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The Lutheran Pioneer.

CATECHISM FOR THE BLIND. — Luther’s Small
Catechism in raised letters for the use of the blind
has just been issued by the Rev. H. Hallerberg, of
Jacksonville, Ill. The text is that adopted by the
Synodical Conference, and the book also contains
the prayers, the Table of Duties, and the Christian
Questions and Answers. Luther’s Catechism has
been called “the little missionary.” May God bless
its mission work also among the blind!

REMARKABLE FRUIT oF A Mission Tract. —
“In 1819,” says The Foreign Missionary, “a young
physician in New York making a call on one of his
patients was requested to wait a moment in the
parlor. He took a tract from the table and read it.
Coming home he told his wife of it and stated to
her the thoughts the tract had awakened in him.
The result was that the doctor and his wife went to
Ceylon and later on to South India as missionaries.
The doctor lived thirty-six and his wife thirty years
among the heathen, many of whom became Chris-
tians through their efforts. Their seven sons and
two daughters are all in the missionary service, and
children of these ten are missionaries. This (Scud-
der) family has a record of 530 working years spent
in India.”

Up-ro-parE Ipors. — The blind heathen in In-
dia, it is said, try to keep pace with the times and
buy their idols up to date. In a Southern India
town, last year, the natives put the god Ganesha
upon a bicycle, and thus bore him during the time
of their heathen procession. But the people of
Northern India, in their heathen darkness, recently
tried to improve upon this. “To the million and
one gods another has been added — the automobile.”

A Martyr Memorrat Cuurcu. —In the year
1839 the Rey. John Williams, the pioneer missionary
of the South Sea Islands, was killed on the island
Erromanga by the savages to whom he had come
with the Gospel of peace. Besides John Williams,
four other mission workers died a martyr’s death
on the cannibal shores of that island. But other
laborers took up the work, and the Gospel of Jesus
was victorious. Recently a commodious church was
dedicated on that island in memory of John Wil-
liams and the other martyr missionaries. At the
opening service the son of the murderer of John
Williams took part, exactly sixty-six years after his
father’s death. The large congregation of native
Christians present during the dedication proved that
the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.

Procress or Mission Work. — When Stanley,
starting in 1874, made his journey of 999 days
across Africa, in the course of 7000 miles he never
met a Christian. There was not a mission station,
or church, or school on all that track. Now the
chain of missions is almost complete from Mombasa
on the east to the mouth of the Congo on ihe west,
and there are scattered through inner Africa hun-
dreds of churches and Christian schools, and over
100,000 native Christians. Similarly in China.
When the late pioneer missionary, Hudson Taylor,
reached China in 1854, there were practically no
missionaries in the inland provinces; now there are

over 1000.

YEARS ago, a young man in Boston was so moved
by a missionary address that he gave himself to
that work. He had not the gift to teach or preach,
but none the less was he a missionary. Te lived
frugally, and for many years gave money enough
to support a missionary at the front. Out of an
income of $1500.00 he sometimes gave more than
$1000.00 to such work.

Acknowledgment.

Received for Colored Missions from Mount Zion
Chureh, New Orleans, La., $25.00; St. Paul’s Church,
New Orleans, La., 60.00; Immanuel Church, Greensboro,
N. C., 5.00; Bethlehem Church, New Orleans, La.,
50.00; St. Paul’s Church, Mansura, La., 10.00; Grace
Church, Greensboro, N. C., 12.00; Grace Chureh, Con-
cord, N. C., 10.00.

St. Louis, Mo., January 16, 1906. .

A. C. Bureporr, 7'reas.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.; I. J. Lan-
kenau, Pastor.
4 pe ivine Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 Pp. M.; Wednesday,
30 P.M.
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts. ; K. Kretzschmar, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. M.; Thursday,

7.30 P.M.

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

P.M.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.
Holy Trinity Church; 1. EK. Thalley, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 A.M. and 8 P.M.

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