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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

for the Lutherans of New Orleans.

the English sermon on this joyful occasion.

/ —Tune Rey. N. Friedmann has been in-

stalled as successor to the lamented Rev. D.

Landsmann, who for thirteen years labored

faithfully as missionary among the Jews in
New York city.
this important mission work among the chil-
dren of Israel.

—A Buse agent in Southern Russia one
day met a number of Jews in front of the
village inn. One of these asked him to open
the Bible at Isaiah 538. He then took the
Bible and read the chapter aloud. There-
upon he asked his friends: ‘‘Who is he of
whom it is here said that he hath borne our
griefs and carried our sorrows?’” When no
one replied, he himself gave the correct an-
swer: ‘'The prophet speaks of none other
than of Jesus.’’ Then he confessed his faith,
adding, ‘‘This Jesus has long already been
my Saviour and my King.’’

—TueE treasurer of our Colored Mission
was recently agreeably surprised when one
day a stranger came to his room and laid

' : $250 on his table, saying that the money was
given for the building of a chapel for the
colored people at Rockwell, N.C. The stran-
' ' ger refused to give his name or to tell from
which city or state he came. He is known
j to God. May He bless the kind giver and
, awaken others to follow his noble example.
—Dkr. Jonannes Lepsius gives in ‘‘Allge-
i meine Ey. Luth. Kirchenzeitung”’ statistical in-
| formation concerning the persecution of Chris-
fe tiansin Armenia. He claims that his figures
are based on authentic information, and are,
. as far as they go, correct: Massacred, 65,000;
villages destroyed, 2500; churches and mon-
asteries destroyed, 568; converted to the Mo-
hammedan faith by compulsion, 559 villages
with such inhabitants as have survived the mas-
sacres. Two hundred and eighty-two churches
have been changed into mosques. The num-
ber of suffering is estimated at 500,000. These
figures do not cover everything, however. ‘The
facts are worse than here stated. Counting the
thousands massacred in yillages from which
no report has been received, and furthermore
all that have died of their wounds, all lost
during their flight, all that have died of hunger
or various diseases, apd all buried under the
snow in the mountains, we do not exaggerate
when we say that 100,000 Armenians have
found their death in consequence of persecu-
tions. : ,
_ —Lowarres certainly have a hard time of
‘it in the East. In Syria and Palestine they
“are regarded as possessed of the devil. In
_ the neighborhood of Nablous, the ancient
_ Shechem, lives an Arab sheik who has a rep-

—TnueE 8th of November was a day of joy
On that
t day they dedicated their beautiful new Or-
| phans’ Home with appropriate services. Our
| missionary, the Rev. F. Lankenau, delivered

May God continue to bless

utation as a demon expeller. To him are
brought numbers of these unfortunates, who
are subjected to most barbarous treatment.
They are chained hand and foot in a most
constrained position, half starved, and bled
in different parts of the body. The sheik
visits them from time to time, and reads pas-
sages from the Koran, with a view of exor-
cising the demons. This treatment naturally
soon finishes them, whereon the sheik an-
nounces that the prophet Elijah has received
them into Paradise, and pockets his fee. All
over the East there is the same story of luna-
tic treatment. A society has just been or-
ganized at Beyrout by Herr Waldmeier, a de-
voted German missionary, having in view the
amelioration of the condition of the mentally
distressed in Syria and Palestine.

—Awn old Chinese woman presented herself
as a candidate for baptism, who seemed so
hopelessly stupid that she was kindly advised
to wait for further instruction before being
received into the church. Some months later
she returned to renew her application, accom-
panied by a nephew, a mature man, also de-
siring baptism, whose examination showed
such clear-comprehension of the truth that
the missionaries were surprised, and yet he
had received all his instruction from the ‘‘stu-
pid”’ old aunt.

—TneE number of lepers in India is esti-
mated to be 500,000. ‘The natives give them
no care, but simply exclude them from their
caste. The Christians have proved to be their
friends as far as means permit. There are
18 asylums sheltering over 5000 of these un-
happy patients.

—Tne lafest news from Uganda is emi-
nently cheering, and seems to show that this
latest of mission fields will prove to be one of
the brightest. Rev. J. Roscoe, who has re-
cently reached England, reports the establish-
ment of a kind of parliament in the territory,
modelled on the British House of Commons.
The king is said to be decidedly friendly, and
his attitude towards Christianity is more favor-
able. In Uganda, as elsewhere, the blood of
its martyred witnesses of the early days has
proved the fruitful seed of a strong Christian
community.

—As we close our window, our little P1o-
NEER comes to the front, and wishing all our
readers a blessed Christmas, kindly asks them
to remember him in the merry Christmas time
by securing new subscribers for the new vol-
ume of the coming year.

SS lT{*"NRDomDU[aa{__ oo
OUR BOOK TABLE.

THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY. Published by the Lu-
theran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other
States. Concordia Pablishing House, St. Louis,
Mo. Subscription price: $2.50 a year; to sub-
scribers of “Lehre und Wehre,”’ $2.00.

Welcome the Theological Quarterly! Its first
number, well printed and filled with varied, elabo-
rate, and instructive articles on subjects referring
to the different departments of Theo logy, comes to
us fall of promise for the future. How welcome
will be the Theological Review, which makes the

reader thoroughly acquainted with the contents of

come iu time for our November issue.

schools.

The Lutheran Pioneer.

the book that is reviewed, thus enabling him to pass
judgment on the theological publications of our
time.
Truth revealed in the infallible Word of God and
professed in the Confessions of our Lutheran church.
And it is a trumpet that gives no uncertain sound.

The Quarterly is a trumpet lifted for the

May God richly bless its mission throughout our

land!
A CunristmMas SERVICE

For ENGLIsu LUTHERAN
Sunpay Scuoois. By Prof. A. W. Meyer,
St. John’s College, Winfleld, Kans. Price:
5 cts. per copy; per dozen, 25 cts; in larger
amounts, 20 cts. per dozen.

We are very sorry this Christmas Service did not

It is an ex-

cellent liturgy for the Christmas service in Sunday

Try it!

ERZAENLUNGEN FUER DIE JUGEND. 35. Baendchen:
Aus Aengsten und Noethen. 36. Baendchen:
Der Waisenknabe. Concordia Publishing House,
St. Louis, Mo. Price, 25 cts. each volume.

Sound, instructive, and entertaining reading. mat-
ter for German’ boys and girls, and also for older
people. Excellent gift books for the Christmas

table.
AMERIKANISCHER KALENDER fuer deutsche Luthera-

Concordia Publishing
Price, 10 cts.
Well, you say, an

ner auf das Jahr 1897.
House, St. Louis, Mo.
This is a timely publication.

Almanac is always timely. Yes, we know. But this

Almanac is timely also as to its reading matter. It

brings an historical sketch of the Missouri Synod,

thus preparing the readers for the Golden Jubilee

of that Synod, which occurs in the coming year.

It also brings a biography of Philipp Melanchthon,
one of the co-laborers of Luther, the 400th anniver-
sary of whose birth occurs in the year 1897. The
Almanac deserves a wide circulation.

oe.

Acknowledgment.

Received from Bethlehem Chapel the sum of $6.30.
God’s blessings and sincere thanks are hereby ex-
tended to the kind givers. JouN McDavip.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NrEw 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 74 o'clock.

Wednesday evening at A o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% o'clock.
Singing School at 734 o’clock Monday evening.

F, J. LANKENAD, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 734 Sunday evening and at 74% Thurs-
lay evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class mects at 7% 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 7}
o'clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o'clock.
J. W. F. KOSSMANN, Missionary.
ee eet

Ey. Luth, Holy Trinity Church.

Springftld, Ill.
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 meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.
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