The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1912, Page 80

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‘The Lutheran Pioneer.

A Fruit of Missions.

When John Hunt, in 1838, landed on Fiji, the
people of those islands were perhaps as low as
human beings had ever been. Infants and old
people were murdered without compunction. Of all
the babies born, not more than one in three escaped
death at birth, while signs of age or helplessness
were sure and certain signs for murder. Canni-
balism was a universal and religious rite. Children
from their earliest days were trained to devour
human flesh. Warriors boasted. of the number of
human beings they had eaten. All kinds of events,
great and small, were signals for a meal on human
flesh. Parents ate their children, husbands ate their
wives, and children ate their parents. Even as late
as 1859, one could buy a man in Fiji for thirty-
eight shillings, kill and eat him. Of course, when
murder and cannibalism were rife, no lesser forms
of evil were lacking. Unlikely soil, surely, for the
fruits of the Spirit! To-day no community on earth
has a greater percentage of humble, devoted, kindly
followers of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ than
these selfsame Fijians. The Bible is in nearly every
house, and on Sunday nine tenths of the people
may be found assembled in the churches for worship.
C. B. Keeleyside.

—

Fear Not!

A pastor, speaking of the security of God’s people
and the precious promises of the Bible, said, “How
often the words ‘Fear not!’ occur in God’s Holy
Book! I have counted up into the seventies, and
I thought that was enough. I need not look for
any more.”

Washing Baby in Africa. ~

According to The Lutheran, we have this de-
scription, from a missionary, of a baby’s bath in
Africa: —

“One morning I heard the baby crying as if —

his little heart would break. I went to see what
could be the matter with him, and found his mother
washing him in front of her house. And do you
think she had a nice little bathtub and scented soap
and warm water? Oh, no! She was holding the
little baby up on his little feet, and was pouring
cold water over him by handfuls. The poor baby
was screaming at the top of his lungs, and fighting

against the cold water as hard as he could; but
the mother paid no attention to that and went on
with the washing.

“Did she have nice, warm flannel cloths to dry
him with, and others with which to wrap him?
No; but when the washing was over, she lifted
the baby up and with her mouth blew vigorously
into his eyes and ears to drive out the water, and
that was all the drying he got. Then she proceeded
to dress him. ‘The dress consisted of a string of
beads around his waist, one around his neck, and
one around each one of his wrists and ankles. The
air and the sun did the rest of the drying.”

Acknowledgments.

Received for Colored Missions from the following con-
gregations: St. James, Southern Pines, N. C., $3.00; St.
Peter's, Dry’s School House, N. C., 15.50; Mount Cal-
vary, Mount Ple: asant, N. C., 3.00; St. Matthew’ 's, Meher-
rin, Va., 10.00; St. Paul’, ‘Ss, Charlotte, N. N.C., 10.00; Bethel,
Greenville, N. C., 4.00; Mount Zion, Meyersville, N. G.,
2.50; Zion, Gold Hill, N. C., 3.00: Mount Zion, Rocks,
N. C., 3.00; Concordia, Rockwell, N. C., 2.50; St. John’s,
Salisbury, N. C., 17.61; Mount Zion, New Orleans, La.,
40.00; Bethlehem, New Orleans, La., 40.00; St. Paul's,
Mansura, La., 5.00; Grace, Concord, N. C., 10.00; Mount
Calvary, Sandy Ridge, N. C., 16.00; Grace, Greensboro,
N. C., 8.00; Grace, St. Louis, Mo., 2.10; Holy ‘Trinity,
Springfield, Ill., 10.75. — Total, $205.96.

St. Louis, Mo., September 16, 1912.

H. L. DoepERLeEIN, 7'reas.
848 E. Prairie Ave.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
St. Paul's Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.;
Ed. Schmidt, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A.3f. and 7.30 p.ac; Wednes-
day, 7.30 Pp. M. >
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. M. and 7.30 p. M.; Thurs-
day, 7.30 r. Mt.
Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.;
G. M. Kramer, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. sr. and 7.30 rv. x.; Thurs-
day, 7.30 rp... Sunday-School: Sunday, 10 a. wu.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.
Holy Trinity Church. :
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 a. af. and 8 P. af.

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