The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1910, Page 71

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Mansura, LA.—From one of our exchanges
we learn that our mission at Mansura, La., has
been richly blessed during the past months of the
year. Several classes of catechumens were con-
firmed and received into the congregation. The
Fourth Sunday after Trinity was especially a day
of rejoicing, six adults being confirmed on that
day, after having confessed their faith in the Savior
and promised faithfulness to Him and His Church,
in the presence of a large congregation which filled
the church building to its utmost capacity. This
promising mission station has been faithfully served
by the Rev. Ed. Schmidt, our missionary at Napo-
leonville, La. But Mansura will now again have its
own pastor in the person of the Rev. Charles Peay,
of North Carolina, a graduate of Immanuel College.
May God abundantly bless the labors of the new
pastor among the dear people of Mansura!

A Pasror’s Mission Worx. — Many a pastor
might find opportunity for mission work among the
colored people of his neighborhood. A ‘Chicago
pastor, a few weeks ago, sent us a letter in which
he writes: “Since last fall I have as a pupil a negro
orphan boy of thirteen years, who lives nearby with
his uncle. Three times a week in the evening I
instruct him in Luther’s Catechism, Bible History.
and German. He knows well by heart the whole
Enchiridion, except the Table of Duties, and has
learned the Bible proofs to the Ten Commandments
and to the First Article. In his uncle’s house there
was no prayer in use. I taught the boy several little
table prayers to teach his younger brother, and he
himself learned Luther’s family prayers in the
Catechism. Last week his uncle, a negro and highly
respected by his employers and white coworkers at
the brickyard, said to me: ‘Since Howard learns
the Catechism with you, he and his younger brother
pray at each meal, and each one a different prayer,
and neither of them rises nor goes to bed without
saying your prayers.’ Do you find such service in
the house of every white Lutheran? The boy is to
graduate after being confirmed, and will attend
Immanuel College to become a Lutheran pastor. —
Thirty years ago I confirmed a colored boy in Ger-
man at East Albany, N. Y.”

A Happy Mistaxr.— The same pastor writes:
“By mistake I delivered to a widow, a subscriber of
the Lutheraner, a Missionstaube [our German mis-

sion paper] instead of the Pioneer for her grown-
up children. She read it and returned it to me,
inquiring for the address of the Mission Treasurer.
We had decided to donate our spending money
($2.50) at the Lutheran school picnic to the Col-
ored Mission, which is much in need of money.
I told the widow of our intention. [ast Friday she
left a closed and addressed envelope at my house
to be forwarded to the Treasurer. The envelope
contained two dollars for Colored Mission. So God
changed my mistake into a needful act of charity.”

A Repiy.— Referring to a “Note on Bible
Work” in our August number, a reader asks whether
“the Bibles distributed in New York by the New
York Bible Society are all English Bibles.” Surely
not. The Society issues the Word of God in thirty-
six different languages. It last year distributed
185,000 volumes of Scripture among the newcomers
that landed on our shores, most of them belonging
to foreign-speaking peoples.

Tne YELLow Perit. — On account of “the yel-
low peril” that might threaten the western nations,
objection has been made to the educational work of
the missionaries among the Chinese and other
heathen peoples of the Hast. It has been said: “If
China has awakened and her people and other people
of the yellow race are educated, what will become of
the rest of the world?” In replying to this foolish
objection, one of the American delegates to the
World Missionary Conference, which recently met

in Edinburgh, Scotland, said: “Christian people -

believe that there is but one yellow peril on earth,
and that is the lust for gold, and nothing else.”

THE Missionaries’ WorK APPRECIATED. — The
State Government also derives much benefit from the
work of the missionaries. This has time and again
been recognized by state officials who have appre-
ciated the work done by the missionaries. G. R.
Le Hunte, former Governor of Australia in the
reign of Queen Victoria, speaking of the missions
among the native blacks of that British colony, car-
ried on also by our Lutheran brethren in that dis-
tant land, said: “The Government owes everything
to the missions. Every penny you contribute to the
mission is a help to the Queen’s Government. The
missionaries render it unnecessary for the whites
to move about with armed forces, and enable the
officials to leave their rifles on the ships, and go
inland with their umbrellas. The mission brings