The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1898, Page 26

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

fire till his skin is blistered and then throw
him into cold water. ‘They stuff the nostrils of
the dying with aromatic mixtures or mud, and
in some regions they carry the chronic sufferer
to a mountain-top, placing barley balls and
water beside him, and leave him to die alone.’

—Iw 1850 you could buy a man in the Fiji
Islands for seven dollars, butcher him, and
eat him, without even public remonstrance.
To-day the Bible is in nearly every house, and
on Sunday nine-tenths of the people may be
found assembled in the churches for public
worship. What sbout the power and profit
of foreign missions ?

—TnueE people of Rarotonga were utterly
savage when Christianity was introduced on the
island in 1823. To-day most of the population
of 2454 live in stone houses with corrugated
iron roofs. Nearly every family has a horse
and buggy, a sewing machine, and their houses
are furnished with chairs, tables, sofas and

dollars — ‘to educate some poor little Indian
child.” No doubt this latter represented far
more self-denial than the former.’’

—Iy Africa 438 languages and 153 dialects
are found; into only about seventy of these
has any portion of the Bible been translated.
Five hundred of them have not even been
reduced to writing. The Soudan, with its
60,000,000 people, is still without a single
Protestant missionary who can speak the
language, though three societies are now en-
deavoring to begin work there.

—Two of our missionaries at New Orleans
-haye begun mission work at Mansura, La.,
where a large number of colored people list-
ened attentively to the preaching of the Gos-
pel and to an exposition of the Bible doctrines
of our Lutheran church. May God prosper
the work at Mansura, and may He make His
children willing to contribute more liberally
towards the mission treasury. Whenever He
opens a new door in our mission work, He
calls upon us to remember the mission with
our prayers and our gifts. His blessing should
eall forth our thankfulness and move us to
greater missionary zeal.

—Tue Lutheran Synod of Wisconsin is
carrying on a prosperous mission among the
Indians in Arizona. A missionary’s dwelling
has been recently erected, and the missionary
reports that the work has gained a firm foot-
hold among the poor heathen. May God con-

OUR BOOK TABLE.

Die LEgRE VON CunisTI WERK. Im Unmriss dar-
gestellt von F. Pieper. Concordia Publishing
House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 40 cts.

A clear and concise treatise on the work of Christ,
our Prophet, High Priest, and King. The highest
praise that can be given to such a treatise is that it
is thoroughly scriptural. The learned author docs
not say anything ‘‘above that which is written” in
the Bible.

- assemble, beating big drums and gongs, blow-

tinue to bless this important mission work.

— Ar Kasgunj, a mission station in India,
a ‘‘collection meeting’? was held which was
attended by nearly 500 native Christians. The
Indian Witness of Calcutta gives an account
of the interesting meeting, and the collection

is described by an eye-witness as follows:
‘SAt a signal, the preaching table was re-

moved, a space was cleared, and the giving

began. With pencil in hand, I took an in-
ventory as rapidly as I could, for all moved
on yery briskly, and without any Western
tricks of simulation. Animals were ‘put into
the hat.’ A frisky kid was led up by a string
and tied to the horns of the altar, or rather
leg of the preaching stand. Then came a fine
goat. A cock and hen were added. Then
came a brace of whistling chicks. Grain was
contributed. Wheat, barley, gram, rice,
sheaves and flour were poured into the area.
Clothing and jewelry were piled on the table,
and the list runs: coats, a shawl, stockings,
turbans, cotton thread, ribbons, an umbrella,
and toe and finger rings. Sundry things
flowed in, as eggs, sweets, spices, books, a
lota, bread, and a large pile of wood. Two
men, apparently brick-makers, reported 500
bricks contributed. Cash jingled down and
cowries rattled.”’

—Speaking of the treatment of the sick and
dying in heathen lands, a traveler says: ‘*But
what does sickness mean to millions of our
fellow-creatures in heathen lands? Through-
out the East sickness is believed to be the
work of demons. ‘The sick person at once
becomes an object of loathing and horror, is
put out of the house, is taken to an outhouse,
is poorly fed and rarely visited; or the astrol-
Ogers, or priests, or medicine men, or wizards

ing horns and making the most fearful noises.
They light gigantic fires and dance round
them with their unholy incantations. They
beat the sick person with clubs to.drive out
the demon. They Jay him before a roasting

ware and provisions.

sonage.

would have cost you your life.”’
they ?”? asked the astonished infidel. ‘Kirst,

crawling on your hands and knees. You
presence, either of which offenses would once
have been punished with death.?? ‘The ag-
nostic was silenced.
not only salvation and eternal happiness to
the Hawaiian, but peace, liberty, love of wife
and children, happiness, thrift, and industry.

—IN answer to questions put to him at his
baptism, an African of the great Congo basin
said: ‘Jesus has come to save me from my
sins; He has paid my ransom, He has settled
my controversy with God, and now I am His.’’
We fail to see how a clearer and more intelli-
gent confession of faith could well be made
than that by this convert.

—A Missionary says: ‘To-day I received
two letters in the same mail. One was a check
for five thousand dollars, signed by arich man;
who, as I knew, gave that sum with scarcely
a thought of how it would be used. The other
was a badly spelled letter from four children,
who had actually raised chickens on a roof in

New York City, and sent the proceeds— six

other articles of civilized life and luxury.
There is a carriage factory on the island, with
a blacksmith shop; several vessels have been
built; the islanders exported about eighty
thousand dollars worth of coffee, copra,
Oranges, cocoanuts, bananas, lime juice, and
pineapples last year, and imported one hun-
dred thousand dollars worth of clothing, hard-
There is a flourishing
bicycle club, and each of the five villages on
the island has a church, schoolhouse and par-

— Tuenz is a story told of an agnostic who,
talking with Kamehameha VY, asked him if
things were not in a worse condition than be-
fore the missionaries came to the Hawaii
islands. The king answered: ‘‘Why, sir, you
haye done three things since you came into
my presence which, but for the missionaries,
‘What are

you walked into my presence, instead of

crossed my shadow, and you sat down in my

Missionaries brought

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. J. Koss-
mann, 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; of Rev. J. C. Schmidt,
Missionary, from his Grace Congregation in Greens-
boro, N.C., $12.00; of Rev. N. J. Bakke, Missionary,
from his Grace Congregation in Concord, N. C.,
$10.00.

St. Louis, Mo., June 20, 1898.

A. C. BurGporr, Treas.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw OrveEans, 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 714 o’clock.
Wednesday evening at 1% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 1034 o’clock.
Adult catechamon class mects at 734 o’clock Tuesday
evening.
Singing School meets at 74 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 734 o'clock.
¢ Thursday evening at 74 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 o'clock Fridsy

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

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: Sunday evening at 7% o'clock.
Thursday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School at 914 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at 734 o'clock and
after the divine service on Thursday cvening.
Choir practice at 744 o'clock on Tuesday cyening and
after divine service on Thursday even’ ng.
rele tor Young People meets at the school every Tacs-
ay evening at 74% o'clock.
Ma) J. W. F. KossMANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springftld, Ill.

Divine Services at half past 10 o'clock Sunday morning

sundiy Soo ocean

Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.

Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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