The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1902, Page 32

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Care Taken in Printing Bibles. Gorgeous processions tell of the death of an Missionaries Sent Out.
adult, but it would seem as though children
never died in China. But suppose you get up
at daylight and stand out in the street. Now
the mystery is explained. A large covered
wagon drawn by oxen comes creaking along,
with a sign on the front. It is piled to the top
with the bodies and fragments of bodies of
dead infants that have been cast into the street
the night before as refuse. Some are in old
baskets, and one or two in plain board coffins.
Some are half devoured by dogs. Perhaps the
wagon contains a hundred of these ghastly
forms. No weeping mother or sighing father
follows in the procession. The load is cast
into a pit outside the city wall and covered
with quicklime. This isdone every day. Many
of these babes are girls that were strangled at
birth, or soon afterwards, because of the curse
of womanhood. Such is the curse of the Chi-
nese religion.
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During the past year the Church Missionary
Society of England, the largest of the Protes-
tant missionary societies of the world, sent
out no less than 200 missionaries. Not long
ago an impressive farewell service was held in
Exeter Hall, when 150 new workers were set
apart and commissioned for service in Sierra
Leone, Yoruba, Uganda, India, and China.

| The printing of the Bible is more strictly
guarded than the printing of any other book
| in existence. And this care is not unneces-
i sary, as will be understood when one considers
8 the great mischief an inaccurate Bible might
bring about. For the same reason so much
care was bestowed in olden times upon the
copying of the Holy Scriptures when printing
was yet unknown. In England nearly all the
Bibles are printed by the King’s printers under
the most rigid care of the two universities of
Oxford and Cambridge. A few years ago the
question arose whether the word ‘‘spirit’’ in
Matt. 4, 1, and Mark 1, 12, should have a capi-
tal ‘‘S,’’ it having previously been printed with
asmallone. Though it was very clear that the
letter should be a capital one, it was not until
after the ruling powers of the universities and
the King’s printers had met in solemn council
that permission was granted to use the capital
letter. Nothing, however minute in its charac-
ter, having been sanctioned by authority of
1611, may be changed without creating some-
thing like a revolution wherever Bibles are

printed. J. K.
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Missionary Criticism.

With many, criticism of mission work is
simply a cover for opposition. They don’t
want to do anything for missions. They don’t
want to give. They don’t want to be bothered
with the sense of duty. Their own Christianity
is just a sham, a superficial thing. It is not
of any real value to them, and they do not feel
drawn to make sacrifices or to go to trouble to
propagate a sham, or to carry to other people
a Christianity in which they themselves do not
believe. When men truly believe in Christ,
they will fling all foolish criticisms to the wind
and will obey the Saviour’s command, ‘‘Go ye
into all the world, and preach the Gospel to
every creature.’”’

Uganda an Illustration of the Gospel’s
Power.

Twenty years ago Uganda was one of the
dark places of the earth, a veritable habitation
of cruelty. Blood flowed like water. It was
no uncommon thing for the king when a fit of
ferocity seized him to issue an order that every
man, woman, or child found on the roads of
the capital at a certain hour should be put to
death, and, in a brief space of time, hundreds
of wretched creatures would fall into the hands
of the executioner and be hurried into eternity.
Ten years ago, says Bishop Tucker, there were
only 300 baptized Christians, now there are
80,000. Then there were 20 native evangelists,
now 2000 Christians of Uganda are engaged in
spreading the Gospel. Then ‘there was one
church, now there are 700 scattered through-
out the country.

Before leaving Uganda on a visit to England,
the bishop preached to a congregation of be-
tween four and five thousand people. Among
the 500 communicants were living witnesses
of the unspeakable barbarities of other days.
Some were blind, others were without ears, or
nostrils, or lips—all mutilated in the dark
days of persecution. Truly, the Gospel that
produces such changes is not without power,
and is worthy of acceptation by every one. -

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The Fijian Church Engaged in Missions.

Devoted Service.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Charckes,
NEw ORLEANS, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S OHAPEL.
1625 Annette Sfr., between Olaiborne and Derbigny.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 934 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 734 o'clock.
‘Wednesday evening at 775 0 o-clook.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10: clock.
Adult Be ioatechumen class meets at 7: ‘orclock Tuesday

Singing a meets at ug crclock. Friday eacar
J. LANKENAU, jssion'

EV. LUTH. MOUNT ZION OHUROH.
Cor. 8. Franklin and Thalia Stra.
Divine services: Sunday poorning ss ae 11 o'clock.

Sunday evenin, o’cloc!
Thursday even ie at ornlear
Sunday BSchool: Sunday morning at 934 o'clo:
Aduli iS cated humen class mects at 734 oalook Friday
ae nin;
Young People’s Concordia Circle and A Singing, School
mect Wednesda: evening at 7% o'
TAMerseOueams “Missionary.

EY. LUTH. BETHLEHEM OHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Pestle Str.
Divine services: Sunda; Sveningiat o'clock.
Thurs ay evening at o'clock.
panday School at 9}¢ o’cloc!
Adult catechumen class cee Tuesday at 734 0’clock and
r the aiving’ service on Thursday evening.
Ohoir ater age at 7 orelock on} ‘Tuesday evening and
' r divine 6 on Thursday eve
cassie for Young People meets at the school every Tues-

lay cvening at 7: Srcloas
yi . J. W. F. , KOSSMANN, Missionary.

Miss Laura Rowland, of Arkansas, herself a
blind girl, has undertaken as her life work to
establish a school for the blind Indian children
of Indian Territory, for whom no provision is
made by the Government, though they num-
ber 200. Great patience is required, as the
children must first learn the English language
—no easy task without the aid of sight. The
Kansas City Journal says of Miss Rowland’s
enterprise :

‘‘Her school now has about thirty pupils. She
had not the means to take them all in at once.
She is developing the institution as rapidly as
possible, and hopes in a few years to be able
to take care of all the blind. She now has
two assistants, Miss Jessie Parks and Miss
Mamie Graham, both graduates of the Ar-
kansas Blind School. The pupils are not only
educated in books, but also along industrial
lines. The boys are taught to make brooms,
while the girls are taught needle-work and
cooking. Some of the little Indian pupils
“make beautiful little trinkets out of their
“beads. These trinkets are sold to visitors,
‘and the money goes into the fund to maintain
“the school. Miss Rowland, as superintendent,
"bears all responsibilities and obligations, be-
‘sides Aviva in the various departments. She

Ey. Luth. Hoe Trinity Church,

id, TU.
Divine services at nett) pat 1.0% “6 (ees Sunday morning
soning hanes Sieve
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Oateciamen clase meets Monday eh Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

TERMS:
Pronzek is published monthly,
persis inlA advance at the following rates, postage

10 i : ~- 2.00
by TG
Club rates Sais allowed ‘if all copies are to be sent

to
Aimee communications to be addressed to

“donee Publishing House,” Jefferson Ave. and
aml ist, t,t Louis, 3 Mo: Paar ric

partment t to be addressed £0 cereal. R. A. Brscuory,
cordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.

The Fiji Islands have a population of about
122,000, and of these nearly 100,000 are regular
attendants of the Wesleyan mission churches.
The actual church membership is about 40,000.
Their contributions for foreign missions last
year amounted to about $30,000. The Fijians
have sent many of their own people as mis-
sionaries to New Guinea and other islands.
Viewing these events in the light of the past,
every candid observer must acknowledge,
‘“What has God wrought!”

; Indy missionary writing from Peking;
8; you will be surprised that you
or hear of the funeral of a child.