The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1900, Page 20

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

As we learn from one of our exchanges,
the Rev. J. F. Pfeiffer, one of our missionaries
in North Carolina, has accepted the call of
an English Lutheran congregation in Cleve-
land, O. Our mission station at Winston,
N. C., will be supplied with a student from
our Lutheran Seminary at St. Louis.

Ocr Lutheran Deaf and Dumb Congrega-
tion at Milwaukee, Wis., now numbers 22 vot-
ing and 41 communicant members. The Lord
has richly blessed the work begun but a few
years ago. The congregation sorely needs a
chapel for church purposes. An appeal for
aid will be made to the pupils of our Lutheran
schools, which, we hope, will meet with a
liberal response.

Tue City Missionary. — This is the name
of a bright little mission paper published in
the interest of our Lutheran city mission at
St. Louis and edited by the missionary, Rev.
F. W. Herzberger, who is doing a blessed
work in that large and growing city. From
the paper any one may easily learn that in
our large cities there are fields white unto the
harvest.

Says the Lutheran of Philadelphia: Mis-
souri Lutherans are not confining their mis-
sion efforts to their own nationality or their
own household of faith. They are the only
Lutherans who are making an earnest effort
to reach the American negro, and now they
are laboring among the Italians in Brooklyn
where they have an Italian missionary at work.
Some Lutherans confine their mission efforts
to those of their own race and family. The
Scriptural conception of mission work is. ex-
pressed thus: ‘‘Preach the Gospel to every
creature.’”

Tue story is told of an American clergy-
man, who, passing through Beirut, said to a
friend: ‘*Missionaries here seem to accom-
plish nothing.”’ ‘‘You heard Dr. Thomson
preach this morning, I presume?”’ ‘‘No, I
did not know there was any service.’’ ‘‘Then
did you hear Dr. Van Dyck this afternoon?”’
“You don’t mean that he preaches in addition
to all his other work?”’ ‘‘Yes, and has a large
audience, too. Have you visited any of their
schools?’? ‘‘Schools! have they schools also?
I am glad to hear it.’’ ‘‘Have you looked
in on their press and publication rooms?”
‘What! have they a printing establishment
besides?’” ‘*Yes, and it keeps twenty men
Constantly busy.’” All of which is rather hard
on the clergyman. But is not his ignorance
typical of the ignorance of a great many Chris-
fians on the subject of missions? A good deal
‘of prejudice and indifference to mission work
is based on ignorance of its real merits and

In the Shansi Province of China a copy of
the Gospel of Mark fell into the hands of a
learned man and a priest. The one read the
strange book aloud to the other. There was
a great deal in it which neither reader nor
hearer understood. But they were so im-
pressed that they came to the conviction that
the book must come from heaven, and they
paid divine honors to it for many years. Later
on they received a New Testament, and began
to worship Jesus and the apostles. When at
last a Chinese evangelist came to their coun-
try, these two men were the first who joined
themselves tohim. They were instructed and
baptized, and, filled with zeal for Christ, be-
gan to gather two little churches around
them.

Dr. BorcuGRrevink writes from Madagascar
that the outlook of the Norwegian missions is
now favorable in all directions. In Ambatola-
moy district, which lately had been the weakest
part, a French Lieutenant has been appointed
as governor, who shows perfect impartiality
between Protestants and Catholics. ‘‘Our old
persecutor, the native governor of Ambatola-
moy, sees it is time to take a reef in his sails,
and has been going about rebuking the Catho-
lics with downright hard words for their per-
secuting spirit. In Ilaka, where only four or
five children dared to come at our last visit,
we now have at least six hundred children,
and a great number of grown-up Christians
have ventured to return to us. It is particu-
larly encouraging that in two districts, where
the persecutions of the Jesuits have been spe-
cially severe (Soatanana and Fahisinana), we
have never in any year had so rich a harvest
of baptisms as in the midst of these very per-
secutions.’’

Tue Power OF THE Worp. — Twenty years
ago a traveler in Burma left a copy of the
Psalms where he stayed. A native read the
book, resolved to cast away his idols, learned
Psalm 51, and used it as a daily prayer. At
last a missionary visited his village and gave
him a New Testament. The story of salva-
tion filled him with joy. ‘‘For twenty years,’’
he said, ‘‘I have walked by starlight; now I
see the sun.”’

Tne Sultan of Morocco, a fanatical Moham-
medan, does not think of abolishing the lucra-
tive trade of negro slaves in his country. The
wicked traflic in human bodies and souls is
carried on secretly in the coast cities where
the European and American consuls reside.
‘The two capitals, Fez and Morocco, however,
have open slave markets with weekly sales by
auctioneers and the government gets its per-
centage of every purchase. The lot ef the
slaves in that benighted country is a miser-
able one; their masters who constantly call
upon the name of Allah the All-merciful, show
no mercy to the poor creatures in their pos-
session.

(For the LuTHERAN PIONEER.)

She was Glad to Die.

On the 17th of Febr., 1900, Miss Adie D.
Hadley, an esteemed fellow-member of the
Ey. Luth. St. James’ congregation at Southern
Pines, N. C., was called to the rest that re-
mains for the people of God.

Once during Miss Hadley’s illness, she re-
marked to the writer: ‘‘If it is the will of my
Saviour for me to recover, I shall be glad;
if not, I shall be glad to die.”’

All members of our Lutheran congregations,
also Concordia Circles will sympathize with the
members at Southern Pines. :

Mary J. Martin,
Secretary of Concordia Circle.

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rey. Wm.
Pretzsch, Missionary, from congregation in Man-
sura, La., $10.00; of Rev. D. H. Schoofl, Missionary,
from congregation in Mcherrin, Va., 14.00; of Rev.
F. J. Lankenau, Missionary, from Mount Zion Con-
gregation in New Orleans, La., 25.00, and from
St. Paul’s Congregation in New Orleans, La., 25.00;
of J. Kossmann, Missionary, from Bethlehem Con-
gregation in New Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rev. J.C.
Schmidt, Missionary, from Grace Congregation in
Greensboro, N. C., 12.00.

A. C. BurGcporr, Treas.

St. Louis, Mo., April 21, 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 944 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 7% o'clock.
Wednesday evening at i% 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 7% o'clock.
Thursday evening at 7% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9¥4 o'clock.
Adult catechninen class mects at 7% o’clock Friday
evening.
Young Peoples’ Concordia Circle and Singing Schoo}
mect Wednesday evening at 74 o'clock.
F. J. LANKENAD, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: Sunday evening at 734 o'clock.
Thursday evening at 734 o’clock.
Sunday School at 91% o’clock. a
Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at 714 0’clock an
aftcr the divine service on Thursday evening. a
Choir practice at 744 o’clock on Tuesday cvening an
after divine service on Thursday even! ng
Cirele for Young People meets at the school every Tacs-
jay cvening at 74 o'clock.
f e es J. W. F. Koss ann, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfield, Tu.
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.
Catechumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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