# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1925_S33 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 32 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. to the headwaters of the Paraguay River across an unexplored field of many thousand miles. They expect to emerge by the River Amazon, descend to its mouth, and come around by boat to Rio de Janeiro. In the territory to be visited there are, it is said, dozens of Indian tribes which have never been reached by white men. It is one of the great unreached and unexplored regions of the world. Inth. Standard. SS Fruit from a Small Seed. The child who, half a century ago, dropped into the missionary-box a cent which the Lord blessed so that it became the means of converting a Bur- man chief sowed a seed that was “less than all the seeds.” But it became a tree. A little tract, which cost just one single cent, fell into the hands of that young man, and he was so anxious to know its contents that he traveled from Burdwan, 250 miles, to Rangoon, for the purpose of learning to read it. The Christian teachers soon taught him, and from the reading of that tract he arose with a new heart in his bosom and went home with a basket full of similar tracts to distribute among his people. He was a man of influence, and crowds came to hear him talk and explain the Gospel as he had heard it. In one year 1,500 natives were baptized in Arran- can as the result of his labor. ‘BOOK TABLE. Synodical Reports of Missouri Synod, 1924. No. 10. Oregon- und Washington-Distrikt. Paper: “Zinige Saetze ueber Unionismus,” by Dr.F.Pieper. 44 pages. Price, 20 cts. —No. 11. Colorado District. Papers: “Church Discipline,” by Rev. Otto Heerwagen; “Die seligmachende Gnade Gottes,”. by Rev. Th. Hoyer. 71 pages. Price, 34 cts. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Luther’s Preface to the Epistle to the Romans. By Prof. W. H. T. Dau, D. D. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. 16 pages. Price, 10 cts. This new translation appeared in the Theological Monthly several months ago. Many, no doubt, will be pleased to secure this gem in a separate pamphlet. We need not say that the translation is worthy of the original. Positive Evidences of Bible Truths. By 0. C. Schroeder. rder from Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. 20 pages. Price, 10 cts. The author says of this tract that it was “written in the interest of our work among the deaf, chiefly for grea uates of Gallaudet College for the Deaf, Washington, D. C., which is on my circuit as a preaching-station.” It seems _that Modernism has been finding its victims also among’ the deaf. This tract is bound to convince many a Beers deaf or hearing, of the truth and power of the Gospe: it will only be read. Supply very limited; ordet st ence , if? ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Received for Colored Missions from the following col- ored congregations: Mount Calvary, Kannapolis, $175.00; Alabama field, 8.70; Augustana, Alexandria, 10.00; Beth- any, Yonkers, 50.00; Bethel, Charlotte, 10.00; Bethel, Conover, 1.00; Bethlehem, Monroe, 6.00; Grace, Concord, 35.00; Grace, Greensboro, 35.00; Grace, St. Louis, 25.00; Greensboro Mission, 10.00; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 5.00; Immanuel Lutheran College, Greensboro, 512.93; Luther College, New Orleans, 13.50; Mount Calvary, Kannapolis, 14.00; Mount Calvary, Mount Pleasant, 7.00; Mount Olive, Catawba, 1.50; Mount Zion, Charlotte, 17.00; Mount Zion, New Orleans, 50.00; St. James’s, Southern Pines, 8.00; St. John’s, Salisbury, 10.00; St. Luke’s, High Point, 6.00; St. Matthew’s, Meherrin, 29.49; St. Mark’s, Atlanta, 7.00; St. Mark’s, Winston-Salem, 13.65; St. Paul’s, Char- lotte, 24.00; St. Paul’s, Mansura, 5.00; St. Paul’s, Napo- leonville, 10.00; St. Peter’s, Cabarrus, 7.00; St. Philip's, Philadelphia, 5.00; Concordia, Rockwell, 8.00; Mount Zion, Rocks, 10.00; Zion, Gold Hill, 7.00; Alabama field, 5.00; Bethlehem, New Orleans, 57.50; Concordia, New Orleans, 15.00; Greer, S.C., 2.50; Pailets Land, La., 10.00; St. Luke’s, Spartanburg, 15.00; St. Paul’s, New Orleans, 40.00; St. Philip’s, Chicago, 24.36; Trinity, New Orleans, 15.00. — Total, $1,321.13. St. Louis, Mo., January 1, 1925. H. A. Dirraan, Asst. 7'reas., 5329 Cote Brilliante Ave. By Prof. J. P. Smith: From “Friends of the Boys,” $10.00, for the students’ Christmas.— By Pastor EB. Il. Wildgrube: Through Miss Ada Nommensen, from the third and fourth grades of Grace Lutheran School, Mil- waukee, one box of clothes and one box of toys for the Sunday-school children at Pailets Land. — By Pastor John Alston: From Pastor P. Noffze, Burr Oak, Mich., twenty hymnals. Pastor G. A. Schmidt writes: “Each Christmas some unknown friend leaves a $50.00 bill at Rey. Polack’s home, Evansville, Ind., with the instruction: ‘Please send the enclosed mite to Rev. Schmidt to use for Colored Missions in the name of the Christ-child’ . Surely the Lord, who knows the name of this kind friend of our Colored Mis- sions, will bless the giver abundantly. Will you give this publicity in the columns of the ProNEER and at the same time thank all others who so kindly by word and deed remembered us here in the Black Belt? It is a physical impossibility to write each one individually.” Pastor J. Alston sends this acknowledgment: “Fifty children of St. Mark’s Sunday- and day-school, Atlanta, Ga., were made happy on Christmas by Zion Young Peo- ple’s Society, Wausau, Wis. These young people sent fifty packages, wrapped neatly in tissue paper, tied with red cord, and bearing the name of the child on'a Christmas card. God bless the donors of these parcels!” Please Take Notice. Kindly consult the address label on this paper to ascertain whether your subscription has expired or will soon expire. Feb 25" on the label means that your subscription has ex-" Pired. Please pay your agent or the Publisher promptly in order to avoid interruption of service. 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