The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1905, Page 63

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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NOTES AND ITEMS.

Conover, N. C.—The Rev. Lash, our mission-
ary at Salisbury, comes to Conover once every
month to preach the Gospel to the colored people
of this ‘‘Lutheran village.”? The people hear him
gladly, and the services are well attended. Ona
recent Sunday evening a colored woman was re-
ceived as a member of the Lutheran church by
confirmation, after having been instructed in the
Catechism.

LurHeran City Misstons 1n Sr. Louis. —The
report of our city missions in St. Louis must fill
every Christian heart with joy and gratitude. The
labors of our missionaries, the Revs. Herzberger
and Dreyer and Teacher Koelling, have been
richly blessed during the past year. The Gospel
has been preached, not only in the Mission Chapel,
but also in the hospitals and other institutions of
the city. The way of salvation has been made
known to the sick and the dying. Children at-
tending the mission school have been pointed to
Jesus, the true Friend in all our need. Most of
the fruit of this work will be seen on the great
harvest day. But already here our missionaries
often see the fruit of their patient labors. Again
and again they have received joyful thanks from
such as, through their service, were brought to a
saving knowledge of their Saviour. Parents have
thankfully acknowleged that they and their chil-
dren have been greatly blessed by the work done
in the mission school. From the report we see
that also many of the colored people are blessed
by this Mission.. One of the missionaries writes
that whenever he preaches to a number of con-
sumptives in a room of one of the hospitals, poor
colored women assemble in the next room and lis-
ten attentively to the message of the loving Saviour.

May God continue to bless the labors of our city
missionaries.

My Licut 1s Gorna Our.—‘‘One evening, dur-
ing wet and stormy weather,”’ relates a London

city missionary, ‘‘I was going about my duties in.

my district. Depressed both by the vehemence of
the weather and the unfriendliness of men, tired
and chilled in body and soul, I felt indisposed to
go further on my mission to perishing souls, and I
gave way to a fit of despondency. I turned into a
house to rest. As I passed one of the rooms I no-
ticed, through the half-open door, a poor seam-
stress working at a small table by the light of a
thin candle. I observed her a while, as she sewed

so busily that the eye could hardly follow the rapid
movements of her needle. She stopped a moment,
threw a hasty glance upon the diminishing candle,
and then continued to sew with redoubled zeal. ‘I
must make haste,’ I heard her say, ‘for my light
is going out, —and I have no other.’ These words
fell upon me like a voice from heaven, arousing my
soul from its depression and lethargy. God had
spoken to my heart and given me a lesson through
this hard-working young woman. I roused my
spirits and said to myself: I, too, must work while
it is day; the night cometh, when no man can
work.’”? Who among us knows how long the light
of our life will continue burning? Let us work
‘while it is day; the night cometh, when no man
can work.”’

Mission ScuHoots 1n Co1nA. — The Chinese Goy-
ernment has recently opened 180 elementary schools
in the province of Shantung. They are free to all,
but very many of them are empty. Mission schools
in the same province are well attended, although
they charge tuition. The reason of the contrast is
distrust of government officials, and knowledge that
missionary schools really educate.

Tue Work or Twenty YEARS. —The following
from the Missionary Herald speaks well for the re-
sults of missions in Africa: ‘‘In many parts of the
world marvelous changes have occurred within the
last two decades, but we doubt if one more marvel-
ous can be named than that which has occurred in
the heart of Africa, in the kingdom of Uganda.
Twenty years ago to-day there were only three mis-
sionaries in that country, and there were but eighty-
seven baptized native Baganda. Bishop Hanning-
ton had not then started upon his inland journey,
upon which he was to become a martyr. But ac-
cording to the Church Missionary Intelligencer the
present statistics show that there are now eighty-
eight missionaries and nearly 44,000 baptized Chris-
tians and over 2500 native evangelists and teachers,
thirty-two of them ordained.’”’

Closing Exercises at Luther College.

On June 29th, Luther College of New Orleans,
usually of very business-like appearance and full of
bustling activity, threw off its work-day clothes for
once and put on holiday garb, for it was to be the
scene of special exercises incident to the close of its
first school-year. A large number of specially in-
yited guests from our local colored congregations,