The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1899, Page 36

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

A GREAT sorrow has come to the home of
one of our missionaries in North Carolina.
The devoted and beloved wife of the Rey.
Schuetz, of Salisbury, N. C., departed this
life after having for only one year shared with
her husband the joys and the hardships of the
mission field. By her Christian character and
devoted life she won the esteem and love of
those among whom she lived. With their be-
loved missionary they now mourn her early
departure. But our loss is her gain. Her
soul is at home with the Lord. Her weary
body has been laid to rest in the Lutheran
cemetery at Ft. Wayne, Ind., her former
home, in ‘‘the sure and certain hope’’ of a
resurrection in glory at the coming of Christ.
The funeral services were held in St. Paul's
Lutheran Church, the Rey. J. Miller deliver-
ing a comforting sermon on the words of the
Lord’s Prayer: ‘‘Thy will be done.”” May
God comfort the mourning and strengthen
their faith, that they may rise above the dark-
ness of the grave and find rest in His will,
which is at all times a good and gracious will.

A vapy had a favorite text which she fre-
quently repeated and which was included in a
collection she used for daily help: ‘‘Fear thou
not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed ;
for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee;
yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee
with the right hand of my righteousness.’’
On the morning of the day she died it was
repeated at her bedside, with the remark that
it was the text for the day, when she looked
up amid her pain and said: ‘‘Is that the text
for to-day?’’ and on being informed that it
was, she replied, ‘‘Oh, then, I will just go
home on that.’’

Tue Norwegian missionaries in Madagas-
car last year baptized 3702 heathen. Of the
44,000 native Christians in their care. 25,500
are communicants. There are 760 native Lu-
theran churches and 775 schools, with 1747
teachers on the island.

NotwitHsTanpinc the many hindrances
lately in the Samoan Islands, caused by war-
fare, the Samoans are heroic missionaries.
They haye been the pioneers in evangelizing
the savages on the New Hebrides and Loyalty
Islands, of New Guinea, of sixteen islands of
the Tokelan, Ellice and Gilbert groups, and
of the Niue or Savage Islands. The mission-
‘ary work in behalf of the Samoans was under-
taken by Rev. John Williams in 1830. He be-
n the work with eight Christian Tahitians.

_ The Samoans gladly heard the message, and

not only accepted it themselves, but are
engaged in bearing it to their neighbors.

pastor of the Protestant Church of the
in Madrid received into communica-
tely Don Pascual Pubiete, a native of

the Philippines, 8 man of influence among his
own countrymen. The story of his conver-
sion is remarkable, and is given as follows:
Although entirely innocent of any connection
with political movements, he was suspected
by the Spaniards, dragged to Spain as a crim-
inal, and then banished to a fort in Africa,
where he was very ill-treated. When, how-
ever, his innocence was established, he was
permitted to return to Madrid. Here he be-
gan to attend Protestant meetings, with the
result that he saw the errors of Romanism, in
which he had been brought up. He has been
working at a translation of the New Testament
into the Tagal language, under the direction
of an agent of the British and Foreign Bible
Society, and has completed three Gospels and
the Acts of the Apostles. He is going back
to his own country as a Protestant evangelist.

An American lady missionary among the
Armenians writes: ‘‘It is not the loneliness,
nor the constant drain on heart and mind and
strength, nor the many difficulties in the way,
that is hard to bear in this Jand; it is the fact
that our sisters at home put the Lord and His
neglected children after other things — trivial,
luxurious things— while precious souls are left
to go down to eternity without a thought.’’
Ah, yes, if all that is expended for ‘‘trivial,
luxurious things’? by the professed Christians
of America were given to the Lord’s cause,
how the missionary treasuries would overflow
with an abundance of money to send the Gos-
pel to all the world!

An old Buddhist, bent with age, nearly
blind, scarcely able to walk, spoke thus to a
missionary in Ceylon of his hope for the
future: ‘I am ninety-six. I have climbed
Adam’s Peak (where Buddha is said to have
left his foot-prints) twenty-six times; I have
visited the ‘Temple of the Tooth,’ in Kandy,
seven times; I had a number of Buddhist
books copied and given to Buddhist priests ;
I have never killed an animal, only on a few
occasions have I caught some fish. So you
see I have plenty of merit, and shall be born
well in my next life.’”” To such the Gospel is
foolishness.

Tne Berlin missionaries who are working
on the end of Lake Nyassa, have been able
to advance in the country of the much-dreaded
Wahehe, those warriors in whose country no
Protestant missions ever have been estab-
lished. Among the Koude tribe the mission-
aries haye established four stations, one on
the shore of the lake, the others in the in-
terior. The dialect of the tribe has been re-
duced to writing, and a grammar of it was
published in Berlin. The Gospels of Matthew
and Luke have been translated, and have been
printed at the expense of the British and For-
eign Bible Society. At every station the work
has borne fruit, and on each place a small con-
gregation has been gathered. Two other sta-

tions have been opened on the Livingstone
Mountains. The Society had at the end of
last year nine stations in East Africa.

oo,

God is Watching.

When Hans Christian Andersen was a little
boy, he was attacked by a wicked man, who
often beat the children who came near him.
When the man was about to strike him, Hans
turned and said, ‘‘O sir, how can you be so
wicked as to strike me while God is looking
on?”’

These words so awed the cruel man that he
lowered his club and did not strike. Would it
not keep us from many a sinful act to remem-
ber that God is watching all wedo? We would
do well to always bear in mind this text, ‘“Thou,
God, seest me.’’

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., 50.00; of Rev. D. H. Schooff, Mis-
sionary, from his congregation in Mcherrin, Va.,
10.00; of Rev. J. Ph. Schmidt, Missionary, from
Grace Congregation in Concord, N.C., 20.00. +

A. C. BurGporr, Zreas. 3

St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 21, 1899.

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 944 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 734 o’clock.
Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% ofclock. ~
Adult catechumen class meets at 7! o'clock Tuesday

evening:
Singing School meets at 744 o’clock Friday evening.

EV. LUTH. MOUNT ZION CHURCH.
Cor. S. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 74 o'clock.
Thursday evening at 74 o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 944 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class mects at 734 o'clock Friday
evening
Young Peoples’ Concordia Circle and Singing Schoo?
meet Wednesday evening at 734 o'’cloch.
F. J. LANKENAD, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM OHAPEL. .
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: Sunday evening at 7% o'clock.
Thursday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School at % o'clock.
Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at 734 o'clock and
aftcr the divine service on Thursday cvening.
Choir practice at 734 o’clock on Tuesday cyening and
after divine service on Thursday even Df.
Circle for Young People meets at the school every Tucs-
day evening at 734 o'clock.
J. W. F. KOS8MANN, 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.
Oatechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tucsday evening.

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