The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1918, Page 56

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distribution of the collections! ‘The work has been
greatly enlarged during the past twelve months,
and it will be necessary for us all to increase our
contributions to this particular field of missionary
endeavor if we want to see continued progress.

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A Martyr’s Smile.

} Miss Clara Leffinwell, missionary to China, gives
the following account of deliverance from death by
the Boxers in 1900: —

“There was a lady missionary whom the Boxers
told to kneel down and have her head cut off. The
lady knelt as told, but as she did so, she looked up
into the man’s face and actually smiled. As she
looked at him for a moment, thus smiling, it seemed
as if his face began to change and to reflect the
smile. He stepped back a little, and then continued
to withdraw, together with his companions, until
after a little while they all fled, leaving the mis-
sionary ladies alone.
going away, the leader turned and said to the lady,
“You cannot die. You are immortal.’ If her face
had shown fear, they would have killed her with-
out hesitation. I suppose that smile seemed super-
natural. She afterward said, ‘I did not know that
I smiled?”

“The Lord is my Helper; I will not fear; what
shall man do unto me?” — The Lutheran.

A Non-Lutheran Tribute to Lutherans.

At an anniversary of the British and Foreign
Bible Society, some years ago, one of the speakers,
Canon Edmonds, delivered an admirable address,

in the course of which he said: — :
iad “Of all the versions of the Bible in the whole
be: _ length and breadth of India, I do not believe there
is one that ranks quite with the Tamil version of
the Bible in the south of India. It is natural that
it should be so. You will take up a manual of
missions by chance. There is a very good one; and
you will be told that modern missions began in
India with Carey in Bengal. They did not do any-
thing of the sort. ‘They began in South India, and
they began with the Lutheran missionaries (Ziegen-
__ balg, Schwartz, Schultze, and Pluetschau). That
_ is where they began. The New Testament in the
_ Tamil language began to appear in 1714, and then
Ziegenbalg’s work, later on in the century, passed
into the hand of Fabricius, a beautiful character.

The Lutheran Pioneer.

As the Boxers were rapidly -

The work of Fabricius passed later on into the
hands of men not quite of the rank of Fabricius.”
These missionaries came from the institutions at
Halle, whose founder was Aug. Hermann Francke,
A church historian says regarding these institu-
tions : — |

“From this center streams of Christian activity
proceeded in all directions. The students, teachers,
and inspectors from these schools, as well as those
who attended the University, proceeded from Halle
in all directions to diffuse the spirit they had ac-
quired there. In 1705 Ziegenbalg and Pluetschau
went forth as the pioneer missionaries to India, to
be followed by others from Halle, greatest of whom
were Schultze and Christian Frederick Schwartz |
(1726—98)..”

It is refreshing to read this testimony of Canon
Edmonds, which will be read wherever the proceed-
ings of the anniversary of the great British and
Foreign Bible Society are circulated.

The Australian Lutheran.

Acknowledgments.

Received for Colored Missions from the following Col-
ored congregations: St. Matthew, Meherrin, $39.50; St. ]
Paul, Mansura, 63.50; St. Luke, High Point, 5.00; Grace, /
Greensboro, 12.00; Mount Calvary, Mount Pleasant, 6.00;
St. Peter, Drys School House, 10.00; Trinity, New Or-
leans, 5.00; Bethany, Yonkers, 16.00; Bethel, Greenville,
10.00;' Camden, 10.00; Carrollton, 5.00; Christ’ Church,
Rosebud, 10.00; Concordia, Rockwell, 3.00; Grace, Con-
cord, 35.00; Mount Calvary, Sandy Ridge, ‘10.00; Im-
manuel, Brooklyn, 3.00; Immanuel College, 87.65; Im-
manuel School, 3.15; Kingston, 1.03; Messiah, Fayette-
ville, 1.00; Mount Carmel, Midway, 12.55; Mount Olive,
Tinela, 5.00; Mount Zion, Meyersville, 7.00; Mount Zion,
Rocks, 3.00; Oak Hill, 6.25; Redeemer, New Orleans,
8.17; St. James, Southern Pines, 10.00; St. Luke, Spar- -
tanburg, 7.00; St. Mark, Atlanta, 3.00; St. Paul, Char-
lotte, 13.00; St. Paul, Mansura, 13.00; St. Paul, Napo-
leonville, 8.00; St. Paul, New Orleans, 25.00; ‘Trinity,
Albemarle, 1.00; Washington, 3.25; Zion, Gold Hill, 3.00,
— Total, $480.05.— Liberty Bonds: St. Paul, New Or-
Teans, 50.00; Mount Zion, New Orleans, 50.00; Beth-
Ichem, New Orleans, 50.00. — Total, $150.00. i

St. Louis, Mo., June 1, 1918.

Ewatp Scivuetrner, 7'reasurer,
323 Merchants-Laclede Bldg.

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