The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1906, Page 24

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

How He Gave Hrusetr.— Bishop Warne, of
India, tells how he learned the joy of earning money
for missions, and how he finally gave himself to
the work. He writes: “I was but a boy in Canada,
and when the annual missionary meeting was held
and the collection was about to be taken, the
preacher said, ‘I want every person in the house,
including boys and girls, to subscribe something,
no matter how small, and two months will be given
in which to pay the subscription.” The collector
came down the aisle with a slip of paper, and the
people wrote their names on the paper. I had never
subscribed to anything, but I decided I would sub-
scribe one dollar; and when it came to me, I took
the paper and wrote my name, promising to give
that amount. I was very much excited, and began
at once to plan how I should carn the money.
I saved pocket money, ran errands, found eggs, and
as it seemed to me, long before the time I had my
dollar ready, and wished cither that the collector
would hurry up or that I had subscribed’ more.
I got so much pleasure and profit out of that sub-
scription that I have been giving ever since, and at
last I gave myself.”

THE GosrPEL IN JAPAN.— Speaking of the

Gospel in Japan, Christian Work reports the fol-
lowing: .
The saving power of the Gospel has many illus-
trations in Japan. Miss Maud Bonnell writes from
Hiroshima: “One evening as I stood in a recita-
tion room of Palmore Institute (the night school
maintained by our mission in Kobe), three young
men who wished to enter the school were introduced
to me. They proved interested pupils, and during
the year all three were baptized and have continued
faithful to this day. One was shut up in his room
for a month, his Bible taken from him, and he was
threatened with losing his position in the bank,
yet he never wavered as to giving up his faith. He
and one other of the three are now the chief de-
pendence in one of our city chayels. One is Sun-
day-school superintendent, and the other leads the
singing and teaches. The last of the three is dying
slowly of consumption in his native province, far
into the country. He gathers about him little
children and tells them Bible stories, though sur-
rounded on every side with active influences in
strong opposition.”

MAKING CaLts IN JAPAN. — A mission worker
in Japan gives the following amusing account of
“society calls,” as made in that country. She says:

“When a Japanese caller comes to see me, we
both kneel down on the floor, leaning back on our
heels, and I say, ‘O-ha-ki-na-sai,’ which, literally
translated, means, ‘Hang your honorable hips;’ or,
in other words, ‘Please be seated.’ Then we each
bow twice very low, so low that our foreheads
nearly touch the floor. ‘Then the Japanese says,
“Thank you, and I say, ‘No trouble at all; and
then we both touch our foreheads to the floor
again, taking long-drawn breaths so that they can
be distinctly heard. Then I say, O-ma-ri-ka-ka-
ri-masu,’ which is, ‘Let me hang on your honorable
eyelids ;’ or, in good English, ‘I am glad to see you.’
Then, as I understand so little of the language,
I have an interpreter called in, and after going
through all those bows again, she does the rest of
the talking. I get pretty tired sometimes, sitting
on my heels, and when I go to see a Japanese,,
I have to remove my shoes before entering the house,
and then my feet get pretty cold. But it has to
be done, for it is a great insult to the Japanese host
to keep the shoes on.”

Acknowledgment.

Received for Colored Missions from Immanuel Chureh,
Greensboro, N. C., $5.00; St. Paul’s Church, Charlotte,
N. C., 5.00; Mount Zion Chureh, New Orleans, La.,
25.00; St. Paul’s Chureh, New Orleans, La., 35.00; Beth-
lehem Chureh, New Orleans, La., 25.00, and 5.40, and
from R. A. Dixon’s family mission box 3.31; St. Paul’s
Chureh, Mansura, La., 10.00; Grace Church, Greens-
boro, N. C., 12.00; St. Matthew’s Church, Meherrin, Va.,
5.00; Grace Church, Concord, N. C., 10.00.

St. Louis, Mo., February 17, 1906.

A. C. Buraporr, 1'reas.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.

St. Paul's Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.; F. J. Lan-
kenau, Pastor. —

7 pauline Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 Pp. M.; Wednesday,

Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts. ; K. Kretzschmar, Pastor.

7 ing Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. M.; Thursday,

Bethiehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.; J. W. F. Koss-
mann, Pastor. _

Divine Services: Sunday, 10 A. M9. and 7.30 Pp. 3.3; Thursday,

7.30 P.M.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Church; L. EK. Thalley, Pastor.

Holy eae
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 A. of. and 8 P. M.

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