The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1913, Page 87

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LuruHeraN WORKERS IN CuINaA.— Nineteen
Lutheran missionaries, 13 European and 6 Amer-
ican, are at work in China. The total number of
missionaries is 347; of native helpers, 850; of
baptized Christians, 56,000; of pupils in mission
schools, 6,000.

“Tire Mission To LEPERs IN INDIA AND THE
East.” — This missionary enterprise maintains 52
asylums for lepers in China, Ceylon, India, Burma,
Japan, Siam, and Korea, and twenty homes for the
untainted children of leprous parents. Besides these
institutions, thirty other stations are supported in
part by grants of funds, by Christian teaching, or
by help to individual lepers.

‘THe SECOND ADVENTISTS AND TForEIGN Mis-
sions. — This small denomination is very active in
foreign mission work. It supports quite a number
of stations in foreign countries, and its young people
are eager to become workers among the heathen.
While wrong in doctrine, they put to shame many
that have the truth by their liberal gifts to missions.
The least they give is ten dollars a year.

Tue Lurneran Cuurcn 1x Porto Rico. —
The General Council and the Augustana Synod are
engaged in mission work in Porto Rico. During
the last six years the Augustana Synod has estab-
lished nine congregations on the island.

Srupents’ VoLUNTEER Missionary MoveMENT.
— Seventy societies in the United States and Canada
have sent out 5,194 volunteer missionaries. Year
before last, 410 workers were sent and $187,963 was
contributed.

A Lance OrFertnc. — Recently the Missionary

Convention of the Methodist Church, South, was
held at Waynesville, N. C. A spontaneous offering
for missions amounted to $151,000. “Such offer-
ings,” says the Lutheran Church Visitor, “bespeak
a better day for the extension of the kingdom.”

Mission INTEREST In SwEDEN. — Sweden has a
population of only five million, but it maintains 12
missionary societies, with 413 European mission-
aries, 1,121 native helpers, 106 mission stations,
with 10,722 members. In 1911, Sweden contributed
$400,000 for foreign mission work.

A Test or Curist1an Docrrinr aNnp Lire. —
The Missionary Review of the World has the fol-
lowing: “A missionary in India used to tell of the
steps which led the residents of a certain village to
renounce heathenism and accept Christianity. The

villagers sent two successive deputations of their
own number; the first had to follow the English

missionary on one of his tours, and bring back the
story of Christian doctrine; the second had to dwell
among native Christians and bring back the story
of Christian life. They looked for good teaching
and also for people whose life and conduct reflected
the teaching. They found this, and they accepted
Christianity.” The question a preacher should
always ask himself is, “Am I a faithful preacher of
the Word?” The question all professing Christians
should put to themselves is, “Are we leading con-
sistent Christian lives? Do our lives reflect the
teaching of the Gospel?” Unfaithful preaching and
sinful lives on the part of preachers and church-
members have been the cause of many unbelievers’
despising and rejecting Christ and His Gospel.

The Lord Is My Shepherd.

Jimmie Blair was a little boy of tender years.
As he lay very sick, his pastor came to see him, but
finding him very weak, seated himself for a short

time quietly at his bedside. Before departing, how- -

ever, he gave the child a verse of five words, a word
for each finger of one hand. The sick boy counted
over the words on his five pale fingers: “The Lord
is my Shepherd.” “And ‘my’ is the best of the
five,” said the pastor.

Two days later another visit was paid to that
same home. At the door the sorrowing mother met
the pastor. “It is all over,” she said; “my little
Jimmie is dead. But come and see him.” And she
led the way into the darkened room. Very thin and
white was the little face, very sweet and peaceful
the countenance of the little sleeper. Then the
mother drew down the coverlet and said, “That’s
the best.” ‘The little hands were crossed and on
the fourth knuckle of the left hand rested still a
fingere of the right. In silence that life had sped

with the hands clasped to utter, “The Lord is my

Shepherd.”

BOOK TABLE.

FAITH AND DUTY. Sermons on Free Texts, with Ref-
erence to the Church-Year. By the Rev. Louis Buch-
heimer, Pastor of the Ev. Luth. Church of Our Re-
deemer, St. Louis, Mo. Concordia Publishing House,
St. Louis, Mo. 6><9 in., 321 pages, bound in olive
green library buckram, with gold lettering on side
and backbone. Price, $1.25, postpaid.

This handsome volume of sermons by Rev. Buchheimer
is published at a most opportune time of the year, fe

of the church-year being near at hand.
Lon takes re toss recommending this postil with-
out reservation. We have been told t Pastor Buch-

heimer enjoys an enviable reputation as a preacher, and

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