# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1909_S8 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 8. The Lutheran Pioneer. steadfastly remained true. She now wears the crown of glory.” “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life,” Rev. 2, 10. Tue Harvest 1s Great. — Director H. Zeller, “statistical expert” at Stuttgart, Germany, esti- mates that of the many human beings in the world only one third are professed Christians. There are 10,860,000 Jews, 157,920,000 Mohammedans, and $23,420,000 heathen. The harvest, indeed, is great, and the laborers are few. There are many millions of human beings who have never heard the Gospel and are still in the darkness of sin and death. They are groping ’mid-sin’s hopeless .ways, So wretched and so blind; On them have dawned no Gospel rays, No path of peace they find. “Go preach the Gospel!” Christ has said. Go, all the famished feed — To every creature give Life’s bread, Over earth Christ’s message speed! A Buessep Work.— Our Lutheran Home for Feeble-Minded and Epileptics at Milwaukee, Wis., is doing a blessed work. From its Report for the past year we see that there were 41 inmates. There - Were many more applicants, who could not be re- ceived for want of room. An effort is being made to secure a larger building and better accommoda- tions, and Christians are given an opportunity to help in this blessed work of mercy. The aim of the Home is to give to the poor afflicted ones not “~ merely bodily relief, with shelter and food and needful care, but a knowledge of the Savior and a personal love to Him. Inpra. — The Lutheran mission carried on by the Missouri Synod in India has enjoyed God’s richest, blessings in the past year, a new field being opened to the missionaries in the Southern part of that heathen land. It is a very promising field, where two missionaries find abundant work to do among young and old, in church and school. In the midst of.difficulties and hardships their hearts were gladdened by seeing God’s blessing resting “upon their labors. Many received instruction and baptism, 37 being baptized at one time. May God continue to bless and prosper the work dor the sal- vation of many souls! God Makes No Mistakes.. A Christian, who had to pass through many trials, writes: “I once experienced a great bereave- ment, which tested my trust in God’s providence be- yond any previous trial of my life. One night I was ~ seated with my little boy on my knee, mourning over my loss, when my eye rested on a favorite text over the mantelpiece. The eye of the child also turned in the same direction, and without any request on my part he read the text aloud: “The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.’ As I heard the words from my dear boy’s lips, they seemed to sink into my heart with a power they had never done before. ‘To my surprise the child asked the ques- tion, ‘Papa, what does “perfect” mean?’ My heart was too full to make any reply for a few moments, and before I could break the silence, my little one supplied the answer by saying, ‘Papa, doesn’t it mean that God makes no mistakes?’ ” Acknowledgments. Received for Colored Missions from the dollowing, con- gregations: Bethlehem, New Orleans, La., $25.00; Mount Zion, New Orleans, La., 25.00; St. Paul, “Mansurn; La., 8.00; Mount Olive, Catawba, N. C., 6.80; St. Paul, Char- lotte, N.C., 7.00; St. James, Southern Pines, N.C., 2.50; ap een, Monroe, N.C., 2.50; Holy Trinity, Springfield, Ill., 5.25. St. Louis, Mo., December 16, 1908. Henry A. SCHENKEL, Treas. 1447 John Ave. Received with earnest thanks from St. Paul’s School, Luzerne, Iowa, per Rev. G. Schroeder, for; Christmas pres- - ents for colored children, $6.50. N. J. BAKKE. Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches. NEW ORLEANS, LA. St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St. Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. mM. and 7.30 P. M.; Wednesday, 7.30 P. x. Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts.; Ed. C. Krause, Pastor. Divine Services: Sunday, 11] a. wu. and 7.30 P. M.;° Thursday, 7.30 Pp. x1. Bethlehem Ohapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.; G. M. Kramer, Pastor. Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. x. and 7.30 Pp. M.; Thursday, 7,30 Pp. xr. Sunday School: Sunday, 10 a. x. . SPRINGFIELD, ILL. Holy Trinity Church; James Doswell, Pastor. Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 a. x. and 8 Pp. M. TERMS: Tue LUTHERAN PIONEER is published monthly, pa; yable in advance at the following rates, postage har to-wit: DL Copycicceccisceveecasicce sce 10 Copies .................-- 2.00 25 Copies ....-.-...+2.+000es 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. Bisonorr, eat Catawba Co.; N. C..