The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1919, Page 20

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pitality. Not conversant with the Indian tongue,

‘and the Indians not knowing English, preacher and

hearers were not able to understand each other;
but the Indians would sit for hours at a time listen-
ing to the hymns Stewart sang.

After a brief stay on the Sandusky River the

_ missionary pushed on farther to the Northwest,

and there met another black man, named Jonathan
Pointer, who in his youth had been taken prisoner
by the Wyandottes and had learned to speak their
language. This man Stewart pressed into his ser-
vice as his interpreter and began to preach to

Moravian Mission Station.

the Indians. This missionary work of the Negro
Stewart among the Wyandotte Indians of the North-
west was the first missionary enterprise of the Metho-
dist Church.

In the hundred years that have passed since
Stewart, through his interpreter, preached the Gos-
pel to the Wyandottes of Ohio, the missionary efforts
of the Methodist Church have grown so in magni-
tude that to-day they encircle the globe. The Metho-
dists intend to celebrate their missionary centenary
by a “drive” for the enormous sum of no less than
$85,000,000. The subscribers to this huge sum will
have five years to pay their subscriptions.
millions are to be used to finance the missionary
and war reconstruction work of the Church abroad
and at home. 12 delee

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Lutherans in Africa.

From Dr. Lenker’s quarterly, Lutherans in All
Lands, we glean the following interesting statistics
concerning the strength of the Lutheran Church
in Africa: —

In South Africa there are 48 German, Dutch,
and Scandinavian Lutheran churches. Of these,
24 are in Cape of Good Hope, 24 in Natal, and
the rest in Orange Free State and Transvaal. In
German Southwest Africa there were before the war
18 churches and preaching-places for the white colo-

nists. No less than ten Lutheran missionary societie, *
carried on their work among the natives of South
Africa prior to the war. The Berlin Society re-
ported in 1913 55 chief and 311 substations, 72
missionaries, 21 native ordaine( pastors, 474 native
helpers, 56,846 members, 231 schools, 10,492 pupils.
The Hermannsburg Society, which worked among
the Bechuanas and Zulus, reported in 1913: 50
chief and 144 substations, 49 missionaries, 3 native
pastors, 152 native helpers, 70.681 members, 176
schools, and 6,983 pupils. ‘I'he Hannover Free
Church Mission had 11 stations before the war, with
11 missionaries, 6,050 members, 25 schools, and
1,100 pupils. The Rhenish Society, which carried
on its work in Cape Colony, German Southwest
Africa, and Ovambaland, some years ago could boast

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