The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1915, Page 39

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The Lutheran Pioneer. 39

Cuina’s First Woman Docror. — Dr. Yamei
Kin, a Christian Chinese woman, is the first female
‘doctor among her people. The Chinese govern-
ment has entrusted her with the task of organizing
a medical department for women in - Northern
China. Dr. Kin came to America over twenty
years ago, and received her medical cdueation at
the Woman’s Medical College in New York. In
appearance Dr. JXin is a typical Chinese woman,
black-haired and almond-eyed, and wears the garb
of her countrywomen, which she thinks is more
healthful than the restricted American dress.

AMERICAN ASSISTANCE FOR GERMAN MIsSIONs.
— During the first quarter of this year the Foreign
Mission Board of the General Council sent over

$7,000 to the missions of the Breklum Mission
Society in India. This sum will later be returned,
but the Board has donated $1,000 outright for the
relief of German missionaries in India.

GrerMAN MissioNanies or New Guinea. — It
is reported that all the German missionaries work-
ing in New Guinea have been taken to England.
Their families, however, have been left on the
island among the Papuans!

Barrism oF ‘Tiree CriNese CHILDREN. —
Rey. August Schlechte, city missionary of the
Missouri Synod in Chicago, recently baptized three
Chinese children, aged thirteen, eleven, and eight
years, after having instructed them in Luther’s
Catechism. The father of the children is a Chi-
nese, their mother is German.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHINA INLAND MIssIon.
— This month the China Inland Mission celebrates
its semicentennial. ‘This society was organized by
the tireless energy and flaming zeal of the Rev. J.
Hudson Taylor, and its object was to push toward
the central and western portions of China, where
the spiritual destitution was most appalling. During
these fifty years the missionaries of this society have
baptized almost 50,000 persons. ‘The present staff,
including missionaries and paid Chinese helpers,
is close to 2,500 persons.

Miz AneuicAN Crurci IN Crna. — The
foreign staff of the Church of England Mission
in China numbers 11 bishops, 148 clergymen, and
557 other workers, including married women. In
the various mission stations of this communion
there are 31,323 baptized Christians and 14,192
communicants. The 29 hospitals and 21 dispen-
saries of this mission treated more than a quarter
million of patients in 1913. FJ. iL. |

Continue Instant in Prayer.

The celebrated pianist and composer Rubinstein
was once asked whether it was still necessary for
him to practise daily on the piano. His answer was:
“If I neglect to practise for one day, I notice it
at onee; if T should neglect to practise for two
days in succession, my friends would notice it;
and if 1 should let three days pass without practise,
the general public would notice it.”

Even so it is a great loss for the soul to let
one day pass without a heart-to-heart talk with
God in prayer. ;

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Bibles for the Zulus.

Thousands of Zulus in South Africa are eagerly
awaiting the revised Bible in their language now
being printed at the Bible House, New York. The
version which they now have is faulty and quite
imperfect in many respects, iaving been made by
missionaries when their knowledge of the Zulu
language was still quite meager. It was in 1882
that the first complete Bible was given to the Zulus.
Since then the Zulu Scriptures have been shipped
to Africa literally by the ton. Every Zulu who
learns to read seems at once to set about buying

a Bible or a Testament. The books also wander:

off among kindred Bantu tribes as far north as
Lake Nyassa.

The final revision of the new edition of the
Bible is the work of the Rev. J. D. Taylor, who
has been in Africa fifteen years. Sentence by’
sentence’ and word by word Mr. Taylor, assisted
by a native purist in Zulu, has gone over the book
and the work of other revisers. Mrs. Taylor has
copied the whole revised Bible on her typewriter
for the compositors. ‘The proofs are sent back to
South Africa for close scrutiny, and when finally
returned corrected, they set the pressmen at the
Bible House free to do their share of this great
work.

In 1879, the Zulus were chiefly notorious for
having cut to pieces a column of choice British
troops at Isandula, in Natal. Of all the Bantu
tribes in South Africa the Zulu was the most war-
like. Missionaries worked ten years among them

before the first convert was gained. To-day,

scarcely a generation later, they not only care for
their own churches, but evangelize the heathen
about them.