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The Lutheran Pioneer.

young savage addressing a number of blacks.
On going up to the group, he was amazed to
hear the savage reproducing his own sermon
word for word. F

—A seQuest of $2,500,000 to Foreign Mis-
sions has been made recently by a wealthy
manufacturer of Aberdeen, Scotland, to be
used in Africa, China, and Moravia. The in-
come from such 8 bequest, at the lowest cal-
culation, will send out one hundred mission-
aries.

—Iy illustration of the rapidity with which
the Bible is translated at the present day, a
German paper states that from 1890 to 1896
parts of the Bible were translated into 60 new
languages and dialects, making the total num-
ber of languages and dialects about 400. The
whole Bible has been translated into 107 and
the New Testament into 101 languages. Six
millions of Bibles and portions of the Bible
have been distributed by all the Bible societies
during 1896; the total number in Germany
was 730,000 copies.

— Whey Petherick, the traveler, came upon
thé Mebr tribe of the Nile country, Africa, he
was given a great reception by the natives.
Finally the head chief of the Mebrs entered
Petherick’s tent. The latter extended his
hand to welcome the visitor, upon which the
latter deliberately spat into the open palm.
Petherick was so enraged by the seeming in-
dignity that he was about to knock the chief-
tain down. On second thought he resolved
to return the compliment, which he did, with
more emphasis than elegance. This seemed to
delight the chief, and later Petherick learned
that spitting into the visitor’s hand was the
mode of salutation in that country. A queer
salutation, indeed!

—Tue ‘poor prisoner in the Vatican,’’
Pope Leo XIII, at the 60th anniversary of
his priestship, received presents valued at
$1,200,000. The English Duke of Norfolk
sent him a check for $40,000, the Czar and
the Czarina filled his palm with jewels, the
Ladies of the Sacred Heart made his old heart
glad with an immense rosary on which instead
of beads gold pieces were strung. The Amer-
ican bishops gave him a substantial proof of
their loyalty, etc. Peter of old had neither
silver nor gold, but what he had and gave, is
never found in the possession of his so-called
successors.

—Henz is a suggestive note from the For-
eign Missionary Journal. ‘‘I don’t believe in
foreign missions, I believe in home missions,’’
Say many. Such a man was asked to help a
church in Minnesota, in great distress, and
needing immediate help for its rescue. ‘It’s
a home case,” they pleaded, on his own
ground. ‘Oh,’ saidshe, “I don’t know any-
thing about Minnesota. Too far away from
home.”” The graveyard fence was falling down
and must be repaired. ‘*Now we have some-
thing our brother can not deny —right before
his eyes.” Hopefully they went to him with
their plea. He looked at the paper dolefully,

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

— From the last number of our German mis-
sion paper we learn that the Rey. A. Burg-
dorf, who for several years labored faithfully
and successfully in our mission among the
colored people of the South, has left the mis-
sion field on account of bad health and has
accepted the call of a German Lutheran con-
gregation in Illinois. May God richly bless
him in his new field of labor.

—A Fnrienp of our paper kindly sends us
the following clipping: Bishop Whipple, ac-
cording to The Church News, loved to tell this
story: A devout colored preacher, whose heart
was aglow with missionary zeal, gave notice
to his congregation that in the evening an
offertory would be taken for missions and
asked for liberal gifts. A selfish, well-to-do
man in his congregation said to him before
the service: ‘‘Yer gwine to kill dis church ef
yer goes on saying give, give. No church
can stan it. Yer gwine to kill it.”’ After the
sermon the colored minister said to the people:
‘Brother Jones told me I was gwine to kill dis
here church ef I kep’ a-askin’ yer to give, but,
my brethren, churches doesn’t die dat way.
Ef anybody knows of a church dat died ’cause
it’s been givin’ too much to de Lord, I’ll be
yery much obliged ef my brother will tell me
whar dat church is, for I’ze gwine to visit it,
and I’1] climb on de walls of dat church, under
de light of de moon, and cry, ‘Blessed am de
dead dat die in de Lord.’”’

—THERE are now upwards of one thousand
schools of various descriptions for natives in
China under foreigners. They range from the
village day school up to high-schools and col-
leges. In that great empire there are no
schools for girls except those founded by the
missionaries.

—A BEAUTIFUL little story was told not long
ago by a young missionary, who is just leay-
ing this country, as to how he was influenced
to become a missionary. When a child he
used constantly to walk through a certain
churchyard; and one of the gravestones
which he passed close by, erected to the
memory of a little boy eight years of age, bore
the following strange inscription:- ‘‘Mother,
when I grow to be a man I should like to be
a missionary. But if I should die when I am
still a little boy, will you put it on my tomb,
so that some one passing by may read it, and
go instead of me?’’? Through reading this in-
scription so often there grew up in his mind
this thought, ‘I must go in place of that little
boy.” And so he has been trained for the
work, and will soon commence it. It was
only a little boy’s wish that influenced him
and Jed him to become a missionary.

_ —T#Ar great memories are not the product
of civilization is proved by an instance re-
‘corded by Dr. Moffatt, the great African mis-
tionary. Dr. Moffatt once preached a sermon
‘to a group of negroes, and was shortly after-
: ‘wards attracted by the gesticulations of a

and then said, ‘‘I don’t see any use in that;
they that are in there can’t get out, and they
that are out don’t want to get in. What do
you want a subscription to that for?’’ Such
people haye no concern for home or foreign
missions.

—Knarr, the first missionary in East Africa,
who landed in 1844, said that he ‘‘took pos- ~
session of the Pagan land for the militant
Church of Christ.’’ Now it is calculated that
there are in Africa 1,000,000 Protestant native
adherents, of whom over 100,000 are com-
municants; more than 1200 American and
European missionaries, and some 1000 mis-
sion stations.

OUR BOOK TABLE.

GESAENGE FUER MAENNERCHOERE. Viertes Heft.
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
Price, 20 cts.; per dozen, 31.50.

STATISTISCHES JAURBUCH der deutschen ev.-luth.
Synode von Missouri, Ohio und andern Staa-
ten fuer das Jahr 1897. Concordia Publishing
House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 25 cts.

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Acknowledgments.

The undersigned has received through Pastor
F. J. Lankenau from Mount Zion Congregation
$1.90, and from St. Paul Congregation $4.65, for
the support of a colored Lutheran student.

Greensboro, N.C., March 20, 1898.

Joun C. SCHMIDT.

Received of Rey. J. Kossmann, Missionary, from
his Bethlehem congregation in New Orleans, La.,
$25.00; of Rev. F. J. Lankenau, Missionary, from
his St. Paul’s congregation in New Orleans, La.,
$20.00, and of Rev. N. J. Bakke from his Grace
congregation in Concord, N. C., $10.00.

St. Louis, Mo., Merch 21, 1898.

A. C. BurGponre, Treas.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw OrRxEanNs, 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 cvening at 74 o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 1034 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 o'clock Tucsday

evening. os
Singing School meets at 7% o’clock Monday cyening.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o’clock.
ponds evening at TEA loc ook.
hursday evening a o'c! .
Adult catechumen class Tmects Fo 74% o'clock Friday

evening. .
Peoples’ Concordia. Circle meets at 734 o'clock

Youn;
even ng. . J. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM OHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.

Divine services at 74 o’clock Sunday cvening and at T%
o’clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o'clock. ’
J. W. F. KoSsMANN, Missionary-
NE fh bet

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfteld, Ill.
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 mects Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.
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