The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1894, Page 20

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«The civilization of Japan has been mislead-
ing, even to missionaries. The Japanese are
so sweet and courteous in manners, so artistic
in fine arts, so bright and gay, that we lose
sight of the fact that they are as veritable
heathen as if they were savages and fought

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Cura will pay $40,000 to the relatives
of the Swedish missionaries, Wickholm and
Johannsen, who were murdered by a mob at
Sung Pa, in July Jast. But what will be done
with the murderers? That is the question.
*—Cursa proper is divided into nineteen
- provinces. Most Chinese are Buddhists and
. Confucianists at the same time; many of them
are also Taoists. The Mohammedans in China
number about 30,000,000 and are found chiefly
in the north-east and south-west. There are
about 1,000,000 Roman Catholics. Protes-
tants number 60,000. Many of the natives
are still nature worshipers. ‘There are at
work in the Flowery Kingdom about 66 so-
cieties, 18 of which are British, 13 Continental
and 17 American, and they support about
1500 missionaries. Native helpers number
over 20,000 and native churches 525. Last
year over 500,000. copies of the Bible wer
distributed. :
—A missionary tells a story of a Chinaman
-who came one day to the mission rooms.
‘*fave you ever heard the Gospel?’’ asked
the missionary. ‘‘No,”’ was the reply, ‘‘but
I haye seen it. I knew a man who was like
a wild beast; he would shout at you when
angry, and would curse both day and night.
But he learned the religion of Jesus, and now
he is kind, gentle, and speaks good words.’’
The converted heathen had become a preacher
of the religion of Jesus without knowing it.
‘The missionary himself could not preach and
teach better than this poor man was doing by
his changed life. His former companions saw
3 a great change in him. They said: ‘‘What
tea has made this man so different?’’? And when
they heard that it was the religion of Jesus,
they said in their hearts, ‘‘If we believe it is
a good religion let us send it to those who
; : have it not.” ;
, —Reyv. Mr. Fuurton, of the American Pres-
‘byterian Mission in China, wrote recently:
3 ‘*During this very month more money will be
fae spent in propitiating evil spirits that have no
Rs existence, than all the churches in the United
{ ‘States give in one year for foreign missions.’?
Bese: Do we believe our beliefs as profoundly as the
- Chinese believe theirs?
—Over 200 African converts in Uganda
‘and the regions about have suffered death
Tather than give up their faith in Christ.
—Ucanpa, East Africa, had no written Jan-
guage when missionaries went there in 1877.
_ Now many thousands of the people can read.
__ .—Ins Malaysia, India, there is a population
‘of 60,000,000, mostly Mohammedan Malays.
The British and Foreign Bible Society has

even European colporteurs at work, and

with bow and arrow. We look for truth and
find lying; we look for virtue and find vice;
and we are disgusted. If they were living in
wigwams we would expect no better. We for-
get their environment for generations.’’ Here
then is an example showing what a polite civ-
ilization amounts to when it is practically god-
less,- ndt permeated by the leaven of Chris-
tianity. What the Japanese, with all their
elegant manners and beautiful shams, need
is a thorough change of nature, a spiritual re-
generation of heart, and an infusion of the say-
ing and sanctifying Gospel into their lives.

—CONSIDERABLE success has already been
secured for Christianity in the Turkish Em-
pire; nearly 500 missionaries and 1800 native
helpers are toiling for the Gospel. Over 200
churches are organized, with 21,000 communi-
cants, and there are 84,000 Protestants. The
Bible Lands Missions’ Aid Society (British)
has hitherto helped this great missionary labor
by a total of just $400,000.

—Awy Evangelical pastor at work in Bulgaria
writes: ‘‘A few Sundays since I gave the com-
munion, for the first time, to a converted Jew.
He told me that his father had been with the
French as a dragoman in the Crimea, that,
while there, he secured a copy of the New Tes-
tament in Hebrew-Spanish, and that he read it
and prized it on his return to Constantinople.
When he was dying he had it with him on his
bed, and died with it clasped to his breast.
The wife was commanded: by her husband’s
Jewish friends to destroy the book; but, not
being able to read, she could not then tell it
from some others in the same type. ‘The result
was it was thrown aside and not destroyed.
The young man in question somehow obtained
this copy, has been reading it, has professed
Christ, and I gave him the sacrament of the
Lord’s Supper two weeks ago for the first
tinie.”” ae : ;

—TneERreE are numberless faithful and heroic
souls who have given or are giving their lives
to Christian service, but whose names are not
likely to be known in the world, save in very
narrow circles. Of one such person we have
a brief record from the Marquesas Islands.
Mrs. L. Kaaiawahia, the wife of Rey. S. Kau-
wealoha, both of them native Hawaiians, went
with hér husband in 1843 to the Marquesas
Islands as missionary under the Hawaiian
Board to the natives on those cannibal islands.
where she labored with her husband for forty
years without ever returning to her native land
seven Eu: to visit parents or relatives. Part of the time
twenty-five who are natives. At Singapore) she lived almost alone, separated from other
Bibles are furnished in forty-five lan-} missionary families. Her hands and her heart
, : were occupied with labors for the natives, by
‘are significant and suggestive) whom she was greatly honored and loved. This
record of a Hawaiian missionary is to her credit,

20 The Lutheran Pioneer.

and not to her’s only, but also to the Tae to
which she belonged.

—Medical Missions at Home and Abroug -
speaks of a movement to place a well-bounq
copy of the Bible in Japanese into the hands
of every native physician in the Mikado’s Em-
pire. There are at present about 40,000 doc-
tors for the 40,000,000 of the Japanese people.
It is proposed that these Bibles shall be given
by the medical men of England and America
to their brethren in Japan.

—Tuis story is told in a parish not far dis-
tant, where they were raising money for re-
furnishing the church: The colored sexton
remarked of a certain fairly well-to-do mem-
ber, haying a reputation for close-fistedness,
that he was ‘‘as stingy as old Caesar.’’ ‘‘Why
do you think Caesar was stingy?’’ he was
asked. ‘Well, you see,’’ came the reply,
‘twhen the Pharisees gave our Lord a penny,
Jesus asked them, ‘Whose subscription is
this?’ and they said, ‘Caesar’s.’’’—We close
our window.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New OrzEans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Olalborne 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 Stra.
Divine services at 744 Sunday evening and at 744 Thaurs-
day evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 7}4 Tuesday evening.
¥F. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EY. LUTH. TRINITY CHUROH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CARROLLTON.
Divine seryices at 10}4 o’clock Sunday morning and 7%
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 914 0’clock. E. W. Kuss, Missionary.
EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 744 o’clock Sunday evening and at 74
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 334 o’clock.

Sunday School at 10 o’clock.

CatSCh matin class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday

5 evening.

Singing-echool from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.
Cas. H. RUESSKAMP, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfield, Ill. :
Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sund
and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening. PETS
Sunday School at 3 o’clock Pr. M.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday cyenings,
Singing-school Tucsday evening.
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