# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1933_S45 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) =" \ THE LUTHERAN PIONEER 45 eS Oe =-jljkjorQ..3.. SO OOo Latent: Power. — There is an enormous latent power in the 250,000 members of Sunday-schools within the Synodical Conference. An average of only one cent a month would yield the sum of $30,000 a year; the sum of one cent a week would bring in $130,000 a year. The Blessed Work of KFUO. — It is a fine work that our Radio Station KFUO is doing in the way of spreading the Gospel. All must realize that it is a most efficient missionary agency and for this reason worthy of our support. That it is facing a crisis in these days of depression goes without say- ing; therefore we should not only pray for its con- tinuance, but in a practical way give it our help. ‘A convert writes: “I owe it to Station KFUO that I have been baptized and become a member of the Lutheran Church.” A shut-in gives this testimony : “For three years I have been unable to attend church, being confined to my wheel-chair. KFUO is my church and my spiritual comfort. Your morn- ing meditations give me new courage for another day. Only a shut-in knows what a comfort KFUO is.’ — Let us do what we can to keep such streams of blessings flowing from KFUO into thousands of hearts and homes. The Gospel Voice is a monthly eight-page bulletin, published in the interest of KFUO at 50 cents a year. Address Station KFUO, 801 De Mun Ave., St. Louis, Mo. What Are They For? —“What are churches for but to make missionaries? What is education for but to train them? What is commerce for but to carry them? What is money for but to send them? What is life itself for but to fulfil the pur- pose of missions, the enthroning of Jesus Christ in the hearts of men?” A Few Figures. — In this country there is one ordained minister for every 600 persons. In the whole non-Christian world there is only one Prot- estant missionary (men and women!) for every 300,000 people. — On an average 400 persons are brought out of heathenism to Christianity every day by Protestant missionaries. They baptize about 120,000 a year. In our country the growth of the “Church is about 8,000 a week, or 400,000 a year. — In the Civil War, Georgia sent into the army one out of six of its white population, South Carolina one out of five, Florida one out of four, and North Carolina sent 10,000 more than its total number of yoters. To send one foreign worker into each dis- trict of 25,000 of the heathen world would take only one out of 400 Protestant church-members of the United States. German Foreign Missions. — According to the year-book of the United German Mission Con- ferences which recently appeared a summary of Foreign Mission work done by German societies shows the following: 567 chief stations; 1,620 Ger- man missionaries; 10,600 paid native workers; 1,143,000 Christians gathered among the heathen; in 3,944 public and 72 higher schools 240,000 schol- ars were taught. There are 36 doctors at work in 30 hospitals. The receipts for 1931 were 6,806,466 marks. With the exception of the income these figures show an increase over the report of the pre- vious year. The increases are as follows: mission- aries, 185; native workers, about 800; Christians, about 100,000; public schools, higher schools, 10; scholars, 14,000. The income is more than 600,000 marks less than for the year previous. The year- book further claims that the contribution for For- eign Missions from Germany for the period 1927 to 1930 constitutes 3*/ per cent. of the entire income of the world and that with this money 5 per cent. of the missionaries of the world and 10 per cent. of the entire number of Christians among the heathen are taken care of. Scandinavian Foreign Missions. — Denmark’s Foreign Missions have 240 missionaries in their employ, who have in their care 29,000 natives. Swe- _ den’s 700 foreign missionaries are taking care of $4,000 natives in various fields. Norway has 400 missionaries, who are caring for 156,000 persons. _ The Growth of Christianity. — The 120 who gathered in the upper room at Jerusalem for wor- ship increased to over 3,000 on the first Pentecost, and by the end of the first century the number of Christians had grown to 500,000. At the end of the fifth century there were 15,000,000 Christians, and by the end of the fifteenth century they had in- creased to 100,000,000. The present number of nominal Christians is about 800,000,000.