# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1910_S64 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 64 The Lutheran Pioneer. A Poor Winow’s Girt. — The late Dr. Paxton used to say that the most pathetic gift for missions, and relatively the largest ever given in his New York church, was a five-dollar gold piece brought him by a poor widow, who, to enable herself to give it, raised chickens on the roof of the tenement, the attic of which was her abode. She had abso- lutely no other way of raising money, and it took her a whole summer to gather this sum. Arrioa.— There are 104 evangelical mission societies at work in the mission fields of Africa. The Bible, or. at least portions of the same, has been translated into 117 African languages. There are 8 high schools, 59 seminaries for the training of native preachers, 68 industrial schools, 2 schools for the training of nurses, and several thousand village schools. There are’ 43 mission hospitals, in which, on the average, 150,000 sick are taken care of every year, 3 leper asylums, 13 orphans’ homes. But there is still much mission work to be done on that large continent. For it was stated at the recent World Missionary Conference at Edin- burgh, Scotland, that “there are whole tribes in Africa to-day, ranging from five thousand to two million persons, who have never heard of Christ.” _ Wxart OnE Man Dip. — What may sometimes be accomplished through the efforts of one man is illustrated by the case of a German named Karl von Canstein. In 1710 he established a little society for distributing Bibles among the poor. Its aim was to sell the New Testament for two pennies and the Bible for six. Shortly afterward an urgent appeal was made to Christians for money to establish a printing plant, which brought $7920. ‘he first edition was printed in 1712. Canstein has been in his grave one hundred and ninety-two years, but the society which bears his name still lives, and recently celebrated its two hundredth birthday an- - niyersary. By the end of 1909, 8,000,000 Bibles had been issued. - A Ric Costume. — A young missionary from the West attended as delegate the meeting of a Home Missionary Society near a fashionable East- erm summer resort. Writing home to his wife, he said that among the fashionable crowd he saw one -young lady “whose costume was worth one mission chapel, thirty cottage organs, and twenty-two Sun- day school ‘librariés.” :He wondered “if she had anything to spare for the mission cause.” ~ .-2.>--: BOOK TABLE. KATECHISMUSPREDIGTEN ueber das dritte, vierte und fuenfte Hauptstueck von C. C. Schmidt, Pastor an der ev.- luth. Gemeinde zum heiligen Kreuz in St. Louis, Mo. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 85 cts., postpaid. This well-printed and substantially bound volume of 136 pages brings the second part of Catechism sermons by the Rev. C. C. Schmidt, and will, like its companion volume, be heartily welcomed as a valuable help to ful- fill Luther’s wish also in our day. Luther said: “T wish the people to be well taught in the Catechism.” In simple language, in plain and direct style, these sermons set forth and apply the Bible truths contained in our Catechism. Parts First and Second may be obtained substantially bound in one volume for $2.00. . Acknowledgment. Received for Colored Missions from the following con- gregations: Mount Zion, New Orleans, La., $35.00, Beth- lehem, New Orleans, La., 60.00, St. Paul, New Orleans, La., 35.00, Napoleonville, La., 33.70, Mansura, La., 9.86, St. John, Salisbury, N. C., 3.13, Mount Calvary, Mount Pleas- ant, N. C., 3.00, St. Paul, Charlotte, N. C., 7.50, St. James, Southern Pines, N.C., 2.50, Mount Zion, Meyersville, N.C., 2.50, Grace, Concord, N. C., 10.00, Mount Calvary, Bandy Ridge, N. C., 10.00, ‘Mount Zion, The Rocks, N. C., Zion, Gold Hill, N. C., ak Holy 7 trinity, Springfield, a 4.10, Concordia, Rockwell, N. C., 2.50, St. Matthew, Meher- rin, Va., 5.77, Grace, St. Louis, Mo., 2.50, Grace, Greens- boro, N. C., 3.00. From Rev. F. L. Braun and family, Chi- cago, IIl., 2.50. Total: $238.06. St. Louis’ Mo., July 16, 1910. H. L. DoeDERLEIN, 7'rcas. 848 E. Prairie Ave. Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches. NEW ORLEANS, LA. St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.; Albert Witt, Pastor. Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. wf. and 7.30 P. x.; Wednesday, 7.30 Pp. af. _Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts.; Ed. C. Krause, Pastor. 3 Divine Services: Thursday, 7.30 P. Mt. Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.; G. M. Kramer, Pastor. Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a.m. and 7.30 P. M.; Thursday, 7.30 p. xx. Sunday School: Sunday, 10. x. SPRINGFIELD, ILL. Holy Trinity Church. 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