The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1899, Page 46

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

Os the 18th of November the Rey. A. Reinke,
of Chicago, Ill., departed this life to be with
the Lord forever. In his death our Church
has lost an earnest and most eloquent advo-
cate of mission work. He was a truly evan-
gelical preacher, filled with missionary zeal.
It was through his efforts that Lutheran mis-
sion work was begun and carried on among
the deaf-mutes of our country, and for every
branch of mission work he at all times had a
warm heart and an eloquent voice.

“Servant of God, well done!
Rest from thy loved employ:

The battle fought, the victory won,
Enter thy Master’s joy.”

An aged missionary writes: ‘‘The feet of
them that publish the Gospel of peace traverse
the roads from the Himalaya to Cape Comorin,
from Burmah to the Yellow Sea. A survey of
missions has become a survey of the world.
And what obstacles have been overcome to
reach this result! Within our generation
China was inaccessible to the Gospel; Japan
was impregnable; the heart of Africa was
untrodden and unknown. Now, look a little
deeper into the figures. It may be only a
handful of missionaries at a single point; but
they are translating the Bible, pouring Chris-
tian thought into the literature of a whole
race. These hundred years of modern mis-
sions have placed the Bible within intelligible
reach of perhaps 500,000,000 of the race.
Their light is gone out through all the earth,
their words to the world’s end.’’

A 1itTLe girl in Philadelphia, on her death-
bed bequeathed $4.11, the savings of her short
life-time, to the erection of achurch. It was
a small sum for such a large object, but it
was seed destined to grow and bring fruit.
Others heard of this child’s bequest and
added their dimes, dollars, and hundreds to
the sum; and in that city to-day stands a
beautiful church, the literal harvest of that
$4.11.

A mussionary in India writes: ‘‘I have
never seen such self-sacrifice for the Gospel
48 among our people. Many of our workers
are giving one sixteenth of their pay. Others
give one tenth. I know of many young men
who receive only $1.50 a month who give
10 cents a month for the work. They have
one full meal a day of the coarsest food, and
for the other eat a handful of parched grain.
Our orphans ate dry bread for a week, and
gave the pulse and rice for the work. Their
gift bought 500 Hindi gospels for free dis-
tribution. They regularly give a portion of
their daily food. Thousands of our people are
giving in this way out of their deep poverty.

ost of them are very poor, their entire in-
come for the family being not more than $2.00
month. Yet they give cheerfully.’

A CLERGYMAN Was annoyed by people talk-
ing and giggling. He paused, looked at the
disturbers, and said: ‘‘I am always afraid to
reprove those who misbehave, for this reason.
Some years since, as I was preaching, a young
man who sat before me was constantly laugh-
ing, talking and making uncouth grimaces.
I paused and administered a severe rebuke.
After the close of the services a gentleman
said to me, ‘Sir, you have made a great mis-
take; that young man was an idiot.’ Since
then I have always been afraid to reprove
those who misbehave themselves in chapel,
lest I should repeat that mistake and reprove
another idiot.’’ During the rest of the service
there was good order.

At a missionary meeting on the Island of
Rarotonga, one of the Hervey group in the
Pacific ocean, an old man, a candidate for
church fellowship, said: ‘‘I have lived during
the reign of four kings; in the first we were
continually at war, and a fearful season it
was; watching and hiding with fear were all
our engagements. During the reign of the
second we were overtaken with a famine, and
all expected to perish; then we ate rats and
grass, and this wood and that wood. During
the third we were conquered, and became the
peck and prey of the two other settlements
of the island; then if a man went to fish he
rarely ever returned, or if a woman went any
distance to fetch food she was rarely ever
seen again. But during the reign of this
third king we were visited by another King,
a great King, a good King, a powerful King,
a King of love, Jesus, the Lord from heaven.
He has gained the victory, He has conquered
our hearts; therefore we now have peace and
plenty in this world, and hope soon to dwell
with Him in heaven.’’

Dr. G. H. Herwortn, in his volume,
“Through Armenia on Horseback,’’ says:
Americans do not appreciate their missionary
service. In a far-off way we may admire
these men and women whose lives are full
of self-sacrifice, but if we could once look
into their homes and get a glimpse of the
awful isolation in which they live so cheer-
fully, we should see to it that they wanted
no comforts which money could buy. ‘They
have too small salaries, and yet the world is
full of gold. ‘They spend themselves, and
also what they can spare from their slender
incomes—more than they can spare—for
the relief of the poor who are all around
them. No man can resist the impulse to
empty his purse when he sees such depths of
misery as even I, in my short sojourn, haye
beheld; and I can only say that the Western
world ought to double its generous gifts to
those whose lives are saddened by their cease-
Jess ministrations to the wretched creatures,
widowed and orphaned, who knock at their
doors for a word of encouragement or a crust
of bread.

OUR BOOK TABLE.

GospEL SERMONS. By Rev. F. Kuegele. Price, $1.00.
Order from Augusta Pub]. Co., Koiner’s Store,
Va. (Money order office: Crimora, Va.), or
from: American Lutheran Publ. Board, Pitts-
burg, Pa.

This book is a welcome and valuable addition to
the homiletical literature of our English Lutheran
Church. It contains sermons on the Gospel lessons
of the church year from the first Sunday in Advent
to Pentecost Day. Most of the sermons had been
published in the first volumes of the ‘‘LUTHERAN
WIrnEss,”’ and there was a general desire to have
them in book form. The author is well known as
the writer of two volumes of Country Sermons. In
the present volume of sermons we find the same
plain, simple, vigorous language for which the
“country parson’? is noted; but we also find the
same pure Gospel truths. He knows nothing but
Christ and Him crucifled. His sermons, therefore,
are thoroughly scriptural and truly Lutheran. May
many make use of these valuable sermons, and may
God bless them to the salvation of sinners and to
the edification of His children.

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. J. Koss-
mann, Missionary, from Bethlehem Congregation in
New Orleans, La., $25.00; of Rev. J. Ph. Schmidt,
Missionary, from Grace Congregation in Concord,
N.C., 10.00; of Rev. D. H. Schooff, Missionary, from
the Congregation in Meherrin, Va., 9.00; of Rev.
Geo. Schutes, Missionary, from the congregation in
Gold Hill, N. C., 4.15.

A. C. BurGcporr, Zreas.

St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 21, 1899.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEans, La.

EY. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S OHAPEL.
1625 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Derbigny.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 9}4 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 7% o'clock.
Wednesday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% o'clock.
Adult catechumen class mects at 734 o’clock Tuesday

evenings
Singing School meets at 74 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 Te orclogk:
Thursday evening at o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 914 o'clock.
Adult Speen class mects at 7% o’clock Friday
evening.
Young Peoples’ Concordia Circle and Singing School
meet Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock.
F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: Sunda; cyonlng at 7% o'clock.
Thursday evening at 714 o'clock.
Sunday School at 94 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at 734 0'clock and
aftcr the divine service on Thursday evening.
Choir practice at 744 o'clock on Tuesday evening and
after divine service on Thursday even ng
Circle for Young People meets at the school every Tues-
day cvening at 734 o'clock.
J. W. F, KossMANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfteld, I. ‘

Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning

and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening.

Sunday School at 3 o’clock Pp. M.

Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.

Singing-school Tucsday evening. .
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