The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1897, Page 20

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20 The Lutheran Pioneer:

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Iy our Colored Lutheran St. Paul’s Con-
gregation at New Orleans seven adults and six
children were recently confirmed; in Mount
Zion’s church, eight children.

' —Tue Rey. A. Burgdorf, one of our mis-
sionaries in North Carolinas, sends us the fol-
lowing welcome item: Sunday, March 28th,
another Lutheran mission, the thirteenth in
North Carolina, was opened in Wilmington.
A good-sized, highly respectable, and ap-
preciative audience greeted the missionary.
Rey. Dr. Bernheim, the venerable pastor of
St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church,
—who invited the attention of our Missionary
Board to Wilmington, and to whom as well as
Rey. K. Boldt of St. Paul’s the missionary is
under obligations for courtesies extended —
was among those present; also several mem-
bers of St. Paul’s Church. The opening ser-
mon was based on 1 Tim. 1,15. Mrs. J. H.
Whiteman had the kindness to act as organist
on this occasion. Misses L. Mears and Sarah
Drye and Messrs. A. L. Manly, F. G. Manly,
and B. Cutler led in the singing. Mr. Wm.
Niestlie of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church had
a large number of circulars distributed at his
expense, all of which is hereby gratefully
acknowledged.

_— Tue Japanese Christians, themselves the
product of mission work, have raised $8000
for their mission in the large island of For-
‘mosa.

—Mnr. James Murray, a Glasgow gentle-
man who has for eight years been in the
service of the National Bible Society of Scot-
land as one of its superintendents of col-
portage in China, left Scotland recently to
return to his work. Mr. Murray has traveled

‘over 80,000 miles of Chinese territory, having
been sometimes for weeks without secing a
single European. Ata valedictory meeting in
Sandyford Parish Church, Glasgow, Dr. Elder
Cumming said: ‘‘I want you to realize just in
‘a word what it is to have a Glasgow merchant,
in the vigor of youth, with the love of Christ
in his heart, saying, ‘I will devote my life to
China, to circulate the Word of God there,
and commend it to the people.’ And lest any
in this audience should be led to say, ‘Yes,
but of course he would be well paid for it,’
I would add again and emphasize the fact that
during these eight years this Glasgow mer-
‘chant has taken no salary whatever, think-
ing it worth while to spend his life and his
“means for the Lord. Idonot know what you
think, but I feel it to be an object lesson for
every Christian man and woman here to-night,

a thought worth thinking, a memory worth
cherishing, and a suggestion of the ques-
‘tion, ‘Did I ever do one-tenth of that for
Christ ?”””

—EVANGELISCHE MissionEn’’ tells, from
‘an eye witness, the story of cruelties prac-

” iced by the Turks on the Armenians. Among

‘them is the following: A Turk called to an

Armenian, ‘‘Will you become a Moham-
medan?”’? The question was answered only
by a confession of faith in Christ the Cruci-
fied. Then the Turk unsheathed his great
knife, cut a piece of flesh from the arm of
the Christian and cast it to the dogs. ‘‘Will
you now become Mohammedan?” was the
next question. Though tormented with pain,
the Armenian remained steadfast. Then the
monster cut a large piece of flesh from the
other arm, and cast it to the dogs. Despite
this, the Armenian remained steadfast.

—Iws Peking, China, one never sees a child’s
funeral. A large covered vehicle is driven
through the city early in the day and the
dead children are thrown into it, like gar-
bage, taken to a pit outside the city wall,
into which they are dumped and covered with
quicklime.

—Tnue Chinese are proverbially dull when
first reached by the story of the Gospel. It
seems difficult for them to take it in. Yet we
read: of one woman in Shanse who, though a
cripple, came a long distance for a second
visit to the missionary, and when asked what
she remembered from the previous Sunday’s
talk, replied: ‘‘I am old, and my heart is
thick, and I have no memory. I only re-
member two things: that God is my Father
in heaven, and that His Son Jesus died on
the cross for my sins.’’ Would that all who
hear the Gospel preached might remember as
much!

—Tne Fiji Islands contributed last year to
foreign missions nearly $25,000.

—ALTHOUGH missionaries worked in New
Zealand without any converts for eleven years,
there are now 95,000 Christians in its popu-
lation.

—WueN missions were begun among the
stupid Greenlanders, it seemed as hard to
change them as it would be to melt the ice
around the Northpole. They made fun of the
missionaries, one stole a Bible and sewed the
precious leaves together to make himself a
coat; during preaching they would pretend
to sleep and snore, or drown the singing by
beating drums. They stole the food and
papers of the missionaries, stoned them, and
when their food was gone refused to sell
them any. The Eskimos were dirty and low
in their ways, the mothers licked their chil-
dren instead of washing them, just as cats do
kittens. At last the gospel story touched the
heart of one Eskimo named Kayarnak. He
drew near to the missionary, saying: ‘‘Tell it
to me once more, for I too want to be saved.’””
From that day Kayarnak’s heart and life were
changed. Daily he came to the missionary’s
hut and sat with tears rolling down his cheeks
listening to the stories of Jesus. The other
Eskimos seeing his changed life and actions
began to listen too. It must be a wonderful
Book which had so changed him. They too,
wanted to be changed. Cruelty gave place
to kindness, sins were confessed and forgive-
ness sought, they began to love and eyen to

help others.. Kayarnak became their teaeher,

and even taught the missionaries their Jan-

guage and helped them to translate the Bible.
—_—— ea oe

A Precious Garment.

There is a garment which cannot be bought,
yet can be had by rich and poor alike. It
can be gotten in childhood, yet one never
outgrows it. It never changes with styles or
seasons. Have you one? It is the robe of
Christ’s righteousness.

OUR BOOK TABLE.

LANGUAGE LESSONS FOR COMMON ScHooLs. Part II.
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
Price 15 cts.

Eminently practical! Teachers who have used
Part I, have written us that they find these Language
Lessons a great help’in the teaching of English.
They make the study of that language easy and de-
lightful to both teacher and pupil. “We, therefore,
doubt not that also Part II will be welcomed.

“Ici GLAUBE, DARUM REDE Icu.’’ Eine kurze Dar-
legung der Lehrstellung der Missouri-Synode.
Von F. Pieper. In Jubilaeumsjahr 1897. Con-
cordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price,
3 cts. per copy; 80 cts. per dozen; $1.50 per
hundred.

We rejoice that so brief and clear a presentation
of the doctrines taught by the ‘Missouri Synod”
has been put forth in a form so popular, and hope
it may be blessed .to. many in helping them to see
that ‘‘Missouri’’ does not speak “above that which
is written” in the infallible Word of God.

SCHREIBLESEFIBEL fuer den Unterricht der Elemen-
tarklassen. Neue Serie. Concordia Se
House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 20 cts.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORLEANS, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL.
1625 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Derbigny.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 9% o'clock.
SOnOAY, evening at 734 o'clock.
Wednesday evening at 140 o’clock,
Sunday School: Sunday morning at d0%4 ofclock.
ANID qoateckuman class mects at 7}4 o’clock ‘Tuesday

Singing ar mects at 734 o’clock Monday cvening.

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

Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.

Sunday evening at 7 Celcekes

Thursday evening at 734 o’cloc!
Adult catechumen class mects at 734 0 aes “Friday

evening.

Young Peoples’ Concordia Circle meets at 734 o'clock

venin;
: . F. J. LANKENAD, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenuc and Dryndes Str.
paving services at 734 o’clock Sunday evening and nt 724
jor ursday evening,
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
J. W. F. KOSSMANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfield, Tu.
Divine Services at half past 10 neiclosk Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sun ay evening,
Sunday School at 3 o'clock
Catechumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tucsday evening.
ES

TERMS:
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All communications concerning the editorial de-
ent to be addressed to Prof. R. A. BiscHorr,
mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.