The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1915, Page 94

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Items of General Missionary Interest.

A Lone Journry.—A recent number of The
Missionary Review of the World tells of a young
Moslem named Abd-ul Kerim, of Calcutta, India,
who, after becoming a Christian, made the long
journey of 4,000 miles from Calcutta to Cairo,
Egypt, through many hardships to consult with
Dr. Samuel Zwemer. After two years of study
with Dr. Zwemer and his assistants he has now
returned to India to preach Christ to his own
people. The beginning of Abd-ul Kerim’s conver-
sion to Christianity dates back to the day when he
found the Bible upon the shelves of the government
school’s library which he attended.

CasTING BREAD UPON THE WatTERS. — We often
hear people saying that the work of teaching the
Chinese in the Sunday-schools of our country is
wholly useless. That this is not the case was found
out by Robert E. Speer during his visit to Siam.
There he found Top Teang, a former pupil of a Sun-
day-school in Brooklyn, bearing witness of Christ
among his heathen compatriots, and living a Chris-
tian life of unusual power.

FLoops 1n Sour Cuina.— Tens of thousands
of natives have been drowned in a number of prov-
inces of South China. Much American missionary
property has also been destroyed or badly damaged
by the great floods. In the flooded district there
are about 100 missionaries from the United States,
including women and children; but so far as known,
no American lives have been lost.

Do Foreicn Missions Pay? — “A satisfactory
and convincing affirmative answer to this question,”
says the Christian Observer, “has recently been given
' by the experience of a Boston man, who sent his
_ check for $500 for mission work in Foochow,
South China. ‘This sum, as reported in the J/is-
sionary Herald, supported four Chinese pastors and
preachers. One of them is the minister of a church
seating 500 people, where he preaches to at least
200 every Sunday. Two of these pastors organized
Bible classes, one of them bringing into the church
fifty men. Another visited the cities where the meet-
ings that followed up the work of Mr. Sherwood
Eddy were held, and to date 9,230 people have de-
cided to study the Bible. Besides supporting these
four native pastors, this fund of $500 supported
eight theological students. ‘This Boston business.
- man thought that missions do pay, and he smilingly
sent in his check for another $500.”

The Lutheran Pioneer.

Foreign Missions or tHe Norwecian Unrrep
Cuurcu. — At the opening of the year 1915, the
United Church had 51 foreign missionaries in its
service, with 200 native workers. ‘The Daughter
Church in China and Madagascar has now a mem-
bership of 4,305 baptized. ‘This year there are
1,517 catechumens, while the friends and sympa-
thizers with the mission work number thousands.
The total income for the past fiscal year for Foreign
Missions was $110,727.46.

LUTHERANS IN THE Twin CrtiEs. — Fourteen
Lutheran synods occupy the ground in the twin
cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. ‘hey have a
total of 106 congregations and missions, with about
30,000 communicants. The Lutherans have four
publishing houses, four theological seminaries, four
colleges, and fifteen charitable institutions in the
two cities. F. J. LL.

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Those Stereopticon Slides.

We are pleased to state that requests are coming
in daily to Pastor Jesse from all over for the use
of the illustrated lecture on our Colored Mission.
The interest awakened among our people for this
lecture and slides must be most gratifying to our
enterprising Mission Board. In distant States,
such as Idaho and California, pastors are work-
ing up regular routes, thus materially reducing the
cost of sending the slides. Pastor Jesse wishes to
thank these brethren particularly for the interest
they are showing, and suggests that this example
be followed, when feasible, by other brethren.

Having used the slides himself, the Editor
wishes to state that they are really fine, and that
he is certain no one will be disappointed in them.

In this connection let us also say, for the benefit
of those congregations which may have no electric
light in their churches, that they can use the “Presto-
lite” gas tank of an automobile. Surely, any owner
of such a tank will gladly furnish it for the purpose.
The showing of the slides will probably not use a
dollar’s worth of gas. This will make it much
cheaper than to have the gas tank shipped from
St. Louis.

- Well, let us hope for the good of the cause

‘that Pastor Jesse may be “swamped” by requests

for the use of the slides.
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Srupy the Word of God and the facts of
missions.