The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1908, Page 16

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

Misstonary Spirtr. — One of the medical mis-
sionaries in Siam has twice been offered the position
of medical inspector of the province, at a salary of
four thousand dollars in gold a year. He says, “I
love the Siam Mission and its workers and prefer
to remain with them.” .

Famity Worsnrp.—In an introduction to a
recently published book of prayers, a Christian lady,
who has been a resident in the island of Samoa for
several years, says: “In every Samoan household the
day is closed with prayer and the singing of hymns.
The omission of this sacred duty would indicate, not
only a lack of religious training in the house chief,
but a shameless disregard of all that is reputable in
Samoan social life. Servants, teehee all, are
summoned to this religious service.”

It is not so very long since Samoa was in the
benighted darkness of heathenism, and such is the
change that the Gospel of Jesus Christ has wrought.

Succrss or Misstons.— Within the last seventy-
seven years 300 of the islands of the Pacific have
been evangelized. Many of them have become al-
together Christian, with no professing heathen left.
They have not only self-supporting churches, but
are engaged in mission work among their heathen
neighbors on other islands.

A Cunristran Kine’s Last Worps. — When the
late King of Sweden was nearing his end, the Queen,
kneeling by his deathbed, whispered in his ear, “The
blood of Christ cleanses us from all sins,” at which
the dying King distinctly said, “Jesus, I thank
Thee!” ‘These beautiful words were the last words
of King Oscar of Sweden.

Cur1na. — Missionaries in China are hoping for
better times, since by a recent decree of the Emperor
Chinese magistrates are admonished to make no dis-
tinction between Christians and non-Christians in
the dispensing of justice, and Chinese officials are
commanded to afford protection to the lives and
property of missionaries.

A CHANGE. — There is a Moravian mission in
Northeast Australia among the Papuans, a treacher-
ous and cruel tribe of cannibals. Twenty years ago
no vessel dared to venture there. Now vessels put
in there for repairs. Fifteen years ago ao ship-

wrecked crew was rescued from nearby cannibals by
these Christian Papuans.

Come and See.

The testimony of Robert Louis Stevenson, the
engineer and traveler, is instructive. He says:
“T had conceived a great prejudice against missions
in the South Seas, and had no sooner come there
than that prejudice was at first reduced, and then
at last annihilated. Those who speak against mis-
sions have only one thing to do, to come and see
them on the spot. They will see a great deal of good
done; they will see a race being forwarded in many
different directions, and I believe, if they be honest
persons, they will cease to complain of mission work
and its effects.”

We must be assured that our doctrine is right
and true before God, no matter what men may
think of it. — Luther.

Acknowledgment.

Received for Colored Missions from Mount Zion Church
at New Orleans, La., $35.00; St. Paul’s Church, New Or-
leans, La., 35.00; Bethlehem Church, New Orleans, La.,
25.00; St. Paul’s Church, Mansura, La., 12.50; Grace
Church, Concord, N. C., 10.00; St. Matthew’s Church, Me-
herrin, Va., 10. 00; Holy Trinity, perinedeld, TIL, 11.50;
congregation in Napoleonville, La., 2.98.

St. Louis, Mo., January 15, 1908.

A. C. Buroporr, ay eae

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.
St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.;
F. J. Lankenau, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. ut. and 7.30 p. M.;
Wednesday, 7.30 P. at.
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. mM. and 7.30 Pp. M.;
Thursday, 7.30 Pp. xf.
Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.;
G. M. Kramer, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10 a. ur. and 7.30 P. M.;
Thursday, 7.30 P. x4.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Holy Trinity Church; James Doswell, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10. 30 A. MC. and 8 P.M.

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