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State, is also to get a building. Both are very pros-
perous places, and it will surely be welcome news to
the pastors and people to hear that the Mission
Board sees its way clear to provide them with
chapels.

Hoty Ark, Ata.— Only half a year ago our
missionary preached his first sermon at Holy Ark;
to-day we have there an organized congregation of
thirty-two members. On the first Sunday in June
Superintendent Schmidt confirmed twenty-one per-
sons and baptized eleven at this place.

A Trent For THE Cuuron!— The majority
of members of almost 100 societies in Young
People’s Christian Union of the United Presby-
terian Church are giving one-tenth of their income

. to church purposes. This young pcople’s society this
year has already given $45,620 for church activities,
a gain of $7,862 over the previous year. ‘The senior
societies of this young people’s league gave more
than one-half of all they raised to missions.

Pocaronras, Mo. —In a letter to the Director
of Colored Missions Pastor @. H. Hilmer writes:
“Sunday, July 9, our congregations celebrated
the 50th anniversary of our Synodical Conference.
Special services were also held at Pocahontas to
which a number of Colored folks of the neighbor-
hood had been invited. About sixteen Colored
persons were present and listened with devout
attention to the sermon. ‘The subject was, “The
Synodical Conference and Negro Missions,” based
on Ps. 68, 31. About sixty little wooden barrels had
been distributed among the schoolchildren. After
counting, an average of twenty cents was found in
each. As a matter of fact, the congregation also
lifted a substantial sum for our Colored Missions.
And what after all is the main thing, my people are
very much interested in mission-work. God bless

our Synodical Conference and our Negro Missions!” .

F.J.L.

A Bargain.

A few copies of the late Pastor N. J. Bakke’s books,
Unsere Negermission in Wort und Bild and Our Colored
Mission, Illustrated, are still on hand. These books are
richly illustrated and bring a very readable history of our
Colored Mission from its very beginning. Since the Sy-
Nodical Conference is celebrating its golden anniversary
this year, 1922, these books now have a peculiar in-
terest at the present time, describing, as they do, what
is the chief joint work of this great body of Lutherans.
When first published, the books sold for 50 cents each,
but if they were to be published to-day, they would cost
more. However, as long as the supply lasts, we are will-
ing to send either book postpaid to any address for only
25 cents. State whether you want the English or German
edition, and order from Rev. Theo. F. Walther, 6406 Easton
Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

BOOK TABLE.

The Bible Student. Vol.I, No.1. A Bible-study Quar-
terly for Young People, Adult Classes, and the
Home. Th. Gracbner, Editor. Published by the
Walther League, 6438 Eggleston Ave., Chicago, III.
48 pages. Price: 20 ets. per copy; 70 cts. a year
(4 numbers); 10 or more copies to one address,
GO cts. a year.

A well-planned, well-written, well-printed Bible-study
quarterly.

Our Task in China.— Warum will es in China so
langsam licht werden? Concordia Publishing
House, St. Louis, Mo. 28 pages. Price, 15 cts. each,
postpaid.

Here are two mission pamphlets that ought “to go
like hot cakes.” Our people are all the time complain-
ing that they want information; here it is. Every pas-
tor, every teacher, every one among us interested in our
China mission-field—and every one among us ought to
be— should buy one or the other, or both, of these book-
lets and inform himself on conditions in China in general
and in our mission there in particular. The map on
page 69 and the illustration on page 70 were taken from
Our Task in China. F.J.L.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

Received for Colored Missions from the following Col-
ored congregations: St. Matthew’s, Meherrin, from Aunt
Pollie Rowlett, for Alabama, $10.00; Zion, Taits Place,
6.20; Bethany, Nyland, 8.66; Mount Calvary, Tilden,
8.90; Grace, Ingomar, 5.15; St. Paul’s, Oak Hill, 3.90;
Christ, Rosebud, 8.05; Selma, 10.69; St. John’s, Joffre,
4.63; Our Savior, Possum Bend, 7.40; Mount Carmel,
Midway, 7.26; Bethlehem, Holy Ark, 9.87; St. Andrew’s,
Vredenburgh, 8.85; Our Redeemer, Long Mile, 8.25; Mount
Olive, Tinela, 9.18; St. James’s, Buena Vista, 2.30; Mo-
bile, 1.80; St. Philip’s, Philadelphia, 5.00; Bethany, Yon-
kers, 45.00; Bethel, Charlotte, 11.50; Bethel, Plaquemine,
1.00; Bethlehem, Monroe, 3.18; Bethlehem, New Orleans,
50.00; Concordia, New Orleans, 15.00; Concordia, Rock-
well, 7.00; Grace, Concord, 20.00; Grace, Greensboro,
6.98; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 15.00; Immanuel College,
42.50; Rev. M. N. Carter, 14.15; Luther College, New
Orleans, 20.00; Mount Calvary, Kannapolis, 14.00; Mount
Calvary, Mount Pleasant, 6.50; Mount Olive, Catawba,
1.00; Mount Zion, Charlotte, 15.00; Mount Zion, New
Orleans, 40.00; Mount Zion, Rocks, 10.00; Richmond, .84;
St. James’s, Southern Pines, 5.82; St. John’s, Salisbury,
14.00; St. Luke’s, Spartanburg, 57.73; St. Mark’s, At-
lanta, 5.00; St. Mark’s, Winston-Salem, 3.73; St. Mat-
thew’s, Meherrin, 17.94; St. Paul’s, Charlotte, 30.00; St.
Paul’s, Mansura, 5.00; St. Paul’s, Napoleonville, 20.00;
St. Pauls, New Orleans, 40.00; Trinity, New Orleans,
10.00; Zion, Gold Hill, 6.50.— Total, $680.46.

Received for Jubilee Fund from the following Colored
congregations: Bethany, Yonkers, $150.00; Grace, Greens-
boro, 116.01; St. Paul’s, Charlotte, 100.00; Mount Zion,
Charlotte, 100.00; St. Luke’s, Spartanburg, 72.00; Mount
Calvary, Mount Pleasant, 70.00; Mount Calvary, Kan-
napolis, 68.36; St. Mark’s, Atlanta, 57.50; St. John’s,
Salisbury, 51.00; Mount Zion, Rocks, 50.00; Immanuel
College Sunday-school, 50.00; Zion, Gold Hill, 50.00;
Bethel, Charlotte, 35.00; St. Mark’s, Winston-Salem, 28.00;
Concordia, Rockwell, 25.00; St. Luke’s, High Point, 25.00;
Immanuel, Brooklyn, 15.00; Bethlehem, Monroe, 10.00;