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the county were colored. The sheriff answered,
“Highty per cent.” When asked how many of the
pupils of the mission school located in that town
had been guilty of any crime during the fifteen
years of his work as sheriff, the answer of that
official was, “None.”

PRESBYTERIAN ConoreD Scuooxs. — Besides a
large number of boarding-schools and academies,
twenty-one institutions in all, the Presbyterian
Church supports 115 parochial schools for colored
children in the South, particularly in South Caro-
lina. These latter are generally conducted by the
pastors themselves, in many cases assisted by their
wives.

A True Worp.— The following words of a
Southern white writer express an important truth:
“The greatest appeal that a missionary from the
heart of Africa or China can make is this: “The
people are in ignorance, they are in sin, their reli-
gion is full of error. We havea real Gospel of
life, and we must take it to them.’” This is pre-
cisely the appeal that can be made to the lower
half of the negroes at our doors. It is splendid
to have a missionary spirit, but God knows no home
or foreign lands; He simply knows a black man
in America may be as needy as a black man in
Africa, and His Gospel will help both.

Mount Preasant, N. C.— On April 25, Eliza
Reid, the mother of St. Peter’s Church, Cabarrus
Co., S. C., quietly fell asleep in the Lord. She
reached the age of seventy-four years. She was
among the first members confirmed when St. Pe-
ter’s was organized in 1898.

Items from the Foreign Mission Field of the
Missouri Synod.

Sunday after Easter, Missionary A. Huebener
baptized three families, consisting of nine persons,
and twelve Malayalim students of our Mission In-
stitute at Nagercoil, in the chapel at Vadasery.
Let us thank God for these sheaves reaped from the
harvest field in India! ;

Three students of the preparatory class in ‘the
Institute at Nagercoil, Arulanandam, Massilamani
and Saminathan, have entered upon active work
in the field. Mr. Arulanandam will serve under
Missionary A. Lutz. The other two, after a brief

vacation, will work under the superintendence of
Missionary Th. Gutknecht. Missionary A. Huebe-

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ner writes: “May God in His mercy fulfill the
hopes which I dare place in these three young men!”
We join in this prayer with a hearty “Amen.”

By invitation of the Mission Board, Missionary
H. Nau, at present on furlough in Germany, will
come to this country in August for the purpose of
serving our congregations with lectures and _ ser-
mons on the work in India. Will those brethren
who desire his services write to the undersigned,
so that at the arrival of Rev. Nau a program may
be compiled.

A kind reminder! At this writing the treasury
of our Foreign Mission is burdened with a debt
amounting to $1,800. Dear Christians, do remem-
ber this work at your mission festivals with boun-
tiful gifts. Mark the blessing which the Lord has
bestowed anew upon our little offerings by adding
the 21 souls through baptism, as reported above.

Ju. A. FRrreprictt.

Items of General Missionary Interest.

THE LurHeraAn ErHrHatHa CONFERENCE. —
The Lutheran Ephphatha Conference, comprising
the missionaries of the Missouri Synod to the deaf
of our country, met at Chicago, May 8—11. Seven
of the workers were present, two having been de-
tained from coming. The object of this conference
is to make the missionaries more efficient in the
use of: the sign language in preaching the Gospel.
The time was taken up by delivering, in the sign
language, and discussing sermons, catechisations,
and Scripture readings. Monday evening, May 11,
a service was held for the special interest of the
delegates to the General Convention of the Synod
assembled at the same time in St. Luke’s Lutheran
Church. In brief addresses, which were simulta-
neously rendered by other missionaries in the sign
language, the work of the Synod among the mutes
was demonstrated to, and impressed upon, the as-
sembly. Rev. Wangerin showed what is preached
to the deaf — Christ. . Rev. Boll told that 6,000
deaf are reached at 44 preaching stations, showing
where we preach. Rev. Salvner showed how we
preach —to the mutes by means of the sign lan-
guage and to the blind deaf by means of the Amer-
ican Braille system, the raised dot language. Rev.
Boester showed why we preach to these people —
John 9, 4. “Rock of Ages” was rendered in signs
by a deaf quartet, accompanied by a local choir, which
also sang “Lead, Kindly Light” rendered in signs