The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1920, Page 48

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incantations to get the evil spirit to enter the body
of the woman. She seemed to be ready to take the
responsibility of the demon, but for some reason
the evil spirit refused to come out. They slapped
the man, trying to make him spit it out. They
built a fire in front of him, trying to coax it out.
Two men pulled his hair ‘with both their hands,
pulling it so hard that they actually pulled out
-some in their attempt to pull out the evil spirit.
Nothing could dissuade them from their purpose,
as they were doing it in the name of their gods
and the Hindu religion. Little wonder that the
man died at ten o’clock that night. Tis relatives
attributed his death to the fact that they had failed
to extract the demon.”

Such scenes show the superstition and cruelty
-of heathenism and the heathen’s need of Christ.
The Gospel does not only dispel spiritual ignorance
and superstition, but where it shines, such scenes
as described above must vanish, as darkness flees
at the rising of the sun. Ignorance and cruelty,
bondage and slavery, darkness and superstition can-
not long exist where Christ’s Gospel is proclaimed.

Shall we whose souls are lighted
With wisdom from on high,
Shall we to men benighted

< The lamp of life deny?

F. J. 1.

~ World: Mission Progress.
Protestant missions have made wonderful prog-
ress in foreign lands since 1800. Look at these
figures: In 1800 there were only 70,000 Protestant
communicants in the foreign field. By 1850 the
number had increased to 211,000. ‘Thirty years
later, in 1880, the communicant membership of
Protestant churches in foreign lands had reached
the number of 857,000. By 1892 there were
, 1,225,000 Protestant Christians having full priv-
. ileges. ‘This number had grown to 1,371,000 in the

year 1900, and in 1914 there were 3,168,000.
74 From 1800 to 1850 the average annual gain was
only 2,800, ‘but in the next thirty years there was
nas an annual increase of 21,500. During the last
twenty years of last century the annual gain was
25,600, and since 1901 the,annual gain has averaged
no less than 128,000. It took one hundred and
~ eighty years to gain the first million members,
_ 1%06—1885. ‘The second million were won from
1885 to 1908, a period of only twenty-three years.
During the last ten years converts have been added
at the rate of a million souls every five years.

The Lutberan Pioneer.

One hundred years ago there were only about
one hundred missionaries in the whole world; to-
day there are 25,000. Then the Bible could be read
in only sixty-five languages; now it has been trans-
lated into more than six hundred languages and
dialects. F. J. 1.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

Received for Colored Missions from the following Col-
ored congregations: Mount Calvary, Tilden, $12.00; Beth-
any, Yonkers, 25.00; Grace, Concord, 55.00; Immanuel,
Brooklyn, 8.00; St. John’s, Salisbury, 10.00; Mount Cal-
vary, Sandy Ridge, 12.00; Bethany, Yonkers, 30.00; Bethel,
Plaquemine, 15.00; Bethlehem, New Orleans, 50.00; Car-
rollton, New Orleans, 10.00; Christ, Rosebud, 10.00; Con-
cordia, Rockwell, 5.00; Grace, Ingomar, 9.16; Immanuel,
Brooklyn, 8.00; Immanuel College, Greensboro, 428.49;
Immanuel School, Greensboro, 5.40; Luther College, New
Orleans, 15.00; Mission in Richmond, 1.10; Mount Cal-
vary, Mount Pleasant, 5.00; Mount Calvary, Sandy Ridge,
12.00; Mount Calvary, Tilden, 10.00; Mount Olive, Ca-
tawba, 2.50; Mount Olive, Tinela, 1.93; Mount Zion, Char-
lotte, 12.00; Mount* Zion, Rocks, 10.00; Our Savior, Cam-
den, 2.31; Redeemer, New Orleans, 11.31; St. Andrew’s,
Vredenburgh, 3.33; St. John’s, Joffre, 5.48; St. Jolin’s,
Salisbury, 10.00; St. Luke, Spartanburg, 5.00; St. Mark’s,
Atlanta, 5.00; St. Mark’s, Wilmington, 2.50; St. Mat-
thew’s, Meherrin, 14.03; St. Paul’s, Charlotte, 25.00; St.
Paul’s, Mansura, 10.00; St. Paul's, Wapoleonville, 35.00;
Trinity, Albemarle, 2.00; Washington, 10.85; Zion, Gold
Hill, 5.00; Mount Zion, New Orleans, 40.00; Grace, Con-
cord, 55.00; Grace, Greensboro, 36.14; Winston-Salem,
2.62; St. Luke’s, High Point, 6.04; St. Paul’s Chapel, New
Orleans, 30.00; ‘Trinity, Elon College, .87. — Total,
$1,080.06.

* St. Louis, Mo., May 1, 1920.
H. A. Drrrmar, Asst. Treas.,
1944 Clara Ave.

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