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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. | that the mother perished in the flames, and
her body was burned up with those of her
children. The courts of Needles learned of
the matter toolate to prevent it. Such hor-
rors still occur among the original inhabitants
of this country. May the light of the Gospel

soon shine upon them.

— Roman Catnotics haye a way of impress-
ing the importance of their church upon the
world; but if a church’s vitality is to be
judged by the success of its missions (and,
in a large measure, it is), then the Roman
church has little to show. Says the Independ-
ent: ‘‘In spite of the solid unity of the Cath-
olic church, their progress in missions does
not compare with that of the Protestants. Of
the 8,000,000 negro descendants of the former
slaves in North America, 7,000,000 are Prot-
estants and only 200,000 Catholics. In the
Cape Colony the Evangelical missions report
530,000 adherents, and the Catholics only
3000. Protestant missions aim at making
Christian believers ont of heathen people,
training for secular oe and industries being
the task of the State. Protestant missions
look first and above all things to the needs of

— Tuere are two colored Jews in the United
States —one in New York, the other in Read-
ing, Pa. They were born of colored servants
in Hebrew families and were brought up in
the Jewish faith. They are both thorough-
going Jews. They illustrate once more the
power of an early education.

Moses Montefiore had an American Christian
young lady as governess.» Under the influ-
ence of this Christian servant the child was
brought to a saving knowledge of the Lord
Jesus Christ. For Christ’s sake this rich

—Tue grandchild of the multi-millionaire | ©

the soul.

seventy African Janguages and dialects, and

have thus made these literary tongues. Some

750,000 Africans are in Protestant churches,
and 140,000 children in Protestant schools.
There are good reasons to believe that Chris-
tianity will contin to spread in Africa at a
much more rapid rate than ever before.’’

—‘‘In 1826 I met,’”’ says an English officer
of India, ‘tin Belgaum a converted Brahmin,
whose confession of: Christ, as I knew, had
cost him everything. No sooner had he been
baptized than his possessions were taken from
him, and even his wife and children left him.
‘Are you able to bear your troubles? Are you
sustained under them?’ I asked him one day.
‘Many ask me that,’ he answered, ‘but they
never ask me whether I am able to bear my
joys, for I enjoy a happiness in my heart,
since I know Christ, which nobody has been
able to take from me.’’”

—AnonG many heathens the murder of twins
is by no means of seldom occurrence. The
birth of two children at the same time is re-
garded as something unnatural and ascribed
to intercourse with evil spirits, therefore
punishable. Such a horrible case of heathen
blindness occurred a short time ago among
the Mojave Indians near Needles on the Col-
orado river. A young Indian woman had
‘given birth to twins. This caused great com-
motion among the Indians, as a woman who
gives birth to twins is considered by them as
Sorcerer possessed of evil spirits. A great
_“Pow-wow”’ was called, and the medicine-man
tribe advised that the mother and both

e be spared fell upon deaf ears. The
‘of the two newly-born children were

r earthly possessions she had were
ide her, the hut was enclosed with

Protestant missionaries have trans-
lated the Bible or portions of it into about

heiress willingly renounced her inheritance,
and after her baptismgin Berlin offered her-
self as a deaconness ‘to the service of the
Master. Being buffeted and hindered in hér
intentions by her former co-religionists, she
gave herself to the mission work among the
heathen China-women. Dr. Hudson Taylor,
the leader of the great China Inland Mission,
says of her: ‘‘She is my worthiest co-laborer
in the service of the Lord.”’ What is your
influence for Christ?

—A Lurneran missionary and family, in
Africa, have been murdered and the Transvaal
government has sent an expedition to punish
the perpetrators of the crime. The result is,
that 20,000 Africans are in arms.

—Ar a meeting of the Bible -Society in
Paris, Pastor Kirk, of New York, related the
following: One day I visited the famous room
in Geneva, where the noted mocker, Voltaire,
used to say: ‘With the beginning of the 19th
century Christianity will have disappeared
from the earth.’’ Now, do you wish to know
what this room contained on the day of my
visit? Bibles and New Testaments from floor
to ceiling. Thus has the prophecy of the great
Voltaire been fulfilled.

—Tue Buddhists in Japan are said to have
no less than 73,000 temples and 100,000
priests. ‘There are on an average three tem-
ples for every square mile. The enormous
sum of $12,000,000 are annually raised by
the Buddhists alone for the support of the
priests and the maintenance of the temples.
How great is the darkness in this ‘‘Sunrise
Kingdom!’’ And how much do these heathen
spend for their soul-destroying religion!

—Tue Rey. D. L. Brayton is the oldest
missionary in Burma. He has been seventy
years in the country, and is now in his nine-
tieth year. He was for thirteen years a
companion to Judson, the first missionary to
Burma; yet he is bright and active, rising at
four o’clock every morning of his life. Among
other works he has translated the entire Bible
into the Pwo Karen language. We should im-

agine that Mr. Brayton is the oldest mission-
ary in the world.

—A roor woman, when the collection plate
was passed, dropped in a dollar. ‘*You can
not afford that,’’ said the deacon who held
the plate. ‘‘I must give it,’’ she said. ‘‘I love
to give for Jesus’ sake.’’ Then the deacon
said, ‘*Take it back, and if, after thinking it
over, you still wish to give it, you can send it
in the morning.’’ In the morning a note came
containing two dollars. ‘The deacon said, ‘I
know that woman well. If I send them back,
she will send four next time.’’ This was in-
deed using well the Lord’s money.

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. J. C.
Schmidt, Missionary, from Grace Congregation in
Greensboro, N. C., $24.00; of Rev. J. Kossmann,
Missionary, from Bethlehem Congregation in New
Orleans, La., $25.00; of Rev. F. J. Lankenau, Mis-
sionary, New Oreans, La., from Mount Zion Con-
gregation $25.00, and from St. Paul’s Congregation
$25.00; of Rev. J. Ph. Schmidt, Missionary, from
Grace Congregation in Concord, N.C., $10.00, from
Immanuel Congregation in Rimertown, N. C., $5.00,
and proceeds of mission festival in Concord, N. C.,
$10.00.

St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 20, 1898.

A. C. Bureporr, Treas.

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 9! o’clock.
Sunday evening at 734 o'clock.
si Wednesday evening at ™% o'clock.
Sunday Sclidol: Sunday morning at 10% ofclock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 o'clock Tuesday
evening.
Singing School meets at 74 o'clock Monday evening.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor, Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o’clock.
Sunday evening at 74 o’clock.
Thursday evening at 74 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 714 o'clock Friday

evening. B
Young Peoples’ Concordia Circle meets at 7% o'clock
evening. F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary.
EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: Sunday evening at 734 o’clock.
Thursday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School at 9% o’clock.
Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at 7% o'clock and
after the divine service on Thursday evening.
Choir practice at 734 o'clock on Tuesday evening and
after divine service on Thursday oven nee
Circle for Young People meets at the school every Tacs-
day evening at 7) o'clock.
J. W. F. KOSSMANN, Missionary.
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Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.

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