The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1896, Page 42

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'The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—A LuTHERAN deaf-mute congregation has
been organized in Chicago by the Rev. Reinke,
who for some years has been doing effective
mission work among the deaf mutes of our
He has been holding mission serv-
ices in the language of signs in many of the
Two young mis-
sionaries have recently entered this long neg-
lected field to assist in the work among these
afflicted, who are shut out from the ordinary

country.

large cities of the West.

means of worship and religious instruction.

May God richly bless this proclamation of

the Gospel in the language of signs!

—Tne Quakers of North Carolina in con-
vention assembled decided that the public
schools do not meet the requirements of the
Society of Friends. The newspaper report
states: ‘The Friends want to see every child
in the State educated and will do all they can
towards this end, but they are going to see
that those belonging to their own denomina-
tion are cared for in this respect, without be-
ing dependent upon the State.’’ It would be
well if all Lutherans would come to the same
decision and provide schools in which their
children are educated, not only for this world,
but for the world to come.

—Tne American Bible Society has pub-
lished in all 61,705,841 copies of the Bible in
nearly 100 Janguages. Last year’s issue was
1,750,128 copies. Distribution is made in all
parts of the world, among pagans, Moham-
medans, Jews and Christians. ‘The work was
yery encouraging during the past year, ex-
cept, of course, in Turkey, where persecution
is raging.

—Maps1 Rausin, a Christian Turk, a mer-
chant from Constantinople, arrived récently
in New York. He said he was a witness in
August of the three days’ massacre of Arme-
nians by Turks in the streets of Constanti-
nople. ‘‘During the butchery,’’ he said, ‘‘I
saw processions of wagons piled high with the
bodies of the slain passing through the streets
on their way to the Bosphorus. The corpses
were not buried, but dumped into the sea.
I could hear half-dead wretches crying to be
taken out from the heaps of the slain. The
Turkish soldiers I saw rushing about with
pistols and the unattached Turks with clubs.
Spies would point out an Armenian, and the
Turkish soldiers would strike him on the head.
When the spies pointed to the house of an
Armenian the Turks would break in the door
and kill men, women and children. If the
Armenians hid on the house-tops the Turks
would pursue them to the roof and compel

: them to jump into the street. Thirty thou-
Band people were slaughtered.”

—Rey. Dr. Rosertson, a Canadian minis-
ter of note, states that in the Canadian church
_ $20,000 are now given annually to foreign
‘missions by congregations that were founded
as home mission stations within the last twenty
ears. It is a striking illustration of the truth

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that ‘‘the very best way to help foreign mis-
‘sions is to establish home missions.’’

—Iw an appendix in his report on the trade
and general condition of British Central Africa,
Sir H. Johnston gives the history of the Uni-
versities’ Mission and the later settlements of
other societies, and says: ‘‘No person who
desires to make a truthful statement can deny
the great good effected by missionary enter-
prise in Central Africa. There are some mis-
sions and some missionaries out here of whose
work nothing but praise can be uttered, though
much just criticism might be written on their
mode of life, which in some instances is sin-
gularly and needlessly ascetic and uncomfort-
able. Asceticism is all very well in a whole-
some part of England, or in an equally healthy
North African desert ; but any attempts to live
carelessly, uncomfortably, and too frugally in
the exceedingly unhealthy climate of Central
Africa must sooner or later result in the per-
manent disablement of the missionary’s health,
or his death, and can serve no useful or godly
purpose whatsoever. I think that if Euro-
peans are expected to live in Central Africa
and to carry on an active work, whether it be
educational, religious, commercial, or polit-
ical, they should first of all be comfortably
housed, and secondly, they should eat the
best of food. If they will do this, then they
may hope-to be able to spend ten or fifteen
years of their life in Central Africa without
serious deterioration of their health. About
mission work in other parts of the world I have
no direct knowledge but I can say of all mis-
sion work in British Central Africa that it has
only to tell the plain truth and nothing but
the truth to secure sympathy and support.’’

— Tue region in West Africa north of Cape
Colony and south of Angola belongs to Ger-
many, and German missionaries have been
at work among the Hereros and other tribes
occupying this section. Recently a German
military oflicer, Lieutenant Von Francois, has
issued a volume on “‘The Nama and Damara
in German Southwest Africa,’? in which he
gives the following remarkable testimony to
missionaries and the work they have accom-
plished: ‘‘What merchants, artisans, and men
of science have done for the opening up and
civilizing of this country is as nothing in the
balance compared with the positive results of
missionary work. And this work means so
much the more, because all self-regarding
motives, such as always inspire the trader or
the discoverer and are to be found even in the
soldier, are absent in the missionary. It must
be an exalted impulse which leads the mis-
sionary to give up comfort, opportunities of
advancement, honor and fame for the sake of
realizing the idea of bringing humanity into
the kingdom of God, into sonship to God, and
to instil into the soul of a red or black man
the mystery of the love of God. Self-interest
is put aside and the missionary becomes a
Nama ora Herero. He gives continually, not
only from the inner treasure of his spiritual

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life and knowledge; in order to be able to do
that, he must unweariedly play now the arti-
san, now the farmer, now the architect; he
must always give presents, teaching, improve-
ments— never take; he must not even expect
that his self-sacrifice will be understood. And
to do this for years, decades even, that truly
requires more than human power; and the
average mind of the European ‘adventurer,
hardened in self-valuation and self-seeking,
can not understand it. I used not to be able
to understand it; you must have seen it to be
able to understand and admire.’’

OUR BOOK TABLE.

ERZAEHLUNGEN FUER DIE JUGEND. 34. Baendchen.
In der neuen Heimath. Concordia Publishing
House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 25 cents.

An interesting and entertaining story of an immi-
grant family that passed through the troubles and
sorrows of pioneer life and realized the comforting
truth ‘that all things work together for good to
them that love God.” It will be read with profit
and delight by both young and old.

Acknowledgment.

During the months of July, August, and a part of
September, the undersigned received the following
sums from the different congregations at New Or-
leans, La., from St. Paul: $8.50, Mt. Zion: $2.00,
and Bethlehem: §5.65. Total: $16.15. I herewith
again express my hearty thanks for the same. May
the Lord bless the cheerful givers!

EM. BURTHLONG.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEANS, La.

EY. 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 744 o’clock Monday evening.
F. J. LANKENAUD, Missionary.

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

Divine services at 734 Sunday evening and at 744 Thurs-
day evening.

Sunday Schoo! meets at 9 o'clock. °

Adult catechumen class meets at 74 Tucsday 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 7}4
o’clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o'clock.

J. W. F. KOSSMANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.

Springfeld, Ml. ;
Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday cvening.
Sunday School at 3 o’clock YP. a.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tucsday evening.
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