The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1913, Page 14

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der is but a small matter. They do not hesitate to
kill a small child that they may from parts of its
body make an idol.

“It has been a souree of great delight that
through missionary efforts fourteen wars have been
averted within the last few years. Roads which
were formerly shut most of the time by tribal wars
are now kept open to traffic and commerce. Many
of the chiefs have agreed that I should act as ar-
biter of all disputes, and I am often called upon
to attend a palaver and keep peace.”

Daniel the Cripple.

A lady missionary in Ugandaland, Central Af-
rica, has written home the story of a cripple who
since then has been baptized and given the name
of Danieri (Daniel).

“Tis name is ‘Mufumbiro ta mira’ (which
means, a married man does not bolt his food like
a single one, because he is not so hungry as a single
one, as he is always well fed). He is very lame,
he cannot stand upright, his left leg is almost use-
less; he has to crawl along the ground. He had

~a serious illness some years ago and afterwards be-
came a cripple. He came to this house two days
ago, having crawled or hopped on hands and knees
for over twenty miles, to be questioned for baptism.

“Te said he wanted to become a Christian three
years ago, but the teacher would not trouble to
teach him, saying, ‘Others who have work to do
must learn before you, as you can learn any time,’
the teacher meaning that he must teach busy men
first. So Daniel learned to read the Bible by him-
self, and it has taken him three years. His friends
drove him out of the house, saying, ‘We worship
spirits; we don’t want a Christian in our house.’
So the poor fellow lives alone, but his old mother

- is not far away, and cooks food for him. His poor

hands were a good deal swollen with his long jour-
ney, and quite horny inside. He is going to live
in a little house close by us while he is being pre-
pared for confirmation; and then he says he wants
to teach others. I want him to stay here always
and teach the patients in the hospital, who are
almost all heathen. — - :

“What marvelous power has God’s Word in this
country to make a man crawl on hands and knees
that he may be baptized and enter into the kingdom
of heaven! How curiously indifferent are people
so often at home, and what a wonderful example
this poor black man sets us!” — Foreign Missionary.

Notes of General Missionary Interest.

ne Mormon MeENnacr. — 'The persistence and
perseverance of the Mormons is truly remarkable. -
They are so thoroughly organized, so devoted to
their teachings, and so utterly unprincipled in their
tactics, that their progress seems almost irresistible
in certain parts of our country. From a mere hand-
ful of only six members in 1830 they have grown
to a membership of more than half a million. In
seven of our Western States they hold the balance
of political power. ‘Their leaders openly boast that
the time will come when they will dictate their own
terms to the United States Government. Not long
ago over fifty-three thousand Mormons suddenly
changed their votes from one party to the other, at
the command of their leaders. And now the news
comes that they are hard at work in Alberta, Canada.
They have already bought more than a hundred
square miles of land, built an Academy at Raymond,
Alta., established a “state” at Lethbridge with a
bishop, and are going to proceed at once with the
erection of a Mormon temple at Raymond, which
is to cost about $300,000. :

Tne Last InpraNn Census.— The Jondon
Times gives an analysis of the completed figures
of the last Indian census taken by the British gov-
ernment. There are 3,574,000 native Christians in
India. The Roman Catholics still have first place,
with 1,395,000 adherents, but the advance of Roman
Catholics in the last ten years has been surprisingly
small compared with Protestant progress; for while
the Protestants have increased by nearly half a
million, the Roman Catholic increase has been only
272,000. The total Christian population of India
is now nearly four millions, or about one in every
eighty of the 315,000,000 living in the great Asiatic
dependency of Great Britain.

Davin LIvINGsToNnE, 1813—1913. — March 19th
will be the one hundredth anniversary of the
birth of David Livingstone, the great African mis-
sionary and explorer. Under the auspices of the
London Missionary Society he’ went to Africa in
1840 as a medical missionary. And here in Africa
he passed the rest of his life. He died there, near
Lake Bangweola, in May, 1873.

Tue Four InpIAn ScHoots oF THE Lorian
Wisconsin Synop. — These schools had an enroll-
ment of eighty-seven pupils at the end of last year.