# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1911_S15
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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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Also at Grace congregation in Warnersville,
Christmas Eve was celebrated in a proper way. The
classes of ‘Teachers Buntrock and Ardell Johnson
executed the Christmas liturgy in a very pleasing
manner. After the services the Christmas gifts,
which had been presented by friends of the mission,
were distributed.

Although Immanuel is always a lively place
auring the school-year, it was more so on the 29th
and 30th of December, when the missionaries among
cour colored people in North Carolina and Virginia
met for their midwinter conference. ‘The roll call
{found thirteen pastors and teachers present, while
ttwo were missing. Rev. Lauterbach from Virginia,
tthe theological students of Immanuel, and the un-
«dersigned also attended most of the meetings. Each
tsession was opened by a short address based on
some Scripture passage. Rev. Koiner admonished
the conference to also preach the Law diligently and
in all its power. Rey. McDavid encouraged us in
our mission work. Rev. John Alston spoke on Rom.
14, 19: “Let us therefore follow after the things
which make for peace.” Rev. Schmidt, expounding
2 Tim. 2, 24—26, taught us how the pastor is to
deal with gainsayers of his congregation.

‘Three papers were presented to the Conference:
1. A catechisation on the Third Commandment, by
‘Teacher IF’. Alston. 2. A treatise on the question:
How Can We Eradicate 'Tardiness in Our Schools?
by Rev. McDavid. 3. An essay on Absolution and
IExcommunication, by Prof. M. Lochner. ‘The last
paper was not finished and will be taken up again
during the next meeting of the Conference.

On ‘Thursday evening a confessional service and
distribution of the Lord’s Supper took place. Prof.
I’. Walhlers delivered the confessional sermon on
2 Cor. 8, 9.

Instructions at Immanuel were taken up again
on Monday, January 2, after the scholars had en-
joyed a few days’ rest during the Conference.

Prof. Lochner’s family was cast into deep
mourning on December. 29, when their only daugh-
ter passed away at the age of five weeks. W. R.

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NOTES.

‘ne NEED oF THE CoLoRED Racer. — Speaking
of the need of the colored race, a writer in The Re-
corder says: “The need of the colored race is the
mission work of the Church. ‘The conviction is
daily gaining ground that if there is to be a sub-

stantial advance along moral and other lines, it
can be secured only by laying a foundation for it
by the preaching of the Gospel, and the regenera-
tion of the heart. ‘This secured, there will un-
doubtedly follow a reformation of life in every re-
lation.”

RELIGIONS oF tHE WorLp.— Herr Zeller, di-
rector of the Statistical Bureau of Stuttgart, Ger-
many, has recently published a religious census of
the world in which he computes the number of
human beings living as 1,544,510,000, of which
number more than one third, or 534,940,000, are.
professed Christians; 175,290,000 are Mohammed-
ans, 10,860,000 are Jews. The remainder, who
comprise about one half of the total population of
the world, are placed under a general head and in-
clude 300,000,000 Confucians, 314,000,000 Brah-
mins, and 121,000,000 Buddhists, with other bodies
of less numbers. According to these figures, of
every thousand of the earth’s inhabitants 346 are
professed Christians, 114 are Mohammedans, 7 are
Israelites, and 533 are of other religions. — What
a great field for work still lies before the Church
that has received from her Lord the commission:
“Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel
to every creature!”

SMALL RecuLar Girrs. — How much good can
be done by small gifts laid aside regularly for
church work can be seen from the following report
in The Foreign Missionary: —“Under date of De-
eember 5, 1909, J. S. wrote to the pastor of the
Church of the Atonement, Philadelphia, as follows:
‘I attended the missionary service at the Evangelical
Lutheran Church of the Atonement. Dr. Harpster
spoke on the need of supporting foreign missions.
He asked us to devote one trolley fare per week,
five cents, for the cause. I resolved to do the same.’
One year afterward, in December, 1910, J. S., who,
by the way, is not a member of the, congregation,
handed the pastor over six dollars for our foreign
missions. He had kept his resolution. He had
proved that the weekly offering for missions brings
the best results. Had he been asked a year ago to
contribute $6.00 to foreign missions, he, probably,
would have refused.” ;

Bisnor Heser’s Missionary Hyun. — In an-
swer to an inquiry regarding “the origin of the
famous missionary hymn, ‘From Greenland’s Icy
Mountains,” we give the following: The hymn