The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1922, Sheet 57

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The Lutheran Pioneer. 5d

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War Orimers are Dornc. — The Woman’s
Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church has 620 missionaries in India, Burma,
Malaysia, the Indies, the Philippines, China, Korea,
Japan, Africa, Mexico, South America, Italy, Bul-
garia, and France. It supports 994. boarding-
schools, 1,458 day-schools, 3 colleges, and 9 English
schools. It furnishes literature in about a dozen
languages. It takes care of 209,569 patients in
hospitals and dispensaries. Its property in foreign
countries is valued at $3,215,470. The society
numbers 539,012 members, who last year contrib-
uted more than $2,000,000 to the cause of foreign
missions.

Noai’s Carrentrers. — A lad, very eager to
collect money for missionary purposes, was often
disobedient to his parents and did not hesitate to
tell a lie now and then. One day his sister asked
him: “Ifenry, do you know what became of Noah’s
carpenters? Do you know that in spite of the fact
that these men helped Noah to build the ark, they
perished in the Flood?” —It is no advantage to
work for missions if we are not Christians ourselves.
Think of Noah’s carpenters, and make sure that
you enter Noah’s ark yourself. F. J. L.

A Great Preacher’s Remedy.

Phillips Brooks was once asked, “What is the
first thing you would do if you had accepted a call to
become the rector of a small, discouraged congrega-
tion that is not even meeting its current expenses?”

“The first thing I would do,” he replied, “would
be to preach a sermon on, and ask the congregation
to make an offering for, foreign missions.”

Phillips Brooks was never called to that kind of
church, but many pastors and congregations to-day
are proving in their own experience that the best
way to keep out of debt, develop a healthy church,
serve the local community, is to adopt a world mis-
sionary policy and make offerings for carrying the
message of Christ into all the world.

BOOK TABLE.

Kirchenagende fuer Ev.-Luth. Gemeinden. Concor-
dia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. 329 pages.
Cloth, $2.00 (Icdition C.). Morocco, gilt-edge, $5.00
(Edition M.). Divinity circuit, gilt-edge, $5.00 (Edi-
tion D.C.). :

This is a new and revised edition of the old Missouri

Agenda, with a liberal addition of new formulas, prayers,
and collects.

Synodical Reports of Missouri Synod for 1921. Con-
cordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. No. 23.
California and Nevada District. “Das Buch Hiob
in seiner Bedeutung fuer Prediger und Gemeinde-
glicder.” Price, 28 cts. — No. 24. Nebraska District.
No paper. Price, 15 cts.

Letter of Transfer. Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference.
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price,
30 cts. per dozen, postpaid.

This Letter of Transfer with the attached Acknowledg-
ment of Transfer and Notification of Membership Transfer
will prove very serviceable.

Concordia Pupils’ Roster and Record Card. (New

and improved form.) Concordia Publishing House,

St. Louis, Mo. Price, $1.00 per 100; $4.00 for 500.
Very practical. F. J. L.

A Most Appropriate Mission Box.

To meet a real demand, we offer this splendid Mission
Box to our readers, fully convinced that we are in a posi-
tion to offer them a mission box that is bound to draw
the attention of old and young at a price that is remark-
ably low. This little Colored solicitor for missionary gifts
can ‘be appropriately placed in the church, the school, the
Sunday-school, the society hall, or the home. We are sure
that. this collection device will increase the donations for

missions, since it is a standing appeal to every one that
sees it not to forget the great work of spreading the Gos-
pel. Many a nickel and dime will find its way into the
mission treasury that would be lost to the cause, were it
not for the silent, but insistent appeal of this little kneel-
ing Negro boy in his white garment, who gratefully and
most politely acknowledges even the smallest gift by a nod
of his shapely head. Size, 5711 inches. Price, $2.50,
plus 15 cents for postage. Order from Mr. Ewald Schuett-
ner, 323 Merchants-Laclede Building, St. Louis, Mo. :