The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1913, Page 47

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were in the United States, in 1890, 243,000 Indians ;
in 1900, the number had increased to 270,000, and
“in 1910, to 305,000. More than a third of these
(117,000) live in Oklahoma. Our Lutheran Church
has two missionaries laboring among the Indians:
Rey. J. Larsen, of the Missouri Synod, in Wisconsin,
and Rey. J. Tarders, of the Wisconsin Synod, in
Arizona. “Ihe harvest, truly, is plenicous, but the
laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of
the harvest, that; He will send forth laborers into
His harvest,” Matt. 9, 37. O. K.

A Nove. Way or Gerring Susscripers. — We
glean the following from the J/issionstaube: A mem-
ber of one of our congregations in Connecticut some
time ago sent $5.00 to the Concordia Publishing
House, with instructions to send 10 copies of the
Missionstaube to each of two pastors in Connecticut
for free distribution in his congregation. ‘The dear
brother writes: “I hope the Lord will bless my
object, so that when the year expires, each copy so
passed out will have won a new reader. I am by
no means rich. I have a small home with a mort-
gage of over $ on same; but I like the J/is-
sionslaube so well that I thought I would offer
$5.00 to get subscribers for it. If I had the means,
they would be at the service of the Colored Mission.”
This is fine; God bless the kind donor and fulfill
his wish! How would it be if some of the readers
of the Pronger would follow the example of this
brother?

Lutnmeran Mussionarmes Prrsecurep. — In
Peru the Lutheran missionaries are made to feel
the unholy wrath of the: Romish bishops, says the
Lutheran Church Visitor. ‘The bishop of Cuzco
tried to have their chapels and schools .closed by
the authorities, but failed in this. Then he issued
a pastoral letter accusing the Protestants of spread-
ing “the false, erroneous, immoral doctrines of the
apostate Luther,” and warned the Christians of
the dangers which “the sons of lies and false re-
form” are teaching to cause them to fall into heresy
and vices to the danger of eternal perdition. He
commanded them to bring their Protestant Bibles
and other books and leaflets to the priests imme-
diately.

THE BrBLteE IN Perv.—A missionary in Cal-
lao, Peru, writes that “the circulation of the Scrip-
tures in my field in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Co-
lombia, and Venezuela reached the splendid total
of 82,018 copies of God’s Word during 1912, princi-
pally in Spanish.”

The Lutheran Pioneer. 44

A Foreign Mission Carriep oN BY Koreans.
— Christianity is only about thirty years old in
Korea. It used to be called the “Hermit Nation,”
because they were so exclusive and wrapped up in
themselves. But now that Christianity has taken
a hold upon them, they are beginning to show a
great interest in the welfare of others. ‘The Pres-
byterian Christians have undertaken to evangelize
the large island of Quelpart, lying several hundred
miles south of the mainland. When the first mis-
sionary went there about six years ago, it seemed
for a while as though he would lose his life. »He
was stoned by the fierce natives and persecuted by
them in every way. The women were particularly
averse to hearing him, stopping their ears and de-
claring him a perverter of their beliefs, a destroyer
of idols, a traitor to his people, and the like, and
upon several occasions riots almost broke out. ‘The
outlook to-day is quite encouraging.

Missions AMONG THE ARABS. — Hundreds of
Scripture portions are annually distributed among
the pilgrims to Mecca. These Scriptures are in
Arabic, Persian, Gujerati, and Hindi. — Last year
a missionary visited the Bedouin Arabs in the re-
gion of Mount Sinai, a region hitherto untouched
by Christian missionary work. He found the people
very poor, but open to the Gospel. He hopes to
pay these poor people another visit in the course
of this year.

A Bountirurt Harvest. — About a century ago
Adoniram Judson landed in Burmah, the first
Protestant missionary of that country. When Jud-
son died, hundreds of baptized Burmans and Ka-
rens were sleeping in Jesus, and over 7,000 survived,
in 63 churches, under the oversight of 163 mission-
aries, native pastors, and helpers. Lately a conven-
tion met in Burmah to consider the making of
arrangements to properly keep the anniversary of
the landing of this Apostle to Burmah. It was
attended by 83 missionaries and 2,000 delegates,
representing over 64,000 communicants, 728 schools,
1,142 teachers, and 24,656 pupils. Such is the truly
bountiful harvest from Judson’s sowing.

Expansion. — The Hermannsburg Mission,
which has carried on a successful work in Natal
and Transvaal, South Africa, since 1854, and which
numbers 14,000 communicants among the Zulus
and over 56,000 among the Bechuana, now also
intends to take up the work in the German colonies
of Africa.

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