The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1912, Page 87

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Sournern Pres, N. C.— After an absence
from Sunday-school for a few Sundays, I, on my
return, found our little chapel brightly shining
with its new coat of paint. Considering that
Rey. March and Mr. Brown are not professional
painters, the work has been done excellently. I
found also the Sunday-school increasing by the
faithful labors of our dear pastor and_ teachers.
After Sunday-school, Rev. March preached an ex-
cellent sermon from Ezek. 34, 15: “I will feed my
flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the
Lord God.” — While Rev. March was away to Con-
ference, the members presented to the church a
new pulpit, which was indeed a great surprise to
the pastor on his return. We find it no burden to
work for the Lord and gladly labor for the spread
of His kingdom., Our number is small, but the
Savior is with us in His Word and Sacraments.
We are gathered together in the name of Jesus who
has said: “\Where two or three are gathered together
in my name, there am I in the midst of them,”
Matt. 18, 20. J. Hinson, Superintendent.

Biste Work. — The latest report of the British
- and Foreign Bible Society shows that the society is
in touch with “almost every people and tribe and
nation and tongue on the face of the earth.” It
distributes Bibles in 440 different languages, eight
new versions |having been added last year. Its
army of 1,100 colporteurs, or Bible agents, who
travel through the remotest parts of every conti-
nent, do an amazing work and prove a great help
to the missionaries. ‘They are most fiercely opposed
in’ Catholic countries, for instance, in Austria. A
correspondent of the London Christian World there-
fore writes: “Is it known in England that it is a
crime in Austria to distribute Bibles among the
people? Is it known that regularly every year there
are scores of Bible burnings in all parts of the em-
pire, where priests, having collected every copy of
the Seriptures on which they could Jay their hands,
commit these books to the flames? ‘The pages of
every report of the British and Foreign Bible So-
ciety bear eloquent testimony to Rome’s fierce and
cruel opposition to our Bible work.”

Brstes For Sourm Arrica.—One day last
summer the American Bible Society shipped eight
tons of Bibles in the Zulu language.and bound for
South Africa. A South African Zulu minister, a

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giant six fect three inches tall, came to New York
to read the proofs. ‘The Zulus, among whom also
German and Norwegian missionaries have been
laboring for many years, were known as a most
warlike African tribe which gave the English gov-
ernment much trouble. For some years now the
number of Christians among the Zulus has steadily
increased, and the demand for Bibles is steady and
growing. Distribution of Bibles on arrival in Af-
rica is made by the missionaries. Many copies are
sold.

Tue ‘True Missionary Srinr.— Missionary
Hotchkiss, who labored for many years among the
most degraded tribes in Central Africa, writes : —

“T spent four years alone, burying three of my
five companions, and the others had to return home;
had fever myself between thirty and forty times;
was several times ambushed by the natives; three
times attacked by lions, several times by rhinoce-
roses; for fourteen months I never saw a piece of
bread; for two months I had nothing to eat but
native beans and sour milk; I had to eat everything
from ants to rhinoceros meat. Do not misunder-
stand me, now; I am not posing as a martyr; I
enjoyed it. But let me say this, my friends: I
would gladly go through the whole thing again
with my eyes wide open, if I could have the joy I
had of bringing salvation to that people. And do
you know, there are two hundred, possibly, such
tribes in the Dark Continent to-day without a writ-
ten language, much less a messenger of the Cross.”

ZEALOUS Missionaries. — A Missionary 'Train-
ing School of the Transvaal Boers sends out its stu-
dents two by two, as the seventy were sent out, to
preach in surrounding hamlets and villages. Some
of them go to the Johannesburg compounds, where
200,000 heathen are engaged in gold-mining opera-
tions. ‘These blacks stream hither from all parts
of South Africa. Men converted on the compounds
return to the remotest regions of Central Africa.
As the population in the mines changes constantly,
there is here an incomparable opportunity for mis-
sion work: Most of the miners are raw savages,
with combs, feathers, mustard spoons, and what
not, stuck in their hair for ornament, and wearing
at times such combinations of clothing as loin cloths
and broken silk hats.

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Tye evils that befall others should be our
warnings. :