# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1922_S16 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) The Lutheran Pioneer. 15 they are not able or refuse to give a bribe to the physician. ‘This is the case with all poor people! I wish to refer to only one case. A certain man had a cancer in the mouth and went to the Government Hospital for treatment. Since he was poor and had no bribe to give, he sat around at the hospital for nearly one week without even having been looked at. Finally he left the hospital. Why was he neglected ? Simply because he had no bribe to give! This man did not belong to our mission, but our people are treated the same way. Jiven if a poor person is ad- mitted to the hospital, he does not always receive good care and medicine. Yor such reasons our Christians much rather consult their own doctors, even if the majority of them are nothing but quacks, since they at least take an interest in their case. Ifowever, since the skill of these native practitioners very often consists in the black art, Conference re- solved not to give financial help if a native physician was consulted, unless the physician is the holder of a government certificate. Since the Mission has but one bungalow in the Trivandrum field and the missionary force will soon be increased to six missionaries, four of whom will be married, the attention of Conference was also called to the lack of accommodations for the party due to arrive. Conference then instructed the Tri- vandrum brethren to arrange for sufficient accom- modation. On Thursday evening at 9.00 o’clock, after three days of sessions, Conference was adjourned. The next conference will be held in January after the arrival of one returning and five new missionaries. Also the representative of the Home Board and Director of Missions, the Rev. F. Brand, who at present is visiting the northern field, is then ex- pected to be with us. Trivandrum, ‘Travancore. P. IKAUFFELD. 2 BOOK TABLE. Popular Commentary of the Bible. Vol. I: The New Testament. By Paul FE. Kretzmann, M. A., Ph. D., B.D. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. 679 pages, 710%; substantial cloth-binding. Price, $4.50, postpaid. We hail with delight the appearance of this first vol- ume of our Popular Commentary of the Bible. God be with Dr, Kretzmann, so that the other three volumes may ‘appear in due time! Author and publisher have done isplendid work in getting out this truly popular commen- ‘tary on the four gospels and Acts. Pastors and teachers tthat neglect to put this book on their work-table are imaking a great mistake. The book is very cheap, for on ithe 679 large, double-column pages of this book there is #as much printed matter as on 2,000 ordinary pages. We wish to state that this Commentary will not be out of place in the homes of our members; for while Dr. Kretz- mann is a very learned man, he has the happy gift of ex- pressing the deepest thoughts in very simple language. Anybody of ordinary mentality and possessed of an ordi- ner education can follow the comments of the learned author. Synodical Reports of Missouri Synod for 1921. Con- cordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. No. 13. Proccedings of the Twenty-cighth Convention of the Canada District. 56 pages. Price, 28 cts. — No. 14. Erster Synodalbericht des Alberta- und British Co- lumbia-Distrikts. 16 pages. Price, § ets. No. 13 brings the paper, “Israel’s Defection and Re- turn at the Time of Othniel,” in German, while the presi- dent’s address and report as well as the business transac- tions are in English. ‘The paper teems with timely, prac- tical applications. —No. 14 contains no doctrinal paper, but a very interesting address of the president and an encouraging report on home missions in the District. Proceedings of the Fifth Convention of the Ala- bama Luther Conference. 28 pages. Price, 10 cts. Order from Rev. E. A. Westeott, Box 683, Selma, Ala. Whoever is interested in Colored Missions should send for a copy of this well-printed pamphlet, containing the papers read by pastors and teachers at the last conference of the workers in the Alabama field. The reading of these papers and essays will afford a treat to every supporter of our work among the freedmen. Order at once; the supply is limited. : : Juvenile Literature. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Those interested in the literature to be put into the hands of the young should send for this pamphlet. It may be had for the asking. The editor has given a copy to the librarian of the public library of his little town, with the request that she consult its pages when next she orders juvenile literature. She is a woman who knows the influence of good and bad books on the minds of the young, and so the editor has reason to believe that she will accede to his request. The Scripture Searcher.