The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1913, Page 22

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

A.Nrew Lasorer. — The Board has secured the
services of Mr. Stoll, a student of our Seminary in
St. Louis, to take charge of the new field on the
“Dumps” in New Orleans. This new station is
situated pretty well on the outskirts of upper New
Orleans and westward of our Mount Zion and Beth-
Jehem stations. Mr. Stoll has already left for his
field of labor, and opened the school on February 10.
God bless him and his work!

ContripuTions By Our CoLoreD MEMBERS. —
The sum of $5,692.17 was raised by our colored
members during 1912, an increase of $1,167.62 over
1911. This makes an average of $5.92 for each
communicant member. This is a fine showing, and
we feel certain that our colored brethren will not
rest with this showing, but that this year will show
another increase. Bethlehem in New Orleans has
already made the start, and the other stations are
sure to follow. s

Mount Zion, New Or.eEANs. — Missionary Alb.
O. Friedrich of this station is preparing thirty-two
catechumens for confirmation; three of these are
adults.

County InFirmary at St. Louts.— The work
which the students of Concordia Seminary are doing
among the colored inmates of this institution is ap-
parently highly appreciated by the inmates. ‘The
services are being attended by forty-five hearers.
Our colored missionary, Rey. James Doswell, has
also conducted several services at the institution,
and an inmate reports that his sermons were much
enjoyed. May God continue to bless this work in
the future!

Fretp Secretary, Rey. N. J. Bakke. —'The
friends of our Colored Mission will rejoice to learn
from his own letter to our readers that Rey. Bakke
is on the way to recovery, and expects to take up

- his important work in the near future. Let us
Ahank God with him!

Items of General Missionary Interest.

Mission or Our Nonrwecian Breruren 1N
Crna. — Our Friend reports: “The first of the
year brought news from the Rey. J. R. Birkelund
from Shanghai, China, stating that he arrived there
from the west coast of the United States on the 30th
of November, and that the Rev. Lillegaard, our first
resident missionary to the great Chinese republic,
arrived from the east coast of our country the second

day of December. From there they sail up the
Yangtse River to Hankow, about 600 miles, from
which place they were to begin their reconnoitering
and looking for the proper place for establishing the
new China Mission of the Norwegian Synod.” The
province of Honan, where the new mission is to be
started, is said to have a population of 522 to the
square mile.

ArricaAN Muisstons.— The population of the
continent is estimated at 175,000,000. ‘There are
about 2,470 Protestant missionaries and 13,089 na-
tive assistants at work, a very little leaven to Jeaven
such a great lump. There are-now about 225,000
communicants of the Christian faith. ‘These Chris-
tians have 4,790 places of worship. ‘There are
about 200,000 pupils in the 4,800 mission schools.
Nearly one hundred hospitals minister to the sick
and suffering, while sixteen presses are kept busy,
and the Bible is supplied in all the principal lan-
guages. The largest proportion of native Christian
population is in Uganda and Cape Colony.

LIVINGSTONE CENTENARY IN GREAT BRirarn. —
Throughout Great Britain great preparations have
been made for the celebration, on March 19, of the
centenary of the birth of David Livingstone. In
London a national memorial service will be held
in St. Paul’s Cathedral, and in the evening the
Archbishop of Canterbury will preside at a national
demonstration in the Albert Hall. Memorial sery-
ices and demonstrations have been arranged for in
various cities throughout the British Isles. ‘Thus
Glasgow University will pay tribute to its old grad-
uate by having a celebration of its own, while the
municipality of Glasgow will hold commemoration
meetings. Elgin Place Church, Glasgow, of which
Livingstone was a member, will have its own mem-
orial services.

A Lance Lraacy ror Missions. — The will of
the late Robert Arthington, an Englishman, gives
$2,500,000 to the Baptist Missionary Society and
$2,000,000 to the London Missionary Society. Some

years ago the same gentleman made several large -

gifts to a number of American missionary socictics.
The money which he gave in his will is given for
the opening up and conducting of new missions.

Proaress or Foreign Misstons 1N 1912. — 7'he
Jissionary Review gives the following statistics of
Protestant foreign missions for the world. ‘The
amount contributed last year was $30,404,401, over
$5,000,000 more than the figures showed for the

previous year. ‘The number of missionaries in the —