The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1918, Page 14

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going to the stations in greatest need, ask the Super-
intendent of our Colored Mission to tell you where
to send your gifis. His address is: Rev. C. F. Drewes,
3708 Sylvan Place, Pine Lawn, St. Louis, Mo.

Nontn Carorra.— Missionary Carl Stoll, who
has had charge of our mission in Atlanta, Ga., for
the past three years, has been transferred to Con-
cord, N. C., where Rey. W. G. Schwehn installed
him on January 13. St. Mark’s, Atlanta, Ga., will
be served by Rev. John Alston. — Prof. F. Wahlers
recently confirmed six adults in Grace Church,
Greensboro, N. C. Among those confirmed were
three students of Immanuel College.

Sr. Lovts, Mo.— Our Colored people in St. Louis
this year again held their children’s Christmas-service
in the white Immanuel Church. Besides the pupils
of the day-school and Sunday-school, about 100 Col-
ored adults attended the beautiful service. No less
' than 300 white friends of the Mission were also in
f attendance. ‘The choir of Holy Cross Church, under
the leadership of Teacher Wismar, kindly assisted in
the service. A collection to the amount of $61.50
was lifted. ‘Teacher Grote, of the Immanuel School,
: presided at. the organ.
hi Bequests. — Our Mission Treasury recently re-
ie 5 ceived two larger bequests, one of $2,000.00 from
the estate of the late Albert Woelfle, of Gresham,
Nebr., the other, to the amount of $1,500.00, from
k _ the'estate of the late Friedrich Troemel, of St. Louis.
; We hope that the one or the other of our readers as
he reads this item will make up his mind to: follow
E < the example of these two Christian brethren, and be-

cause we hope this, we print here a form which you

may use for the purpose when you make your last
will and testament: “I give and bequeath to the
Missionary Board, of the Evangelical Lutheran

Synodical Conference of North America for Mis-

sions among the Heathen and Negroes the sum of

— Dollars ($——) to be used for the benefit
-~ of its work among the Negroes.” Be sure you

the name right. F. J. L.

Missions in Malaysia.

_ ‘The foct that Malaysia is largely Dutch terri-
___ tory makes it natural that Dutch missionary societies

should be particularly interested in the religious
uplift of the inhabitants of these islands. Eight
missionary societies are represented, and the annual
_ expense of these missionary enterprises is reported
be about $250,000. All in all, these societies have

14 The Lutheran Pioneer.

in their care almost 300,000 native Christians. The
work of the Dutch Church in Java, Sumatra, the
Moluccas, and Celebes dates back to the seventeenth
century.

Up to the outbreak of the present war the Ger-
man Rhenish Society carried on a very successful
work among the Dyaks of Borneo and Bataks along
the western coast of Sumatra. Other societies are
also working on various islands of the great archi-
pelago; for instance, the Salvation Army in Central
Java and the Methodist Church on a number of
islands, including the Bismarck Archipelago. In
Malaysia there are thirty-five million Moham-
medans, whose zeal for the false prophet is great.
The number of heathen found throughout the
islands is*estimated at cight million.

The Methodist work in Malaysia was founded
and directed by the native Methodist Christians of
India, and dates back to 1884. It has been largely
carried on among the Chinese, who have settled on
these islands in great numbers. ‘There are no less
than eleven seminaries conducted by the various
societies for the training of native preachers and
teachers. ‘The attempt to make the native churches
self-supporting has been quite successful in many
instances. Three large hospitals have been built and
a great many smaller ones. Many of the-mission-
aries do medical work, and are sometimes assisted
by trained nurses. F. J. L.

Superstition in Heathen Countries.

A missionary doctor in Siam some time ago
called on an old lady who had a cataract on her
eye. His purpose in visiting the old lady was to
induce her to come to the mission hospital and
permit him to remove it. While in the house, he
noticed a little girl who showed plain symptoms of
tuberculosis. He said to the woman, “This little
girl seems to be very sick.” “Yes,” replied the
woman, “she has pig’s hairs in her. ‘These hairs
have got into her system in some way, and if they
should get to her heart, they will surely kill her.
But we are curing her.” “What are you doing for
her?” asked the doctor. ‘We are using old chicken
feathers,” replied the old woman. “We take an
old red chicken, boil it with its feathers on; then
we take the feathers off, put them into a bag, an
rub her body.” :

In Siam the hide of the rhinoceros sells for
one dollar a square foot. It is scraped into shay-
ings and then made into a tea, which is supposed

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