The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1916, Page 71

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work at Mansura, as the acknowledgment of Rev.
Schmidt in this number of the Pronger shows. We
hope that we may be privileged to acknowledge many
similar sums next month. One young lady writes:
“Enclosed please find a little donation towards fur-
nishing the new Mansura Chapel. I hope you will
receive help enough to furnish it nicely; and I also
hope that the Lutheran mission among the Negroes
will be more and more successful as the years pass.”

Our New Workers. — Candidale Paul Beinke,
who was ordained by Pastor I’. J. Keller of Cleve-
land, O., on the twenty-seventh of last month, will
take up work in Little Rock during the present

Candidate Paul Beinke.

month. — Candidate H. Daehnke, who during the
past year acted as supply at Concord, N. C., has
accepted a permanent call into our Colored Mission.
He was ordained by Pastor H. H. Walker at York,
Pa., on July 30. — Candidate Sidney C. Tervalon,
a graduate of our Immanuel College at Greens-
boro, has been called to’ the new field in Alabama.
He was ordained by Pastor Ed. H. Schmidt in
St. Paul’s Chapel, New Orleans, last month.,
BieNNIAL REPORT OF THE BoarD FOR CoLorED
Misstons. — This report, written by Rey. C. F.
Drewes, president of the Board, and presented to
the Synodical Conference at its convention in To-
ledo last month, is an exceedingly interesting docu-
ment. We hope that the Board may yet decide to
print it in full in English, and thus afford it the

* wide reading it deserves. The report gives a com-

prehensive survey of our Colored Mission Field, and
calls attention to its needs and wants in a heart-
stirring manner. It interestingly touches upon
every phase of the work.

Sepan, Ata.—JIn our last issue we reported
that this new station lay about sixteen miles north-
east of Neenah, and we so marked it on the map
of our field. Now we are informed that Sedan is
situated south of Neenah, in Monroe County, and
is about twenty miles distant from this station. The
latest news from Sedan is that we already have
four members at this place, and that a class of
twenty-two is awaiting confirmation in the near
future. The Sunday-school has an enrolment of
fifty-one.

Hic Porn'r, N. C.— The building of a chapel
at this place will be begun in the near future.
A new building is a erying necessity at this sta-
tion, and the work cannot be pushed too rapidly.

F. J. L.

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Items of General Missionary Interest.

THe StRENGTIE OF MOHAMMEDANISM. — Mo-
hammedanism to-day is spread over the Turkish
impire, Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan, Baluchistan,
and most of Southwestern Asia. ‘There are sixty-
seven millions in India, and the prevailing religion
of the East India Islands is Mohammedanism.
‘There are hundreds of thousands of Mohammedans
in the Philippines and other island possessions of

‘the United States, fifteen million in Russia, and

many millions in China. Probably ninety-five per
cent. of the people of Egypt are the followers of
Islam, and the whole continent of Africa is in
danger of becoming rapidly Mohammedan. Aus-
tralasia and our own country have thousands of
them within their borders. In our larger manu-
facturing cities they may be found working in
large groups, and one small city in Maine, for
example, has over five hundred working in its mills.
The total number of Mohammedans in the whole
world is said to be two hundred and fifty million.
Tslam is without a doubt the most dangerous and
strongest enemy that Christianity has at this day,
and unless Christianity meets and overcomes this
enemy, she will not be able to triumph. Let us
beware of underrating Islam, for it is making
a mighty struggle to gain the supremacy and con-
trol the destiny of the civilization of mankind.
Tslam is by no means dead, but fully alive, and
ready to take advantage of every opportunity that