The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1909, Page 31

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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Sraristics or Our CoLorep Missions. — From
the Statistical Year Book of the Missouri Synod
we take the following statistics of our missions
among the colored people for the year 1908. —
The mission numbered 31 congregations and preach-
ing stations (21 in North Carolina, 5 in Louisiana,
3 in Virginia, 1 in Illinois, and 1 in Arkansas).
33 laborers were at work in the mission field:
11 white pastors and professors, and 3 colored pas-
tors; 5 white and 7 colored teachers; 1 white stu-
dent as assistant. The mission numbers 1940 souls,
870 communicant members, 217 voting members,
and 1287 pupils in the day schools. Immanuel
College, Greensboro, N. C., has 5 professors and
75 students. Luther College in New Orleans has
2 professors, 1 assistant teacher, and 23 students.
The total receipts for the year amounted to
$24,632.25, of which sum our colored congregations
contributed $1796.15.— In order to correct state-
ments recently found in some of our exchanges
regarding our missions, we wish to say that the
church directory on the last page of the PronEEr
does not comprise all our colored Lutheran churches
and preaching stations.

THANKS For Orcan. — The members of Mount
Zion congregation at Rocks, N. C., tender sincere
thanks to Mr. Andrew Werling, Ossian, Ind., for
the beautiful and valuable organ presented to them.
May God bless'the kind friend of our mission! The
organ was dedicated to the Lord’s service on the
first Sunday in February.

New Orveans.—In a report of the recent
meeting of the Southern District of the Missouri
Synod at New Orleans the Southern Lutheran says:
“The cause of the Colored Mission was presented
by the missionaries laboring here in New Orleans.
Although the work is now in charge of an entirely
new body of men, much progress is being made,
especially at Napoleonville, La.”

Tue Dear LurHeran. — This is the name of
a missionary monthly published since the beginning
of this year in the interests of our Lutheran mis-
sion among the deaf-mutes of our country. Be-
sides instructive and edifying articles the paper
brings encouraging reports from the missionaries
in the various mission fields. We bid the bright
little monthly a hearty welcome and wish it God’s

blessing in its important mission work. The price
of the monthly is 25 cents per annum. Orders are
to be sent to The Deaf Lutheran, 1711 Meinecke
Ave., Milwaukee, Wis.

A GoLpEN JuBmeEE. — On the 21st of February
the Lutheran Hospital at St. Louis, Mo., celebrated
its golden jubilee, it having been founded fifty
years ago by the sainted Rev. F. Buenger, known
for his active zeal in all charitable and missionary
work of the church. He was also the founder of
our Colored Missions. The hospital has enjoyed
God’s richest blessings during the past fifty years
and has proved a blessing to many hundreds of
patients, caring not only for their bodily welfare
and relief, but. also for the interests of their im-
mortal souls.

ConrriBuTION FOR ForeicNn - Missions. — Dr.
Leonard, in his yearly survey of the foreign mis-
sionary field, states that the total contribution of
the evarigelical churches of Christendom in 1908 for
foreign missionary work amounted to $22,846,465,
while $4,843,814 was given on the mission fields,
many of the heathen converts proving themselves
cheerful and liberal givers to the mission cause.

Tue Istes or THE SEA.— Within the last
77 years, 300 of the islands of the Pacific have been
evangelized. Many of them have become altogether
Christian, with no professing heathen left. They
have not only self-supporting churches, but are
engaged in mission work among their heathen
neighbors on other islands.

WonDERFUL CHANGE. — Wonderful, it is said,
is the change that has come to Africa during the
last 25 years. When Stanley, the famous African
explorer, wrote that in a quarter of a century a
railroad would join Victoria Nyanza Lake with
the Indian Ocean on the eastern coast of Africa,
he was laughed at. But his words have come true.
In February of this year there appeared a hand-
some handbook of this Uganda railroad, 584 miles
long, completed in 1902 and joining the northeast
corner of the lake with the ocean at Mombasa, the
place from which the American expedition, under
the leadership of ex-President Roosevelt, will start
on its trip into Africa. It took Stanley eight
months to reach the lake, but tourists now make
the journey in the daylight hours of two days.
Also in other parts of Africa railroads are being