The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1912, Page 79

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SyNopicaL CoNrERENCE. — From the report of
the recent meeting of Synodieal Conference, pub-
lished in The Lutheran Witness, we take the fol-
lowing item regarding our Colored Missions: —

“A complete report on Negro Mission work as
carried on by the Synodical Conference was sub-
mitted by the St. Louis Board, the Rev. C. F.
Drewes, chairman. Among many other interesting
things the report showed that 35 laborers (16 white
and 19 colored) are now serving in the mission work
among the freedmen of the South. — The Rev. N. J.

Bakke, Field Secretary and Mission Director, and -

. Prof. F. Berg, President of Immanuel College,
Greensboro, N. C., also addressed the Conference on
this important and very promising work. — The
financial report of the treasurer, Mr. H. Doederlein,
showed. that $69,150.55 was needed to carry on the
work during the past biennium.”

Race Prosiem. — At a missionary meeting in
Asheville, N. C., one of the speakers addressed a
large gathering on “the Race Problem in the South.”
He complained of the conduct of many of the
colored people and also of the “comparative indif-
ference of the white population of the South to the
religious interests of the colored people since the
war’? He closed his address thus: “It becomes
clearer every day that the race problem in the South
is one of the most difficult problems, perhaps the
most difficult problem that God in His providence
ever submitted to any people for solution. There
is, after all, but one satisfactory .solution to be
found, the preaching to white and to black of the
everlasting Gospel, which is the wisdom and power
of God.”

Crazy Gops.— One of the General Council’s

medical missionaries in India says in a report-from
that heathen land:
“On one occasion, while a procession carrying

some idol passed our dispensary, I asked a Brahmin:

patient to tell me something about the festival and
the reason for carrying the idol along the streets.

She replied, ‘It is only one of our crazy gods which .

they are showing on the streets. It amounts to
nothing” When asked why she called them crazy
gods, she replied, “hey have no sense and are not
alive. Ts that not crazy?? ‘But when you know
this and also know that there is a living God whom
you ought to worship, why do you believe in these
crazy gods?’ She replied, ‘I do not believe in them.
L believe in your Jesus Christ. But I must pretend

to worship our gods because it is customary; and
when all the elders in our family do it, how can I
hold myself as too wise to do what I have been
taught to do? I must do what is customary in our

caste whether I believe it is right or not.” The
poor heathen!
A Brste Buyer. — The new Chinese Republic

is a Bible buyer. The American Bible Society of
New York has issued for the first six months of
the current year nearly 60,000 more Bibles for
China than during the corresponding period last
year, and in addition, its agent, Rev. Dr. John R.
Hykes, of Shanghai, has sent word to New York
that he has orders for 200,000 copies. ‘This number
is greater, he reports, than the Society is able to
supply.

Liperat Crristrans. — The Christians in Ger-
man Samoa, says Foreign Missionary, number 9,000
communicants. They are distinguished by their
liberality. Not only do they support their own
pastors and evangelists, but placed $25,000 in the
hands of the directors of the mission for ‘the ex-
pansion of its labors.

Arnica. — Speaking of “the prayers and need

_of mission in Africa,” Onward says:—

“The population of the continent is estimated
at 175,000,000. There: are about 2.470 Protestant
missionaries and 13,089 native assistants at work
—a little leaven that must leaven so great a lump.
To date there are about 527,000 adherents to the
Christian faith, in addition to about 225,000 com-
municants. These Christians have 4,790 places of
worship. ‘There are about 200,000 pupils in about
4,800 schools. Nearly one hundred hospitals min-
ister to the sick and suffering, while sixteen print-
ing presses are kept busy, and the Bible is suplied
in all the principal languages. ‘The largest pro-
portion of Christian population is in Uganda and
Cape Colony.” ; 3

A Nose Boy. —A Baganda boy of thirteen
years of age, who had just been baptized, went to
work for’ ten hours a day for thirty days in order
to earn enough money to buy a Bible of his own
and a Church Book. sltE aby ;

. —_——_

‘yrz Word and the Sacraments must not be
separated. For Christ has also comprehended the
Sacraments in the Word. — Luther. :