The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1900, Page 12

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

THE Literary Digest rightly speaks of the
work done by the Bible Societies, in publish-
ing the Word of God during the last century,
as little less than marvelous. ‘There are
seventy-three Bible Societies, among which
the ‘‘British and Foreign’? and the ‘tAmeri-
can’’ are pre-eminent for the number of
copies put into circulation by them, amount-
ing in the past hundred years to 286,000,000
volumes. The Digest thinks that if all printed
copies were included, the grand total would
Teach the neighborhood of 500,000,000.

Tue veteran historian of Protestant mis-
sions, Herr Warneck, estimates the total num-
ber of converts from heathenism in the differ-
ent Protestant churches at about 4,000,000.
Of these, 1,465,000 belong to Asia, 1,145,900
to America, 1,080,000 to Afriea, and 306,700
to Oceanica.. The number of ordained mis-
sionaries is given at about 4500. _

_ Nor only has the Samoan «mission been
self-supporting, but it has contributed to the
cause of foreign missions $5000 annually for
the past thirty years. At the Malua school,
also self-supporting, no less than 1200 men
and 700 women have been “taught, ‘and. the
great majority of these have become teachers
or preachers of the Gospel, and. the” whole
Samoan group has been evangelized by: their

_agenoy;-it has also supplicd many-missiona-
ries who are now laboring among the heathen.
There are now thirty married Samoan teachers
at work in New Guinea, while sixty x missiona-
ries have gone from the Samoan group to
other Pacific Islands.

Ax old missionary among the Zulus in Natal
complains bitterly abont the awful cursing and
swearing of the British soldiers. The going-on
of the war will impoverish the natiye popula-
tion, white as well as black, for long years
afterwards; famine is threatening some parts
of South Africa already. The home societies
are afraid of large deficits.

Wowan 1x Pensa. —A Kurdish chief visited
& mission school in Persia, and when he heard
. the girls recite, saw their exercises in Delsarte,
their needle-work, and heard them sing and
talk in three languages, and the seniors read in
four, when he himself had examined the little
girls in Turkish, and the seniors in Persian, he
threw down the book, and exclaimed, ‘‘Who
would think that girls could ever learn to do

all these things.’”

Waex Hyder Ali, the great warrior, who
Opposed the British conquerors of his native
India, was told that the English would send
an ambassador to treat with him, he replied,
“Send to me none of your agents, for I trust
neither their words nor pledges; but send me
> the. Christian missionary, and I will receive

f him; — Religious Teélescope.  ~

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

A writer in the New York World says the
Boers have no bands of music with their ar-
mies, but that every night and morning, and
before going into battle, if there is time, ‘‘the
entire army, with heads uncovered, ‘join in
singing Old Hundred. Each note is pro-
longed, and the effect is solemn and awful,
so much of resolution and of strong and re-
lentless resolve do they put into their singing.”

Inpians SEE THE Fruits. —A delegation of
Indians from Kluckwan, a village of about six
hundred inhabitants, begged earnestly of the
missionaries in Juneau, Alaska, that missiona-
ries might be sent to them, and that their chil-
dren might be taught as were the Thlingits at
Chileat. ‘‘We have seen,”’ said they, ‘the
light as it shines at Haines Mission, and we
want to follow it. The converts of Haines
Mission left their light shine that the neigh-
boring Indians saw. their good works, and

with that light they‘ will also glorify their

Father which is in heaven.’’

DocrorixG-uxpER DrrFicuit1Ees. —This was
surely never better exemplified than by Mr.
Sampson, of the Church Missionary Society,
working among tiie Eskimos of Cumberland
Sound, Baffin’s Bay. He had some cases of
pneumonia to treat. ‘‘These cases,’’ he
writes, ‘‘are rather difficult to treat in a snow
hut and on a snow bed, with only a deerskin
between the snoy and the patient, and_not,
enough oil to heat the den. In one case there
was no door. This den was so small that I
could not get in when both parents were in,
so I pushed aside the old.cotton skirt which
served for a door, ‘and. I ‘looked in when I
wanted to give the sufferer medicine and
food.”’ . :

In a mission station in China a man ap-
peared recently bending under. the burden of
a Jarge sack. A wrinkled hand stretched
from the mouth: of: the sack holding out to
the missionary a small string of cash. The
man’s aged mother had so coveted this joy of
bringing her collection to the mission with her

.own hands, that he had brought her in a sack

—the only vehicle he could afford. The happy
face of the old woman was touching to behold
when it was learned that her offering was
cheerfully given from poverty so severe that
she was compelled to mix earth with her
scanty food, that it might seem to go farther
in satisfying the cravings of hunger.

Borneo was once called the ‘‘Nation of
Head-hunters,’’ because the cutting off of
their enemies’ heads was the favorite ‘occu-
pation of the people. Now their deadly in-
struments, which could easily cut off men’s
heads at a single sweep, are only rusty heir-
looms, and a missionary says, ‘‘Nowhere in
the world, so far as I know, is life and prop-
erty more secure than among the once fierce
head-hunters of Borneo!’”

OUR BOOK TABLE.

Sunpay Scuoou Texts. Selected and arranged by
A. L. Graebner. Concordia Pnbdlishing House,
St. Louis, Mo. Price, per copy octs.; per dozen
40 cts.; per hundred $2.50.

Wherever the Sunday Schoo] has become a neces-
sity, the church must sce to it that the time spent
in such school is most profitably spent by the chil-
ren. To gain this end, this little booklet will be
of great help. It is intended for the three lower
classes of the Sunday School and contains well se-
lected and well arranged texts from the Catechism,
the Bible, and the hymn book.

Wuy THE NAME “LUTHERAN’’? By W. Dallmann,
American Lutheran Publication Board, Pitts-
burg, Pa. Price, 5 cts. per copy, postage pre-
paid; $1.00 per hundred, postage prepaid.

A valuable little tract which deserves a wide cir-

culation. In plain and simple language the author

answers the questions: I. Why do sve not call our-
selves simply Christians? Il. Why do we not call
ourselves Catholics? Ill. Why do we not call our-
selves simply Protestants? 1V. Why do we not call
ourselves Reformed? V. Why do we not call our-
selves Evangelical? VI. Why do we call ourselves
Lutherans ?

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Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev, F. J. Lan-
kenau, Missionary, New Orleans, La., from Mount
Zion Congregation $25.00, and from ’St. Paul Con-
fregation 25.00; of Rev. J. Kossmann, Missionary,
som Bethlehem Congregation in New Orleans, La.,
25.00; of Rev. C. J. Schmidt, Missionary, from Grace
Congregation in Greensboro, N. C., 24.00; of Rev.
J. Ph. Schmidt, Missionary, from Grace Congrega-
tion in Concord, N.C., 10.00.
A. C. BurGporr, Treas.

St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 21, 1900.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New OrveEans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL.
To25 “Auuciic Sir, between Ciuiburme er Derbigny.
Divine services: punday morning at 9} o'clock.
Sunday evening at 7) o'clock.
Wednesday evening at ie y "clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% 0! lock.
aul gee techubien class meets at 7% o' eclbak ‘Tuesday

Singing neko! meets at 734 o’clock Friday cvening.

EV. LUTH. MOUNT ZION CHURCH.
Cor. S. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services: Sunday morning at_11 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 7% o'clock.
Thursday evening at i% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% o'clock.
Adult} sore pamon class mects at 1% o'clock Friday

Young, "Peoples? Concordia Circle and Singing School
meet Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock.
F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM OHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: oy evening at 1% o'clock.
ay fevening’ 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. im
Choir practice at 744 o'clock on Tuesday evening and
after divine service on Thursday even: ng.
ircle for Young People meets at the school every Tacs-
day evening at 744 @ slosh.
W. F. KossMann, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfield, It.

Divine Services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning

and at 8 o'clock Sunday Revening?

Sunday School at 3 o'clock P

Catechumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings.

Singing-school Tucsday evening.
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