The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1908, Page 80

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during the two. past years have been rather heavy,
and there is a deficit in the treasury, which ought
to be covered soon. Therefore an appeal is to be
made to all the congregations of the Synodical Con-
ference for larger contributions for our mission
work. May the Lord make us all willing to heed
the call for help!

Sr. Paut’s Station at New OrveEans. — This
station has become vacant, the Rev. F. J. Lankenau,
who has been suffering for some time from some
nervous trouble, having accepted a call to Napo-
leon, O. For seventeen years he has labored faith-
fully and with notable success in our Colored Mis-
sion. The readers of our paper have also been
benefited by many an instructive article from his
pen. May the good Lord restore him to health and
bless his work also in his new field of labor!

JEsvuIT Missions. — During the recent celebra-
tion of the founding of the city of Quebec some
papers took occasion to speak with unqualified praise
ot the mission work done by Jesuit missionaries

“Gn the service of the Catholic church in America
three hundred years ago.” Well, -those servants of
the pope did good service for the Romish church,
but not for the Church of Christ. A famous writer
on history says of these Jesuit missionaries: “In
their missions they aimed at outward show; and
hence merely nominal conversions were accepted,
because they swelled their numbers. They permit-

ted their converts to retain their heathen habits

and customs. In order to be popular, one of their
missionaries among the Indians told the’ savages
that Christ was a warrior who scalped women and
children. Anything for an outward success!”

ArricA. — The Foreign Missionary reports:

“Europe, India, China, and the United States could

all be aid down on the map of Africa and still have
some room left around the margins. This huge
continent now has 2470 missionaries, with 13,100
native assistants. There are 4800 regular places of
worship, 222,000 communicants, and 530,000 ad-
herent church members. There are in Africa 4000
mission schools with 203,000 pupils. There are
95 hospitals, 16 publishing houses and printing es-

tablishments. Fifty years ago Dr. Krapf, 2 Lu-

theran missionary, was laughed at for his “German
dream” of a chain of mission stations across Cen-
tral Africa from ocean to ocean. Now his dream
has come true. Thirty years ago Uganda was a

pagan state, where savagery was rampant. Now,
as the result of a most heroic struggle with dark-
ness, one-tenth of its one million of inhabitants
are rejoicing in the light of the Gospel: In Cape
Colony, where German Moravians tried to work
among the natives one hundred and fifty years ago,
they were treated as criminals for attempting to
reach the blacks. Now Cape Colony alone has
700,000 Protestants, and 200,000 of these are
colored.”

BOOK TABLE.

ConcorDIA-KINDERCHOERE. Eine Sammlung von Liedern in
vierstimmigem Satz fuer unsere Schulen und Sonn-
tagsschulen. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis,
Mo. Price, 40 cts.

This well-printed and tastefully bound little volume is
to supply a long-felt want in our German Lutheran con-
gregations, and it supplies it well. It is a choice collec-
tion of hymns and songs, with music arranged for four
voices, and deserves a hearty welcome in day schools, in
Sunday schools, and also in the family ci

Acknowledgment.

Received for Colored Missions from Mount Zion Chureh,
New Orleans, La., $35.00; Bethlehem Chureh, New Or-
leans, La., 25.00; St. Paul’s Church, New Orleans, La.,
35.00; Grace Church, Concord, N. C., 15.00; St. Mat-
thew’s Church, Meherrin, Va., 9.14.

St. Louis, Mo., September ‘16, pies.

ATs Burevorr, Treas.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
St. Paul’s Ohapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. M.;
Wednesday, 7.30 r. 31.
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts.; Ed. C.
Krause, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. at. and 7.30 P. M.;
Thursday, 7.30 P. 21.
Bethlehem Gnapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.;
G. M. Kramer, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. M.;
Thursday, 7.30 p.xr. Sunday School: Sunday, 10 A. M.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Holy Trinity Church; James Doswell, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 a. uf. and 8 P. 3.

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