The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1895, Page 36

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' 'The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—WeE must ask our readers to pardon the
late appearance of this issue of the LUTHERAN
Proneer. Neither the editor nor the Publish-
ing House is to blame. We sent our manu-
script in time to St. Louis, but it was lost in
the mail. Such are the sad experiences of
editors that live far away from the place of
publication. From one of our exchanges we
see that ‘‘there have recently been a num-
ber of mistakes of this kind, and if those in
authority can find the reckless fellow he will
soon be called upon to give an account of his
stewardship.’’ Meanwhile we can do nothing
but lay the blame on Uncle Sam and go about
our business, hoping that: this will be our last
experience. We feel like the farmer, who this
summer said to us: ‘‘Whenever the crops are
short and the times are hard, I lay it to Uncle
Sam and go on about my business. I know
he does not care what I think or say, but it
gives me some relief.””

—Tne Rey. F. H. Meyer was recently in-
troduced by Rev. Bakke in his mission field
at Gold Hill, N.C. May God richly bless
his labors among the colored people in North
Carolina.

—TneE seventh Sunday after Trinity was
a day of rejoicing and thanksgiving for our
colored people at Elon College, N. C. On
that Sunday they, in the morning, celebrated
their mission festival, and in the afternoon
six adults, who had been instructed in Luther’s
Catechism by our faithful missionary, were
confirmed, promising to remain faithful to our
dear Lutheran Church.

—Oour colored people at Meherrin, Va., re-
cently celebrated their first mission festival
in connection with their annual school-festival.
A large number attended the mission services

and rejoiced with the children in the beau-
tiful woods of Virginia. Our missionary has
opened another mission school four miles from
Meherrin. The number of pupils is increasing
80 rapidly, that a school-building will soon
have to be erected.

—T ne island of St. Thomas has a population

’ of about 17,000 negroes, most of whom were
slaves to the Portuguese colonists. Leonard
Dober and David Nitschmann were the first
Christian missionaries to labor among them.
They arrived in 1732. The moral and spiritual
condition of the slaves was deplorable in the
extreme. The missionaries, however, found
them willing to listen to the Gospel, and the
poor creatures clapped their hands for joy
when they understood the glad tidings that
Jesus Christ had died for them also. A planter
asked one of his slaves why he always attended

"the public services, and added that he could

just as well serye God by himself. In reply
he elaye pointed to a fire that was burning
them and said: ‘‘Massa, see fire, burn-
coals, —black coal no good. When coal
th coal and set on fire, coal burn—
fire. When coal alone, coal not burn,

coal aloné no good.’’ ‘This converted slave
knew more about the purpose and benefits of
Christian fellowship than many members of
our own congregations.

—A CLERGYMAN, observing a poor man by
the roadside breaking stones with a pickaxe,
and kneeling to get at his work the better,
made the remark: ‘*Ah! John, I wish I could
break the stony hearts of my hearers as easily
as you are breaking those stones.’”’ The man
replied, ‘‘Perhaps, master, you do not work
on your knees.”

—A missionary in Jamaica was once ques-
tioning a little black boy on the meaning of
the text, ‘‘Blessed are the meek, for they shall
inherit the earth,’? and asked him, ‘‘Who are
the meek?’? The boy answered, ‘‘Those who
give soft answers to rough questions.”’

—Excepr on the thinly peopled east coast,
the whole population of Greenland is now
Christianized, 8175 of these Christians being
under the care of the Lutheran Church of
Denmark. There are twelve stations, where
three Danish and four native pastors are at
work. The Moravians have 1591 Greenland
Christians under their care, at six stations.

—Awn Indian chief asked concerning the
prayer, ‘‘Our Father,’’ saying humbly that
he had so sinned, ‘and through so long a life,
he could not think:it right to call God Father.
His daughter, who.was a Christian, answered,
‘*As many as received Him to them gave He
power to become the sons of God,’’ and the
father responded reverently, ‘‘Then, I too,
by God’s gift, may call Him Father.”’

—One of our exchanges says: We talk of
self-denial, but in too many cases it is nothing
but a name; the gift represents no real sacri-
fice. Rey. M. L. Young reminds the readers
of the Lutheran Observer of the sacrifices which
some of the heathen are willing to make for
the propagation of their comfortless religion:
‘SA traveler has recently given some account
of the sacrifices made by Buddhists in the
building of houses of worship. He describes
a temple in course of erection at Kioto, Japan,
which will cost $8,000,000 —the most splendid
in the world. It will be a monument of self-
denial. Hundreds of workmen, including
women, came from all parts of the country
and labored on the building for weeks with-
out compensation. The ropes used in erect-
ing the temple are made of hair, which 20,000
women cut from their heads for this purpose.
The 72,000 Buddhist temples in Japan repre-
sent the expenditure of an immense amount
of money and the self-denial of a people wor-
shiping false gods. The gorgeous edifices built
by these devotees are a stronghold of their
unchristian religion.’’ What are we doing to
undermine the strongholds of Satan in the
world and build up and strengthen citadels
of the living God?

—Henz is what one missionary in Africa
writes of the objection often raised to sending
missionaries to that continent on account of
its unhealthfulness: “It is said, ‘So many

die.’ And why do they die? Simply because
the niggardly giving of Christian people com-
pels them to do and risk what no human being
can endure in any climate. One man was left
with work that at home would employ ten, and
then, if the Lord doesn’t work a miracle to
keep him alive, it is attributed to ‘the dread-
ful African climate.’’’

—A cOLrorTEUR went thirty miles to sell
his books at an Indian religious festival, swim-
ming a river in flood, and narrowly escaping
with his life. All the sale was one solitary
Gospel! He carried home the rest of his
stock, and a heavy heart with his heavy bag.
But next year when he came again, a man ac-
costed him, ‘‘Last year you sold me a Gos-
pel.”? A living man, a sinning man, had been
brought into contact with the Word of God!
That was something worth while. But there
was more. ‘‘My brother and I have been read-
ing it.?’ The colporteur went home with the
man, thirty miles away, where he found not
only the two brothers, but three or four fam-
ilies ready to accept Christianity. Soon after-
wards sixteen persons were baptized in, that
village.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New Or.eEans, 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 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 Tualia Strs.

Divine services at 744 Sunday evening and at 744 Thars-
day evening.

Sunday School meets at 9 o'clock.

Adult catechumen class mects at 7}4 Tuesday evening.

E. W. Kuss, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
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. BurGpoRF, Missionary.

Evang. Luth. St. Paul’s Church.
Cor. Rock § 12th Sirs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service Sunday afternoon at 3}4 o'clock.
Sunday School at 10 o’clock.
Carsonanien class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday
evening.
Singing-sckool from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.
Cuas. H. RuESSKAMP, Missionary.

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

Sunday School at 3 o'clock ». m.

Catechumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings.

Singing-school Tuesday evening.
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