The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1920, Sheet 17

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

snarled, “Bint el kelf!” (Daughter of a dog!), tear-
ing himself loose.

The father stepped up. To do what? ‘To punish
his child? Oh, no! ‘lo pat his brave little son on
the back, smile upon him, and say, “Brave litile
boy! Thou magnificent little fellow!’ Proud of
a son who could treat a mother thus!

It makes one indignant to see these things re-
peated again and again under one’s very eyes. ‘The
restricted lives, the sufferings, and _ ill-treatment
of Moslem women are the fault of Mohammed’s
teachings; the fault of the faith of Islam, aeccord-
ing to which there is no heaven for our mothers, no
paradise for old women.

A missionary in Egypt, visiting the house of a
rich Bey to preach the Gospel to the women,’ was
reading to them out of the Scriptures, with- quite
a little crowd seated around her. Suddenly the
chief wife stood up.

“What is this to us?” she said. “We are only
women! Why do you not go to the men with this
teaching, this religion, and this Book? ‘There is no
ganat el fardous [Paradise] for us. Go to the men.
We are like cattle — when we die, we are gone. We
have no souls.”

The very idea that they are human beings seems
driven out of them.

The pagan women of the Sudan are in our gen-
eration in the grave danger of being handed over
as a whole to Islam, to worse slavery than that land
has ever known since the curse of, Ham has rested
on the children of Ham.

Christian men and- women, shall this happen?
Shall this happen while they are asking us to help
them, and we have the opportunity of winning them
for Jesus Christ ?

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L. E. S.

The work of the I. B.S. is progressing nicely.
As an evidence of same herewith a copy, of a letter
which speaks for itself : —

Cleveland, O., December 11, 1919.
’o the Lutheran Education Society.
Dear FRienps : —

Enclosed $1.00. Read Rey. W. O. Hill’s article
in the LUTHERAN PionEER. A merry Christmas
and a bright and happy new year to all.

Yours, ——
—— Rugby Rd.,
t Cleveland, O.

Missionary Items.

VaLur or Pusiiciry.— The following para-
graph taken from a letter written by Pastor Spil-
man of Baltimore to one of the members of the
Board shows the value of giving information to the
people: “To-morrow my congregation will ship
two large boxes of clothing to the. Negro Mission
at Meherrin, Va. The stereopticon lecture on your
Board’s work brought good results here. We have
sent your Board quite a bit more than our quota.
If all our Boards would only adopt the motto, ‘Let
the people know for what their money is expended,’
we would have no trouble in raising the required
amounts.”

A New Fretp.—The Lord has opened a new
field for our missionary in St. Louis, Pastor Her-
bert C. Claus. He recently gained permission to
conduct services in the three larger wards of the
new Colored Hospital (City Hospital No. 2) on
Wednesday afternoons. In this way the Word will
reach all the wards. Thanks are due to Dr. Has-

’ kell, the superintendent of the hospital, and to Miss

Martin, superintendent of nurses, for this privilege.
The chapel has not yet been arranged by the
authorities.

MIsstonarres ror InNprA.— We hear that all
the missionaries of the Lutheran Ohio Synod have
been granted permission by the British government
to return to their workin India. ‘The passage from
New York to India costs $450 a person. Three of
Missouri Synod’s most experienced and efficient
ast India laborers, Huebener, Stallmann, and Nau,
are ahxiously awaiting permission to return.

ArricaN Misstons. — Among the 130 million
heathen ‘of Africa there are at present working
4,500 missionaries at over a thousand mission-
stations. -Only one and one-half per cent. .of the
population of Africa professes to be Christians.
Christian missionaries are conducting 10,000
schools, in which 600,000 pupils are instructed.
The war has -put an end to the labors of 1,000
German missionaries. ‘The number of native mis-
sionary workers in Africa is estimated to be 35,000.

Our Dear-mure Mission. — It is said that |
there are about 90,000 deaf-mutes in this country.
Naturally, a large number of these have received
a very meager instruction in the Christian religion.
Our Church is doing an extensive and blessed work
among the deaf at more than sixty different points.
The missionary force was recently augmented by ~