The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1900, Page 8

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8 ‘The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

ALL our readers will sympathize with our
missionary at Charlotte, N. C., the Rev. W.
P. Phifer, whose home has been visited by
the angel of death, leaving him to mourn the
departure of a beloved wife and child. May
our dear missionary realize the consolation of
God’s Word, which tells us that our departed
dear ones who have fallen asleep in Jesus are
forever with the Lord. Blessed be His name,

~they are gone to enjoy perfect bliss. ‘‘Blessed

are the dead which die in the Lord.’’

Tue Rev. C. J. Scnsmr, our missionary at
Greensboro, N. C., is, thank God, on the way
of recovery from a severe attack of typhoid
fever.

Tue Rev. C.J. Bropers, of Scranton, Miss.,
has accepted the call as Lutheran missionary
to Brazil, South America.

Fanrne again threatens India. Rice is about
the only food within reach of the lower classes,
and that is advancing in price, so that before
long even the middle classes can not afford it.
In 1878 there was a famine in India, during
which it is estimated 1,300,000 persons died
of starvation. In 1896—1897 there was a
drought, but a large supply of old rice helped
them through. In 1898, however, the erop was
scant, and the outlook in that land at present
is quite gloomy.

* Rerorts from East Africa say that 4000 per-
sons haye died of starvation in Loman, East
Africa. For two years the rains have failed
and the famine has been terrible. The stricken
district embraces about 100,000 square miles.
The rains have commenced now, but the death
rate is higher than before. The famine has
80 debilitated the people that thousands have
been unable to putin the crops. The German
government has put up temporary hospitals,
and missionary societies have been active in
relief work. A number of religious societies
have united to supply the seed for the next
crop. In some places the people of whole
towns have perished. It is feared that the
stricken district will not escape the plague
which so often follows in the wake of famine.

Tae SLAVE TRADE IN Arrica, —Mr. Stover,
of Bailundu, cautions the people of America
and England about congratulating themselves
that slavery and the slave trade in Africa are
substantially things of the past. He affirms
that in the district of Portuguese Angola more
slaves are being sold now than eyer. ‘We
miss this one and that one,”’ he writes, ‘‘and
upon making inquiries find that they have been
sold. The traders are all through the country

_ And the slave can be disposed of without the

trouble of taking him to the coast. The open
Sore of Africa is still a long way from being’

healed.”

Taree HunDRED MILEs In A WHEELBARROW.
—A Chinese mother, who saw how changed
the lives of those became, who had learned
of Jesus in the Mission at Pekin, desired also
to go, but feared the distance. Then her son
offered to take her in a wheelbarrow, and push
her over three hundred miles from Shantung
province, to learn of Jesus. It was worth the
effort: she is to-day a faithful witness of Jesus,
and her son is a trusted officer in the Christian
Church.

Ir seems to be incredible, says an exchange,
but is nevertheless ‘‘officially’’ true, that a
Catholic missionary in the province of Canton,
South China, led an assault on a Lutheran
missionary, Rey. Mr. Zahn, which ended in the
latter’s imprisonment in the Catholic chapel.
Mr. Zahn nearly lost his life. ‘The German
consul at Canton at once took steps to pro-
tect Zahn against further outrage, and com-
pelled the French consul to punish the priest,
a Frenchman, with banishment from the proy-
ince, after having asked Zahn’s pardon.

Tue Prime Minister of Madagascar, presid-
ing at a missionary meeting, July 11th, 1878,
said: ‘I don’t like to speak about my own
father here before you all, but I remember
one young woman whom my father taught to
read the Bible, and trained to be a Christian.
When the persecution came again she was ac-
cused, convicted, and sentenced to death for
being a Christian. She was brought here to
be thrown over this rock, and at the last mo-
ment was offered her life if she would recant.
But she refused, crying out; ‘No; throw me
over, for I am Christ’s.’.””

Davw LivincsroxE is to have a memorial
erected to him in Central Africa, to mark the
spot where the famous missionary died. The
character of the memorial has not yet been
decided upon. Several suggestions have been
made, but nothing, it is said, will be deter-
mined until the administrator of the British
South African Company has been consulted.
The idea of setting up a bronze monument has
been almost abandoned, partly because of the
cost, and also because it would prove a great
temptation to the cupidity of the natives or
of some passing caravan. The bronze plate
sent out some years ago was stolen by Arab
slaye raiders. It is probable that a good,
solid, stone cairn will be erected, well fixed
with mortar and cement, with a tablet firmly
embedded in one of its sides. It is pretty
well agreed that the exact spot for the monu-
ment should be half-way between the mpunda
tree under which Livingstone’s heart was
buried and the mutowo tree on which his
body was exposed during the native process
of preserving. The almost exact spot is
marked by little ant-heaps, burnt brick-red,
on which the watchers placed their cook-pots,
which are still there.

(For the Lutneran PIONEER.)

Obituary.

On the 15th of December, 1899, Hattie Jane
Phifer, nee Boger, the beloved wife and co-
worker of Rev. Mr. W. P. Phifer, of Char-
lotte, N. C., was called to the rest that re-
mains for the people of God.

A large concourse of people, the best of
Charlotte, flocked to the St. Paul’s Ey. Luth.
Church to pay their last respects to Hattie
Jane, who during her short lifetime of thirty-
three years had gained many friends by her
godly life and charitable works.

Rev. Mr. Geo. Schutes, of Salisbury, offici-
ated at the house and the grave, while the
writer preached the funeral discourse on
Is. 54, 10, the last words that he addressed
and explained to the deceased.

Three weeks later the baby boy, five months
old, was laid at rest by the side of the mother.

N. J. Bakke.

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. F. J. Lan-
kenau, Missionary, from Mount Zion Congregation
in New Orleans, La., $25.00; of Rev. J. Kossmann,
Missionary, from Bethlehem Congregation, New
Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rev. D. H. Schooff, Mis-
sionary, from congregation in Meherrin, Va., 21.00;
of Rev. C. J. Schmidt, Missionary, from Grace Con-
gregation in Greensboro, N. C., 36.00; of Rev. J. Ph.
Schmidt, Missionary, from Grace Congregation in
Concord, N.C., 10.00. A.C. BurGporr, Zreas.

St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 20, 1900.

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 9% o'clock.
Sunday evening at 7} o'clock.
Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 o’clock Tuesday

evening.
Singing School meets at 734 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 73 o'clock.

Thursday evening at 7% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% o'clock.
Adult eatechumen, class mects at 74 o'clock Friday
cvening.
Young Pesples’ Concordia Circle and Singing Schoo)
meet Wednesday evening at 734 o'clock.
F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary.
EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM OHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: Sunday evening at 7% o'clock.
Thursday evening at 744 o'clock.
Sunday School at 54 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at, 734 o'clock and
aftcr the divine service on Thursday cvening.
Ohoir practice at 734 o’clock on Tuesday ovening and
after divine service on Thursday cvening.
Circle for Young People meets at the school every Tacs-

day cvening at 734 o'clock.
” a % J. W. F. KossMANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfeld, MU.
Divine Services at half past 10 o'clock Sunday morning
Sunday School st Sorciocky. Me
junda: 00] at 3 o'clock P. M.
Oatechumen class mects Monday and Friday cvenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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