The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1896, Page 12

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is bewitched, I see, and if you pass over it

12 The Terthecern Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. |of souls. A missionary was recently visiting
a high-caste woman who had lost her child.
As she sat talking, a cockroach walked across
the floor, and she was about to brush the in-
sect away, when the mother cried, ‘‘Don’t
harm it, I beg you; my little baby’s soul is
in that cockroach.’”’

—Ir will be remembered that, some two
years since, two Swedish missionaries were
slain by a mob at Sungpu, China. A report
now given in China’s Millions shows that the
blood of these martyrs was not shed in vain.
It seems that a Chinese lady read of the faith
and patience of these missionaries and was so
impressed by what she was told of their lives
and their deaths that she traveled to another
city in order to ask the missionaries about
the religion which could produce such fruits.
“What is it,’’ she asked, ‘‘that makes you
Jesus people so different from us? We call
you ‘foreign devils ;? our people have mar-
tyred two of your teachers who only did good
to our people, and you show no revenge and
receive me as a friend.’’ She was told that
this was the teaching of Jesus, who died for
us when we were enemies. This lady, who
was termed ‘‘the Chinese Queen of Sheba,”
continued for two weeks with the missionaries
to learn of their faith and doctrine, and then
returned to her own city to tell her neighbors:
“These Jesus people know how to love their
enemies.”” :

—Tuen:E are 30 islands in the New Hebrides
group, which are stretched over about 350
miles. These people were until a few years
ago ignorant heathen, but now most of them
are Christians. There are twenty different
languages used on this group of islands. The
Scriptures haye been published in whole or
part in seventeen of these languages. Not
many years ago cruel heathen customs pre-
vailed among these people, such as eating
their slain enemies, killing their children,
strangling their widows, and the like more.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ has driven all this
from the South Sea Islands.

—Many years ago the Emperor of India
built a tomb for his deceased wife. It took
twenty thousand workmen seventeen years to
build this magnificent structure, and it cost
twenty millions of dollars. It stands on a
marble platform 400 feet square. There are
many beautiful ornaments of agate and jasper.
Here are two of the inscriptions found on it:
“The world is a bridge; pass over it, but
build not upon it.” “The world is an hour;
give its minutes to thy prayers, for the rest is
unseen.”” The tomb is surrounded by a beauti-
ful garden or park, and is one of the curiosities
for sight-seers in India.

—Ar the funeral services of Dr. A. J. Gor-
don, a Chinaman sent 2 sum of money with
the following note: “‘Goon Moy gives the in-
closed for missions instead of flowers, as he
thinks Dr. Gordon would have desired.’”

_—A New York pastor quotes a Southern
Slave, of the old times, who replied to one

—Last June a colporteur of the American
Bible Society who was distributing Bibles in
Brazil, was ordered by an officer, under direc-
tion of the Catholic priest, to give up his books.
He had forty-seven Bibles, fifty Testaments
and one hundred Gospels. They were all
taken to the market-place, saturated with oil,
and burned.

—Tnue fact that also a Peruvian Mayor has
had publicly burned the Bibles and other stock
of the American Bible Society’s local agent,
affords anotheY illustration of the unchange-
able character of Rome. Wherever she has
the power, she does not hesitate to show her
bitter hostility to the Bible, and those who
think she has changed with the times are blind
to the facts of current history, as well as that
which records the events of the past.

— SrvEN years ago, when Italy had not the
religious liberty which the country now pos-
sesses, the police were sent one night to search
the rooms of a young man who was supposed
to have a Bible. The young fellow did not
appear at all disturbed by this inroad of the
police, but sat calmly by while they turned
over‘all his papers, broke open his cupboard,
and ransacked his room from end to end, even
ripping up his sofa and chairs to sce if the for-
bidden book were hidden in the stufling. No
Bible was discovered, and the police went
away baffled. The Bible was, however, hang-
ing in a net from a nail just outside the win-
dow sill!

—TueE converts on the Island of Aneityum
in the New Hebrides set a good example
in the matter of benevolence. Having been
taught by Dr. and Mrs. Inglis how to prepare

enough in this manner to pay entirely for the
Bible which Dr. Inglis had translated into their
language, and are now giving the proceeds of
the industry to the Free Church of Scotland,
which sent out their missionary. The contri-
bution of this year will amount to about $500.
The natives also keep up twenty-eight village
schoolhouses in Aneityum.

—Speakinc of the late massacre in China,
f missionary at Rabai, East Africa, writes:
*tNone can fully realize such a scene who have
not experienced it. ... Oh, the darkness of
heathen lands, and the deadness of souls for
whom Christ has died! Our people here are
0 superstitious that even when they are hay-
ing some of their dances, if the leader in the
dance stops in the middle, and pointing toa
certain spot on the ground, says, “That place

fore I do you will die; but if I pass over
and you follow, it will be all right, and

will come to you’—the people so
t y believe it that they are afraid to disobey
eir leader, but meekly follow behind.”
reason given for the sufferance of
Hindu houses, is their superstitious
rooted belief in the transmigration

who said, ‘‘I hear your master has gone to
heaven,’’ with the remark: ‘‘I’se afraid he
has not gone dar, fur I neber heard him speak
o’ dat. When he go to the Norf, or to de
Verginny Springs, he allus be gettin’ ready
fur weeks. I neber see him gettin’ ready fur
goin’ to heben.’’

OUR BOOK TABLE.

Concorpia MaGazINE. February, 1896. Concordia
Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.

The price of this excellent monthly, which we
recommended to our readers in the last issue, has
been reduced to $1.00 a year. The Lutheran Standard
says of this Magazine: ‘'In illustrations, letter press,
and well designed cover it is as thoroughly Ameri-
can in its enterprise as any of the cheaper monthlies,
Its contents-are fresh and varied, and throughout
have a churchly impress.’’ —

LaNGuaGe Lessons for Common Schools. Part I.
Concordia Publishing House, St.- Louis, Mo.
Price 10 cts.; per dozen 8 cts. each.

Eminently practical! It is just the book we need
for our schools. Let every teacher get a copy and
examine it for himself. We doubt not that he will
gladly introduce it in his school as a welcome help
in teaching English.

DER HAUPTGOTTESDIENST DER EV.-LUTH. KIRcHeE,
zur Erhaltung des liturgischen Erbtheils und
zur Befoerderung des liturgischen Studiums in
der americanisch-lutherischen Kirche erlacutert
und mit altkirchlichen Singweisen versehen von
Friedrich Lochner, Pastor. Price, $2.00. Con-
cordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.

This is a valuable addition to our American Luthe-
ran literature by the venerable Rev. Lochner. Every
pastor and teacher may learn from the study of this
book the ‘‘meaning and beauty of the liturgical ser-
vice of our dear Lutheran church.”’

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORvEans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 10% o'clock.
junday evening at 734 o'clock.
Wednesday evening at 744 o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% 0! ‘clock.
Singing School at 7}4 o’clock Monday evening.
F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 74% Sunday evening and at 74 Thurs-
day evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 744 Tuesday evening.

K. W. Kuss, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 744 o'clock Sunday evening and at 73g
o'clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o'clock.
J. W. F, KOSSMANN, Missionary.
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Ey. Luth, Holy Trinity Church.
Springfield, Ill.
Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday cyening.

Sunday School at 3 o'clock P. M.

Catechumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings.

Singing-school Tuesday evening.
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