# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1923_S11
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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The Iutheran Pioneer.

we mean busy, for as everywhere else so here in
Alabama Christmas is a time of joy, worry, and
hurry. A sample of Alabama joy, worry, and hurry:
Superintendent Schmidt, Student Kreft, and the
undersigned had Christmas services and children’s
programs at Buena Vista, Tinela, and Vredenburgh
on Sunday, the 24th. On Christmas Day we had
children’s programs at Vredenburgh and Longmile,
and then a drive of seventy miles that same night.
Before leaving Longmile, however, Superintendent
Schmidt performed an emergency baptism, and
then we were on our happy way Selma-ward. And
that trip! What with a broken exhaust pipe, a
leaky feed valve, and a “winky light,” — well, use
your imagination! A wad of chewing gum soon
caused the light to keep its eyes on the road, and
red clay mud stopped the waste of gas, — but that
broken exhaust pipé with its noise and blue flame!!

First Class of New Teachers’ Training-School,
Selma, Ala.

But we are digressing, beg your pardon! On Tues-
day we had Christmas service and a children’s pro-
gram at Holy Ark, about forty miles from Selma.
Student Kreft preached, the sermon, Superintendent
Schmidt, Miss Young, and the undersigned made

. short talks. Eleven o’clock ‘Tuesday night found us

back at home and glad it was over with. —If you
want to enjoy a real Christmas next year, come to
Alabama. We can guarantee plenty of work and
a reasonable amount of good weather.

The undersigned wishes to thank the members

‘of Holy Ark Congregation for the batch of food-

stuffs they sent to our Teachers’ Training-school.
May God bless them for it!

Don’t forget the minutes of the Alabama Luther
Conference. Copies may be had from Rev. E. A.
Westcott, Box 683, Selma, Ala. R.0.L.1.

Rear consecration to God will always be fol-
lowed by service to man.

Items of Missionary Interest.

A Svuacrstion. — Everybody while in good
health should think of properly disposing of his
property in a correctly drawn-up last will and
testament. Possibly one or the other of our readers
thinks of doing the very thing in the near future.
If such should be the case, perhaps, he might be
willing to remember our Negro Missions with a gift.
Here is a form that he could use: “I give and be-
queath to the Missionary Board of the Evangelical
Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America
for Missions among the Heathen and Negroes the
sum of Dollars ($....),
to be used for the benefit of its work among the
Negroes.” It is quite important that the full and
complete name and title of the Mission Board
be used.

InLustrateD Lectures. — During the long
winter evenings is the best time to make use of
the three fine illustrated lectures which the Colored
Mission Board has put out. Hf you should want one
or more of these lectures, write to Rev. Th. I. Wal-
ther, 6402 Easton Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Pastor Wal-
ther will furnish you the machine, slides, and Ger-
man or English lecture free of charge. All that the
Board expects is that you give those who have heard
and seen an opportunity to give what they will to
the cause of Negro Missions.

Sap, bur Trur.— Out of every three persons
on earth two know nothing of Christ. Though sixty
generations have lived on this globe since Christ in
His own person revealed Himself by word and deed
as the Son of God and the Savior of the world, there
are more people on earth to-day that do not know
Him; than ever lived on earth at one time before!
There are lands having a population of over a hun-
dred million into which no Protestant missionary
has ever entered. Jifteen hundred of the walled
cities of China have no Christian workers. In
South America there are millions that have never
been reached by the Gospel. In Mexico there are
several millions that are living in practical heathen-
ism. ‘Two-thirds of the population of Japan has not
heard the Gospel. i

JAPAN NEEDS THE GosPEL. — The religious
census of Japan shows that there are 72,000 heathen
temples and over 51,000 priests, besides public and
private shrines by the hundreds of thousands.
A certain Shinto sect, founded only forty years ago,
has 4,000,000 members and sends out every year