The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1898, Page 12

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Tnue largest missionary society in America
is the ‘‘American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions.’’ The almanac of this so-
ciety furnishes the following figures for 1897.
On the yery spot where now stands a massive
monument, five students of Williams College
met 90 years ago in a hay-shed, for protection
against the weather. They had assembled for
the purpose of discussing and praying for the
work of heathen missions. Their missionary
zeal resulted in the founding of the above-
named society in 1810. Two years after this
the first two missionaries were sent to the
heathen. These have been followed in the
course of time by 2232 others. Besides these
2951 native helpers have been engaged by the
society. Work has been carried on at 1300
different stations and sub-stations. The num-
ber of congregations is 471, with a member-
ship of 43,043, 3051 of whom were received
last year. The schools have 52,000 pupils.
$743,104.59 were expended during the year.

—Aw exchange tells us that a gentleman
once called upon another for a subscription to
a benevolent object, and received a liberal
contribution. Before leaving he inquired how
much he might expect to get from an indi-
vidual of their acquaintance. The reply was,
**I don’t know, but could you hear him pray
you would think he would give all he is worth.”
When, however, he was called upon, he refused
to give a single cent. Grieved at his refusal,
the solicitor ventured to remark, as he was
departing from his presence: ‘‘As I came to
your house, I asked an individual what he
thought you would probably give. ‘I don’t
know,’ was the answer, ‘but if you heard him
pray you would think he would give all he is
worth.’’? ‘This had the desired effect. The
man dropped his head, tears came to his
eyes, and taking out his pocket-book, he gave
seventy dollars.

—A New Zearanp Chief visited England a
few years ago. One day he was taken to see
a beautiful mansion near London. The gentle-
man who took him expected to find him greatly
charmed ; but it seemed to excite little admi-
ration in his mind. He then began to point
out to him its grandeur, the beauty of the fur-
niture, etc. Tamahana, looking round upon
the wall, replied, ‘‘Ah! my Father’s house
finer than this.’’ ‘The gentleman knew that
his father’s house was but a poor mud cottage.
But Tamahana went on, ‘‘My Father’s house
finer than this,’” and began to speak of the
house above—the house of ‘‘many mansions,’’
the eternal home of the redeemed.

—From the recent annual report of the Mis-
sion to Lepers in India and the East it appears
that more than 200 of the inmates of the dif-
ferent leper asylums have professed their
faith in Jesus Christ and have been baptized.
There are now over 1000 professing Christians
in the various asylums. There are about 900
adults and children in the homes and about

1700 in institutions which the mission aids.
The field of its operations embraces India,
Burmah, Ceylon, China and Japan. The work
is steadily increasing, and an annual income
of $30,000 is needed to carry it on.

—AFRICA comprises nearly 11,520,000
square miles. It contains over 190,000,000
people. Its people use 438 languages and 153
dialects. About one-fourth of its inhabitants
are Mohammedans, and nearly three-fourths
Pagans. There are perhaps 100,000 commu-
nicant Protestant Christians in Africa. There
are about 1000 mission stations and perhaps
1200 American and European missionaries at
work there.

— Tue Rev. C. D. Campsett, of Zitacuaro,
tells of a man seventy-five years old, whom he
baptized last spring, who, without ever seeing
a Protestant minister, was led to the rejection
of his Roman Catholic belief through the study
of the Bible. Hehad been called to make a
new image of the Virgin from a block of stone,
to replace one which had been struck by light-
ning. While doubting in his mind the efficacy
of images which could not protect themselves
from a lightning bolt, some one directed his
attention to the Bible. He at last found one
in a college library, which, failing to buy, he
obtained permission to read every Sunday.
He kept at it until he had read the whole
of it. Finding in it nothing of the worship of
the saints, nor of Mary, his eyes were opened
to the truth. The Rible is a dear book to him
now, and few can quote as much from it as he.
Sharp persecution has not been able to drive
the old man from his simple faith in Christ.

—Or the late French senator Renaud, a
German paper tells the following anecdote:

When Renaud first came as senator to Paris
he engaged a room at a hotel and paid a
month’s rent—one hundred and fifty francs
—in advance. The proprietor asked if. he
would have a receipt.

“It is not necessary,” replied Renaud,
“God has witnessed the payment.’

“Do you believe inGod?” sneered the host.

‘Most assuredly,” replied Renaud, ‘don’t
you ?””

‘‘Not I, monsieur.”’

‘*Ah,”? said the senator, ‘I will take a re-
ceipt, if you please.”

— Tue China Inland Mission statistics show
their number of European missionaries to be
646; native helpers, 624; chapels, 271 5 Schools,
84; communicants, 6113.

—Tue Hindu belief that a departed soul
Passes into the body of some living creature
is one reason why the houses in India are in-
fested with vermin. They will not allow one
of these creatures to be killed lest the soul of
Some dear friend should bein it. As a mis-
sionary was visiting a high caste woman who
mourned the recent loss of a dear child, a hide-
ous cockroach crawled towards her. As she
brushed it away the mother cried : ‘‘Oh, don’t;
T beg you not to harm it. My little“ baby’s
soul is in that cockroach.”’

—A Persian woman who had suffered much
persecution for Christ’s sake, was baptized.

She was only seventeen years old, but had

been pleading for some time for baptism,
‘“for,’’ she said, ‘‘I believe that I shall be

put to death for my faith in Christ, and I

want to be baptized before I am killed.”

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For introduc-

Acknowledgments.

The members of St. Paul and Mount Zion Colored
Congregations, New Orleans, La., desire that I ex-

press their sincere gratitude to their many kind
Christian friends who have so liberally donated
money and clothing to relieve the destitution in
their midst.

New Orleans, La., Feb. 19, 1898.
F. J. LANKENAU.

Received for our colored missions of Rev. F. J.

Lankenau, Missionary, New Orleans, La., from his
St. Paul’s congregation $20.00, and of Rev. J. Koss-
mann, Missionary, New Orleans, La., from his Beth-
lehem congregation $25.00.

St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 21, 1898.
is A. C. BurGpoRF,. Treas.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New OrxEans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
1625 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Derbigny.

Divine services: Sunday morning at 9% o'clock.
Sunday evening at 734 o'clock.
Wednesday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 0’clock Tuesday

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Singing School meets at 734 o'clock Monday evening.

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

Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o’clock.
pune evenin; aE eee ak
hursday evening a o’c! .
Adult catechumen class ymects at 7% o'clock Friday

.. evening. telock
Young Peoples’ Concordia Circle meets at 7% o'cloc
evening. F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary,
EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 74 o’clock Sunday evening and at ™%
o’clock Thursday evening.

Sunday School at 9 o'clock.
fi “se . J. W. F, KOSSMANN, Missionary:
feerabetdetter tl Soars he

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfteld, Til.
Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
Catechumen class mects Monday and Friday cvenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.
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