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universal interest in the spot to exact a fee
for admission to this resting-place of one of
his ancestors. We would have paid the fee
willingly enough, though assured beforehand
that there was nothing of interest to be seen
within the tomb; but, on inquiry, we learned
that it was not one of the days for its exhi-
bition.”’
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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Ix two thirds of China there is not a single
. missionary working. Altogether there is but
ey one missionary in the empire for each 500 towns
and villages.

—Tne twenty-first report of the Leper Home
at Jerusalem is a record of devoted work. At
the end of last year there were twenty-five
patients, eleven men and fourteen women. In
| most cases the disease had made terrible rav-
| ages upon the wasted frames. On the whole

the inmates lead lives of contentment. The
Word of God is highly prized by some of the
lepers. One has declared that “‘were it not
for the comfort that we derive from God’s
Holy Word, we should have died in despair
long ago.”’ The workers aim at spiritual re-
. sults, and they are cheered by many indica-
tions of God’s blessing. What but the grace
of God could lead one stricken inmate to say,

‘Leprosy is nothing to me so long as the

Lord is on my side ;”” and another to exclaim,

"Surely it is better to be a leper and have

fellowship with Christ, than to be in good

health and far away from God.’? Three of
the lepers died during the year. One of them
was asked whether he was at peace. ‘‘Yes,’’
he whispered, ‘‘there is peace, there is light,
there is joy.’”’ The others both confessed

Christ, the last words of one of them being

‘tWhether we live, we live unto the Lord;

and whether we die, we die unto the Lord;

whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the

Lord’s."” i

—Awn African missionary tells the following
story, ‘‘One day an old chief came to me,
with two wives, one old, the other young, and
wanted to join my church. I told him we
didn’t allow a man to have more than one

’ wife. He went away and the next week came
back with the young wife, both of them smil-
“ing, and said: ‘Now me join church; me all
right now.’ ‘Where is your old wife?’ I asked.
‘She all right too; me eat her up,’ placidly
answered the old savage to my great horror.
_ —A Fience tribe of savages on the upper
Congo received missionaries of the English
oard, one of whom, Mr. Weeks, reports a
ne which occurred in August last, at Mon-
mbi Station, near Bangals. A loud wailing
§ heard-one night and it appeared that Mo-
bi, the headman of Monsembi, had died.
mers came from surrounding towns and
Wailed in a frightful and heart-rending way,
appeared that it was not from sorrow.
Ww of grief was simply to avoid the

ee ea i Se ale

I do not cry night and day for him, they would
say I had bewitched him.’? Mr. Weeks de-
scribes one real mourner, a senior wife of the
dead man, who plastered her body with mud,
and wandered around the town, carrying his
looking-glass and spear, searching for her hus-
band, muttering to herself, ‘‘Ah, he has gone
to Mokoko. I will look for him there.’’ And
off she would go through the villages, only to
return to the corpse of her husband and grovel
in the dirt beside it. Mr. Weeks found the
people dragging away one woman, doubtless
to strangle her on the grave of her husband,
but he interposed and saved her life. At the
burial of the dead man a grave was dug in the
middle of his house, the front of the house
being taken out and the roof raised. It seems
that the deceased had killed seven men during
his life, six of them in open quarrels. One of
them, his slave, he killed in anger and his skull
was sticking in the ground near by. At the
grave the woman sang a dirge, and each of the
seven men was called upon by name to attend.
Seven thrusts were made in the air with a
spear, and then the body was carried away to
the grave. The fact that there was no victim
sacrificed on this occasion is in striking con-
trast with what occurred two years ago when
the first missionaries reached that region, for
then, when the missionaries had not been there
many weeks, they found a woman pegged to
the ground and the people defiantly announced
their intention to kill her and drove Mr. Weeks
back to his house when he sought to interfere.

—A Man who had been drinking very freely
at the bar of a landlord, in going out into the
street fell into the gutter. A boy seeing him
lie there, ran into the public house and said
to the landlord, ‘Sir, your sign has fallen
down.’’ He went out, and to his astonish-
ment beheld only a sign that he was a drunk-

ard manufacturer.

—A FAQUIR was passing through a certain
village in India, in which a missionary was
preaching. He did not stay to listen to the
Gospel message, but after accepting a tract,
a Hindu translation of the ‘Old, Old Story,”
passed on his way. On the missionary’s re-
turn journey his preaching was received with
much opposition in one village, until suddenly
this same man stepped forward, and exclaim-
ing, ‘‘Why do you not listen?’? showed them
the leaflet which had“been given to him, and
said, ‘‘Henceforth what is written herein shall
be my religion, for it is good and true.’’

—AnonG certain African nations the um-
brella is a symbol of royalty. British soldiers
carry off the King’s umbrella after every little
war. The monarch usually sends to London
for a new one. A house there is now making
an immense umbrella for a despot not far from
the territories of the late King Coffee. It is
the largest in the world. The stick is 15 feet
long, the ribs are of brass, and when they are
extended cover a space sufficient for twelve
persons. The premier or other favored mem-

of witchcraft. A man would say: “it ber of the government is selected for the honor

of carrying this enormous spread of gingham
over the potentate and his family.

— Books are a power in China; and a single
mission press—that of the Mission at Shang-
hai—printed last year 42,418,457 pages. Of
this number 27,879,600 were pages of Scrip-
ture. The total number of books and tracts
issued during the year was 995,496.

—Wueyn Mrs. Armstrong, laboring among
the Telugus in India, sought a winding-sheet
for a dead woman, she was asked, ‘* Was she
a saint or a sianer?’’ The question meant,
Was she married or a widow? If a widow,
she would not be buried in cloth of such
quality as if living with a husband. And,
when she asked one of the many sects of
Hindus if there was anything on which they
agreed, he said, ‘‘Yes; we all believe in the
sanctity of the cow and the depravity of
woman.’’

Received of Rev. A. Burgdorf, New Orleans, La.,
for Mt. Zion’s Building und from Mr. Z. §1.00,
Epiphany-collection of Bethlehem Chapel §9.35,
from following members of same: N. N. $1.00,
Mr. John Brown 15 cts., Mrs. Juliana Henderson
50 cts., Mrs. Leah Smith 50 cts., Mrs. Odelia Wil-
son 50 cts., Mrs. Marg. Brown $2.00. (Total $15.00.)

A. C. BurGporr, Treas.

St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 19, 1895.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORLEANS, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.

Divine services: Sunday morning at 1014 o'clock.

Sunday evening at 734 0’clock.

Wednesday evening at 74 o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% 0 clock.
Singing School at 744 o’clock Monday evening.

F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Tialia Strs.
Divine services at 734 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thure-
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 74 o’clock Sunday evening and at |
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 34 o'clock.
Sunday School at 10 o'clock.
Carechanien class mects from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday

evening.
Singing-school from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.
Ons. H. RuESSKAMP, Missionary.

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