The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1905, Page 55

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

NOTES AND ITEMS.

Present witH THE Lorp.—On the 29th of May
the venerable and widely beloved Rev. H.C. Schwan,
D. D., departed this life at Cleveland, O., aged
86 years. In the departure of this thoroughly evan-
gelical, faithful witness and highly gifted and con-
secrated worker for Christ and His Church our Col-
ored Mission also lost a devoted friend and warm
advocate. Whenever in former years his duties as
General President of the Missouri Synod brought
him to New Orleans, he there visited our mission
stations, attended services in one of our mission
chapels, and with voice and pen informed the church
of the progress made with God’s blessing resting
upon the labors of our missionaries in church and
school. After one of his first visits he wrote: ‘“‘Our
mission is doing well. It is also moving forward.
Not in a gallop, but with a firm step. And that is
sufficient. A good beginning has been made. May
God keep the mission in the right paths. Let us
diligently pray for it, and then patiently await God’s
hour. He has at all times done all things well.’’
Yes, God hath done all things well, also with His
departed servant.’ Absent from the body, he is now
present with the Lord, whom he so dearly loved
and so faithfully served. Our loss is his gain; for
he could say with the apostle: ‘‘For me to live is
Christ, and to die is gain.’’

Crry Missions 1n MitwauKxee.— The annual
report of our city missions in Milwaukee has been
kindly sent to us, and we read it with great pleasure.
God has richly blessed the labors of our Lutheran
city missionary, the Rev. E. Duemling. In public
preaching in the different institutions of the city
and in attending to the sick and the dying he made
known the Gospel of Jesus to the salvation of souls.
In the House of Correction the missionary met also
a young colored man, who asked him, ‘‘Pastor, is
it true that we colored people cannot get to heaven?”
‘“‘No,”? said the missionary, ‘‘that is not true; for
we read John 3, 16: ‘God so loved the world that
He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever be-
lieveth in Him should not perish, but have ever-
lasting life.’ To this world of sinners not only the
white people belong, but also the colored people.”’
The young man has been instructed in the way of
life and has been baptized. After his baptism he
said to the missionary, ‘‘I cannot find words enough
to thank you for instructing me in God’s Word.”
May he be among those who prove faithful unto death
and receive the crown of life, and may God continue
_ to prosper the blessed work of our city missions.

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SomerHinc Savep.—A rich man in New York
gave $25,000 for the building of a church. A few
years later he lost all he had by reverses in business.
An acquaintance meeting him some days afterward,
remarked: ‘‘It’s too bad, if you had only not given
those $25,000 to the church, you could now make
good use of them.’’ ‘‘Indeed not,’’ he answered,
‘*that is the only money I have saved. IfI had not
given it to the church, it would now also be lost.’’

Tue BIBLE 1n Cuina.— The British and Foreign
Bible Society reports that in China last year the
total number of copies circulated was 1,086,670
copies. Of these, 34,873 were free grants made for
special purposes, which leaves the actual sales well
over a million copies. This far outstrips all previous
records.

Native Mission Workers. — Native Christians
of the Cannibal Islands—for the Solomon Islands
in Melanesia surely deserve that name—are active
in foreign mission work. Fourteen men from Flo-
rida Island are missionaries in Guadalcanar, Mala,
and Raga. The people of Savo Island have now
asked for teachers, and four more volunteers from
Florida are to go to that field.

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New Orleans Notes.

BETHLEHEM Station has renovated the interior
of its chapel. Each member cheerfully made an
extra contribution to defray the expenses.

Durine the present year Mount Zion Station
has attained what is easily its high water mark in

day school enrollment.

Mr. E. HErn7zEN of St. Paul’s School, we learn,
has accepted a call to the English Lutheran Church
of this city.

BeTHLEHEM Sunday School is keeping up splen-
didly, considering the time of the year. Those con-
nected with the school ascribe the interest taken by
the children in no small degree to the use of the
Buffalo Sunday School Lesson introduced about six
months ago. Its day school numbers 162, a num-
ber not reached for many years.

LutHER CoLLeEcE will be able, even this early in
its career, to graduate a teacher, there being one
graduate from the Normal Department. Four will
graduate from the Preparatory Department.