The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1894, Page 4

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—TnueE two missionaries sent out by the Lu-
theran Wisconsin Synod to carry on mission
work among the Indians of Arizona, are al-
ready at work in their new field. May God
bless their labors among the Indians! When
praying for the success of mission work on
foreign fields, let us not forget this work
among the poor savages at our doors. When
the pious Chippewa chief, Minnegeshig, re-
turned from a visit to our eastern cities, his
people gathered around him and said, ‘‘Tell us
what of all that you saw was the most wonder-
ful.’’? After a long silence the Chippewa chief
replied: ‘‘When I was in the great churches
and heard the great organ, and all the pale
faces stood. up and said, The Lord is in His

, holy temple, let all the earth keep silence;

| I thought that the pale faces had had this re-

' ligion four hundred years and did not give it
to us, and now it is late. This is the most
wonderful thing I saw.”’ And the people said,
‘This is indeed wonderful !’”

—Ler us do our part faithfully and ener-
getically, but trust wholly in the Lord for re-
sults. When Morrison set forth for China in
1807 he was compelled to travel from England
via New York. After his final arrangements
for the voyage had been made in this city with
the vessel owner, the latter wheeled around
from his desk and said, with a smile of su-
perior sagacity, ‘‘So, Mr. Morrison, you really
expect that you will make an impression on

, the idolatry of the great Chinese Empire?’’

! **No, sir,’’ replied with emphasis this pioneer
missionary to the Middle Kingdom, with its
hundreds of millions, then utterly closed
against all foreigners, ‘‘no, sir; but I expect
that God will!’’

—Tuart Christianity, even where it is im-

perfectly received, is having a powerful and
beneficent influence in Central Africa is seen
in an incident which recently occurred in
Uganda, where the king was holding court
bie and a cise involving a breach of the law was
p on trial. The king gave sentence that the
offender should pay as a fine so many cattle
and sheep and two women; but a Christian
chief who was ‘present interposed, saying,
‘Christians do not give men or women; they
give cattle and goats, not human beings.’’
"The result was that the king altered the sen-
"tence, so that no women were to be given.
—THueEneE were more copies of the Scriptures,
- in whole or in part; put into circulation last
_ year than ever in one year before. The total
circulation of. the British and Foreign Bible
_ Society last year was 4,049,756 copies. ‘his
__ number was surpassed on three occasions dur-
__ ing the abnormal demand for the penny ‘Testa-
‘ment. But it marks a steady advance in the
aormal demand. Add to this total the num-
bers circulated by the two great sister socie-
s, the American Bible Society (1,894,865
ies) and the National Bible Society of Scot-
1 copies), and add to these totals

comer smokes a horrid pipe. I don’t sec how
any woman in her sober senses could do that.’?
Mrs. E. (to Mrs. F.): ‘That Mrs. Newcomer
smokes a pipe and drinks awfully.’’—We close
our window.

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the circulation of some sixty other Bible socie-
ties, and the sales of the great trade Bible
houses, and the result shows an increasing
demand for the Scriptures.

—Tue true missionary spirit was displayed
by a brilliant Oxford student who was giving
himself to the Missionary Society for African
service. His tutor remonstrated. ‘‘You are
going out to die in a year or two. ‘It is mad-
ness.”” The young fellow (who did die after
being on the field only a year) answered: ‘‘I
think it is with African missions as with the
building of a great bridge. You know how
many stones have to be buried in the earth
all unseen, to be a foundation for the bridge.
If Christ wants me to be one of the unseen
stones lying in an African grave, I am content;
certain as I am that the final result will be s
Christian Africa.’’ :

—AFGHANISTAN has six millions of popu-
lation and no missionary ; India, one mission-
ary to two hundred and seventy-five thou-
sand; Persia, one to three hundred thousand ;
Thibet, one to two million. If forty thousand
missionaries were sent to India there would
still be only one to every fifty thousand.

—Some of the prayers of the South Sea
Islanders in their childish simplicity and touch-
ing originality are very edifying. One runs
thus:—‘‘Grant, O Lord, that the good words
that we have heard may not be like our fine
Sunday garments, which we soon take off and
put by in a box till the next Sunday comes.
But let this truth be like the tattooing on our
bodies, ineffaceable till death.’”” Many who
are not South Sea Islanders need the same
simple directness in prayer, and likewise to
pray that their religion may not be a matter
of ‘‘fine Sunday garments.”

—‘'How do you get such beautiful sheep ?’}
was a question put toafarmer. ‘‘I take aA
of the lambs,’’ was the reply. There is a word
for pastorsinthatreply. ‘‘If I were to repeat
my ministry,’’ said an aged pastor, ‘‘I would
give my chief attention to the young.’’

—A CLERGYMAN observing a poor man by
the road breaking stones, and Kneeling to get
at his work better, made the remark: ‘‘Ah,
John, I wish I could break the stony hearts
of my hearers as easily as you are breaking”
those stones.’’ ‘*Perhaps, master, you do not
-work on your knees,”’ was the reply.

—Muttirrication or ScanpaL.— Mrs. A.
(to Mrs. B.): ‘*That Mrs. Newcomer is so fond
of herchildren. The other day when I called
she was blowing soap bubbles with them
through a common clay pipe.’”? Mrs. B. (to
Mrs. C.): ‘*That Mrs. Newcomer is so funny.
Mrs. A. saw her amusing the children with a
common clay pipe.’” Mrs. C. (to Mrs. D.):
«That Mrs. Newcomer smokes a common clay
pipe.’”’ Mrs. D. (to Mrs. E.): ‘That Mrs. New-

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OUR BOOK TABLE.

Dr. MARTIN LUTHER’S SAEMMTLICHE SCHRIFTEN.
Neunter Band. Auslegung des Neuen Testa-
ments. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis,
Mo. Price $3.75; postage paid.

The new edition of Luther’s Works, issued by
our Publishing House at St. Louis, has secured the
attention and praise of Lutherans in all lands. This
ninth volume has been prepared with great care and
skill by Prof. Hoppe, the learned editor. Among
other exegetical writings of Luther on the books of
the New Testament it brings the great Reformer’s
powerful Commentary on the Galatians.

REDEN, gehalten bei einer Versammlung der mit
der Missouri-Synode verbundenen Gemeinden
Chicagos im Art Institute am 3. September 1893.
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
Price 15 cts.

This interesting pamphlet contains thé addresses
delivered on the Lutheran Day in Chicago: 1) Was
ist Lutherthum? Von Prof. F. Pieper; 2) Epochs
of Lutheranism in America. By Prof. A. Graebner;
8) Wir lieben unser Land und auch aus diesem
Grund lieben wir unsere Gemeindeschulen. Von
Pastor H. Sauer; 4) A free Church in a free State.
By Prof. A. Crall.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORLEANS, 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.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 744 Sunday evening and at 744 Thurs-
day evening.
Sunduy School 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 7%
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o'clock.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL,
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 7% o'clock Sunday evening and at 7%
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 3% o'clock.
Sunday School at 10 o'clock.
CetROna en cluss mects from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday
evening. A
Singing-sckool from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.
Cus. H. RUESSKAMP, Missionary.

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

Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 3 o'clock ¥. ot. M)
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday cyenings.
Singing-school Tucsday evening.
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