The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1917, Page 21

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_ the North American Indians.

The Lutheran Pioneer.

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The four Norwegian Lutheran synods have their
| missionaries working in China, on the island of
Madagascar, in Natal, South Africa, and among
This extensive work
is being done by 149 missionaries, and costs the
home church more than $240,000 annually. — The
synods comprising the Lutheran Synodical Con-
, ference of North America are working among the

Tamils of South India, the natives of China, and
' among the American Indians. Their staff of workers
includes 36 missionaries. The annual expense is
about $60,000.— The small United Synod of the
South is working in Japan with 12 missionaries at
an annual expense of $20,000.— The Joint Synod

Native Dwellings in Sumatra.

of Ohio has recently begun work in South India, in
the Madras Presidency, and is working there with
a staff of 5 missionaries at a yearly expense of about
$18,000. — The Zowa Synod has no Foreign Mission
of its own, but it contributes probably about $20,000
annually to the support of the work of the Neuen-
dettelsau Society, which is laboring among the
Papuans of New Guinea. — The Danish Lutherans
haye missions among the Santals of North India,
in Japan, and among the North American Indians.
Though a very small body, and not richly blessed
with this world’s goods, they are annually expend-
ing upwards of $18,000 in their Foreign Mission

enterprises. — Finally, we must also mention the.

Orient Missionary Society, which has 5 missionaries
working in Persia.

Inasmuch as other denominations generally class
their missions in the West Indies and in South
America as Foreign Mission work, the extensive
work of the Missouri Synod, a part of the Synodical
Conference, in Brazil and Argentina, and its mis-
sions in Cuba and the Isle of Pines might be men-
tioned here, as well as the very successful work of
the General Council in Porto Rico. In its South
American and West Indian work the Missouri Synod
annually expends almost $35,000, while the mission
in Porto Rico is carried on by the Council at a
yearly cost of about $30,000. In Brazil, Argentina,
and Cuba the Missouri Synod has upward of 40 mis-
sionaries, and the General Council has 7 missionaries
in Porto Rico.

The total number of American missionaries em-
ployed by the American Lutheran Church in foreign
fields is more than 385, and the total annual cost
of the work will aggregate more than $700,000.
Besides the foreign missionaries, the various Foreign
Missions of the American Lutheran Church employ
in their fields 22 ordained and 1,832 other native
workers. F. J. L.

Items of Interest from Our Colored
Mission Field. :

Concorp, N. C.— Since the ninth of January
Missionary Daehnke’s family has been enriched by
the advent of a fine, healthy boy. God bless parents
and child! — Missionary Schwehn’s Men’s Club has
decided to make arrangements for so-called “Luther
Hours,” which shall serve the purpose of getting
the members of the club and others better acquainted
with the great work of God done by Luther. This
ambitious club is also earnestly considering the
possibility of getting outside speakers to address
them on the work of the Reformation. The zeal
of this Men’s Club is to be commended, and it
should be given every possible encouragement in ~
its laudable endeavors. — Missionary Schwehn has —
also favored us with a copy of his parish-paper,
Grace Lutheran Church Notes. ‘The paper is a
neatly printed four-page leaflet. Among other in-
teresting reading-matter, the leaflet gives the ser-
mon themes for the whole month. We believe that
a leaflet of this kind could be used to advantage
by a number of our missionaries, and would not be
found amiss outside of the Colored Mission.

Mount Preasant, N. C.— “A Member” sends
us the following letter from Mount Pleasant, N. C.:
‘Dear Editor, — It has been quite a while since you