The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1898, Page 36

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—Tnue Ev.-Luth. Synodical Conference held
its sessions Aug. 10—15, at Cincinnati, O. The
morning sessions were devoted to doctrinal
discussions and the afternoon sessions to busi-
ness matters. Among the latter the most im-
portant was our Colored Mission. From the
reports of our Mission Board and of three
of our missionaries Conference learned how
highly God has prospered our work to the sal-
vation of souls. It was resolved to carry on
this important mission work with greater zeal.
Pastors were appointed in different parts of
the country to awaken a greater interest in
this work and to present to our Lutheran
Christians the needs of our Colored Mission.
May God bless their labors! During the ses-
sions of Conference two new laborers were in-
stalled for our mission field.

—Tue Rey. N. J. Bakke, who for several
years labored successfully in our mission field
at Concord, N. C., has removed to another
part of the field in the same state. Before
leaving, our missionary published the follow-
ing Card of Thanks to the good people of
Concord: ‘‘I have much to thank the good
people of Concord for. ‘I was a stranger,
and ye took me in.’ Sickness, sorrow and
death has in the wise providence of God made
my happy home desolate and my life dreary,
but ye have visited and comforted me. As I
am about to depart for a new field of labor,
I take this opportunity to return grateful ac-
knowledgment for the loving kindness and
tender sympathies which the citizens of Con-
cord have shown me and my loved ones now
beneath the sod. Especially do I wish to ex-
press my sincere gratitude to Dr. M. L. Stevens
for his faithful devoted attention to my dear
Lydia during her protracted sickness; to the
“Evangelical Lutheran St. James Church and
its pastor, Rey. Miller, for the gratuitous ten-
der of a temporary resting place for my child,
and to the members of my dear Grace Church
for the efficient help they have rendered me
during my recent trial. ‘Inasmuch as ye have
done it unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it unto me.’ Matt.
26, 40. N. J. Bakke.”’

—Tue Lutheran Laplanders, who are rais-
ing reindeer in Alaska at the expense of the
United States Government, have been asked
by Commissioner Jackson to missionate among
the native tribes. Several young Laps have
shown their willingness to take up missionary
work. ;

_ —Accornine to the Maryland Medical Jour-

HE recent effort to meet the crisis which
onted the Foreign Mission Board of the
Synod has stirred the people. After
y more than $21,000, it must be refresh-
ie Board to learn that a friend of the
ers to pay the salary ($750) for an-

other missionary if the Board will find a suit-
able one. That is missionary zeal worthy of
more frequent imitation.

—A Norwecian mission paper tells how
the Norwegian Lutheran Missionary Society
raises a large portion of its funds. The mem-
bers have ‘‘mission-lambs,’’ ‘‘mission bees,’’
‘“‘mission flower pots,’’ ‘‘mission fields,’’ the
product of which goes to the society; ‘‘mis-
sion nets’”’ in the fishing districts, a percent-
age of various kinds of business, church col-
lections, bequests, etc. In line with this, a
German church paper tells of a ‘‘Sunday Egg
Society‘’’ the members of which are a farmer
and eight hens. All the eggs laid on Sundays
are sold for the benefit of foreign missions.
Finding that his feathered partners never
failed to lay on Sundays, he doubled their
number. Another farmer devoted the milk of
a good cow entirely to the Berlin Mission; he
was glad to notice that the milk of his ‘‘mis-
sion cow’’ was much richer than that of his
other cows.

— Protestantism is on the increase in Italy.
The recent census shows 62,000 Protestants
among the 31,000,000 inhabitants. The Wal-
denses number 27,000 souls, in forty-eight
churches and forty-five missions. There are
now not less than fifteen Protestant churches
in the city of Rome, while before 1870 there
were none.

—Mnr. Karaoka Kenkisn1, an elder in the
church at Kochi, was a candidate recently for
election to the diet or Japanese parliament.
Not long before election day he was warned
that his attitude as a Christian would be used
against him, and that unless he should re-
nounce his Christianity he would be defeated.
He replied that he would much rather be de-
feated than to give up his religion. ‘Che out-
come of the issue was that not only was he
elected 2 member of the diet, but when the
diet convened he was elected its president.

—Tue New York Sun says there are 31
Lutheran churches in New York and 37 in
Brooklyn and that the Greater New York is
the greatest Lutheran city in the world, with
sixty-eight churches, 27,000 Sunday school
members, and church property to the value
of $3,000,000, exclusive of Staten Island,
which has four Lutheran churches and 410
Sunday school members, and of the five Lu-
theran churches in the portion of Queens
county which joins New York.

—Turre is a Lutheran paper church at
Bergen, Norway, large enough to seat one
thousand persons. The building-is rendered
waterproof by a solution of quicklime, curdled
milk and white of eggs.

—TnueE British and Foreign Bible Society re-
ports for the year prior to April 1st that it
had distributed 4,387,152 copies, which is
more than 180,000 beyond the circulation in
any previous year. In China alone 567,012
copies of Scriptures and portions were sold,
which is 200,000 more than during the previ-
ous year. The versions of eleven of the great

languages of India and Ceylon are now under-
going careful revision.

—Arrica comprises nearly 11,520,000
square miles, and probably contains over
190,000,000 people. Great Britain holds some
2,800,000 square miles, with a population of
over 47,000,000.

—a Goop anecdote is told by the Bishop of
Minnesota of the sarcastic powers of the In-
dian. ‘I was holding,’’ says Bishop Whipple,
“a service near an Indian village camp. My
things were scattered about in a lodge, and
when I was going out I asked the chief if it
was safe to leave them there while I went to
the village to hold a service. ‘Yes,’ he said,
‘perfectly safe. There is not a white man
within a hundred miles!’”’

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. J. Koss-
mann, Missionary, from Bethlehem congregation in
New Orleans, La., $25.00; of Rev. F. J. Lankenau,
Missionary, New Orleans, La., from Mount Zion
congregation 25.00, and from St. Paul’s congrega-
tion 25.00; of Rev. N. J. Bakke, Missionary, from
his Grace congregation in Concord, N. C., 10.00,
from Grace Sunday School 5.00, and from his*con-
gregation in Rimertown, N. C., 5.00; of Rev. John
C. Schmidt, Missionary, from Grace congregation
in Greensboro, N. C., 12.00

St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 22, 1898.

A. C. Buraporr, Treas.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw OrveEans, La.

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

vivine services: Sunday morning ut 94 v'clock.
Sunday evening at 74 o'clock.
Wednesday evening at 1% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 744 o’clock Tucsday
evening.
Singing School mects at 74 o’clock Monday evening.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Stra.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o’clock.
Sunday evening at amoclocks
Thursday evening at 7% o'clock.
Adult catechumen class mects at 74 o'clock Friday
evening.
Young Peoples? Concordia Circle meets at 74 o'clock
evening. F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.

Divine services: panday, evening at 734 o'clock.
Thursday cvening at 734 o'clock.

Sunday School at 93% o’clock. 5

Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at 714 0’clock and
after the divine service on Thursday cvening.

Choir practice at 74 o’clock on Tuesday eyening and
after divine service on Thursday even ng.

Circle for Young People meets at the school every Tucs-
day evening at 7), o'clock.

J. W. F. KOSSMANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.

Springfield, Ill.
Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday cvening.
Sunday School at 3 o'clock Pr. M.
Catechumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday cyening.

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