The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1919, Page 70

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with $240 a year. But each one has a share in the
Centenary Fund of $25!

Try to realize what these Chinese are attempt-
ing. With the cost of living rising even faster than
it has risen in America, and financial conditions
worse than they have been for fifty years, these
Methodists are bravely undertaking to raise, not
among enthused and aroused and educated members
only, but among the entire membership, consider-
ably more than the Old Testament tithe. Not a
single member can fall below this lofty standard
if the goal is to be reached.

The leaders of the Centenary in America have
estimated that if each member would give ten cents
a week, the $80,000,000 would be easily raised.

But the average income of the Methodists of
America cannot be less than $10 a week. Skilled
workmen will earn from five to ten times that.
Ten cents a week would represent only one one-
hundredth of the average income. Yet that is held
up as a desired, but almost impossible, goal at
which to arrive.

Consider that if the Church in America gave
upon the basis adopted by the Church in China,
there would be a Centenary gift of $3,500,000 a
week, $182,000,000 a year!

Think of an infant church, just struggling out
of the darkness and selfishness of heathenism, and
from its poverty, its ignorance, its own desperate
need, giving far more than a tenth of the income
of its entire membership to this enterprise.

Western Christian Advocate.

An Early Christmas Plan.

Forehanded people are now already beginning
to plan their Christmas gifts, and we would remind
you that a year’s subscription to THe LUTHERAN
Pronger would be a cheap gift, and still one that
would cause the recipient to think of you the whole
year round. We know from past experience that
the recipients of such gift subscriptions highly ap-
preciated the thoughtfulness of the giver. People
who never were interested in missions before have
by this means become deeply interested in the great
work of spreading Christ’s Gospel. We hope that
many of our readers will decide to place a number
of PionEER subscriptions on their gift list this
year. Send your order with twenty-five cents for
each subscription to Concordia Publishing House,
St. Louis, Mo.

The Lutheran Pioneer.

Items of Interest from the Colored
Mission-Field.

Cuartotre, N. C. — Teacher ‘Theo. Renne-
garbe, who taught the colored mission-school in
St.Louis for a period of a year before he was
inducted into the military service of the United
States, recently returned from France. At the
time of this writing he is en route for Concord,
N.C., where he will take charge of one of- the
rooms. of the mission-school.

GREENSBORO, N. C.— Prof. F. Wahlers, who
has been teacher at Immanuel College for a number
of years, has decided to enter the ministry. He has
accepted a call to a congregation at Remsen, Lowa.
— Pastor G.W.Schwehn, the missionary at Con-
cord, N. C., has been extended.a call by the Mission
Board to become the successor of Prof. Wahlers.
At the present time it is not yet definitely known
whether he will accept or not. Pastor Schwehn
would be an acquisition for the Immanuel College
faculty, and for this reason we hope that he may
accept, though we know and fully realize that his
people at Concord will be sorry to see him go, —
Pastor J. Ph. Schmidt, several years ago a member
of the Immanuel College faculty and then for a
while of Port Huron, Mich., has accepted the call
of the Mission Board as the Director, or President,
of Immanuel College. By the time this reaches
the reader, he will have arrived upon the scene of
his new labors. While serving as professor before,
Prof. Schmidt proved an efficient terzcher in every
way, and he will, we hope and trust, prove equally
successful as President of the institution. — Rev. P.
Kionka, of Wisconsin, has a member in his con-
gregation who is supporting one of our young
colored students from Alabama at |mrnanuel Col-
lege. He now intends to support also an Apache
Indian, of the Wisconsin Synod’s Jodian Mission
in Arizona, who is about nineteen years of age
and desires to prepare himself for miission-work
among his own people. The young /ndian expects
to begin his studies at Immanuel this month. We
hope to be able to bring a cut anc further par-
ticulars of this young student next month.

PraQuEeMineE, La. — Pastor C. P. Thompson, of
Napoleonville, La., intends to open up niission-work
at Plaquemine. This is a town of about 6,000
inhabitants, and has a large population of colored
people. Missionary Thompson has received an
earnest invitation from some of these to visit them
and begin work among them. He will have reached