# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1927_S107
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

SF

“Qur little boy is doing just fine and will soon
be our very own. We wish to thank you very much
for your kindness and trouble in getting him for us.
Do you place many children throughout a year?
It surely is a good work you are doing. We want
to go ahead with the adoption right away, for we
know our minds about him now and want it over
with. He talks so well and much now that he is
a lot of company for me. With best wishes for you
in your noble calling.”

“We have now had our boy two months, and to
say we are pleased would be expressing our feelings
lightly. We love the little fellow as our own, and
he, in turn, likes to be here. He loves his new home.
He is a live wire, but at the same time always minds
well, is in‘good health, and is growing like a weed
(only, a cultivated one).”

“We must say that our baby is just fine. She
sleeps all night and is very well. We certainly
know where to go in case we make up our minds,
at some later date, to take another, for we think
that we have a prize baby, and Mrs. W. joins me
in wishing you success in your great undertakings.”

“J thought I would write and let you know about
the baby. He is doing fine, growing every day.
He is so cute, we just love him so; he does such
cute things. He walks the length of the room all
alone. He will soon be walking all over.”

“We never in all our married life experienced

. such a Christmas spirit as this year with our darling
baby. She is surely a wonderful child in our eyes
and, as the doctor stated, ‘a perfect specimen of
a baby.’ If the good Lord helps us next year with
the care of our little one as He has in the past, we
shall consider ourselves fortunate.”

“Our little peppy Indian is just fine; she just
talks one blue streak and runs everywhere. Daddy
takes her picture to work with him to show it to
the men at work. When he goes out on errands
with the car, she goes along too. She plays and
sings to her toys all day long and is always ready

_ to go to bed when I call her. Oh, we enjoy her so
much! We took her with us on a week-end visit,
and she certainly surprised everybody at the table.
Acted just as if she did it every day. We all sat
down to eat, and baby said her prayers just as nicely
as you please. Iverybody looked up at her, but
they didn’t understand her because she said them
in German. However, they knew it was a prayer.
You bet we were tickled, because she never sits at
the table at home; I usually feed her before or
after we have eaten. She is just like all girls —
loves to be dressed up and going. If she doesn’t

get spoiled, it will be a wonder, for she is a pet
around the square. Every morning the older chil-
dren come and ask to take her out.”

“Just a line to let you know how our baby is.
He is just fine, has four teeth and weighs twenty-
one pounds. He is a very good-natured baby, and
we do not have much trouble with him. We certainly
are proud of him, he is so good-looking and always
smiling. Our family doctor calls him his ‘prize
baby” We have had the baby eight months now
and are wondering when we can expect to get our
adoption papers.”

The work done by children’s friend societies
among us is without doubt one of the most blessed
kinds of mission enterprises carried on by members
of our Church. May God ever make a greater
number of homes willing to take in the fatherless
and motherless and to bring them up in the nur-
ture and admonition of the Lord!

Items of Missionary Interest.
By the Eprror.

China Missionaries Withdrawn. — All our mis-
sionaries have been withdrawn from the interior,
with the exception of one worker, who felt it his
duty to remain in Hankow. Signs of an early cessa-
tion of hostilities are appearing, and it is possible
that full work may be resumed this fall. Probably
our missionaries have lost all their belongings, which
they were compelled to leave behind when they
left for Shanghai by request of our Government.
Possibly most of the chapel and school furniture of
our various stations has been destroyed. It is most
providential that our work in China, with only a few
exceptions, has been carried on in rented buildings,
since this fact will mean only a small loss for us in
comparison with the losses‘ that will be sustained by
most other missionary organizations.

Self-Sacrifice. — A Christian scullery woman,
working in a small Korean hotel, recently gave to
the Church savings she had accumulated in the
course of fourteen years by adding one-twentieth of
a cent ata time. The amount was $2.

The Bible in the Philippines..— For two hundred
years these islands were under Spanish rule, and
during all these years they did not receive the Bible
in a single Philippine language. In the first twenty
years that these islands came under American rule,
the American Bible Society has put the Scriptures
into the eight chief languages spoken in the Phil- ©
ippines. : :