# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1906_S24 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 24 The Lutheran Pioneer. How He Gave Hrusetr.— Bishop Warne, of India, tells how he learned the joy of earning money for missions, and how he finally gave himself to the work. He writes: “I was but a boy in Canada, and when the annual missionary meeting was held and the collection was about to be taken, the preacher said, ‘I want every person in the house, including boys and girls, to subscribe something, no matter how small, and two months will be given in which to pay the subscription.” The collector came down the aisle with a slip of paper, and the people wrote their names on the paper. I had never subscribed to anything, but I decided I would sub- scribe one dollar; and when it came to me, I took the paper and wrote my name, promising to give that amount. I was very much excited, and began at once to plan how I should carn the money. I saved pocket money, ran errands, found eggs, and as it seemed to me, long before the time I had my dollar ready, and wished cither that the collector would hurry up or that I had subscribed’ more. I got so much pleasure and profit out of that sub- scription that I have been giving ever since, and at last I gave myself.” THE GosrPEL IN JAPAN.— Speaking of the Gospel in Japan, Christian Work reports the fol- lowing: . The saving power of the Gospel has many illus- trations in Japan. Miss Maud Bonnell writes from Hiroshima: “One evening as I stood in a recita- tion room of Palmore Institute (the night school maintained by our mission in Kobe), three young men who wished to enter the school were introduced to me. They proved interested pupils, and during the year all three were baptized and have continued faithful to this day. One was shut up in his room for a month, his Bible taken from him, and he was threatened with losing his position in the bank, yet he never wavered as to giving up his faith. He and one other of the three are now the chief de- pendence in one of our city chayels. One is Sun- day-school superintendent, and the other leads the singing and teaches. The last of the three is dying slowly of consumption in his native province, far into the country. He gathers about him little children and tells them Bible stories, though sur- rounded on every side with active influences in strong opposition.” MAKING CaLts IN JAPAN. — A mission worker in Japan gives the following amusing account of “society calls,” as made in that country. She says: “When a Japanese caller comes to see me, we both kneel down on the floor, leaning back on our heels, and I say, ‘O-ha-ki-na-sai,’ which, literally translated, means, ‘Hang your honorable hips;’ or, in other words, ‘Please be seated.’ Then we each bow twice very low, so low that our foreheads nearly touch the floor. ‘Then the Japanese says, “Thank you, and I say, ‘No trouble at all; and then we both touch our foreheads to the floor again, taking long-drawn breaths so that they can be distinctly heard. Then I say, O-ma-ri-ka-ka- ri-masu,’ which is, ‘Let me hang on your honorable eyelids ;’ or, in good English, ‘I am glad to see you.’ Then, as I understand so little of the language, I have an interpreter called in, and after going through all those bows again, she does the rest of the talking. I get pretty tired sometimes, sitting on my heels, and when I go to see a Japanese,, I have to remove my shoes before entering the house, and then my feet get pretty cold. But it has to be done, for it is a great insult to the Japanese host to keep the shoes on.” Acknowledgment. Received for Colored Missions from Immanuel Chureh, Greensboro, N. C., $5.00; St. Paul’s Church, Charlotte, N. C., 5.00; Mount Zion Chureh, New Orleans, La., 25.00; St. Paul’s Chureh, New Orleans, La., 35.00; Beth- lehem Chureh, New Orleans, La., 25.00, and 5.40, and from R. A. Dixon’s family mission box 3.31; St. Paul’s Chureh, Mansura, La., 10.00; Grace Church, Greens- boro, N. C., 12.00; St. Matthew’s Church, Meherrin, Va., 5.00; Grace Church, Concord, N. C., 10.00. St. Louis, Mo., February 17, 1906. A. C. Buraporr, 1'reas. Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches. NEW ORLEANS, LA. St. Paul's Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.; F. J. Lan- kenau, Pastor. — 7 pauline Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 Pp. M.; Wednesday, Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts. ; K. Kretzschmar, Pastor. 7 ing Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. M.; Thursday, Bethiehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.; J. W. F. Koss- mann, Pastor. _ Divine Services: Sunday, 10 A. M9. and 7.30 Pp. 3.3; Thursday, 7.30 P.M. SPRINGFIELD, ILL. Church; L. EK. Thalley, Pastor. Holy eae Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 A. of. and 8 P. M. TERMS: : Tue LUTHERAN PIONEER is published monthly, payable in advance at the following rates, postage included, to-wit: US Copyaaretcicieisic eisttsisinicjercicies @Nc2, 10 Copies.................... 2,00 25 Copics...............++-++ 5.00 50 Copies.............. 9.00 Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent to one address. —In St. Louis by mail or carrier, 35 cents. All business communications to be addressed to Con- cordia Publishing House, Jefferson Ave. and Miami St., St. Louis, Mo. All communications concerning the editorial depart- ment to be addressed to Prof. R. A. Biscnorr, Conover, Catawba Co., N.C.