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The Lutheran Pioneer.

our benevolent Creator for lessening the pain of
death. Turning around to relieve myself of the
weight, as he had one paw on the back of my head,
I saw his eyes directed to Mebalwe (a native assist-
ant), who was trying to shoot him at a distance of
ten or fifteen yards. His gun, a flint one, missed
fire in both barrels; the lion immediately left me,
and, attacking Mebalwe, bit his thigh. Another
man, whose life I had saved after he had been tossed
by a buffalo, attempted to spear the lion while he
was biting Mebalwe. He left Mebalwe and caught
this man by the shoulder, but at that moment the
bullets he had received took effect, and he fell down
dead. The whole was the work of a few moments,
and must have been his paroxysms of dying rage.
In order to take the ‘charm’ out of him, the Bakatla
on the following day made a huge bonfire over the
carcass, which was declared to be that of the largest
lion they had ever seen. Besides crunching the
bone into splinters, he left eleven teeth wounds on
the upper part of my arm.’’
Missionary Review of the World.

What Enthused Her.

Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop, the great traveler,
who died last fall in Edinburgh, was a most en-
thusiastic friend of missions. Her travels, through
Japan, China, Korea, India, Persia, Arabia, and
various other lands, afforded her abundant oppor-
tunity to observe the conditions of those nations,
who were living without Christ in the darkness of
heathenism. In her earlier years she had regarded
all mission work with distrust. Personal observa-

tion, however, had completely changed her opinion, .

and she became a most earnest advocate of the
blessed work in all its phases. With her graphic
pen she most vividly portrayed the misery of the
benighted souls in heathen lands. Her impres-
sions of the work of missionaries she gave as fol-
lows:

““Those faithful missionaries, whose life, char-
acter, and work I have personally observed, have
s0 manifestly changed my opinion and have en-
thused me so, that I cannot do otherwise than,
wherever I go, to work and enlist sympathy for the

. glorious work in which they are engaged, espe-

cially among those whose hearts are cold and care-
less, a8 mine was before I had learned the pitiable
conditions which exist in these heathen lands.’’
Mrs. Bishop was especially interested in medical
missions. She has founded five Mission Hospitals

and one Orphans’ Home in the Orient.

The Boasting Infidel.

“*T tell you,’’ said a bragging infidel, ‘‘the idea
that there is a God never comes into my head.”

“‘Ah, precisely like my dog,’’ was the reply.
“But there is this difference—my dog does not go
around howling about it.”’

OUR BOOK TABLE.

SECOND READER. Illustrated. Standard American Series.
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price,
25 cts.

The Second Reader of this new serics of English Readers
is in paper, print, and illustrations equal to the best. Its
excellent, well-graded reading lessons, pure in tone and
spirit, give this Reader its true excellence and place it
above other Readers.

LEHRBUCH DER DEUTSCHEN Srracne fuer hoehere Schu-
len von August Crull, Professor am Concordia Col-
lege zu Fort Wayne, Ind. Zweite, umgearbeitete
Auflage. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
Price, 85 cts.

This German grammar for higher schools was very favor-
ably noticed in journals of education when its first edition
appeared. This second, thoroughly revised edition will
make it still more valuable as a very practical and helpful
text-book for the class-room, for private study, and for
reference.

Acknowledgment.

Received for colored missions from Grace Church in
Greensboro, N. C., $12.00; from Mount Zion Church in
New Orleans, La., 25.00; from St. Paul’s Church in New
Orleans, La., 35.00; from Bethlehem Church in New Or-
leans, La., 25.00; from St. Paul’s Church in Mansura, La.,
10.00; from Grace Mission in St. Louis, Mo., 3.00; from
congregation in Monroe, N.C., 2.10; from congregation in
Southern Pines, N.C., 5.00; from Grace Church in Concord,
N.C., 10.00.

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

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.

St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.; F. J. Lan-
kenau, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. M.; Wednesday,

7.30 P. M.
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts. ; K. Kretzschmar, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. o. and 7.30 P. M.; Thursday,

7.30 P. M.

Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.; J. W. F. Koss-
mann, Pastor.
ete Services: Sunday, 10 A. M. and 7.30 Pp. M.; Thursday,

P.M.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Holy Trinity Church; L. E. Thallecy, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 A. M. and 8 P. mM.

TERMS:
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1 Copy 2
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cordia Publishing House, Jefferson Ave. and Miami St.,
St. Louis, Mo.

All communications concerning the editorial depart-

ment to be addressed to Prof. R. A. Biscnorr, Conover,

Catawba Co., N.C.

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