# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1916_S7 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) The Lutheran Pioneer. extends over the past two centuries. They have 5,000 stations in all parts of the world, and the number of European missionaries engaged in their 1,063. There are, besides, 21 mission doctors, 248 sisters, and 305 other members of the Kuropean staff. Under their charge are 700,000 native Christians. ‘The mission schools number 4,600, and the pupils 250,000. ‘The native preachers and teachers number in round figures 9,000. ‘The expenditure for the last year is placed at about $3,300,000. The income at home was $3,000,000, to which sum the native contributions must be added, and these are estimated at over $700,000. service is Tur Lurieran Crurcnu 1x Porro Rico. — The Lutheran Church was the first Protestant Church to undertake mission work in Porto Rico after th Spanish-American War. There are now nine Fl =) theran congregations, twelve mission stations, six teen mission Sunday-schools, and a Christian kit dergarten on the island. Among the workers 9, the island is Mariano LL. de Aldo, formerly a youn ems Catholic priest in South America, who, after grac SAENGERBOTE. A Lyrical Quarterly. No. 12. cess Printing Co., St. Louis, Mo. Price, 15 cts. It should be a source of pride to us all that it is possible to gather so much choice poetical fruit in this materialistic age of ours every quarter. And what is even nore gratifying, is the fact that the fruit gathered by Editor Herzberger from quarter to quarter is not de- preciating in quality, but is apparently growing better and better. It would be a great pity if the publication of this lyrical quarterly should fail in getting the finan- cial support it deserves. May every lover of good poetry give the enterprise his practical support! Suc- MISSOURI SYNOD REPORTS. No. G. Suedlicher Dis- trikt, 72 pages. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 15 ets. This report contains a paper by Rey. C. E. Scheibe on “Cain and Abel” and an English essay on “Religious Indifference” by Rey. A. Wismar. We found the English paper particularly timely and interesting. President Wegener’s synodical address is also of more than ordi- nary interest. F. J. L. Acknowledgments. Received for Colored Missions from the following Col- «l congregations: —In North Carolina: St. Paul, Char- te, 11.00; Mount Zion, Meyersville, 3.00; Bethel, Green- le, 2.50; Mount Zion, Rocks, 3.00; Concordia, Rock- well, 3.00; Zion, Gold Hill, 3.00; St. John’s, Salisbury, 00; Grace, Greensboro, 5.27; St. Luke’s, High Point, ; Trinity, Elon College, .62; station in Winston, .45; uating at Mount Airy Seminary, Philadelphia, hig c® Concord, 25.00, from Dr. Fuller, 5.70; Mount Cal- ry, Sandy Ridge, 5.00; St. James’s, Southern Pines, gone to work among the people of Porto Rico. cz: Messiah, Fayetteville, 1.48; Mount Calvary, Mount BOOK TABLE. CONCORDIA LESSON HELPS. Vol.1, No.1. 32 paggt English and German. Published monthly by t Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Pri, 50 cts. per year. This first number of Concordia Lesson Helps will hailed with delight by a great number of the Sund school staffs using the Concordia Sunday-school Lessons. There has been a loud and insistent call for such less helps, and we are pleased that if has been answered the publishers. These Helps will be found helps, ind as they put into the teachers’ hands such information and such details on the lesson as they will need. Th®y give a brief, but clear commentary on the text of e lesson, followed by a number of practical points whi should be brought out in teaching the lesson. Of cow these Helps will not, and do not intend to, take the pla of the oral discussion under the leadership of the at the weekly teachers’ meeting of the Sunday-sch teachers. — As each copy of the Helps is bilingual, p= lish and German, those conversant with both ma, will Yo well to consult both versions, as we found u examination and comparison that one version now ,an then brings out a point more fully than the other. In other words, we might say that the two versions are complements of each other. In conclusion we would state that those Sunday-schools using the Concordia Lessons will certainly make a great mistake if they do not pro- vide their teachers with copies of these Helps. ‘ LUTHERAN ANNUAL, 1916. Concordin Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 10 cts. This English Annual of the Missouri Synod is in every respect the peer of the German annual, and should’ be found in every home of that church-body not having the latter. easant, 3.00; St. Peter’s, Drys School House, 2.00; sta- @@mmaipn in Washington, D.C., 2.50; station in Richmond, Va., St. Matthew’s, Meher- pf from the Sunday-school, .97; n, Va., 4.10, from the Sunday-school, 2.13; in Louisiana: New Orleans: St. Paul’s, 40.00; Trinity, 5.00; Redeemer, 17; St. Paul’s, Napoleonville, 4.00; Trinity, Johnson, ; Bethany, Yonkers, N. Y., 13.00; Immanuel, Brook- n, 1.00.— Total, $169.93. ‘ - St. Louis, Mo., December 4, 1915. Joun H. Scnuwze, Treas. 2211 Holly Ave. Rev. Carl Stoll, our missionary in Atlanta, gratefully knowledges the receipt of the following: From Mrs. . N., St. John’s, Staten Island, N. Y., $5.00; from Mrs. . N., a poor widow, 25.00, solicited from her friends; from the family Eberhard, St. Mark’s, Brooklyn, N. Y., 100. These moneys to be used to help buy pews, car- nets, ete., for the new chapel in Atlanta. From Mrs. ug. Lange, Fort Wayne, Ind., a box of children’s othing. TERMS. Tne LUTHERAN PIONEER is published monthly, payable m advance at the following rates per annum, postage in- cluded, to wit: 1 Copy......+++-.-. 10 Copies . 25 Copies .. 50 Copies ......... é Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent to one address. —In St, Louis, by mail or carrier, 35 cents per annum. - All business communications to be addressed to Con- corpIA Pusiisnine House, Jefferson Ave. and Miami St., St. Louis, Mo. : J : All communications Sones the editorial depart- ment to be addressed to Rey. F. J. 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