The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1914, Page 60

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in the church as a baptismal font. Family worship
is practically general. The Fijians have sent out
their own people as missionaries to other islands,
and the annual gift for missions in Fiji is $5,000.

School of Ev. Luth. China Mission Society at Hankow.

“Jt is difficult to imagine,” writes, one who lived

among them, “that this people with their mellif- .

luous speech and almost Parisian manner were the
cannibals of old times.”

The following incident will show what Chris-
tianity did for Fiji: —

There was a man who went to the Fiji Islands;
he was an English earl and an infidel. He smiled
in a superior manner when he met the natives.

“You are a great chief,” he said to one of them,
“and it is really a pity that you have been so foolish
as to listen to the missionaries. Nobody believes
any longer in that old book called the Bible, or in
that story of Jesus Christ. They have all learned
better. I am sorry you have been so foolish as’ to
take it in.”

The chief’s eyes flashed as he said: “Do you see
that great stone over there? On that stone we
smashed the heads of our victims to death. Do you
see that native oven over yonder? In that oven we
roasted the human bodies for our great feasts. Now,
if it hadn’t been for the good missionaries and that
old Book, and the love of Jesus Christ, which has
changed us from savages into God’s children, you
would never leave this spot. You have to thank
_ God for the Gospel; for without it here we should
have killed you and roasted you in yonder oyen and
feasted upon your body in no time.”

The Lutheran Pioneer.

Items from the Colored Mission Field.

New Lazsorers. — We are pleased to announce
that six new laborers will enter the Colored Mission
Field this fall. Three of these young missionaries
are graduates of our Colored Immanuel College,
Greensboro, N. C. ‘Their names and respective
fields are as follows: Henry Kent has been called
to take charge of our new station at Spartanburg,
S. C.; Karl S. Stoll goes to Atlanta, Ga.; Wil-
fred Tervalon will take charge of the work in
Richmond, Va. - Otto Richert and George A.
Schmidt, both graduates of Concordia Seminary
at St. Louis, will take up the work in Wilmington,
N. C., and St. Louis and Springfield, Tll., re-
spectively. Rev. Louis Anderson, who was tem-
porarily out of office, will probably take charge of
the work in Little Rock and Pine Bluff, Ark. May
God in His bountiful goodness graciously bless the
work of these young laborers in His vineyard!

A SuccEssrut Leorure 'Trrp.— Last month
Missionary McDavid, of Charlotte, N. C., addressed
17 different congregations in Northwestern Ohio
on the work of Colored Missions. Rev. Lash, of
Salisbury, N. C., was to have made the itinerary,
but at the last moment he was compelled by cir-
cumstances to withdraw, and Pastor McDavid
kindly took his place. It is reported that the
presence of a colored missionary among them, tell-
ing them of the work he and his colleagues are
doing among the freedmen of the South, has greatly

Another Chinése School of the Same Mission Society at Hankow.

increased the interest in Colored Missions in
these congregations. The itinerary of Missionary
McDavid was to have extended into Northern

‘Indiana, and arrangements had already been made