# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1914_S88 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 88 The. Lutheran Pioneer. other mission workers. Chinese Protestant Chris- tians contributed $320,000 for church work last .year. The Protestant day-schools have over 85,000 pupils enrolled, and the high schools and colleges maintained by Protestant mission societies in China are attended by over 31,000 students. Prot- estants maintain 235 hospitals and 200 dispensa- ries. A total of 1,822,802 patients were treated in these institutions last year. A Pecunrarty Suarep Brsie.— In Uganda a strange-shaped Bible is in use. It is three inches thick, three inches wide, and of extraordinary length. Why this peculiar shape? Because of the white ants, who destroy anything they can lay hold on. Now, in Uganda a certain biscuit packed in tin boxes of the shape mentioned above is very popular, and the Bible Society has made the Bibles of a shape to fit into these ant-proof tin biscuit boxes. Moravians 1N Panama.— The Moravians are earnestly thinking of extending their efforts to Panama, and a friend of their work has offered them the means to open up the work of evangeliz- ing the French islands of Martinique and Guade- loupe in the West Indies. Tur Size or Arrica.— Referring to the size of Africa, Dan Crawford says in The Record of Christian Worl: “Africa is far bigger than you think. Give me the whole of India, and in it goes. Now, the whole of China, and in that goes, too. Plus India and China give me Australia, and in these go easily. And still Africa, my Africa, like Oliver Twist, asks for more. So we will put in Europe. In it all goes, and even then I have what I believe the Vanderbilts call marginal millions. And yet you hear people. speaking as if, when you are in Central Africa, you could live the life of a sort of week-ender, and just run out to see your friends the Joneses and Robinsons.” BOOK TABLE. LUTHERGIRI. Yin Besuch im lutherischen Pfarrhause in Indien. By Reinhold Freche. Concordia Pub- lishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Strong paper cover; 64 pages. Richly illustrated. Price, 30 cts. Encouraged by the hearty welcome given the booklet Vanji Bhumi, the Foreign Mission Board of the Missouri Synod has sent forth this booklet. Missionary Freche, of India, tells us in this booklet in a yery interesting way about the family life of the East Indian missionary. The 21 fine half-tone cuts in the booklet greatly increase its value. It would be a strange thing, indeed, if this book did not also greatly increase the interest of the reader in the work iitaraen missions. . JUNUTES OF THE 29TH GE RAL MEETING of the Ky. Luth. Synod of Missouri, ete. Concordia Pub- lishing House, St. Louis, Mo. 64 pages. 15 ets. “This is the first English report of any general as- sembly of the German Lutheran Missouri Synod. The Seeretary’s aim has been to make this report brief, com- plete, intelligible, and inspiring.” We assure the See- retary that he reached his aim, and we feel certain that, if the people knew how perfectly he had reached it, these minutes would be read by thousands. DOGMATIK von A. Hoenecke. western Publishing House, pages. Price, 40 cts. This eighteenth part of Dr. Hoenecke’s Dogmatik continues the treatment of the Prolegomena. North- 18. Lieferung. 72 Milwaukee, Wis. FROENLICH SOLL MEIN HWERZE SPRINGEN (All My Heart This Night Rejoices) and W#CHSLL- GESANG AUF WEIHNACHTRN zwischen Pastor und Kindern. Worte nach Jesaia. Published by I. C. Stricter, 4510 Virginia Ave., St. Louis, .Mo. Also to be had from Concordia Publishing House. Price of cach, 25 cts.; $2.00 per dozen. . Both of these Christmas compositions will enjoy pop- ularity among us, we are sure. The music is bound to appeal to every lover of good sacred songs. ‘The first- named is also furnished with an English text, and the latter has a separate word edition to be had at 10 cents per dozen and 50 cents per hundred. Acknowledgments. Received for Colored Missions from the following col- ored congregations: Bethany, Yonkers, N. Y., $13.00; Bethlehem, New Orleans, La., 50.00; Bethlehem, Mon- roe, N. C., 1.50; Grace, Greensboro, N. C., 11.25; sta- tion in High Point, N. C., 2.47; station in Elon College, N. C., 1.07; station in Winston, N. C., .50; Mount Cal- vary, Mount Pleasant, N. C., 3.00; Immanuel, Reimers- town, N. C., 5.00; station in Napoleonville, La., 1.50; station in Johnson, La., .30; Zion, Gold Hill, N. C., 10.00; Mount Zion, Rocks, N. C., 10.00; Concordia, Rockwell, N. C., 4.00; Messiah, TIayetteville, N. C., .75; St. James, Southern Pines, N. C., 3.72; station in Wash- ington, D. C., 2.83; station in Baltimore, Md., 1.44; St. Matthew, Meherrin, Va., 7.87; St. Paul, New Orleans, La., 40.00; St. Paul, Charlotte, N. C., 11.00; Mount Zion, Meyersville, N.C., 3.00; St. John, Salisbury, N. C., 30.00. — Total, $214.20. _-. St. Louis, Mo., October 1, 1914. . Joun H. Scnvuize, Treasurer. ot 2211 Holly Ave. Change of Address. The new address of our Field Seeretary is: Rev. N. J. Bakke, 512 Dover Place, St. Louis, Mo. . . TERMS. Tue LuTHERAN PIONEER is published monthly, payable in advance at ae following rates, postage included, to wit: P GOLCoplesicncccccc ec ecisss 6110. Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent to one address. — In St. Louis, by mail or carrier, 35 cents. All business communications to be addressed to Con- coRDIA Puspismina House, Jefferson Ave. and Miami St., St. Louis, Mo. All communications concerning the editorial depart- ment to be addressed to REv. F. J. LANKENAU, 316 West Clinton St., Napoleon, O. Price, ‘