The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1906, Page 40

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LUTHERANS IN THE Arctic Regions. — “Green-
land,” says a traveler, “is far up in the Arctic re-
gions. It is very cold, yet there are a number of
warm-hearted Lutherans in that country — about
10,000. Iceland is also a cold country and, like
Greenland, the home of a number of Lutheran
Christians.”

Now, Uncle Jim might think “dem people way
up dar in dat cold country stay in bed all day and
keep a big fire in de fire-place.” But it isn’t so.
They know that idleness is wrong, and they are
busy in the work God has given them to do. They
also take good care of their children. Of the Lu-
therans in Iceland the traveler writes: “As soon
as a child can hold a book its parents teach it to
read. ‘The Bible, the Lutheran Catechism and
hymn-book are their schoolbooks.”

Japan. — There are now 552 Protestant mis-
sionaries laboring in Japan. ‘There are said to be
55,315 baptized persons, of whom 42,900 are com-
municants. There are 513 congregations, of which
93 are self-supporting and 346 are partly self-
supporting. There are 353 churches and 1074 Sun-
day schools. The money raised by these Christians
during the past year was about $67,500. Of the
different denominations represented, the Presby-
terians are the strongest, having 12,000 adult
members.

A Costiy Gurr. — A very poor old woman came
to her pastor, and taking care not to be seen by
others, put a small packet into his hand. It was
a gift for the mission treasury. “That is between
you and me and the Lord,” she said. The pastor
thought that the packet probably contained a few
coppers, and put it into his pocket unopened. When
he Jater unfastened the string and paper in which
the woman’s gift had been wrapped, he found to
his surprise that it was all in silver. “Truly,”
said he, “it is a costly gift, for it must have cost
much self-denial and self-sacrifice.”

A Sap Brocraruy. — The biography of women
in the dark heathen lands of the East is given in
five words by Dr. Pierson: “Unwelcome at birth;
untaught in childhood; uncherished in widowhood ;
unprotected in old age; unlamented when dead.”

THE TRUE Missionary Spirit.— The Luthe-
ran missionaries Ziegenbalg and Pluetshau were the
pioneers in the Protestant mission field in India.

The Lutheran Pioneer.

When they, on the 1st of October, 1705, accepted
the call as missionaries to that distant country, they
did:so with the declaration: “We go in God’s name;
if God gives us but one soul from the heathen, our
voyage will be well rewarded.”

The Bible in Africa.

When the British and Foreign Bible Society sent
out the Scriptures to the Hottentots in Namaqua
Land, South Africa, one lad said to the missionary,
“Tf you will let me have a Bible, I will do three days’
work in your garden.”

In the Sunday school, when the missionary an-
nounced that he had Bibles for sale, one child said,
“J have a goat; I shall buy a Bible for myself.”
Another said, “I will run and ask my father for a
goat.” In this way goats were turned into Bibles.

Acknowledgment.

Received for Colored Missions from Grace Chureh in
Concord, N. C., $20.00; Mount Calvary Church, Mount
Pleasant, N. C., 5.00; Immanuel Church, Reimerstown,
N. C., 5.00; St. Peter’s Church, Dry’s Schoolhouse, N. C.,
5.00; Mount Zion Church, New Orleans, La., 25.00; St.
Paul’s Chureh, New Orleans, La., 35.00; Bethlehem
Chureh, New Orleans, La., 25.00; St. Paul’s Church,
Mansure, La., 10.00; Grace Church, Greensboro, N. C.,

For Immanuel College from Bethlehem Church in New
Orleans, La., 3.90.

St. Louis, Mo., April 16, 1906.

A. C. Buraporr, 7'reas.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.
NEW ORLEANS; LA. 4
St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.; F. J. Lan-

kenau, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 Pp. M.; Wednesday,

30 P.M.
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts. ; K. Kretzschmar, Pastor.
7 paling Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. M.; Thursday,

~ Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.; J. W. F. Koss-
stor. °

mann, Pa: sh
Divine Seryices: Sunday, 10 A. mM. and 7.30 yp. M.; Thursday,
eat “ SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Holy Trinity Church; 1. E. Thalley, Pastor.
Diyine Services: Sunday, 10.30 A. M. and 8 P. M.

7.30

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