The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1895, Page 40

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—REApD Uncle Bob’s Letter in this issue
and do something for our Mount Zion con-
gregation.

—TneE following New Orleans items were
sent us by a friend in that city: The Mount
Zion School opened September 2d. The at-
tendance was much larger than expected;
since 1892 the attendance has not been so
large at the opening of the school. Forty
new scholars have been admitted until now,
and every day new applicants are arriving.
The daily attendance in the two departments
is more than 100. This gives us new hope
and courage, which we greatly stand in need
of, —somé time ago things looked rather
dreary and disheartening.

—Rev. Burcporr, in charge of the Beth-
lehem station, will leave New Orleans this
month because of his failing health. He has
been in the treatment of some of the best
doctors in the city, but they could effect no
cure, because the climate does not agree with
his nerves. They have therefore found it
necessary for him to change climate perma-
nently and take a good long rest, otherwise
he will become a total physical wreck. We
are all very sorry that he must leave us, not
only because he is a friendly man, but also
because he is a hard worker. He has been
the founder of the Bethlehem station, has
reared it from its infancy to what it now is,
a congregation having an average attendance
of about 72, a school with about 130 scholars,
a large Sunday School, two teachers, a chapel
"and a two story schoolhouse; truly, the Lord
has blessed his work. -

—Ox the 6th of October St. Paul (Rey. Lan-
kenau’s station) will celebrate the dedication-
day of her church. Extensive preparations
are being made to make it a joyful affair.

—A missionary in India, one Sunday even-
ing, visited a convert who was lying upon his
death-bed. ‘‘I understand,” said the sufferer,
‘that you have been preaching to-day about
heaven. To-morrow [I shall be in heaven, and
I shall go right to the Saviour and thank Him
for leading you to leave your home in a Chris-
tian land to come and tell us poor darkened
heathens about Him and the way to heaven.
Then I shall go and sit down by the pearly
gate and wait till you come. Then I shall
take you by the hand and lead you to the
Saviour, and tell Him, ‘This is the man that
taught me the way to this happy world.’””

—A Roman Catholic gentleman, whois quite
intelligent, said to a Protestant missionary:
“The Roman Catholic Church made a very
poor showing in its three hundred years’ deal-
ings with the Mexicans. You look for edu-
Cation, and you do not find it; you look for
intelligence, and you do not find it; you look
for industry, and you do not find it; you look
"for morality, and you do not find it. This

church has had the sole chance to make the
“Mexican people, and it has failed. If it has

done nothing in the three hundred years, what
could it do in three thousand ?”’

*“—Denmark is a Lutheran country. The
children are trained in the Lutheran Church.
A writer in the Youth’s Companion says of
them: ‘‘I have never seen children more polite
to older persons than those of Denmark. Our
boy acquaintances, when we mect them, always
take off their hats, and the girls make a grace-
ful courtesy. When older people enter a room
the younger ones rise and remain standing
until the older persons are seated. I, who am
perhaps a little bigger boy than some of our
readers, have learned some good lessons from
the courteous children of Denmark. In conse-
quence of a thorough course of study, Danish
children-must work hard at their books; but
as I see them at play they are very bright and
merry. They are industrious, happy, con-
tented, and grow up to be good and intelli-
gent men and women. The high character of
the Danes, and in fact all Scandinavians, is
realized the world over; and one living among
them soon recognizes that this comes in a great
degree from careful, systematic and conscien-
tious education of all the children.”’

—‘'In 1866, when I was first in Europe,”
Dr. Pierson wrote, ‘‘I could not carry a copy
of the Bible inside the walls of Rome. Last
year there were twenty-nine Protestant chapels
in the city of Rome and preaching openly
carried on in them with impunity, the Pope
and cardinals finding it impossible to inter-
fere.’’—Wherever the open Bible goes, Romish
supremacy goes down. Mission work in papal
lands has wrought great changes during the
last generation in the direction of enfran-
chisement, civilization and evangelization of
nations.

—A MissIONARY writes: The heathen sup-
pose that infliction of pain on the body will
help to save the soul. The old question comes
up, ‘‘What shall I give (or do, or suffer) for
the sin of my soul?”” We see here a deluded
fakir sitting in a mela—or religious fair—with
arms lifted up, and the people admiring him.
The man with the flop-cap on his left is his
servant, by whom he is fed by the offerings
of the people. The idea is, that if the hands
are kept up for twelve years, the merit is so
great that he can save others as well as him-
self. After twelve years expire, an effort is
made, by a long process of oil-rubbing, to
restore circulation to the withered arms. I am
told that this is not always successful, in which
case the poor victim is helpless for life. It is
generally done to fulfil a vow, or to gain a favor
of the gods, but there is no virtue if it is not
kept up for the full twelve years. ‘he nails
are not cut, and they often grow into the hand
till they protrude clean through the hand and
come out the other side. They are well fed,
and, more than that, they gather a large sum
of money in the course of the twelve years ;
and very likely many of them go through the
process for that very purpose.

— Ose of the most beneficent of Indian mis-

sions is that to the lepers. Its aim is three-
fold—(a) To give the Gospel to the lepers;
(b) To provide homes for them where they
could be properly cared for; (c) ‘To provide
homes for the untainted children of lepers,
who may be saved from falling victims to the
disease by separating them from their sadly
afllicted parents and other leprous relatives.
The mission works in India, Burma, Ceylon,
and China. The Society has now twelve asy-
lums of its own in India and Burma, while it
gives aid to nineteen institutions for lepers in
India. It has three hospitals or homes of its
own in China, and is aiding work at three
other places. Doing such work as this in
faith is surely treading in the footsteps of the
One who cleansed the lepers.

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A Personal Consecration.

Here I am, Lord, send me, send me to the
ends of the earth; send me to the rough and
savage pagans of the wilderness; send me
from all that is called comfort in the earth;
send me even to death itself, if it be but in
Thy service and to promote Thy kingdom.

; David Brainerd.

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 1014 o'clock.

Sunday evening at 74 o'clock.

Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 944 o'clock.
Singing School at 734 o’clock Monday evening.

F. J. LANKENAUD, Missionary.

EV. LUTH..MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra.

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

Sunday School 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 744 o’clock Sunday evening and at 7/4
o’clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o'clock.
AuG. Buraporr, 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.

paeecnnmen class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday

evening.
Singing-school from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.
Cus. H. RuESSKAMP, Missionary.

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Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.

Springftld, 1.
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 mects Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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