and of others, 1190. The salaries paid
native pastors are $500 or Jess. ‘The largest
church has a membership of 634.

—Owine to the exceptional demand in
Uganda for supplies of the Scriptures, the
Bible Society are about to issue new editions,
prepared by the photo process, of each of the
four Gospels, and of the Acts of the Apostles.
The issue will amount to 25,000 copies in all.

—Tuis is Stanley’s story of what one Bible
accomplished: ‘‘In 1875, Miss Livingstone,
the sister of David Livingstone, presented me
with a beautifully bound Bible. On_a sub-
sequent visit to Mtesa I read to him some
chapters, and as I finished it flashed through
my mind that Uganda was destined to be won

- for Christ. I was not permitted to carry that
Bible away. Mtesa never forgot the wonder-
ful words, nor the startling effect they had
upon him; and just as I was turning away
from his country to continue my explorations
across the Dark Continent, a messenger who
had travelled two hundred miles came to me

“crying out that Mtesa wanted the book, and

‘it was given to him. To-day the Christians

in Uganda number many thousands; they have
proved their faith at the stake, under the knob-

— One of the missionaries of the Basel Mis-
_ sion in India, writing about the manner in
which the preachers and their message are re-

ar
Denecraia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.

The Lutheran Pioneer.

—TueEseE are the words of David Brainerd,

with reference to his toil in behalf of the In-
dians, and they contain the secret of his suc-
cess: ‘I cared not where or how [I lived, or
what hardships I went through, so that I could
but gain souls for Christ. While I was asleep
I dreamed of these things, and when I awoke
the first thing I thought of was this great work.
All my desire was for their conversion, and
all my hope was in God.”’

—A missionary at Amoy reports many in-

cidents indicating popular contempt for the
gods which they have worshiped.
case the temple, which had ten large idols, to
whom much worship had been paid, caught
fire and the idols were all burned to charcoal.
A multitude of people were present, as it was
market day, but they scemed to care very
little about the burning of their gods, and they
said: ‘‘They could not run away or call any
one to save them. Why, they are less able to
take care of themselves than rats or chickens
or dogs!”’

In one

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 7%
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 9 to 10%.

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs. «
Divine services at 744 Sunday evening and at 744 Thars-
day evenin

Sunday School ects at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 714 Tuesday evening.

¥. 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 OHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.

Divine services at 744 o’clock Sunday evening and at TH
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 34 o'clock.
Sunday School at 10 o’clock.
Chis class mects from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday
evening.
Singing-school from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.
Ciras. H. RUESSKAMP, Misslonary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfield, IN.

Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning

and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening.

Sunday School at 3 o’clock Y. M. P

Catechumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings.

Singing-school Tuesday evening.
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