The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1899, Page 20

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

Tue dwelling-place of the African is a grass
or mud hut of circular shape and fifteen or
twenty feet in diameter. The floor is made
of hard-pounded mud and in the middle is a
mud fire-place from which the smoke curls up
through a hole in the roof. He requires very
little furniture, for he squats on the floor and
rolls himself up in his blanket at night, with
his head on a wooden block for a pillow.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

An exchange says of our mission: The ex-
perience of the Synodical Conference in its
mission work among the colored people of the
South is such as to encourage to larger effort
in that direction. Seven years ago they had
but a single missionary in North Carolina;
now there are eight laborers in the field, and
their work is carried on in as many different
counties of the state. Fourteen congregations
and stations have regular services, and in con-
nection with six of these there are parochial
schools, taught in some cases by the mission-
aries and in others by special teachers.

Ix Armenia 328 Christian churches have
been converted into Mohammedan Mosques,
and 568 have been destroyed by the Turks.

Five hundred and ninety-nine thousand dol-
lars ($599,000) were contributed last year by
native Christians in heathen lands.

Tue mission districts of the Lutheran Mis-
souri Synod in India are threatened with a
visitation of the dreaded pest. In the province
of Mysore, which adjoins the Missouri terri-
tory, 10,559 deaths occurred within a few
months. May God graciously protect our
missionaries.

In a recent number of the Leipzig ‘‘Mis-
sionsblatt,’”’ it is stated that the Queen of
Nepaul, in North India, recently committed
suicide in horror at the disfigurement which an
attack of smallpox had caused in her features.
The king, who was passionately attached to
her, first wreaked his vengeance on the phy-
sicians who had attended her in her illness,
and cut off their noses and their ears. Then
he flew at the higher game and attacked the
gods themselves. Out of the great temples
he brought the idols, planted loaded cannon
before them and bade the gunners fire. In
terror at the proposed blasphemy, they re-
fused. Thereupon the king hanged several
of them. . The survivors then submitted, and
the guns were fired and the idols were blown
to pieces.

Tue Lutheran Mission congregations in Per-
sia have four services on Sundays. Two in
the morning at 6 and 8 o’clock, given chiefly
to singing psalms. At 9 o’clock there is Bible
study and Sunday school, attended by old and
young. Then in the afternoon there is preach-
ing, and the whole congregation attends.

‘Ane not things in a worse condition than
before the missionaries came to the Sandwich
Islands?’’ asked an agnostic of Kamehameha,
king of the Sandwich Islands. The king an-
swered : ‘‘Why, sir, you have done three things
since you came in my presence, which, but for
the missionaries, would have cost you your
life.” ‘‘What are they?” asked the astonished
agnostic. ‘‘First, you walked into my pres-
ence, instead of crawling on your hands and
knees. You crossed my shadow, and you sat
down in my presence, either of which offenses
must have been punished with death.”? The
agnostic was silenced. .

In speaking of the bitter hostility of the
Buddhists to Christianity, and the vigorous
assault recently made upon if, Dr. DeForest
says, ‘‘Every such battle is in reality a victory
for Christianity, for it impels a new and wider
circle of people to inquire, What, after all, is
Christianity ?”’

A convERTED Chinaman on the Pacific coast
sold himself to work on a coolie in New Guinea
for the sake of working among his own coun-
trymen, and before he died, he personally led
to Christ two hundred of his companions.
How much zeal should shame our selfishness
and indifference!

Atwora is the capital of the Kumaow dis-
trict in the north-west province of India,
where there is a leper asylum. Ujiala is a
bright-eyed, pleasant-faced lassie of nineteen
years. She was married, as usual, in her
early girlhood. Her husband put her away
Owing to the disease, and left her to support
herself how she tould. Was it not terrible to
lave all life’s hopes crushed at that early age?
But she was brought to the asylum, and there,
through eagerly listening to what some of the
inmates had to tell her of the life to come, and
of Jesus, the Way, the Truth and the Life,
she became inspired with a new hope, and

5 sae the missionary asked her why she wanted
to ) be baptized, she said: ‘‘I want to be a fol-
; Brot Jee, who forgives and helps.’’ So
"having come to a knowledge of Christ, even
lonely life became radiant with joy-

In these days, says an exchange, when we
hear and read so much about the disorder in
Cuba and the Philippines and the difficulties
experienced in managing the people, and the
discussions necessarily arising as to how to
handle this great problem, it may he inter-
esting to know that there is one country in| pa
the world which gets along with a single po-
liceman. This is Lutheran Iceland, a land
which is remarkable in many ways, but in
none more than this. Iceland is peopled by
the descendants of Vikings, including many
famous warriors and heroes, but they are
churchly and God fearing people, and so
law abiding that they have no need of police-

men. The solitary officer, in spite of his ap-
parently great responsibilities, has a very easy
time. He is maintained more for ornament
and dignity than for use. The Icelanders
think it would not do to have a capital with-
out a policeman, and so they keep one.
While we are studying municipal problems
it may be interesting to investigate the Police
Department of Reykjavik. The Iceland po-
lice force is large in one sense. Its single
member is six feet high, broad shouldered,
and handsomely uniformed. Iceland is an is-
land 39,756 square miles in extent, or but
little smaller than the State of Ohio, and has
a population of 70,927.

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. J. C.
Schmidt, Missionary, from Grace Congregation in
Greensboro, N. C., $12.00, and from Claudine Dos-
well 1.00; of Rev. F J. Lankenau, Missionary, New
Orleans, La., from Mount Zion Congregation 25.00,
and from St. Paul’s Congregation 25.00; of Rev. J.
Kossmann, Missionary, from Bethlehem Congrega-
tion in New Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rev. D. H.
Schooff, Missionary, from his congregation in Me-
herrin, Va., 12.00; of Rev. J. Ph. Schmidt, Missio-
nary, from "Grace ‘Congregation in Concord, N. C.,
10.00; of Rev. George Shutes, Missionary, from
Grace Congregation in Gold Hill, N. C., 6.00, and
from Concordia Congregation in’ Rockwell, N. C.,
9.07 A. C. BuRGporr, Treas.

St. Louis, Mo., April 22, 1899.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORxxEanNs, 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 744 o'clock.
Wednesday even ng! Ry 1% 0 oicloee
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 1!
cule catechumen class mects at oy ° Sco ‘Tuesday

venin
Singing School meets at 734 o'clock Friday evening.

EV. LUTH. MOUNT ZION CHURCH.
Cor. S. Franklin and Thalia Stra.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 734 o'clock.
Thursday evening at 7% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 914 o’clock.
Adult A SEES class mects at 734 vorclock Friday

ev
Young: "Peoples? Concordia Circle antl Singing School
meet Wednesday evening at 744 o'
F. J. SOR a ienlonaeys

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: pane naayie evening at o'clock.
ays evening at 734 o’clock.
Sunday School at ne orcloe
Adult catechumen class ev _ ‘Tuesday at 734 o'clock and
after the divine service on Thursday cvening.
Choir practice at 734 o’clock on Tuesda evening and
after divine service on Thursday even! ng
Circle for Young People ects at the school every Tucs-
day evening at 734 o'clock.
J. W. F. Ko8sMANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.

Springfield, Ill.
Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
Sunday School mesorciock P.M
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at chame molass meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.
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