The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1895, Page 4

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4° The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—How swirtty time passes by! With the
present issue THe Lurneran ProNeer begins

its seventeenth volume. For sixteen years our

little paper has done its humble work for the
Master, and it is a cause for gratitude to God

- to know that its Jabor has not been in vain.

May the good Lord, who is pleased to use also
“the weak things’”’ in His kingdom, continue
to bless our little Proneer. At the beginning
of a new volume we tender our thanks to the
friends of our mission who have aided in the
circulation of our paper and earnestly ask their
continued and hearty co-operation.

—Bry the liberal gifts of the children of our
Lutheran Parochial Schools our Mission Board
has been enabled tp erect the much needed
school-house for our mission at Concord, N. C.
The children have done nobly. God bless our
boys and girls! May the interest they have
shown for our mission work never die out!

—Awnp now the older people also have an
opportunity to come to our aid. In compliance
with a resolution passed by the Synodical Con-
ference at its last session, our Mission Board
has called upon all our congregations to send
in a collection for our mission work. Let us
see what the old folks will do. We hope they
will follow the example of our children.

—Some young Christians in a West African
Mission are examples to Christians everywhere
in the matter of benevolence. The two young
men from the infant church who are going out
as evangelists support themselves in part by
their own earnings, and it is expected that by
next year one or more young men will be sup-
ported in this form of service by the church,
which is not a year old. Some members of the
church give nearly one fourth of their earnings,
besides doing something for their parents and
friends. Would that all the churches of the
United States could be brought up to the
standard of this young church just out of
darkest heathenism, in which every member
is acontributor! They call the money which
they bring for their Sunday collections ‘‘God’s
money.’’

—Tuer Japanese number among their numer-
ous idols the great bright god of self-restraint,
and him they worship with many ceremonies
upon their New Year. A strong iron box every
New Year is given a conspicuous place in the
home. In this each member of the family de-
posits during the year the amount saved by
an act of self-restraint or economy in a finan-

cial transaction, If a gown, usually requiring

nine yards, is cut from eight yards, the price
of the one yard saved is dropped in the self-
restraint box. Orif a common article is chosen
when a superior one is desired, the price saved

" belongs to the same god. And, truly, would
‘nota Christianized ‘‘self-restraint box,’’ well

onized, be an exceedingly valuable addi-
ni to the furnishing of every Christian home?
—JIr is an interesting fact that the Chief
ice of the Supreme Court of Japan, Mr. T.

on the stagnant waters of Benares.’’

Judges 21,8. A missionary being asked what
it was that directed his thoughts toward the
foreign field, answered: ‘‘In coming home one
night, driving across the vast prairie, I saw
my little boy John hurrying to mect me; the
grass was high on the prairie, and suddenly he
dropped out of sight. I thought he was play-
ing, and was simply hiding from me, but he
didn’t appear as I expected he would. Then
the thought flashed across my mind, ‘There’s an
old well there, and he has fallenin.’ I hurried
up to him, reached down in the well, and lifted
him out; and as he looked up in my face, what
do you think he said? ‘O papa, why didn’t
youhurry?’ Those words neverleftme. They
kept ringing in my ears until God put a new
and deeper meaning into them, and bade me
think of others who are lost, of souls without
God and without hope in this world: and the

heavenly Father, ‘Go and work in My name,’
and then from that vast throng a pitiful, de-
spairing, pleading cry rolled into my soul, as
I accepted God’s call: ‘Oh, why don’t you
hurry???”

the pastor will not only win them to Christ, but

Myoshi, is a Christian man and a deacon in| another year. ~ They are taught to believe that

one of the Kumi-ai churches of Tokyo.
—Tne Harvest Field quotes from the North
India Church Missionary Gleaner, a letter from
Dr. Baumann, as follows: ‘Yesterday I had
the happiness of baptizing a young Moham-
medan and his wife and three children. He is
an educated merchant who dealt in kinkas, or
cloth interwoven with silver-and gold threads.
By embracing Christianity, however, he has be-
come a beggar, as his father had disinherited
him and thrust him out of the house, with
nothing on him except his clothes. But he
has counted the cost, and is happy in the ex-
change he has made. He has been coming to
me for the last cleven months secretly for in-
struction, and many have been the efforts to
induce him to give up Christ, partly made
through Moulvies, partly through the tears of
his father, but grace enabled him to remain
firm. By this baptism a ripple has been caused

—‘‘Tne King’s business requireth haste,’’

message came to me as a message from the

—By taking a personal interest in the young,

will also strengthen his hold on their parents.
Some years ago a Christian mother in Scotland
said to her son, as he was starting for the
church where he was to be ordained to the gos-
pel ministry: ‘*You are going to be ordained
to-day, and you will be told your duty by those
who know it better than I do, but I wish you
to remember one thing which perhaps they may.
not tell you—remember that whenever you
lay your hand on a child’s head, you are lay-
ing it on its mother’s heart.”” -

—In Cnixa, on New Year's morning, each
man and boy, from the Emperor to the lowest
peasant, pays avisit tohis mother. He carries
her a present, varying in yalue according to
his station, thanks her for all she has done
for him, and asks a continuance of her favor

his father a happy New Year?
very early on New Year’s morning, and what

most superfluous,
profit by old and young.

mothers have an influence for good over their
sons all through life.

—Do you Know how the Chinese boy wishes
He wakes up

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do you think he is going to do first? Rush into
his father’s room and shout, ‘Happy New
Year!’?? No, indeed. He waits very quietly
till his father is quite ready ; then he goes up
to him and “worships” him, as it is called.
He folds his hands before him, bows very low,
knocks his head on the floor, gets up, bows
again and knocks his head on the floor. This
he does three or four’ times very solemnly.
This is the way he wishes his father a happy
New Year.

—As we close our window, our little Pioneer

comes forward, and without knocking his head
on the floor, wishes all our readers

A Harry New Year.

OUR BOOK TABLE.

ERZAEHLUNGEN FUER DIEJUGEND. 26. u. 26. Baend-

chen. Christ und Jude, cine Erzaehlung aus
dem sechzehnten Jahrhundert von K. H. Ca-
spari. Price 50 cents. Concordia Publishing
House, St. Louis, Mo.
To commend this excellent story would seem al- *
It will be read with delight and

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORr.EanNs, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CILAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at m%
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 9 to 10%.
F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Tialia Strs.
Divine services at 74 Sunday evening and at 7% Thurs-
day evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock. ‘
Adult catechumen class meets at 7}4 Tuesdny evening.
E. W. Kuss, Missionary.

EVY- LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.

Divine services at 7}4 o'clock Sunday evening and at %
o'clock Thursday evening. ,
Sunday School at 9 o’clock. >
AUG. BURGDORF, Missionary:
peek mera

Evang. Luth. St. Paul’s Church.
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs,, Little Rock, Ark.
Rene abe annaey cpa at 3% o’clock.
junday School at 10 o’clock.
Catechiamen class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday
evening.
Blugingcsckool from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.
_ Citas. H. RUESSKAMP, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfield, Til.
Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
- and at 8 o'clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 3 o’clock p. Mu. 7
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday cvenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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