The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1899, Page 12

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

Is Shawano county, Wisconsin, about 200
miles north of Milwaukee, there are two In-
dian reservations. One of these, called the
Stockbridge reservation, contains about 100
families and perhaps 500 souls. Last April
Rey. Nickel, of the Missouri Synod, estab-
lished a preaching place among them, and
the work has been progressing in a most en-
couraging manner. These Indians are civil-
ized and have acquired a knowledge of Eng-
lish, so that the services can be conducted in
that language. These services, held every
two weeks, are well attended, and the con-
gregation is said to be attentive and devo-
tional, taking a hearty interest also in the
singing of Lutheran hymns. Several bap-
tisms haye already taken place and the pros-
pects for growth seem to be flattering.

Ir is said that in 1850 in the Fiji Islands,
a man could be bought for seven dollars,
butchered and eaten without any one ob-
jecting. To-day the Bible is in nearly every
house, and on Sunday nine-tenths of the
people are assembled in the church for pub-
lic worship.

Tue owner of a large coal mine in Japan,
where 800 men are employed, has invited a
Lutheran missionary to visit his mine regu-
larly and preach to his people. This operator
is not a Christian, but he furnishes a place
for meeting, attends himself, and wants the
men taught Christianity, because he says it
will make them honest, obedient and virtuous.

A trite truth which needs to be often re-
stated is well told in the following words:
“The time to consecrate your purse is when
you have a little one. If you wait till it is
big and fat you will never do it. And if you
fail to consecrate that, you will miss one of
the richest blessings of your life. The man
or woman who has learned to give has entered
upon a path of ever-widening pleasure.’’ And
yet how many are deluded by the devil’s lie
that all pleasure and personal enjoyment is in
hoarding and keeping!

Ty the early and cruelest days of West In-
dian slavery, Moravian missionaries found it
impossible to reach the slaves, so separated
were they in sympathy from the ruling classes.
At length two consecrated men said: ‘*We will
g0 to the plantations, and work and toil under
the lash, so as to get close in feeling to those
We would instruct.’’ So they left their homes,
sold themselves as slaves, and lived in a com-
pany ‘of slayes, to get close to the hearts of
‘slaves. Gladly the slaves heard them, because
ad thus humbled themselves to their con-

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missionaries of the Paris Lutheran
labor on the Island of Madagascar.

The Lutheran Church of Norway recently
sent twenty additional workers to the same
field. The evangelical churches on the island
suffered a great deal by the pernicious prac-
tices and intrigues of the Jesuits.

Tue New Testament has just been trans-
lated, for the first time, into one of the Aus-
tralian native dialects by two German mis-
sionaries.

Ix Cape Colony, South Africa, while there
are over a million of the population still in
the darkness of heathenism, there are no less
than 638,000 Christians who exert a power
for good in the land. Half of these Chris-
tians are of European origin, and the others
have been converted from heathen degrada-
tion by the power of Christian missions. The
regular attendance at Sunday services is es-
timated at 267,000, and 80,000 children attend
Sunday school. The sum total of contribu-
tions for church purposes and mission work
for one year is nearly a million and a half
dollars. The Christian population is mainly
Protestant. There are only about 10,000 Ro-
man Catholics in the entire district. In South
Africa at large there are about 1,200,000 Prot-
estant Christians. The fact that Protestantism
has gained such a firm footing and made such
extensive operations in Africa affords good
promise and bright prospects for the evan-
gelization of the dark continent.

Tue Universities’ Mission to Central Africa
carries on mission work scattered over some
250,000 square miles. In the homes, schools,
and workshops there are over 3000 children.
The communicants at Easter, 1897, were 1722,
and the adult adherents of the mission over
6600. The work is established in four prin-
cipal centres, in Zanzibar, Usambara, Rovuma,
and Nyassa. On Lake Nyassa, which was
until last year a large slave-yielding region,
the mission maintains a church steamer. The
workers now number 187, including two bish-
ops, 26 English and 11 African clergy, and 29
women.

Aw EnGiisH Missionary in Persia, in speak-
ing of mercy and love as the fruits of Chris-
tianity, describes the state of affairs in Persia,
where there are no hospitals, no dispensaries,
and no lunatic asylums. The treatment of
insane people is thus described: ‘‘The poor
lunatic is chained, his feet fastened in the
stocks, is constantly beaten and half-starved,
with the idea that, if badly treated, the devil
will the sooner leave him. And then, asa last
resource, when the friends have grown tired
of even this unkind care of their relatives, the
lunatic is given freedom in the desert. His
hands are tied behind his back, and he is led
out into the desert, and is never heard of again.
There are no homes for the blind and crippled,
and none for the incurable, in this land.’

OUR BOOK TABLE.

Your CONFIRMATION Vow. By Rev. F. Kuegele.
Price per copy, plain, 30 cts.; gilt, 40 cts.; per
dozen, plain, $2.40; gilt, $3. 20. Address orders
to Miss Martha Kuegele, Koiner’s Store, Au-
gusta Co., Va.

The earnest and practical character of this booklet
is most refreshing. Would to God that it were read
by the thousands of catechumens of our Lutheran
church. Pastors will do well to present it to the
confirmed. It will prove a faithful friend, clearly
explaining the character and meaning of the vow
made on Confirmation day, fearlessly “pointing out
the dangers that threaten the young pilgrim on his
way to the eternal city, and wisely showing the
means to be used, in order to avoid the dangers and
to prove faithful to the Confirmation vow.

SyYNODAL-HANDBUCH der deutschen ev.-luth, Synode
von Missouri, Ohio, u.a. St. Fourth revised

edition. Price, 30 cts. Concordia Publishing
House, St. Louis, Mo.

Acknowledgments.

Received for colored missions of Rev. J. C.
Schmidt, Greensboro, N.C., from his Grace Con-
gregation $12.00, from Mrs. Sallie Keck .50, Mrs.
Mary Doswell .50, Mr. W. Payne 1.00, Mrs. L.
Thompson 6.00, Mrs. L. Kerr 1.00, Mrs. A. Moore
2.00, Mrs. S. Scales 1.00, Miss ‘abon 1.50, N. N.
1.35, and N. N. 10.50; of Rev. . Lankenau, New
Orleans, La., from St. Paul’s Congregation 25.00;
of Rev. J. Kossmann, New Orleans, La., from Beth-
lehem Congregation 25. 00; of Rev. J. Ph, Schmidt,
Concord, N. C., from Grace Congregation 10.00.

St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 22, 1899.

A. C. Buraporr, Treas.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S OHAPEL.
1625 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Derbigny.

Divine services: Sunday morning at 9Y o'clock.
Sunday evening ae 74% o'clock.
Wednesday evening ‘at 74. 0 on nck.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at st
Adult pa teonamen class meets at ae oO eoloel ‘Tuesday
even
Singing Se hool mects at 7% o'clock Monday cyening.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services: punday, morning at 11 o’clock.
pondey evening at 74% o’clock.
Thursday evening at 7% o'clock.

Adult carac humic class mects at 734 o'clock Friday

evenin
Young Peoples? Concord a} circle meets at % o'clock

evening. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: panda evening at 7% o'clock.
ny evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School at ny vorclock.
Adult catechumen Class every Tuesday at 734 0’clock and
after the divine service on Thursday evening.
choke puEsctic at 744 o'clock on Tuesday cyening and
after divine service on Thursday even: ng.
Circle for Young People meets at the school cyery Tacs-
day evening at 74 o'clock.
J. W. F. KoS8MANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfield, Ill.
Divine Services at half etek 10 ake Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sun ny, evening.
Sunday School at 3 o'clock P. M.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tucsday evening.
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