The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1903, Page 24

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

Confirmation at Greensboro, N. C.

DEAR PIONEER : —

May 10 was a day of joy and thanksgiving
for Grace Congregation at Greensboro, N. C.
For the second time in less than a year we
were permitted to have Confirmation in our
church. Though there were only three cate-
chumens who on this day vowed allegiance to
their heavenly Saviour, yet this was ample
cause for praise and gratitude to God, since
“‘there is joy in the presence of the angels

of God even over one sinner that repenteth,’’
Luke 15, 10.

Lutheran church, for which God be praised!

Grace Church had been handsomely deco-
rated for the occasion by tender hands with
calla-lilies and beautiful roses, and so many
visitors attended the solemn service, that the
question was raised, where all the people came
from. The address was based on 1 Tim. 6, 12.
The examination, which lasted almost an hour,
proved to the satisfaction of all that the new
members were well able to give a reason of the
hope that is in them, and excited the admira-
tion of all present. After the oldest of the
three had received the regenerating waters of
holy Baptism, the solemn consecration took
place, according to Lutheran custom, and
.praise was heard on all sides because of the
edifying celebration.

May Jesus Christ, the King of kings and
Captain of our salvation, help also these new
soldiers of the cross to fight the good fight of
faith until their blessed end, so that, finally,
they may lay hold of the incorruptible crown
of eternal life, whereunto they are also called,
and have professed a good profession before
many witnesses! This is the earnest prayer of

Your Humsie CorRRESPONDENT.
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The South Sea Islands.

' The traveler Gordon Cumming writes of the
islands in the South Sea: ‘‘Think of the sick
buried alive; the array of widows who were de-
liberately strangled on the death of any great
‘man; the living victims who were buried beside
‘every post of a chief’s new house, and must
needs stand clasping it, while the earth was
pond heaped over their devoted heads; or
those who were bound hand and foot and laid
the ground to act as rollers, when a chief
~ ed a new canoe, and thus doomed to

“

1 of Benen agony; a time when

nd no man knew how quickly his
C of cEge | might come; when whole

All three catechumens, two
of whom were married ladies, had been attend-
ants at the services and catechetical instruc-
tions of our church for years, and were there-
fore well versed in the doctrines of our dear

they do. Now you may pass from isle to isle,
certain everywhere to find the same cordial
reception by kindly men and women. Every
village on the eighty inhabited isles has built
for itself a tidy church, and a good house for
its teacher or native minister, for whom the vil-
lage also provides food and clothing. Can you
realize that there are nine hundred churches
in Fiji, at every one of which the frequent
services are crowded by devout congregations;
that the schools are well attended; and that
the first sound which greets your ear at dawn,
and the last at night, is that of hymn-singing
and most fervent worship, rising from each
dwelling at the hour of family prayer?’’

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Hard Work.

Few people realize the difficulties which mis-
sionaries and native catechists have to face
sometimes when preaching in the ‘‘bazaars’’
ix India. The Rev. J. A. F. Warren writes:

‘tIn the bazaars one has to stand, it may be
at a noisy, dusty corner, and first succeed in
attracting an audience. As a rule, this is not
very difficult— the streets are always thronged
with people; but after having got your audi-
ence, the difficulty is to keep it. Men stop
for a minute or two, and then pass on, it may
be with a loud laugh or jeering remark which
has the effect of drawing away others. But
even when you have got an audience, your
difficulties are not over; two or three little
yagabonds, almost innocent of clothing, will
worm themselves through the crowd, and after
gazing at you for afew minutes, and listening
to your remarks, having pronounced the pro-
ceedings ‘slow,’ commence to enliven matters
by an animated attack upon one another’s
persons. When peace is restored, and the
preacher picks up the thread of his discourse,
a ‘fakir’ comes up and looks on: immediately
all eyes are turned away from the speaker to
see what the ‘holy man’ thinks of the busi-
ness. He soon passes on without vouching
any opinion, and attention is once more ob-
tained. Not for long, however, as someone
in the crowd is sure to start more or less clever
objections. These have to be answered, and
if not satisfactorily, the audience very often
breaks up in disorder, the remarks made as
to the intelligence of the catechists being the
reyerse of complimentary; and this goes on
day after day.”’

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Some Things to be Thankful. For.

Our Eyes. —I looked into the sightless eyes ficluded, to-wit:

of an old friend of mine some years ago and
heard him say that he had never seen the sun
rise and had never looked upon his mother’s
face, and I realized that all my life I had been
using my eyes and never once thanked God
for them.

_ Our Reason. —I visited an insane asylum
and Saw one of the most brilliant men this

country has produced, with reason dethroned,
imagining himself a beast of the field, splendid
in his physical proportions, but with mind en-
tirely gone, and I turned away in shame to
acknowledge that I had never thanked God
for my reason.

Our Feet. — A certain beggar was crying out
along the roadside that he was the brother of a
king and was without shoes. ‘‘What ashame,”
he said, ‘‘that a king’s brother should go un-
shod!’’ and then he saw a poor beggar carried
by without feet, and in confusion he began to
thank God that he was better off than he.

In ten thousand ways God has blessed us,
for which we have not thought to render praise

_|to Him. — Sel.

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions of Rev. D. H.
Schooff from his congregation in Mcherrin, Va.,
$8.00; of Rev. Paul Engelbert from his congrega-
tion in Rockwell, N.C., "8. 05, and from his congre-
gation in Gold Hill, N. C., 1.45; of Rev. F. J. Lan-
kenau from his congregation in New Orleans, La.,
25.00; of Rev. K. Kretzschmar from his congrega-
tion in New Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rev. J. Koss-
mann from his congregation in New Orleans, La.,
25.00; of Rev. M. Weinhold from his congregation
in Mansura, La., 50.00.

For Immanuel College of Rev. J. Kossmann, New
Orleans, La., from his congregation 3.75, and from
L. and H.N. SUES. A. C. BurGporr, Treas.

St. Louis, Mo., May 16, 1903.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORLEANS, La.
EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL'S OHAPEL.
1625 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Derbigny.

Divine services: Sunday morning at 944 o'clock.
Sunday evening at 734 o'clock.
Wednesday cvening at 774 © oicloce

Sunday School: Sunday morning at 10

a pcateckumen class meets at 7 selnokt ‘Tuesday

Singing oP Sckool meets at TH oe "clock Friday evening.
J. LANKENAU, Missionary.
EV. LUTH. MOUNT ZION CHUROH.
Cor. S. Franklin and Thalia Strs.

Divine services: Sunday morning t at 11 o'clock.
Sunday evenin

o'clock.
ay evening Ae o'clock.
panday, School: Sunday morning at 9% o'clock.
Adals) Zoate techumen class meets at 734 o’clock Friday
Young y Pegple’s Concordia Circle and Singing Schoo)

meet Wednesday evening at 734 o'clock.
RL yd ey Missionary.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM OHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue aes Dryades Str.

Divine services: Sunday cvenin o'clock.
Thursday even: Le rae 44 o'clock.
Sunday School at 934 o’clock.

Adult catechumen class every Tuesday at 734 o'clock and
after the divine service on Thursday cvening.
Snobs ‘Practice at 7% o'clock on Tuesday evening and
‘ter divine service on Thursday even: +
circle for Young People meets at the school every Tues-

day eveni: t "clock.
y Peis 3: ‘W. F. KossMANN, Missionary.

’ Ey. Luth. Holy rant Church.
Sprin

Divine services at half past a ° iealeek Sunday mozning
puntay Scnool ma osioet a

a) 001 at 3 o’clo:
Oatechamen class meeta Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.

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