The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1914, Page 22

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

Items from the Foreign Mission Field of the
Missouri Synod.

Missionary C. Huebener reports: The new
church at Maruchaltalei will be dedicacted Feb-
ruary 8, during the meeting of the Fourth General
Conference at Nagercoil. — At Kirangulam 32 per-
sons are being prepared for baptism.—On the
Fourth Sunday in Advent he baptized 21 persons
at Mangulam.—At Kandanguli 15 catechumens are
being prepared for baptism; likewise in Kelunkadi.

Missionary H. Stallmann reports: The plague
is still raging in Ambur. Although half of the in-
habitants of the city have fled, yet 23 deaths oc-
curred in one day. Our Lower Secondary School
will in all probability remain closed till March. —
In Vinnemangalam he instructs 7 catechumens. ‘The
school is in a flourishing condition. — Wanled!
Good wall maps, with English text, of the Holy
Land, St. Paul’s missionary travels, etc., for our
boarding-school at Ambur where 9 boys are being
prepared for service in our mission. We need them
badly.

Missionary Geo. Kuechle reports: The school at
Sanankuppam was closed on account of the plague.
Three pupils of the school fell victims of the
dread disease. — Sunday after Christmas, Mission-
ary Kuechle was privileged to perform his first bap-
tism of heathen. Two men from Yercuddi were
baptized. Seven others are preparing for the sacra-

ment.
: On December 28, our native Christians in the
North Arcot and the Salem District held a joint
Christmas celebration at Vantyambadi. About 150
were present. According to reports it must have
been an impressive service indeed.

A new church is being built in Vadasery. Mis-
sionary A. Huebener is superintending the work.

Missionary Gutknecht took up the work at two
new outposts, Vellamadam and Pandarapuram. At
the latter place the people donated a little piece of
_ ground. In the school 20 children are enrolled. —
One of Missionary Gutknecht’s teachers, who took
a course as teacher of the blind, is instructing three
blind children in the art of mat weaving. — Another

member of Missionary Gutknecht, who formerly

practiced as native physician, is ‘taking a course
in dispensary work at Nagercoil.— On December
At (?), the new church at Thovalai (Missionary
Gutknecht) was dedicated. It is constructed of blue

stone, and is 40 feet long and 17 feet wide. All the »

missionaries of the ‘Travancore Conference were

present at the services. ‘The sermons were delivered
by the Revs. Nau and Huebener. ‘The collection
amounted to 23 rupees. About 600 natives from the
surrounding congregations were present. After the
services the entire assembly was fed.

Missionary Gerhard Huebener recently baptized
50 persons at Kirangulam.

The Christmas boxes arrived safe in India and
caused great rejoicing. ‘The missionaries extend
their hearty thanks to all who so kindly contributed
towards this gift.

The sainted Mrs. Carl Schroeder, of New Ber-
lin, I1., bequeathed $400 to our foreign mission. A
part of this sum is to be used to purchase a gasoline
engine and force pump for the seminary at Nager-
coil. The balance is to be used for furnishing the
interior of the new seminary building. The pump-
ing outfit has already been ordered.

In a roundabout way we learned that the new
missionaries and Miss Ellermann arrived safe in
India. Official information has not yet come to
hand. Jun. A. FRIEDRICH.

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Items of General Missionary Interest.

Persona, SacririceE DEMANDED. — Dr. S. M.
Zwemer, for a number of years a missionary in
Egypt, says: “The hardest fields, the most baffling
problems, the severest hardships are easy and pos-
sible if we have the spirit of sacrifice. The price
of Africa and Central Asia can be paid in nothing
less than self-denial, tears, and blood. ‘This is a
holy war, and nothing is too holy to lay, upon the
altar.”

An AppEAL For $50,000,000. — At the recent
Student Volunteer Convention held at Kansas City,
Mo., J. Campbell White, general secretary of the
Laymen’s Missionary Movement, made an appeal for
the donation of fifty million dollars to missions by
the churches of North America this year. He said
that there are 600 million people in foreign lands
whom 8,500 missionaries from North America are
attempting to reach. Many more workers and much
more money are needed. It is calculated that the
Protestant churches of America gave last year about
sixteen million dollars for foreign missions. ‘This
is a big sum, but it is only one-third of the sum con-
ditions call for, according to Mr. Campbell’s esti-
mate.

A Great Responsipiiry.— Mr. A. A. Hyde,

of Wichita, Kans., whose gifts to churches and char- *