The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1914, Page 14

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

keep them, and finally take them to Himself in
heaven !

On the 14th of December two young ladies were
received into the church at Elon College by con-
firmation. The two confirmed were the Misses Ola
Nash and Juanita Johnson. God bless them and
keep them!

On- December 20, a boy was born to ‘Teacher
i. A. Buntrock. Mother and child are doing fine.

R. O. L. Lynn.

Items of Interest from the Colored
Mission Field.

Our GERMAN Missionary MoNTULY, Die Mis-
sionstaube, has about 30,000 subscribers. How
happy THE PIONEER would be if he had half that
number of readers!

WE ARE sure that all our readers will read with
interest Field Secretary Bakke’s article, “On the
Wing,” appearing in this issue. At present Rey.
Bakke is preparing a book on our Colored work
bearing the title, “Our Colored Mission in Word
and Picture.” It will be put on the market about
the end of April.

WE ARE sorry To REPORT that the faithful
treasurer of our Colored Mission Board, Mr. H. L.
Doederlein, intends to remove from St. Louis to
Chicago. We hope the Board may find a worthy
successor !

Rey. J. Doswett, our missionary in St. Louis,
has been compelled to go to Denver because of his
health. He is threatened with consumption. We
hope that God may restore him to health, and en-
able him to take up his work again. Rev. J. .E.
Tice, who entered our Mission a few months ago,
has taken charge of the mission-school at St. Louis.
Rev. Tice was formerly the pastor of a Congrega-
tionalist church at~Lake Charles, La.

THE WORK AT SPARTANBURG, S. C., is progress-
ing nicely. Miss Wilmar Barnhard, who-has charge
of the school, reports over twenty pupils under her
care, and the prospects are bright for an increase.
Rey. McDavid, our missionary at Charlotte, N. C.,
preaches here every other Sunday. He writes: “But
we cannot hope to accomplish much before we have
a man here permanently.”

‘THE NEW FIELD AT KANNAPOLIS, where Mis-
sionary Schwehn, of Concord, recently began work,
has a promising future. The colored population is
bound to increase because of the opening up of a

number of cotton mills. Mr. J. W. Cannon, the
founder of this new Model City,.has presented us
with a lot. What we now need is a chapel on the
lot. ‘Thanks to the enterprising spirit of our mis-
sionary, Rev. Schwehn, we are the first on the field,
and we should take advantage of our opportunities.
Let us not do as wé have only too often done in
the past — permit others to snatch the advantage
out of our hands. Up, ye friends of our Colored
Mission, provide your missionary with a chapel, and
thus reward him for being so wide awake!

Cuartorre, N. C., reporis a new roof on
St. Paul’s Church, a new floor in one school-room ;
and — the expense of these improvements practi-
cally paid for. Rey. McDavid also reports a fine
attendance in the school, over 100 pupils, and tells
us that the Charlotte congregations have contributed
more liberally to the Mission Treasury than ever
before.

From IMMaNnvurn CoLurce, Greensporo, N. C.,
come several items of bad news. Death has carried
off the mother and father-in-law of Prof. Schmidt;
the wife of Prof. Berg was obliged to undergo an-
other serious operation; and in the early part of
January the smallpox made their appearance in the
college. :

Items of General Missionary Interest.

CarHontic Mission Conrriputions. — ‘The
Catholics of the United States are rapidly increas-
ing their contributions for missions. ‘The total
contributions last year amounted to $365,000,
which was $100,000 more than in the year before.
France is the only country that contributed more,
having given $620,000. New York alone contrib-
uted $150,000, which was three times as much as
Italy or Ireland gave. Boston, in contributing
$41,000, gave nearly as much as did Ireland, con-
siderably more than Spain, and more than double
the sum given by England, New Zealand, or Mexico.

LUTHERAN MISSIONS AMONG THE HEaTHEN. —
All told, there are 46 Lutheran mission societies in
the world doing work among the heathen. Ten of
these societies are in America, one in Australia,
and 35 in Europe. These societies have 2,415 mis-
sionaries in the field, assisted by 12,704 native
helpers. The number of native Christians under
their care is almost a million. Over 60,000 natives
are being instructed for baptism, and 243,030 chil-
dren are visiting the mission schools. The annual -
income of these societies is about $3,250,000.