The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1917, Page 15

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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the feeling that their Lord is delaying His coming.
They should seek to keep their hearts in such a
frame that, whenever Christ appears, they may at
wmnce give Him a warm and welcome reception.
"There is a vast depth in that saying of the Lord:
“Blessed is that servant whom his lord, when he
cometh, shall find so doing.” We may well doubt
whether we are true believers in Christ if we are
not ready at any time to have our faith changed
into sight. F. J. L.

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Items of General Missionary Interest.

“CENTRAL: Mission” IN CopenuaGen. — This
mission has a communicant membership of four
hundred. It conducts a home
and little children; a
a home for aged and poor people;
home; and a fresh air colony for the children of
the poor. It carries on an employment agency,
a bureau of adoption for the children of the poor,
and a day-nursery, where workingwomen may leave
their children while working. In one year this
mission served 46,800 meals to children and 31,960
meals to grown people; it served meals to 9,540
families, numbering 38,160 persons, provided night
shelter for 9,787 persons, and procured 32,000 days
tof employment for men and women. Besides the
llast-mentioned service, the mission found perma-
ment work for 287 men and 150 women. ‘The mem-
lners of the mission-staff made 6,080 calls in one
yrear, and the members of the congregation made
3:9.420 visits in the same period of time:

Icrnanp. — Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland,
iss called the Manchester of the Arctic Circle be-
emuse of its great woolen factories, gas plants, and
otther industries. This town of 12,000 inhabitants
has a jail that has never been occupied by a prisoner!
It; has a fine cathedral, a national university, a school
of: theology, a medical college, an immense library
anid museum, fifteen newspapers, and extensive elec-
iriie power systems. No alcoholic beverages of any
kimd are sold on the island. ‘To us it must be a
mantter of particular interest to hear that the people
of Iceland are all Lutherans.

.  Gneenzanp. — Little is known of Greenland. It
is supposed to have a population of about 30,000,
of whom less than four hundred are Europeans.
Alomg the coast of Greenland are about thirteen
misssion-settlements. The largest of these, Syd-
prowen, has a population of only eight hundred;
the smallest mission-settlement, Skarsen, has only

for babies, sick

mothers, kindergarten :

an orphans’

fifty inhabitants: Each settlement has a director,
a physician, and a Lutheran pastor, all paid by the
Danish government. Only about 46,000 out of a
total of over 800,000 square miles are settled. The
Danish government will not let foreigners land on
the island, unless they have a special permit. ‘This
is done to keep the natives sober, honesf, and free
from disease. What a terrible accusation against
the more favored nations lies in this prohibition!

A Many-sipep May.— Preaching the Gospel
of Christ must always remain the chief occupation
the Christian missionary; but in between his

of

The New Chapel in Carrollton, La.

sermons the ‘missionary pulls teeth, builds houses,
doctors the sick, and educates the young. In Africa
he helped to put down the slave traffic, fouglit
against polygamy and wife-purchase, and drove the
first plow into the ground. It was a missionary

that invented the jinriksha, the national vehicle of

In Assam the missionaries showed the
The

Japan.
natives that cow’s milk was good to drink.

“missionary lives with the people among whom he
labors, and he lives for them. He is a power for

good and progress wherever he goes. 2 :
Tuinxk Tuts Over.—TIf a suit of clothes to

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cover the body is ‘better than a string of beads

around the neck and a smile on the lips; if edu-

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