# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1918_S32 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) TS eee The Lutheran Pioneer. are done by American mobs again and again, espe- cially if they are told that the constituted authorities wink at such deeds! How deplorable it is that such barbarities as the one mentioned above can be perpe- trated in our couniry! Norwecians in Amertca.— “It is said that there are over two million people of Norwegian de- scent in America, of which number barely one-half million are members of Lutheran congregations. That leaves a very great field for home-mission work. The Norwegian Lutheran Church of America has 230 pastors engaged in home-mission work, and ap- propriates $135,000 annually for this cause.” Lutheran Survey. LuTHeERAN Missions 1N Coina.—'The Lutheran Church in China is forging ahead. Every day some progress can be recorded. ‘The missionary staff of the Missouri Synod’s work in China has recently been augmented by the addition of Rev. L. Meyer and wife. ‘The five mission-schools in Hankow are well attended. The American Norwegian Church has 15 stations in Central China. The total number of Lutheran Christians in China aggregates about 44,000. GrowrH. —In 1832 the American Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society took in $17,097, and its work was wholly carried on among the North American Indians. To-day the total receipts of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Epis- copal Church amounts to one and one-half million dollars, and the work is carried on in Japan, China, Korea, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Africa, Europe, South America, and Mexico. The entire Protestant foreign missionary enterprise annually costs thirty million dollars, and adds 200,000 Chris- tians to the Church every year. F. J. L. BOOK TABLE. The Book of Books. By Prof. John Schaller. Con- cordia ‘Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. XII and 332 pages. Strong, neat brown silk binding. Price, $1.35, postpaid. ; This book will, no doubt, have a very ready sale, not only am pastors and teachers, but also among Sunday- school ers and the many earnest Bible-readers of our congregations. “It treats, first, of the name, origin, con- tents, and divisions of the Bible as a. whole; then it pro- ceeds to give a wealth of information on both Testaments as units and all the books individually, covering questions of authenticity, purpose, scope, authorship, contempora- neous history, language, and literary features, etc.