The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1917, Page 24

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slaughter-shambles for its native inhabitants, until
other Powers called a halt. Before the war Ger-
many, France, and England owned three-fourths of
the continent. European ownership brings with it
dishonest traders and officials and also other great
evils; but, on the whole, it is a material, mental,
moral, and spiritual blessing for the native people.
The Lutheran Church has devoted much of its
missionary energy to Africa. Probably half of all
the foreign missionaries of our Church are work-
ing in Africa, or were so doing before the forcible
deportation of hundreds of missionaries by the
British and French authorities soon after the out-
break of the Great War. In Liberia the General
Synod is doing a blessed work among the natives.
The work of the missionaries of the Basel Society
is bearing fine fruit along the Gold Coast. In
South Africa a number of German Lutheran So-
cieties and an American Lutheran Society are
doing very gratifying work among the natives.
They have probably more than 200,000 native
Christians in their congregations. On the island
of Madagascar the Norwegian Lutherans have
70,000 native members. Naturally, the German
colonies of Africa, Togoland, Kamerun, German
Southwest Africa, and German East Africa, have
* been the main fields in Africa for Lutheran mis-
sion-work. All in all, it is probable that the num-
ber of native African Christians to-day will not fall
much below two million. F. J. I.

The Enduring Name of Jesus.

It is now about one hundred years ago that the
French scoffer Voltaire said that Jesus’ name would
soon be a thing of ‘the past. Hundred years have
passed away since in all earnestness the conviction
‘was expressed in the home of a high Prussian official

at Berlin that in a few decades the name of Jesus
would be purely legendary. It is now a century
ago that the @imdents of theology at one of. the
_ German universities are said to have placed a Bible

strains of the burial hymn, “Now Lay We Calmly
im the Grave” Poor prophets, these enemies of
the cross of Christ! ‘Their wisdom has moldered
away with their bodies. That which was to be the
eral dirge of the Church has proved itself to
the funeral hymn of human wisdom. He that
sitteth in the heavens laughs them to scorn! Christ’s
vord will ever remain true: “Heaven and earth
pass away, but My words shall not pass away.”

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BOOK TABLE. |
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WHY WEEPEST THOU? An Easter Program for the | &
Children, based on John 20, 1—17. By Rev. A. 1’.
Hanser. Lutheran Publishing Co., 105 Florida St., |”
Buffalo, N.Y. Per copy, 5 cts.; 25 copies, $1.00;
100, $3.00; 200, $5.00; 300, $6.00.

A new Easter program that will appeal to all Sunday/|
schools that have special children’s services on Easter!
The program is simple, and will not require much time
in the way of preparation. The selected hymns are largely) ;
well known to the average Sunday-school scholar. Ui)

Acknowledgments. | >

Received for Colored Missions from the following Col+
ored congregations: Mount Calvary, Mount Pleasant/
$6.00; St. Peter, Drys School House, 7.00; Trinity, John’ }
son, 8.84; St. Paul, Napoleonville, 11.24; St. John, Salis {
bury, 30.00; Bethlehem, New Orleans, 80.00; Moun /
Zion, New Orleans, 80.00; Immanuel College, Greensboro }
140.21; Grace, Greensboro, 6.94; St. Luke, Spartanburg?
15.00; Messiah, Fayetteville, 1.00; St. James, Southern;
Pines, 4.00; ‘Trinity, Elon College, 1.41; Winston Sta-
tion, 1.30; Mount Zion, Rocks, 5.00; Concordia, Rock-
well, 3.00; Trinity, Albemarle, 1.50; Zion, Gold Hill;
3.00; Redeemer, New Orleans, 9.63; Christ Church, Rose:
bud, 12.39; Trinity, New Orleans, 5.00; St. Paul, New
Orleans, 30.00; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 2.00; Bethany,
Yonkers, 16; station at Little Rock, 4.00. St. John,
Salisbury,. for insurance, 8.70. Returned on loan by Holy
Trinity, Springfield, I1l., 50.00. Returned on Building
Fund by station at Carrollton, 2.00. Returned by mis-
sion workers on loans, 16.00. — Total, $561.16.

St. Louis, Mo., February 1, 1917.

Ewatp ScHUETTNER, 7'reas.,
323 Merchants-Laclede Bldg.

Missionary Schwehn gratefully acknowledges the re-
ceipt of the following: A second-hand square piano for
his school in Concord from Mr. Andrew Werling, of Os-
sian, Ind.; two boxes of clothing’ from the Trinity Aid,
Society at Mount Oliver, Pa.;. two boxes of clothing from +
Rey. Paul Stoeppelwerth’s congregation at Peru, Ind. ,

Teacher M. N. Carter, of Neenah, Ala., thankfully ac- |
knowledges the receipt of the following gifts for the ©
Christmas celebration of his school, and for the improve-
ment of the Rosebud church and school property: From
Rey. Hanssen, Specht’s Laan Towa, $3.35; Rey. Durr,
Dubuqite, Iowa, 2.50; Rev. H. Steger, Fairmount, Iowa,
2.65; Rey. Brammer, St. Ansgar, Iowa, 3.00; Rev. Ru-
delph, Riceville, lowa, .50; Rey. Dornseif, Newhall, Iowa,
5.00.

Teacher Carter’s itemized ‘acknowledgment of collec-
tions received by him on his lecture tour last summer
will appear next month; lack of space prevented its ap-

* pearance in this issue. Je Le

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