The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1918, Page 87

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ASSISTANT TREASURER. — Teacher Karl Roemer,
of St. Louis, was chosen assistant treasurer of the
Colored Mission Board.

A Transrer. — Pastor Carrington March was
recently transferred from the Fayetteville-Southern
Pines charge to Mount Pleasant, N. C. He was in-
stalled by Visitor Schwehn. F.J.L.

Danger for Missionaries Increasing.

On account of the war, Chinese brigands and
pirates are becoming more active. No longer do
they fear punishment from the foreign nations now
grappling on the western front. Their own home
government is relatively weak, and unable to repress
these internal disorders. A missionary named Gra-
ham, of the Anglican Church, in Fukien Province,
was recently murdered. “He was out along the coast
in their mission-boat, a sort of house-boat, when he
heard a gunshot. He immediately went out on deck
and found that one of his boatmen had been killed,
and that they were surrounded by pirates. He told
the pirates that it was a mission-boat, that a for-
eigner was on board, and they should not shoot. But

his body having any value, threw the body over-
board, and made off.” Not long ago a missionary
was seized by brigands, and he made his escape only
after great difficulty. Certain places are now avoided
by the missionaries on account of the local brigand
troubles disturbing the-entire population. This mis-
sionary adds: “But such things are not a sufficient
reason to give up missionary effort. They only make
it the more necessary.” :

A Gift of Love.

One time, at a meeting of the Presbyterian
General Assembly, an effort was made to raise funds
enough to send a young Princeton graduate to India

asa missionary. A teacher in a Home Mission school ~

was seen by her hostess to slip a gold ring from her
finger and put it on the collection-plate. Asked
afterwards by the lady whose guest she was why she
did it, she replied, “Because I had no money, and
because I knew what it would mean if the effort to
send this miissi failed.” Not long before she
had been told that she would have to give up her
own school because there were no funds to support
it, But she would not give it up. She held on

with magnificent heroism, and she contributed the
ring with all its sacred associations to help another -
to do what was so near her own heart.

Next morning a commissioner brought the ring
into the General Assembly and told the story of it.
It was worth about five dollars. “I will give five
dollars to send the ring back to the young woman,”
said a minister. “I will give five dollars,” said the
stated clerk. .\ newspaper reporter handed up five
dollars to the platform. Pastors, missionaries, vis-
itors, came forward readily with the cash, each one
eager to have some share in restoring the ring. In
Jess than ten minutes more than three hundred dol-
lars had been passed up to the desk. It was all
caused by the vision they got of the self-sacrificing
love that flamed in the heart of that little woman,
making her glad to do something for her dear Master.

R. F. Coyle.

What Our Nation’s Daily Drink Bill
Would Do for Our Boys in France.

Uncle Sam has asked the nation to invest
$2,000,000,000 in War Savings Stamps during
1918. According to the latest available figures,
our drink bill for a year is over $2,400,000,000.

During the last Liberty Loan drive I picked
up a circular entitled, “Turn the Key on Kaiser-
ism — Invest in Liberty Bonds,” telling what Lib-
erty Bonds of various sizes would purchase for the
boys over there. Using these figures, it is inter-
esting to see what we could do with the money that ~
we pass over the bar for booze every day while the
boys are in France.

Our drink bill for one day would pay for any
one of the following items, and for a week it would
buy all of them.

1. Buy a $5 pair of shoes for 1,500,000 men.

2. Purchase gas-masks for 253,000 men, at
$27 each. :

8. Clothe and feed 22,830 soldiers in France
for an entire year, at $300 each. :

4, Furnish 6,850 motor-ralling kitchens, at
$1,000 each.

5. Buy 4,566 motor ambulances, at $1,500 each.

6. Construct 157 base hospitals, with 500 beds

‘each, at a cost of $50,000 per hospital.

¥, Fully equip 2,055 hospital wards, with 50 beds
each, with beds made up and linen in reserve, chairs,
tables, mirrers, foot-tubes, 120 pairs of pajamas,

‘bath-robes and -towels, at $3,850 per ward.

M. R. Saw, in American Issue.