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40 ; ‘The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

On the 2d of September Mr. W. Lohrmann
was installed as teacher in our Colored Lu-
theran school at Concord, N. C., and on the
same day Mr. E. Heintzen was installed as
teacher in St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran school,
New Orleans, La. May God bless our parish
schools. ‘They are doing a grand work among
the colored children,’’ said an aged Bishop of
the A. M. E. church to us some time ago.
When we asked him why his church did not
use the same means for doing mission work
among the colored people, he replied, ‘‘Oh, it
is hard work; we have not the men for such
work; you have hard-working men down
South.’”? Thank God that He gives us the
men ‘‘for such work.’”’ It is a blessed work.

Tne Lutheran Wisconsin Synod is vigor-
ously engaged in mission work among the
Apache Indians. A teacher has recently been
installed and sent to the mission field, to in-
struct the Indian children in Luther’s Cate-
chism. The missionaries will thus be enabled
to visit other Indian settlements, where there
is great need of the Gospel.

Rey. H. HAvcerBerc was recently installed
in Zion’s ehurch, St. Louis, Mo., as a mission-
ary among deaf mutes. Rev. T: Wangerin, of
Milwaukee, conducted the installation service
in the sign language.

Tux German population is said to be rapidly
increasing in Kiauchau, the German colony in
China. The Protestant Mission Society is
building a hospital at Tsingtow, and mission-
aries of the Berlin Society in the same city
have issued a translation of Luther’s Small
Catechism in the Shan-Tung dialect. They
are now preparing a Chinese Lutheran Church-
book. Swedish missionaries are laboring in
the city of Kiauchau.

Tue Religious Tract Society in China re-
cently celebrated its twenty-third anniversary.
During these 28 years over 13,000,000 copies
of Christian books and tracts have been cir-
culated. In the 91 years of missionary work
in China 3000 missionaries have been engaged,
and nearly 100,000 natives have made a pro-
fession of Christianity.

AccorpixnG to the magazine of the Her-
mannsburg Missionary Society, it is due to the
“missionaries more than to any other cause that
the negroes, or natives in South Africa, re-
mained peaceful. Their uprising, which the
English feared, would have wrought untold
hayoc in the districts where they dwell.

_ Ax Indian visited the missionary at a sta-
tion recently and said: ‘‘My people are eye-

_ blind’and ear-deaf. They do not know any-

thing, and your teachers know everything.
The Indians know what their fathers and

grandfathers have told them, but you have|I shall be very glad if you will receive this

the things written in the book.’’ Then he
said: ‘I believe; I do believe; I believe
everything you say, and I am glad the Sun-
day school is here. I like to come, and I am
coming every time I can.’’

Ar a meeting in the island of Mare during
the annual festival in May, after an address
by M. Delord, an old Nata, or native pastor,
rose and said: ‘‘My son has asked help for
the work of God in New Caledonia. Who will
answer? Here are five francs and my new
hat!’’ Never did so short a discourse pro-
duce so great an effect. On all sides, great
and small brought all they could think of,
and the front of the platform was soon heaped
with garments. The platform was fairly be-
sieged with people bringing their offerings.
Umbrellas, boxes of matches, articles of all
kinds, figured in this singular collection.

AMONG means resorted to to induce the gods
to send rain, a missionary in India mentions
that the wealthy people in Waga gave a feast
to the poor; also that, hearing a wailing in
the fields one day, she found the village girls
were burning their dolls as a sacrifice, but
when she asked if they had burned their ‘‘nice
dolls from America,”’ they had to say, ‘‘No,
we burned our own dolls made of rags.’’

Tue only Bibles allowed to the Mexican
Catholics of to-day come in from three to
twenty-five volumes, and cost from fifteen to
two hundred dollars. Such a thing as a ten
or five-cent New Testament or a one-dollar
Bible is unknown, because the Roman Catho-
lic Church does not want the Mexican people
to have the Bible in a cheap edition. The
Roman Catholic Church is afraid of the simple
Word of God.

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A Japanese Giver.

Year before last a Japanese of about middle
age, and rather poorly dressed, called on a
pastor in Kobe at an early hour one morning
and asked for a little time for conversation.
The request was granted with the expectation
on the part of the pastor that the interview
would end with a plea for a little money to
help a poor traveler on his way.

After the usual salutations the visitor said:
“T ama Christian. Not long ago I had occa-
sion to visit a town in a distant part of the
country on business, and one evening I at-
tended a prayer-meeting that I found in the
place. The evangelist at the close of the meet-
ing read a letter from you as President of the
Home Missionary Society, and I thus learned
that the Society is in special need of funds
just now. I am on my way to Tokyo, and
since I heard your letter read I have traveled
third class on steamer, train and hotel, and
have up to this point saved ten yen by doing so.

amount and use it for evangelistic work.”

The pastor was naturally very much sur-
prised at the turn of affairs, and accepted the
money with thanks. He asked his visitor what
name he should use when printing the gift in
the monthly report. The reply was: ‘My
name is So and So; but please say ‘a servant
of Christ.’’’ Thiswasdone. During the same
year another gift of ten yen came from him.
Last year he sent fifty yen, and this year he
sent one hundred yen. To all others but this
pastor the giver is known only as Kirisuto no
Shimobe— that is, A Servant of Christ.

J. L. Atkinson, D. D.

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. Paul Engel-
bert, Missionary, from his congregations at Gold
Hill and Rockwell, N. C., $18.71; of Rev. John C.
Schmidt, Missionary, from Grace Church, Greens-
boro, N.C., 12.00; of Rev. J. Kossmann, Missionary,
from Bethlehem Church, New Orleans, La., 25.00;
of Rev. J. Ph. Schmidt, Missionary, from Grace
Church, Concord, N. C., 24.50.

A. C. BuRGpORY, Treas.

St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 22, 1900.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New OrxxkEans, 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}4 o’clock.
Wednesday evening at 74 o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% o'clock.
Adult carecn amen class mects at 734 o'clock Tuosday
evening.
Singing School meets at 74 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 o'clock.
Thursday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% o'clock.
Adult catechumen class mects at 73% o’clock Friday
evening.
Young People’s Concordia Circle and Singing Schoo)
meet Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock.
¥. J. LANKENAD, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: Sunda evening at 4 o'clock.
Thureday evening at 714 o'clock.
Sunday School at 934 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at 74 o'clock and
aftcr the divine service on Thursday evening.
Choir practice at 7% o'clock on Tuesday evening and

after divine service on Thursday cven' DB
Circle for Young People meets at the school every Tacs-
day evening at 744 o'clock.
J. W. F. KossMANN, Missionary.

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Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.

Springfleld, 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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