# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1916_S14
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The Lutheran Pioneer.

over against 67 in the year before. The members
of our Colored congregations contributed $5,559 in
1915, while in 1914 the contributions totaled $5,493.
Thus there has been a gain and an improvement
along the whole line, a fact for which we should
be truly grateful. F. J. 1.

Items of General Missionary Interest.

Tue AmxrricaAN BrsLe Socrery.— The Ameri-
can Bible Society will attain its century in May of
this year. During these hundred years it has fur-
nished thousands of missionaries, home and foreign,
with the chief implement of their work — the Bible.
It circulates the Bible in more than 150 languages.
It has aided the translation and revision of the
Scriptures in more than 80 languages, and issues
the Bible for the blind in eleven different languages.
In 1914, it issued a total of 6,406,323 volumes.
Since its birth, a hundred years ago, it has issued
the stupendous total of 109,926,214 volumes.. Dur-
ing the Civil War it distributed 1,466,848 volumes
to Northern soldiers and over 300,000 to Southern
soldiers; in the Russo-Japanese War it provided
the Scriptures for tens of thousands of Russsian
and Japanese soldiers; and in the present war it
has supplied hundreds of thousands of Testaments
and Gospels to the soldiers of Europe. In 1914,
if spent, on translation, printing, and circulation
of the Bible in the United States, over $400,000.
and abroad over $300,000. During its entire ex-
istence it has spent almost $40,000,000. ‘The work

of this society is carried on in five continents and

on the islands of seven seas.

Hap Nrver Hearp a Sermon. — When a Pres-
byterian minister in California recently held a ser-
vice in a schoolhouse in California, in a place where
no services had been held for twenty-six years, he
had as one of his hearers a young man who, al-
though twenty years old, had never heard a sermon
before.

PRESBYTERIANS IN ALAsKa. — For about twenty-
five years the Presbyterian Church has been doing
mission-work in Alaska. It now has eighteen or-
ganized congregations and a membership of about
18,000 communicants. Besides the organized con-
gregations there are about seventy-five mission sta-
tions, so that almost all the territory occupied by
settlers is in some degree covered.

‘Inpra.— The troubles of our Lutheran mis-
sionaries in India have not yet come to an end.

‘

It seems as though everybody having a touch of
terman about him, if it only be a German name,
is unwelcome. ‘Thus also Missionary Stallmann
and his family have been ordered to leave India.
They left Madras in November for Germany by
way of Cape of Good Hope. It is very probable
that Missionary Huebener and family will be com-
pelled to leave India this month. The Missouri
Synod Foreign Mission Board has succeeded in
persuading the Rev. I. Moll, a native of Australia
and a British subject, to accept a call to the India
field. He will probably leave for his new field of
labor some time next month. It is to be hoped

Rev. E. Moll,
Newly Called Missionary to India.

that the Board may succeed in securing a number
of other young missionaries for* their flourishing
field in'the near future to take the places of those
workers who haye been interned, deported, or who
are home on furlough.

A HospiraL ror tHE INSANE IN Syria. — The
only hospital for the insane in Syria, and, in fact,
the sole hospital for the insane in the whole Turkish
Empire, is said to be that of the Friends’ Foreign ~
Missionary Society, near Beirut. This has treated
over 1,000 patients in the last twelve years, of ~
whom 290.haye recovered, while 241 have been dis-
missed improved. - What a pity that this institu-
tion is not conducted -by some yates missionary
society ! F. J. L.