# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1931_S111 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 110 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER Tuskegee Jubilee. — Tuskegee Normal and In- dustrial Institute observed its semicentennial, April 10—15. Dr. R. R. Mouton is the present head of the institution. The school was founded by the noted Negro educator Booker T. Wash- ington. Activities of the Salvation Army. — This ac- tive body preaches in fifty-seven languages. It con- ducts 1,025 day-schools in all parts of the world. The 42,886 bandmen of the Army work without remuneration. The Army has been at work in our country for the past fifty-one years. It has over * 15,000 corps and outposts and maintains 1,547 social-service stations for men, women, and children. In one year about 50,000 patients pass through its hospitals and clinics, and more than two million people are given relief annually. It is at this time operating in eighty-two countries and colonies. Its oldest mission-field is India, where it has worked since 1882. To-day India is covered with a net- work of Salvation Army stations. In China it has worked for the past fifteen years. In Java it began operations in 1894. It operates four leper colonies and four hospitals in the Dutch East Indies and has twenty-five day-schools in those islands. In South Africa it has a number of posts, and in South America it is also quite active. The officers of the Army are very willing to identify themselves with the people among whom they work and in many lands wear the native costumes and adopt the native customs. America as a Foreign Mission Field. — Amer- ica presents a mighty Foreign Mission problem, for to our shores have come in great numbers, repre- sentatives of almost every nation under the sun. It is said that 1,624 languages and dialects are spoken in our country at this time. The inhabitants of foreign nationality in America probably number about 30,000,000. Wherever you go, you will find the immigrant. In nineteen of our Northern States the number of foreign-born and their immediate descendants exceeds the number of the native-born. In our larger cities the number is two-thirds and even three-fourths. The Church should not lose sight of the fact that these foreigners constitute a stern challenge, and it should face its duty with determination, ready to expend means and effort in an endeavor to bring them the Gospel. North China’s Frightful Plight: — Overpopu- lation is not the cause of North China’s famine, as thas been claimed in some quarters. In Shensi and Kaneu, where the famine still remains acute, the population is not dense at all. Kansu has only forty-seven people to the square mile, while Kiangsu, with 875 to the square mile, is outside the famine area. It is also said to be a mistake to think that the Chinese themselves are indifferent to the suffering caused by the famine. It is said that China is giving five dollars for relief for every dollar that comes from the outside. Finally, it is a misapprehension to think that the relief funds can- not reach the sufferers. There is said to be no difficulty in reaching the hungry and destitute. India’s Present Population.— Ten years ago India’s population was estimated at 318,000,000. To-day it has grown to almost 350,000,000. The increase during the past decade has exceeded all estimates. Though the great mass of India is still in the toils of heathenism, it is nevertheless enjoy- ing some of the blessings of Christianity in its greater freedom from pestilence and famine, med- ical facilities, and somewhat more enlightened liv- ing generally, which are all direct results of the coming of missionary forces. Mohammedanism in India. —In the past fif- teen years the Mohammedans have increased by nine millions in India. They are publishing ninety periodicals in India. India is also the base of Mohammedan operations in China, where they have already founded 2,000 mission societies. Mohammedanism in Africa. — Cairo in Egypt is the African center of Mohammedanism. No- fewer than 474 daily papers are published in North Africa in the interest of Mohammedanism. Islam’s conquering march is rapidly advancing into Central and South Africa. Mohammedanism in Europe.— Even Europe: is being invaded by the followers of Mohammed. In London and Berlin they are to be found in con- siderable numbers. In Berlin there are two Moham- medan mosques. Shark-Worship! — Dr. C. E. Fox, the principal of a mission-school on one of the South Sea islands,. has found survivals of ancient shark-worship on some of these islands. Among other customs, these people bury their dead in the sea, weighting their feet with stones. The sharks are believed not: to touch them. “Ir we want answers to prayers for our own advantage, we lose them; but if we are truly con-- cerned for the Gospel, our heavenly Father will. grant us victory.”