The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1900, Page 36

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

A FRIEND, who attended the recent sessions
of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference at Bay
City, Mich., writes: ‘‘Much time was devoted
to our Colored Mission Work. The report sub-
mitted by our Mission Board was very en-
couraging. The Revs. Bakke and Lankenau,
two of our laborers in the mission field, made
eloquent appeals for the enlargement of the
work which God has so richly blessed. I doubt
not that all who were present resolved to labor
with still greater zeal for our mission among
the colored people. May all the members of
our congregations fall in line, and may God
continue to bless our faithful laborers in the
mission field.”’

From the field in North Carolina the follow-
ing report has been sent: ‘‘On Aug. 12th, at
8 o’clock r. m., candidate R. Oehlschlaeger of
Richmond, Va., who is a graduate of our Col-
lege at Conover, N. C., and of our Theological
Seminary at St. Louis, Mo., was installed as
missionary in Winston, N. C., in the place of
Rey. J. F. Pfeiffer, who had accepted a call
to Cleveland, O. The installation sermon was
preached by Rev. John C. Schmidt, of Greens-
boro, N. C., in the presence of a large con-
course of enthusiastic colored people, who by
word and deed expressed their joy over this
new gift of God and with encouraging words
promised the new missionary to do all they
could to make his stay both pleasant and bene-
ficial for the spreading of God’s kingdom in
this city.”’

Tue Hon. Geo. F. Seward, ex-Minister of
the United States to China, gave his views on
the troubles in that country. In the course of
his remarks, he spoke as follows of the work
of Protestant missions and those engaged in it.
His testimony is both valuable and significant:
‘People at large make too much of missionary
work as an occasion for trouble. While I was
in China—twenty years—I always congratu-
lated myself on the fact that the missionaries
were there. ‘There were good men and able
men among the merchants and officials, but it
was the missionary who exhibited the foreigner
in benevolent work, as having other aims than
those which may justly be called selfish. The
good done by missionaries in the way of edu-
cation, of medical relief, and of other charities,
can not be overstated. If in China there were
none other than missionary influences, the up-
building of that great people would go for-
ward securely. I was nearly twenty years in
China, endeavoring to serve our government
and people. During all that time, not an
American missionary suffered death from the
violence of the Chinese. I am not a religionist,
not a church member, but I have the pro-
foundest admiration for the missionary as I
have known him in China. He is a power for
good and for peace, not for evil.’? — If there
__is'any trouble caused by missionaries, it is by

those of the Romish church.

Kine Makea, of Rarotonga, an island of the
South Sea, was lying at the point of death.
Missionary Buzerott visited him and sought
to comfort and strengthen him. Suddenly the
old king raised himself up in bed and said
with a loud voice: ‘‘I did it in ignorance. But
why did you Christians not come to us sooner
with the good Word of God?”’ Truly, a hu-
miliating question out of the mouth of a dying
king, addressed to us who know our King’s
charge, that His Business requireth haste!

Tue accounts of the famine in India reveal
a condition of things that beggars description.
No such disaster has come upon that empire
since English rule swayed it. Four millions
of people are now depending on private or
public charity if they are to be saved from
starvation —twice as many as in the famine
of 1897. The outlook for the months to come
is even worse. Already an area of 300,000
square miles, with a population of 40,000,000,
is involved, but a further area, half as large,
and with a corresponding population, is likely
to be similarly stricken, and already there is
more or less suffering.

Nor long ago the treasurer of one of the
missionary societies received a letter which
read something like this: ‘*You will find $15
in this letter. It is sent as a gift from a boy
who died last June. Gilbert, from whom this
money came, was 14 years old, and a boy be-
loved by all. His father allowed him a little
land on which to raise some thing for himself.
Gilbert decided that the money which he would
make should be given to Foreign Missions.
He died before the harvest was reaped, but
this money was made out of his crop and is
now sent as he desired.’’

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Letter from Winston, N. C.

The readers of the Pioneer will no doubt be
pleased to hear of an enjoyable event at Grace
Lutheran Church, Greensboro, N.C. As, per-
haps, some of the readers of the Pioneer are
aware, Mr. Buntrock, the teacher at our school
in Greensboro, has been on an extended vaca-
tion to his home in Milwaukee, Wis., where he
visited relatives and friends. From Milwaukee
he also made several trips to different parts of
the Northwest, notably to Detroit, where he at-
tended the sessions of Synod of the Michigan
District, and also to Bay City, Mich., where
he attended the sessions of the Synodical Con-
ference. At both places he was called upon
for addresses, concerning the work among our
colored people in North Carolina. Besides
these two synodical sessions he also looked
after the interests of the Colored Mission by
delivering short talks at several mission festi-
yals in Milwaukee.

On his return to Greensboro he was ap-
prised of the fact that the Young People’s

Society had made preparations for a recep-
tion in his honor. The reception took place
on the evening of the 20th of August in the
school-hall, where quite a number had gath-
ered to welcome their teacher back in their
midst. There was an introductory speech by
the president of the Society, which was fol-
lowed by an organ voluntary by one of the
young ladies. The rest of the program con-
sisted of speeches, recitations, songs by the
choir, etc. The literary part of the program
was then brought to a close by a prayer by
the pastor. The rest of the evening was given
up to refreshments and social intercourse.
Too much praise can not be bestowed on the
young ladies for their ice-cream and cake and
other delicacies. Ata somewhat late hour the
reception came to aclose, all saying that they
had spent a very enjoyable evening. ‘.
R. O.

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. J. Ph.
Schmidt from Grace Congregation in Concord, N.C.,
$10.00; of Rev. Wm. Pretzsch from congregation
in Mansura, La., 25.00. "

A. C. BurGporr, Treas.

St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 21, 1900.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw OrvxEans, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
1625 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Derbigny.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 934 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 7% o'clock.
Wednesday evening at 1% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% o‘clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 7%4 o'clock Tuesday
evening.
Singing School meets at 74 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 7% 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
meet Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock.
F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: Sunday evening at 73% o'clock.
Thursday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School at 9% o'clock. F a
Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at 7} o'clock an
aftcr the divine service on Thursday evening. a
Choir practice at 734 o'clock on Tuesday evening an
after divine service on Thursday evening.
Circle for Roung ai nle meets at the school every Tucs-
a t 734 o'clock.
F even Oa SW. F. KOSSMANN, Missionary.
peer A Ait wate be Se eS
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.

Oatechnmen class mects Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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