The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1924, Sheet 31

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of Szechwan. This province has a population of
60,000,000. Our laborers will be the first Lutheran
missionaries in this great field. A medical mis-
sionary has also been gained for the China field in
the person of Dr. P. Kleid.

Aw Aqrep Worker Stricken. — The sad news
comes to us from New Orleans that our faithful
old friend, Teacher D. Meibohm, recently suffered

Teacher Eugene Vix. Teacher D. Meibohm.

a mild stroke of apoplexy. We hope that the im-
provement in his condition which his son reports to
us may be permanent, and that he may soon be able
to be about again. Mr. Meibohm, who looks back
upon more than half a century’s service as a teacher,

Mount Zion Church and School.

entered the Negro Mission field about thirty-two
years ago and, together with the sainted Mr. Eugene
Vix, conducted the Mount Zion Mission School with
singular ability and success. FJ. LL.

A New Lurmeran Nxoro Mission 1n Sourit
America. — Rey. Aug. Drews, a pastor of the Mis-
souri Synod working among the white natives of
Brazil, recently opened a mission among the
Negroes in Solidez. ‘The spiritual need of the
Negroes of Brazil is incredibly great, and it was
this deplorable condition that induced Pastor Drews
to begin the work among them. For the present,
services are being held in the home of a Negro

named Valerio Antonio Alves, whose son intends
to enter our theological seminary at Porto Alegre.
These services are very well attended. A friend of
the work, Mr. Emile Wille, has donated a lot, and
almost enough money is already on hand to build
a chapel. As soon as the chapel will be completed,
the missionary hopes to be able to open a Christian
day-school for Colored children. Pastor Drews is
also preaching at another place, near Solidez. This
other place of worship is a mud hut with a roof of
straw, so low that it is impossible to stand erect in
the building. God prosper the mission-work among
the Negroes of Brazil!

The Greatest Mission Factor.

The Bible is God’s light and truth, reduced to
writing. It is the written revelation of God. Jesus
Christ was a living revelation of God; He was God
made manifest in the flesh. The Bible is the light-
dispenser that dispels the darkness covering the
earth and the gross darkness of the people. It is
this because it bears testimony of Christ, the only
Redeemer and Savior of mankind. As the sunlight
dispels the darkness of the night, so God’s Word
dispels the night of sin.

Yo send the Bible abroad is the most effective
mission-work that can be done. But to do this costs
money. It costs millions of dollars every year to
send the light to other lands. Printing the Bibles
costs much money, and paying the salaries of the
many self-sacrificing colporteurs, who take the
Bible to all the parts of the world, is another great
expense item, though most of the colporteurs get
a mere pittance.

“What are you selling?” a native of India one
day asked a colporteur.

“Books that tell the story of Jesus,” answered
the man who was putting into practical obedience
the command of Jesus, “Go.”

“Oh, then they must be good books.”

The native bought one and said to his com-
panions: “Books that speak about Jesus cannot but
do you good. Buy them.” ‘Thirty men did so. —

The Bible is printed in 713 languages and dia-
lects. ‘This alone shows that it is a popular book.
Tt goes among people weighted down under super-
stition, formalism, ignorance, and sin and frees
them from their awful load. Where the Bible is
read, there Christ comes with His light and His
grace. ;

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