The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1917, Page 63

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The Lutheran Pioneer. 63

Items of Interest from Our Colored
Mission Field.

Menerrin, Va. — Mrs. Virginia Carter, a mem-
ber of St. Matthew’s for many years, died on
May 12th at the age of 5? years. Her husband,
eight children, and a great number of friend:
mourn her loss. ;

Mount Pruasant, N. C.— Pastor John Alston
writes: “On June Yth Mr. Harry Lynn, a brother
of Rev. R. O. L.gliynn and once a student of Im-
manuel College, Greensboro, N. C., departed this
life in peace. He was a faithful member of Mount
Calvary Congregation, Mount Pleasant, N. C.”

NApoLuonvitte, La.— Pastor B. R. Berger
sends us the following: “We gladly report two ac-
cessions on May 6th and June 3d, one by Baptism
and the other by Confirmation. May the Lord
strengthen and keep these young soldiers in the
faith which He has kindled in them, until they
receive the everlasting crown promised the children
of God!” — Rev. Berger, we are sorry to say, is
somewhat run down in health. He was given a
vacation up till the beginning of this month. It
is probable that by the time this issue reaches our
readers he will have taken charge of his new stations
im Alabama, Beatrice and Buena Vista.

Mipway, Ata. — On June 24th Superintendent
Bakke baptized 24 persons and confirmed 38 after
they had received sufficient instruction from Miss
Rosa Young. After the confirmation ceremonies
the Lord’s Supper was celebrated here for the first
time. The number of communicants was 39. Atter
the close of the service a constitution was read and
adopted, whereupon Mount Carmel Congregation of
Midway, Ala., was organized. — One of the number
baptized and confirmed that day is seventy-five years
old. 24 more catechumens are being “prepared for
confirmation.

New Worners Cantep.— A graduate of the
Teachers’ College at River Forest, Mr. ‘Theo. Renne-
garbe, was called for the school in Concord, N. C.,
and Candidate Martin Oberndorfer, a graduate of

_the Theological Seminary at Springfield, Tll., re-

_ ceived ‘the call to *Possum Bend and Midway. The
_ former has accepted, while the latter has declined,

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the call extended to him.

Sparransura, 8. C.— From last month’s issue
of Die Missionstaube we learn that the new chapel
at Spartanburg was dedicated on June 3d. We are
sorry that we received no details for the Pronrmr.

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Missionary Items on Africa.

THe MonAmMMEpAN Menace. — Not heathen-
ism, but Mohammedanism is the most dangerous
foe to Christianity in the foreign missionary field.
Every eighth person in the world is a follower of
Mohammed.
people every day repeat the formula, “There is but
one god, and Mohammed is his prophet.” ‘here is
probably not a place mentioned in the Bible that
is not under the temporal or spiritual rule of Mo-
hammedanism. Despite the heroic efforts of the
little band of Christian missionaries in Africa,
Mohammedanism is spreading three times as fast
in the Dark Continent as is Christianity, for every
Arab trader is a missionary for his faith, while
most so-called Christian traders are a hindrance to
the spread of the Christian religion. Of course,
I do not wish to be understood as though the Chris-
tian missionaries were not successful in their work.

They are very successful, but the number of Mo-

hammedan workers is so immeasurably greater
than the number of Christian workers that the
latter cannot keep pace with them.— That the
Christian workers, however, are not working in vain
may be seen from the fact that 24,000 in Java have
left Islam and become followers of Christ, and
hundreds of new converts are added every year.
In Northern India the Gospel is being preached by
more than two hundred native preachers, who a
few years ago were Mohammedans. In European
Turkey are a half-million Christians to-day who
once were the followers of Mohammed. No doubt,
the time is ripe right now for a mighty effort against
Islam in Africa, in Persia, India, China, and
Malaysia. A missionary of much experience in
Tndia and Africa says: “It is my deliberate con-
yiction that no other religion so perverts truth and
blockades all progress as Mohammedanism.”

Arnica Ownep By Evuropr.— Africa has a
total area of twelve million square miles, and of this
immense area only about 200,000 square miles are
not under European control. Liberia in the west

and Abyssinia in the east are the only African

countries under native rule. While France holds
the largest share, England lays claim to the richest
and most valuable portions. Some of the European
powers, notably Belgium, exercised a most atrocious
control over the natives. Congo Free State — never
was there more irony in a name! — was a veritable
slave state and slaughter-pen for its native’ inhab-
itants, until other powers called a halt. Before the

No less than two hundred million.