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The Lutheran Pioneer.

ing merit by vegetarianism, thus not causing
the death of any animal; but their merciful
— Our English Lutheran Synod of Missouri} creed had not included girl-babies in the list
and other States held its fourth convention in| of animals to be spared. I noticed a similar
the Church of the Redeemer, Ft. Wayne, Ind., | contrast a few days ago. The body of an in-
Aug. 7—14. In ten years this synod has| fant floated by the boat, and some of the men
more than multiplied the original number of | thought it a huge joke, poked it with a bam-
ministers by seven, congregations by five and | boo pole, and indulged in heart-sickening mer-
a half, and communicant membership by | riment.
eleven. It then had five ministers, six con-| —CannrBaLtsm is by no means extinct, but
gregations and 320 communicants. To-day it|is practiced in sections of benighted Africa
reports thirty-eight ministers, thirty-four con-|on an extensive scale. Dr. S. L. Hinde, a
gregations and 3362 communicant members, | member of the Congo Medical Service, tells
with 2711 persons in Sunday schools. of the horrible condition of things in the re-
—A very successful English Lutheran par- | gions which he visited. Let one paragraph of
ish school is that of our First English Luthe- | his sickening account suffice: ‘‘At N’Gandu,
ran church, New Orleans. It enrolled 110|the chief headquarters of Congo Lutete, we
scholars, and has two teachers. found that the chief had gathered together
—Oovr Lutheran congregations in Michigan | about 10,000 cannibal brigands, mostly of the
have a handsome Old People’s Home at Mon- | Batatela race. Through the whole of the Bat-
roe, Mich., erected about a year ago. It has/atela country and from the Lurimbi north-
accommodations for 46 inmates. A hennery,| wards, for some four days’ march, one sees,
which netted 29 per cent. on the investment, |as I said at the Royal Geographical Society,
and a greenhouse to supply the Monroe mar-| neither gray hairs, nor halt, nor blind. Even
ket with potted plants, are among the means | parents are eaten by their children on the first
used to make it self-supporting. The admis-| sign of approaching decrepitude. N’Gandu, I
sion-fee is $500, which may be reduced ac-| may tell you, is approached by avery handsome
cording to circumstances by the trustees. pavement of human skulls, the top being the
—Norwecian Lutherans began to preach | only part showing above the ground. I counted
the gospel in Madagascar in 1867. Their Ja-| more than one thousand skulls in the pave-
bor of love was greatly blessed by the Lord. | ment of one gate alone. Almost every tree
There are twenty-five Norwegian missionaries | forming the boma, or fortification, was crowned
there, assisted by sixty native pastors; the} with a human skull.’’? ‘Thus the modern ex-
number of churches is 500, and of communi-|plorer confirms the scriptural declaration:
cants, 25,000; of parochial schools, 500, and |‘'The dark places of the earth are full of the
of pupils, 35,000. There are 85,000 adult Lu-| habitations of cruelty.”
therans in Madagascar. —In Illustrated Africa, Bishop Taylor says:
—Ir is reported of a clergyman that some-|‘‘Heathenism is the same stupid, God-dis-
times when he looked over his congregation| honoring thing. The Lystrians proclaimed
he said to himself: *‘Where are the poor?’’ | that the gods had ‘come down in the likeness
- but when he came to count the offerings he|of men.’ As I passed through Pungo An-
wondered, ‘‘Where are the rich?”” The num-|dongo a few days ago a king from the interior
ber of coppers and nickels was amazing. came to open up trade with our people in
—Some idea of the importance of mission-| Pungo; so I suggested to Brother Shields,
ary effort in India can be obtained from the|our missionary, that he might arrange a cot
fact that its population in 1891 was more than|in my room for the repose of his majesty for
287,000,000, or about one-seventh of that of| the night. Next day he said to Brother Shields,
the globe. “The increase in the preceding de-|‘I heard in my own country of the bishop
cade was about 28,000,000. By the last cen-| with the long beard. He is not a man at all;
sus, there was found to be only 2,284,380 pro-|he is a god come downto men. Last night
fessing Christians among so many. when he came into the bedroom, I saw him
—‘“Herinc Hanp’’ gives this as an ex-| take off his head (wig) and lay it down by his
ample of the inhumanity of heathenism: ‘‘Bet-| bed, and yet he had a head same as before.
ter raise her or not? What do you think?’’|I was scared nearly to death and trembled
The questioner was a Chinese farmer; we had|all over. If he had touched me then, I would
been preaching in his village, and he followed | have died. He is the god that piled up these
us away from the crowd to make this import-| great Pungo mountains. If I could have got
ant query. Farmers at home are sometimes | out of the room I would have run for my life;
in doubt in regard to animals a trifle deformed | but the god was between me and the door
whether or not to raise them; but did you/and I couldn’t get out. When I go home to
"ever know a farmer in America to go about|my people I will tell them that I saw a god,
‘asking advice on a point like this? ‘‘I have|and came near to the end of my life.’”? He
female child and she has six toes on 2 foot; | could not be induced to risk his life in that
many of the neighbors tell me I better not|room again. :
Taise her; her feet can never be made tolook| —Nor long ago a fire broke out in a For-
. What do you say?” The ‘‘ncighbors’’|mosa village, and two houses were soon
wrapped in flames. Qne of them was saved,

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

the house of a heathen Chinaman; the owner
of the other house is a Christian who happened
to be away from home, and as nobody tried
to save his house, it was burned down. There *
was great laughter among the villagers at the
Christian’s misfortune. ‘“That is the worth
of your religion,’’ they said to him. <A day
or two after a company of men were seen com-
ing across the fields, and when they got near
it was seen that they were laden with wood,
tools and articles of furniture. The village
was astir. What was it? Who were the men?
‘They were the members of the church to
which their Christian neighbor belonged, and
had come from their homes, some miles away,
to rebuild his house, which they did, while
the villagers gaped in wonder. Nothing like
it had ever been seen.

= OUR BOOK TABLE.

Concorp1A PasTIME Liprary. Vol. IV. The Fables
of Aesop. Concordia Publ. House, St. Louls, Mo.
Price, 25 cents.

This is not only a very entertaining, but also a
highly instructive volume of our Pastime Library,
and we heartily recommend it for the home and the
Sunday school. The book contains a Life of Aesop
and 95 of his instructive Fables, carefully revised.

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 1034 o’clock.

Sunday evening at 74 o'clock.

Wednesday evening at 71% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% o'clock.
Singing School at 744 o’clock Monday evening.

F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary. —

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Tialla Strs.
Divine services at 7!4 Sunday evening and at 744 Thurs-
day evening.
Sunday Schoo! 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 0’clock Sunday evening and at 7%
o’clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock. z
AuG. BuRGDORF, Missionary.

Eyang. Luth. St. Paul’s Church.
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.

Divine service Sunday afternoon at 334 o'clock.
Sunday Schoo) at 10 o’clock.
catechamen class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday
evening.
Singing-sckool from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening. _
OAs, H. RUESSKAMP, Missionary.
chon se meer

Ey. Luth, Holy Trinity Church.
Springfeld, 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.

Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.

Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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