The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1909, Page 39

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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An Apprat.— Our Mission Board for Colored
Missions has published an earnest appeal to all
congregations of the Synodical Conference for con-
tributions to-the mission treasury. The treasury
has a debt of $6161.00, for the payment: of which
the Synodical Conference at its recent meeting
recommended an extra collection to be taken up by
each congregation. For the running expenses
$1720.00 are at present needed every month. And
what of the future? As God blesses the work and
opens new fields of labor, increased efforts and
larger funds are needed to carry on the blessed
work of extending Christ’s kingdom for the sal-
yation of many souls among the colored people of
our country. May our Lutheran Christians, con-
strained by the love of Christ, give a hearty and
liberal response to the earnest appeal of our Mis-
sion Board !

Wetcome Girrs. — An unnamed and unknown
giver, who is “not weary in well-doing,” has for
the twelfth time brought to our treasurer his yearly
gift of $500.00 for our mission work among the
colored people. Another friend of our mission re-
cently sent to the treasurer the sum of $14.25,
which sum was realized from the sale of the eggs
which his chickens laid on the Sundays of a year.

Mission Scuoors.— Christian schools prove
an important and blessed missionary agency also
in the foreign mission field. One of the two com-
missioners recently sent to India to visit the mis-
_ sion stations of the General Council writes in a
letter from India: “In nearly every place we had
the chance of meeting with the schoolchildren and
hearing them recite, and in many: places examining
them through the medium of an interpreter. At
first we were astonished at their knowledge of the
Catechism and Bible history, but by and by, after
touring the several districts, we -became so accus-
tomed to it that we ceased to wonder. It is not
overstating it to say that on the whole the children
in our mission are beter posted in these subjects
than the average Sunday-school children of the
same age at home.”

‘SussTrrurES IN THE Mission FIELD. — A vwell-
known merchant lately informed his missionary
society that he was willing to support six mission-
aries. He had, in his younger days, planned to go
abroad as a missionary himself, but family duties

kept him at home. Now he was too old to go, but
as the Lord had prospered him, he wished to sup-
port six missionaries instead of only one.

A Fatse Cuarm. — From one of our readers we
recently received a paper containing a report of a
“Tenten lecture,” in which a Romish priest tried
to make his hearers believe that “the world owes
all liberty to the Catholic church.” Well, it is an
old false claim set forth again and again by Romish
speakers who seem to think that by a constant repe-
tition of a false claim some people are at last
brought to believe it. We remember that the same
false claim was made some years ago by Romish
bishops in their Council at Baltimore. At that
time Harper’s Weekly well said of the bishops and
their claim: “They claim for their church what
the facts of history positively deny. They can
hardly expect Americans to accept such an astound-
ing statement. The liberty which the Roman Cath-
olic church enjoys in the United States is the
product of Protestantism —a liberty which the
Roman church never conceded when possessed of
political power. At the time of the Reformation.
this church was crushing liberty, and but for the
intervention of the Reformer would have held the
world in bondage until this day. Luther spoke the
truth when he said that but for the revival of which
he was the leader, religion would have become ex-
tinct in Germany. The most superficial acquaint-
ance with modern history is sufficient for the refu-
tation of these episcopal perversions of plain
matters of fact.”

Inprans. — The American Indians, says an ex-
change, are not dying out as many people imagine.
The humane treatment they are now receiving at
the hands of the Government and the Christian
missionary efforts in their behalf result in an in-
crease of numbers. In the United States there are
292,000 Indians, more than three-fifths of whom
are connected with Christian churches. There are
110,000 Indians in Canada, of whom 74,000 are
professed Christians.

Lrperta. — One of our readers wishes “to know
something about Liberia.” Liberia is a republic
on the western coast of Africa. It is the earliest
and most unfortunate of American colonies. It
was in 1819 that the American Government, anx-
ious to blot out the slave trade and to make repara- _
tion to the slaves, with the help of various mis-