# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1924_S54
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

The Lutheran Pioneer. 53

mute blind. The total communicant membership of
our Deaf-mute Missions numbers almost 800, though
many more than this are regularly reached by our
workers. In the fourteen State institutions alone
over 3,000 deaf-mutes “hear” the glad tidings of
Jesus’ Gospel. .

The annual expense of carrying on this blessed
work is $28,000. ‘The official organ of the mission
is the Deaf Lutheran, which has 3,000 subscribers
and costs 50 cents a year. P. J. L.

Items of Missionary Interest.

Winston-Satem, N.C.— Our mission in this
city sustained a great loss in the death of Mrs.
Catherine Mitchell, who departed this life on
May 19. Two years ago, at the age of sixty-four
years, this sister learned to read her Bible. During
her illness this precious book was her constant com-
panion, and she read it as long as she was able
to do so. Her desire to sce our mission in Winston-
Salem have its own house of worship was not to be
fulfilled, but she is now worshiping her Savior in
that building which is built without hands on high.

Sevwa, Ata.— This is what Pastor Schmidt
writes from Selma: “Once more $50! After re-
ceiving from Pastor Polack, Evansville, Ind., $50
for Colored Missions, as reported in the last issue
of the Pionrrr, the following letter was received :
‘Decatur, Ind., May 20, 1924. Dear Brother: —
A member has put $50 at my disposal for missions.
Kindly use this sum for the needed chapel at
Selma. The donor wishes to remain unknown, but
you may receipt the gift as from C. B., Deca-
tur, Ind. God bless the gift and the donor!
Fraternally, A. W. Hinz.’ May God awaken many
more to do likewise and thus enable our Mission
Board to erect the chapels so sorely needed in Selma
and at other points.”

GreEnssoro, N. C.— The home of Prof. F. C.
Lankenau has received, another. inmate. Since
May 15 a baby daughter has come to make her
welcome home there and bring joy and comfort to
a proud young couple.
comer and its parents!

Acorssions. — From a number of places in the
field come encouraging reports of accessions by
baptism and confirmation.

TEACHERS’ 'TRAINING-Sct100L. — God willing,
the ‘Teachers’ Training-school at Selma will soon

God bless the little new- .

have a home of its own. The Board has decided
to begin building operations at once, and, God
willing, the students of this institution will be able
to enter the new quarters next fall when they
return to their studies. F. J. L.
Tracner D. Mrtsoum, for nearly thirty years
instructor in Mount Zion School, New Orleans,
departed this life Sunday morning, June 15, and
was buried on Wednesday afternoon, June 18. In
a later issue the Pronger will probably tell the
interesting story of the life and work of this sturdy

Teacher Dietrich Meibohm.

and God-fearing man, who devoted three decades
of his life to the Christian education and training
of hundreds of Colored boys and girls. — C. F. D.

The Prayer of an African and Its
Answer.

Read the following narrative and learn how in
answer to twenty years of daily earnest prayer the
first missionary was sent to Ponga, Africa.

On the west coast of Africa, more than one hun-
dred miles north of Sierra Leone, lies the country
of the Pongas, a rich and fertile district, thickly
peopled by natives, but possessing a climate that
is most unhealthful for Europeans. It was once
well known to slave-traders, who collected their
large cargoes of wretched Africans and carried
them across the Atlantic into slavery: Now its
inhabitants live at peace in their villages, each: