The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1920, Page 69

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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vent prayer to our heavenly Father, beseeching Him
to grant to our Government wise counsels in this
matter, and to prevent, according to the riches of
His grace, the dire calamity which is reported to be
threatening the flourishing Lutheran mission in
New Guinea. For, although that mission belongs
to other Lutheran bodies, and in view of doctrinal
* differences is not supported by our Synod, we still
realize that by the work of that mission many im-
mortal souls have been led to Christ and have been
kept in His fold, and that by its suppression. a cry-
ing act of injustice would be perpetrated hy our
Government, and a part of the Kingdom of Christ
would be destroyed. It may even become necessary
for us to send a petition to our Government in this
matter, in order fully to do our share in preventing
an action on which the blessing of God could not
possibly rest.
W. Janzow, in Australian Lutheran.

How the Printer Helps the Missionary.

On their way to India, Mr. Thomas, Carey’s
associate, said, “I would give a million pounds
sterling, if I had it, to see a Bengali Bible.” Before
his death, Carey himself translated the entire Bible
into Bengali, Sanskrit, and Mahrati, and with his
associates, in the course of about twenty-five years,
published translated Scripture portions in forty
languages and dialects. Of literature work, Judson
said, “The press is the grand engine for Burma.
Every pull of Brother Bennet at the press sends
another ray of light through the darkness of the
empire.”

In India and Burma, where Carey and Judson
pioneered, literature telling the Gospel-story of
Christ is printed in ten different languages. One
missionary there writes: “We are unable to even
baptize and instruct the natives who are accepting
the Gospel-message through reading.”

Japan: A missionary in Japan and Korea sends
this word: “The more I see of the work in Japan
and Korea, the more convinced I am that our only
hope for getting the Gospel-message quickly before
the millions in+these fields is by means of the
printed page.”

South Africa: “Our hope of giving the Gospel-
message to South Africa lies more in our literature
than in preaching.”

Java: “On a trip through Java recently, I found

ten who had been converted as the direct result of
the literature scattered in the native languages.”

Siam: “When we went to Siam to open that
field, we found eight believers to welcome us. ‘These
had subscribed for our Chinese paper three years
before.”

Brazil: “Two papers fell into the hands of
people three thousand miles up the mighty Amazon,
and now a whole company is awaiting baptism,
never having seen a missionary.”

Guatemala: “Vifteen persons are expected to be
ready soon for baptism, the result of literature

falling into the hands of a man at Jalapa four
years ago.”

Philippines: A little mountain town east of
Manila was visited by a colporteur, and thirteen
accepted the Gospel by reading the books. Later
an evangelist was sent, and a church of forty mem-
bers was organized. In the Philippines sixty col-
porteurs the first ten months of 1918 sold over
80,000 pesos worth of literature.

South America: “Our colporteurs during the
first nine months of 1918 sold literature amounting
to $90,000.”

Australasia: “Tighty-two regular colporteurs
are engaged in the distribution of literature in this
field, the value of which amounted to nearly £27,000
last year.”

North America: The combined sales’ of three
publishing houses amounted during 1918 to more
than $2,500,000 — the best year in their history.

The sale of Christian literature, while every-
where spreading the Gospel, is of special importance
in heathen lands, where it provides an honorable
and profitable occupation to the convert, who is
often ostracized by his family and his former
friends.

Mites.

At a missionary meeting in Liverpool quite a
number of Welsh people were present, and as they
were unable to understand English a Welsh preacher
was asked to address them in their own tongue.
His words made so profound an impression upon
his countrymen, that the English people asked him
what he had said. “Oh,” replied the preacher,
“T spoke to them about mites.” “About mites,”
said they, “and, pray, what did you say about
mites?” “Well, I said: A great many of you

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