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The Lutheran Pioneer.

my little boy John hurrying to meet me; the
grass was high on the prairie, and suddenly
he dropped out of sight. I thought he was
playing, and simply hiding from me, but he
didn’t appear as I expected he would. Then
the thought flashed across my mind, ‘There’s
an old well there, and he has fallen in.’ I hur-
Tied up to him, reached down in the well, and
lifted him out; and as he looked up in my
face, what do you think he said? ‘O papa,
why didn’t you hurry?’ Those words never

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

Wirn this number we, by the blessing of
God, open a new volume of the Pioneer. Be-
lieving that our little monthly has, in its
humble way, been the instrument of accom-
plishing some good and that also in the future
God will bless its simple words for Jesus, we
trust that all its friends will give it such en-
couragement as lies in their power. Its wider
circulation will also be a help to our mission
work, since all the profit goes into our mission

treasury.

Ix the coming year we shall publish on our
second page a series of doctrinal articles,
which will, no doubt, prove very instructive to
our readers, some of whom among the colored
people have repeatedly expressed their desire
‘*A Christian,’’ writes
one, ‘‘must grow in knowledge, and how gladly
would I read a Catechism Lesson in our dear

for just such articles.

PIonEER every month.’’ Well, each of these
articles will be a ‘‘Catechism Lesson.’’ They
will be written by one of our missionaries,
and the first appears in this issue under the
heading, ‘'The Holy Bible.’’

WE are sorry to hear that one of our mis-
. sionaries, the Rev. J. C. Schmidt, Greensboro,
N. C., is very sick with typhoid fever. He de-
sires all our Christian readers to remember
| him in their prayers. May Jesus, the faithful
Saviour, help and comfort him in the days of
sickness.

Tue Rey. A. Bureporr, who was recently
called to our mission field in North Carolina,
could not accept the call, and the Rev. N. J.
Bakke will therefore remain in that important
field, where his labors have been so richly
blessed.

Tue Rev. Pretrrer, one of our recently or-
dained missionaries, has opened a school for
colored children at Winston, N.C. The school
numbers already 43 children, who are daily in-
structed in God’s Word and Luther’s doctrine
pure. What a blessing for those children.

Ar Prince Edward, Va., the Rev. Schooff,
of Meherrin, Va., has again opened a mission
school for the colored people. He recently
baptized eight children at that place, four of
whom attend the school.

‘Tne treasurer of our Board for mission work
among the colored people recently received a
donation of $300 for a mission chapel. The
giver, though repeatedly questioned, refused
to give his name. ‘Three years ago this same
person, in a similar manner, donated $250 for
a mission chapel. Such examples of cheerful
givers deserve to be imitated.

~ Tore is short, and ‘‘the king’s business re-
_ qguireth haste.” A missionary being asked
"what it was that directed his thoughts to the
ission field, answered = ‘‘In coming home one

ht, driving across the vast prairie, I saw

left me. They kept ringing in my ears until
God put a new and deeper meaning into them,
and bade me think of others who are lost, of
souls without God and without hope in this
world; and the message came to me as a mes-
sage from the heavenly Father, ‘Go and work
in My name,’ and then from that vast throng
a pitiful, despairing, pleading cry rolled into
my soul, as I accepted God’s call: ‘Oh, why
don’t you hurry?’ ’’

Wuen the missionary steamer was to be
placed on Lake Nyassa, the leader of the ex-
pedition applied to the chief of the tribe for
reliable help to carry the boat around the
falls. The chief sent eight hundred women,
saying that they could be trusted. Some of
them came fifty miles, bringing their pro-
visions with them. They carried the boat in
250 loads, in five days, and under a tropical
sun, 75 miles, to an elevation of 1800 feet,
and not a nail or a screw was lost. They
reccived for their wages six yards of calico,
and as a gift, were given one extra yard.
These were small wages indeed.

An Appropriate Punisoment. — The na-
tives of a certain country in West Central
Africa, if they have not selved the problem
as to how to silence the slanderous tongue,
have at least devised an appropriate punish-
ment for the slanderer. The person who is
found guilty of slandering another is pun-
ished in the following manner: He is made
to march through the town, with a bell tied
to his neck, calling out what he said was a
lie. He is afterwards compelled to go into all
compounds, and tell at every door what he
has done.

In China’s Millions, the story is told of Dr.
Tsen, a Chinese doctor and drug-seller in
Ganpling, province of Kwei-chan, who be-
came interested in the Gospel as soon as he
first heard it, and at once he began to seck
instruction in the truth, Every morning and
evening he joined the Christians in worship,
for he thought it too long to wait till the
next ‘‘worship day’? came round. After a
few weeks this test was put before him: ‘‘If
you really believe in Jesus as your true Sav-
iour, you should take down your picture image
of the goddess of mercy from your shop and
burn it.” The taking of such a decided stand
for Christ would at once call forth bitter per-

down the paper idol and burned it. Great
persecution broke out against him, but the
peace of God in his heart kept him steadfast;
and afterwards others of his family were
brought to Christ through his influence.

OUR BOOK TABLE.

LirrF or Rey. Pror. C.F. W. Wattuer, D.D. By
C. L. Janzow. American Lutheran Publication
Board, Pittsburg, Pa. Price, 26 cts. per copy;
$2.25 per dozen; $16.00 per hundred, postage
paid.

This well printed booklet gives in simple language
an interesting sketch of the life of the late Dr. Wal-
ther, It is sufficiently full and comprehensive to give
an excellent portraiture of the great and beloved
Lutheran theologian, whose services to the Church
will never be forgotten. The book ought to have,
and no doubt will have, an extensive circulation.
It is a book for the people.

—

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. J. Koss-
mann, Missionary, from Bethlehem Congregation in
New Orleans, La., $25.00; of Rev. F. J. Lankenau,
Missionary, from Mount Zion Congregation in New
Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rey. J. Ph. Schmidt, Mis-
sionary, from Grace Congregation in Concord, N.C.,
10.00. A. C. BurGporr, Treas.

St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 21, 1899.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEans, La.

EY. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
1625 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Derbigny.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 91% o’clock.
Sunday evening at 7% o'clock.
Wednesday evening at 734 o’clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at Me o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 o'clock Tuesday

eventing?
Singing School mects at 74 o'clock Friday evening.

EY. 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 7% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 914 o’clock.
Adult oatoehumen class meets at 7% o'clock Friday
evening.
Young Peoples’ Concordia Circle and Singing Schoo)
meet Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock.
¥. J. LANKENAUD, Missionary.

EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM OHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: Sunday evening at 74 o'clock.
Thursday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School at 9% o'clock.
Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at 744 o'clock and
aftcr the divine service on Thursday evening.
Choir practice at 734 o'clock on Tuesday evening and
after divine service on Thursday even! Ae
Circle for Young People meets at the school every Tacs-
day evening at 744 0’clock. _
J. W. F. KossoMANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfield, Ml.
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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secution; but he went home and at once took Sone College, Fort Wayne, Ind,