The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1910, Page 31

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The Lutheran Pioneer. 31

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Sraristics oF Our CoLorEeD Missions. — From
the Statistical Year Book of the Missouri Synod,
just received, we take the following statistics of
the missions of the Synodical Conference among
the colored people for the year 1909: There are
30 congregations and preaching-stations (19 in
North Carolina, 6 in Louisiana, 1 in Virginia, 1 in
Mississippi, 1 in Arkansas, 1 in Illinois, 1 in Mis-
souri). At the close of the year, 39 laborers were
at work in this mission field: 13 white pastors and

professors, 6 colored pastors, 8 white and 5 colored

teachers, 3 colored lady teachers, and 4 students as
assistants. ‘he mission numbered 2067 souls, 858
communicant members, and 242 voting members.
The parochial schools were attended by 1403 pupils,
the Sunday schools by 959. Immanuel College,
Greensboro, N. C., with 4 professors, had an enroll-

ment of 76 students; Luther College at New Or-

leans, with 2 professors, was attended by 22 students.
Contributions to the mission treasury during the
year amounted to $28,722.05, the colored congrega-
tions contributing $2002.60. The German mission
paper, published in the interest of this mission,
has 23,854 subscribers; THE Lurieran PIONEER,
5500.

Greensporo.—Teacher M. Carter, who until now
had been teaching the children of our colored con-
gregation in Concord, N. C., was transferred to the
parochial school in connection with Immanuel Lu-
theran’ College. He took up his.work in Greensboro
on March 1. We wish him God’s richest blessing
in his new field of labor. The vacancy in Concord

‘is filled by our missionary, Rev. H. Messerli, who is
assisted in instructing the schoolchildren by Miss
Vilmar Barnhardt, a member of our congregation
in Concord. M. L.

InpIAN Mission in Arizona.— The United
Lutheran Synod of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Mich-
igan has been carrying on mission work for some
years among the Indians in Arizona. Four mis-
sionaries are in the field, and their work in church
and school is abundantly blessed. In the beginning
they did their work in the English language, but
they have now acquired such a knowledge of the
Indian language that all the work is done in the
speech of the Indians among whom they labor.

INFLUENGE oF Missionary Instrrutions. — In
an address in New York City, Mr. Ting Fang,

former Minister of China to the United States, de-
scribing the awakening of his own country, said:
“Foremost among the influences which have wrought
this miracle I place the educational missionary in-
stitutions of American missionaries. These formed
a main part of the leaven which has leavened the
whole empire of China.”

Every Cristian A Misstonary. — When the
late Admiral Foote was in Siam, he invited the
king and some high officials of that heathen king-
dom to a dinner on his ship. As they sat down to
the meal, the Admiral, as was his custom, asked a
blessing. The king, in surprise, said that he thought
only missionaries. did that. “True,” replied the
Admiral, “but every Christian is a missionary.”

True to His Curistran CaLtinc. — At an
election in Japan an elder of a Christian congrega-
tion was a candidate for the Japanese parliament.
Before the election a friend of his advised him to
let his Christianity go, because it was not popular.
He answered: “But my Christianity is of infinitely
greater importance to me than my election to par-
liament; I can never give it up.” “Then at least
retire from the eldership,” begged his friend. “No,”
he said, “I would rather be an elder in the Chris-
tian Church than be a whole parliament myself.”

A Heratnen LAND WHERE WomeN Are Ty-
RANTS. — A missionary of long experience, in Ba-
sutoland, Africa, has declared that the men there
are much more ill-used by their heathen wives than
the wives are by their husbands. “The fact is, that
these women, by their labor in the fields and their
domestic work, support the men; consequently, the
latter are dependent upon their wives, instead of its
being the other way, as with us, and the field work
making them strong and vigorous, the women are
usually quite able to hold their own if ill-used —
for instance, they sometimes bite off their husbands’
ears! However, this does not make it any easier

for a woman to become a Christian, because then —
she feels it wrong to assert herself and hit back; —

and thus she is at the mercy of her, husband, and
it is very little mercy she gets when she refuses to
comply with heathen customs.”

HEATHEN CrueLty.— <A missionary in Africa,
writing of heartlessness found among the heathen,
relates the following: “One day an old chief came

~ to me with two wives, one old, the other young,