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Items of General Missionary Interest.

AENERAL Councin Mission 1x INpIA. — For
some years past the Augustana Synod, which is
affiliated with the General Council, has considered
the plan of carrying on a portion of mission-work
in India independently of the general body, probably
under the supposition that, by doing so, a greater
interest for the foreign work may be created among
iis congregations.

A Sciroon Missionaries’ CHinpren IN
Cruna.— Four Lutheran synods in America, the
-United Norwegian, the Norwegian, Hauge’s, and
the Augustana, are contemplating the erection of
a school for their missionaries’ children in China,
and are contributing $1,000 cach for the purpose.
It is thought that the amount of $4,000 thus pro-
vided will be sufficient for the purpose. The num-
ber of children to be taken care of by this school
is about thirty, and they range in age from about
six to eighteen years.

Po1soNeD BIBLES For THE SoutH SEAs. — Some
time ago a thousand Bibles left New York for the
Gilbert Islands in the Pacifie Ocean. The cost of
these Bibles to the American Bible Society was
- $1,367. ‘The remarkable thing about these Bibles
is the fact that in the bindery of the Bible House
poison was worked into the covers to prevent insects
from destroying them. After they had been bound,

_ these Bibles were soldered up in tin boxes to guard
them against wind and weather while on their long
journey, and to insure their safe and undamaged
arrival at the place of their distant destination.

Tie Gosprn 1x Russta.— One effect of the
war in Russia has been the wonderfully increased
“demand for Bibles. ‘The soldiers in the hospitals
are loudly clamoring for the Word of God. It is
said that the Empress of Russia herself has dis-
tributed 20,000 copies of portions of the Scriptures
at the front among the soldiers. ‘The agent of the
Scripture Gift Mission in Russia sends the message
that a million copies of the Gospels are wanted.

F. J. 1.

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BOOK TABLE.

FOR

ESSAY ON REVELATION, CHAPTER 20. , By Rev. I.
G. G. Schumm. Concordia Publishing House, St.
Louis, Mo. 39 pages; ‘paper cover. Price, 10 cts.,
postpaid. $7.00 per hundred; transportation extra.

The perusal of this pamphlet gave us great delight.

It is in every way a satisfactory presentation of the

sound Lutheran view of a millennium. We have never

read a more: satisfactory explanation of the twentieth
chapter of Revelation. 1t is written in simple language,

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and its argumentation is easily followed. After carefully
reading this essay, every mature Christian will have it
in his power to refute the many erroneous doctrines
which false teachers profess to draw from this chapter.
The handy pocket size of the booklet will help its sale.

PREDIGTEN UEBER ALTTESTAMENTLICHE TEXTE,
mit besonderer  Beruecksichtigung messianischer
Weissagungen. Je eine Predigt fuer alle Sonn- und
Festtage im Kirehenjahre. Von R. Pieper, vormali-
gem Professor der Theologie und Praeses des Con-
cordia-Seminars zu Springfield, Ill. Concordia Pub-
lishing House, St. Louis, Mo. VIII and 448 pages,
69. Fine cloth binding. Price, postpaid, $2.00.

There is a great variety in the 64 discourses contained
in this volume. ‘The language is never vague, never sen-
timental, never effusive, but from end to end these ser-
mons are alive with Scriptural thought and sound appli-
eation. They are well arranged, have been carefully
thought out, and are forcible in expression. <A special
characteristic of these sermons is their textualness. The
author of these pulpit discourses reveals himself in them
as an expounder of Scripture in a preeminent degree.

Prof. Pieper does not merely use the text as a starting-

point, but he actually draws his thought out of the text,

and his sermons are, therefore, an actual exposition and
application of the divine Word chosen as a text.

Acknowledgments.

Received for Colored Missions from the following col-
ored congregations: St. John, Salisbury, N. C., $15.00;
Mount Zion, Rocks, N. C., 3.00; Zion, Gold Hill, N. C.,
3.00; Concordia, Rockwell, N. C., 3.00; station in Albe-
marle, N. C., 1.50; Bethlehem, New Orleans, La., 40.00;
Bethel, Greenville, N. C., 3.00; Grace, Greensboro, N. C.,
3.31; station in Winston, N. C., .40; .station in High
Point, N. C., .50; station in Elon College, N. C., .60;
Mount Calvary, Mount Pleasant, N. C., 3.00; St.- Peter,
Dry’s Schoolhouse, N. C., 1.75; station in Napoleonville,
La., 10.80; station in Johnson, La., 4.65; station in Me-
herrin, Va., 9.12; station in Richmond, Va., .31; station
in Washington, D. C., 3.16; St. Paul, New Orleans, La.,
40.00; Trinity, New Orleans, La., 5.00; Bethany, Yon-
kers, N. Y., 13.00; Immanuel, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1.00; St.
James, Southern Pines, N. C., 4.05; Messiah, Fayette-
ville, N.C., 1.20; St. Paul, Charlotte, N.C., 11.00; Mount
Zion, Meyersville, N. C., 3.00; Redeemer, New Orleans,
La., 1.28; Mount Calvary, Sandy Ridge, N. C., 5.00;
Grace, Concord, N. C., 10.00; Mount Zion, New Orleans,
La., 40.00. — Total, $240.63.

St. Louis, Mo., June 1, 1915.

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

Received for our Mount Pleasant Chapel from the
congregation in Waco, Nebr., two beautiful chandeliers,
through the kindness’ of Mr. Geo. L. Warnke. God bless
the kind donors!

May 26, 1915. JouN ALSTON, Pastor.

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