The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1910, Page 64

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64 The Lutheran Pioneer.

A Poor Winow’s Girt. — The late Dr. Paxton
used to say that the most pathetic gift for missions,
and relatively the largest ever given in his New
York church, was a five-dollar gold piece brought
him by a poor widow, who, to enable herself to give
it, raised chickens on the roof of the tenement,
the attic of which was her abode. She had abso-
lutely no other way of raising money, and it took
her a whole summer to gather this sum.

Arrioa.— There are 104 evangelical mission
societies at work in the mission fields of Africa.
The Bible, or. at least portions of the same, has
been translated into 117 African languages. There
are 8 high schools, 59 seminaries for the training
of native preachers, 68 industrial schools, 2 schools
for the training of nurses, and several thousand
village schools. There are’ 43 mission hospitals,
in which, on the average, 150,000 sick are taken
care of every year, 3 leper asylums, 13 orphans’
homes. But there is still much mission work to
be done on that large continent. For it was stated
at the recent World Missionary Conference at Edin-
burgh, Scotland, that “there are whole tribes in
Africa to-day, ranging from five thousand to two
million persons, who have never heard of Christ.”

_ Wxart OnE Man Dip. — What may sometimes
be accomplished through the efforts of one man is
illustrated by the case of a German named Karl von
Canstein. In 1710 he established a little society for
distributing Bibles among the poor. Its aim was
to sell the New Testament for two pennies and the
Bible for six. Shortly afterward an urgent appeal
was made to Christians for money to establish a
printing plant, which brought $7920. ‘he first
edition was printed in 1712. Canstein has been in
his grave one hundred and ninety-two years, but
the society which bears his name still lives, and

recently celebrated its two hundredth birthday an- -

niyersary. By the end of 1909, 8,000,000 Bibles
had been issued.

- A Ric Costume. — A young missionary from
the West attended as delegate the meeting of a
Home Missionary Society near a fashionable East-
erm summer resort. Writing home to his wife, he
said that among the fashionable crowd he saw one

-young lady “whose costume was worth one mission

chapel, thirty cottage organs, and twenty-two Sun-
day school ‘librariés.” :He wondered “if she had

anything to spare for the mission cause.” ~ .-2.>--:

BOOK TABLE.

KATECHISMUSPREDIGTEN ueber das dritte, vierte und fuenfte
Hauptstueck von C. C. Schmidt, Pastor an der ev.-
luth. Gemeinde zum heiligen Kreuz in St. Louis, Mo.
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price,
85 cts., postpaid.

This well-printed and substantially bound volume of
136 pages brings the second part of Catechism sermons
by the Rev. C. C. Schmidt, and will, like its companion
volume, be heartily welcomed as a valuable help to ful-
fill Luther’s wish also in our day. Luther said: “T wish
the people to be well taught in the Catechism.” In simple
language, in plain and direct style, these sermons set forth
and apply the Bible truths contained in our Catechism.

Parts First and Second may be obtained substantially
bound in one volume for $2.00. .
Acknowledgment.

Received for Colored Missions from the following con-

gregations: Mount Zion, New Orleans, La., $35.00, Beth-
lehem, New Orleans, La., 60.00, St. Paul, New Orleans, La.,
35.00, Napoleonville, La., 33.70, Mansura, La., 9.86, St.
John, Salisbury, N. C., 3.13, Mount Calvary, Mount Pleas-
ant, N. C., 3.00, St. Paul, Charlotte, N. C., 7.50, St. James,
Southern Pines, N.C., 2.50, Mount Zion, Meyersville, N.C.,
2.50, Grace, Concord, N. C., 10.00, Mount Calvary, Bandy
Ridge, N. C., 10.00, ‘Mount Zion, The Rocks, N. C.,
Zion, Gold Hill, N. C., ak Holy 7 trinity, Springfield, a
4.10, Concordia, Rockwell, N. C., 2.50, St. Matthew, Meher-
rin, Va., 5.77, Grace, St. Louis, Mo., 2.50, Grace, Greens-
boro, N. C., 3.00. From Rev. F. L. Braun and family, Chi-
cago, IIl., 2.50. Total: $238.06.

St. Louis’ Mo., July 16, 1910.

H. L. DoeDERLEIN, 7'rcas.
848 E. Prairie Ave.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.;
Albert Witt, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. wf. and 7.30 P. x.;
Wednesday, 7.30 Pp. af.

_Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts.; Ed. C.

Krause, Pastor.
3 Divine Services:
Thursday, 7.30 P. Mt.
Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.;
G. M. Kramer, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a.m. and 7.30 P. M.;
Thursday, 7.30 p. xx. Sunday School: Sunday, 10. x.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Holy Trinity Church.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 A.M. and 8 P.M.

Sunday, 11 a. x. and 7.30 P. M.;

TERMS:

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