The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1913, Page 7

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Mission Board furnished the material, while the
members did the work. Missionary Alston writes:
“We are grateful to our Mission Board for the loan
of money to buy the necessary material; and we
will pay all we can this winter, and until the whole
amount is refunded.” This is manly language.
Self-support is the goal that every mission should
zealously strive for, and that is what this mission
is doing.

The Sandy Ridge, N. C., school is being con-
ducted by Miss Addie Me'Tier, a graduate of Im-
manuel College; and Sidney Tervalon, a student
of Immanuel College, is in charge of the Concord
school. Rey. Polzin’s school at Meherrin, Va., has
an enrollment of over 40, and he expects it soon to
exceed 50.

St. Paul’s Chapel, New Orleans, La. Sunday
night, December 1, three more men were added to
the church by Confirmation; namely, Mr. John
Donasier, Mr. John Bordere, and Mr. George
Brooks. May God preserve them in true faith unto
a blessed end!— During the past year no less than
twenty-eight people were confirmed in St. Paul’s,
fourteen children and as many adults. Three adults
were also baptized. All glory to God! May He
bountifully bless us and our humble efforts in the

“ new year also! Ep. H. Scmmupr.

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A Race for Life.

A man had swallowed a dose of morphine in-
tending to commit suicide, but quickly ‘changing his
mind, he started for the nearest physician, who
lived two miles away. He felt the dangerous drow-

_ siness stealing over him, and ran with all his might.
The exercise kept him awake, but his mouth became
“parched, his eyes filmy, and his strength less. He
stopped to pray, but an instant of delay warned

him that the fatal drowsiness was increasing in.

power, and he again started forward. At length he
stumbled into the doctor’s office, and fell senseless
on the floor, but was saved by energetic treat-
ment.

If sinners, overcome by a listless indifference,
would only exercise the same energy in an earnest
appeal to the Great Physician, they might be saved
from eternal death.

O hasten mercy to implore,

And stay not for the morrow’s sun,
. For fear thy season should be o’er

Before this evening’s course be run.

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NOTES.

Misstonary Procress.— At the close of last
year, the total missionary funds raised by the various
’rotestant missionary organizations here and abroad
for work in heathen lands totaled $25,297,074.
With this offering, support was furnished for
22,058 white missionaries and 88,542 native helpers,
teachers, pastors, Bible women, and evangelists at
49,579 different missionary stations in India, Af-
rica, Japan, China, Burmah, Siam, the Arctic,
South America, and Polynesia. The missions had
an enrolled list of 4,875,454 adherents professing
Christian belief, of whom 2,304,318 were communi-
cants. In the same year there were 1,477,049 chil-
dren in the various mission schools. The United
States contributed nearly one half of the total fund
for conducting the whole work, having raised last
year $12,290,005 for foreign missions.

Inprans SPREADING THE GosPEL.— At a con-
vention of Christian Sioux Indians it was voted to
support a Christian worker in India. Think of
the sons of. Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, American
‘Horse, and Spotted Tail subscribing money to send
the good news of the Gospel to the heathen of India!
Here we have a splendid example of the leavening
power of the Gospel.

A CEentuRY oF Procress In Curva. — One hun-
dred years ago there was only one Protestant mis-
sionary in China, to-day there are more than 3,000;

‘one hundred years ago there was not a single Protes-

tant convert, to-day there are more than 150,000;
a century ago the Bible was unknown in that great
country, to-day thousands of copies are read there.

Danrxest Arrica. — Africa has a heathen popu-
lation of over a hundred million. Fifty million
Africans are the followers of-the false prophet Mo-
hammed, and only ten million are Christians.
Truly, darkness covers poor Africa and gross dark-
ness its poor people!

Ir THe CHRISTIANS OF THE UNITED States
would each week give to missions one cent, the in-
come would be more than ten million dollars in one
year. If every week they gave the cost of one postage
stamp, the income would be twenty million dollars
in a year. If our weekly gift-to the mission.cause
were the cost of a car-fare, or of a dish of ice cream,

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