The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1907, Page 80

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

and reflect credit on the Lutheran church. In ad-
dition to regular courses there is a theological de-
partment, a normal course, and industrial training.
Exactly 100 students were catalogued during the
past year.”

First CHINESE CHURCH IN NEw York. —
Plans are under way for the first Chinese church
to be built in New York City. It is an outgrowth
of the Protestant Chinese Mission. The minister
will be the Rev. Huie Kin. Mr. Kin has been in
America forty years. His wife is an American
woman, and is his greatest help in his work among
the Chinese. There are 8000 Chinese in New York.

Romisu IpoLarry. — “Indulgences,” says an
exchange, “are by no means a thing of the past.
One of the most popular Romish idols in our sister-
republic of Mexico is the ‘Sandal of the Virgin.” It
is a piece of paper seven inches long which professes
to be ‘the exact measure of the foot of the most Holy
Virgin, Mother of God.’ The slip has printed upon
it the statement that any one who kisses this meas-
ure three times and says three Ave Marias will have
three hundred years of indulgence.”

LutHerans First.— The first Protestant
church in Alaska was Lutheran. The first book
translated into the language of the American In-
dians was Luther’s Small Catechism. The first
translation of the Bible into any language in India
was the translation made by the Lutheran mission-
ary Ziegenbalg, the first Protestant missionary in
that heathen country. The first Bible printed in
the United States was Luther’s German version,
printed in Philadelphia, 1743. — Ea.

Honorasre Sons. — A German farmer in West-
phalia, who had become deeply interested in foreign
missions, shortly before his death set aside $6000
out of his estate, to be given for this purpose. There
was no notary present to certify the matter, so that,
when the will was opened in court, with the, state-
ment by the six sons that there was an addition to
it, the judge stated that this was not valid in law,
and they need not pay the money to the missionary
society. Here one of the sons rose and said:
“What? — that not valid which our father wrote?”
And at once the missionary inspector was called,
and before the six sons divided the inheritance, they
paid over, like the honorable men they were, the
$6000 according to the desire of their father.

A Mermorran. —It is proposed to erect in the
city of Canton, China, a memorial building to
Robert Morrison, the pioneer Protestant missionary
to China. $200,000 is the sum asked for, one tenth
of which has already been subscribed for in Canton
itself, where Morrison arrived September 8, 1807,
and where he spent the first years of his missionary
life in constant danger and under great difficulties.
Before he went to China, he wrote: “I desire that
God will station me in that part of the mission field
where the difficulties are greatest, and to all human
appearances insurmountable.” And when the owner
of the ship on which Morrison embarked with a
scornful smile said: “And so, Mr. Morrison, you
really expect that you will make an impression on
the great Chinese empire?” the brave missionary
replied, “No, sir, I expect God will.” His greatest
work was his translation of the Bible into the Chi-
nese language, which proved of the greatest value
and help to all later workers in the great mission
field of China.

Acknowledgment.

Received for Colored Missions from Grace Chureh in
Concord, N. C., $10.00 and 6.50; Mount Zion Church in
New Orleans, La., 35.00; St. Paul’s Ghurch in New Or-
leans, La., 35.00; St. Paul’s Chureh in Mansura, La.,
12.50; Mount Calvary in Sandy Ridge, N.C., 25.00; St.
Peter’s Church at Dry’s Schoolhouse, N. C., 10.00; Mount
Calvary in Mount Pleasant, N.C., 5.00; Zion Chureh at
Gold Hill, N. C., 25.00.

St. Louis, Mo., September 16, 1907.

A. C. Buroporr, 7'reas.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.; F. J. Lan-
kenau, Pastor.
an Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 rp. M.; Wednesday,
30 P.M.
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts.
5 penG Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 r. M.; Thursday,
30 P.M.
Oe Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.; G. M. Kramer,
astor.

Divine Services: Sunday, 10 A. M. and 7.30 p. M.; Thursday,
P.M.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Holy Trinity Church; James Doswell, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 A. M. and 8 P. Mt.

7.30

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