The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1920, Page 87

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Items of Missionary Interest.

Nrw ORLEANS. — News comes to us from New
Orleans that a young missionary has arrived in that
extensive field in the person of Miles S. Gebauer, Jr.
The young gentleman arrived on September 21. We
are expecting an article from the pen of the proud
father of this new worker for our next issue.

Brerutenem, New Orteans. — All our readers
will rejoice to hear that Pastor Kramer, who recently
received several tempting calls to the North, has de-
cided to remain in the Colored Mission. May God
reward the brother most bountifully for coming to
this unselfish decision !

Our Pusiicrry Srcrerary.— Our readers will
notice in another part of this number the changed
address of Pastor N. J. Bakke, the new Publicity
Secretary for our Colored Mission. May God bless
his labors abundantly !

A Goop TxNvestmMentr. — A year ago Rey. W. E.
Sallee, a missionary in China, bought two cows, hop-
ing to make them pay for the education of two
Chinese students. Now in this country on furlough,
he has received a young cow from each of fourteen
dairies, valued in all at $10,000. The cows will be
under the management of a mission college, Honan
Provinee, China.

LrBeraL OFFERINGS For Missions. — Mission
offerings received at the ‘Treasury of the Seventh-
day Adventist Board in the year 1918 amounted to
$1,408,546.49. This amount does not represent all
the moneys given to missions throughout the world
by the denomination, for that contributed in Europe
and Australia is not included in these figures. De-
ducting further from this amount the sum men-
tioned below, that was gathered as the result of
solicitations with the Harvest Ingathering Watch-
man, we still have as an offering for missions by
the membership in North America for 1918,
$1,208,973.97, a per capita of $13.03.

Hawatrt. — Japanese children in Hawaii attend
religious instruction for two hours daily, which is
given them by Buddhist teachers after the regular
public school hours. How many Christian parents
imagine that a half hour’s religious instruction once
a week in Sunday-school should be sufficient! They
are put to shame by these heathen Japanese parents.

Puitirrines. — During the twenty years that
America has had possession of the Philippines, the
Bible has been translated into eleven languages and

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dialects of the archipelago. Two and one-half mil-
lion Bibles and parts of Bibles have been distributed
in this time.

Korea. — Christian literature is in great de-
mand in Korea. Mission boards have found it de-
sirable to establish a number of special religious
book stores, no less than thirty having been estab-
lished to date.

Cina. — One man of every four in all the
world is born in China. While the territory of
China equals not more than one-third of the con-
tinent of Africa, the population of China is equal _
to that of Africa, Australia, North and South Amer-
ica, with New Zealand, Sweden, Madagascar, and
Portugal thrown in for good measure. And most
of these millions are still in the darkness of hea-
thenism ! F. J. L.

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Gospel Explorers in the Land of Sinim.

The Chinese are preeminently a people of books.
A book is almost worshiped by the educated classes.
Thus the power of the printed page as a Christian
messenger in China is second to none.

One writer has said that the colporteurs are “the
explorers, the pioneers, the knights-errant of one of
the great forces of Christianity.” And so they are
proving in mission-work in China. They carry
Christian literature into the most distant parts of
this great country, and blaze the trail for the
preacher to follow. Like St. Paul, they pass through
perils of robbers, perils from their own countrymen,
perils in the city, and perils in the wilderness.

Only Heaven knows the wonderful influence
upon this heathen people that is being produced by
the millions of pages of Gospel literature circulated
by noble colporteurs.

With the Gospel through Sumatra.

Sumatra is the fourth largest island in the world
(omitting Greenland),-having an area of 165,000
square miles. The population is estimated at three
to five millions, consisting of many different tribes,
principally of the Malay stock. Nearly all have
their own language, though most of them speak the
Malay. The peoples of the coast are markedly dif-
ferent from those of the interior. The coast people
have for centuries come into contact with all classes

-of foreigners, while the others are but beginning to