# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1930_S94 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) : THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. 93 eee asssusvsa>s>s ooo the services in the schoolhouses and in the homes of members quite regularly. Indeed, the Lord and Master of missions has commanded every Christian to go out into the high- ways and hedges and to compel them to come an. Those in highways and hedges, the poor and lowly, far out from the streets and lanes of the city, ask for your prayers and your assistance that they, too, may continue to hear, believe, and be saved. God bless our missions in Northern Minnesota! Items of Missionary Interest. (By the Eprror.) Atlanta, Ga. — Our church now has a neat ap- pearance from the exterior. The trees and shrubbery are doing their part. A fresh coat of paint is being given both inside and outside. Our morning service on Good Friday was well attended. Many were turned away from the Easter exercises on Sunday night. — J. J. Alston. Summer-School.—The day-schools of the South- eastern Field will come to a close on May 23, and the various teachers will then repair to Greensboro to attend the two-week session of the Lutheran summer-school, beginning May 26. High Point, N.C. — The sunrise Communion service on Easter morning was well attended. Seven pupils of the day-school were baptized during the Taster season. The attendance on May 4 reached the high-water mark — sixty! — J. L. Shufelt. “Light in the Dark Belt.” — Concerning this book by Rosa J. Young (Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.) we recently read the follow- ing review in a periodical not published within the Synodical Conference: “This little volume is written by a colored woman and is a recital of her personal experiences on the home mission field among her own people in Alabama. It is an interesting story and shows how God can use a willing, consecrated person in furthering His cause. The conditions among the colored people are described and the diffi- culties were met in giving them the Gospel.” China Mission Schools Hampered: — In several provinces of China the work in the mission-schools is greatly hampered by antichristian agitation. The antagonism is directed against the religious teach- ings in the schools. Some schools have even been closed. Mission-schools in some provinces have been ‘compelled to register with the government and to promise not to make religious instruction com- pulsory. Many schools and colleges have entered upon the required agreement. The radical Chinese go so far as to demand that all Christian instruction cease, even in the mission-schools. Of course, if the Chinese government should insist upon this, the mission-schools will have to close. Several prominent mission-schools are controlled entirely by Chinese, the foreign missionaries serving in an advisory ca- pacity only. The provinces principally affected are Shantung, Honan, Kiangsi, and Fukien. Word of a Real Missionary. — What love for souls is expressed in these words of a man who sought to save souls in the slums of a great city! He said, “I love these fellows. I love to pick them out of the gutter. It’s more fun than helping Pharisees. And it pays.... So I hang around those places. I’ve been criticized for doing it. They say it is no place for a minister. But the dirt doesn’t shock me; I’m thinking of clean souls.” Oh, that God might pour such love for souls into many hearts! Estate of Confucius to be Confiscated. — The seventy-seventh direct descendant of Confucius is threatened with the loss of all the property of the old sage which has come down to him through the ages. It is a remarkable fact that the estate of the old Chinese scholar, who lived centuries before Christ, is still almost as intact as it was when he died. The literary classes of China are vigorously protesting against the high-handed action of the Nationalist Government. ) The Little Teacher. — A missionary at Constan- tinople mentions the case of a little girl, four years old, whom he met in one of the Protestant schools and who, when her turn came, read her verses in the New Testament with as much facility as the older . scholars, the only difficulty being that she was too young to speak plainly. The missionary further learned to his astonishment that the little girl was the teacher of her mother. This mother, having from her own little daughter learned to read the Bible and haying been taught also by the Holy Spirit, was about to be received into the church. Northern Illinois Messenger. Overcoming Handicaps.—A missionary in India noticed two lepers sowing seed in a field. One had no hands, the other had no feet; these members had been wasted away by the disease. The one who had no hands was carrying the other who had no feet upon his back, and he carried the bag of seed and dropped a pea every now and then, which the other pressed into the ground with his foot. — So be- tween the two of them they did the work of one. The Banner.