The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1896, Page 4

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—WisuninG all our readers a Happy New
Year we begin a new volume of our little
paper. English publications are multiplying
within the bounds of the Synodical Confer-
ence; and though we would gladly lay down
our pen, still we hope that our little Pioneer
will not lose its old friends, but will find a
warm welcome in their homes and their hearts.
May the Lord who has prospered the paper
thus far, still graciously bless our efforts.

In His name we begin another volume.

—Ovr German mission paper, in its last
issue, calls upon our young people to come
to the rescue and to contribute towards the
erection of the sorely needed church building
for our Mount Zion congregation in New
Orleans. If the pastors of our congregations
will Jay the matter before the young people,
we doubt not that the appeal of our Mission

Board will be heeded. How ‘‘Uncle Bob’’

would rejoice on the day of the dedication of
How we all

& new church for Mount Zion!
would rejoice! May God speed the day!
—Sranpixc in front of the noble cathedral
at Cologne, a lady overheard some one behind
her say, ‘‘Didn’t we do a fine piece of work
here?’”’ Turning quickly, she saw that the
speaker was a man in the plainest of working
clothes, and on a sudden impulse she said to
him, ‘‘Pray, what did you do about it?”

“tOh, I mixed the mortar for two years across
the street,” washisreply. The tourist thought

the little incident droll enough to be worth
remembering. But it has its serious side, and

viewed from that side, it teaches a helpful

lesson. If those of us who seem to have only

.& very humble work to do could realize that

we are sharers in the whole great plan, should
we not be more faithful and more happy?
—We hope such a man as is spoken of in
one of our exchanges is not found in the
Lutheran church. Our exchange says: ‘‘One

of our ministers had an experience of great

tmeanness. The richest man in his congre-
gation, residing on a fine farm about a mile
from the city, who was ill five or six months
of a disease that did not impair his mental
faculties, besought the minister to call fre-
quently, both for religious conversation and
to help him to while away his lonely hours.
The pastor did so, making more than twenty
calls, involving some hours of his time on
each occasion. The recipient was profuse in
verbal thanks and appreciation, professed ex-
alted piety, and spoke frequently in public.
Just prior to his being taken sick he had
ordered one of his men to draw half a cord of
green hemlock wood to the church to be used
for kindling purposes. He lost nothing by
his illness, as he lived on his income. Some
months after his recovery it was necessary to

raise small sum to supply the deficiency in

‘receipts for the pastor’s salary. He sub-
‘scribed three dollars toward this purpose, and

when asked to pay the same deducted the

price of the green hemlock, which was one
dollar and seventy-five cents, paying over one
dollar and twenty-five cents in cash. The
minister in speaking of it to his friends was
accustomed to say that afterward, whenever
that man spoke or prayed in the meetings, he
never heard anything but the crackling of
green hemlock, though the man had a power-
ful voice.”*

—Anp another of our exchanges says: The
niggardliness of some well-to-do people is
astonishing, and when it is screened by the
gauze of assumed inability and pretended
poverty it becomes contemptible in the ex-
treme. President Eliot tells us of a man liy-
ing near Boston who was asked to give money
to Harvard College, who received the sugges-
tion kindly, promised to confer with his wife,
and report, and after a few days did report
as follows: ‘‘We have talked over the question,
and have been all over our accounts. We
want to give, but actually find that we must
deny ourselves. .Our accounts show that we
are spending every year $70,000, and our in-
come is equal to just about $70,000. I am
very sorry that I have not a cent to give.”
And another poor man has been heard of
who, when asked to make a subscription to a
certain cause, answered with great seriousness,
“T am sorry that I can not. I have $500,000
in Suffolk Bank, and it isn’t drawing me a cent
of interest.’”

—Anp a British paper relates the follow-
ing curious accident: ‘‘Last Sunday,’’ said
8 clergyman to his congregation, ‘‘some one
put a button in the collection bag. I won’t
mention names, I will merely say that only
one individual in the congregation could have
done so, and I will expect the same member,
after the service, to replace the button with
a coin of the realm.” After church a well-
to-do but close-fisted individual sought an
interview with the clergyman in the vestry.
‘*T—er,”? he began, hesitatingly, ‘‘must apolo-
gize for the—er—button incident, which I can
assure you was an accident. I happened to
have the button in my waistcoat pocket, to-
gether with a shilling, and took out the
former by mistake. However, sir, here is the
shilling.” ‘*Thank you,” said the clergyman,
taking the shilling and gravely handing him
the button. ‘‘By-the-by, sir,’? said the man,
“I can not understand how you should have
known that it was I who—er—committed the
much-to-be-regretted mistake?’? ‘I didn’t
know,’’ ‘replied the clergyman. ‘‘Didn’t
know! but you said, sir, that only one indi-
vidual in the congregation could have done
80.” ‘Just so. You see, sir, it is scarcely
possible that two individuals could have put
one button in the bag, is it, now?’ said the
clergyman, with a bland smile. It was so
much easier for the button contributor to say

“good day’? than to answer this- puzzling to

question, that-he made his bow at once.
—In a pretty church in Anciteum is a
tablet erected by grateful natives to their

missionary. On this tablet is written, in their
language, the following: ‘‘When he landed,
in 1848, there were no Christians here; and
when he left, in 1872, there were no heathen.’”
Such a testimony is worth living to achieve.
The praises which so often find a place on the
tombstone which would perhaps startle the
deceased, could he see them, are far less
telling than these simple words of those who
gratefully record so grand a fact.

—Lutuer’s Small Catechism has been
translated into Chinese and is used by the
Basel Mission in China.

OUR BOOK TABLE.

CoNncorDIA MAGAZINE. Published Monthly by the
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.,
Price, $1.50 per year, single copies, 15 cts.

We heartily welcome this beautiful ““Home Maga-
zine for Christian Readers.’’? It is a most delight-
ful and valuable monthly, especially suited to our

Christian homes, supplying a long-felt want. It Is

beautifully printed, and its contents are most whole-

some, varied, and interesting. We wish it a large
circulation.

Acknowledgment.

Received of the pupils of the Lutheran school at
Elmore, O., Rev. G. J. F. Koch, pastor, $2.77 as
a Christmas present for Colored Mission. Many
thanks! C. A. Kare, Fort Wayne, Ind.

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 734 o'clock.

Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% o'clock.
Singing School at 74 o’clock Monday evening.

F. J. LANKENAD, Missionary.

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

Divine services at 734 Sunday evening and at 7% Thura-
day evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class mects at 734 Tuesday evening.
E. W. Kuss, Missionary.

EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.

Divine services at 7} o'clock Sunday evening and at 746
o’clock Thursday evening. °
Sunday School at 9 o'clock.
Ava. Buraporr, Missionary.

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

pune merce Buney, terncon at 334 o'clock.
jan c) at 10 o’clock.
Catechamen “class meets from 7.30 to 8.30 Wednesday

evening.
Singin, “school from 7.30 to 8.30 Thursday evening.
one Cus. H. RUESSKAMP, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfeld, Itt.
Divine Services at half past 10 o'clock Sunday morning
5 and ace erctoes Banca y.cvening:
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Catechumen ‘class meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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