The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1918, Page 39

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program was very well attended. ‘The choir, under
the leadership of Miss Mattie Williams, the efficient
music teacher at this station, rendered several ap-
propriate selections upon the same occasion. By
the time this reaches our readers, it is probable that
building operations will have begun at this station.
FI. 1.

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Progress.

‘Twenty-five years ago there were less than two
million Christians in India; to-day there are four
million. In Korea every hour adds eighteen persons
to the army of Christians in that country. Fifty
years ago eastern Equatorial Africa was the home of
the most primitive races and the scene of the most
degrading slave-irade; to-day a great native church
of more than a hundred thousand members, support-
ing iis own ministers and maintaining thousands of
schools, is driving out sin and sowing the seed of
righteousness. ‘Twenty-seven years ago Korea had
one chureh, with a membership of only twenty-two,
after three years of arduous labor; to-day the church
in Korea is the delight and inspiration of every one
interested in missions. ‘The evangelical church in
the Philippines has grown from nothing to a mem-
bership of more than sixty thousand in the past two
decades.

It is particularly one missionary activity which
has made great progress during the last few decades.
I refer to the Christian medical missions in non-
Christian countries. ‘These medical missions treat
no less than four million patients every year. Among
the most notable achievements of these Christian
medical missions have been the more than ten thou-
sand cures of blindness which they effect every year.
They have done much good during the frequent ep-
idemics of cholera and plague in Asiatic countries.
The poor victims of consumption, which is so wide-
spread in missionary countries, have much reason to
be grateful for the relief given them by the mission-
ary doctors. Smallpox, which in former years was
permanently epidemic in Korea, has been almost
completely wiped out by Christian medical mission-
aries. Medical missionaries have opened. medical
schools where native doctors are turned out as
quickly as possible, and also native women are re-
ceiving training as nurses and physicians. In Cliina
alone about one hundred women physicians go out
every year from the Christian medical schools, and
the number of men is considerably greater. Some
of the most brilliant operations in the history of

surgery have been performed by missionary surgeons
in heathen lands. Dr. Alexander Pearson, a mis-
sionary physician, introduced vaccination into China
as early as 1805. Missionary doctors began the med-
ical treatment of.opium victims in China, and they
were also the pioneers in the treatment of skin dis-
eases, which prevail to such an alarming degree in
all pagan countries. F. J. L.

BOOK TABLE.

Lincoln's Religion. By William Dallmann. North-
western Publishing House Print, Milwaukee, Wis.
Price, 5 cts. per copy; 100, $3.50.

A booklet of 16 pages, dedicated to the men in the
army and navy.

Catechism a pies Adolf T. Hanser. - Lutheran
Publishing Co., 105 Florida St., Buffalo, N.Y. Pub-
lished in seven pene rs a year. Price, 35 cts. per
copy; $19.00 per hundred’ copies a year. Sample
copies free.

A practical lesson paper for the study of the Catechism
in the Sunday-school. Also a German edition is published.

Acknowledgments.

Received for Colored Missions from the following Col-
ored congregations: Bethany, Yonkers, $32.00; hel,
Conover, 1.20; Bethel, Greenville, 10.00; Bethlehem, New
Orleans, 35.00; Camden, 10.00; Carroliton, 5.00; Christ
Church. Rosebud, 10.00; Concordia, Rockwell, 3.00; Grace,
Concord, 35.00; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 6.00; Immanuel Col-
lege, 92.00; Immanuel School, 4.55 ; - Messiah, Fayette-
ville, 1.53; Mount’Calvary, Mount Pleasant, 3.00; Mount
Calvary, Sandy Ridge, 10.00; Mount Olive, Catawba, 2.25;
Mount Olive, Tinela, 5.00; ‘Mount Zion, Meyersville, 7.00;
Mount Zion, New Orleans, 30 .00; Mount Zion, Rocks, 3.00;
Oak Hill, 9.00; Redeemer, New Orleans, 6.77; St. John,
Salisbury, 12. 20; St. Luke, Spartanburg, 7.00; St. Mark,
Atlanta, 4.00; St. Matthew, Meherrin, 12.00; St. Paul,
Charlotte, 13. 00; St. Paul, Mansura, 6.00; St. Paul, Na-
poleonville, 10. 00; St. Paul, New Orleans, 25.00; St. Pe-
ter, Drys School House, 1, a Washington, .65; Zion, Gold
Hill, 3.00. — Total, $415.

Church Extension Fond for Alabama: From the Col-
ored congregations: Tilden, 14.17; Camden, 18.21; Oak
Hill, 50.00; Midway, 55.00; Rosebud, 25.14; Tinela, 1.50.
— Total, $164.02.

St. Louis, Mo., April 1, 1918.

Ewartp ScuvuertsNer, Treasurer,
323 Merchants-Laclede Bldg.

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