The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1914, Page 4

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Lutheran Mission Church among the Stockbridge Indians
in Wisconsin.

example, not far from the Indian mission of the
Lutheran Missouri Synod in Wisconsin there is a
portion of the Menominee tribe, occupying the
northern part of the Menominee Reservation, among
whom no mission work is being conducted. The
nearness of. these “pagan” Indians to one of our
Lutheran missions indicates an excellent oppor-
tunity for enlarged missionary effort in a field right
at our very doors. Every one of us should feel
the obligation to win these native Americans for
Christ pressing upon him. n

The experience which the Lu-
_theran Missouri Synod has had in
its mission work among the Stock-
bridge Indians of Wisconsin, and.
the successful work of the Lutheran
Wisconsin Synod among the Apaches
of Arizona should encourage our
Church to enlarge this blessed work.
Among our Indian converts are to
be found men and women of the
finest Christian character. The
brief history of our two small mis-
sions in Arizona and Wisconsin is
filled with not a few instances of »
the transforming power of Christ’s
_ Gospel in individual and tribal life.
The present seems to offer a splen-
did opportunity to spread the Gos-
pel among the American Indians;
now, then, is the time to go after

them and win them for Christ by the power of the
Gospel.

We are pleased to learn that the Kansas District
of the Missouri Synod is planning a mission among
the Indians of Oklahoma. At its last meetings the
District Synod of Kansas passed a resolution to the
effect that the field be carefully explored, and if
conditions be found favorable, the General Board
for Indian Missions of the Missouri Synod is to be
encouraged to begin the work. The Indian popula-
tion of Oklahoma is about 75,000. While ten Prot-
estant denominations are working among them, there
are not a few Oklahoma Red Men who have not
been evangelized. ‘There is a great field here for
mission schools. Says one who knows conditions:
“One weak feature of Protestant mission work
among the Indians is the fewness of such schools.”

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News from St. Paul’s Chapel, New Orleans.

Eleven converts, consisting of two men, four
women, four young men, and one young lady, were
recently received into the Lutheran Church, the
ceremony taking place in St. Paul’s Chapel at New
Orleans, La. Six of these are first-fruits of the

mission work that has been carried on during the
past year in the far down town section of the city
and will help form a nucleus for a new mission
congregation. Thus far this new mission has always
been referred to as “The Elmira St. Mission,” but

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A Lutheran Mission Station among the Apaches of Arizona.

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