The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1895, Page 24

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

— Tue contributions of 418 Sunday schools
in the General Synod for Foreign Missions in
February was $5,224.04, and from 623 schools
the Easter offerings for Church Extension is
already $11,032.92, with one hundred schools
to hear from. The total collections for foreign

f missions, Church Extension and orphans in
these schools for the past five years have been
more than ninety-seven thousand dollars. ‘The
heme mission offerings for the same schools
for the same period would probably aggregate
$30,000 more.

— As we read the above item in one of our
exchanges, we were reminded of the thousands
of children that attend the parochial and
Sunday schools of the Synodical Conference.
That they are willing to give when the need
of our mission is presented to them has been
recently proved by their contributions for our
& mission schools in North Carolina. Should
) not pastors and teachers oftener interest our
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children in our mission work and give them
an opportunity to aid the cause by their con-
tributions ? It would be a yaluable education
for the children’s after life.
—Reap ‘Uncle Bob’s Letter’’ on our second
page and remember that every little helps.
“Only a drop in the bucket,
But every drop will tell;
The bucket would soon be empty
Without the drops in the well.

“Only a poor little penny,
It was all I had to give;
But as pennies make the dollars,
It may help some cause to live.’

—Sounpay after Easter four children and
one adult were Confirmed at Bethlehem Chapel
in New Orleans. The teachers, assisted by
he the sexton and several young people, had

beautifully decorated the house of worship
with plants and a profusion of flowers. The
children sang a lovely selection from a Can-
tata, entitled ‘*Ruth.’’— Another class, com-
posed of adults, is being prepared for mem-
bership.

—'‘JixeD THE S’crETY.’?—An old colored
preacher was asked, the other day, how his
church was getting on, and his answer was:
‘Mighty poor, mighty poor, brudder.?? When
asked the trouble, he replied: ‘De ’cictiés,
de ’cieties. Dey is just drawing all the fat-
ness and marrow outen the body and bone of
the blessed Lord’s body. We can’t do nuffin
without the ’ciety. Dar is de Lincum 'Ciety,
wid Sister Jones an’ Brudder Brown to run
it. Sister Williams mus’ march right in front

_ of de Daughters of Rebecca. Den dar is de
_ Doycases, the Marthas, de Daughters of Ham
_ and de Liberian Ladies.” ‘Well, you have
_ your brethren to help in church,’’ was sug-
gested. ‘‘No sab.

Promis’ LandPilgrims. Why, brudder,

left for Mount Pisgah Church but jist de cob.

: Dar am the Masons, de
_ Odd Fellows, de Sons of Ham, and de Okla-
h

time de brudders an’ sisters pay all the
an’ ’tend all de meetings, dere is nuflin

De corn has.all been shelled off and frowed to
de speckled chickens.”’

—GreEaT commotion has been caused in
some religious circles in England by the dis-
covery thata well known firm of metal workers
at Birmingham has accepted orders for the
manufacture of idols destined to be worshiped
in the temples of India. Manufacturers in
Birmingham haye supplied India with idols
for more than fifty years, as all visitors and
residents in that country have known; and
the discovery in England seems rather late.

— Mr. Hupson Taytor, the founder of the
Chinese Inland Mission, and one of the great-
est living authorities on all Chinese matters,
says: ‘‘To our mind, nothing is more clear
than that the Chinese had both the right, the
power and the will to stamp out the use of
opium in China at the time when they first
came in collision with England. We feel con-
vinced that but for England they would have
accomplished this; and hence we feel that
England is morally responsible for every ounce
of opium now produced in China as well as
for that imported.”’ .

—Ir is said that in Japan one seldom or
never hears curses or oaths, or anything like
that form of profanity. A missionary who
tries to explain the teachings of the Script-
ures against cursing and swearing has some-
times found it hard to make the natives un-
derstand just what he means. ‘The Japanese
are not in the habit of committing this sin,
and the question they naturally ask is, ‘Why
should any one want to be so profane?”’ Sure
enough! What is the use of it? The person
who swears gets no good from it. The man
at whom he swears is not hurt by it. To say
the least, it is absolutely useless. Alas! that
any one in a Christian land should be guilty
of the sin!

—Ivr is stated there is now at La Rochelle,
France, an old man, Jules Zostot, who pos-
sesses 2 marvelous memory. He knows by
heart all the verses in the Bible. You can ask
him at random any of these verses; no mat-
ter if it begins a sentence or is a continuation
of the preceding verse, he will recite the lines.

—Tue Agent of the American Bible Society
in Japan reports that in his visits among the
soldiers in the hospitals he finds not only Ja-
panese but also Chinese. These Chinese come
from widely different parts of the empire, and
they are much impressed by the practical de-
monstration of the blessings which flow from
Christianity. On asking a Chinese colonel at
Hiroshima, what he thought of Christianity,
and if he understood the significance of the
red cross that was on the sleeve of every
patient, the colonel replied that he knew that
it was the teachings of Christ that made peo-
ple kind to their enemies.

—Some of our well-to-do church members
think that 50 cents or a dollar is a large con-
tribution to give to missions. Compare what
Mr. Baynes, the Secretary of an English Mis-
sionary Society, said in his annual address:

While sitting in my oflice last week, the door
opened and a very rough-looking man entered
and laid down on my table £20 ($100) with
the words: ‘‘Mr. Baynes, I have saved this
for the Congo Mission, enter it as before, re-
membering the words of the Lord Jesus, ‘It
is more blessed to give than to receive.’ You
know wholam. I came here Jast year: ’m
a London seavenger.’’ I did remember him,
for he brought £20 last year for missions!
Only a few days ago a young woman brought
me £20, saying she was sorry she could not
give more. She was a domestic servant and
had to support her mother, and it had taken
her two years to save this amount.

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Those that have read the first volume of the Con-
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two other volumes have already appeared. The
stories published in this ‘‘Library”’ are all carefully
revised and can be recommended for the home and
the Sunday school library.

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% o'clock.
unday evening at 744 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.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra.
Divine services at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 7% Thurs-
day evening.
Sunday Schoo! meets at 9 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class mects at 744 Tuesday evening.

E. W. Kuss, Missionary.

EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 74 o'clock Sunday evening and at 14
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 314 o'clock.
Sunday School at 10 o'clock.
Catechumen class mects from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday

evening. .
Singing-sckool from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.
Cras. H. RuESSKamp, Missionary.

Ey. Luth, Holy Trinity Church.
Springfield, Ml.
Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 3 o'clock Pp. x.
Catechumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tucsday evening.

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