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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. | stant increase in the regular contributions that
we find our greatest encouragement. Many of
our people never see any money. They work
for the farmers, and are paid in kind. The
contents of s collection basket would very
often amuse Americans, no doubt. Some in
the congregation may have chickens, and they
bring eggs to church and offer them. Occa-
sionally, one will give a chicken. Once Dr. Uhl
and myself were given a sheep as collection.
Among weavers, and there are many of our
Christians from this class, they give reels of
thread. The women bring grain of various
kinds tied up in the corners of their cloths.
In a number of congregations the women will
set apart for the Lord one small handful of
rice every time they go to cook a meal. In
Guntur, during the year 1899, enough money
was raised in this way to support a helper in
our mission.

Try Gop’s Banx.— A missionary in the
midst of the work, seeing the opportunities
of gathering the harvest going to waste, calls
upon Christians to put more of their money in
God’s bank by supporting the mission cause.
He writes: ‘‘Some of the natives at times have
doubts about the unalloyed love and entire
willingness of the people of Christian lands to
give, and I think to myself that it would not
fall heayily upon the church at home to devote
more than hitherto to the cause of missions.
Dare a Christian ever say, I cannot give more
than I have already given? Know ye not the
law of love in the kingdom of Christ: ‘Give,
and it shall be given unto you? Every gift
offered in Jesus’ name He looks upon as so
much loaned to Him, and He will pay you
larger interest than any bank. O that many
in our dear church would learn the blessing of
this mystery! The hoarding of earthly goods
brings but cares and discontent.’’

Report on Bisre Distrisution. — At the
recent anniversary of the British and Foreign
Bible Society a very favorable report of the
work done during the past year was submitted
and discussed. The report stated that 845,597
complete Bibles, 1,508,176 New Testaments,
and 2,760,586 portions, a total of 4,914,359,
had been sent out by the Society during the
year. The issues, both of Bibles and Testa-
ments, had increased, while portions showed
a decrease of 177,226 copies. ‘The trouble in
China had reduced the circulation in that
agency by 250,000 copies, mainly portions.
Apart from China, the Society’s circulation
had advanced. The total issues since the foun-
dation of the Society, in 1804, have been only
30,000 short of 170 million copies. No fewer
than 812 colporteurs have been supported by
the Society in twenty-seven different coun-
tries, an increase of about thirty. In the
East, 616 native Christian Bible women were
maintained in connection with thirty different
missionary organizations. At the Paris Ex-
hibition, 400,000 Gospels were given away.
Translations or revisions of Scripture have
been in progress in over a hundred languages.

A CurnesE Martrr.—The age of martyr-
dom is not passed. This is seen from the fol-
lowing case as reported hy the London Chris-
tian World: U-Wen-Yin, a native Chinese
convert who was manager of his village, was
arrested and summoned before the mandarin.
Before leaving he went on his knees before
his aged mother to bid her a last farewell.
The heroic mother exclaimed: ‘If thou diest
for the faith, God will take care of us; do not
trouble about me or thy children. If thou de-
niest thy faith, I will no longer recognize thee
for my son.’’ ‘‘Mother,’’ he replied, ‘‘be at
ease; by God’s grace I will never apostatize.’’
On his being summoned to deny his faith, and
refusing to do so, the mandarin ordered him
to be bastinadoed till he lost consciousness.
On his coming to himself, the mandarin again
offered him the same choice, with the same re-
sult and the same cruel punishment. He was
then hung up in a wooden cage, upon which
he said to the judge: ‘‘When I shall be no
longer able to speak on account of the pain,
and you see my lips moving, don’t think I am
pronouncing the words of apostasy; they will
be prayers.’’ A few minutes later his features
altered, he was cut down and found to be
already dead. Surely such scenes are worthy
of the days of early Christians.

A Srriminc Contrast. — Rey. Dr. John G.
Paton, the venerable missionary of the New
Hebrides, whose recital of pathetic experiences
among the cannibals thrilled the audiences at
the Ecumenical Conference in New York, and
who is pleading with the civilized governments
to prohibit the sale of firearms and strong drink
among the savages in heathen lands, recently
said in an address in Glasgow, Scotland, that
forty-two years ago when he arrived in the
South Sea Islands, the islanders were canni-
bals of the lowest and most brutal type; in-
fanticide was prevalent; there was no written
language; two missionaries had already been
devoured by the savages, and the next two
had to flee to ‘‘save their bacon;’’ but he and
& fellow worker were able to remain, form the
spoken tongue into a written dialect, trans-
late the Bible into it, convert the cannibals

A Goop ExAmrie.— One of the missionaries
of the General Synod writes of the good ex-
ample given by native Christians in the India
field. They are liberal givers to the mission

"cause. The missionary writes: In India our
_ Christians are taught diligently to give. A few
ears ago, when our mission celebrated its
ubilee, all who had fixed salaries agreed to

‘month’s salary as & jubilee offering.
as a special effort, and the Heyer Me-
uilding, a dormitory for the boarding

es to the fact that it was in large
success. Itis, however, in the con-

by the hundred into well-clad, civilized, and
devout Christians, and found a series of mis-
sions which constitute some of the monumental
marvels of our missionary age. In due time
the natives collected and paid $60,000 toward
the cost of printing the Scripture in their own
tongue.

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Do you feel that you could do more, pray
more, or give more, and are tempted not to
do it? Look at it again in the light of Geth-
semane and Calvary. How the treasures and
pleasures of earth pale, like the rushlight be-
fore the glorious noontide sun, as we think of
the appeal of the great Apostle, who himself
had sacrificed all for Christ, ‘‘Ye know the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, though
He was rich, yet for your sakes became poor,
that ye through His poverty might be rich.”

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. J.C. Schmidt
from Grace Church in Greensboro, N. C., $12.00; of
Mr. J. McDavid from Holy Trinity Church, Spring-
field, Ill., 10.00; of Rev. F.J. Lankenau from St. Paul’s
Church in New Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rev. K.
Kretzschmar from Mt. Zion Church in New Orleans,
La., 25.00; of Rev. J. Kossmann from Bethlehem
Church in New Orleans, La., 25.00.

St. Louis, Mo., May 15, 1901.

A. C. BurGporr, Treas.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORLEANS, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
1625 Annette Str., between Olaiborne and Derbigny.

Divine services: Sunday morning at 944 o'clock.

Sunday evening at 744 o'clock.

Wednesday evening at A o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% o'clock.
Adult cateonumen class meets at 734 o’clock Tuesday

evening.
Singing School meets at 74 o’clock Friday evening.
F. J. LANKENAD, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. MOUNT ZION CHURCH.
Cor. S. Franklin and Thalia Stra.

Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.
Sunda: evening: at Dm ovclocks
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 People's Concordia Circle and Singing School
meet Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock.
KARL KRETZSCHMAR, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: Sunda syening at 7% o'clock.
Thursday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School at 934 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at 734 o'clock and
after the divine service on Thursday evening.
Choir practice at 744 o’clock on Tuesday cvening and
after divine service on Thursday even ng.
Circle tor Young People meets at the school every Tacs-
day evening at 734 o’clock.
J. W. F. KOS8MANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.

Springfield, It.
Divine services at half pase 10 o’clock Sunday morning
8 a at A piclock pans Heyievening:
on o'c Me
Oatechamen, clans meets Monday and Friday cyenings-
Singing-school Tucsday evening.

TERMS: ;
Tae LurneraN Pionzer is published monthly,
payable in advance at the following rates, postage
included, oom:

to one b 3
All pone communications to be addressed to
“Concordia Publishing House,” St. Louis, Mo.
‘All communications concerning the editorial de-
ent to be add: to Prof. R. A. BiscHo¥?)
mcordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.

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