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16 The Lutheran Pioneer.

Installation at Springfield, III.

On Sunday evening, February 8, Rey. Lu-
cius E. Thalley was formally installed as the
pastor of the Ev.-Luth. Holy Trinity Mission.
The Rev. Thalley graduated last June from
Concordia College, and was ordained by Rev. J.
N. Bakke in Charlotte, N. C., August 10, 1902.
He was called to be minister of the church at
Springfield by the Honorable Mission Board,
and was to have been installed last October,
but, owing to sickness, he was prevented from
coming to our city.

The church was beautifully decorated for
the occasion with cut flowers and palms. Rev.
Martin Luecke delivered the charge to the min-
ister, basing his admonition on 1 Tim. 3, 1:
‘Tf a man desire the office of a bishop, he
desireth a good work.”’ In his discourse, he,
in the first part, established the fact that the
office of a bishop is a good work; and in the
second part, that itis a good work for the great-
est good. Prof. L. Wessel delivered the charge
to the congregation, and admonished them
from Hebr. 13, 17 to obey them that have rule
over them, and submit themselves. He further
exhorted the members to attend faithfully all
ehurch services, to send their children to the
parochial school, to receive admonishment,
and to do all they could towards the support
and maintenance of the church. Prof. J.
Herzer then formally installed the Rev. Thal-
ley, and received the pledges of the minister
and congregation. The.church choir was as-
sisted on the occasion by a quartet from Con-
cordia College.

‘The novelty of seeing a minister installed
secured the presence of quite a number of
strangers; and the church was well filled.
A number of members of the German church,
who are much interested in our mission, were
also present. The collection that was taken
was sent to the Mission treasury.

On the following evening, the members ten-
dered Rey. Thalley a reception in the school-
room. More than a hundred persons were
present. The ladies of the congregation served
some sumptuous refreshments. On this oc-
casion, Prof. Herzer, who for more than eight
years served this mission faithfully as pastor,
conferred it to Rev. L.E. Thalley. The mem-
bers extended their cordial thanks to Prof.
Herzer for his arduous labor, and kindly re-
quested that he still continue to do all he can
for them. Prof. lL. Wessel and the students
were also thanked for the services they have

rendered.

| This mission was founded by the late Prof.
H. Wyneken in 1887, who had charge of the
church for some time. He was sueceeded by

the Rev. H. S. Knabenschuh, who served till

1898. Prof. J. Herzer and Prof. Wessel then
had charge of the mission for Mearly a year
tev. Herman Meyer for nearly gix months,
After his removal, Prof. J. Herzer took care
ssion, and would, 00 doubt, haye

d to look after the church, but his

lectures at college demanded his time. The
church record shows that Prof. Wyneken bap-
tized 54, confirmed 6, and gave communion
to 7. Rey. Knabenschuh baptized 20, con-
firmed 36, and gave communion to about 295.
Prof. Wessel baptized 1, confirmed 3, gave
communion to 14, and buried 1. Rev. Meyer
gave communion to 51. Prof. Herzer bap-
tized 38, confirmed 33, gave communion to 563,
solemnized 10 marriages, and officiated at
26 funerals.

The mission now has 70 souls, 48 communi-
cant members, 7 voting members, 1 teacher,
and 22 scholars in the parochial school. We
rejoice and thank God that this mission, which
has undergone many vicissitudes, is again
blessed with an able missionary who can de-
vote his whole time and energy to the work of
the Lord. And may God grant His grace and
blessing upon Rey. Thalley, that by his min-
istry many may be brought to know Jesus
Christ as their Saviour, and be saved. Mc.

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Chinese Ideas.

The secretary of the Chinese consulate in
New York, in the course of a conversation re-
cently, spoke of some of the ideas prevalent
in his country. A New York daily prints his
remarks as follows:

In China it is generally supposed that a
man’s brains are located in his stomach, and
the more corpulent he is the more his wisdom
is deemed assured. Of course there are many
people in China who know that a man’s brains
are in his head, but they cheerfully assist in
maintaining the jolly fiction of corpulent great-
ness.

I began to learn English in China when I
was fifteen years old, under the instruction of
Doctor Malcolm, of Shanghai. I had begun
to study it in secret by myself a year before,
but it was too much for my unaided efforts.

The word wind, being used in two senses,
gave me as much trouble as anything else.
For a long time I was under the impression that
in England and America clocks and watches
were filled with air to keep going. I was curi-
ous to see this operation of winding the clock,
and my disappointment when Doctor Malcolm
explained the mystery was very acute.

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Education of a Boer Child.

The Boer fathers and mothers looked after
the education of their children to the very
best of their ability. They knew that they
lived in a country where anything that was
once neglected was difficult to recover, and
that to neglect the rising generation meant
the ruin of their nationality. Therefore, every
Boer taught his children to read and write,
and, above all, instructed them in God’s
Word. At-dinner and supper, as the children
sat around the table, they had to read part
of the sacred Scriptures, and to repeat from

memory or write down now this and now that
text, and this was done day by day unless
unusual circumstances made it impossible.
That is how my father taught me the Bible
and instructed me in its teachings during the
evenings. —From The Memoirs of Paul Kruger.

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The Beauty of Christ.

When S. Rutherford was sentenced to im-
prisonment at Aberdeen ‘‘for righteousness’
sake,’’ he wrote thus to a friend: ‘*The Lord
is with me; I care not what man can do.
I burden no man, and I want nothing. No
person is provided for better than Iam. My
chains are even gilded with gold. No pen,
nor words, nothing can express the beauty of
Christ.’’

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. F. J. Lan-
kenau from St. Paul’s Church, New Orleans, La.,
$25.00; of Rev. K. Kretzschmar from Mt. Zion
Church, New Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rev. J. Koss-
mann from Bethlehem Church, New Orleans, La.,
25.00; of Rev. J. C. Schmidt from Grace Church,
Greensboro, N. C., 12.00; of Mr. John McDavid
from Holy Trinity Church, Springfield, Ill., 10.00.

For Immanuel College: Of Rev. F. J. Lankenau
from St. Paul’s Church, New Orleans, La., 10.00;
of Rev. K. Kretzschmar from Mt. Zion Church, New
Orleans, La., 3.80. A. C. BuraporF, Treas.

St. Louis, Mo., March 15, 1903.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New OR.Eans, La.
EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
1625 Annette Str., between Olaiborne and Derbigny.
Divine services: Sunday morring at 94 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 734 o'clock.
Wednesday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10% o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 o'clock Tuosday

evening.
Singing School meets at 734 o’clock Friday evening.
F, J. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. MOUNT ZION OHUROCH.
Cor. S. Franklin and Thalia Stra.
Divine services: Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.
Sunday cvening at o'clock.
Thursday evening at o'clock.
Sunday School: Sunday morning at 94 o’clock.
Adult catechamen class meets at 734 o'clock Friday
evening.
Young People’s Concordia Circle and Singing School
mect Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock.
KARL KRETZSOHMAR, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM OHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services: Sunday evening. at 734 o’clock.
Thursday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School at 9% o'clock.
Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at 734 o'clock and
after the divine service on Thursday evening.
Choir practice at 734 o’clock on Tucsday evening and
after divine service on Thursday even: ng.
Circle for Young People meets at the school every Tues-
day cvening at 734 o’clock.
J. W. F. KossMANN, Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.

Springfield, M.
Divine services at half past 10 o’clock Sunday morning
and at 8 o’clock Sunday evening.
Sunday School at 3 o’clock P. a.
Oatechumen class mects Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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