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lation of about 13,000. He found a section of the
city called Brooklyn having thousands of colored
people, but no schools and practically no churches.
The opportunity to open the Lord’s work here was
too great to let it pass by. A centrally located
store-room was rented, and Missionary March will
spend two Saturdays and Sundays here each month
in working up the field. It is Superintendent
Bakke’s intention to spend some time in the near
future on each of these new fields and assist the
missionaries in charge with his advice and practical
help. May God pour His rich blessings upon these
new fields that they may yield a bountiful harvest!

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‘Foreign Mission of Missouri Synod.

The sad news comes from Ambur that the bu-

most all the inhabitants have fled, excepting t

The Northern Conference of missionaries was
held at Vaniyambadi October 23 to 26. All the
missionaries were present. Missionary Kuechle
preached the sermon, basing it on Ps. 87.

Jux. A. FRIEDRICH.

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Items of General Missionary Interest.

THE MARVELOUS POSSIBILITIES OF CHRISTIAN
work In Arnica, says the Missionary Review of the
World, are just beginning to be appreciated by the
Church of God. Among the native Africans there
is a pathetic appeal for more teachers to bring to
them the light of eternal life. One missionary tells
of a community in Africa visited by him some time
ago, where he found a chapel put up by the natives,
with a boy twelve years old as their teacher and
minister. The boy had attended a mission school

o teach his companions how to read by writing

boriie plague made its appearance last October. 4 some time, and, upon returning home, began

Mohammedans, whose religion forbids flight. 'T
large Lower Secondary School of the mission hj
been closed. This is a sad blow for the scho
coming so soon after the temporary strike of t
high-caste students. The missionary reports tl

three or four hours after the attack. Up to da

n the sand. The men of the village; upon seeing
nis, declared that they could not allow the boys

learn what they did not know, and so the boy
so became the teacher of the men. Finally they
id to him: “You be our teacher and leader, and

he work as it is being done by the Christian

in many cases the victims of the plague die a will build a chapel for you, so that you can do

the village in which the members of our sma
Pariah congregation live, has been spared. T
nine boarders of the school, who live in the missio}
compound, are not very much exposed to the dang
of being stricken. Owing to the superstitious fea
of the natives the government is much handicapp
in its work of preventing the spread of the dre
disease, and fear is felt that it may be carried
Vaniyambadi. May God hold His protecting hang
over our missionaries and their families!

A number of people in Pernambattu, Yerucad
and Vimamangulam, all outstations of Ambur, are
attending instruction for Baptism.

On July 19, the members in Sullimanur, a

_ outstation of Trivandrum, dedicated their owg,

chapel. The 100 members of this congregation fu

issionaries.” Thus the young boy became ‘the
cher of the whole village, teaching them the
ospel as he had learned it. The missionary that
lls this also reports that there are hundreds of
her villages where the people are just as anxious
know the Truth.
Tue Unrrep Prespyrertan Crurce made an
vance of $1.12 per member for missions and an
dvance of $1.07 per member for other purposes.
his brings this denomination up to an average of
-11 per capita for missions. We hardly average
50 cents per member!

THE HERMANNSBURG Mission has 193 setae

d native workers among the Telugus of Indi
the recent anniversary of the society at Her.
nnsburg, Germany, it was reported that there

nished the material and did the building themselves."“#te 1,266 villages, with a population of approxi-
The dedication services were attended by 119 per¢ MPately 850,000 souls, to whom the Gospel has bea

sons. A collection lifted upon the occasion amounted
to 6 cents, a small amount in our eyes, but for
those poor people quite a respectable sum. ‘The
school at Sullimanur is conducted by Teacher
James. —In Saliorkam Rev. F. Zucker and Cate-
chist Paulus are regularly instructing a number of
applicants. —

preached.
Lrperta, Arrica, with a population of 2,000,000,

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has only 3,000 who have come under the influence’

of the Gospel. Java, having a population. of
30,000,000, has only about 3,000 missionaries, and:
fewer than 28,000 native Christians. Truly, there)
is yet much work to be done!