The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1924, Sheet 30

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

His Word. They passed the lovely meeting-places
of the sects to come to the shack described above,
knowing that there they would hear the Word of
God in its original purity. The same night twenty-
five men, women, and children braved the dangers
of the neighborhood to be present at services. An
elderly widow, bringing with her two children,
transferred three times on the strect-cars, paid a
fare of sixty cents, and traveled six miles to wor-
ship in her Lutheran Church. And she lives in
the shadow of a large Baptist church! This same
faithful soul kept her children out of the public
school four months, hoping our Lutheran Church
would provide a day-school for her little ones. She
feared the contact in any other school. Finally,
she had. her elder daughter teach the little folks,
using our Concordia Publishing House books. De-
spairing of getting a Lutheran school, she this year
sent her children elsewhere. Another young man
traveled fully six miles to come to services. And he
came twice the same day, passing at least a dozen
sectarian churches. Three communicant members,
living in Bessemer, with its many churches, came
on the interurban, a distance of twelve miles, to be
present at the Communion service for the day.
Faithfulness? Loyalty? How they put us to
shame! $

And now, what about Birmingham? How long,
dear reader, are you and I going to lead these
people into temptation? We have now rented a
nice, suitable storeroom, but can have it for only

“one year. So our mission and the members be-
longing to it have a nest for twelve months; but
what then?

Pastor Holness is an active, conscientious mis-
sionary. The field is enormous in size and prom-
ising. To say nothing of mission material, we have
about thirty communicant members who already
have made their homes in that city. It is certain
that others will move there.

This is again a case of immortal souls at stake.
Shall we take care of our people in Birmingham?
Shall we reach out into the sin and vice and lead
precious souls to their Savior? If our readers will
with their prayers and contributions remember our
little flock in Birmingham, we shall erect a neat
little chapel in that city and build up a congrega-
tion to the glory of God and the salvation of im-
mortal souls.

_ Shall our pleading be in vain? =
G. A. Sousupr.

Items of Missionary Interest.

An ANNIversary. — It will be twenty-five years
this year that the Missouri Synod began its work
among the Stockbridge Indians of Wisconsin. Since
then the work has prospered. Especially since a
boarding-school was opened, have many children
been led to the Savior. ‘The present enrolment
is 130.

InpraAn Mission or tHe Wisconsin Synop. —
Since 1893 this body is working among the Apaches
of Arizona with success. The work is being carried
on at eight places. The three mission-schools have

Indian Mission Church, Red Springs, Wis. :

an enrolment of 133 pupils.. An orphanage, lately
opened, has eleven inmates. The synod has appro-
priated over $75,000 to carry on this mission for
the next two years. Recently the Roman Catholics
tried to hinder the work of the Lutheran mission-
aries, but so far without success. God grant that
our faithful laborers will succeed in gaining many
more for our Church from among the 5,500 Apaches
of Arizona! .

Forricn Missions or THE Missourr SyNop. —
‘Twenty-six foreign and 225 native workers are
laboring in the Indian field, and 16 foreign and
51 native laborers are engaged in the China field
of the Missouri Synod. A worker has been found
who will take up the work among the Mohamme-
dans of India in the near future. ‘Three new sta-

tions will soon be opened in China, in the province _