The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1915, Page 23

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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Items from the Foreign Mission Field
of the Missouri Synod.

THE DEATIC OF Missionary KELLERBAUER,
which occurred in October of last year, proved
quite a blow to his fellow-workers in India. The
sad news of the sudden departure of their colleag
reached India while the missionaries were gathered
in conference at ‘Trivandrum, ‘Travancore, Decem-
her 8—10, 1914. ‘The resolutions spread upon the
minutes of the Conference in memory of the de-
parted brother give eloquent expression to the love
and esteem in which
most intimately knew him.

he was held by those who

Missionary J. Wittrems, in Krishnagiri, has
now arrested, and is at held
a prisoner of war at Bangalore. It is, however,
probable that he will be transported to Ahmed-
nagar, Northern India, in the near future. It
seems very probable now that all the German mis-
sionaries in India will be arrested interned
while the war lasts. All the younger missionaries
that have so far been arrested have been taken to
Ahmednagar, while those over forty-five years of

also been present

and

age, as well as the women and children, have been
interned near Madras. So far Mrs. Huebener,
whose husband, Missionary Huebener, was arrested
early in November, has not been molested, but the
chances are that she and her four little children
may be interned at any moment. A letter from
Ahmednagar to the Board says that there are
many prisoners at that place. ‘The climate is very
pleasant, and the prisoners are living in barracks
and tents. ‘The writer speaks of the pleasant inter-
course with other missionaries. Services are held
every Sunday. A male chorus has been formed.
A plentiful supply of food is provided by the British
government.

Missionary GurKNnecurt, in Nagercoil, baptized
21 persons at Kahnanputur on the 29th of Novem-
ber, 1914, among them a number of adults, and
a week later he baptized 12 persons at Thovali.

Tire Mission Boarp is suffering much an-
noyance from the great delay in the arrival of the
mail from India. The mail is generally from three
to four weeks late.

TILE WORKERS OF ‘THIS MISSION who were de-
tained in Europe by the outbreak of the war are
all in good health, according to the latest reports.
But they are longing to return to their fields of
labor, nevertheless. c

Items of General Missionary Interest.

MissioNaky WorkK AMONG TILE PRISONERS OF
Wan. — Last summer Rey. Jesse Pflueger, till then
pastor of a Lutheran church in New Orleans, left
the United States to enter upon mission work in
India under the auspices of the Ohio Synod, but
owing to the war he was unable to get away from
Germany, where he stopped en route. He is now
at Hermannsburg, Germany, doing missionary work
among the thousands of English and French pris-
oners of war in camp there.

NORWEG

AN Unrrep Cirurcu: Missions. — This
synod is carrying on prosperous missions in China
and Madagascar. The annual cost of these mis-
sions is almost $100,000, which is raised by this
church-body of only 170,000 communicant mem-
bers. stations and
10 outstations. Sixteen young men and women were
sent into the field recently. Including these new
workers, there are over 50: American missionaries
in the field, besides 146 native helpers. In the year
1913, there were 519 baptisms in the two fields. —
This synod is also doing aggressive mission work
at home, about one-fourth of its pastors serving in
mission fields. ‘he total number of men employed
in the Home Mission field of the synod is 128.
‘he expense of this work was over $70,000 last year.

Frencn Prot nt Missions 1N Sovvic
Arnica. — The outbreak of war has placed the
missionaries of the Paris Evangelical Missionary
Society working in British South Africa in a serious
position. Tor over eighty years they have been
working in Basutoland, and for the past twenty-
five vears in Barotseland, on the upper Zambezi.
The outbreak of the war has largely cut off their
financial supplies from France, and the raising of
an emergency fund in other countries will be neces-
sary if the work is not to be seriously crippled.
Both mission territories being under the British
flag. it is probable that British friends will come
to the rescue. :

Kach of its missions has 7%

Liperia.— Missions in Liberia are also suffer-
ing because of the war. Owing to the lack of pro-
visions some large mission-schools have been com-
pelled to close. ‘The supply of rice, a staple upon
which they depend for food, is exhausted. It is
possible that the’ United States may try to arrange
a shipment of rice to supply the crying need.

WanrrsurG, Nata. — Rev. G. A. Stielau, of
Wartburg, Natal, writes that the work of the Lu-