# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1919_S63
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The Lutheran Pioneer. 63

1174 institutional and village churches, chapels,
headquarters and other buildings; 164 missionary
residences, 675 native residences, 596 primary
schools, 51 secondary schools, additional equipment
for 25 universities, colleges and other educational
institutions; 55 missionary residences, 1000 native
residences, seven printing-presses, 45 hospitals,
24 dispensaries and other buildings, and 11 doctor’s
residences.”

The statement as to the $40,000,000 desired for
work in the home field is as follows: — Altogether,
the plans of the home mission work include: 2506
new buildings, 1035 remodeled buildings, 1188 par-
sonages, 43 special buildings, 1344 missionary min-
isters, 220 self-supporting ministers, 250 language
pastors, 258 directors of religious eduation, 486
woman workers, 131 deaconesses, 46 superinten-
dents, 155 district missionary aids, 48 district evan-
gelists, and 115 other workers. The greatest care
has been taken to see that the projected Methodist
work shall not conflict with the established work
of other denominations, but shall care for those who
are not at present members of any other churches.

A TRANSLATOR of the Bible into the New Guinea
tongue wanted a proper idiom for the phrase, “Far
be it from me to do this thing.” He consulted a
learned native, who replied, “I understand. We have
the precise idiom; we say: ‘May I speak to my
mother-in-law before I will do this thing’ ” That
sounded rather like a joke to the translator, but it
wasn’t, for in that land of strange taboos one of
the unpardonable sins is for a man to open his lips
to his wife’s mother. — Boston Transcript.

BOOK TABLE.

American Lutheranism. Vol. II: The United Lutheran
Ohurch. By Prof. F. Bente. Concordia Publishing
House, St. Louis, Mo. 243 pages; full cloth. Price,
$1.25.

We thank Professor Bente that he is going to give us

a comprehensive historical review of the Lutheran Church
in America. The volume now off the press is the second
of four volumes to comprise the work. Volume One, which
will appear soon, will bring the history of early American
Lutheranism, This second volume of the series brings the
history of the old General Synod, General Council, and
United Synod South, now merged into the United Lutheran
Church. Volume Three will discuss the Western Synods,
exclusive of the Synodical Conference. Volume Four will
treat of the Synodical Conference. Volume One is soon
to follow, and we hope the other two will appear at short
intervals. Every pastor and teacher should have this work
on his shelves. The author’s style is virile, his manner of
treatment objective and free from all offensiveness, even
when he is compelled to condemn.

Vesper Sermons. Forty-two Sermons by Forty-two
Preachers. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis,
Mo. 335 pages; full cloth-binding. Price, $1.50.

A volume of Scriptural, textual sermons on the essen-
tial doctrines of the Christian religion. Because of the
fact that the book is a compilation of the work of forty-
two men, it furnishes variety of thought and language.
We understand that a member of the English Literature
Board of the Missouri Synod selected the texts and themes,
as well as the authors of the sermons. If we have one fault
to find it is that several of the sermons seem to bear the
“made to order” stamp, and lack the freshness of the pul-
pit product. On the other hand, practically every sermon
in the book is lucid in thought and an example of plain,
simple language.

The Church’s Claim upon Men. By Arthur Brunn.
American Lutheran Publicity Bureau, Hartford
Building, Room 831, 22—26 E. 17th St., New York
City. 5 pages. Price, 50 ets. per hundred, plus
postage.

A tract that grips and holds and convinces.
FJ. L.

NOTICE.

Beginning with July, our Board for Colored Missions
will hold its regular monthly meetings on the afternoon
of the third Thursday of the month.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

Received for Colored Missions from the following Col-
ored congregations: Grace, Greensboro, $30.00; St, Luke,
High Point, 5.00; St. John, Salisbury, 25.00; Mount
Zion, New Orleans, 30.00; Bethany, Nyland, 1.76; Beth-
any, Yonkers, 21.00; Bethel, Greenville, 20.00; Beth-
lehem, New Orleans, 35.00; Carrollton, New Orleans,
10.55; Concordia, Rockwell, 3.00; Grace, Concord, 35.00;
Immanuel, Brooklyn, 5.00; Immanuel, Greensboro, 2.85;
Immanuel College, 16.00; Luther College, 22.00; Mount
Calvary, Mount Pleasant, 5.00; Mount Calvary, Tilden,
35.00; Mount Calvary, Sandy Ridge, 12.00; Mount Car-
mel, Midway, 10.00; Mount Olive, Catawba, 2.00; Mount
Olive, Tinela, 1.90; Mount Zion, Charlotte, 10.00; Mount
Zion, Rocks, 5.00; Redeemer, New Orleans, 5.91; Mission
at Richmond, 1.20; St. Peter, Drys School House, 8.00;
St. Andrew, Vredenburgh, 3.23; St. James, Buena Vista,
1.63; St. James, Southern Pines, 10.00; St. Luke, Spar-
tanburg, 10.00; St. Mark, Atlanta, 3.00; St. Matthew,
Meherrin, 21.31; St. Paul, Charlotte, 22.00; St. Paul,
Napoleonville, 20.00; St. Paul, Mansura, 5.00; St. Paul,
New Orleans, 25.00; St. Paul, Oak Hill, 10.00; Trinity,
Albemarle, 2.00; Mission at Washington, 1.75.— Total,
$501.91.

St. Louis, Mo., July 1, 1919.

K. F. Roemer, Ass’t T'reas.,
3678A Folsom Ave.

A friend of the Negro Mission in Detroit has sent the
undersigned the sum of $5.00 for the new building in Na-
poleonville, La. Many thanks to the unknown donor, who
only a month ago sent us $10.00 for pews in Midway, Ala.

F. J. LANKENAU.

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