The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1904, Page 87

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NOTES AND ITEMS.

New Orieans.—St. Paul’s Colored School and
College are attended by 225 scholars, and there are
prospects that the number will reach 300. A new
building for the Colored Lutheran College is being
erected at a cost of $3650 and will soon be dedicated.

Wirn tur Lorp.— Teacher L. Fuhrmann, who
for some time faithfully served in one of our colored
mission schools at New Orleans, departed this life
at Chicago, September 26, aged 21 years, 6 months,
and 4 days.

‘Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest
from their labors; and their works do follow them,”
Rey. 14, 13.

Nortu Caronina.— On the 16th Sunday after
Trinity two new laborers for our mission field, Jamea
Doswell and F’. Wablers, were ordained by the Rev.
N. J. Bakke. May God richly bless the work of
His servants to the salvation of many souls.

Wno Gave tHe Most?— A German mission
paper relates the following: A certain man who
gave $5000 for missions was greatly praised for his
generous gift.

“J know one who is still more liberal,’’ said a
bystander.

“Indeed! And who might it be? What is his
name?’?’

“The gift that he gave is known to but few. But
the Lord is mindful of the gift and the giver. I lately
met an aged man, who with tears in his eyes said
that his only son was about to leave him and his
home to bea missionary in foreign lands. The father
knew that his son felt a call of the Spirit, and hes-
itated only because of his father. ‘But how could
T hold him back?’ said the old man. ‘Almost my

_ whole life long I had prayed, ‘“Thy kingdom come,’?

and though the pain of parting is great and I am
certain to see him no more on earth, I feel a deep
and heartfelt joy that I have let him go for Christ’s
sake.’??

A Goop Menory.—Dr. Moffat, the great African

* missionary, recorded the following instance of a re-

markable memory in an African savage. Dr. Moffat
once preached a sermon to a group of Africans, and
was shortly afterwards attracted by the gesticula-

tions of a young savage addressing a humber of

blacks. On going up to:the group, he was amazed
to hear the savage reproducing his own sermon,
word for word.

‘on the stones.

Tue Prayer or A Hypocrite.—A farmer, whose
cribs were full of corn, was accustomed to pray that —
the wants of the needy might be supplied; but when
anyone in needy circumstances asked for a little of
his corn, he said he had none to spare. One day,
after hearing his father pray for the poor and needy,
his little son said to him:

“father, I wish I had your corn.”’

““Why, my son; what could you do with it?”
asked the father.

The child replied, “I would answer your prayers.”

Eacu Found wHat HE LOOKED For.— Mr. Moody
used to tell of an English colonel in India, who
declared he had lived there long enough to shoot
thirty tigers, but had never seen a heathen convert;
whereas a missionary, who had spent a life-time
there, said he had never seen a tiger. Both were
truthful. Each found what he wanted. One thirsted
for tiger blood, another for souls. One found no
converts in jungles, the other no tigers in meeting
houses.

Launpry Work IN Korea.—In Korea women’s
work is never done. Says an exchange:

“‘They are expected to keep their husbands and
sons in spotless linen, and as the men dress com-
pletely in white, wearing even white leggings, and
as Korea abounds in miry clay, the washing becomes .
no mean thing. Moreover, when one learns that
every article, before it is washed, must be entirely
picked to pieces, and, after it is ironed, remade, the
work is seen to be very great. The Korean women
have nosoap, no tubs, no washboards. The clothes
are carried to a mountain stream and there rubbed
They have no irons, so the pieces
of cloth are wound over a sort af rolling-pin and
patted with a stick, a most laborious and tedious .
process, but one that gives linen a gloss almost equal
to that of satin. The traveler coming into a town,
far into the night, never fails to hear the tick-
tack, tick-tack, which announces the woman at her
ironing. ;

BisteE ror InpraAns.—Some remains of the Mo-
hawk Indians still exist in Canada, and the British
and Foreign Bible Society has been asked to issue
a new edition of the old Mohawk translation of the
Scriptures.

Arrica.— Roughly speaking, there are (from
statistics) 100,000 inhabitants of Africa to each for-
eign Protestant missionary. There are about five
European missionaries to one American. There are

. two black men to every white man. There are in

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