# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1914_S79 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) The Lutheran Pioneer. 79 An Urgent Request to Our Missionaries. For the third time we publish the directory of our colored churches. We know that this directory is no longer wholly up to date. A number of new stations have been opened which are not represented in this list, simply because the missionaries have neglected to send us the necessary data. Let every inissionary in the field look over the directory and see whether a station served by him is not omitted. We very much desire to have this directory correct, but we cannot have it so, if our missionaries do not notify us of all changes and additions. Please, brethren, sce to this matter at once. DO IT NOW! 2 Oe BOOK TABLE. OUR COLORED MISSION. lishing House, St. Louis, Mo. 50 cts. ‘Two months ago we announced the publication of the German edition of this book, which, we learn, has found a very cordial reception, and has met with a very ready sale. ‘This English edition, we feel certain, will also find many readers; and it well deserves it, for it is a most interestingly written book and very profuscly illustrated. A large, well-executed portrait of Rev. N. J. Bakke, the Field Seeretary of our Colored Mission, has been added to the English edition as a frontispiece. The profits de- rived from the sale of the book will be devoted to the interests of the Colored Mission. — It seems to us as if everybody who has been a supporter of our Colored Mis- sion in the past will hail this booklet with delight, since it will tell him how and with what success his offerings have been used in spreading the Gospel among the freed- men. We also feel sure that every reader of this book who has before been only mildly interested in our Negro Mission will have his interest much increased by read- ing it. No doubt, also, every colored family connected -with our Mission will hasten to procure a copy of the booklet, since its reading must be of particular interest to them. A TREATISE ON FREEMASONRY. By Prof. Theo. Graebner. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. 71 pages. Price, 20 cts., postpaid. Of this book we must say, “Read it, study it, heed it.” Prof. Graebner has performed his work in a masterful manner, using the official publications and the recognized books of the Masons to make out his case. Prof. Graeb- ner’s main witness against Masonry is Mr. B. M. Holt, a former Masonic secretary, whose testimony is of an un- impeachable character, since it is fortified throughout by documentary evidence. May the book find many careful and conscientious readers. — A short reprint of a portion of the book, WHY ONE MAN LEFT THE MASONS, 16 pages, may be had for 5 cts., postpaid. HANDBUGH DER DEUTSOHEN NATIONALLITERA- 7UR von ihren ersten Anfaengen bis zur Gegen- wart. Bearbeitet von Otto Hattstaedt, Pofessor am Concordia-Gymnasium zu Milwaukee, Wis. Zweite, verbesserte Auflage. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. 1914. Price, $1.75. : This book of 512 pages, bound in cloth, is in every way a publication that the publishers may be proud of. It is the second edition of this Handbook of German Lit- erature, and the fact that a second edition has been called for so soon after the appearance of the first speaks well for the excellence of the work which Prof. Hatt- staedt has done in this compilation of German prose and Illustrated. 94 pages. Concordia Pub- Price, poetical masterpieces. The brief biographical sketches which precede the selections are concise and yet com- prehensive. The compiler’s discussion of the different periods of German literature is fine. We found the supplements on provincial, or dialect, poetry and on the German proverb particularly interesting and instructive. We hope that the book may see many more editions. BEREA BIBLE CLASS LESSONS, 1914/1915. Concor- dia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 10 cts. This very serviceable pamphlet of 24 pages has a se- ries of lessons on Paul the Prisoner, Elijah the Prophet, and Gideon, and a lesson each on Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. We advise every teacher of a Bible class to send for a copy of the booklet and examine it carefully. There is much about the book to recommend it for use in our Bible classes. DIPLOMA OF VOCATION. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 15 cts.; six, 50 cts., postpaid. This printed form will prove a great time-saver for those pastors who are serving a vacant charge, and are called upon to extend a call to a new shepherd. EV.-LOTH. HAUSFREUND-KALENDER, 1915. 115 pages. To be ordered from the Concordia Publish- ing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 15 cts. This annual of our Free Church brethren in Germany is rich in contents and well worth the price. About forty pages of the book are taken up with the second part of a popularly written life of Marshall Bluecher, the Ger- man hero of the War of Liberation and Wellington’s res- cuer at Waterloo. If you are looking for a good, Chris- tian German annual, you will not be disappointed if you get the Hausfreund-Kalender. SAENGERBOTE, No.7. Success Printing Co., St. Louis, Mo. Price, 15 cts. This number of the Lyrical Quarterly brings another fine selection of original German and English poems. A decided improvement is the inauguration of a separate English department. We hope to find this English de- partment in course of time as rich in contents as the German part of the publication. Let the English poets among us get busy. Acknowledgments. Received for Colored Missions from the following col- ored congregations: Bethlehem, Monroe, N. C., $1.50; station at High Point, N. C., .85; Bethel, Greenville, N. C., 5.00; station at Elon College, N. C., .53; station at Winston-Salem, N. C., .35; Grace, Concord, N. C., 20.00; Mount Calvary, Sandy Ridge, N.C., 10.00; Mount Calvary, Mount Pleasant, N.C., 3.00; St. Peter, Dry’s School House, N.C., 7.00; Mount Zion, New Orleans, La., 40.00; station at Napoleonville, La., 1.95; station at Johnson, La., .15; Mount Zion, Rocks, N. C., 5.00; Zion, Gold Hill, N. C., 5.00; Concordia, Rockwell, N. G., 4.00; station at Washington, D. C., 2.61 (July); sta- tion at Baltimore, Md., 1.55 (July); St. Paul, New Or- leans, La., 40.00; St. Paul, Mansura, La., 5.00; St. Paul, Charlotte, N. C., 11.00; Mount Zion, Meyersville, N. C., 3.00; Bethany, Yonkers, N. Y., 13.00; St. James, Southern Pines, N.C., 5.00; Messiah, Fayetteville, N.C., 75: St. Matthew, Meherrin, Va.,7.11; Washington, D.C., 1.25 (August); Baltimore, Md., 1.35 (August); Grace, St. Louis, Mo., Sunday-school, 3.00.— Total, $198.85. For School at Salisbury, N.C.: From St. John’s Con- gregation, Salisbury, N. C., 100.00. St. Louis, Mo., September I, 1914. JouN H. ScHULZE, Treas. 2211 Holly Ave. The undersigned thankfully acknowledges the receipt of an organ from Mr. Andrew Werling, of Ossian, Ind., for our mission at Fayetteville, N.C. God bless the kind donor! C. R. Maxrcx.