The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1913, Page 55

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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Brief Items of General Missionary Interest.

Romx’s Mission Work 1n Arnica. — The Ro-
man Catholic Church has 4,199 mission stations,
3,388 schools with 250,000 pupils, and 300 orphan
asylums in Africa. Its vast African army consists
of 2,305 priests, 1,182 monks, 3,280 nuns, and 652
catechists. It claims 1,100,000 converts from
heathenism and nearly 600,000 catechumens

WonperrruL Missionary ZEAL. — At Wathen on
the Kongo, in Africa, is a native Baptist church
which last year alone established 52 new mission
outposts. ‘This African congrégation has a com-
municant membership of 1,995, and every tenth
member is an evangelist. ‘The church supports 92
of its 196 evangelists, and the other 104 are volun-
tary workers. — Dear reader, just for a moment stop
to think what these Africans are doing for Christ’s
kingdom, and then think of what you are doing for
the same cause.

Wititam Waiting Borpen. — This young Chi-
cago millionaire, who had decided to give up the
pleasures of wealth and spend his life in China as
a missionary, died in distant Egypt, a few months
ago, at the age of twenty-five, of spinal meningitis.
As a student at Yale he founded Hope Mission,

~ where he,was instrumental in bringing many a lost
soul to Christ. At the time of his death he was
with Dr. Zwemer, a missionary among the Moham-
medans of Egypt, under whose guidance he was
preparing himself for what was to be his life-work,
that of bringing the Mohammedan Chinese to the
Savior. In his Jast will and testament he bequeathed

_~ practically all his possessions to missions, a total

of $800,000.

A Burssep Work. — From the annual report of
City Missionary Enno Duemling, of Milwaukee, we
take the following items: The 136 public services
which he conducted in the various public institu-
tions of the city were attended by 11,144 inmates.
He conducted 10 confessional services in which 210
partook of Holy Communion. Besides he admin-
istered the Lord’s Supper to 101 sick persons dur-
ing the year, and visited 1,247 sick inmates in the
various institutions. He was privileged to attend
29 persons upon their deathbeds and prepare them
for their departure out of this world. In his report
he gives several very touching instances showing the
great power of the Gospel upon the hearts of men
in every condition of life. — The report also shows
that.our brethren in Wisconsin are regular visitors

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of the various penal and correctionary institutions
of the state, and that their faithful and systematic
work is attended by success.

Waar a Tract Can Do.— Lutheran Youth
says: “Through reading a tract John Scudder was
won for the work of missions, and, together with
his noble wife, labored for thirty-six years as a mis-
sionary physician in India and Ceylon. ‘Their seven
sons and two daughters are likewise missionaries, as
are all their grandchildren also. The family has
a missionary record of 600 years’ work.”

Foreign Mission Work at Home. — The same
paper tells us that there are 41,000 Japanese and
36,000 Chinese, as well as several thousand Koreans,
Hindus, and Filipinos in California alone. In Tos
Angeles County there are said to be no less than
8,000 Japanese.

Facts ro Tuixk Anour.— One thousand mil-
lion people are still in ignorance of Jesus Christ.
Two infants out of every three in the world look
up into faces of mothers who can tell them no word
about the world’s Savior. Of every two infants in
the world one first sees the light in heathen Asia;
to what instruction is it born? Of every two fami-
lies one spreads its table there; what love unites its
circle? Of every two widows one is lamenting there;
what consolation will soothe her? Of every two
orphans one is wandering there; what charities will
protect the child? Of every two that die one is
departing there; what is his hope for the future?

Bringing Sacrifices for the Spreading of the
Kingdom.

Carmen Sylva, the queen of Roumania, had her
eyes bandaged for weeks while she learned to: read
and write the written language for the blind. Her
eyes and her right hand ached; but in this way she
became one of the most helpful friends the blind
people have ever had’ in the whole world. She
founded a school for them where they were taught
to read and write, music and many industries, so
that they could earn their own livelihood:

If the queen of Roumania did all this to help
the blind through this world, how much more should
we be willing to help those sitting in-spiritual dark=
ness, that their eyes may be opened to’see the Savior
in the blessed light of the Gospel.

Shall we whose souls are lighted

With wisdom from on high, —

Shall we to men benighted

The lamp of life deny? _ i wos