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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

Our Colored mission numbers 21 stations,
served by 11 pastors and 8 teachers. Four of
these stations are in Louisiana, one is in IIli-
nois, three are in Virginia, and fourteen in
North Carolina. There are 17 organized con-
gregations. Our Sunday schools are attended
by 899 pupils, and our day schools by 820.
During the past year the colored people them-
selves collected $2433.21 for church purposes.

Tue Rev. W. J. Kaiser, of Little Rock,
Ark., reports that among the colored people
of that city there are still some that are faith-
ful to our Lutheran church. He hopes that
a missionary will soon be sent to take up mis-
sion work again at Little Rock, our first mis-
sionary station.

Tue Rev. D. H. Scuoorr, our missionary at
Meherrin, Va., has begun mission work at
three new stations, several miles from Me-
herrin. At one of these stations he found a
large and promising mission field. What the
people there need is a chapel for services and
school. —

Tue Lutheran Synod of Wisconsin, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, and other states has sent
another missionary to its field in Arizona to
labor among the Apache Indians. This mis-
sion was established in 1891, and has proved
so successful that the agent of the government
ardently encouraged the synod to enlarge its
work.

Ax English soldier estimated that a procla-
mation from the Queen, put into the hands
of the army and navy of Britain, could be
carried to every person on the globe within

“eighteen months. The Church of Christ has
been entrusted with a proclamation from the
King of kings. It is to be delivered to the
whole world. Not for eighteen months, but
for eighteen centuries she has been about this
most urgent business and it is not done yet.

Pernicious LireRATURE IN Inpra.—F. B.
Meyer, lately returned from his trip to India,
addressed a meeting not long since on ‘The
Black Sower of Pernicious Literature” that is
pouring into the land of India. It has one
hundred and ten weekly newspapers published
in the vernacular, which have a distinct bias
against Christian civilization. In Lucknow and
Cawnpore fifty presses are turning out tons
of impure and anti-Christian literature every
Week. Buddhist priests translate Ingersoll’s
tracts to counteract missionary teaching, and
not a student leaves the University of Madras
without receiving a packet of infidel literature.

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THe Inpra Fase. —Report has it that
fifty million people are affected by the famine.
: “The calamity is not at its height. There has
io winter rain; the whole land is parched

up, and it will take during the next nine
months at least $30,000,000 to cope with the
scourge in the most effective manner.’’? In
the wake of the famine follows the plague.
The Leipzig Missionsblatt, quoted by the Jfis-
sionary Review, states that the plague has
made great ravages in parts of North India.
The principal work there among the heathen
and Mohammedan population is that of the
C. M. S. Zenana Mission. Although their
schools and houses are in the midst of the na-
tive quarter, where the plague raged, yet the
lady missionaries and their boards bravely
held their ground, amid daily prayer, and ap-
pear to have been kept from all losses by the
pestilence. Of course, they had to close their
day-schools. The visits to the women were
exceedingly distressing. For a while one could
do nothing more than to utter words of sym-
pathy and consolation. It was to the last
degree touching to see the afflictions of the
mothers whose daughters—our scholars—had
died of the plague. They would bring out
the books and slates of their children, and
show us the mark drawn where these had last
read. In doing this their wails were heart-
breaking. ‘Of what use is all this now? She
will never use these things again!’ Many of
the elder girls thus carried off had been at-
tending our schools for several years, and
were therefore well instructed in the truths of
Christianity, and, as their mothers testified,
already so far advanced that they could draw
near to God in prayer.’’

Women 1n Catna.—The sad fact of the
degradation of woman in China is illustrated
by the following: A single illustration of the
teaching in the Chinese classics will say vol-
umes for the condition of women where the
leaven of Christianity has not been felt. Men-
cius is conversing with his pupil, who asks,
“Tf a woman should fall into the water and
the only way of rescuing her was to extend
the hand, should he attempt to save her or
let her perish?’’ ‘‘*Better let her drown,’’ re-
turned the philosopher, ‘‘than contaminate
your hand by her touch.’’

Prorir ror Missions. —In England a hen-
keeper recently formed a Sunday Egg Society.
He resolved that the profits on all eggs laid
by his eight hens on Sundays should be given
to missions. For the first year this amounted
to about five dollars. A curious thing about
the matter was that fifteen more eggs were
laid on Sunday than on any other day of the
week. This society now has sixteen hens.
Could any of our farmer friends do the same?

OUR BOOK TABLE.

Your CONFIRMATION Vow. By Rev. F. Kuegele.
Second Edition. Augusta Publishing Company,
Koiner’s Store, Va. Price, 26 cts.; gilt edge,

We are glad to see that a second edition of this ex-
cellent little book has become necessary. It should
be placed in the hands of all our catechumens. It

‘will remind them of the meaning of their Confirma-

tion Vow, will point out to them the dangers that
beset their path and also the means by which they
can overcome those dangers. Thus it will prove to
them a true friend and faithful guide until their
journey ends. —The book may be ordered also from
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Liberal
reduction is granted to pastors ordering in quan-
tities. We hope that a third edition will soon be-
come necessary and that then the book will be issued
in larger print.

Tne REAL PRESENCE or Why do I believe the Lu-
theran Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper? By
Wm. Dallmann. American Lutheran Publica-
tion Board, Pittsburg, Pa. Price, 10 cts. per
copy; $1.00 per dozen; $7.50 per hundred.

Plain, brief, and to the point! We heartily recom-
mend this booklet as an excellent treatise on the

Lutheran doctrine concerning the Lord’s Supper,

which doctrine, as the treatise proves, is none other

than the doctrine of the Bible and of the Church in ~
her best days.

PsaLtmM 98, 1—4.
C. Kuntze.

Zweistimmiger Festgesang von
Arrangirt mit Orgel- oder Harmo-
nium-Begleitung fiir unsere Schiiler-Chére von
Fr. Fiirber. Concordia Publ. House, St. Louls,
Mo. Price, 15 cts. Without accompaniment,
25 cents per dozen.

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Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. J. Koss-
mann, Missionary, from Bethlehem Congregation,
New Orleans, La., $25.00; of Rev. J. C. Schmidt,
Missionary, from Grace Congregation in Greens-
boro, N. C., 12.00; of Rev. J. Ph. Schmidt, Mis-
sionary, from Grace Congregation in Concord, N.C.,
10.00; of Rev. F. J. Lankenau, Missionary, New
Orleans, La., from Mount Zion Congregation 25.00,
and from St. Paul’s Congregation 25.00.

A. C. BurGporF, Treas.
St. Louis, Mo., March 20, 1900.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NeEw ORLEaNs, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
1625 Annette Str., between Olaiborne and Derbigny.

Divine services: Sunday morning at 934 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 734 o’clock.
Wednesday evening at 1% o’clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 o’clock Tuesday

evening.
Singing School meets at 744 o'clock Friday evening.

EV. LUTH. MOUNT ZION CHURCH.
Cor. S, Franklin and Thalia Stra.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o’clock.
Sunday evening at 7% o'clock.
Thursday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 94% o'clock.
Adult ‘catechumen class mects at 7% o'clock Friday
evening.
Young Peoples’ Concordia Circle and Singing School
meet Wednesday evening at 734 o'clock.
F. J. LANKENAUD, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: Sunda; evening at 7% o'clock.
Thursday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School at 9% o'clock.
Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at 7} o'clock and
aftcr the divine service on Thursday cvening.
Choir practice at 74 o'clock on Tuesday evening and
after divine service on ‘Thursday cven| ng.
Circle for Young People meets at the school every Tacs-
day evening at 7} o’clock.
J. W. F. KossMANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
r Springfield, It.
Divine Services at half past 10 o'clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 3 o’clock ¥. aM. =
Catechumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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