The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1923, Page 39

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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with a sermon well thought out and delivered with
earnest power, which meant that the pastor had a
real message for his people. It was a delightful
service throughout and, so the visitor declared, very
helpful to him.

The preacher was a product of schools of the
Mission Board, first the little parochial school, where
he learned that he wanted an education; then the
coeducational secondary school, where he found out
what Christ can do for our lives, and for what
purpose we are placed in this world; then on to
the theological seminary. Not one step in the
Each must be made as
effective as possible, and God will take care of
results.

This little church is the direct outgrowth of the
work of a few students at home during summer
vacations. ‘They gathered the children for three or
four miles around into a Sunday-school, children
who were growing up without any knowledge of the
Bible or religious training. ‘Che number grew, older

system must be neglected.

people beeame interested, the following year this
church was organized, and great good is being done.
Thus the light reaches out into the dark places.

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Items of Missionary Interest.

ALABAMA. — The people of a little sawmill town
called Lamison, Wilcox Co., have asked for a Lu-
theran church and school. Superintendent Schmidt
has visited the place and opened a mission-station,
which is now in charge of Rev. Westcott. — A Sun-
day-school has been organized at Nokomis by Mrs.
Mary. Montgomery, formerly a member of our
- church at Vredenburgh. It is to be hoped that
more workers can soon be sent to the growing Ala-
bama field, in order that the touching appeals that
come from all directions of the State may be an-
swered. .

Sciroot ATTENDANCE IN ALABAMA. — Mighty
per cent. of the children seven to thirteen years of
age in the State of Alabama are attending school.
Ten years ago only two-thirds of the children were
in attendance at school. ‘I'en years ago only 53 per
cent. of the Colored children in Alabama of the
above given age were attending school, while at
present the school attendance of Colored children
up to thirteen years has increased to 70 per cent.

Nonvir Carorina. — The Lutheran Educational
Society recently presented Immanuel Lutheran Col-
lege, Greensboro, N.C., with a new piano. This
gift filled a long-felt want and is highly appreciated.

— Immanuel Conference will hold its summer meet-
ing in Mount Calvary Church, Kannapolis, of which
Rev. F. D. Alston is pastor. The congregation is
planning to build an addition to the chapel.

Crenrer or Necro Porunarion. — This is
now found in the extreme northwestern corner of
Georgia. Strange to say, the center has moved in
a northeasterly direction during the last decade,
instead of southwest, as was the case in former
years. ‘This northeasterly movement of the center
of Negro population is due to the great migration
of Negroes to the North and Northeast of the
country. It is said that in the last few years many
Negroes have again been moving South to their
former homes. §

From Yesrerpay’s Suaves. — To-day there are
in the United States among the children of former
slaves — 500 Negro authors, 578 Negro dentists,
125 Negro chemists, 1,000 Negro inventors, 2,000
Negro lawyers and judges, 23% Negro civil and
mining engineers, 4,000 Negro physicians and sur-
geons, 2,500 Negro nurses, 38,000 Negro teachers.

Tath. Church TTerald.

A Companison. —'The price of a single battle-
ship to-day is quite beyond the comprehension of
the ordinary citizen. Dr. Arthur J. Brown; an
American missionary secretary, has recently figured
out what a battleship would buy in missions. He
asserts that the entire missionary program of Amer-
ica, reaching sixteen countries, 4,000 cities, and
employing 24,000 American workers and ‘109,000
native laborers, is being carried on at an expense
less than the price of one battleship. — South. Cross.

RELIGIONS or THE Eantu.— The population of
the earth is reckoned at over 1,600,000,000. Of
these, 565,000,000 are adherents of the Christian
religion, and more than a billion are non-Christians.
The Protestant population of the earth is estimated -
at approximately 180,000,000. Lutheranism is cred-
ited with 80,000,000 followers. .

Unreacuep Minions. — There are 120,000,000
people in the world who are not included in the plans
of any missionary society. ‘To millions more the
plans are merely projected — the people have not _
been reached. “Probably 500,000,000 will pass out
of this generation without having a fair opportunity
of knowing Christ and His message, unless the
Church pours out a princely offering of lives and
money and prayer to give them that opportunity.”

“PanTHER MEN”? 1x West Arnica. — Such
have been found not long ago in French Guinea.
These natives, it is said, work themselves into a