The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1898, Page 32

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Txe darkness in heathen lands is also
seen in the treatment of the sick and dying.
A missionary, in company with others, while
slowly ascending the Ganges, saw a man lying
at the edge of the water. On the bank above,
eight or nine men sat smoking their pipes and
chatting. It appears that three or four of
these men were the grown-up sons and the
rest the brothers or near relatives of the man
whom they had left to die at the edge of the
stream. They did not wish him to die in his
house for fear his spirit would haunt it, so
they had already performed the funeral rites,
expecting that the man would soon die. It
seems that when the people do not have the
means for burning the whole body they burn
the tongue, lips and beard, and this horrible
cruelty was committed upon the relative while
still living, and who, to all appearances, might
have lived for months. The suffering of the
man must have been intolerable, and though
his sons promised to take him home and care
for him, the probability is that after the inter-
ruption was over they filled the man’s mouth
with mud and threw him into the river. Hin-
duism tolerates such things every day.

_ —AxoTHER missionary in China reports
that when a child sickens it has, according to
the means and intelligence of the parents, the
‘same anxious care and medical attendance
that would be given among us; but if the
remedy fails of effect and death is apparently
near, the situation changes at once. The little
thing is stripped naked and placed on the
mud or brick floor just inside the outer door.
The parents leave it there and watch the issue.
If it survives the ordeal, which is seldom the
case, it is a true child of their own flesh and
blood ; if it dies, it never was their child, and
is thrown into the street. Sometimes there
area hundred of these children in the street
at one time. A cart, used for the purpose,
goes the rounds and picks them up as so much
garbage. They are thrown into the cart like
wood and taken to a pit outside the city walls,
into which they are dumped, and then covered
with quicklime. Such is the darkness an
cruelty of heathenism. :

—A 1itrLe Boy (son of a distinguished
Hindu), who had been taught in the mission
school, said to a devotee who came to his
father’s house to beg for food, “‘I cannot give
you rice; ask the house.’’ The devotee an-
swered, ‘‘Why should I do so? It cannot
give me anything.”? ‘‘Then,’’ said the boy,

“ask the tree,”? pointing to a cocoanut tree.

‘Phat cannot understand me, if I do,’’ was

_ the reply. ‘‘Then ask Juggernaut, whom you
otship,’” continued the boy; ‘the will under-

id as well as the tree, because he is wood.””

r devotee walked away, bearing this
sharp and sensible rebuke as well as he

, first ‘missionaries to Greenland

ught that the natives were too debased to}

understand at once the doctrine of atone-
ment, therefore they began to tell them of
the existence of a God, and so on. No effect
was produced by such information; but when
translating the chapter of John in which the
passage occurs, ‘‘God so loved the world that
He gave His only, begotten Son, that whoso-
ever believeth in Him should not perish, but
have everlasting life,’? a Greenlander said,
“Ys that true??? And when the missionary
affirmed that it was, ‘‘Why, then,’’ said he,
‘did you not tell us that at first, for that is
good news indeed !”’

—Tuere are in the Christian Church over
100,000 proselytes from Judaism and in the
Church of England alone 250 of the clergy
are either Jews or the sons of Jews. As each
Lord’s Day comes round, the Gospel is pro-
claimed in more than 600 pulpits of Europe
by Jewish lips. Over 350 of the ministers in
Great Britain are stated to be Hebrew Chris-
tians.

— WuEn people become really interested in
a cause it is wonderful what they can accom-
plish. It is said that a young woman who
works by the week, supports a preacher in
Africa. Her brother, who works by the month,
supports three. There are many Christians
whose contributions for missions would not so
much as pay a single meal for the missionary.

—ProresTantism is on the increase in the
home of the Pope. The recent census shows
62,000 Protestants among the 31,000,000 in-
habitants. The Waldenses number 27,000
souls in 48 churches and 45 missions. ‘There
are now not less than 15 Protestant churches
in the city of Rome, while before 1870 there
were none.

—A curious industry in China is the manu-
facture of mock money, for offering to the
dead. The pieces are only one half the size of
the real coins, but the dead are supposed not
to know the difference. The dummy coins
are made out of tin, hammered to the thinness
of paper, and stamped out to the size required.

—A xesson the heathen may teach us.—
In the old capital of the island of Colombo
are the famous shrines of Buddha. Of the
20,000 worshipers, it was observed, that each
carried something to offer Buddha, for the
parents had taught their children not to come
empty-handed to the heathen altars.

—HAvssa LAND, 8 large territory south of
the Sahara desert in Africa, is now opened to
mission work. Its population numbers about
fifteen million, and the missionaries will be

under the protection of the British govern- | -

ment. The first missionaries to enter are those

of the Church Missionary Society of England.

The Haussa are a talented race and become
successful traders and merchants.

—For the benefit of those that have not
yet paid their subscription for our paper, our
little Pioneer wishes to recite two lines as we
close our window. Here they are:

A saying that’s both wise and true —
Subscriptions shonld be paid when due.

OUR BOOK TABLE,

OuTLINEs OF DocTRINAL THEOLOGY. By A. L.
Graebner. Concordia Publ. House, St. Louis,
Mo. Price, $1.50, postpaid.

A valuable addition to the theological literature
of our American Lutheran church. It is ‘a brief
thetical compend of the outlines of Christian doc-
trine, consisting of concise definitions and an array
of texts from which the various points of doctrine
are derived as from their theological source, the
written word of God.’’ Pastors will find the book
to be of great help in the preparation of doctrinal
sermons. It may also do much mission work for
our church in this country, since from the many
proof-texts given for every point of doctrine every
reader can easily sce that Lutheran theology is.
Bible theology. We wish the valuable book a wide
circulation.

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rey. J. Koss-
mann, Missionary, from his Bethlehem congregation
in New Orleans, La., $25.00; of Rev. F. J. Lankenau,
Missionary, New Orleans, La., from his St. Paul’s
congregation 25.00, and from his Mount Zion con-
gregation 25.00; of Rev. D. H. Schooff, Missionary,
from his congregation in Meherrin, Va., 15.00; of
Rev. John C. Schmidt, Missionary, from his Grace
congregation in Greensboro, N. C., 12.00; of Rev.
N. J. Bakke, Missionary, from his Grace congre-
gation in Concord, N. C., 10.00, and from his Sun-
day School 5.00; of Rev. Geo. Schuetz from his
congregation in Rockwell, N. C., 3.83, and from his
congregation in Gold Hill, N.C., 3.45.

St. Louis, Mo., July 20, 1898.

A. C. BurGeporr, Zreas.

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 914 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 7}4 o'clock.
Wednesday evening at 1% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% o’clock.
Adult catechumen class mects at 734 o’clock Tuesday

evening.
Singing School meets at 734 o'clock Monday evening.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION OHUROH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 74 o'clock.
Thursday evening at 734 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 744 o’clock Friday

evening.
Young Peoples’ Concordia Circle meets at 734 o'clock
i F. J. LANKE!

evening. NAU, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM OHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: Sunday evening at 734 o'clock.
Thursday evening at 734 o'clock.

Sunday School at 94 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class every Tuceday at 734 o'clock and

after the divine service on Thursday evening. a
Choir practice at 734 o’clock on Tuesday cyening an

after divine service on Thursday even ng.
Circle for Young People meets at the school every Tues:
J. W. F. KOSSMANN, Missionary:

day evening at 74 o’clock.
Ba a ar a
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 mects Monday and Friday evenings.

Singing-school Tucsday evening.
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