The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1918, Page 23

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

tions, doing all they can to further the interests of
the congregation.

New Orteans. — The Mission Board has given
Rey. Ed. H. Schmidt leave of absence for a year to

give him opportunity to serve our boys at Camp ©

Shelby, near Hattiesburg, Miss., and at Camp Beau-
regard, near Alexandria, La., as chaplain. ‘Twice
a month he will pass through New Orleans on his
way from one camp to the other, which will give
him an opportunity to look in upon his flock each
time for a few days. In the mean time Prof. H.

Meibohm, of Luther College, will act as supply for’

Rev. Schmidt.

Sr. Louis. — The Unknown Friend of our Col-
ored Mission has again made a call upon ‘Treasurer
Schuetiner. As Mr. Schuettner puts it, “I stepped
out of the office for five minutes to-day, during which
time ‘Herr Unbekannt’ stepped in and left $500.”
This is the twenty-seventh visit which this liberal
friend of the Colored people has made to our treas-
urers since 1896, and during these twenty-two years
he has donated to the Colored Mission cause more
than $14,000. God bless him! F. J. L.

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A Boil and a Hospital.

“Tt’s an ill wind that blows nobody good.” So
runs the old saying, and, unlike a good many old
saws, it speaks the truth. The following is an il-
lustration and proof of it.

Somewhere in Siam lives a Chinaman who took
to politics and became rich thereby. » Now, one morn-
ing this rich Chinese politician in Siam woke up to
find that a boil, and a very painful one at that, had
taken root on the back of his neck. He went to
his regular family physician, a native Siamese doc-
tor, who plastered up the boil with mud; but the
application brought the poor rich politician no re-
lief. By chance, as we generally say, but providen-
tially, as we should say, the Chino-Siamese politician
met Dr. Bulkley, an American missionary doctor
working under the .auspices of the Presbyterian
Board. The doctor noticed the facial contortions
made by the poor rich Chinaman, and asked him
what his trouble was. Just then the boil gave the
poor politician a worse twinge than ever, and with
an awful grimace on his face he showed the sym-
pathetic American doctor the cause of all his woe
and anguish: Doctor Bulkley offered to cure him,
and his offer was accepted with alacrity. He ap-

plied a-poultice, which soon brought relief and com-
fort to the patient.

But this does not end the story. The “heathen
Chinee” did something which a good many Chris-
tian patients forget to do — he showed his gratitude
to the doctor who had helped him out of his misery
in a practicnl way. And since he was a rich man,
the fee whicli he gave the doctor was a large one.
In the gratitude of his heart the official gave to
Dr. Bulkley the large sum of 10,000 ticals out of
his own purse. That would be about $2,700 in our
money. And notice well, I say that he took this
large sum out of his own purse.

But the story is not yet at an end. Just listen
what the generous missionary doctor did with this
large fee. With the money Dr. Bulkley erected a
hospital at 'Toptieng, Siam, and there he ministers
to a population of 200,000 people; for you must
know that the purchasing value of $2,700 is much
greater in Siam than it is in our country, especially
at the present time, and I venture to say that the
doctor was able to do as much with the 10,000 ticals
as you would be able to do with $10,000 in the
United States just now.

One more thing. Dr. Bulkley was appointed
health officer of the province in which he lives by
the good offices of his grateful patient, and as such
he draws a salary of $100 a month, all of which he
turns into the hospital treasury for running ex-
penses. In this way the hospital is practically no
expense to the Mission Board. Think of all the
good that can come of a boil! F. J. L.

Singapore.

The city of Singapore is a British possession
and is situated on an island bearing the same name,
off the southern extremity of the Malay Peninsula

in the southeastern part of Asia. It is a well-built

town with a population of about 300,000, of whom

about 225,000 are Chinese. Singapore has a large ~

and easily accessible harbor, which is bordered by

a beautiful park. It is the meeting-point.of many ~
important ocean routes. By most of those who have —

had an opportunity to compare and judge, Singapore
is regarded as the most wicked city in. the world,
thongh there are people who make the same claim

for Port Said in Egypt. How important Singapore —

is as a port, you may judge from the fact that it

is the eighth largest chipping center fn Ee ee oy