# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1911_S88 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 88 The Lutheran Pioneer. with their whole course of learning. “More and more of our statesmen,” he says, “are seeing and asserting that a religious belief is the only solid basis of morality and righteousness, and that mere secular learning has no tendency to make men moral and good. It may make more skillful knaves and dangerous neighbors. But our country, being a secular and not a Christian state, embracing freely all religious bodies, cannot use the Bible in its pub- lie schools. Why, then, should not we all have parish schools?” Yes, why not? And why does the pastor’s congregation not open such a school? Some one has said, “The way to do a thing is to do it.” New Lasorers. — Five new laborers were re- cently commissioned to labor in the Foreign Mis- sion field of the General Council. Tour will labor in India and one in Japan. Givine THE TENTH TO Gop. — Right over the equator, says an exchange, there is a little Protes- tant church of 200 members just dug out of heathen- ism during the last ten years. Every member of the 200 is a tither, that is, one that gives the tenth | to God. Their money is in. the form of a bent cop- per wire resembling a large hairpin. This money comes in bunches of ten, and out of every bunch the native Christian takes out one and brings it into the treasury of the Lord. If he goes fishing and has a good catch, before he reaches home he takes one out of every ten fish to the village market and sells it to swell his love-offering to Christ. Not only one penny in ten and one fish in ten does he pay, but one member in ten is given to the Christianizing of neighboring tribes. 3 Rome anp THE Brste.— Dr. Edward B. T. Spencer has stated in a public address that he re- cently asked a well-informed gentleman resident at Rome how many privately owned copies of the Bible there probably were among the half million inhabit- ants of Italy’s capital city —so long under the in- fluence of the Vatican and the popes. The gentle- man, answered that he supposed there were about forty. Another resident of age and experience said that among all his acquaintances he did not know of a family or an individual that owned a Bible. Dr. Spencer further declared that within a year an Italian priest said to a Methodist colporteur, “Go on with your Bible-selling, and we will go on with our Bible-burning.” ; BOOK TABLE. AMERINANISCHER KALENDER FUER DEUTSCHE LUTHERANER. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 10 ets. This well-known and always welcome Almaiae appears for the next yezr in a more convenient and more pleasing size, but its contents ars the same as in former years. Be- sides the usual ealendar and statistical matter, it: brings 27 pages of instructive and entertaining reading matter, which will make it a welcome visitor in our German Lu- theran horzes. — Its companion, the Lutheran Annual, will appear in the middle of November. DER NHEILAND, MEIN ERLOESER. Weilmachtsliturgie fuer den Christabend. Dargeboten von W. @. Rein. Coneordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 5 cix. per copy; per dozen, 30 cts.; per hundred, $2.50. . An exelent new Christmas program with appropriate hymns, and questions and answers on the Savior’s birth, treating to 2 larger extent than is usually the ease of the wore at redemption according to the Second Article of the Creed. . Acknowledgments. teccived for Colored Missions from the following con- gregations: Holy Trinity, Springfield, Ill, $7.48, Beth- Iehem, New Orleans, La., 35.00, St. James, Southern Pines, N. C., 5.00, Mount Zion, New Orleans, La., 15.00, St. Paul, New Orleans, La., 30.00, Station at Napoleonville, La., 23.40, St. Paul, Charlotte, N. C., 7.50, Mount Zion, Meyers- ville, N. C., 2.50, Bethel. Greenville, N. C., 6.00, St. John, Salisbury, N. C., 17.21, St. Paul, Mansura, La., 5.00, Beth- any, Yonkers, N. Y., 10.00, Immanuel, Reimerstown, N. C., 8.00, St. Peter, Dry’s Schoolhouse, N. C., 9.00, St. Mat- thew, Meherrin, Va., 10.64, Zion, Gold Hill, N. C., 3.00, Concordia, Rockwell, N. C., 2.50, Mount Zion, Roc _ 23.00, Grace, St. Louis, Mo., 6.00. Tolal: $226.23. : St. Louis, Mo., October 16, 1911. H. L. DoEDERLEIN, 1'reas. 848 E. Prairie Ave. Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches. NEW ORLEANS, La. St. Paul's Chapel, 1625 Annette Sw. -near N. Claiborne St.; Ed. Schmidt, Pastor. Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. st. and 7.30 2. at.; Wednesday, 7.30 P.M. Mount Zion Ch Franklin and Thalia Sts. Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. a. and 7.30 Pp. M.; Thursday, 7.30 pom. . Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.; G. M. Kramer, Pastor. Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. af. and 7.30 Pp. af.; Thursday, 7.30 v. a. Sunday School: Sunday, 10 a. a. , SPRINGFIELD, ILL. Holy Trinity Church. a Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 a. a. and 8 P. a. TERMS: Tue LUTHERAN Proxeer is published monthly, payable in advance at the following rates, postage included, to-wit: seceee® 2D 5 WOR occ ncvccevene sseee 9.00 Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent to one address. — In St. Lonis by mail or carrier, 35 cents. All business communications to be addressed to Con- corpiA Puncisiina House, Jefferson Ave. and Miami St., St. Louis, Mo. All communications concerning the editorial depart- ment to be addressed to Prof. R. A. Biscitorr, Conover, Catawba Co., N.C.