The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1919, Page 62

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lecture describes and illustrates the western field,

schools and principal of the high school at New
Haven, Mo., to reenter the service of the Church.

A Lerrer.— A few days ago we received this
letter, and it is so good that we feel our readers
should also have a chance to read it: “Kind Sir
and Brother: —1 would write you a few lines in
regard to the news item and appeal in the PIoNEER
for May, 1919, under the heading, ‘Midway, Ala-
bama.” Yesterday I sent $11.50 for that purpose
to our district treasurer. That was the gift of
one family and was not solicited by me. The par-
ties read your news item, and it appealed to them
so much that they decided to give a small sum
for the pews for the Midway Chapel. Now it hap-
pened that just about that time they had lost a sum
of money, which was just then returned to them.
They looked upon this as a token from God and
turned the money over to me, that I might send
it in for the Midway Chapel pews. Mr. and
Mrs. hold that if you trust the Lord to provide

that He will surely do so.— By the way, it pays.

to let the people know the needs of the Mission.
Hope the sum for the pews will be quickly gath-
ered.” We do not mention the names of the persons
concerned nor their residence, as we have not their
permission to do so. Many thanks to the kind
donors and the writer of the letter. May there
be many others!

A Request. — It often happens that readers
of the Pronrpr send contributions to the editor for
some mission purpose, and he is always glad to
receive them. But in regard to these gifts the
editor has several wishes. In the first place, the
kind donors should never risk sending currency in
an ordinary letter; send a draft, money order, or
the cash in a registered letter. In the second place,
when you send a gift to the editor, give him your
name and address, so that he may acknowledge the
receipt of your gift by return mail. Then you will
know in a very short time that your money ac-
tually got into his hands. If you so state, the
editor will omit your name in the acknowledgment
in the Pronnrr. Gifts that get into the hands of
the editor later than the fifteenth of any month,
cannot be acknowledged sooner than in the PIONEER
of the second month following. For example, if

_ a gift from you would reach the editor’s hands on

July 16, the acknowledgment would not appear

in the ProneEsr till the September number.
Innusrratep Leorurrs.— The Mission Board

now has three illustrated lectures on its fields. One

another does the same for the eastern field, and the
third lecture takes up our work in Alabama. If
you are interested, write to Rev. Theo. F. Walther,
6406 Easton Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Heed ee

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Please, Read This Short Paragraph.

Are you well? I am surely pleased to hear”

that you are. But this fact should not prevent you
from thinking of properly disposing of your prop-
erty in a properly drawn-up last will and testament.
Perhaps, when making disposition of your worldly
goods, you will feel like remembering our Negro
Mission with a gift. If so, please, make use of
this form: “I give and bequeath to the Missionary
Board of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Con-
ference of North America for Missions among the
Heathen and Negroes the sum of ...............
Dollars ($....... ), to be used for the benefit of
its work among the Negroes.” By all means, see
to it that you use the full and complete name and
title of the Mission Board.

Gigantic Undertaking of the Methodists.

To celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the
organization of Methodist missionary work, the
Methodists of the United States have deliberately
entered upon the gigantic task of raising over
$100,000,000, to be used in the social, educational,
and spiritual work of the Methodist Church at home
and abroad. ‘This vast sum, says the New York
Outlook, the Methodists hope and expect to raise
during the next five years by the joint efforts of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, and the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which, before
the Civil War, were one body, and which, it is
hoped, will be reunited in the early future. Of
this sum $85,000,000 will be raised by the Methodist
Episcopal Church — $40,000,000 to be devoted to
home work and $45,000,000 to foreign work.

The program proposes the raising and expendi-
ture of $45,000,000 for the foreign field for “definite
war relief and the establishment of orphanages,
schools, hospitals and other institutions which have
charitable or social work for their motive rather
than church work proper,” and also for so extend-
ing the work of the church that “the entire equip-
ment for new work in the foreign field will include

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