The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1895, Page 16

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

ments of leisure he might get a word or two
of wisdom from them.

—A missionary in Africa states that a
Uganda man will willingly work three months
to obtain a copy of the New Testament.

—Ir is said that one hundred and twenty-
five wealthy meh and women have gone out

—Ovr Mount Zion mission station, Rev.|from Great Britain as missionaries at their

E. W. Kuss, missionary, numbers 90 scholars] own charges.

in its Sunday school and 71 in its day school, }* —Tue census bureau has issued a bulletin
which is held by teachers Vix and Meibohm. | which shows that there are 47 Chinese temples
A new ‘school building will soon be erected, | in the United States, valued at $62,000, claim-
and the church building is to be repaired. ing 100,000 worshipers. Forty of these tem-

—Ocr Bethlehem mission station, Rey. A.| ples are in California, four in New York, two

Burgdorf, missionary, numbers 54 communi-| jn Idaho, and one in Oregon. Every temple
cant members; 4 adults and 15 children are] is a house of prayer or worship, but no ser-
being prepared for confirmation; the average| mon is preached, no priest installed, no re-
church attendance is 60; 175 pupils attend] ligious instruction is given, and no seating
the Sunday school and 174 the day school, | accommodations provided. There is always
which is held by teacher Rischow and by one/ at least one shrine, the more frequented tem-
of the students of our Seminary at Spring-| ples having several, so that a number of per-
field, Ill. sons can perform the same ceremony, each for

—Ar Concord, N. C., Rev. N. J. Bakke, | himself, without being obliged to take turns.

missionary, the average attendance at mission | ‘The worshipers do not meet in a body, nor is
services is 50 to 90 adults. The Sunday school} any particular time set for devotions. The
numbers 192 pupils and the day school 100.| revenues are derived largely from the privi-
The catechumen class numbers 12 children lege, sold to the highest bidder, of selling the
and 8 adults. Preparations have already been| articles of worship, which every worshiper
made for the erection of the new school build-| must have.

ing, for which our school children have so| —Ovse of the most interesting Bible pub-
nobly sent in their contributions during the} lications of late years has recently been issued
past months. inJapan. It is 2 miniature Gospel of St. John,

—Tue contributions of our school children prepared for the use of the Japanese troops.
have been so large that our Mission Board|'The little book measures outside only 22 by
has been enabled to erect also a chapel at 1ginches. A life was saved in England’s re-
Elon College, N.C. Our missionary, Rev. C.| cent war in Egypt by a bullet being turned
Schmidt, will surely feel himself encouraged. | aside by a New Testament in a soldier’s breast

—Ar Little Rock, Ark., Rey: C. Ruess-| pocket. May these little copies of the Scrip-
Kamp, missionary, the day school is attended | tures save unto eternal life.
by 50 pupils. Church attendance has also] —A rraveter in Ceylon, accompanying a
improved during the past months, and this missionary on his pastoral visits, noticed as
our oldest mission station seems to’ be again they walked through the garden that some of
prospering. A colored lady, Leah Jones, has] the cocoanut trees were marked ‘‘X.”? On
bequeathed $600 to our mission treasury. inquiring why they were so marked, the native

—Tue Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other] Christian answered, ‘Because every ‘X’ tree
States, the largest Lutheran synod in America,|is devoted to the Lord.” He also noticed
has recently issued its new Year Book. It} that his wife, as she cooked the noonday meal,
reports 627,689 souls, 357,186 communicant| threw a handful of rice into the pot for each
members, and 88,755 yoting members. Item-]| member of the family, and then two handfuls
braces 13 districts with 1276 pastors, 1826] into another pot standing near. The traveler
congregations, 638 mission stations, 1425 paro-| asked why the two handfuls were put in the
chial schools, attended by 85,679 children and] other pot, and the wife replied, ‘That is the
taught by 783 pastors and 725 teachers. In| Lord’s rice pot, and I remember Him when
its higher institutions of learning the synod cooking each meal.’’
employs 54 professors, who instruct 1807 stu-| —Wuar a record for the churches of Niué,
dents, preparing them for the ministry or for|an island in the South Seas called Savage
‘the office of parish teachers. The synod con-| Island by Captain Cook, because of the char-
trols 17 charitable institutions, such as orphan} acter of its inhabitants! It has now a popu-
homes, hospitals, deaf and dumb asylum, etc., | lation of about 5000, but there are 11 native
and carries on an important mission work at pastors and 1646 church members. In the
home and abroad. year 1892 these churches sent from their own

—Wnew a slave boy of 13 years, Frederick} membership 4 missionaries with their wives to
Douglass, who recently died at Washington, | New Guinea. Besides supporting their own
had such an intense desire to possess the Bible pastors, these Christians contributed within
that he gathered scattered pages from this| the last year $1500 to the funds of the Lon-
__ holy book from the strect-gutters of Balti-] don Missionary Society for the carrying for-

_ More and washed and dried them, that in mo-| ward of missionary work,

—Ouvr St. Paul mission station at New
Orleans, Rev. F. J. Lankenau, missionary,
numbers 150 scholars in its Sunday school
and 120 in its day school. The average
church attendance is 50 adults.

—A MIssIONARY among the Indians writes:
‘The past year has witnessed many remoyals
from this mission by death. Numbers of Jn-
dians have passed away, leaving the brightest
testimony of their simple faith. A little girl,
shortly before she passed away, summoned
her mother to her side, and told her she was
going to the Saviour, going to realize what
they had been singing about and praying
about and reading about so long, and then,
drawing her mother close to her, she said:
‘Don’t be thinking so much about the things
of this world, you won’t have them long;
think more about the things you will have
for ever. ‘The one is worth thinking about,
the other is not. I am going, and you will
come soon. Don’t be sorry for me. Jesus
will be glad to see me.’’’

OUR BOOK TABLE.

WaLTHER, CiviL GOVERNMENT. A Sermon on
1Peter2,11—20. Translated by Prof. W. H. T. Dau.
American Lutheran Publication Board, Chicago, Ill.

Price 10 cents per copy; 85 cents per dozen.

DIE HEUTIGEN ARBEITERVERBINDUNGEN UND DIE
CHRISTLICHE ORTSGEMEINDE. Kin Referat von A. L.
Graebner. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis,
Mo. Price 15 cents.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORLEanNs, La.

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

Divine services: Sunday morning at 10% o'clock.
Sunday evening at 714 o’clock.
Wednesday evening at 744 o'clock.

Sunday School: Sunday morning at 944 o'clock.

Singing School at 734 o'clock Monday ¢vening.

¥. J. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra.
Divine services at 734 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.

EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM OHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 734 o’clock Sunday evening and at 734
o'clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o'clock.
AUG. BURGDORF, Missionary.

Eyang. 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.
Catechumen class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday
evening.
Singing-ackool from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.
Cas. H. RuESSKAMP, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.

Springfeld, Tl.
Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 3 o'clock r. M.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tucsday evening.
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