The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, February 06, 1902, Image 5
February 6, 1902
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Good News.
, From a letter received a few
days since from the president of
the missionary society of tbe
South Carolina Synod, who has
been ill for some months, I learn
with a great deal of joy and grat
itude that she is improving stead
ily, and hopes soon to be fully re
stored. In obedience to her phy
sician’s orders she is at present
qnietly resting at Summerville,
8. C., but present indications sug
gest the hope that very soon she
will be able to join her family sod
friends in her .own home. Know
ing how fondly she is loved, both
as a leader and as a personal
friend, by many hearts eeatterrd
far and wide, I hasten to give yon
this encouraging news. Let os
thank onr Father for her hopeful
condition and unite in one com
mon prayer that she may speedily
be folly restorel to tboee who love
her affd to Hu work
, Mrs. Krepa.
Week of Prayer
The time set apart for oar Week
of Prayer ia fast approaching. By
eonaolting minutes of the last Wo-
aan’s Missionary c invention of
the Sonth Carolina Synod it will
he seen that the first wr>ek in the
Lenten season, February 17-23 in-
dnsive, has been suggested to tbe
•uiliary bands .of this synodical
soeisty.as a most appropriate tims
tor this special occasion. Wnile
His true that "We ought always
to pray and not to faint,” it is
likewise trne that in onr busy
lives in this rushing age .we are
prone to neglect more than is good
for ns tbe secret communion with
Oar Father through which so
■any blessings flow. To this
neglect, on onr part, is to be at
tributed ofttimes our disappoint-
■ents and onr unsupplied ueedi.
These special seasons "call a halt”
in our forward rush, and if propei-
lj appreciated will become a ble.«
■g untold to all who participate.
is tone hoped that all of onr
•ocieties will ft id it convenient to
observe the week suggested, so
> tb*t we may "all with one accord,”
if not in "one place,” nnitt in one
common plea for the Master’s
blessing upon us and npon our
work.
I earnestly beg that when tbe
season is over onr societies every
where will send to me reports of
these meetings and their apparent
results for our department of Tbe
Visitor. Address all communica
tions to
Mrs. M. O. J. Kreps,
211 Broad Street,
Augusta, Ga.
Wsek of Prayer.
To the Woman’s Home and For
eign Missionary societies of the
Sooth Carolina Synod:
As the Lenten season approaches,
bringing with it lessons of hope
and joyfol assurance, we feel that
there conld be no more appropriate
time for the observance of onr
week of prayer and self-denial.
Accordingly tbe wrek beginning
tbe first Sunday ia,L < ‘ut, February
16-23, baa been set apart as sorb.
All societies as far as practicable
are urged to bold suitable eei vices
at that time.
Societies not having tbe Week
of Prayer envelopes will pleaee
notify Mrs. Kate Eargle, corre
sponding eecretary, Greenville,
8. U.
Mrs. M. S. Uabenicht,
Vice-President Woman'sSynolioal
Society of Sonth Carolina.
Colombia, S. C , January 29th,
1902.
An Unwelcome Honor.
The following incident is re
lated by Evangelist Williams in
lhe Christian.Herald:
1 s it one evening at the ten-table
with a large, prosperoos family,
«ho thought they [bad received
great blessings ont of onr meetings.
Several or|jthe young people bad
been converted; and the parents
recoueecrated their lives, as they
supposed. Looking a* the inter-
eating faces, I said: "God oonld
find timber here for the mission
field, conldn’t het” ‘Hush!”
said the mother in warning whia-
per.” "Why,” said I, "yon
wonldn’t withhold one of yonr
obildren if God called npon yon to
make the offering, would yon,
after tbe blessings yon have re-
ceivedt” "N o o,” she said, "I
don’t know as I would; but I
much prefer that yon wonldn’t call
his attention to it.” When some
foreign noble with depleted purse
comes to onr shores, we are not
afraid that his attention will be
called to our daughters for fear be
might take one across tbe ocean
with him. If onr sons have been
tendered a foreign political mir-
sion, we generally consider it an
honor. But when the King of
Kings and Lord of Lords asks ns
for one of onr loved ones to repre
sent bim and tbe kingdom of
heaven in a foreign land, bow apt
we are to consider it a hardship
and a great sacrifice I
A Govern or'a Opinion of Mlnnlons
It in refreshing to tarn from the
insinnntioc so frequent of late in
the public utterance* of those high
in anthority, that native Christians
and their missionaries are a danger
to tbe civil powrr to the frank
testimony in favor of missions re
cently given by tb* Lieutenant-
Govenor of New Guinea. He vec
tored to say that the goverment
owed every thing to tbe mission!—
that were it not for tbe little white
washed bouses along tbe coast
where the tninsioosnes live, the
adminietratioo would have to be
doobled, perhaps quadrupled.
Every penny spent by the misaiot-
anes saved ponadeto tbe adndrie-
tratioo, for tbe mission b*o**fil
peace, law and order. Tbe biis-!->•<•
aries helped tbe, goverment, ana
tbe goverment w«i proad to recip
rocsle tbe aid.—Tbe Regions Be
yond.
CHURCH BKWS
Tenth Anniversary—Sunday, Jan
uary 26th, marked the lentil anni
versary of tbe pastorate uf Rev. W.
A. C. Moeller, of tbe St. Matthew’s
German Evangelical Lutheran
Church, of Charleston, S. C , and,
as is customary in sneb cases, Mr.
Mueller made a report embodying
some facts and figures regarding
tbe growth and prosperity of the
church. An extract from this re
port is given as follows: Ad
dresses and fermons, 1,000:
baptisms, 635; confirmations, 338;
marriages, 207; funerals, 564;
certificates written, 2,000; ad
ministered tbe Holy Communion
to 5,000 persons; made 12,000
visits. Daring tbe tec years tbe
chnrch building was beautified, tbe
pulpit platform altered and carpeted
by the Young Men's Society, some
of the indebtedness paid off, tbe
full "Common Service” of the
German and English Book of Wor
ship introduced, tbe beantifnl
chimes and clock purchased, tbe
English Sunday-school, Yonng
Men’s and Yonng Ladies' Society
orgamz-'d, English services intro
duced and through tbe itfi tence of
this congregation now io all Lath
ersu congregations ibe newly
elected in* mbers of the Church
council are installed into their office
according to Lutheran cusiooi and
the wafers nsed at tbe celebration
of the Holy Communion. Tbe
congregation has been making
steady progress in Lutheran know
ledge, pr* dices, usages, 1 isles and
principles The church hs* been
generally decorated on high fes
tivals, ejmmouion days nod dar
ing Passion week draped Lately
tbe congregation unveiled a very
band*ome tablet in m-cnory of
their much beloved and san t'd
parlor, tbe R* v. L. Moellrr, O. D ,
fifty years pflnt<'r of 8t. Matthew’s,
and the Yonng M«n’t S>ei*ty pro-
pore to ornament bis grava with a
floe marble cradle and headstone.
LUTHERAN BREVITIES. '
Dr. Herbs • Jblborn, the great
Lutheran nrchtnan, suddenly
died <>n D ember 15, in the seven
ty sixth year of bis sge A lew
i ntrs before his death be bad
ip ken the biersing at th* cl"se of
fs u ly evening prayer.
A second Lutheran cbnrcb ia un
der way in Vandergrift, P», where
tbe first church wa« fonodsd less
than five years ago.
Rev Prof. R P. Weidner, of
the Chicago H-mioary, ih aiding
the production <>f a n*- v Greek
Testament with notes
Dr. Jacob Wackerns.el, pro
fessor of Greek and Ssnekrit io
the University of Basel, on the
Rhine, has received a call to the
Sanskrit chair io Berlin Univer
sity. The profresor is h younger
brother of Prof-esor WH' kernagel
io Muhlenberg college.
Mr. G 1. Burnett, tie friend
and holpe. * po many of onr
churches, by c npetb illustrated
lectures, was recently tendered
the professorship of Materia
Mediea in the Medical College of
San Fnncisco, Cal. Tbi« was no
small compliment, ns. tue other
twenty five chairs in tbe institution
are filled by ! physicia iH. Mr.
Bamende?'.: 1 the call preferring
to be free tc *.c puch tuvice as
se ms to bim o
For Asthma nse CHENEY’S
EXPECTORANT.