The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1893, Page 32

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Jews have become converts to Christianity and
been baptized. Under the Lord’s blessing even
—Tne Rev. Dr. Harpster, of Canton, Ohio, | this most arduous branch of mission work is
member of the General Synod, has tendered |not in vain. Even among the proud and
his resignation to his congregation, his pur-| perverse children of Israel His promise is ful-
pose being to return ultimately to mission work | filling: ‘‘My Word shall not return to me
in India, which he some years ago laid down | yoid.’?
on account of sickness. In his letter of resig-| —Jceranp furnishes an example of what
nation he says: ‘‘I-have been willing to be|the Lutheran Church does for intellectual and
guided by the indications of Providence and religious training of the young. There is no
to do the work which seemed to lie nearest me, /other church on the Island. Every child of
but I have always held myself ready to say, | seven years is able to read, even in the poorest
‘Here am I; send me,’ as soon as God should | fisherman’s hut. The mothers teach them, and
open the way for my return. The way has|the pastors are careful that this work is not
now been opened and my conviction of duty | neglected.
is altogether clear; soclear, that ifGod should} —A,A society, has recently been formed in
speak to me with audible voice, I do not think|Europe to be known as ‘‘The United Christ-
it would deepen much my conviction that the |ian Mission.’’ It sets out to send ‘‘one clear
work which still remains for me to do on earth Gospel message into every home.”’ It is now
* lies among the people of India.’’ one year old, and although so young, has

—Tnue Board of Church Extension of the] spoken, through the press and otherwise, in
General Synod has just received a valuable twelve different languages, to more than 2,-
gift, in the shape of a fine farm from Mrs. Sa-| 750,000 Roman Catholic families.
rah Sell. The property is worth over $11,000.| Tue bicycle is becoming a favorite means

—Ovr Board for Lutheran Colored Mission | of locomotion not only for pastors.in Christian
is in pressing need of money. Church and countries, but also for foreign missionaries.
school buildings have recently been erected, Missionary Holten in Malur, near Madura,
and the expenses for our Colored Mission have | Rast Indies, finds he can travel much more
increased during the past year. Let this be conveniently in this way than by the native
remembered at all our mission festivals, and | ox teams. Rev. Ashe, of Uganda, Africa, has
not only at our mission festivals, but in all our| made many a long journey on the wheel over
congregations during the entire church-year. | the caravan routes. :

—AFTER two missionary meetings in Mel-| py the last- report of the London Mis-
bourne, Australia, recently, a hard working sionary Society there were 24,263 Christian
man sent in the title deeds of a farm of 934] adherents in connection with the churches of
acres, worth $2,500, to be devided between | that society in Samoa. This is out of a popu-
missions to India and New Guinea. On being | lation of about 36,000; of this number, 6,526
spoken to about the largeness of his gift, he|are reported as communicants. There were
said: ‘‘This is how I look at it. Supposing |169 native ordained ministers, besides 214
I were a boy, and my father gave me a sov-| other preachers. The joint Protectorate of
ereign, but afterward wanted me to let him/Great Britain, Germany, and the United
have part of the money back to help him in|States over the Samoan Islands is not work-
some work he was doing, and I gave him a| ing very well, and the outlook is not hopeful.
threepenny-piece, what sort of a son should|1t has been from Samoa that a large num-
I be?”’ : ber of native missionaries have gone to New

—A nussionany in Madagascar writes as fol-| Guinea, and the training institution at Malua
lows as to the source of progress which has] is in excellent condition.
been witnessed in that great African island} —Wuenrsas fifty years ago there were but
within the past few years: ‘‘It was the Bible | 509 missionary stations in foreign lands, there

that has made Madagascar. They had now|are now 5,765; and that in the place_of 658
in Madagascar 1360 congregations —self-sup- | ordained missionaries at that time, there are
porting Christian congregations—and that} now 6,000, and whereas at that time there were
work had been mainly done by the Bible. The|only 1266 other laborers and assistants (be-

“people of Madagascar had one book, and that’ sides the regular ordained missionaries) in for-
book the Bible, and they regarded all other eign lands, there are now 40,552, and there are

_ books as only useful s0 far as they threw light 857,382 communicants in the mission churches,
on the Bible, and helped them to understand |and 1,813,596 adherents, and 457,502 pupils

it. The Roman Catholics had been in Mada-|in the mission schools.

gascar since 1616, but no trace of their work] —A yacr reported from Uganda illustrates

Temains because they did not give the Word |in a striking manner the spirit of the Protest-

f God to the people.”” a ___ {ant community in that kingdom. Some boxes

arrived, containing copies of the Gospels,
prayer-books, and large wall sheets. Notice

: was given on a Sunday that the books would

T work among thé/be sold on the next day. The missionary,

ind an income of | Mr. Baskerville, reports that before light he
‘about 120,000] was aroused by the roar of voices and arose

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to find his house in a state of siege. He bar-
ricaded the doors to keep the people outside,

selling the books through the front window.
But the barricade was useless; in came the
door, .and Mr. Baskerville says that there were
1,000 or more people, each with shells, ‘‘mad
to buy a book.’” There were only three loads
of books, whereas fifty could have been sold.
Such eagerness to obtain portions of the Word
of God is certainly a most hopeful sign.

—Tuese are the words of David Brainerd,
with reference to his toil in behalf of the In-
dian, 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.”’

—Tue Norwegian Mission Institute at Sta-
vanger will send out fourteen foreign mission-
aries next spring.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORr.Eans, 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%.

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 74 Thurs-
day evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 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.

EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL. ;
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 714 o’clock Sunday evening and at TH
o’clock Thursday evening.

Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
AUG. BURGDORF, MISSIONARY.
—s

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.
CatSonromen) class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday
evening. $
Singing-sckool from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.
Cas. H. RUESSKAMP, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfteld, I.
Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 3 o’clock P. mM.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening. .

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