# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1920_S64 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) The Lutheran Pioneer. Luriurran Epucation Socitery. — This society has issued a very neat folder making an appeal for new members. ‘The Society has been founded first of all in the interest of Immanuel College, Greens- boro, but intends to foster the cause of Negro edu- cation in general. We have taken the liberty of bringing the text of the folder in this issue of the Pronrrr. Read it! Ten acr!! Grace, Sr. Lours, Mo. — Pastor Claus has _ re- cently baptized two children in this mission. Since Palm Sunday, two more adults were received into the congregation. ‘Three adults are being instructed. Pastor Claus writes: “In the near future we hope to start a building fund. The suggestion came from an article in the PionrEr.” Grace Chureh is also going to send one of its boys to Immanuel College, there to prepare for the ministry. and needs financial help. The boy is poor Menerrix, Va.— Uncle Henry Clay, the man that was largely instrumental in getting Pastor Buehler, the first missionary at Meherrin, to come to “Doswelltown” and there open up the work, re- cently died at the age of 95 years. He is survived by his aged widow and eight grown children, some of whom are members of our St. Matthew’s Con- gregation at Meherrin. Tire Work or THE Gipeons. — It would require a train of thirty cars to deliver all the Bibles that have been placed in hotel rooms of the United States and Canada by the Gideons, the Christian Commer- cial 'T'ravelers’ Organization. The exact figures are: ‘United States, 371,724; Canada, 26,777; making a total of 398,501. It is estimated that there are’ 2,000,000 hotel rooms in the countries named, three- foutrths of them without Bibles. TuINGs TO PoNDER over. — ‘There are about 2,400,000 blind people in the world. Egypt leads all other nations with 1,325 to every 100,000 of her population. India has 600,000, China 500,000, Japan 100,000, the United States 100,000. In a recent year England had 174,000 insane people, 93,000 of whom were women. Ireland had 24,000 and Scotland 17,000. In 24 years 90,000 insane persons were admitted to the insane institutions of Paris. The strenuous life of the United States places us in the lead of all nations. We have 400,000 insane and feeble-minded people. Massachusetts heads the list with 344 insane persons out of every 100,000. We are doubling the roll of our insane every 16 years. If the present rate continues, by the year 2801 there will not be a. sane person in the 63 United States. This conclusion is based on the in- crease in the last 40 years. ‘The poverty of the world is so great that five hundred million people sleep on dirt floors. In India there are sixty million who do not know where their breakfast will be found. ‘Twenty million have starved to death in that country in the last 25 years, and 1,400,000 children die of starvation every year. — United Presbyterian. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Received for Colored Missions from the following Col- ored congregations: Mount Zion, New Orleans, $40.00; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 8.00; Bethany, Yonkers, 30.00; Bethel, Charlotte, 30.00; Bethel, Plaquemine, 6.44; Beth- lehem, New Orleans, 50.00; Carrollton, New Orleans, 10.00; Concordia, Rockwell, 5.00; Christ, Rosebud, 10.00; Grace, Ingomar, 9.11; Immanuel College, Greensboro, 50.00; Immanuel School, Greensboro, 4.75; Mount Cal- vary, Mount Pleasant, 5.00; Mount Calvary, Sandy Ridge, 12.00; Mount Calvary, Tilden, 10.00; Mount Zion, Rocks, 10.00; St. Andrew’s, Vredenburgh, 5.34; Mount Olive, Tinela, 1.62; St. James’s, Buena Vista, 2.10; St. Mark’s, Atlanta, 34.00; St. Mark’s, Wilmington, 2.50; St. John’s, Salisbury, 10.00; St. Paul’s, Mansura, 10.00; St. Paul’s Chapel, New Orleans, 30.00; St. Paul’s, Oak Hill, 10.00; St. Paul’s, Charlotte, 25.00; Mount Zion, Rocks, 12.00; St. Luke’s, High Point, 3.68; Winston-Salem, 3.10; Grace, ireensboro, 26.85; Trinity, Elon College, .79; Mission in Washington, 2.80; Zion, Gold Hill, 4.00; Mount Car- mel, Midway, 6.11; St. Paul’s, Napoleonville, 25.30; Mount Olive, Catawba, 2.50; St. Matthew’s, Meherrin, 22.67; Mission in Richmond, 1.25; St. Luke’s, Spartanburg, 5.00; ” Trinity, Albemarle, 2.00; Berea Bible Class, Holy Trin- ity, Springfield, 30.00. — 7'otal, $568.91. . 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