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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—TiMEs, it is said, are getting better. Last
year mission boards were groaning underneath
heavy debts. This year they are paying them
off. One of them wiped out nearly a $500,000
debt; another has just followed, wiping out
Our Board of
Colored Mission is waiting upon the Church to
The debt is small
compared with that of other Boards, but it

a debt about half that size.
follow the good example.

should be paid.

—As we gather around the manger of Beth-
Jehem, thanking God for the great gift of His
Son for the redemption of the world, let us
remember with our gifts the Church and its
mission work, by which the ‘‘good tidings of

great joy” are made known to sinners.

—Tue Norwegian Lutheran missionaries in
Madagascar last year baptized 3702 heathen.
Of the 44,000 native Christians in their care
25,500 are communicants. There are 760 na-
tive Lutheran churches and 775 schools, with

1747 teachers on the island.

— CnrisTIAN converts in the island of Mada-
gascar are still suffering serious disabilities

and persecutions in consequence of their faith.

A missionary, now in England, accuses the
authorities of permitting the persecution of
Protestants by Jesuits; and charges the Jesuits

with instigating the judicial murder of inno-
cent and loyal native Protestants, who were
falsely accused of being enemies of France.
Several Protestant churches, he says, which
had taken years to build, have been seized by
Jesuit priests, and are still in their possession.

more than 1,000,000 can read, but that is
not all. Back of this ignorance lies a long
train of suppression, and suffering and heart-
ache and woe which can scarce be entered
into by those who have been brought up
under the full blaze of Christian education.
Plenty of room yet for God-called and heart-

_ burdened laborers to carry the ‘‘good tidings
of great joy’’ to the darkened homes and
hearts of this land.

—TueE Jewish Gazette informs its readers
that according to the statistics of the 9th an-
nual report of the Ey. Mission of Hanover,
Germany, from the year 1888 to 1894 there
have been baptized 3063 Jews in Vienna alone.

in all Germany, 35,000 Jews, an average of
2500 to 3000 Jews yearly.

—Tue Rev. S. M. Swemer, missionary at
Bahrein, Arabia, in an article for the Jfis-
‘sionary Review, states that the total Moslem
population in the world is 196,491,847. Of
these, 18,000,000 are under Turkish rule;

under other Moslem rulers in Arabia, Persia,
Afghanistan and Morocco, 22,795,000; under
_ the Chinese Emperor, 20,000,000; under Afri-
“can chiefs, 36,400,000; under Christian rulers
in umania, Greece, Russia, Baluchistan and
Malaysia, Egypt and Zanzibar, Tunis
Algiers, 99,296,847.

—Oor of India’s 150,000,000 women, not

From 1880 to 1897 there have been baptized | ————

—A sTATEMENT from the Chinese agency to
the American Bible Society reports that the
Bible has been put upon the list of classics
which the students are to study in order to
secure their appointment in the civil service.
Among the questions read by ten thousand
students in one of the examination halls was
this: ‘‘What do you know of the re-peopling
of the earth by Noah and his family after the
flood?’’ Hitherto the questions had been al-
most entirely on literary lines and limited to
the literature of China. This year they are
much broader, taking in more general history
and the principal books of Christian countries.

—Tne mission work in Japan is seriously
hampered on account of a law which stipu-
lates that all mission property must be held
by native trustees. Recently the trustees of
the schoo] in Kumamoto sold the property,
but the trustees have not yet turned over the
proceeds of the sale. Thus mission work en-
counters one trial after another.

—WHuEN a poor Hottentot in Africa, who
had heard a word or two about God, thought
over what he had heard, he became very
anxious about his soul. As he went about
his work in the fields, he would mutter to
himself, ‘‘Me would like to pray to the great
God, but me not know how;”’ and day after
day he went on with his work, hoping that
soon he would learn how to pray to the
great God. One Sunday morning the farmer
gathered his people together and read a por-
tion of the Scripture’ and prayed with them:
He read from Luke 18, and when he came to
the words, ‘‘ITwo men went up into the temple
to pray,’’ the anxious Hottentot exclaimed,
‘*Ah, me glad, me learn how to pray now.”’
The master read, ‘‘The Pharisee stood and
prayed thus with himself, God, I thank Thee
that I am not as other men.’’ ‘‘No,’’ said
the poor black man, ‘'me worse.’’ ‘‘I fast
twice in the week; I give tithes of all I pos-
sess ;’’ and the poor Negro said, ‘‘No, that is
not me.’’ But bye-and-bye the great Book
spoke of the publican’s prayer, and he heard
that he smote on his breast and said, ‘'God,
be merciful to me, a sinner.”’ Then the poor
black man could stand it no longer, but,
rising to his feet in the sight of every one,
with the tears coursing down his black cheeks,
he said, ‘‘That is me! That is me!’

OUR BOOK TABLE.
Das Buch DES HERRN UND SEINE FEINDE. By
Rev. H. Weseloh. Concordia Publishing House,
St. Louls, Mo. Price, 80 cts,

This is a timely book, which deserves a wide cir-
culation. The author has done a good thing, and
has done it well. The book is divided into three
parts. The first part shows that the Bible is the
Word of God; the second answers the objections
made by the enemies of the Bible; the third treats
of the proper use of the Bible. The popular style
in epic the book is written makes it all the more
valuable.

AMERIKANISCHER KALENDER fuer deutsche Luthe-
Taner auf das Jahr 1899. Concordia Publishing
House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 10 cts.

This Almanac has been for years a welcome guest
in our German Lutheran homes, and it again de-

serves 2 hearty welcome. It contains, besides the
usual calendar and the statistics of the Synodical
Conference, a large quantity of excellent reading
tnatter, the whole forming 70 large pages. Rarely
is there an opportunity to procure so much interest-
ing and valuable reading matter for a price so small,

PoruLaERE SYMBOLIK, von Martin G uenther, Dritte

vermelirte Auflage. Concordia Publ. House,
St. Louis, Mo. Price, $2.00, postage included.
This is a new, revised, and improved edition of

a most valuable work. A writer in the Lutheran of
Philadelphia says of the book: ‘‘Guenther’s Sym-
bolik is a book with which many of our pastors not
only in the West but also in the East have long been
familiar and which has rendered them most excel-
lent service. For twenty years the undersigned has
constantly used it, finding it one of the most useful
and valuable volumes in his library. We know of
no other book that presents in such concise yet
comprehensive form the distinctive doctrines of the
various church bodies and at the same time enables
Lutherans to give the scriptural ground for their
faith and to defend this faith with the weapons of
God’s Word against error and false doctrine.”

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. J. Ph.
Schmidt, Missionary, from Grace Congregation in
Concord, N.C., $20.00, of Rev. F. J. Lankenau, Mis-
sionary, from St. Paul’s Congregation in New Or-
leans, La., $25.00; of Rev.J. Kossmann, Missionary,
from Bethlehem Congregation in New Orleans, La.,
$25.00; of Rev. J. C. Schmidt, Missionary, from
Grace Congregation, Greensboro, N. C., $12.00; of
Rey. D. H. Schooff, Missionary, collection of his
congregation in Meherrin, Va., on Reformation-day
$10.00. A. C. BurGpoRF, Treas.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEanNs, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL.
1625 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Derbigny.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 9}4 o'clock.
= tag . —~Sunday evening at 734 o’crock. ©
Wednesday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% ofclock.
Adult ‘catechumen class meets at 74 o’clock Tuesday

evening?
Singing School meets at 734 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 7% o'clock.

Thursday evenin at o’clock.
Adult catechumen class ymects FS Tz orclock Friday

evening.
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 74% o'clock.
Thursday evening at 74 o’clock.
Sunday Schoo) at 914 o’clock.
Adult catechumen Class every Tuesday at 74 o'clock and
after the divine service on Thursday cvening.
Choir practice at 744 o’clock on ‘Tuesday evening and
after divine service on Thursday ¢ven ng.
Circle for Young People meets at the school every Tucs-
day evening at 734 o’clock.
J. W. F. KOSSMANN, Missionary:

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.

Springfield, Il.
Divine Services at half epee 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o'clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 3 o'clock P. MM.
Catechumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tucsday evening.

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