The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1894, Page 24

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24 The Lutheran Pioneer.

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. | next evening there were a number again wish- | gelist tours stopped at this island for a few
ing to hear his news, and he read a few more} days; and here, so long after, was the fruit.
—Oor Lutheran people in Michigan re-| verses in Luke’s book. This occurred several|The calico shirts had been worn but once a
cently dedicated with appropriate ceremonies} times, till there were a good many interested, | week, carefully preserved for the Lord’s Day,
a large and handsome Home for Aged People| and wishing to read the book for themselves. | and the only way to keep the day which they
near the beautiful city of Monroe. No other copies could be procured there, so|knew was to meet others and tell what they

—A mucH needed Lutheran mission among | they took the one volume which they had, and | could remember of the wonderful story !
the deaf and dumb has been begun by the/ taking it to pieces leaf by leaf, made a good) —Nerw Bible Versions have been produced
Rey. A. Reinke of Chicago, Il]. Being well} many copies of it, and gave each man a copy, | in large numbers during the present century.
acquainted with the language of signs, he, by} and then every evening they met and read it. |In 1804 there were only 57. Now there are
means of that language, makes known to these} ‘‘Afterwards a preacher came to the town and | 395, if we include a few incomplete editions.
poor people the way of salvation. Not only in} preached the doctrine of the Lord Jesus in the | Of the translators Germany furnished 70, and

Chicago, but also in other cities this mission is} streets and lanes; when, to his surprise, his|its Mission Societies published nearly 25 ver-
hearers said to him: ‘What ye are preaching | sions. The most credit is due to British trans-

—Tue two young missionaries sent out by | volume of a book be compared to a seed which
the Lutheran Synod of Wisconsin to labor| fell in good soil and brought forth fruit ?’’
among the Apache Indians in Arizona have} —Tne preacher undoubtedly meant to say
found a mission field ripe unto the harvest. | ‘‘collection for the poor,’’ but with prophetic

they passed the winter months among the In-| and the prophecy was fulfilled the same hour.
dians, instructed their children, studied their] —In the Celestial Empire, and in Korea
language, and gained the confidence and love} and Japan as well, where parents are much
of the people among whom they are to work. | thought of, while wives are held in slight es-
May God continue to bless their labors for| teem, the Scripture is a sore stumbling-block
the poor Indian. j : which speaks of a man leaving his father and
—From the letter of our missionary our} his mother and cleaving unto his wife.
readers will learn that Carrollton station in] —A uEATHEN cHIEF on one of the South Sea
New Orleans has been given up by our Mission| Islands once said toa missionary : ‘That must
“Board, since the people there did not appre-| be a good Word which you preach, for I see
ciate the blessings intended for them. Per-| that those of my countrymen who have received
haps, in some future time, Carrollton will pre-| it now do what formerly they did not do, and
sent a better opening for Lutheran mission| what we do not do, —they love their enemies ;
work. Meanwhile we know by the promises] and it is a good thing to love.one’s enemies.”’
of God that the labor of our missionary has} —A pisTiNGoIsHED native of Japan was so
: not been in vain. prejudiced against Christianity that he for-
: —Oor mission af Meherrin and Keysville, | bade his son to attend the mission school; but
ie Va., is still prospering despite the opposition| he changed his mind after he had carefully
Soe shown by the enemies of the pure Word of| observed the daily walk of Christians and
aie * God. The schools and church services are|compared their patience and meekness with
well attended and the missionary is permitted | the bitterness and arrogance of their enemies.
to see the fruits of his labor. “There must after all be something-real about
" —Ar Eisleben, Germany, Luther’s native| Christianity,’’ he said to his son, ‘‘it will be
town, a grand monument is to be erected to| better for you to attend the school again.”
the Reformer’s memory. This is to be aco-| —Dr. J. G. Paron tells an affecting story
Jossal statue in bronze. of a visit to a neglected island in the Pacific,
—TnE number of Bibles distributed during) where he found, to his amazement, though no
- 1892, in Germany, by German Bible societies, | missionary was there or had been sent there,
amounted to 326,700. The British Bible So-| there was a sort of Sunday keeping. ‘Two old
ciety distributed 237,200 in the same territory. | men, who had a very little knowledge of the
‘The latter Society distributes annually 80,000) truths of the Gospel, were keeping track of
copies of the Holy Scriptures among Roman| the days, and on the first day of each week
Catholics. - they laid ordinary work aside, put on a calico
_ —Tne Swatow Church News tells a bright] shirt kept for the purpose, and sat down to
3 story of how the Gospel finds its way from| talk to those whom they could call about them,
point to point in China. A Chinaman went) and in a simple way recited the outlines of a

inSouth China. InShanghai he bought acopy|one Jesus. Dr. Paton inquired where they
4 “of St. Luke’s Gospel. On his way home he| had learned this truth, and they answered that
looked into it, liked it, and read it again. | long before a missionary had visited the island
When he reached home his neighbors wished | for a week or two, and had given them each a
ar his news from Shangai. So he told| shirt, and told them something of this story
2 all he had met with and all he had seen,| of Jesus. He asked if they could remember

he mentioned the book he had) the name, and they said, ‘Yes, it was Paton.”
ad a little of it to-them. he| Thirty-three’ years before he had in his evan-

,

With self-denial and under many hardships| unconsciousness he said ‘‘poor collection,’’ | do the angels carry out God’s will?’’
answers followed.

directly.’’
their heart.’’
And after a pause a quiet little girl added:
‘They do it without asking any questions.’’

carried on. On the first Sunday in June Rey.

Reinke began mission work in Fort Wayne.| we already know, we have long worshiped | lators who have done the bulk of the work.
May God’s richest blessings rest upon his| Jesus and have ceased to worship the idols —>—-ee- se -—
labors!” which we once worshiped.’ May not this Angels

A teacher was explaining to her class the

words concerning God’s angels, ‘‘Ministers of
His who do His pleasure,”’ and asked: ‘‘How

Many
One said, ‘'They do it
Another, ‘‘They do it with all
A third, ‘‘They do it well.’’

Exchange.

"on business to Shanghai from his native place| wonderful story they had once heard about | P'

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 ™
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 9 to 104.
F. J. LANKENAD, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Frdnklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 744 Sunday evening and at 734 Thurs-
day evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 Tuesday evening.
E. W. Kuss, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 7}4 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 ee at3i4 o'clock.

Sunday School at 10 o’cloc:
Catechumen class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday

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

Ey. Luth, Holy Trinity Church,
; Springfeld, Il.

Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening.

* Sanday School at 3 o’clock P. 1.

Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

TERMS: i
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included, to-wit:

to one address.
. All business communications to be addressed to

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

All’ communications concerning the editorial de- ”

partment to be addressed to Prof. R. A. Brscuorr,

ncordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.