# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1923_S14
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The Lutheran Pioneer.

600 missionaries. The highest officials of the gov-
ernment, many of them educated in America or
England, often engage in heathen ceremonies. Not
_ long ago, for example, a large number of high offi-
cials of the government took part in a public cer-
emony which had for its purpose the transfer of the
spirit, or god, from an old pine-tree, which had died,
to a younger tree! Yes, Japan needs the Gospel!
CannipAts Ask For Tracrters. — The African
Bashilele tribe, hitherto cannibals, who have never
permitted white men to enter, are now asking for
teachers. About twenty native workers, who have
had a two-years’ Bible training course, are already
at. work. White missionaries are expected soon to
follow, as well as a doctor and trained nurses. The
mission among these former cannibals is under the
care of the Congo Inland Mission, which has its
headquarters at Grand Rapids, Mich. F. J. L.

Facts Worth Knowing Concerning Our
Deaconess Cause.

There are 20 deaconess pupils in the course of
instruction, 14 in Fort Wayne and 6 in Beaver Dam.
Miss Ina Kempff was installed as deaconess in a
solemn service held September 27, in the evening,
at Emmaus Church, Fort Wayne. The Rev. Herz-
berger delivered the sermon. She will take charge
_of our deaconess hospital at Beaver Dam by the first
of the year.

Our deaconess pupils now receive an annual
allowance of $100 for current expenses. ‘This allow-
ance will be paid them in semiannual instalments,
in June and December, $50 each time. This neces-
sitates a sum of $1,000 for the middle part of De-
cember. We have about 4,000 paying members.
Hence we should have received about $4,000 up to
this time for the year 1922. But this is not the
case by any means. We have just about enough to
pay the sums granted to our pupils. ‘There is there-
fore an urgent necessity for each member to pay his
annual contribution if it has not yet been done.

Our association may count on a new deaconess
hospital, which is located at Hartford, Wis. It is

owned by Mrs. Margaret Westfahl of that place, a.

Lutheran Christian and a-member of the Lutheran
congregation at Hartford. She offers it to our
association entirely free of charge if we will use it
as a deaconess hospital. It was opened for use on
December 1, 1922, Miss Edna Kroeger, R. N., who
obtained her training as nurse at the Lutheran Hos-

pital at Fort Wayne, acting as head nurse. ‘This
hospital represents a value of $50,000, has a capacity
of 15 beds, and has a beautiful location, half a mile
from the city limits, on the main thoroughfare be-
tween Fond du Lae and Milwaukee. Who does not
here recognize the Lord’s visible blessing ?

Miss Margaret) Danner, a deaconess from the
Lutheran mother-house of the Passavant Hospital
at Milwaukee, has been granted a peaceful and
honorable dismissal to our Deaconess Association,
by the deaconess board of said institution. After
having been trained as nurse in our Lutheran Hos-
pital at St. Louis, she entered the Deaconess School
at Milwaukee, where she was active in the service
of love and merey until the forepart of December.
Having now been admitted into our Deaconess Assv-
ciation, she will at first be active in our Deaconess
Hospital at Beaver Dam, Wis. She will not only
prove useful as assistant of our deaconess, Miss Ina
Kempiff, but also as a teacher within our deaconess
school of that place. Also in our sister Synod, the
Lutheran Free Chureh of Germany; a school for
deaconesses has been called into existence in con-
nection with the newly founded children’s home,
Sperlingshof. ‘This school is being conducted by
two head nurses who have left the established church
of Germany and joined our Lutheran Free Church.
In connection with our Lutheran Training-school
for Nurses, a new class of our Deaconess School
here at Fort Wayne will begin in April, 1923.

The principal conditions for admittance are that
the applicants must be members of a Lutheran
congregation within our Synodical Conference, that
they must be animated by an ardent love to their
Savior, that they must have reached the age of 19,
and, finally, that they have obtained a high school
education of one year. For further particulars
apply to:

LurHeran DrEaconEss Home,
2916 Fairfield Ave., Fort Wayne, Ind.

BOOK TABLE.

The New Concordia Sunday-school Scrics. Concordia Pub-

lishing House, St. Louis, Mo.: —

1. Tiny Tots’ Bible Pictures.
Gradle Roll cards. The back of each card brings

the story-lesson and practical hints for the mother. —

Price, 10 cts.

2. Concordia Primary Leaflets. Twenty-six leaflets for
the year, Each leaflet brings a beautiful colored
picture, the lesson-story, and some memory work.
Price, 30 cts. per year. :

3. Concordia Sunday-school Lessons for Junior De-
partment. ° Price, 30 cts. per year.

A set of twelve colored —

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