The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1900, Page 24

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‘is doing well, and the children learn well.

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

A Lapy member of our congregation at
Southern Pines, N. C., writes: ‘‘We are very
much pleased with our nice new chapel, for
which we thank our dear Saviour. The school
We
Lutherans at Southern Pines are proud of our
church and school, which has been given to us
by our Northern white friends. We love the
Church, we love the Catechism, and with God’s
help will be faithful unto death. We pray that
we may continue to have a school. To lose
this school and church now would be heart-
rending.”’

Ovr Colored Lutheran congregation at Man-
sura, La., numbers 29 members; 27 children
attend the school. Palm Sunday was a day
of rejoicing for the missionary and his little
flock. On that day six children, who had
been thoroughly instructed in the Catechism,
were confirmed in the presence of a large con-
gregation.

Guap news has come from the mission field
of the Missouri Synod in India. In the season
of Lent missionary Mohn baptized his first con-
yert from heathenism. May God continue to
bless the patient labor of His servants.

In the Lutheran of Philadelphia we read: A
washer-woman, in one of the smallest congre-
gations in Allentown, enclosed in her Lenten
pyramid both an offering and a note. The
offering amounted to $1.25, and the note con-
tained this sentence: ‘‘I thank God that He
has kept me in health and strength that I conld
bring this mite-offering to you.’’ Doubtless
this woman, like the widow of old, found her
chief satisfaction in a real act of self-sacrifice
and notin the applause of men. Alongside of
her gift, the thousands and hundreds of thou-
sands given by millionaires, are small enough.

Tuis reminds us of another story. To our
missionary at Dry’s School House, N. C., there
recently came a poor, crippled, old colored
woman to hand him her offering to the mission
treasury. Carefully she untied her handker-
chief in which her capital was hidden, and with
a trembling hand she gave her offering to the
missionary. It was one cent. Gladly and
thankfully the missionary received her gift,
thinking of the widow’s mite. Verily, ‘she
hath done what she could.”? How few there
are of whom this can be said!

‘A wisstonary in China tells the pitiful story
of the finding in a deep ditch of a little baby,
abandoned by its heathen parents because it
Was) girl. In a few hours more the dogs
‘Would have eaten her. The parents had given
the baby so much opium that it was a long
In recovering.

I one of the provinces of China the church
members numbered 35 in 1896 and 402 in 1899.
During the same period the contributions of
the natives for missionary work rose to over
$6000. In one of the cities of the province
a Buddhist monastery was converted into a
Christian chapel. The progress of missions
is not so rapid everywhere or at all times, but
everywhere the Lord is fulfilling His promise,
*SLo, I am with you,’’ and Christian workers
should take courage in the assurance that their
labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Four Times BLinp. —‘‘Not many years ago
Iwas blind,”’ said a native preacher in Hunan,
‘*but thanks to the foreign doctor, he restored
my sight. But when I first picked up a book
I found that I was blind still, for I could not
read. The characters looked most compli-
cated, and very much alike to me, but by hard
and faithful study I was at last able to read,
when, to my disniay, I was told that I was still
as one blind, for my heart’s eye had not been
opened. I found that this was true, and that
I was living indarkness. But by God’s grace
the Great Physician also opened my heart’s
eye, so that now I can see, and am able to
read my title clear to the mansions above.
But after all, while here below, we see only as
through a glass darkly ; by and bye, we shall
see as we are seen and know as we are known.”’

Brsve societies. —There are seventy-three
Bible societies in the world, chiefly, of course,
in Europe and America. The most prominent
of these are the British and Foreign Bible So-
ciety and the American Bible Society. The
former was organized in 1804, and has since
that time printed and circulated 160,000,000
copies. The American Society was founded
in 1817. Its output has been 66,000,000 vol-
umes. It is estimated that the combined circu-
lation of all Bible societies is about 280,000,000
copies. And trustworthy authorities say that,
adding to that of the Bible societies the output
of private firms, half a billion copies of the
Sacred Scriptures have likely been circulated
in the world during the present century.

New Guinea. —In New Guinea a little over
twenty-five years ago there was not a spot
where the name of God was heard. Now there
are 117 chapels where He is worshiped.

AN AWFUL TRUTH is presented in one of our
exchanges. It says: Supposing you should
want to see the heathen pass by you and thus
get some idea of their overwhelming numbers ;
then stand in your doorway and if possible let} P
them walk down the road at the rate of thirty
every minute. If you waited until all had
passed once, you would be obliged to stand
there never leaving, never sleeping, day after
day, week after week, month after month,
year after year, for more than fifty years.
How many of us appreciate this fact?

Worrn TEttinc. —Said a heathen to a mis-
sionary: ‘‘There must be something in your
religion which makes you come all the way
out here to tell us of it. I am sure I would
not go so far to tell you of mine.’’? Nothing
is, perhaps, more likely to impress the minds
of pagan people than the evidence that mis-
sionaries afford that the good news is worth
telling.

OUR BOOK TABLE.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, Explained in Sermonic
Lectures by Rev. W. Dallmann. Second Edi-
tion. Revised. American Lutheran Publication
Board, Pittsburg, Pa. Price, $1.00.

We again heartily recommend this valuable book
as one which can not fail to prove profitable if care-
fully and prayerfully read.

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, New Orleans, La., from Mount Zion
Congregation 25.00, and from St. Paul’s Congrega-
tion 25.00.

A. C. BurGcporr, Treas.

St. Louis, Mo., May 22, 1900.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New Or.xEans, 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 T%40! clock.
. Wednesday evening at 7% o’clock.
Sunday. School: Sunday morning at 1044 0! ‘clock.
a G pcatechamen class meets at 734 o'clock Tuesday

Singing meebo! meets at 744 o’clock Friday evening.

EV. LUTH. MOUNT ZION CHURCH.
Cor, S. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services: panaay, morning at 11 o’clock.
Sunday evening at 734 o'clock.
Thursday evening at % o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 934 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class mects at 7% o'clock Friday
evening
Young Peoples’ Concordia Circle and Singing School
mect Wednesday evening at 7% o’cloc
F, J. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM OHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: punday evening at o'clock.
fay evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School at 914 o'clock.
Adult catechumen Class every Tucsday at 74 0'clock and
aftcr the divine service on Thursday evening.
Choir jpractice at 744 o'clock on Tuesday evening and
after divine service on Thursday even ng.
Circle for Young People meets at the school every Tacs-
day evening at 7} preleok
V. F. KOSSMANN, 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 mects ‘Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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