The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1919, Page 87

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The Lutheran Pioneer. 87

AcKNOWLEDGMENT. — The Editor recently was
the happy recipient of several liberal gifts for our
Colored Mission. ‘The first gift came from Miss
Louise Potter and Class No. 3 of the Iroquois Ave.
Christ Lutheran Church, Detroit. It amounted
to $11. The second gift was $10, and came from
a dear friend, who formerly lived in the Editor’s
congregation, but is now in Toledo. The third gift
amounted to $50, and was the donation of a faithful
meniber of the Editor’s congregation. May God bless
these kind donors and induce others to emulate
them ! F. J. L.

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‘‘Pjoneer’? Workers.

Would it not be a fine thing if every one of
our readers were to become also a PIONEER worker ?
Just at this time of the year is a good time to look
around for new subscribers. Kind reader, will not
you push the PIONEER in private and in public as
you have opportunity ? While there are subscribers
in every State in the Union, you may be the only
reader of the PronEER in your locality. Therefore
we ask you to accept the responsibility and pleasure
of interesting your friends in our little missionary.
monthly. As you know, the price of subscription
is only twenty-five cents. Send subscriptions to
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.

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Our Mission in China.

Our mission among the natives of China at
Hankow is making fine progress under the aggres-
sive and efficient leadership of Pastor B. L. Arndt.
Tn the near future two more workers will be ready
to take up their labors under his successful direc-
tion. On October 5, Rev. H. Bentrup and wite left
Sylvan Grove, Kansas, their home, for San Fran-
cisco to take the steamer China, on October 16,
for China. At Colorado Springs he was obliged to
interrupt the trip to enter a hospital to be operated
for appendicitis. This, of course, will make it im-
possible for him and his ‘wife to sail on the day
they had intended to leave San Francisco. How-
ever, Missionary L. J- Schwartzkopf and wife will
sail on the day originally appointed. Pastor Bent-
rup was ordained at a joint mission-festival in which
no less than eleven congregations participated. God
speed the recovery of Rey. Bentrup, and bless the
future labors of both young missionaries in far-off
China!

A Suggestion.

If you are obliged to see your doctor or dentist,
take along your copy of the ProNEER to read while
you wait. One subscriber did this with the result
that the dentist became interested in the little paper
and subscribed for it. The further result will be
that his patients are going to have opportunity to
gain some missionary information while they are
waiting their turn for treatment. Send your sub-
scription with twenty-five cents to Concordia Pub-
lishing House, St. Louis, Mo.

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South American Notes.

Seventeen million Indians, the aboriginal inhab-
‘tants of the South American continent, challenge
Christianity to-day in the neglected continent.
Steeped in ignorance and degradation, these natives
stand pitifully in need of the things evangelical
Christianity is able to bring. The wretched lot
of the children is especially appealing.

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In no part of the world is the percentage of
illegitimate children so large as it is in South
America. It is an every-day occurrence for a girl
with a new-born babe to be deserted by the un-

~ scrupulous father of her child.

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That the work of Protestant Churches in South
America is appreciated an incident of recent oc-
currence proves. Not long ago the Bolivian Min-
ister to the United States journeyed from Wash-
ington to New York in order that he might appear
before the Board of Foreign Missions of a certain
denomination with an urgent plea that more Ameri-
can schools and. more American teachers be sent

to his country.
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The Missouri Synod of the American Lutheran
Church has extensive missions in Brazil and Ar-
gentina. And while their work is carried on mostly
among the German-speaking people of those two
countries, the missionaries of Brazil have been doing
considerable preaching in the Portuguese tongue
to the natives. As these missionaries learn the
Portuguese and Spanish tongues, the opportunities
to preach the Word of Life will increase, and there
is no reason to doubt, judging from past experience,
that the message will find many willing ears.