The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1902, Page 28

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Water Carrier.

In his travels, Dr. C. S. Robinson witnessed
an incident that will prove interesting to Bible
students. Says he: ‘‘When I was in Beyrut,
a friend called my attention to a strange-look-
ing creature, having a skin bottle of great size
slung across his shoulder. He was wretchedly
clad, and bowed down heavily with his burden ;
in his left hand he had a pair of what seemed
like metal saucers, and these he clinked against
each other like two shallow bells; and all the
time, as he shufiied along over the stones, he
muttered a curious jargon of sounds, appar-
ently repeating the same syllables. What he
was muttering in Arabic was a street cry cus-
tomary to all carriers of water in the Orient;
indeed, he was saying exactly what Isaiah re-
peated at the opening of the fifty-fifth chapter,
‘Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
waters!’ Hence this prophet really repeats
a street cry in order to attract attention, and
then turns the figure into a swift contrast, as
if he would exclaim: ‘See yonder, hear that
water-bearer; he offers you water at a price;
I offer you milk and wine, and that without
asking any price to be paid.” Thus he turns
the counsel adroitly to the Gospel of faith and
godly repentance, and the cup Christ brings
for the thirst of the soul.”’

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A Wonderful Demand for Bibles.

The agent of the American Bible Society
in China reports an extraordinary and unex-
pected eagerness to have the Bible on the part
of the Chinese. He writes:

“There seems to have been a wonderful re-
action all over the empire from the bitter per-
secutions of last year, and in no part is this
more apparent than in many districts where
the disturbances were the greatest. ‘The call
for Scriptures is unparalleled. To a certain
extent we were prepared for the demand which
I felt sure would come, but during the past
two months our resources have been taxed to
the utmost to keep pace at all with the orders
which came piling in upon us. - On the last
steamers which left for the North before the
close of navigation for the winter, we sent the
largest shipment we ever made to ‘Tientsin
and Peking. From West China the demand
for Scriptures is phenomenal. Mr. Laughton
took with him what we considered a large
supply of Bibles and Testaments, but he sold
out the entire lot in a few weeks. From his
reports already received he had sold over 1000
Bibles and 3400 Testaments. The demand for
the Scriptures is something marvelous, and
every one thinks this is only the beginning of
a gteat movement.”’

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Some Fruits of Missions,

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Captain Cook, missionaries of the American
Board began work in 1820. Within a little
over forty years Christianity was the recog-
nized religion of the islands, and the work of
the Gospel had so far progressed that the
Board felt that its labors had been completed.
The mission was withdrawn, and the native
churches not only supported themselves, main-
tained schools and seminaries, prepared their
own native ministry, but carried on energetic
mission work among the heathen on other
islands of the Pacific. The churches of Ha-
waii are missionary churches. They maintaina
mission of their own in the Gilbert Islands, and
besides send large contributions to the Ameri-
can Board for the general work of the mother
society. Last year they contributed $40,000
for missions. These missionary churches, only
three-quarters of a century removed from the
dense darkness of unbroken heathenism, sur-
prise the churches of Christendom with their
large and munificent collections. On one Sun-
day they are said to have raised $14,000,
while on another, by special appeal, the col-
lection amounted ‘to $34,000.

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Converts as Missionaries.

The Missionary Link tells of a visitor to
Ceylon who found there a band of students so
poor that sixteen of them lived in one room.
Near the building was a garden in which they
spent their spare time cultivating bananas.
When he inquired what they did with the ba-
nanas, they took him to the seashore and
pointed to an island off in the sea: ‘‘Two
years ago,’’ they said, ‘‘we sent one of our
graduates there. He started a school and it
has developed intoachurch. We intend send-
ing him to another island this year.’’ A tenth
of the rice they used they were also laying
aside in order to get means to continue their
mission work. What an example of earnest-
ness and consecration!

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“Sowing Wild Oats.”

A phrase has been long in common use
which has wrought great evil, says a well-
known author. It is that of ‘‘sowing wild
oats.”” It implies that youth must have a
time of wickedness, the defying of authority,
and the abuse of opportunity, after which all
will come right. Never was there a more dia-
bolical lie. That which you sow you shall
reap. If you sow wild oats, you shall reap
wild oats. Not one instance can be found in
all humanity where the evils indulged in in
youth did not mar and scar the soul through
ife.

OUR BOOK TABLE.

SERMONS ON THE GosPELS OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL
Year by HENry Sixcx, Pastor of Mount Olive
Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, Wis. Part First.
St. Louis, Mo. Price, $1.00, postage paid.

A welcome and valuable addition to our English

Lutheran homiletical literature. The clearly printed

and well-bound volume contains sermons on the
Gospel lessons of the church-year from the first
Sunday in Advent to Pentecost Monday. Sound in
doctrine, simple and plain in language, these ser-
mons make known Jesus, the Saviour of sinners;
and that is what all men need, even the most learned.
Of the learned and eloquent Daniel Webster it is
Said that, when visiting in the country, he attended
the little church morning and evening. A fellow
senator said to him, ‘Mr. Webster, I am surprised
that you go twice on Sunday to hear a plain coun-
try preacher when you pay little attention to far
abler sermons in Washington.’ ‘In Washington,”
Mr. Webster replied, ‘‘they preach to Daniel Web-
§ter, the statesman, but this man has been telling
Daniel Webster, the sinner, of Jesus of Nazareth,
and it has been helping him.’’? Rev. Sieck’s sermons
tell sinners of Jesus of Nazareth, and will prove
helpful.

COMMENTAR UEBER DEN PROPHETEN JESAIA von
G. SToEcKHARDT, Professor am Concordia-
Seminar zu St. Louis. Die ersten zwoelf Capitel.
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
Price, 70 cents, postage paid.

Bible students—and every minister should be an
earnest Bible student —will rejoice that the able
Professor has begun to publish a commentary on
Isaiah, ‘‘the Evangelist of the Old Testament.” Itis
a delight to read such a Commentary, so loyal to the
truth, so reverent in tone, so clear in style, so satis-
factory in learning.

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. J. Kossmann
from Bethlehem Church in New Orleans, La., $25.00;
of Rey. F. J. Lankenau from St. Paul’s Church in
New Orleans, La., 25.00.

A. C. BurGporr, Treas.

St. Louis, Mo., June 16, 1902.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEaNS, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S OHAPEL.
1625 Annette Str., between Olaiborne and Derbigny.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 934 o'clock.
; Sunday evening at 734 o’clock.
Wednesday evening at 74 o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 1034 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 o’clock Tuesday

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

EV. LUTH. MOUNT ZION OHUROCH.
Cor. 8. 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 9% o’clock.
ecolticatechumen class meets at 734 o'clock Friday

ming.
Young Pes le’s Concordia Circle and Singing School
meet Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock.
RL KRETZSCHMAR, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM OHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: Sunday evening at o'clock.
Thursday evening at 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 734 o'clock on Tuesday evening and
after divine service on Thursday even: Dg.
Circle for Young People meets at the school every Tues-
day evening at 734 o'clock.
. J. W. F. KossMANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfield, TU.

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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 meets Monday and Friday cvenings.

Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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