The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1909, Page 47

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'Trur in Too Many Cases. —‘l’o the question,
“What is matrimony?” one of our missionaries in
the Colored Mission field recently received this an-
swer in his catechumen class: “The lifelong suffer-
ing between man and wife.”
too many cases.

It is only too true in
There are too many Christless
homes, where God’s Word does not rule, where there
is no Christian family life, no peace, no harmony
between husband and wife. And the children?
Well, the children of such families generally get
their education in the street, where they have their
own way, and children that have their own way
usually end in a bad way.

Srreer Epucarion. — A city missionary visited
an unhappy man in jail who was awaiting his trial.
“Sir,” said the prisoner, “my street education ruined
me. lL used to go off with the boys .in the street.
In the street I learned to loaf; in the street I
learned to swear; in the street I learned to gamble;
in the street I learned to steal and to do all evil.
Oh, sir, it is in the street that the devil lurks to
work the ruin of the young.” ‘The late Joel Chand-
ler Harris, known as “Uncle Remus,” a friend of
the colored race, said, “I see a brand-new genera-
tion of colored people different from those of olden
times. ‘The trouble is, too many of the colored
children grow up on the streets. They have no
home life.’ Pity the poor children, both colored
and white, that are without the influence of a Chris-
tian home and grow up amid the manifold tempta-
tions of the street! :

A Weak Point. — Says an old pastor of many
years’ experience: “Religious life in the family is
one of the weak points in the present day life of
Christian people. Its declension is responsible for
no little of the weakness of the church life of
to-day.”

Our or Desr.—'The three great missionary
societies of the Northern Baptists jubilantly an-
nounce that they are out of debt, a million and
a half dollars having been raised for missions since
last June.

Inpran Missions. — From a report of the Lu-

theran mission among the Indians in Shawano Co., |

Wis., we learn that the work has been abundantly
blessed during the past year. The mission school
numbers 70 children, for whom a suitable boarding

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house has been erected, where they find a Christian
home and Christian training. Besides the school-
children, 60 adulis on the average attend the church
services as devout and attentive hearers of the Gos-
pel, which proves itself also among them the power
of God unto salvation.

31ntu Work. — ‘The Bible Society of Scotland
reports that last year the copies and portions of the
Scriptures issued reached the tecord number of
2,058,375, being 420,846 more than in 1907. Over
1,944,000 of these yolumes were circulated in for-
cign countries, chiefly among Roman Catholics and
non-Christian people.

PronEER Missionartes. — In 1705 the Lutheran
missionary Ziegenbalg came to India as the first
Protestant missionary in that heathen land. Others
followed him, and it is said that 54 Lutheran mis-
sionaries labored in India during the eighteenth
century. All of these fifty-four missionaries died
in the foreign mission field except eight, and
eighteen were buried in the New Jerusalem church
at Tranquebar, the church which Ziegenbalg built
and where his’ body also rests.

Inpra. — Before a large audience in New York
City Sir Andrew Fraser, ex-Lieutenant Governor
of Bengal, recently gave an address on India, bear-
ing testimony to the progress of Christian missions.
He said in part: “I have served for a long time in
India — thirty-seven years. I have lived long in
two provinces. I have lived in every province and
have come to know that India is a great continent
—not a little country. India is not one; she is
many nations, with many different tongues and
traditions. I have served on two commissions that
took.me twice each year over the entire country,
and I have studied the schools, the churches, and
the ‘hospitals, and have seen the blessed work of the
self-denying missionaries. I know the missionary
—TI have watched him at work. Christianity is
taking its hold. I have worked side by side with
Indian elders. I have known an Indian, converted,
to go into a region untouched by the missionary
to found a school and a church. The work is pro-
gressing.”

Encouracina Resuits oF Mission Work. —
A writer in Zhe Interior calls attention to the “en-
couraging results of mission work” in the kingdom
of Uganda, in Africa. He says: “Mr. Winston
Churchill tells his readers, in his late book, ‘My