The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1894, Page 40

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window::

—Awn 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

Testament in Hebrew-Spanish, and that he

read it and prized it on his return to Constan-

 tinople. 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 some-
how obtained this copy, has been reading it,
and professes to have accepted Christ.”’

_ —Tnere continue to arrive reports of the
persecutions to which some of the missionaries
in China are subjected. The steamer, City of
Pekin, brings word that the Presbyterian mis-
sion church at Shuklung, not far from Canton,
has been destroyed, and some of the native con-
verts most cruelly assaulted, one even dying in
consequence of the injuries he received.

—Tue Chinese Recorder gives an incident
of a Chinaman who bought a copy of Luke’s
‘gospel in Shanghai, and after returning to his
village, read to his neighbors from the new
book he had bought. The people became much
interested, and as_no copies of the book could
-be found, they took to pieces the one they had
and made a copy for each person, meeting each
evening toread together. When, subsequently,
a preacher came to the town, he was told,
‘‘What ye are preaching we already know.
We have long worshiped Jesus, and have
-ceased to worship the idols.’’

—Or the 12,000 Canadian Indians on the
Pacific Coast, 8000 have been baptized or at-
tend Christian worship. The Gospels have
‘béen printed for them in four languages.

—Tue house in which Martin Luther died
-has been restored and refurnished as nearly
as possible after the manner of the sixteenth
century.

—A Do rtar that a laboring man gave to
a public collection for home missions, out of
wages of less than a dollar a day, was the
-means of setting his employer to asking what
it was that made the man give so large a part
-of his income to such-a cause, and resulted in
the consecration of his millions to the work of
the Master. : ;

—A Convert to Christianity in Syria who

was urged by his employer to work on Sunday

' declined. ‘‘But,’? said the employer, ‘does
.not your Bible say that if a man has an ox or
-an ass that falls into a pit on the Sabbath day,
he may pull him out?” ‘Yes,’’ answered the
convert, ‘‘but.if the ass has the habit of fall-
-ing into the same pit every Sabbath day, then
the aan should either fill up the pit or sell
the ass.”

—A Cotorep girl was setting the table,
when a boy in the room said.to her: ‘Mollie,
do you pray?’’ The suddenness of the ques-
tion confused her a little, but she answered,
“Yes, every night.”” ‘Do you think God
hears you?”’ the boy asked. She answered
promptly, ‘‘I know He does.’’ “But do you
think,’’ said he, trying to puzzle her, ‘‘that
He hears your prayers as readily as those of
white children?’’ For a while the child kept
on with her work; then she slowly said:
‘(Master George, I pray into God’s ears, not
His eyes. My voice is like another girl’s, and

rif I say what I ought to say, God does not

stop to look at my skin.”’

—Ar a certain slavye-market a negro boy
was offered for sale. One of the bystanders,
moved with compassion and being well pleased
with the boy’s appearance and conduct, wished
to keep him from falling into the hands of some
cruel master. So he went up to the boy and
said : ‘Will you be honest if I buy you?”’ With
an indescribable look upon his frank counte-
nance the boy replied: “I will be honest,
whether you buy me or not.”

—TueE mother-in-law of the Mikado of
Japan was recently ill, and though having 423
physicians in attendance, yet she recovered.
A Buddhist priest said that the cause of her
illness was the introduction of railways!

—A Misstonary thus speaks of a congrega-
tion at a church service: ‘‘Japanese audiences
are models of politeness. No one yawns, snaps
his watch, shuflles his feet or goes out, even
though the speaker is talking in an unknown
tongue. Every eye is upon the speaker. When
he begins to speak he is greeted by a polite
obeisance from every one in the audience;
and when he concludes, another low bow from
every, one in the room says silently, ‘I thank
you.’ Afterthe address another song, a prayer,
and benediction, and then what? A grabbing
of hats and canes and overcoats, and a ‘break’
for the door? Ah! no; the Japanese have not
learned thus to close their worship. All drop
into their seats again; for a full minute they
sit with covered eyes and bowed heads, and
then slowly and reverently pass out of church
or break up into little groups.’’

—A Misstonary on the Congo writes thus
of trials endured: ‘‘The missionaries’ houses
at this place are poor, but better ones are in
process of erection. My own little abode was
20X14, with mud walls and a thatched roof
of grass. Even this was not exclusively my
own, for besides my two girls, who lived with
me, there were lizards, centipedes and other
small creatures. One,Sunday morning, as I

was dressing, a snake fell from the roof down | P'

beside me, but no harm was done.’’ But she
heeds not such trifles, for ‘‘this is the scene
where the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ has
triumphed, and in hundreds of huts, which are
not worthy of.the name of homes, women,
strong men and children are rejoicing in Christ.

The 24 schools. and 5 churches are centres of |_
light to the heathen, 10, 20 and 80 miles around

in different directions. Native evangelists and
teachers are constantly winning souls, and
often we have marvelled at their zeal, courage
and fearlessness in the midst of God’s ene-
mies, who persecute them and plot against
their lives.’’

OUR BOOK TABLE.

Fest ist Die BurG. Festgesang auf das Reforma-
tionsfest von-J. P. T. Kirsch. With German
and Englixh texts. Price 25 cts. per copy;
$1.50 per dozen. Address Mr. J.P. T. Kirsch,
South Bend, Ind.

LUTHERAN WITNESS TRACTS Edited by W. Dall-
mann. No. 12, Odd Fellowship Weighed— Want-
ing. American Lutheran Publication Board,
Chicago, Ill. Price 5 cts. per copy; 40 cts. per
dozen; $2 50 per hundred.

In terse and simple language the author shows
from the “standard work of the Order’? what Odd
Fellowship really is. The Order is weighed in the
balance of God’s Word and is found wanting.

THE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE—Its Importance for this
Life and the Life to come. Oration delivered at
the Commencement of Concordia College, Con-
over, N.C., June 21, 1894, by Rev. N. J. Bakke.
Published at the request of the Board of Direct-

ors. American Lutheran Publication Board, *
Chicago, Ill. Price 10 cts. per copy; 75 ‘cts.
per dozen.

This excellent Oration of our worthy missionary
deserves a wide circulation. The proceeds from
the sale of the pamphlet are to be devoted to bene-
ficiary education at Conover, N.C.

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 724

o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 9 to 104.

¥. J. LANKENAU, Missionary,

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Tialia Strs.
WE services at 744 Sunday evening and at 734 Thurs-
Sunday School meets at 9 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 7}4 Tuesday evening.
E. W. Kuss, Missionary.

EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 744 o’clock Sunday evening and at 734
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.

Diyine service panes yes at 8% o'clock.
Sunday Schoo! at 10 o’c!
Catechumen class sae roe 7.30 to, 8.30 Wednesday

evening.
Singing-sciool from 7.80 to 8.30 Thursday evening.
Cnas. H. RUESSKAMP, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfield, Mi.
Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening:
Sunday School at 3 o’clock P.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

TERMS:
Tae LuTHErAN PIONEER ‘is published monthly,
ayable in advance at the following ED postage
included, to-wit:

50 9.00

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 ecernp the editorial de-

artment to be addressed to Prof. R. A. weGen

mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind. . ;