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pendicular rock, and though the ladder used} has large property in his native land, but he
was seventy-eight feet long, it did not reach| will devote himself to the evangelistic work
up to the tomb. The body was tied around | there.
the neck and hauled up by the ladder. The} —A Goop story has been told, illustrating
whole proceedings were accompanied by sing-| the eagerness of many colored children in the
ing and dancing. Two or three accidents which | South to go to school. This is about the little
occurred were attributed to the wrath of the| Georgia lad. who found, on reaching the place
deceased man over some want of respect shown | where a Northern young woman had opened
in the ceremonies. The only pleasant thing} a school, that every seat was full. The teacher
about this incident is the fact that the suc-| playfully suggested the stove, whereupon the
cessor of this prince, a woman, was strongly | little fellow quickly replied: ‘‘I’ll sit there if
opposed to these proceedings, declaring that} you won’t make it too hot.’’ Another boy,
they were all nonsense, and it is hoped that| hardly in his teens, walked sixteen miles daily
she will break away from the chains of custom. | to this same school, covering, during the school

—For an illustration of the transforming} year, 2,256 miles. There is some food for
power of the Gospel and the success of for-| thought here for the boys and girls who find
eign missions turn to the history of Fiji. Half| study irksome, even with only a short distance
a century ago these Fijians were the vilest and} to travel to reach their comfortable school
most brutal of all savages upon the face of the | house.
earth. There are now found on these islands
969 churches, 354 other preaching places,
11 English missionaries, 71 native pastors, Received per Rev. F.J. Lankenau from the Mt. Zion
and over 30,000 members in good standing ; | Congregation $53.50 for the Mt. Zion Building Fund.
1724 Sunday schools with 2724 teachers and A. F, LEONIARDT.
38,918 scholars, 1976 day schools with 39,364 ig
pupils, and the attendants upon public wor-
ship, over 102,000, include almost the entire
population of the islands. The chief grounds
for solicitude, it is said, relate to the spiritual
crudeness of many of the genuine converts;
the persistent efforts of Romish priests to be-
guile the people, though thus far without much
success; and above all, the decline of the popu-
lation, the deaths continually outnumbering
the births.

—AFGHANISTAN has 6,000,000 of a popula-
tion, and no missionary; India, one mission-
ary to 275,000; Persia, one to 300,000; Thibet,
one to 2,000,000. If 40,000 missionaries were
sent to India, there would still be only one to
every 50,000. Surely, the laborers are few.

—Awn American missionary was once labor-
ing with much learned argument to convert a
Chinaman, but found himself nonplused when
the listener retorted, ‘‘You are a profound
scholar; you know everything. Tell me, then,
whiy you wear those two superfluous buttons
on the back of your coat.’? Whether the China-
man received a satisfactory answer to his query
or not will probably never be known; but one
thing is certain—to set investigators to work,
and it has since been ascertained that the two
buttons are the survival of a semi-barbaric
custom, and that they were originally sewed
on to hold up a belt at the time when every
.gentleman wore a sword.

—Tune China Mission of two of the Nor-
wegian Synods in the United States supports
five missionaries in the ‘‘Celestial Empire.”
Four more are to be sent out soon.

—Terre, a ygnng Abyssinian of the priest
class, was educated in Florence under the care
of the Swedish Abyssinian Mission. He has
| completed the course of study and passed the
final examination in the Waldensian Normal
School. This young man is able to converse
= in English, Swedish, Italian and Arabic. He

The Outlook from-the Editor’s Window.

—Ovr mission at Concord, N. C., has been
richly blessed by God during the past year.
The number of church members has been
more than doubled and the day school is at-
tended by about 175 pupils.

—Oor missionary at Meherrin, Va. , reports
that station to he in a very prosperous con-
dition. Church and school are very weil at-

‘tended. At Keysville, ten miles from Me-
herrin, an important mission field has been
opened. A building has been erected and the
day school already numbers 73 pupils. Be-
sides these two stations two other stations are
served by our missionary, where buildings are
sadly needed. The Lord is indeed prospering
our mission work among the colored people.
Would to God that all Christians of the Syn-
odical Conference would prove their gratitude
for His rich blessings by becoming cheerful
and liberal givers for our missionary treasury.

—Tnue corner stone of the St. John’s Lu-
theran College at Winfield, Kansas, was re-
cently laid with appropriate ceremonies. The
building will not be finished until late in the
fall, but arrangements have been made to open
‘school in the first week of September.

—From a district in Africa that has but re-
cently been swept by bitter persecution, Bishop
Tucker writes: ‘‘Exaggeration about the eager-
ness of the people here to be taught there has
been none. No words can describe the emo-
tion which filled my heart as on Sunday I stood
F= up to speak to fully 1000 men and women who

crowded the church of Uganda. It was a won-
derful sight’ There, close beside me, was Ka-
tikiro, the second man in the kingdom. There
on eyery hand were chiefs of various degrees,
all Christian men and all in their demeanor
devout and earnest.’””

—A CONVENTION of young men from the
various societies of young men in the churches
of the Synodical Conference was recently held
in Trinity German Lutheran church, Buffalo,
to unite the individual associations of this kind
into a general Society. The occasion was one
of special interest. B

-  -—Tne wages of Japanese are rarely more
than ten cents ‘a day, -but last year the con-
yerts gave $27,000 for mission purposes.

_ —Dvnine the present century 150,000,000

copies of the Bible have been printed in 226

* different languages.

_ —Tue Chronicle of the London Society con-
‘tains an account of the burial of a Betsileo

prince, after a period of mourning of nine

Acknowledgment.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New OrzEANS, 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 e vening.
Sunday School from 9 to 1034.

EV. LUTH, MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor, Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 744 Sunday evening and at 744 Thurs-
day evening.

Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 74 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 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 Ts
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 pundeys aiterngon at 34 o'clock.
Sunday School at 10 o’c
Catech arr class es ern 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday

Singing: rpckool from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.
Cras. H. RUESSKAMP, Missionary.

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

Divine Services at half past 10 o'clock Sunday mornin
and at 8 o'clock Sunday ey ening: EMOIDID

Sunday School at 3 o'clock P.

Catechumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings.

Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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ows that among these Betsileos heathenism
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