The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1901, Page 32

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

Mission ZeaL. —A missionary gives the fol-
lowing as one trophy of divine grace in China:
‘CA woman was brought to a hospital for treat-
ment, having an incurable disease. She was
ignorant of her physical danger ; she was igno-
rant, also, of the great salvation. Her gentle
nurse hastened to tell her the ‘old, old story of
Jesus and His love.’ It was new and wonder-
ful to this heathen mind, but she at once be-
lieved the good news and accepted the freely
offered salvation. Then she was eager to go
to her friends with this glad message of the
Saviour’s love. She said to her attendant:
‘Will you ask the doctors how soon I shall be
well?’ ‘The doctors say that we must tell you
the truth—you will never be well.’ ‘Please
ask them how long I shall live.’ The reply
was, ‘Three months, with the care and com-
forts with which you are now surrounded.’
‘And how long shall I live if I go to my old
home with this blessed message from heaven?’
‘Possibly not more than three weeks.” When
the answer came this new convert exclaimed,
‘Get my clothes; I will start to-day.’ Ex-
postulation was useless, for she argued: ‘Do
you think I count the loss of a few weeks of
my life anything when I have such news to
tell my people, who have never heard of the
Saviour?’ Is the love of Christ of so much
value to us that we ‘count not our lives dear
unto ourselves,’ if we may but tell the story
to those who never heard it?’’

A GratervuLt Porit.—A German merchant
in Argentinia, a native of Tuchheim in Saxony,
returned to his native place after an absence
of 57 years for no other purpose than to have
a monument placed on the graye of his old
schoolmaster to whom, next to God, he owed
his success in life. Good for that grateful
pupil!

Free From Rome.—The ‘‘Rid of Rome’”’
movement is spreading in Bohemia. Fifteen
hundred Romanists became Lutherans. Sev-
eral manufacturers built churches, parsonages,
and schoolhouses for their Lutheran workmen,
and one of them has obligated himself to pay
$8000 as his annual contribution for a num-
ber of years. ‘Ihe movement has also spread
from Austria to France, where the number of
priests leaving the ranks of the pope’s army
is increasing rapidly.

Tne DeAcon’s Soritogvr. —It was Sunday
evening when Deacon Daniel was sitting at his
table looking at the pledges taken during the
day for contributions to the mission treasury.
_ He said to himself whilst looking at the fig-
“Jt?s curious who give. There’s Squire
‘ood; he’s put down $2; his farm's worth

and he’s money at interest. And
rs. Brown; she’s put down $5; and
believe she’s had # new gown in two
onnet ain’t none of the newest,

them three grandchildren to support

since her son was killed in the army. Well,
she’ll have to scrimp on butter and tea for
awhile, but she’ll pay it. She just loves the
cause; that’s why she gives. There’s Maria
Hill, she’s put down $5; she don’t have but
$20 a month, and pays her board; and she
has to help support her mother. But I knew
the Lord had done a work in her soul, and
where He works you’ll generally see the fruit
in giving. And there’s John Baker; he put
down $1; and he’ll chew more than that
worth of tobacco in a fortnight. Cyrus Dun-
ning, $4. Well, he’ll have to do some extra
painting with the crippled hand, but he’ll do
it, and sing the Lord’s songs while he’s at
work. C. Williams, $10. Good for him. He
said the other night that he’d been reading
his Bible more than usually lately. Maybe he
read about the rich young man who went away
sorrowful, and didn’t want to be in his com-
pany.’’

Sourn Arrica.—The Berlin missionaries
in Transvaal are full of grief over the destruc-
tion of their work of peace in that country
by the British soldiery. The fruits of their
hard labors for many years are gone. The
country is laid waste and the people have fled
to unknown parts. Several missionaries were
thrown into vile prisons for no other reason
but their being Germans instead of Britishers.
‘‘Transvaal,’’ an old missionary writes, ‘“‘has
become a vast cemetery.”’

Mission Growtu. — The Berlin Missionary
Society (I) has been sending out its own mis-
sionaries to the heathen world since 1834. At
the end of 33 years of labor the converts
numbered only 2000, whilst to-day, after an-
other term of equal duration, they number
almost 40,000. This is an illustration of the
slow outward progress that is made during
the time of the sowing of seed and the laying
of foundations, and shows how in due time,
by the grace of God, the harvest is large and
manifold. One of the essential requirements
in mission work is patience and endurance.
‘Tn due season we shall reap, if we faint not.’’

Her TreasuREs.—At the triennial gathering
of missions in Calcutta, the following touching
anecdote was related by the chairman, Mr. Kali
Charn Banerjea: ‘‘About fifteen years ago, a
zenana worker gave a Bible to a Bengali lady
in that city and some initial instruction. The
worker ceased her visits, and they lost sight of
each other. Years afterwards another zenana
worker began to operate in the neighborhood.
The Bengali lady sent for her, and showed
her the Bible, much worn by constant use.
A new Bible and hymn book were given her.
On June 12th last, the earthquake shook the
house of the Bengali lady very severely and
brought it to ruins. All the inmates fled into
the street, the lady referred to among them,
carrying her Bible and hymn book, the only
treasures she thought of in the awful crisis!’’

Success or Missions. — Within the last sey-
enty years three hundred of the islands of the
Pacific have been evangelized. Many of them
have become altogether Christian, with no
professing heathen left. They have not only
flourishing, self-supporting churches, but are
engaged in energetic mission work among their
heathen neighbors on other islands. What the
world at large, however, is most interested in
is the fact that foreign commerce, which be-
fore the Christianization of these islands had
no existence at all, now amounts to more than
twenty million dollars annually. This fruit of
missions even the unbeliever and indifferent
worldling can appreciate.

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. J.C. Schmidt
from Grace Church, Greensboro, N. C., $12.00; of
Rev. F. J. Lankenau from St. Paul’s Church, New
Orleans, La., 25.00; of Mr. D. Meibohm from Mt.
Zion Church, New Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rev. J.
Kossmann from Bethlehem Church, New Orleans,
La., 25.00; of Rev. J. Ph. Schmidt from Grace
Church, Concord, N.C., 10.00; of Rev. D. H. Schooff
from St. Matthew’s Church, Mecherrin, Va., 7.50.

St. Louis, Mo., July 15, 1901.

A. C. BurGporr, Treas.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORiEans, La.

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

Divine services: Sunday morning at 94 o'clock.

Sunday evening at 734 o'clock.

Wednesday evening at 1% o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% o‘clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 o'clock Tuesday

cvening.
Singing School meets at 7% o’clock Friday cvening.
F. J. LANKENAU, Missionary.

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 o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 914 o'clock.

Adult catecnomen class mects at 734 o'clock Friday
evening.
Young People’s Concordia Circle and Singing Schoo)
meet Wednesday evening at 744 o'clock.
Kart KRETzSCHMAR, Missionary.

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

Divine services: Sunday evening at o'clock.
Thursday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School at % o'clock.
Adult catechumen class every Tucsday at 734 o'clock and
the divine service on Thursday evening.
Choir practice at 74 o'clock on Tuesday ovening 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.
Springfield, Il.
Divine services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
sant Suto a oeioee
Catechamen clase wreots Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuceday evening.
Dee

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