The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1893, Page 24

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gascar. To-day itis one of the most flourishing
of modern missions. Its principal stations
number 20; congregations, 460; its baptized
membership, 57,000, and 30,000 children are
in its mission schools; while 20 native ordained
pastors, and 1,150 native teachers are in the
employ of the mission. A mission collegé for
the training of native pastors, and a normal
school for the training of teachers, are among
the forces to shape the future of the people
in this field.

—SPurGEon was once asked to send a min-
ister who could fill achurch. THis answer was
that they ‘‘did not make the preachers at his
Seminary that large; he could send them a
preacher of the Gospel, but the congregation
had to fill the church.”’

— Tne number of Christians in the Province
of Bengal has grown during the last decade
from 122,000 to 189,000. ,

ciety, for which he returns sincere thanks with
a substantial present of two elephants’ tusks.

— Ose nunpRED missionaries have been ap-
pointed to go from Sweden to China. Some
of this number are now in London, where
they will give a brief time to the study of the
English language before they proceed on their
journey.

—Bisnor Ferevson, of Cape Palmas, calls
especial attention to the fact that the Cape
Palmas tribe of Greboes had raised a sum of
money to purchase a Bible to take the place
of their fetiches, and remarks: ‘‘Such a thing
as a heathen tribe’s giving up its gregrees
and taking instead the Bible as a token of its
acceptance of the Christian religion, to be
henceforth its rule and guide, has never taken
place in this land before, and it speaks loudly
in favor of our work. Comparing 1889 with
1892 he finds that the baptisms have increased
from 470 to 702, the confirmations from 235
to 281, and the communicants from 645 to 896.

—Every Sunday morning sixty per cent.
of the population of the Hawaiian Islands are
in the pews of Protestant churches. Eighty-
three per cent. of the population of the Fiji
Islands are communicant members of. the
Protestant churches. ;

—A New-Encranp D. D., making a trip
round the world, writes the Independent from
Australia, saying that there he often hears
the blessing at mealtime sung by all present,
as follows:

‘*Be present at our table, Lord;
Be here and everywhere adored.
These mercies bless, and grant that we
May feast in Paradise with Thee.’’

: : E The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

a * From our mission in Little Rock, Ark.,
ee a Colored Lutheran writes to us: ‘‘We have
: long felt a desire to express our appreciation
of our dear Lutheran church. We have the

true word of God taught us, and though our
number does not increase fast, yet we have
cause forhope. Our pastor has recently added
three to our church, one of them a girl baptized

: in infancy and raised in our school. May God
ee bless our Church and make us His people.’’
i —Oor English and Colored Lutheran mis-
= ‘ sions have lost a staunch friend and earnest
; advocate in the Rev. Prof. M. Guenther, of
our Seminary at St. Louis, who was suddenly

~ called to his rest by the Master on the 22d of

May. Our loss is his gain. ‘‘They that turn

- “many to righteousness shall shine as the stars
forever and ever.’”
—Tne Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio,
and other States, af its recent meeting in
St: Louis, resolved to begin mission work in
- Japan. A Foreign Mission Board, consisting of
ten members, has been elected and a Director
of Foreign Mission will soon be chosen, who
is to superintend the work of the missionaries.
—TueE Lutheran Synod of Wisconsin will
begin mission work among the Indians in New
Mexico and Arizona. Two of the students in
the Seminary at Milwaukee are preparing for
_~ _ this important work. ;

—Tnarex of the graduates of our Seminaries
will this year enter our Colored Lutheran mis-
sion field:

—JApran has 565 congregations of native
Christians with 35,534 communicants, of yhom
8,731 were received within a year. They con-
tributed $42,336. There are 656 preaching
stations, 219 missionaries and the wives of 184

of them and 201 women helpers. The native

_ preachers number 233, male helpers 460, and

‘students 859.

-—Hawan has 6,617 native Protestant

“churches, of which number 5,427 are under

the care of the American Board. The-largest

-of these has 634 members. WNatiye preachers
receive a maximum salary of $500.

_ —TneE Rev. L. Lloyd, of the Fuh-Kien Mis-

‘sion, sends the following quaint petition, re-

_ ceived from a native Christian: ‘‘The Christian

‘Ting Great Grace is continually being perse-

cuted by the heathen. Last year in the ninth

"moon seyen-tenths of his sown corn was hoed

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORLEans, La.

EV. LUTI. 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 1034.

EY. LUTH, MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 7144 Sunday evening and at 74 Thurs-
day evening.
Sunday Schoo! meets at 9 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 744 Tuesday evening.
F. LANKENAD, Missionary.

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

Divine services at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon and 734
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o'clock.
e

—Ir were well if all were to do as George
Washington is reported to have done when he
had visitors on Sunday. He simply told them
that it was time for him to go to church and
politely asked them to go with him.

—Dnr. Putttrs, the General Secretary of the
Sunday-school Union in British India, recently
visited the German missionaries in Malabar,
‘in order to arrange’with them the organization
of Sunday-schools for heathen children. The
Doctor was surprised by the blessed results
of the good old-fashioned Lutheran ‘‘Kinder-
lehre’’ conducted by the missionaries in the|
station churches for long years, which is pref-
erable to the Sunday-schoo] almost in* every
respect on account of the instruction given
by the pastor himself.. Dr. Philips, later on,
wrote in his Sunday-school journal: ‘The
Sunday services I attended at these stations
were the best attended I ever saw in India,
and the singing of the congregations the best
rl ever heard; no other native Christian as-
sembly can come up to them.’? The Hindu
Lutherans take delight in singing the choral
tunes of the Church of the Reformation, which Sine addcess:
breathe the spirit of deep devotion, reverent): 41) business communications to be addressed to
praise and abiding faith. “Concordia Publishing House’’,-St. Louis, ae A
—Ir 1s not yet thirty years since our Nor-| All communications concerning tne Oo SaCHOF?,

ian be addressed to Prof. R. A. BiscHorr,
wegian -brethren began their work in Mada- paren ae

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 714 o’clock Sunday evening and at T:
o'clock Facade ocaning: u a 7%

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 aterac on at 34 o’clock.

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

crening,
Singing-school from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.
: Cas. H. RUESSKAMP, Missionary.

Ey. Luth: Holy Trinity Church. ~
3 * Springfield, 1. ,
Divine. Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening. Ss
Sunday School at 3 o’clock Pp. Mt.
Catecliumen class meets Monday and Friday cyenings. «
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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moon eight-tenths of his sugar-cane was stolen.
This year.on the third day of the fifth moon,

ig worth two-thousand cash was stolen;
on the second day of the seventh moon,
crops were destroyed; and a few
1is fruit trees were stoned. Now
8 Dloyd to pray for him

ncordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.