# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1913_S8
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or of a cigar, it would in a year amount to fifty
million dollars. Just for a moment think what
many small gifts, regularly given, will amount to
ina year!

A Missionary FroM THE Erawan District IN
Inpra, where there are 800,000 people, wrote some
time ago that he had baptized more than 100 people
in one week, and that he believes 100,000 could be
won to Christianity in a few years if there were
enough workers. Yes, the harvest is great, but so
very small the number of laborers. k

Cuba anp Porto Rico.— There are about
twenty thousand Protestant Christians in Cuba and
Porto Rico. Fifteen years ago-there were practi-
cally none. On the Isle of Pines, south of Cuba,
Rev. Oertel, one of our missionaries, is preaching
the saving Word to a goodly number of people, and
has organized a congregation. 0

Do Missions Pay? — Yes, they do, even in dol-
lars and cents. Here is one out of many proofs:
The export trade of the United States to Asiatic
countries jumped from about $58,000,000 in 1903
to about $127,000,000 in 1905, which was due chiefly
to missionary influence. And here is another item:
The trade with the Fiji Islands in one year is more
than the entire amount spent in fifty years in Chris-
tianizing them. A great English statesman esti-
mated that when a missionary had been twenty years
on the field he was worth in his indirect expan-
sion of trade and commerce ten thousand pounds
($50,000) per year to British commerce.

A Venturesome Believing.

The Rev. John Butterworth, a minister of Eng- _

land, speaking of his religious experiences, writes:
“One day as I was reading in a book called the
‘Marrow of Modern Divinity, a sentence from Lu-
ther was quoted, which was this: ‘I would run into
the arms of Christ if He stood with a drawn sword
in His hand.’ This thought came bolting into my

mind, ‘So will I too,” and those words of Job oc-

curred, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.’
My burden dropped off; my soul was filled with
joy and peace through believing in Christ. This
venturesome believing, as one has called it, was the
means of setting me at liberty.” — Selected. 4

BOOK TABLE.

THE LORD'S PRAYER. The first of a series of spiritual
songs for mixed choirs to be issued under the gen-
eral title of “Harmony.” Published by I. C. Stricter,
4508 Virginia Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Single copies,
10 cts.; per dozen, 75 ets. Order from Concordia
Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.

This composition is provided with an English and

a German text. The music is remarkably well adapted

to the words, being a prayer in itself. It is not of more

than ordinary difficulty and can be rendered by a choir
of common ability. Compositions such as this must al-
ways be welcome to our choirs.

Acknowledgments.

Received for Colored Missions from the following Col-
ored congregations: Grace, Greensboro, N. C., $8.00; sta-
tion at High Point, N. C., .75; station at Elon College,
N. C., 2.01; St. Paul, New Orleans, La., 40.00; Beth-
Iechem, New Orleans, La., 40.00; Mount Zion, New Or-
leans, La., 40.00; St. Paul, Mansura, La., 5.00; station
at Napoleonville, La., 2.20; station at Gulfport, Miss.,
6.52; St. James, Southern Pines, N. C., 3.00; Zion, Gold
Hill, N. C., 3.00; Mount Zion, Rocks, N. C., 3.00; Con-
cordia, Rockwell, N. C., 2.50; St. Matthew, Mcherrin, Va.,
10.00; St. Paul, Charlotte, N. C., 12.00; Bethlehem, Mon-
roe, N. C., 3.00; Bethany, Yonkers, N. Y., 19.50; Mount
Calvary, Mount Pledsant, N. C., 3.00; St. John, Salis-
bury, N. C., 5.00; Bethel, Greenville, N. C., 4.00; Grace,
St. Louis, Mo., 8.00. — Total, $220.48.

St. Louis, Mo., December 16, 1912.

H. L. Doepervern, 7'rcas.
848 E. Prairie Ave.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.

St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.;
Ed. Schmidt, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 114.31. and 7.30 p.at.; Wednes-
day, 7.30 Pp. M.
Mount Zion, Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts.; Alb. O.
Friedrich, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. x. and 7.30 p. a. ; Thurs-
day, 7.30 p. or.
Bethichem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.;
G. M. Kramer, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. x. and 7.30 Pp. M.; Thurs-
day, 7.30 r.3t. Sunday-School: Sunday, 10 A. a1.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Holy Trinity Church. /
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 a. at. and 8 P. 3f.

TERMS.

Tue LUTHERAN PIONEER is published monthly, payable
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