# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1922_S56 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) ee a | The Lutheran Pioneer. 5d ——— War Orimers are Dornc. — The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Epis- copal Church has 620 missionaries in India, Burma, Malaysia, the Indies, the Philippines, China, Korea, Japan, Africa, Mexico, South America, Italy, Bul- garia, and France. It supports 994. boarding- schools, 1,458 day-schools, 3 colleges, and 9 English schools. It furnishes literature in about a dozen languages. It takes care of 209,569 patients in hospitals and dispensaries. Its property in foreign countries is valued at $3,215,470. The society numbers 539,012 members, who last year contrib- uted more than $2,000,000 to the cause of foreign missions. Noai’s Carrentrers. — A lad, very eager to collect money for missionary purposes, was often disobedient to his parents and did not hesitate to tell a lie now and then. One day his sister asked him: “Ifenry, do you know what became of Noah’s carpenters? Do you know that in spite of the fact that these men helped Noah to build the ark, they perished in the Flood?” —It is no advantage to work for missions if we are not Christians ourselves. Think of Noah’s carpenters, and make sure that you enter Noah’s ark yourself. F. J. L. A Great Preacher’s Remedy. Phillips Brooks was once asked, “What is the first thing you would do if you had accepted a call to become the rector of a small, discouraged congrega- tion that is not even meeting its current expenses?” “The first thing I would do,” he replied, “would be to preach a sermon on, and ask the congregation to make an offering for, foreign missions.” Phillips Brooks was never called to that kind of church, but many pastors and congregations to-day are proving in their own experience that the best way to keep out of debt, develop a healthy church, serve the local community, is to adopt a world mis- sionary policy and make offerings for carrying the message of Christ into all the world. BOOK TABLE. Kirchenagende fuer Ev.-Luth. Gemeinden. Concor- dia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. 329 pages. Cloth, $2.00 (Icdition C.). Morocco, gilt-edge, $5.00 (Edition M.). Divinity circuit, gilt-edge, $5.00 (Edi- tion D.C.). : This is a new and revised edition of the old Missouri Agenda, with a liberal addition of new formulas, prayers, and collects. Synodical Reports of Missouri Synod for 1921. Con- cordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. No. 23. California and Nevada District. “Das Buch Hiob in seiner Bedeutung fuer Prediger und Gemeinde- glicder.” Price, 28 cts. — No. 24. Nebraska District. No paper. Price, 15 cts. Letter of Transfer. Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 30 cts. per dozen, postpaid. This Letter of Transfer with the attached Acknowledg- ment of Transfer and Notification of Membership Transfer will prove very serviceable. Concordia Pupils’ Roster and Record Card. (New and improved form.) Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, $1.00 per 100; $4.00 for 500. Very practical. F. J. L. A Most Appropriate Mission Box. To meet a real demand, we offer this splendid Mission Box to our readers, fully convinced that we are in a posi- tion to offer them a mission box that is bound to draw the attention of old and young at a price that is remark- ably low. This little Colored solicitor for missionary gifts can ‘be appropriately placed in the church, the school, the Sunday-school, the society hall, or the home. We are sure that. this collection device will increase the donations for missions, since it is a standing appeal to every one that sees it not to forget the great work of spreading the Gos- pel. Many a nickel and dime will find its way into the mission treasury that would be lost to the cause, were it not for the silent, but insistent appeal of this little kneel- ing Negro boy in his white garment, who gratefully and most politely acknowledges even the smallest gift by a nod of his shapely head. Size, 5711 inches. Price, $2.50, plus 15 cents for postage. Order from Mr. Ewald Schuett- ner, 323 Merchants-Laclede Building, St. Louis, Mo. :