# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1925_S71 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. val Colorado District ............++ Eastern District ............... Michigan District North Wisconsin District....... South Dakota District ......... Southern District ............. South Wisconsin District ...... 2,7 $9,804.85 Alexandria, La., chureh and school. English District ............... Atlanta, Ga., church .............. Central District ...............$5,304.16 High Point, N.C., school .......... Southern Nebraska District..... Immanuel Lutheran College, € boro, N.C. ...... Central Hlinois Distri $6,000.00 $1,782.07 $8,000.00 $2,000.00 $1,549.15 Greens- ot $5,500.00 .. $1,428.66 Northern Illinois District *. A 122.24 Southern Illinois District . . 1,194.70 Norwegian Synod .............. 385.00 $3,130.60 Winston-Salem, N. C., chapel and school Towa District . $8,000.00 Spartanburg, 8. C., addition ....... $1,500.00 Oregon and Washington District $469.06 North Dakota and Montana Dis- trictie tie nieces setateercieem create 165.58 $634.64 St. Louis, Mo., chureh and school. . $13,000.00 Western District ............. rs 2,993.89 Tureo. W. EcKILART, 3558 S. Jefferson Ave., Treasurer, St. Louis, Mo. oe Our Missions in China. Our mission-work in China is car- ried on in two provinces, Hupeh and Szechwan. At the recent census the population of Hupeh was given as 28,574,322 and that of Szechwan as 61,444,699 souls. It might be said that no exact census of China has ever been taken. ‘The estimates yary greatly. However, the foregoing fig- ures are official and rather understate the actual population. Have you noticed that the above two provinces together lack only some twenty mil- lion of the entire population of the United States? Both Hupeh and Szechwan lie on the Yangtze River. With one excep- tion all our stations can be reached by steamer. Some 150 religious organizations * See footnote on preceding page. of all descriptions are doing some form of “Prot- estant” missionary work in China. In Hupeh there are twenty-four and in Szechwan eighteen. The total number of foreign missionaries last year was 389 in Hupeh and 543 in Szechwan. The whole number of Christians for Hupeh was said to be 26,364 and for Szechwan 32,942. Our own work was begun in 1913. At that time a missionary society had been formed by members of the synods of Missouri and of Wisconsin, under the leadership of the Rev. E. L. Arndt. After they had carefully looked over the ground, they decided to begin work in Hankow. In 1917 this society offered the mission to the Synod of Missouri, which accepted the proffer. The original society then disbanded. Hankow, together with the sister cities of Wuchang, the capital of the province, and Hanyang, the great steel and iron center, has a population frequently estimated at 1,500,000. It is believed that no city in China has a brighter commercial future than Hankow. Its growth has been as phenomenal as’ that of Chicago. Ocean-going steamers of medium tonnage ply between American and European ports right through to the Hankow docks. All of Central and Western China is tribu- MONGOLIA Map of China Showing Location of Hupeh Province together with: Our Three Mission-Stations. Kikungshan (dshigungssahn) and Kuling (guling) are summer-resorts. At Peking is the language school. Shanghai is the landing-place.