The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1915, Page 22

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

Tt is full of truths taken from Holy Scripture.
I am glad I have found the light before it was too

late. Pray for me and my little family that the
Lord may use us just as He wills. I am yours
in Christ, -* We thank the kind brother for

his words of encouragement, and wish him and
his family God’s choicest blessings. — Letters like
this are a source of pleasure to the Board of Mis-
sions, especially to the treasurer, as well as to the
editor: “I enclose herewith $1, which kindly add
to the February fund for Colored Missions. I have
become very much interested in your little booklet
on Colored Missions and also in the Lutriteran
PionrEr, which I am receiving monthly. I hope
to be able to keep on contributing to this cause
right along. Yours very truly, ” “We also
thank this kind reader for the the
Colored Mission cause which she has shown in such
a practical manner, and for the sake of the cause
and her own sake hope that her benevolent wish
may be fulfilled.

interest in

A Ricit Costumr. — A young missionary from
the West attended, as delegate, the meeting of a
home missionary society near a fashionable summer
resort. Writing home to his*wife, he said that
among the fashionable crowd, he saw one young
lady whose costume was worth one mission chapel,
three cottage organs, and twenty Sunday-school
libraries. Te wondered if she had anything to
spare for the mission cause.— We have no doubt
that those ten chapels which were appropriated by
the Synodical Conference last August, but which
have not yet been erected because. the necessary
funds were not on hand, could easily have been
built if the money squandered on dress in the
foolish service of fashion among our own young
‘people had been given to the Lord’s cause. Six
months, precious months, have passed away, and
not one of the called-for chapels has been erected!
Spring is almost here, ground ought to be broken
for the girls’ dormitory at Greensboro, and not the
tenth part of the needed $3,000 has come in!
Friends, are we not laying ourselves open to the
accusation of being unfaithful stewards of the
manifold grace of God? ‘Think it over!

Ture: New Appiicanrs.— Three new workers
from other church-bodies have applied for admit-
tance. ‘Iwo of them come to us from the Pres-
byterians, Rey. W. H. Lane, who is being prepared
for admittance by Rey. I. J. Schwartz, of Kansas
City, Mo., and Prof. A. H. Dixon, principal of
a colored school at Graham, N. C., who intends to

finish his theological studies at Immanuel College
before he enters upon active work with us. The
third applicant, Rev. J. A. Burton, of Easton, Pa.,
comes to us from the Ministerium of Pennsylvania.
Our Stek Workers. — Missionaries Nent and
Stoll have returned to their fields of labor, the
former to Spartanburg, 8S. C., and the latter to
Atlanta. Missionary Schmidt, of New Orleans, is
gradually regaining his strength. He recently de-
clined a call to the Lutheran high school at Desh-
ler, Nebr. Missionary Doswell and Teacher See-
berry are still at the Denver Sanitarium.
MEIERRIN, VA.— Rey. Polzin reports that this
station is not growing numerically. ‘Che members
are very poor, having had crop-failures for three
The little tobacco they were
able to raise last year is bringing very low prices.
Lhe only encouraging feature about this station is
the school, which has an enrolment of 37 pupils.
A ConFirMation Girr.— We know of a pas-
tor who presented each one of his confirmands with
a year’s subscription of the Lurimeran PIONEER.
Now, of course, there are very few pastors that
can do that; but how would it be if the sponsors,
besides the usuaf gift of a Bible or hymn-book,
would present the catechumens they “stood for”
with such a subscription, either to the PionrEER or
to the German missionary monthly, Die ./issions-
laube? ‘These papers cost only 25 cents a° year,
and may be ordered from the pastor or from the
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
Sraristics oF Our CoLorep Mission. — Our
Mission now has 31 organized congregations and
18 preaching-places, with 1,044 communicant mem-
bers; in the mission schools are 1,976 scholars, and
the Sunday-schools are attended by 1,388 scholars.
In 1914, 102 were baptized and 67 confirmed. ‘The
contributions from the mission field amounted to
$5,493. Considering the great lack of work in
the South and the extremely low price of cotton,
these contributions are encouragingly high.

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years in succession.

AGREEMENT does not make truth. ‘The fact
that millions of Chinese believe that an eclipse is
caused by a dragon’s eating the sun does not make
that foolishness true. Because anything is popular,
it is not necessarily right. When we find that
some of our practices of life are common practices,
we are quick to excuse and justify ourselves by
that fact. As in the days of Lot and Noah, God’s
servants must often stand against majorities. Popu-
larity is a poor plumb line.