The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1897, Page 40

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40 The Lutheran Pioneer.

~The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Two NEw LABORERS recently entered our
mission field. Rev. Schuetz, a graduste of
our Lutheran Seminary at St. Louis, has been
ordained as missionary at Salisbury, N. C.,
and Mr. H. Persson has been installed as
teacher of the parochial school at Greensboro,
N.C. May God richly bless the work of His
servants.

—Fromx the Lutheran Witness we clip the
following: On the 29th of August the col-
ored mission of Pastor N. J. Bakke celebrated
their harvest home and mission festival. The
chapel had been beautifully decorated for the
occasion with the various fruits and grains of
the season. Three services were held, one
in the morning, afternoon, and evening re-
spectively. In the morning service Rev. R.
W. Huebsch of Iredell Co., N. C., preached
the sermon from Luke 15, 1—10 on ‘‘Jesus
the friend of sinners.’’ In the afternoon the
writer delivered the harvest home sermon on
Jer. 5, 23—25. Inthe evening Pastor Schuetz,
lately called as missionary to Salisbury, N.C.,
preached the mission sermon on John 10, 16.
The house was crowded in every service, espe-
cially in the afternoon, the attendance in that
service being estimated at about three hun-
dred. A number of these had come from the
other mission stations of Pastor Bakke, a dis-
tance of twenty miles and more. These guests
from a distance were entertained by the mem-
bers of the local congregation, a lunch being
served by the ladies for dinner in the school
house. A collection was taken up in every
Service. At the close of the evening services
‘five and ten minute speeches’? were made
by all the pastors present, and words of en-
couragement and appreciation were spoken to
the congregation. May God continue to bless
the arduous and faithful labors of our breth-
ren in the colored mission work of North
Carolina.

—Aw exchange, speaking of our mission
work, says: ‘‘It is by all odds the most suc-
cessful mission work among the colored pop-
ulation of the South that has been done by
any Lutheran body in America.”

_ —Recent letters from Peru received by
the American Bible Society say that four of
the men who have been most prominent in
obstructing the circulation of Bibles and evan-
gelical work in that country have died within
twelve months. They are the Bishop of Are-
quipa, who, in 1889, observed Mr. Penzotti
selling a New Testament in the street and or-
dered a gendarme to arrest him and his col-
porteurs; La Jana, who stopped the entry of
Bibles at the custom house in Callao, on the
ground that he needed to consult the govern-
ment respecting the legality of clearing such
publications ; Quinones, who ordered the mis-

sion schools to be closed, and Padre Veza, the

parish priest of Santa Rosa, who had been con-
spicuous in throwing obstructions in the way
of evangelical work. i i

—Tne Lutheran missionary of Manuane in
Africa writes: ‘‘Among those recently bap-
tized is Sethanye, uncle of King Gopane, who
reigns during Gopane’s absence and has the
chief voice in the court of justice. Ona cer-
tain occasion in 1893 when I was threatened
and assaulted by the heathen, Sethanye came
to my assistance and clubbed those who came
too near me so vigorously that they retreated
and I could go home unmolested. He always
came to divine service on time snd was an at-
tentive hearer. And when I visited him at his
home he was hospitable and listened gladly to
the Word of God. But there was little indi-
cation of real conversion. Sethanye’s cattle-
ranch was about a day’s journey distant from
here. He went there one day and came back
again sick. The next day he sent for me
through Gopane. I hastened to him. When
I arrived he said: ‘Moruti, I am very ill and
will not recover. I want to be baptized and
go to the Savior of sinners, of whom you so
often spoke in church.’ He continued to
speak in this way and then requested to be
baptized. From his protestations I could not
but conclude that he was in earnest and sin-
cere. I conversed a long time with him in
regard to the one thing needful and finally
said: ‘In case you are baptized and the Lord
restores you to health, then you must dismiss
your wives and live with only one wife.’ He
answered: ‘I will not recover; but if I should,
then will I live as becomes a Christian in the
congregation of Christians with only one wife.’
After this confession I could no longer with-
hold baptism. I requested Gopane, who was
also present, to make known his uncle’s in-
tention and to call together the chiefs of the
people on the afternoon of Sethanye’s bap-
tism, that they might be present. There were
many heathen and Christians present. The
sick man was fully conscious and firmly an-
swered the questions, renouncing the devil
and the world, and with.a loud voice confessed
his faith in the Triune God. Then I baptized
him, giving him the name of Abrabam which
he himself had chosen. On Easter morning
when I visited him I found him very sick, but
joyful in the Lord. The next day, when I
went to him, he was dead. Amid a large
gathering of Christians and heathens we laid
away his mortal remains in our church-yard,
where he awaits the second coming of Christ
and the great resurrection.’’

—A srory is told of an old native chief and
an English Earl—an infidel— who visited the
Fijian Islands. The Englishman said to the
chief, ‘You are a great chief, and it is really

a pity that you have been so foolish as to} P®

listen to the missionaries, who only want to
get rich among you. No one nowadays would
believe any more in that old book which is
called the Bible; neither do men listen to that
story about Jesus Christ; people know better
now, and I am only sorry for you, that you
are 80 foolish.”” When he said that, the old
chiet’s eyes flashed; and he said: ‘‘Do you

see that great stone over there? On that stone
we smashed the heads of our victims to death.
Do you see that native oven over yonder? In
that oven we roasted the human bodies for our
great feasts. Now, you! you! if it had not
been for these good missionaries, for that old
Book and the great love of Jesus Christ, which
has changed us from savages into God’s chil-
dren, you! you would never leave this spot!
You have to thank God for the Gospel, as.
otherwise you would be killed and roasted in
yonder oven, and we would feast on your body
in no time!’’

—TueE lot of blind girls is a sad one in China.
Girls born blind are killed without delay. Ifa.
girl becomes blind in later years, she is sold
for a trifle to houses of ill fame. Here they
are taught to sing to the guests obscene songs.
If they refuse to do it they are horribly mal-
treated. German missionaries are about estab-
lishing homes for blind girls at Hong Kong
and at Kanton.

OUR BOOK TABLE.

FRAGEN UND ANTWORTEN fuer einen Kindergottes-
dienst am Reformationsfeste. Concordia Pub-
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5 cents; per dozen, 40 cents; per hundred,
$2.50 and postage.

Pastors and teachers will find this pamphlet very
helpful in arranging a children’s service for the Re-
formation festival. The leading points of the his-
tory of the Reformation are given in sixty-one ques-
tions and answers, together with hymns appropriate
for the occasion.

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!4 o’clock.
Sunday evening at 7)4 o'clock.
Wednesday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 7/4 o’clock Tuesday
evening.
Singing School meets at 74 o’clock Monday cyening.

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 7% o'clock.
Adult catechumen class mects at 734 o'clock Friday

evening.
Young Peoples’ Concordia Circle meets at 7% o'clock
evening. F, J. LANKENAD, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenuc and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 734 o'clock Sunday evening and at 74
o’clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o'clock.
J. W. F. KOSSMANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.

Springfield, Ill.
Divine Services at half pase 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o'clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 3 o'clock Y. M.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.
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