The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1901, Page 12

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That is heathenism.

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. | ants lots of saints’ pictures, printed like post-
age stamps, and told them to eat them because
they were blessed remedies for hunger, colic,
and the like. The Polish peasants devoured
the Jesuits’ stamps by the handful, and the

fathers pocketed dimes by the handfuls.’’
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Care ror Orrans. —The Evangelical Lu-
theran Children’s Friend Society, of Wiscon-
sin, which recently held its fourth annual meet-
ing, is doing a most excellent work and has
been very successful. The object of this so-
ciety is to care for orphaned and neglected

A Lesson mx Grvixc. — A minister says that
in one of his charges a rich man regularly gave,
every Sunday, five dollars for the support of
the church. A poor widow was also a mem-
ber of the same church, who supported her-
self and six children by washing. She was as
regular as the rich man in making her offer-
ing of five cents per week, which was all she
could spare from her scant earnings. One day
the rich man came to the minister and said
that the poor woman ought not to pay any-
thing, and that he would pay the five cents
for her every week. The pastor called to tell
her of the offer, which he did in a considerate
manner. Tears came to the woman’s eyes as
she replied: ‘‘Do they want to take from me
the comfort I experience in giving to the Lord?
Think how much I owe to Him! My health
is good, my children keep well, and I receive
so many blessings that I feel I could not live
if I did not make my little offering to Jesus
each week.”’

parents, whilst for a number of years they
remain under the supervision of the society.
During the four years of its history the so-
ciety cared for 240 children, of whom 188 now
remain under the supervision of the society.
Of the children received during the last year,
88 were from the bounds of the Synodical Con-
ference; 28 came from outside of this body.

Anizona.— Onr Lutheran missionary among
the Indians in Arizona writes that he held very
interesting Christmas services in the mission
schools at San Carlos and Rice stations. The
missionary traveled 28 miles on horseback to
get a Christmas tree. The services were well
attended and enjoyed by both old and young.

Mapacascar. — After laboring twenty-five
years, the Norwegian Lutheran missionaries
had the pleasure of ordaining two natives from
the Sakalawa people, occupying the western
part of Madagascar. There are at least seventy
native pastors belonging to the Lutheran mis-
sions in Madagascar.

A Beaurtirut Exvetorre.—A poor servant
girl in London, who had attended the ragged
schools and received many benefits from them,
one evening, at the close of school, put into
the minister’s hand, much to his surprise, a
note which contained a half sovereign ($2.40).
Her entire wages were only $40 a year. She
offered this as a thanksgiving tribute to God
for the blessing she had received from the
schools, very modestly and beautifully re-
marking that it was not much. “But, sir,’
said she, ‘‘I have wrapped it up with an ear-
nest prayer and many tears.’’ Here is, in-
deed, a most rare and beautiful envelope.
Would that our offerings to missions, to the
Lord’s work generally, were always enclosed
in such golden envelopes, were always accom-
panied by a fervent prayer.

THE BrBxe 1N Curva. — Last year the Ameri-
can Bible Society alone spread 514,295 copies
of the Bible in China. Dr. Hykes, the colpor-
teur, reports that they have been scattered in
thousands of towns and villages, throughout
eighteen provinces. ‘There is a great demand
for Christian Scriptures far beyond what we
can supply with our limited funds. The dread-
ful outbreak of the Boxer rebellion may retard
the work in the North, but vast regions are as
yet undisturbed.’’

Romisa CaurcH iN THE Paiiprimes. — In
a letter from these islands a private in the
United States army, speaking of the Filipinos,
says, ‘‘Many of the vices of these people are
undoubtedly due to Spanish misrule and to
the Romish church, which has a great influence
overthem. This influence is not used to im-
prove their morals, but for the benefit of the
priests and friars. The Roman Catholic church
as it is in these islands is very little, if any,
better than paganism.’”’ Well, the Romish
church herself claims to be the same at all
places. She at all places ‘is very little, if
‘any, better than paganism.”’ She teaches sal-
vation, not by grace through faith in Jesus,
but by man’s works and man’s sacrifices,

A Toucuine Incipent. —The still form of a
little boy lay in a coffin surrounded by mourn-
ing friends. A mason came into the room and
asked to look at the lovely face. ‘You won-
der that I care so much,’’ he said as the tears
rolled down his cheeks, ‘‘but your boy was a
messenger of God to me. One time I was
coming down by a long ladder from a very
high roof and found your little boy close be-
hind me when I reached the ground. He looked
up in my face with a childish wonder and asked
frankly, ‘Weren't you afraid of falling when
you were up so high?’ and before I had time

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‘mean tricks, if there is money in them. Those
Jesuit fathers who were on a preaching tour
Galicia, Austrian Poland, sold to the peas-

prayed, but I never forgot to pray from that
day to this, and by God’s blessing I never
will.””

“Concordia Publishing House,” et ea a de-

The Fountain.

“If any man thirst, let him come unto Me
and drink,’’ said the Lord, ‘‘and out of his
belly shall flow rivers of living water.’? The
believer then is, as it were, a fountain out of
which the life-giving waters flow copiously.
He is like one of those drinking-fountains at
the corners of our streets, whereat on thirsty
days crowds slake their thirst. Yet, remem-
ber, the fountain is but the medium through
which the waters flow; it is the water itself
which supplies the need. It is Christ, not our-
selves, whom we must minister to those who
seek happiness.
—_—X—X—X—_—

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rey. J. Ph.
Schmidt from Grace Church in Concord, N. C.,
$10.00; of Rev. J. Kossmann from Bethlehem Church
in New Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rev. F. J. Lankenau
from St. Paul’s Church in New Orleans, La., 50.00;
of Rev. J. C. Schmidt from congregation in Elon
College, N. C., 10.35; of Ed. E. Stuckert from
St. Paul’s Church in Mansura, La., 20.00.

St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 16, 1901.

A. C, BuRGpoRF, 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% o'clock.
Sunday evening at 734 o'clock.
Wednesday evening at 714 o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 1034 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class mects at 734 o’clock Tuesday
evening.
Singing Schoo] meets at 734 o’clock Friday evening.
¥. J. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. MOUNT ZION CHURCH.

Cor. S. Franklin and Thalia Stra.

Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 74 o'clock.
Thursday evening at 7% o'clock.

Sunday School: Sunday morning at 9% o'clock.

Adult catechumen class mects at 734 o'clock Friday
evening.
Young Peopless, Concordia Circle and Singing School

meet Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock.

KARL KreTzscuMaR, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.

Divine services: pan ay, evening at 74 o'clock.
Thursday evening at 734 o'clock.

Sunday School at % o'clock.

Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at 734 0'clock and
after the divine service on Thursday evening.

Choir practice at 7% o’clock on Tuesday cvening and
after divine service on Thursday even: ng

Circle for Young People meets at the school every Tucs-
day evening at 734 o'clock.

J. W. F. KossMANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfteld, Mi.

Divine services at half ppaat 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday cvening.

Sunday School at 3 o’clock P. M.

Oatechumen class meets Monday and Friday cvenings.

Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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