# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1918_S22
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

~ tell the truth concerning the depth of sin in Moham-
medan lands!” So said an American business man
upon his return from North Africa. Missionaries,
doctors, and nurses tell such tales of the awful ray-
ages of disease on account of immoral conditions as
cannot be repeated. It is claimed that’ 80 per cent.
of the children are born with the marks of disease
upon them, while the continual horror of the night
that covers women can be imagined, but can never
be described to people in a Christian land.

What Isaiah said in his day is applicable in its
fullest measure to North Africa to-day: “Darkness
covers the earth and gross darkness the people.”
Oh, that the Christians, who have the light of the
Gospel, would dispel the darkness by bringing the
light of truth to benighted North Africa!

F. J.

Wt ewe. --

The Koonts Memorial.

Concord, N.C.,.February 9, 1918.
Dear Eprtor anv Fro:nxps, —

that the response, on the part of our friends and
supporters, to the appeal for funds to be used in
the placing of a fitting slab to mark the final rest-
ing-place of the sainted Rev. David Koonts, Lu-
i theran pioneer and preacher among the Negroes of,
ee North Carolina, has been so generous that we are
‘a now in a position to carry out this plan. As soon
as warm weather sets in, we hope to be able to re-
ee port to you the unveiling of this monument erected
“a by you to the memory of this ‘man of God. We
i$ wish to avail ourselves of the opportunity given
Og herewith to express to you our heartfelt thanks for ©
Be the substantial interest you manifested, and the lib-

eral support you gave this undertaking. May the
. good Lord bless you for it! ;
Fa *. Beseeching* God, the Father of our Lord and

vior Jesus Christ, to grant us His Holy Spirit,

who will establish us in every good word and work,

and to make us all preachers of righteousness, that

His kingdom may come ever more and more and
_ His salvation to all people, I am,

W. G. Sonweaxn.
—_—_—s oo

_ Howe Missrons does not mean Home Missions
for home alone. It means missions that begin at

ome, and then expand and continue for all the ~
world. ‘. ae

We are glad to be in a position to inform you .

The Lutheran Pioneer.
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Items of Interest from Our: Colored
Mission Field.

ALABAMA. — From Midway comes the news that
the church attendance is quite satisfactory. A class
of catechumens which is now being instructed will
be confirmed in the near future. The teachers at
this station, the Misses Rosa Young and M. Wil-
liams, are organizing a choir. The people of Mid-
way are looking forward with strong hope to the
erection of chapel and school within the next few
months. — At Z'inela, where a log chapel was erected
not long ago, the attendance is so good that the
little building is filled to its capacity. .'The school,
which is presided over by Miss Cannon, is enjoying
a fine attendance. Miss Cannon is also instructing
a catechumen class at this station. — By the time
this reaches our readers’ eyes it is possible that the
good people of Kingston will have a new chapel and
school, so that Miss Chinetia Smith, the teacher at
this station, will no-longer be compelled to teach
her pupils in her bedroom. A congregation was
organized at Kingston last December by Superin-
tendent N. J. Bakke and given the name of Sit. John’s
Church. One of the members at Kingston suggested
another name. He said: “We will call it: the Gospel
Church, because it is the only church around here
that preaches the Gospel.”

Nort Carorina. — Student E. A. Wischtokat,
who is acting as supply for the Salisbury charge, has
recently opened a Sunday-school in Dizxonville, a
suburb of Salisbury. ‘The school is attended by
18 pupils. — Since the beginning of this year Miss
Bessie Johnson, a former student of Immanuel Col-
lege, is conducting a school at Sandy Ridge. — Our
mission-schools in Charlotte were closed for two
weeks by the authorities because of a number of
cases of meningitis which had developed in the city.

New JzEnszy. — Missionary Hill, of Yonkers,

has opened a Sunday-school in Fast Orange, N.J.,

since the first of the year.

‘Tutiwo1s. — Rev. H. C. Claus, our aggressive
missionary in St. Louis, Mo., and Springfield, Ill,
has favored us with the parish paper of his charge
in the latter city. We are pleased to see from this
paper that the work in Springfield is progressing,
and that the professors and students of our Seminary
in Springfield are still showing a practical interest
in our mission-work. The Ladies’ Aid Society and
the choir of Holy Trinity Church, Springfield, we
see from the parish paper, are wide-awake organiza-