The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1894, Page 28

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church, and was the means of reforming one
of the worst neighborhoods in all the West.

—A porxar that a laboring man gave to a

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Ounr Colored Lutheran Church at Spring-
field, Ill., which has been vacant for more than
a year and has been supplied by Professors
Herzer and Wessel of our Seminary at that
place, will soon receive a stationary pastor,
since our Mission Board has called the Rev.
F. Meyer from the mission field in North Ca-
rolina to Springfield. Rey. Meyer’s place in
North Carolina will be taken by the Rev. J. C.
Schmidt, a graduate of our Lutheran Practical
Seminary.

— Our mission field in New Orleans has also
received another laborer, the Mission Board
haying called the Rev. E. Huebsch, a graduate
of our Springfield Seminary, as Rev. Burg-
dorf’s assistant in church and school.

—TueE Rey. N. J. Bakke, our zealous mis-
sionary at Concord, N. C., is carrying on mis-
sion work in different counties of the state.
He recently organized another Colored Lu-
theran congregation at Gold Hill, a small
village in Rowan county. The congregation
bears the name Evangelical Lutheran Zion’s

_ Congregation. May many of the colored
people of Gold Hill find the pure gold of God’s
Word in our Lutheran Zion.
—Surraste buildings for church and school
are greatly needed on our mission field in North
Carolina. Our missionary must teach and
preach in dilapidated and very unhealthy
buildings and our Mission Board has not the
money to remedy the matter. ‘Times, it is
true, are hard, and many poor members of
our congregations can not contribute as they
formerly did. But these are the times in which
the wealthy members should step to the front
and not allow God’s work to suffer for want
of money.
—A uittre Jad who had become interested
in gathering money to send the Gospel to the
heathen, hit upon this happy device. He
Trummaged in .the garret and found an old-
fashioned powder-horn, which he decided to
| _‘make intoa missionary box. His older brother
- said he might have the horn, but wondered

what he was going to do with it. The large
“end of the horn had a wooden bottom, and

Eddie scraped it smooth, and asked his brother
if he would cut some letters on it. ‘‘Yes,’’
_ said his brother, and Eddie gave him these
words:

5S KO SS PET Y

wages of less than a dollar a day, was the

Hin
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of his income to such a cause, and resulted in

the Master.

— Goopness is sometimes better than great-
ness. An India missionary could not learn the
language. After some years he asked to be
recalled, frankly saying he had not suflicient
intellect for the work. A dozen missionaries,

request, saying that his goodness gave him a
wider influence among the heathen than any
other missionary at the station.
when asked, ‘‘What is it to be a Christian?’’
replied, ‘‘It is to be like Mr.——,’’ naming
the good missionary. He was kept in India.
He never preached a sermon; but when he
died hundreds of heathen testified to his holy
life and character.

—Tne Lutheran Synod of Wisconsin and
other States has commenced mission work
among the Indians of Arizona, The Mission
Board met recently at Watertown, Wis., and
adopted a resolution to build a school and a
dwelling-house for the sum of $1600.

— Miss Carter, of Japan, tells of a kindly
Christian Japanese woman who came to her
with a girl baby which she had found in a
ditch, where it had been left by its father, as
thousands of others have been, because it was
‘only a girl.”” In begging her to take care of
the naked child covered with mud, the poor
woman said: ‘‘Please do take the little baby ;
your God is the only God that teaches to be
good to girl babies.’’ :

—TneE sad lot of women in India -should
awaken the sympathies and efforts of all
Christians. Mr. Wright, of Tirumangalam, in
the Madura Mission, in a recent letter speaks
of hearing while in his house, a piteous cry
outside. On asking his teacher what it could
be, the teacher answered: ‘‘Oh, that is prob-
ably some man beating his wife.’? On going
to the gate, Mr. Wright saw lying in the street
@ woman with scanty clothing and disheveled
hair; her husband stood hy her with his
cudgel, a stick about two feet long of hard
wood with a metal ring on each end. Two
brothers of the. woman were there also, and
she was crying out: ‘‘I don’t want to go with
this man; he beats me and is cruel to me!”’

“(Once I was the horn of an ox,
Now I am a missionary box.’
Eddie inked the letters, and then as he showed
his box to his friends they were all so pleased
with his ingenuity that they all put something
and he became a Jarge contributor.
—A ew Sunday school papers that a little
_ girl tucked in a box of dried apples her mother
_ Was sending to some relatives in the far West
ere the means of arousing a forgotten sense

and the young woman was in her teens. Her
brothers and relatives abused her, refusing her
food and shelter, since according to Hindu
customs a woman must submit to any cruelty
; and indignity from her husband. And there
ibilities for religious duties, and a] is no remedy for such woes in Hinduism; only
ome kind of services, and alittle|the Gospel of Christ can bring deliverance
started which grew into a|from such barbarities. —

public collection for home missions, out of

means of setting his employer to asking what
it was that made the man give so large a part

the consecration of his millions to the work of

however, petitioned the Board not to grant his

A convert

They had been married about three months] P'

Pactment to be addressed to Pro:

—Tne West Indies include many islands
under British; Dutch and French rule, and
the Republic of Hayti. The total area is about
100,000 square miles, and the population
5,900,000, while 16 societies are at work with
over 120 ordained missionaries and 500 native
helpers. ‘The communicants number 75,000.

—Ar the time when the Turks frequently
invaded Germany, a little seven-year-old Prot-
estant boy fell into the hands of the Moslems,
who wished to force him to become a Mo-
hammedan. But Peter Schuette, this was the
boy’s name, remained firm, and declared:
“T worship God alone, in Christ Jesus.’’
Afterwards he was freed by Roman Catholic
soldiers.. These kept images of the Virgin
Mary in their'tents, before which they knelt
every evening and prayed. Peter remained
standing. Then they asked him to pray with
them. But he answered: ‘‘No, I do not wor-
ship images, God will not have us serve idols ;
I worship God alone.”’

——s-+<— o> oo

Where there is Christ Jesus, there is the
Triune God. Without this Christ God is no-
where to be found.—Luther.

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 10%.
F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 744 Sunday evening and at 74 Thurs-
day evening.

Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class mects at 714 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 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 314 0’ Ke
Sunday School at 10 O'clock. SE
Cateqhamen class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday
ning.
Singing:school from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.
CiAs. H. RUESSKAMP, Missionary.
ee
Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,

Springfield, Ill. ~
Divine Services at half past 10 o’
and at 8 o'clock Sunday eve: reeok Sunday morniog
ay Boncol at3 o’clock ». mM.
atechumen class mects Mo: {
Singing-school Tuesday evening: and Friday evenings.

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