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Home duties kept her from fulfilling her reso- OUR BOOK TABLE,

lution until she was 30 years old. ~ She then
went to the island Ceylon as a missionary.
She labored there for 48 years without once
returning to America. When: people asked
her, ‘‘Why do you not take a vacation?”’ she
replied, ‘‘I am too busy.’’ The name of this
woman was Eliza Agnew. :

—Tne missionaries of the Southern Lu-
theran Synod, Messrs. Scherer and Perry,
have just completed a translation of Luther’s
Small Catechism into Japanese. It would be
wise to delay the publication of this invaluable
little manual, until time and a niore critical
knowledge of the language will enable them
to bring out a classic, says the Workman of
Pittsburg.

—Tue London Chronicle is authority for
the statement that a certain priest, one Arnold | ’
Janssen, with-the full consent of the Propa-
ganda in Rome, hasfounded three institutions
—one in Holland, one in Austria, and one in
Silesia—which, like the great missionary school
in Lyons, founded by the late Cardinal Lavi-
gerie, have for their express object the train-
ing “of priests and others to work ‘in places
where Protestant missions exist, and in order
to destroy them!”? ;

—Ow a moss grown slab in the graveyard
at Rowley is the epitaph of the Rev. Ezekiel
Rogers, the first minister of that town, who
died in 1660, in his seventieth year. It closes
as follows: ‘‘With the youth he took great
pains, and was a tree of knowledge laden with
fruit which the children could reach.’?

—Commander F. M. Barber, of the U.S.
Steamer Monocacy, the gunboat maintained
on the Yang-tse-Kiang, says: ‘‘Fourteen years
ago I thought that China was a country where
even the continued dripping of the water of
Christianity would never wear away the stone
of heathenism, but now it is apparent:to my
unprejudiced mind that the stone will ulti-
mately be forced from its bed.”’

—‘‘Wuar is the meaning of righteousness?”
said a teacher to her Chinese pupil. ‘‘Light-
eousness? Lighteousness? Why, lighteous-
ness is all goody, no baddy at all.”? To the
question, ‘*What is a hypocrite?”’ ‘All goody
outside, all baddy inside. You don’t know
him some time, bimeby find him out.’?

—A Romisu priest watching the children
issuing from a Protestant mission school, at
last discovered a boy from his parish. Calling
the boy to him, he asked where he had been.

**To the Sunday: school,’? was the prompt
reply. ‘Sunday school?” said the priest.) Tae Luraeran Pioneer is published monthly,
‘*What is that??? ‘+A place where they teach] payable in advance at the following rates, postage
the Gospel,”’ was the boy’s quick explana- qcladed, to, wit: Nt Dore: $ .25
tion. ‘‘Oh!?? muttered the priest, ‘but do| recess OX
you know what Christ said to Peter?”? (ex-
| pecting, most Probably, as a.reply, a refer-
ence to the building of the Church on the
Rock). ‘‘Yes,’? was the boy’s quick response,
**Get thee behind me, Satan.” The priest at}.
once departed. ~ - «+ -..

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD CONVENTION or THE
EnGuisn Ey. Luru. Synop or Missourr anp
OTHER STATEs. Held at Chicago May 3—10,
1893. Price 16 cts. per copy. Address, Manager
Lutheran Witness, Baltimore, Md.

Besides the President’s Address and Report,
Transactions of important Business Matters and
Reports of various Committees, this pamphlet con-
tains interesting Discussions on Parish Rights. On
account of these doctrinal discussions this pamphlet
should have a wide sale, not only among our English
brethren, but also among the German pastors of the
Synodical Conference. They will be glad to read
the sound Lutheran principles held by our English
brethren in regard to the highly important question
of Parish Rights.

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teren und mittleren Klassen hocherer Schulen

von August Crull, Professor am Concordia Col-
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cordia Publishing House. Price 85 cts.

ErsTEs UeBuNGsBucn fuer den Unterricht der deut-
schen Sprache, Unterstufe. Fuer das 3. und 4.
Schuljahr. St. Louis, Mo. Concordia Publish-
ing House. Price 20 cts.

—————SaaoHEo
Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,

NEw ORLEANS, La.
EY. 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.

—Iy the death of Rey. G. E. C. F. Sievers
the Lutheran church has lost an earnest and
zealous advocate of mission work. He de-

_ . parted this life on the 9th of September, at
_ the age of 77 years. After having labored
faithfully in the Lord’s vineyard for more
than 40 years, he was called by the Master
to enter the joys of the redeemed in heaven,
there to shine as the stars for ever and ever.
—Ows the 17th of September the large and
beautiful new Seminary of the Lutheran Synod
of Wisconsin was dedicated at Milwaukee,
Wis., a large number of Lutherans of that
“Lutheran city”’ attending the services.
—From the Report of the Lutheran Or-
phans’ Home at Addison, Ill., we learn that
there are at present 91 children in the Home
—55 boys and 36 girls.

—TnuE remnant of the Maori race in New
Zealand numbers about 38,000.

—Lerers in India were treated with shock-
ing inhumanity before Christianity entered
that country. Many of them were buried
alive. The English rulers have put a stop to
‘this custom, and for fourteen years there has
been a special Christian mission to the 130,000
lepers in India.

—A siGNn of the reviving activity of the
Buddhist religion is seen in the work of the

) - Buddha Gaya Maha Bodhi Society, the ob-

f jects of which are the establishment of a Bud-
dhist monastery and a Buddhist college, the
publication of Buddhist literature in Indian
vernaculars aud the support of Buddhist mis-
sionaries at Buddha Gaya, or Bud Gya, in

Behar, India, the spot were Gautama, sitting

under the great banyan tree, B. C. 588, is

said to have received his call. From this place
it is intended to start a gigantic mission for
_the propagation of the faith throughout the
world. It is intended to unite the Buddhist
countries — China, Japan, Siam, Cambodia
-Nepaul, Burmah, Ceylon, Chittagong, Thi-
bet, and Asakan—in this movement; and the
secretary of the society represents that it has
been cordially welcomed by the educated Hin-
dus of India. ;

—Tue London Missionary Society, in view
of the expansion of its work in the islands of
Pacific Ocean, has at length decided to build
a steamer to take the place of the John Wil-
tiams. The new mission in New Guinea prom-
ises, it is\said, to be more extensive and im-
portant than all the other South Sea missions
combined. In extends over 1000 miles of
cost, with seventy native evangelists from the
" different groups. Navigation in this region
difficult, and a vessel with full steam-power
deemed essential. It is Proposed to build

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 1% Thaors-
day evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 Tuesday evening.

¥*, LANKENAU, Missionary.

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

Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and TH
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
5 Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 74 o’clock Sunday evening and at 1%
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.
cateshamen class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday
evening.
Singing-school from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.
Cras. H. RUESSKAMP, Missionary.

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Ey. Luth, Holy Trinity Church,
: Springfield, Ill.
Divine Services at half past 10 o'clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 3 o’clock P. x1.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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