# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1931_S34 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) a Che Lutheran Pioneer A MISSIONARY MONTHLY PUBLISHED BY THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNODICAL CONFERENCE OF NORTH AMERICA Vol. LIII. ST. LOUIS, MO., MARCH, 1931. No. 3. CONTENTS The Debt of the Church to the Child ............. Cincinnati Entertains ............-.-+eeeeeeeeeee A Weck’s Visit with Bethlehem Station at New Orleans jie ciecicteiewiclelele:sc.cs cos niejviciere sjelelsiv\ecciefeierole 37 A Large Gift for Our African Mission ...........-- 39 African Mission Once More ........--.-+++eeeee0 39 A Colored Christian Confesses ...........+-.-++++> 40 “She Goes Without Ice-cream” ..........-.-eee0es 40 Ernest tJeske oe o's ot nein 00 ow oiciete wae ne « vlemelensansies 41 About Averages ......0.eeeeee eee eee creer eeeees 41 Report of the China Missions ........-.--++.+.+-+ 41 Some Facts about the Work among the Deaf ....... 42 Items of Missionary Interest .........---++++++-+- 42 An Incident with Applications .........-.-+.-++++- 44 Some Things Missions Have Done ......-...--+++++ 46 A Lesson in Giving .........00-+eeee esse eens .. 46 Are You Serving Others .....-.---++--++eeeeeeeee 47 Roman Catholic Missionary Forces ..........+++++: 47 Book Table .....c2cccccccsccccccsrescccccessseess 47 Contributions .........0e-e cere eee eee e ee tee eens OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY TEXT. “For the promise is unto you and to your children and to all that are afar off.” — Acts 2, 39. Published monthly by Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Subscription price, 50. cts. per annum anywhere in the world payable cteictiy iy advance. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at St. Louls, Mo., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized on July 5, 1918.