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_ to go for other yet undefiled water.

16 The Lutheran Pioneer.

and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ. He is God’s
only Son. Jesus has forgiven me my sins. He has
freed me from Satan. He has freed me from hell.
I formerly walked in the ways of my fathers, now
I will walk in the ways of Jesus. O God Jehovah,
I have prayed to Thee, Thou hast heard it! O Je-
hovah, help me. Amen!’’

After this, he kneeled and was baptized, while
in the eyes of the missionaries tears were gathering
at this, the first fruit of sixteen years’ labor. And
a great stillness fell upon the assembled Papuans,
who felt that now they were standing in the pres-
ence of God. .

May many more soon be brought to believe and
be baptized unto salvation.

Nor AFRAID OF THE WEATHER.—A missionary
reports that Christians in Greenland very seldom,
if ever, stay away from public worship on account
of the weather. When it is so cold that their breath
freezes and forms icicles in their faces, they go long
distances, through snow and ice and storm, to the
house of prayer. Men, women, and children go.
From these poor Greenlanders many Christians of
more favored lands may learn a lesson. The apostle
says: ‘‘Forsake not the assembling of yourselves to-
gether, as the manner of some is.”’

Hindu Superstition.

One of the Lutheran missionaries in India relates
the following incident: i

‘Last Saturday, returning from the postofiice,
my shadow chanced to fall across the path of a
Hindu woman who was coming from the Godaveri,
where she had been performing her religious ablu-
tions. She was walking along, mumbling some quo-
tations from the sacred books and sprinkling herself
with water from the small brass ‘chimbu’ in her
hand. When a Hindu woman, principally of the
Brahmin caste, is so doing, or bringing water from
the well, and anything unclean to her crosses her
path or its shadow falls upon her, the water she

carries is defiled: She, according to the tenets of -

her strange religion, must pour out the water, no
matter how far from the river or well she is, and re-
‘turn for other undefiled. I had heard and read this,
but never saw it done. It seemed quite odd to me
that I should be the innocent cause of her haying
Under such
idle, silly superstitions India labors.’?

i Fare clings to the Word alone, not to sight,
' signs, and feelings. — Luther.

No Money for Missions.

A missionary writes:

“T lectured before a Ladies’ Missionary Society
attached to one of the wealthiest churches in B—
not long since, and while they were conducting the
‘business’ part of the meeting I estimated the worth
of the jewelry worn at not less than ten thousand
dollars. A plea came from a mission church in the
West for some money with which to build a little
wooden church. After much deliberation, ten dol-
lars was suggested, and after more talk that was cut
down to five dollars! They had asked me to offer
a prayer and to close with the Lord’s Prayer. Each
one said ‘Amen’ at the close. They prayed, ‘Thy
Kingdom come,’ and subscribed five dollars toward
that work, while at the same time they wore jewelry

worth ten thousand dollars!
Mission. Review of the World.

Acknowledgments.

Received for colored missions of Rev. K. Kretzschmar
from Mount Zion Church in New Orleans, La., $26.00; of
Rev. F. J. Lankenau from St. Paul’s Church in New Orleans,
La., 25.00; of Rev. J. Kossmann from Bethlehem Church in
New Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rev. M. Weinhold from St. Paul’s
Church in Mansura, La., 10.00; of Rev. J. C. Schmidt from
Grace Church in Greensboro, N. C., 12.00; of Rev. J. Phil.
Schmidt from Grace Church in Concord, N.C., 10.00.

St. Louis, Jan. 15, 1905. A.C. Buraporr, Treas.

Received for Luther College from St. Paul’s Church in
Mansura, La., $18.00; Mount Zion Church, New Orleans,
15.00; Bethlehem Chapel, New Orleans, 16.75; St. Paul’s
Chapel, New Orleans, 29.00.

New Orleans, Jan. 11, 1905. F. J. LANKENAU.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.; F. J. Lan-

kenau, Pastor.
mDlvine Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. m.; Wednesday,
P.M.

Bfount Zion Church, Franklin and ThaliaSts. ; K. Kretzschmar, Pastor.
4 ee Services: Sunday, 11 A. 31. and 7.30 P. M.; Thursday,
30 P. M. .
Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.; J. W. F. Koss-
mann, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10 A. M. and 7.30 P. w.; Thursday,

30 P. BM. -
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

- Holy craty, Church; L. E. Thalley, Pastor.
Divini

e Services: Sunday, 10.30 A. M. and 8 P. M.

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