The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1923, Page 6

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a very laudable interest in the our
Colored mission in St. Louis. At a recent rummage
sale these ladies cleared no less than $250 for the
building fund of our St. Louis Mission. If ever this
mission will have a chapel of its own, it will in a
very large measure be due to the unselfish and un-
tiring efforts of these white ladies of St. Louis. God
bless them!

welfare of

Sap News. — ‘The sad message was just brought
us that the wife of Rey. Ed I. Schmidt, of Sheboy-
gan, Wis., died a week after having undergone an
operation for appendicitis. She reached the age of
only thirty-seven years and is survived by her hus-
band and four children. Pastor Schmidt succeeded
the writer as pastor of St. Paul’s Chapel, New Or-
leans, and also served Napoleonville. Mrs. Schmidt
willingly shared with her husband the toils and
cares of missionary life, and she still lives in the
grateful memory of the people among whom she
worked with her husband. May our heavenly
Father comfort the survivors with His abiding
comfort! :

A ParaGrapit FROM A Missionanry’s Lerrer. —
“Rey. W. and I went to N. to-day. Got stuck with
our Gospel-Ford only once. I had a short talk for
the children in the school at N. While at the school,
I asked a little seven-year-old girl: ‘For whom did
Jesus die?’ She promptly answered: ‘For you-and
for me” ‘Lhe trip to N. was worth while, if only

_ to hear the little girl say that.”

Mission Lecrures. — Rey. M. N. Carter will
give a number of lectures on the work of our Colored
Missions in Alabama in and about Elgin, Ill, next
month.

Carartorre, N. C.— On November 24 a young
son made his advent in the family of Missionary
Carlson.

TLAarae Missronary Orrerinc. — The First Lu-
theran Church of Stoughton, Wis., connected with
the Norwegian Lutheran Synod, at a mission-service
‘held on October 24, gathered $4,976.10 for missions.
The pastor of the congregation is Rev. M. H. Hegge.

Tire Inprans Nor Dyixa Our.— The Indian
race is not a dying one. Contrary to popular

_ opinion, the present Indian population of our coun-
try is to-day greater by 13,500 than it was ten
years ago. We have at present in the United States
340,917 Indians. ‘The increase is attributed to im-

_ proved housing conditions and better hospital and
medical facilities. ‘There are seyventy-cight hospitals

‘ten years.

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at the Indian reservations and schools, and there
are employed in the Indian service 150 physicians,
eighty-one nurses, and seventy field matrons, the
latter visiting the homes of Indians to improve liv-
ing conditions. In no small measure the conserva-
tion of Indian lives during the past ten years is
due to the influence of Christian missionaries.

Ax Unoccurtep Firip. — Practically the whole
interior of South America is a vast unoccupied mis-
sionary field. ‘Tales of head-hunting savages who
worship the devil and spend their lives gathering
wild animal skins to use in purchasing wives are
being told by explorers returning from Southern
Eeuador. In the wild and largely unexplored
forests of the South American interior there are .
millions of poor human beings sitting in darkness
and the shadow of death.

leranG, Cuinxa. — “Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Hal-
both of Cascade, Wis., received a cablegram from Kel
Ichang, China, informing them of the arrival of a |
little girl born to Rev. and Mrs. Henry ‘Theiss, the
latter having formerly been Edna Halboth. ‘The
baby received the name Ruth Lydia in Holy Baptism. =
Rey. Theiss is the son of Mr. J.G. Theiss of Oak-
land, Cal.”

JAPANESE WAYSIDE ‘TEMPLES. — All over Japan
wayside temples are to be found. Everywhere they
are in evidence, even in the rice-fields and in the
yards of homes. In some places they look decayed
and forsaken, and at other places prosperous and
crowded. Idolatry is’ not declining in beautiful
Japan, though it is said that every home in Japan
has been furnished a Gospel portion or a Christian
tract by a colportage socicty several years ago. ‘This
distribution has not been in vain, for, though three
years have passed since these booklets were passed
around, the distributing agency still hears of cases
where the Holy Ghost is using these tracts to draw
men to Jesus.

Turnx or ‘Tints! —If Christ had started on the
day. of His baptism to preach in the villages of India
and had continued since then up to the present day,
visiting one village a day, He would still have 30,000
villages to visit.

CotorED PoruLation or NortHern CrriEs. —
The Negro population of Pittsburgh is officially
given by the National Cénsus Bureau as 37,688,
an increase of almost fifty per cent. in ten years.
The present Colored population of Philadelphia is
134,098, an increase of. almost sixty per cent. in

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