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28 The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Ovr colored congregations in New Or-
leans also celebrated with appropriate services,
the fiftieth anniversary of the Evangelical
Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other
States.

— Tne 10th of July brings the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the organization of the Lutheran
Synodical Conference. Our German mission
paper calls upon all congregations to take up
a collection for our Colored Mission Treasury
on the Sunday nearest to that date. Whata
blessing such a collection would be for our
Mission Treasury, which is in great need of
money.

—A Ro»isu missionary on the island of
Nonouti in Mikronesia, reports home: ‘‘If any
one of these natives wants to become a Catho-
lic, he simply says, ‘I love Mary,’ and he is
accepted. The blind Protestant missionaries
had created a prejudice against Mary among
them; but we shall see to it, that Mary will
reign alone in Mikronesia!’’ So there is no
room for Christ in the Romish mission. The
virgin Mary is put in the place of Christ, who
slone is ‘‘the Lord of lords and the King of
kings,’’ and in whom alone salvation can be
found. ‘‘Neither is there salvation in any
other; for there is none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must
be sayed,’’ says the Bible.

—Tuis reminds us of a story. When we
some years ago visited the late Rey. Dr.
Brookes in St. Louis, he told us that a few
minutes before we had entered his study
‘Father Ryan’’ had been there to see him.
‘What did you tell him?’”’ we asked. ‘‘I told
him,” said the Doctor, ‘‘that Christ and He
crucified is not preached in the Romish church.
Ryan said that he preaches Christ. I told
him that he did not preach Christ as the only
Saviour, but that he put many things in the
place of Christ. Do you not preach the virgin
Mary as the refuge of sinners? Iasked. Then
he replied, ‘Only three times a year.’ Ah,
said I, that is three times too often.”’

—Miss Mary Kincstey, in her book of
travels in Africa, says: ‘‘The belief in witch-
craft is the cause of more African deaths than
anything else. It has killed, and still kills,
more men and women than the slave trade.
Its only riyal is, perhaps, the small-pox, the
grand kraw-kraw, as the Krumen graphically
call it. At almost every death a suspicion of
witchcraft arises. The witch-doctor is called
in and proceeds to find out the guilty person.
Then woe to the unpopular men, weak women
and slaves.

—An officer under examination by a supe-
rior was asked, ‘‘Suppose you with your com-
‘pany were confronted with a large force on
your front; suddenly attacked on both flanks,
and when you attempted to retreat, found a
Jarge force on your rear, what command would
you give?’”” ‘‘To prayer!’’ was his answer.

— A LoNnG sermon, says an exchange, might
be preached on boys and girlsas givers. A little
girl in a church at Ashland, Va., was one of a
band of workers to raise money to complete
their church building. She had earned by her
own work a considerable sum, when a friend
heard her express 2 great desire to own a ca-
nary bird. It was suggested that she could
easily buy one from her own purse. ‘‘Oh,’’
she replied, ‘‘I can’t get a thing for myself
while I have that church on my shoulders!’’
How many of us take such a personal interest
in our mission work as to feel, ‘‘It is on my
shoulders?’’ Some of the colored people in
Augusta, Ga., were taking monthly collections
to build a church edifice. A little girl, six
years old, said she must have a nickel, for
next Sunday was ‘‘throwing in’’ Sunday. Her
mother said she shouldn’t give her one, for
she spent the last one for candy, and she
ought to have saved that. So she went off
with a basket on her arm, picked up bones
and sold them for five cents. Then a friend
gave her another, and she remarked, ‘‘I be-
lieve I’ll put this in too, for that Church must
be built !”’

—Iws India alone there are more than half a
million lepers, a still larger number in China,
two hundred thousand in Japan, while great
numbers are found in all other oriental coun-
tries. These figures are startling, but they
can not of themselves give us, in this favored
land, any conception of the misery they repre-
sent. No missionary work is more urgent or
more fruitful in its results than this, which
carries the light of the Gospel among these
wretched sufferers, who dwell literally in the
‘Valley of the Shadow of Death.’’

—Sreaxine of the darkness of heathenism,
a missionary writes: Chinese parents love
their children, especially their boys. ‘Their
horrible superstition, however, tells them that
children dying of any disease are not real
human beings, but demons! An evil spirit
which managed to escape from hell, found its
resting-place in the soul of a newly born child.
The death of a child is in fact the demon’s pun-
ishment. No child under ten years is buried
in the family plot. The corpse is wrapped
in a mat or placed in a basket and handed
to a beggar, who carries it away. Twice a
week a wagon is driven through the streets of
Peking. It is ealled ‘‘Su-ti-toz-hang,’’ i. e.,
the ‘‘land-ship of mercy.’? It is drawn by
oxen with bells on their necks. It has the
right of way. The children’s corpses, laid on
the street, are thrown on the wagon. When
filled with this sad freight, it drives to the
‘children’s ditch,’’ outside of the gate, and
dumps it in. No parent or friend will ever
accompany the corpse of the demon, which,
before its death, was a dear child.

—TuHarT was a queer impression which a
little four-year-old boy received of a revival
preacher. The boy went with his aunt to a
revival meeting. The preacher was yery fiery
in his deliyery, and the child seemed much

interested. ‘‘Mother,’’ said he when he got
home, ‘‘I have heard such a great minister;
he stamped and pounded and made such a
noise, and by and by he got so mad he came
out of the pulpit and shook his fists at the
folks, and there wasn’t anybody who dared
to get up and fight him.’’—We close our
window.

o<—e-——

Massa’s Journey.

A certain gentleman who lived in one of the
Southern States of America before the war
with the North, had a pious slave, and when
the master died they told the slave that the
master had gone to heaven. The old man
shook his head, ‘‘I’se ’fraid massa no gone |
there,’’ he said. ‘*But why, Ben?’’ he was
asked. ‘‘Cos, when massa go North, or go a
journey to the springs, he talk about it a long
time, and get ready. I never hear him talk
about going to heaven; never see him get
ready to go there.”

——_— ~e«mmeor em

Read the Bible Daily.

Frederick the Wise of Saxony used to say:
“The letter of your king or prince read twice,
for it is apt to be of importance; but the Bible,
which is the letter of the divine Majesty to
you, you must read daily. It speaks of God’s
grace to you.’’

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORLEANS, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
1625 Annette Str., between Olaiborne and Derbigny.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 914 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 734 o'clock.
Wednesday evening at i% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 73g o’clock Tuesday

evening?
Singing School meets at 7}4 o’clock Monday evening.

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

Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.

Sunday evening at 7% o'clock.

Thursday evening at 74 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class mects at 744 o’clock Friday

evening.

Young Peoples’ Concordia Circle meets at 734 o'clock

evenin
F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 74 o'clock Sunday evening and at 744
o'clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
J. W. F. KOS8MANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.

Springfteld, Ml.
Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o'clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 3 o'clock P. M.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday cvenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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