The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1895, Page 12

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presentation was made by the ministers of the
Tsung-Li-Yamen, through Mr. O’Conor, the
British Minister, and Colonel Charles Denby,
Minister for the United States. Accompany-
ing the gift was an address to the dowager
Empress. The gift was graciously received.

—A misstonary in Mid-China sends an in-
teresting account of his ascent of Mount Omei,
a ‘‘sacred’’ mountain on the borders of Thibet.
“Tt took me two days,’”’ he writes, ‘‘to reach
the top of the mountain. There are a great
number of temples all the way up the mount,
with (so I was told) two thousand priests serv-
ing them. The priests are for the most part
a poor set of men, who do any kind of menial
work about the temple. The mountain is a
famous sacred resort.... To reach the top of
it you have to climb up from twenty to thirty
English miles of steps; there are steps cut out
of the rock all the way to the top. It is no
easy matter to reach the top, and much more

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—We hear that a substantial school building
2448 feet, two stories high, is to be erected
at an early day by Rev. Bakke for our mission
among the colored peopje at Concord, N. C.

—TueEreE are within the bounds of the
Synodical Conference 1653 parochial shools,
having 878 male and 143 female teachers;
835 pastors also teach school.

—Tue Baltimore correspondent of The Lu-
theran World writes: ‘‘We can not avoid, nor
do we wish to refuse, giving fullest credit to
the most excellent exhibition of business en-
ergy and push on the part of the Missouri
branch of Lutherans in this country. They
are a live and progressive body. In our city
they have recently shown, in a substantial way,
what they cando. Some months ago an orphan
asylum was organized by the six churches here
which sre connected with the Missouri Synod.
They purchased an excellent property in the
western part of the city, and have made needed
and ample improvements for the dwelling on it.
The total cost of property and improvements
is about eighteen thousand dollars. Two
members from each of the six churches con-
stitute a board of management, which expects
to open the institution early in May.”

—Txe new German Protestant church in
Paris, which opened recently, has received the
gift of a magnificent Bible from the German
Empress for use in the church services. On
the fly-leaf of the Bible the Empress has written
with her own hand the text from the Gospel of
St. Mark (14, 38): ‘Pray, lest ye enter into
temptation.””

—Tue Bible has been translated as a whole
into thirteen African languages and dialects,
and the New Testament and portions of the
Bible into various others, making a total of
sixty-six languages for scripture uses.

—Ten thousand Christian women in China
presented the dowager Empress, on her six-
tieth birthday, a copy of the New Testament
costing $1200. It is a royal quarto, printed
in Shanghai, in large type, on the finest paper;
the pages are bordered with gold. It is ele-
gantly bound in solid silver boards, made in
Canton. The ornamentation is birds and bam-
boo in relief, and the workmanship is exquisite.
The name of the book, ‘Complete New Testa-
ment,’’ is in large characters of solid gold.
On the center of the cover is a gold plate, on
which is the inscription, ‘‘Classic of Salvation

yet I have seen old women over eighty years
of age climb to the top. Of course you will
understand the reason these poor creatures
toil day after day to reach the summit; they
believe that thereby they will obtain great
merit, and so in this way they prepare for the
next world.”’

—Iris just twenty-one years since the edicts
against Christianity were removed from the
public places,-and though not officially re-
yoked, they have now ceased to be regarded
as the law of the land, writes the Japan cor-
respondent of The Intelligencer. He also re-
ports that according to recent statistics there
are now in Japan 643 Christian missionaries ;
877 churches (of which 78 are self-support-
ing), and 37,400 church members, of whom
3686 were added during the last year. There
are also 7393 pupils in Christian schools, and
27,000 Sunday school scholars. ‘There are
286 native ministers, 367 theological students
and 665 unordained preachers and helpers.
The sum contributed by the native Japanese
Christians is given as 62,400 yen, or $40,000.

on a Sunday morning, passed a cottage garden
and saw a man digging potatoes. He stopped
and said, ‘‘AmI mistaken, or are you? I have
come nine miles to preach to-day, thinking it
was Sunday. As I see you are at work, I
suppose I must be wrong, and had better go
home.’” The man colored, and, driving his
spade into the ground, he said, ‘‘No, sir, you

difficult to come down so steep a mountain, |

—A PASTOR, going to preach at his chapel}

of the World.”” The back is old gold plush.
The book was inclosed in a solid silver casket,
‘similar in design to the covers of the book,
and lined with plush. The casket rested in
& plush-covered box, and this in a teakwood
case. The Chinese say that the bamboo is an
‘emblem of peace; the birds are messengers;
the design therefore conveys to the dowager

are not wrong, but I am; ‘and I will have no
more of it. I will be round this afternoon to
hear you preach. Nobody has ever spoken to
me before, and you've only done your duty.”

—A SINGULAR incident is related in an East-
ern paper regarding a church which was seek-
ing for a pastor and sought that paper’s help.
It was found that the church offered an en-

mpress a ‘‘message of peace’’ from her
hristian subjects. The casket contains ten
one half pounds of silver, and the covers
ithe book four and one half pounds. The

couraging opportunity for the right sort of
man, and its needs were accordingly set forth.
One of the first letters in response came from
a minister without a charge, who expressed an

ardent desire to throw his whole energy into
just such a field as that described. It turned
out that the church in question was the very
one which he had been serving only a few
months before!

—A NORTHERN minister was introduced to
a colored minister, and inquired after his work.
“T preaches, sah, on Colonel Gordon’s plan-
tation.””? ‘‘How many colored people have
you there?”’ ‘‘Well, sah, about one hundred
and seventy-five.”’ ‘‘And how many have you
in the church?’’ ‘Dat ’pends, sah, altogether
on de time ob year. In de ’vival times dey’s
all members. In de backslidin’ times dere’s
nobody members but Uncle Billy and old Aunt
Katy.’’ How often is this the case with people
that are made Christians only by the excite-
ment of ‘‘revival time.’’ :

—A younG minister unexpectedly called up-
on to address a Sunday school, asked, to gain
time: ‘‘Children, what shall I speak about?”’
A little girl on the front seat, who had herself
committed to memory several declamations,
held up her hand and in a shrill voice in-
quired: ‘‘What do you know?’?—We close
our window.

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 10/4 o'clock.

Sunday evening at 714 o'clock.

Wednesday evening at 714 o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% o'clock.
Singing School at 734 o’clock Monday evening.

F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary-

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra.
Divine services at 744 Sunday evening and at 74 Thors-
day evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 74 Tuesday evening.
E. W. Kuss, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
. Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 744 o’clock Sunday evening and at 7)g
o’clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

‘ AUG. BURGDORF, Missionary.
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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.
oarectnni sity class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday
evening.
Singingesckool from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.

Cas, Il. RUESSKAMP, Missionary.
cin AACE

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfield, It.
Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o'clock Sunday evening.

Sunday School at 3 o’clock P. M.

Oatechumen class meets Monday and Friday cvenings.

Singing-school Tucsday evening.
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