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The Lutheran Pioneer.

SEAMEN’s Mission at PHILADELPIUA. — For
a number of years the Missouri Synod carried on
a very successful mission among the seamen at
Philadelphia in connection with its mission among
the immigrants. During the year 1914, Missionary
Winter ministered on almost six hundred ships to
over four thousand seamen, among them over three
hundred captains and other officers. No less than
fifty-four nationalities were represented among these
seamen. We are sorry to hear that because of the
removal of Missionary Winter this work will be
dropped for the present, but we hope that ways
and means will soon be found to take it up again,
as it seems a pity that the opportunity for doing
such a blessed work should not be taken advan-
tage of. .
A New Dear-Mute Mission-Frevp. — Rev. N.
F. Jensen, of the Missouri Synod Deaf-mute Mis-
sion staff, is to prosecute the mission work among
the deaf-mutes in the cities of the Pacific coast.
THE BAsLE MISSIONARIES AND THE WAR. —
No less than 280 workers of the Basle Missionary
Society are in English or French prisons. In India
152 have been interned or imprisoned, in Kamerun
77, and on the Gold Coast 43. ‘Thirty-four mis-
sionaries were taken from their fields of labor to
England. In several cases the missionaries were
removed to England, while their wives and chil-
dren were compelled to remain behind!
Dericits oF AMERICAN MissloNARy SOCIETIES.
— At the present rate of decline in gifts the war
will cut two million dollars from the eleven million
dollars appropriated annually by the various Prot-
estant missionary societies of the United States.
The receipts of the societies of England and France
have greatly decreased, and the societies of Ger-
many are not able to get funds to their workers
in foreign fields. This has forced the American
societies in many cases to send large sums to keep
European missionaries from starving. It is in-
evitable that the war should make inroads upon
the receipts of missionary societies, but if the gifts
of this country to the stricken districts of Europe
_be taken into account, this deficit of two millions
is more than offset.
Cost oF THE War.— The present great -war
costs probably about fifty million dollars every day.
This is the enormous amount sacrificed daily for
the purpose of warring against human enemies.
What small sums in comparison are we Christians
giving to carry on the wars of the Lord against
Satan and his kingdom! F. J. L.

Book Table.

SUNDAY-SCHOOL MANUAL.
cordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
54 pages; paper cover. Price, 20 cts.

A book that all our Sunday-school workers will hail
with delight, for it will fill a long-felt want. The editor
has ordered a sufficient number of copies to place one
into the hands of each of his Sunday-school teachers, and
it is his intention to take up each of the chapters of the
booklet in turn in the weekly meetings of his Sunday-
school staff. The chapters of the book have the follow-
ing headings: Organization; Teacher and Officers; Teach-

By Rev. A. Doerffler. Con-
5X74;

ing; The Scholar; The Contributions; Other Suggestions.
CATALOG OF LINCOLN INSTITUTE, Jefferson City, Mo.
1914/1915.

Lincoln Institute is a state institution founded imme-
diately after the war for the benefit of the colored youth
of Missouri. Its curriculum ineludes Normal, Agricul-
tural, and Industrial courses.

SAENGERBOTE. Lyrical Quarterly, No. 10.

Printing Co., St. Louis, Mo. Price, 15 cts.

A very interesting number, fully the equal of its pred-

ecessors. Among other fine things it contains three orig-
inal musical compositions of merit.

Success

Acknowledgments.

Received for Colored Missions from the following col-
ored congregations: St. John, Salisbury, N. C., $15.00;
St. Paul, Mansura, La., 3.00; Zion, Gold Hill, N.C., 3.00;
Mount Zion, Rocks, N. C., 3.00; Concordia, Rockwell,
N. C., 3.00; Bethany, Yonkers, N. Y., 13.00; Immanuel,
Brooklyn, N. Y., 1.00; Bethlehem, New Orleans, La.,
40.00; Bethel, Greenville, N. C., 3.00; Grace, Greens-
boro, N. C., 3.50; station in Elon College, N. C., .99; sta-
tion in High Point, N.C., 1.56; station in Winston, N.C.,
50; Mount Calvary, Mount Pleasant, N. C.. 3.00; Mount
Zion, New Orleans, La., 40.00; station in Napoleonville,
La., 4.91; station in Johnson, La., 7.75; station in Me-
herrin, Va., 2.84; station in Washington, D. C., 1.80;
station in Richmond, Va., .34; St. James, Fayetteville,
N. C., 5.00; St. Paul, New Orleans, La., 40.00; Trinity,
New Orleans, La., 5.00; St. Paul, Charlotte, N. C., 11.00;
Mount Zion, Meyersville, N. C., 3.00; Mount Calvary,
Sandy Ridge, N. C., 5.00; Grace, Concord, N. C., 10.00. —
Total, $230.19.

For Dormitory in Greensboro, N. C.: From station in
Napoleonville, La., 2.50.

St. Louis, Mo., May 4, 1915.

Joun H. Scuuuze, 7'reas.
2211 Holly Ave.

I gratefully acknowledge receipt of $25.00 from Mr. J.
D. Hartmann, New Philadelphia, O., for indigent students
at Greensboro.

Greensboro, N. C., May 2, 1915. F. Bere.

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