The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1899, Page 8

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‘The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

Our missionary at Greensboro, N. C., in-
forms us that in Elon College there are not
only two services held a month, as stated in
the last issue of the Proncer, but that there
are two services every Sunday in the month:

preaching and catechism instruction.

Dr. GrirritH Jony, one of the best-known
missionaries in China, sends the following
story from Hankow: ‘‘A little Chinese boy
who had been to a Christian school had made
up his mind that he would worship idols no
Some of his relations were very angry
because of this, and tried to force him to wor-
They beat him, but it was of no
use; he only became more determined in his

more.
ship them.

mind that he would never worship them again.

One day they took him to a temple and tried
to force him to go on his knees and bow his
head to the idol, but he stoutly refused. ‘‘At

last they threatened to throw him into the
river which was flowing near by. ‘Throw me,’
said he, ‘if you like; but I will never worship
wood and stone again. Jesus is the true Say-
jour, and I will worship him only.’ They took
hold of him and pitched him into the water.
One of his relatives, however, rushed after
him and picked him up again. When out of
the water the first thing he said was, ‘You
have not succeeded. While in the water I
never prayed to idols; I only prayed to Jesus.’
A brave little boy that!’’

| Neeps. —In the heart of Africa there is a
H population of 60,000,000 without a missionary.
It is stated that there are 1,000,000 villages
in China in which the Gospel has never been
proclaimed. In one province of India with a
population of 24,000,000 there are only six
missionaries. ‘The Bible has been translated
only into about 70 of the 391 languages and
dialects found in Africa. In Japan there are
185 times as many heathen temples as there
are Protestant workers.

’ Tne Empress of China has issued a decree
commanding her officials to enforce respect
for the lives and protection of the property of
Christian missionaries throughout the empire.
The trouble is that the viceroys of the 19
provinces are independent fellows, caring very
little for the good or ill will of the figure heads
at Peking. Still, the recognition of Christian
missions by the supreme ruler of China is an
event worthy of notice.

A Sourn Arnrican missionary gave some
startling figures to an English audience re-
Cently as to the warm and self-sacrificing in-
rest taken by his converts in the extension
‘missionary work. His own native congre-
ion, he said, consisted of five hundred
embers, and these five hundred between
lem collected £80 a year for foreign mis-
lone; and yet the wages of these poor

people amounted to no more than one shilling
per man a day. Here is surely a splendid
object lesson to Christians at home.

Tue British and Foreign Bible Society em-
ploys 724 colporteurs in 23 different countries;
in China, 200, who disposed of 477,236 vol-
umes during 1897; Russia, 67, with 200,850
copies; India, 132, and 120,457 volumes.
This Society has long been watching for an
opportunity to carry the Word into the Philip-
pines. ‘‘A consignment of Spanish Scriptures
has been sent to Hong Kong. Thousands of
Spanish and Pangasinan Scriptures have been
waiting for ten years at Singapore for an op-
portunity of entrance. As regards native lan-
guages, the Society has nearly the whole New
Testament in Pangasinan, and the Gospel of
St. Luke in Tagalog has been just printed.”’

Durie the late revolution in Central Africa
the Soudanese troops devastated the district
of Toro, leaving the people so poor that they
said ‘‘they had forgotten what the bleating of
a goat was.’’ Nevertheless, when these Toro
Christians, in their deep poverty, heard that
the people of Uganda after the mutiny had
not funds enough to pay their native teachers,
they made a collection and sent them pro-
visions valued at $150. And these Toro Chris-
tians never heard of Christianity until four
years ago!

Tue treasurer of a Mission Board writes:
A quiet, unassuming woman came into our
office a short time ago, and presented two
crisp one hundred dollar bills, and said that
she wished this money to be applied on the
payment of the debt of the Missionary Society.
She did not desire that her name be published.
When a wish was expressed to know who she
was, for private and personal gratification,
she declined to give her name or residence,
and said that the money could be credited to
@C. S.??

Ir is said of a negro preacher who insisted
on liberal giving, that a selfish, well-to-do man
in the congregation said to him before the
service: ‘‘Yer gwine ter kill dis church, ef
yer goes on sayin’ ‘give, give.’ No church
can stan’ it. Yer gwine ter kill it.’’ After
the sermon the preacher said: ‘‘Brother Jones
told me I was gwine to kill this church if I
kep’ a askin’ yer to give; but, my brethren,
churches doesn’t die dat way. If anybody
knows of a church dat died ’cause it’s been
givin’ too much to de Lord, I’ll be very much
obliged ef my brother will tell me whar dat
church is, for I’se gwine to visit it, and I’ll
climb on de walls of dat church, unner de
light of de moon, and cry, ‘Blessed am de
dead dat die in de Lord.’’

Tue faculty of Knoxyille College, an insti-
tution of the United Presbyterians for the
education of colored people, expelled 17 stu-

dents on account of insubordination. They
averaged about 23 years, most of them being
students of the normal and theological depart-
ments. They were beneficiaries of the church,
having been entirely supported by congrega-
tions. The trouble arose because they refused
to obey an order of the faculty which required
that all students should march to chapel-service
two by two. The heroic method employed by
the faculty has had a wholesome effect on the
remaining 365 students. Discipline is again
restored.

Acknowledgments.

Received for colored missions of Rev. J. Koss-
mann from his Bethlehem Congregation in New Or-
leans, La., $25.00; of Rev. F. J. Lankenau from his
St. Paul’s Congregation in New Orleans, La., $25.00;
of Rev. J. C. Schmidt from his Grace Congregation
in Greensboro, N. C., $12.00; of Rev. J. Ph. Schmidt
from his Grace Congregation in Concord, N. C.,
$20.00; of Rev. D. H. Schooff from his Congrega-
tion in Meherrin, Va., $12.00.

St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 21, 1899.

A. C. BurGporr, Treas.

Received of Rev. J, C. Schmidt, from Grace Con-
gregation, Greensboro, N.C., $6.00. May God bless
the kind donors.

Colored Students of Concordia College,
Springfield, Il.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL.
" 1625 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Derbigny.
Divine services: Sunday mornitg at 914 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 73% o'clock.
Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at Me o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 74 o’clock Tucsday

svening:
Singing School mects at 74 o’clock Monday evening.

EY. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 7% o'clock.
Thursday evening at 734 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class mects at 734 o'clock Friday

cvening.
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}4 o'clock.
Thursday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School at 9% o’clock.
Adult catechumen Class every Tuesday at 74 o'clock and
after the divine service on Thursday evening.
Choir practice at 714 o'clock on ‘Tuesday cvening and
after divine service on Thursday cyen: ng. -
Circle for Young People meets at the school every Tucs-
day evening at 74 o'clock.
J. W. F. KOSsmANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.

Springfield, Tl.
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 Tuesday evening.
SSS! Q°.—_)
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included, to-wit:

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