The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1919, Page 46

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46 ‘The Lutheran Pioneer. :
age of seventy-two years. His survivors are his A RemarKABLE VeEsseL. — Strange things often
wife, three sons, and five daughters. Mr. Wiley turn up incidentally in the midst of prosaic mis- i
was one of Bethlehem’s oldest members. sionary operations. In order to transport certain
WasHinaron, D.C.— Since 1914 we have a building material to St. Jan for the building of
colored mission in the capital of our country. Ser- the church at Emmaus destroyed by the hurricane r
vices are held in a rented hall. The membership of 1916, it will be necessary to charter a schooner.
at present is still small, but it is growing. The The vessel secured for this purpose is the old Vigi-
voting members have now petitioned the Board to lant with a history of a hundred years—an old
give them a resident pastor. Up to the present time privateer, smuggler, slaver, man-ol-war, and now a z
the Washington charge has been served by a pastor sedate, though rakish-looking trader. She ought to r
who resided at some other place. There can be no take the whole invoice, even though the barrels of
doubt that in.this large city, with a larger colored cement will mot be packed as close as the slaves were,
population than probably any other city in the when they were laid like sardines on the bottom of
world, a resident pastor of our Church should be the vessel. Strange, indeed, it is that such an un-
stationed at an early day. Washington should also holy vessel should now serve mission uses.
have a properly located house of worship in the The Moravian:
near future. With a pastor and a chapel of its own Morro ror A Misstonary Box.
this mission would prosper by God’s grace. Jesus unseen, but who all hearts can see,
BP. J. 1. Still sits and overlooks the treasury.
Cast in your off’rings where His cause invites,
Items of General Missionary Interest. Ye rich, your talents, and ye poor, your mites;
ee aie - Render to God the thanks that are His due —
A Larcr Grrr.— Mr. J. N. Gamble, of Cin- He gave His Son, who gave Himself for you.
cinnati, recently gave to the Foreign Missionary (James Montgomery.)
Boards of the Methodists, North and South, a beau- te Nila a) oo
tiful and very valuable property in Florida. The
property is situated on Lake Monroe, and consists Two Voices out of Mexico.
of a hotel with one hundred furnished rooms, twelve
hundred acres of land, and a private dock where Some time ago, upon occasion of a convention
the St. John’s Clyde Line steamers land. in Boston, a Mexican business man thus expressed
“T Am Mapara.” — “Please I let you know one himself concerning the needs of his country: —
thing I want. Please send a teacher here. Please “The day on which you gentlemen of the United
we very glad if we have teacher. Ti is all no moro. States will send into Mexico the Bible and mission-
T am Mapara.” This letter was sent by Mapara, aries, instead of soldiers; when you will send school-
the headman of an African village, to a missionary teachers instead of armies, and transports filled with
in Africa. Hundreds of other villages are making foodstuffs instead of rifles, that day you will do

the same appeal for help. ‘The Methodists alone are
going to spend nearly two million dollars in Africa
to provide churches and schools in answer to such
appeals. God speed the day when every such a ery

_ for help may be answered at once!

Cannipan Orey rn West Arrica. — Dr. Gayle
C. Beanland, a Presbyterian missionary stationed
at’ Metet, West Africa, reports that not long ago
the natives of one village ate the bodies of other
tribesmen whom they had killed in battle. Accord-

ing to the missionary, the fighting occurred at. the.
town of Efufup, whose king had ordered the erec-

tion of a school for the use of the missionary party
of his town. Several bodies were eaten in the streets
of this town. .

a great service to humanity, to Mexico, and to
yourselves.”

President Carranza, in a recent speech, gave the
following explanation of what the great upheaval
in Mexico means, as far as religion is concerned : —

“The Constitutionalists [the Carranza faction |
have been accused of being opposed to religion.
We have been held up to scorn in the foreign press
because of alleged abuses committed against the
Church and the clergy. It has been said that we
have viciously driven out the priests from the coun-
try, confiscated their property, violated nuns, de-
stroyed holy edifices, and issued drastic decrees for-
bidding the return of exiled priests and prelates.

“Tt seems to me that the time has come for us