The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1909, Page 80

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

Many of the delegates and friends returned home
with the burning zeal within.their bosoms to do
more for the Lord and for the spreading of His
kingdom than they have done in the past. May the
God of all grace bless Immanuel Conference, bless
the individual members of the conference, bless
their congregations! And may greater work be
done in our dear old Lutheran Church for the sal-
vation of many souls and to the glory of our God!

CuariEy Pray.

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Spain and the Lutheran Pilgrims.

In the early sixties of the sixteenth century,
seven hundred Huguenots, exiled from France,
landed on the coast of Florida, and, like the Pilgrim
Fathers who came later, sought to make the new
country their permanent home. Word concerning
their movements came to the Spanish court and an
expedition was fitted out under the infamous Me-
nendez to make a crusade against them. Priest and
monk preached a “holy war,” and the ports were
crowded with adventurers to enroll themselves for
the plunder and massacre of the “heretics.”

The Spanish reached Florida in the autumn of
1565, and immediately began the persecution of all
the French colonies, who professed themselves Lu-
therans. By deception. and treachery they decoyed
party after party into ambush, or under promise
of safety led them into places where they were cut
to pieces by the maddened bigots.’ One company of
140 were slain in and around their fort, their bodies
mangled and their eyes torn out.

Several hundred others, upon confessing that
they were Lutherans, had their hands tied, were led

_ out, in companies of ten, and chopped to pieces by
the Spanish soldiery. Others, after being subjected
to the most horrible indignities, were hanged to
trees, and the ferocious Menendez placed over them
the inscription: “I do this not as to Frenchmen
but as to Lutherans.” Thus fifty-five years before
the Mayflower landed at Plymouth seven hundred
Lutherans baptized the soil of America with their
blood.

The Difference.

Under this heading The Watchword says: “The
difference between Roman Catholicism and Prot-
estantism has an illuminating exhibit in the Island
of Guam. For three hundred years that island was
governed by Catholic Spain, and nothing was done

to provide its natives with either a secular or re-
ligious education, except to make them ‘workable’
subjects of the church; and for that ‘end the more
ignorant they were the better. It was captured by
the United States cruiser Charleston, June 21, 1898,
and was formally ceded to our government by Spain
in the Treaty of Paris, December 10 of the same
year. Where Old Glory floats, there is religious
liberty. Protestantism’s opportunity came. The
Rev. Francis M. Fitch, a missionary of the American
Board of Foreign Missions, entered the island. The
language of the natives of Guam was the Chamorro.
Hitherto it was only vocal. Mr. Fitch learned it,
reduced it to writing, made a grammar and dic-
tionary of it, and thus made translations into it
possible. As a result the American Bible Society
now prints the Chamorro Bible.. Protestantism
makes Bibles, does not destroy them.” :

Acknowledgment.

Received for Colored Missions from the following con-
gregations: St. Matthew, Meherrin, Va., “$6.48; Grace,
Concord, N. C., 15.00; St. Paul, Charlotte, N. C., 7.50;
Mount Zion, Meyersville, N. C., 2.50; Bethlehem, Mon-
roe, N. C., 1.50; St. James, Southern Pines, N. C., 2.505
Mount Calvary, Mount Pleasant, N.C., 3.00; Mount Zion,
New Orleans, La., 35.00; Bethlehem, New Orleans, La.,
30.00. Total: $103.48.

St. Louis, Mo., September 17, 1909.

Henry A. SCHENKEL, 7'reas.
1447 John Ave.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.
Divine Services: Sunday, 1] a. Mm. and 7.30 P. M.;
Wednesday, 7.30 PY. M.
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts.; Ed. C.
Krause, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. af. and 7.30 P. M.;
Thursday, 7.30 P. at.
Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.;
G. M. Kramer, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. af. and 7.30 P. M.;
Thursday, 7.30 p.ut. Sunday School: Sunday, 10 A. 2.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Holy Trinity Church; James Doswell, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 a.m. and 8 P. M.

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