The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1911, Page 23

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The Lutheran Pioneer. 23
summoning all his remaining strength, he raised In the middle of the month Dr. Kendrick C.

himself up in his bed and cast upon me a look that
I shall never forget,— despair was stamped upon
his countenance. “You know not what you are
saying!” he cried hoarsely. ‘Do you not know what
your Book says: ‘Whosoever shall deny me before
men, him will I also deny before my Father which
is in heaven; and whosoever shall be ashamed of
me and of my words, of him will I also be ashamed
before my Father and His angels’? For thirteen
years have I known the Gospel, and during the last
seven years I have had the conviction that it was
my duty to make a public profession of Christianity ;
yet [ did it not: I have been ashamed of Christ be-
fore men, I have denied Him!” Then he smote upon
his breast and cried, “The sentence of damnation is
written here! Iam lost!” He grasped me violently
by the arm, hurled me from his bed, and cried,
“Begone! I can endure the sight of you no longer.”

Overwhelmed in spirit, I left the poor man and
with heavy heart besought the Lord not to remove
him from the land of the living until he had found
merey.

On the following morning before six o’clock I
was at his door again. On being admitted I en-
quired, “Flow is Samal Das?” and received the
answer, “This morning he was cremated.” “How
did he die?” I asked, deeply moved. His heathen
relatives replied, “In about the same condition in
which you left him yesterday. He talked confusedly
about denying and confessing, but we could not
understand what he meant.”

This information cut me to the quick, and I
could no longer restrain the tears. It was a lamen-
table deathbed —a warning to us all.

Little Missionary.

Items from Immanuel College.

On February 1 began the second term of the
eighth scholastic year of Immanuel College. Reports
for the first term were given to the students on this
day, after Prof. Bakke had addressed the student
body, urging them to greater diligence in the new
term. The enrollment now shows 113 students. |

In the earlier part of January, the celebrated
reader, Richard B. Harrison, gave us another re-
cital. His program consisted of the rendition of
a long portion of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” and
a number of humorous selections from Paul Dunbar.
A few organ solos were played by the writer.-

Babcock, specialist in higher education, of the De-
partment of Education at Washington, D. C., paid
us a visit and addressed the students and school-
children inthe Chapel.

Since November of last year, a new society has
been organized at the College under the name of
Students’ Missionary Society. Its purpose is to in-
crease interest and zeal in mission work.

The parochial school at the College has grown
to such proportions —144 pupils have been en-
rolled, — that a third class had to be formed. This
class is instructed by the students of the Seminary
and Normal Departments who take turns in this
work. M. L.

NOTES.

Our Mission Boarp. — It gives us pleasure to
present to our readers in this issue a picture of our
Mission Board for Colored Lutheran Missions. ‘They
are the men who have the supervision of the various
mission fields, and who devote much time and care
to the interests of our work among the colored
people. ‘Their task is not an easy one. May God
grant them strength and wisdom, and abundantly
bless their work and labor of love!

StraristicAL Report rroat NEw ORLEANS. —
From the Southern Lutheran we take the following
statistical report of our three Colored Lutheran con-
gregations in New Orleans for the year 1910: Souls,
737; communicant members, 314; voting members,
52; teachers, 9; pupils in day schools, 503; com- -
municants, 648; baptized, 23; confirmed, 27; mar-
riages, 3; burials, 15; Sunday school pupils, 373.

Missionary Sraristics.— One of the editors
of Zhe Missionary Review of the World has com-
piled and published the statistics-of foreign mis-
sions for 1910. We are told that the year has
been one of gain. In America, the contributiohs
have increased by $600,000, the total standing at
$12,000,000. England has done still better. Last
year it gave $11,000,000, a gain of $1,500,000 over
the year before. There is also a gain in Germany,
but not nearly as much. All Christendom has given
$26,800,000, as over against $24,600,000 in 1909.
The native churches last year gave $5,250,000, a
gain of $400,000. Last year’s additions to the native
churches representing converts from paganism