The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1912, Page 48

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~ of our Colored Mission.

* no teacher had come.”

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

He hoped that in the
providence of God the time would come when the
Lutheran Church of America would be given the
opportunity of sending well-trained colored laborers
with the pure Gospel of salvation into the vast
mission field of Africa. The hope of the warm
friend of all mission work may yet be fulfilled.

On THE Conco.—A missionary thus describes
the earnestness of the people of the Congo in Africa
to receive the Gospel story:

“Tt would take one missionary’s whole time to
handle the delegations that are coming in from
the villages on the plains, and far out in the jun-
gles, urging that teachers be sent speedily to tell
the people that are in the darkness of the Savior’s
love and the way of life. One day, as we waited
at Leubo, some men came who had walked about
175 miles. They told the missionaries that they
had come from a dark village far away, and that
all their people were in darkness. They had heard
that if they would build a church in their village,
a teacher would come to teach them the way of
salvation. They built a church, and they had
waited and waited. The church had rotted down;

THe Lasorers ArE Few. — The most fully oc-
cupied province in China, says Mission Record, has

one missionary to every 40,000 people, while five,

other provinces have only one missionary to every
100,000, and no less than four provinces have one
missionary to every 250,000. That would mean
twelve missionaries for the whole city of New York,
and between three and four hundred for the United
States. Out of 1,971 walled cities in China, only
527 are occupied, leaving 1,450 great cities without
a single missionary. ‘The aboriginal tribes of China
(6,000,000) have no missionary.

How BELATED THE PROCLAMATION !— A mis-
sionary had preached Jesus in an Indian village
where that holy name had never been heard before.
When he was about half a mile on his way home,
he heard a man calling after him, so he waited.
Coming up with him, the man said: “Sahib, this
Jesus of whom you have been telling us, when did

' He die for us? Was it this year or last?” And the
missionary wrote to a friend: “I was ashamed as
I told him that it was over nineteen hundred years
ago.” — Miss. Review.

shymns and a number of chants and doxologies.

BOOK TABLE.

EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN HYMN-BOOK. WithTunes.
Size: 6X8% X14%. 112 and 538 pages. Concordia
Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Edition T. C.,
bound in handsome silk cloth and with stained edges,
$1.50. Edition T. H., half morocco, $2.00.

This is the long-expected Hymn-Book for English Lu-
theran congregations. The editorial committee and the
publishers have done their work well and have given the
Chureh an excellent hymnal for public worship and for
private and family devotions. ‘The book contains 567
215 of
the hymns are translations of the best known German
hymns of the Lutheran Church.

Acknowledgments.

Received for Colored Missions from the following con-
gregations: Grace, Concord, N. C., $10.00; Mount Cal-
vary, Sandy Ridge, N. C., 5.00; Bethlehem, New Orleans,
La., 40.00; Mount Zion, New Orleans, La., 40.00; St. Paul,
New Orleans, La., 40.00; St. Paul, Charlotte, N. C., 10.00;
Bethel, Greenville, N. C., 4.00; Bethlehem, Monroe, N. C.,
2.50; Zion, Gold Hill, N. C., 3.00; Mount Zion, Rocks,
N. C., 3.00; Concordia, Rockwell, N. C., 2.50; Station at
Napoleonville, La., 25.42; Mount Calvary, Mount Pleas-
ant, N.C., 3.00; Bethany, Yonkers, N. Y., 12.50; St. Paul,
Mansura, La., 5.00; St. Matthew, Meherrin, Va., 8.46; St.
John, Salisbury, N. C., 10.74; St. James, Southern Pines,
N. C., 4.54; Grace, Greensboro, N. C., 8.00; Grace, St.
Louis, Mo., 2.50. — Total, $240.16.

St. Louis, Mo., May 16, 1912.

H. L. DorDERLEIN, 7'reas.
848 E. Prairie Ave.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.
St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.;
Ed. Schmidt, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A.M. and 7.30 r.a1; Wednes-
day, 7.30 p. M.
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. 4. and 7.30 Pp. a.; Thurs-
day, 7.30 Pp. a. }
Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.;
G. M. Kramer, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. a0. and 7.30 P. a0.; Thurs-
day, 7.30 yp. xr. Sunday-School: Sunday, 10 a. x1.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Holy Trinity Church.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 a. x. and 8 P. 31.

Change of Address.
Rey. N. J. Bakke,
5645 Bramble Ave., Madisonville Sta., Cincinnati, O.

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