The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1923, Page 87

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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Numer or Nommnat Lurnerans. — There are
in the world about: 75,000,000 people that claim to
‘be Lutherans. Accepting the claims of these per-
sons, the Lutheran Church would constitute almost
half of so-called Protestant Christendom. About
3,500,000 of this number live in America.

WELcomE Girrs. — The church at Tinela, Ala.,
was presented with an organ by Mrs. Anna Kreft
and with the necessary pews through the efforts of
Rey. Hissfeldt. ‘The latter also provided the church
at Longmile, Ala., with pews. Pastor Wissfeldt is
maintaining an agency through which he aets as
broker for congregations that have used church
furniture which they are willing to donate to poorer
congregations and the struggling congregations that
are happy to receive such furniture as the more
prosperous churches wish to dispose of. Congre-
gations having altars, pulpits, pews, organs, and
chandeliers which they wish to dispose of are asked
to address Rey. C. Wissfeldt, Northville, Mich.

A Just Reso.urion. — The Presbyterian church
at Madison, Ill., has decided to withhold all its
offerings to the Foreign Mission Board of its de-
_ nomination until such time as the personnel of said
board shall be above suspicion of being “Modern-
ists.” The session of the Madison church recently
made a statement to the effect that their congrega-
tion stands for the whole Bible and not for a “Bible
full of holes.” It is surely a sad state of affairs
when a congregation is obliged to take such a stand
toward one of its mission boards. How thankful we
should be that we have mission boards which, we
know, stand four-square on the Bible as God’s in-
spired and infallible Word and insist that all their
missionaries know nothing but Christ crucified!

Latiy America. — During the past year Prot-
estant mission-work has made great strides on the
island of San Domingo. Up to a year ago this
island with its fifty-three Protestant church-mem-
bers was a comparatively neglected field; but this
number was quadrupled last year. There are at this
date about 500 pupils in the Protestant Sunday-
schools on the island. — The Presbyterians recently
began work among the 200,000 Mams of Guatemala.
Until now these people have been wholly without
Gospel-preaching. — Not more than one out of four
of the 750,000 Cuban children of school-age is at-
tending schoo]. Various Protestant denominations
_ are gathering many of these neglected children into
Christian day-schools and Sunday-schools.

Harvest Home anp Misston-FEstrvats. — We
are pleased to learn that our Colored congregations
in Alabama are going to give the collections which
they will lift at their annual harvest home and
mission-festivals to our Lutheran Foreign Missions
in India. Having themselves tasted the sweetness
of the precious Gospel of Jesus, they wish to help
that others may likewise share its blessings.

A Hicu-HAnbep Action. — Latvia is one of the
new states within the bounds of the former Russian
Empire; its capital is Riga. Recently the govern-
ment of this new state took the finest Lutheran
church in the whole country and gave it to the
Roman Catholics to be the cathedral church of the
Roman archbishop! Surely this is no improvement
on the doings of the Czar and does not speak well
for the Latvian government’s sense of justice.

Aw AGep East Inpra Misstonary. — Dr. W. F.
Johnson, who is now eighty-two years of age, began
his missionary labors in India sixty-three years ago.
This aged missionary was especially active along
literary lines. Among other products of his pen
his simplified version in Hindi of the four gospels
deserves particular mention.

New Mission 1n ALEXANDRIA, La. — This mis-
sion is in charge of Rev. W. Tervalon, the pastor of
our Mansura congregation. Not a few former mem-
bers of our Mansura church have removed to Alex-
andria, which will make it easy for our work to
gain a foothold in this growing city. Pastor Ger-
nannt of the white congregation in Alexandria has
offered to assist Pastor. Tervalon in the work.
A Christian d.y-school is to be opened as soon as
a competent teacher can be procured.

Arnica. — Nigeria is to be a future mission-
field of the Church of the Brethren. The English
government has received the first two missionaries
with kindness, and also the natives have given them
a cordial welcome. A station has been established
at. Garkida. — An Africa-for-Africans movement
has been set afoot in the coast towns of Southwest
Africa. There is reason to fear that this nativistic
movement may work harm for the various Christian
missionary activities in the Dark Continent.

Tue ArT OF PRINTING AND THE BIBLE. — The
first book that was ever printed with movable type
was the Bible, 467 years ago. To-day thousands of
Bibles are printed every hour to be sent into all the
corners of the inhabited world. From the time that —
the first Bible was printed till the present time the

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