The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1901, Page 4

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

A New Votoume. — With this number we
open a new volume of our paper. With God’s
help our little Pronger will continue to speak
his simple words for Jesus. In the Gospel
which he proclaims there can be no change.
In the midst of all the changes of life and of
all the progress made in this world God’s Word
always remains the same. The old Lutheran
pastor was right when he said to his children
in a confirmation address: ‘‘Unbelieving men
will shake their heads at your faith. They
will, as they usually do, call their unbelief
progress. They will say to you, ‘Advance-
ment is made in all things, why will you stick
to the old Christian faith?’ Then answer them,
‘The old sun up yonder has been shining these
thousands of years, and no man will bring us
a better one, we can only keep learning to
make better use of his beams. So, too, does
Christ, the Sun of healing, shine through all
times. We shall get no other. Jesus Christ
the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. We
will apply His beams of grace still better for
our heart and life. That is our progress.’’’

Preacu THE GosreL.—In the city of De-
troit, a member of another communion entered
an English Lutheran church of the Missouri
Synod one Sunday, in order to learn the char-
acter of a Lutheran service. He was so favor-
ably impressed that he published a full account
of the service in a Detroit newspaper, highly
praising the positive character of the Gospel
he had listened to, as over against the preach-
ing heard in so many pulpits. He says, ‘‘We
grow weary of the senseless tom-foolery in
our churches. We want a service that means
something. Above all, we demand that the
Law and the Gospel, the teachings of Christ,
of His apostles, evangelists, and prophets,
shall be proclaimed from our pulpits—and
not this everlasting politics, sociology, Chris-
tian science, evolution, and other so-called
sciences, and the thousands of themes and
topics, in which many people, whom we call
preachers, are so much at home, and with
which, by their humorous anecdotes, they
tickle the fancy of their hearers, while they
rob them of the heavenly food their souls
increasingly need.’”’ Thank God, Lutheran
preachers still preach the good, old-fashioned
Gospel. The human soul does not need the
husks of human wisdom, but the bountiful
_ Gospel-table spread by our heavenly Father
for the salvation of sinners.

_ Be Farrurut. — Thousands of persons have
begun the year who will not see its end. The
very thought is laden with sadness. Butthere
_ is another sad thought. Are there not per-
ho, now in the church living members
» partaking of its active life, will, before

elve months go around, abandon their
_ Places, and be missed from among their breth-

sad to think of them making shipwreck of their
faith. Every Christian should pray that he
be kept faithful until the end.

Power or Examrre.— A Scotch woman
used to lay aside a penny a day for missions.
A visitor, incidentally learning that the poor
woman had been for many days without meat,
gave her a sixpence to buy some. But she
said, ‘‘I have long done very well on my por-
ridge, so I will give the sixpence also to God.’’
This fact was narrated at a missionary break-
fast, and the host and his guests were pro-
foundly impressed. The host said: ‘‘I have
never denied myself so much as a chop for
God.’”’ A very large sum was immediately
subscribed as a result of that touching inci-
dent. What have we ever denied ourselves for
the advancement of Christ’s kingdom? Has
it ever cost us the necessities of life to show
our love for our Saviour?

A Curist1an Pays nis Dents. — Mayor
Nichols, of Wilkes-Barre, received a letter
that was out of the usual run. It was from a
former citizen, now a soldier at Manila, who
wrote that he had become converted, and had
decided to pay all of his debts. He gave the
names of three parties in Wilkes-Barre to whom
he owed money, and asked that their bills be
sent him for payment.

Tne New Pastor.— A Maine journal quotes
the following from a considerate woman in re-
gard to her new pastor: ‘‘We are going to
have a new minister here. Some of you may
not like him; you did not all like the one we
have had. I may not like him as well, but if
I do not, I am going to keep still about it.
I am not going to talk about him, but I am
going to pray for him and with him, and for
myself.’”” Wouldn’t this be good advice for
other church members to follow?

Is Ir Poss1stE?— An exchange reports the
following: The home and foreign mission work
was presented not long ago to one of the oldest
Lutheran congregations in the State of In-
diana. The speakers were invited to tea to one
of the wealthiest and most liberal families.
The grandfather, hale and hearty at 74, and
a member of the congregation from his youth,
declared that he had never heard of these works
and of their necessity before. For sixty years
and more the subject of home and foreign mis-
sions never once earnestly presented in a Lu-
theran church! That this is not an isolated
case the mission treasuries of the church abun-
dantly prove. Pastor, how often do you talk
missions to your people? Let the mission cause
be a more frequent subject in the new year.

——_~> oe

‘tT ant not careful for what may be a hun-
dred years hence. He who governed the world
before I was born shall take care of it like-
wise when I am dead. My part is to improve
the present moment.”’

A Testament Better than a House.

In one of the Society Islands, a native con-
vert had his house burnt, and was himself
considerably injured in attempts to save his
little property. He called on the missionary
to procure some dressings for his wounds,
and, on receiving words of sympathy for his
misfortune, he said, ‘‘True, it is some work
to build a house, but though I have lost my
house, I have saved my Testament,’’ pulling
it out of his bosom, and exhibiting it with
great satisfaction.

———_—— eee

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. J. Koss-
mann, from Bethlehem Church, New Orleans, La.,
$25.00; of Rev. J.C. Schmidt, from Grace Church
in Greensboro, N.C., 12.00; of Rey. J. Ph. Schmidt,
from Grace Church in Concord, N. C., 10.00; of
Mr. John McDavid from Holy Trinity Church fn
Springfield, Ill., 10.00.

St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 22, 1900.

A. C, BurGporr, Treas.

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 9¥4 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 7% o’clock.
ednesday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 1034 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class mects at 734 o’clock Tuesday

evening.
Singing School meets at 74 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 o'clock.
< Thursday evening at 7% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 o'clock Friday
evening.
Young People’s Concordia Circle and Singing School
meet Wednesday evening at 734 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.
Adult catechumen Class every Tucsday at 74 0'clock and
aftcr the divine service on Thursday evening.
Choir practice at 734 o'clock on Tuesday cvening and
after divine service on Thursday even: ng.
Circle for Young People meets at the school every Taes-
day cvening at 74 o'clock.
J. W. F, KossMANN, Missionary:
ES SE ee eed ee

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.

Springfteld, Ill.
Divine services at half eyes 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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