The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1893, Page 44

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boy. ‘‘Now,’’ ‘said the lawyer, ‘‘just tell us
how your father told you to testify.”” ‘‘Well,”’
said the boy modestly, ‘‘father ‘told me the
lawyers would try to tangle me in my testi-
mony; but if I would just be careful and tell
the truth, I could tell the same thing every
time.”’

—‘You talk of converting India to Chris-
tianity,’’ said a Hindoo to a missionary ; ‘tyou
might as well talk of cutting down that forest,’’
pointing to a forest some ten miles in extent,’
“with a single ax.’’ ‘‘Done,’’ said the mis-
sionary ; ‘‘but then every tree that I level sliall
be the handle for another ax, and another, and
another, until the forest shall resound and
every tree shall be laid down.’’

—lIr is stated that 36,000, out of a popu-
lation of 46,000 in the Samoan Islands, pro-
fess Christianity. :

—Aw English traveler, who visited a heathen
temple in India, observed that the idol which
was set up for worship bore a striking resem-
blance to the image of the virgin Mary which
he had seen in a neighboring chapel of the
Roman Catholics. On inquiry he learned that
both images had been carved by the same
Hindoo for purposes of idolatrous worship.

—Tnue Bible itself is the greatest and most
effective of missionaries. Many illustrations
have been given of the power of that printed
Word and of the magnificent fruits it has borne.
Here is one that is worthy of being recorded
and remembered. A missionary in Turkey
writes respecting the work performed by a
Testament: ‘‘Years ago a missionary gave to
a poor villager a little Testament, who sold it
to a youth from another village. This young
man knew how to read, and with two com-
panions became deeply interested in its con-
tents. At length, that they might have a quiet
place in which to read and meditate, they built
a small room, dedicating it simply ‘To the
Book.’ Soon listeners gathered around these
men as they read, and the attention of the
Armenian priests being attracted, it was or-
dered. that the room be closed and the Testa-
ment destroyed. This the young men refused
to do, and the little band of seekers after
truth for some time continued their reading
and simple worship in the midst of persecution,
till one happy day a touring missionary came
upon this embryo church and was able to give
them the help they so much needed. Very soon
those who heard and believed became sufficient
to organize a church, and a large proportion
of the entire village have become Protestants.’”

—Iw these days when so many young people
are apt to forget the deference due to their
elders, it may be suggestive to read the fol-
lowing: ‘‘One curious thing in a Japanese
household is to see the formalities that pass
between brothers and sisters, and thie respect
paid to age by every member of the family.
|The grandfather and grandmother come first
of all in everything; no one at table must be
helped before them in any case; after them
come the father. and mother; and lastly, the

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— Missrowantts in China report that in some
parts of that heathen country those that by
their vices or by some incurable disease have
become a burden to their families and to so-
ciety are buried alive. A missionary writes
that a passionate smoker of opium, who had
sold all his property and also his two children
in order to get the poisonous drug was buried

-alive by his relatives. He did not resist, but
only begged as a favor that his face be covered
with grass. In another province of China the
same missionary saw several lepers buried
alive. As a rule they offer no resistance to
this death penalty but gladly welcomeit. They
believe that in the other world man continues
to live in the same form in which he departed
this life. If, for instance, his head has been
cut off, they think he will retain this mutilation
of.his body and go about in the other world
carrying his head under his arm or at his belt.
Hence the various death penalties in China,
of which that penalty seems the most dreadful
to the people by which the members of the
‘body are mutilated. Therefore being buried
alive is preferred to other death penalties.
—Iw one of the Northwestern provinces of
India a village priest persuaded a family to
sacrifice their son, aged 16 years, to the god-
dess worshiped by the heathen of the village.
Attended by a large number of people the
young man was taken to the temple, where the
priest cut his throat and sprinkled the image
: of the goddess with his blood. The English

: government is investigating the matter.

—A Native preacher in the Foochow Con-
ference refused an offer of a consular position
at $50 a month, preferring to preach the Gos-
pel with a salary of $3 a month. ;

' —Ir is fashionable in Madagascar to be a
Christian, and this fact is a hindrance. The
missionaries have to strive, not to get people
-into the church, but to keep them out until
they give evidence of being truly converted.

—Tue Buddhists of Japan are renewing
their fight against Christianity ; are organizing
“salvation armies’’ and ‘‘moral associations ;’”
buying up timber so that churches can not be
built; seeking to persuade hotel keepers not
to lodge Christians, and in some cases they

* are resorting to force, destroying chapels and
other buildings.

—A PROMINENT man of Lowell, Mass., is
reported to have said: ‘‘If all the churches
‘of this city were destroyed, it would well re-
pay us manufacturers to rebuild them, even
at an expense of hundreds of thousands of

- dollars.’ Even those who are not Christians
~ recognize the security of a Christian neighbor-
hood, and the importance of maintaining pub-

‘lic worship. ;

_—A zoy twelve years old was the important
witness in a lawsuit. One of the lawyers, after
cross questioning him severely, said: ‘‘Your

children according to their ages.
sister must always wait for the elder and pay
her due respect, even in the matter of walking
into the room before her.
convenience of the elder, rather than of the
younger, are to be consulted in everything,
and this lesson must be learned early by the
children.
slight; but the elder born has the first right in
all cases.”’

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Address Lutheran Orphans’

Acknowledgment.

Received of the Mt. Zion Congregation for their
A. F. LEONTIARDT.

“Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw Or.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 Ty
It

o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 9 to 1014.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 744 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thars-
day evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 744 Tuesday evening.
¥. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EY. 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 714 o'clock Sunday evening and at 7%
o’clock Thursday evening.

Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

. AUG. BURGDORF, MISSIONARY.

Eyang. Luth. St. Paul’s Church.
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service Sunday attoemoon at 3 o’clock.

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

evening.
Singing-school from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.
Cnas. H. RueEsskamrp, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfield, Il. :
Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8’o’clock Sunday evening.

Sunday School at 3 o’clock Pp. M.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings,

Singing-school Tuesday evening.

TERMS:
‘Tue Lutneran Pioneer is published monthly,

payable in advance at the following rates, postage
included, to-wit:

Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent

to one address.

All business communications to be addressed to

“Concordia Publishing House”, St. Louis, Mo.

‘All communications concerning the editorial de-

artment to be addressed to Prof. R. A. BiscHor7,

oncordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.

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