The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1914, Page 87

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

Items from Our Colored Mission Field.

New Onrweans.— Teacher Napoleon Seeberry,
who went to Denver a few months ago because of
his health, is regaining his health and strength in
the healthful climate of Colorado. We hope that
we may soon be able to report his full recovery. —
Missionary Ed. H. Schmidt recently was called
to Kilmanagh, Mich., but we rejoice to say that he
declined the call, and will remain in charge of
St. Paul’s Station. The loss of this energetic young
worker would have been deplorable. — We hear that
Mr. Schrieber, one of our efficient teachers at the
Bethlehem School, has received a call to Nebraska.
It is to be hoped that he may be encouraged to re-
main with the Mission. — Luther College reported
an enrollment of 31 students at the beginning of
last month. — Pastor and Mrs. Kramer report the
arrival of a fine baby boy at their home.

ArLanta, Ga.— Pastor C. Stoll, our young
missionary at Atlanta, has been ill for several
weeks. We hope that this illness, coming so soon
after his arrival in Atlanta, may not discourage
the young worker. A new climate sometimes affects
constitutions in this manner, but, luckily, such at-
tacks are not of a serious nature in most instances,
and when once over the spell, the constitution adapts
itself to the new climate quite rapidly.

Norra Carorina.— Missionary Richert, our
young worker at Wilmington, is mecting with fine
success in his school. On September 24, he opened
the school with 20 pupils, and on the fourth day
he already had an enrollment of 75. Since then
he has been compelled to turn away all newcomers

.. for lack of room. Dear readers, let us hasten to

give the young brother a suitable building, that the
work in this promising field may not be hindered.
— At Concord our brethren held their first Sunday-
school convention a short time ago. The attend-
‘ance was’ good, and great interest was shown by
all the participants. Missionary Schwehn char-
acterizes the convention as “a grand success.” —
Immanuel College, at Greensboro, has an enroll-
ment of’ 33. More students are expected. Jet our
readers not forget that Synodical Conference em-
powered our Mission Board to erect a dormitory for
girls at this institution to cost $3,000! This dor-
mitory is a necessity, and we all should help, so
that its erection may not be put off to the distant
future. en ’

“New Yorx.— Missionary Hill, some months
ago, opened a new station in Brooklyn. It is lo-

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cated at 1524 Bergen St. We have asked Pastor
Hill to give the P1oNEER some particulars concern-
ing this new enterprise, and we hope that he will
find time to favor us with a report on this station
in Brooklyn, as well as on a preaching-place he
has opened up in Caldwell, N. J., for the next
number.

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Items of General Missionary Interest.

Tue Great War AnD Missions. — The great
nations of Europe have turned away from the pur-
suits of peace, and have engaged in deadly con-
flict among themselves. At this writing Servia,
Austria-Hungary, Russia, Germany, France, Eng-
land, and Belgium have arrayed their armies,
numbering millions of men, the very flower of their
manhood, against one another. What this war may
cost in human lives and money no man can tell, but
it will be sure to carry away thousands and thou-
sands in the strength of their manhood and destroy
billions of dollars worth of property. It is also
sure to cripple the missionary activity of the
churches of those and other countries. For years
to come, even long after peace has followed the
storm, missions will feel the effects of this great
war of nations. ‘ Even the foreign missions of this —
country will find themselves handicapped in their
work. The Board of Foreign Missions of the Mis-
souri Synod is finding it impossible to send funds
to its field in India. One of its missionaries, home .
on furlough in Germany, has been drafted to serve
as an officer in the reserves, and another missionary,
also in Germany, finds it impossible to get back to
his field of labor. Other Boards of Missions are
having similar difficulties.

Barrist ForrrGN Mission Program. — During
this century the, Baptists propose to emphasize the
development of native churches and leaders on their.
mission fields. At home they intend to devote more
attention to foreigners, and for that purpose try
to enlist the services of more pastors able to speak
foreign languages. According to the latest reports
there are now 700 Baptist missionaries of the For-
eign Mission Society on the field, and $1,000,000
is raised annually to support the foreign work. In
one hundred years about 330,000 converts have
been gathered from heathenism.

ProresTants IN CHINA. — The latest reports
give China an evangelical church-membership of
470,000. Besides the foreign missionaries, China
has 546 ordained. Chinese pastors and over 10,000