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as the funds are at hand.- May the boys and girls
of the English District, who are to collect for Alex-
andria, make it possible to give this station a new
building as soon as possible!

ImMANUEL Lururran Cornrcre. — Pastor A.
Bergt, of Schuyler, Nebr., has been called to a pro-
fessorship at this institution.

VALPARAISO, INpD.— Immanuel Lutheran Church,
Valparaiso, Ind., has a radio broadcasting station
of its own. It is a station of considerable power,
being in the 500 watt class. Its meter length is
278, and its name is WRBC, “World Redeemed by
Christ.” Pastor George Schutes, the pastor of Im-
manuel Church, was formerly one of our mission-
aries at Salisbury, N.C. Here is a station that is
put fully in the service of the Lord and His Gospel,
a station that is doing true mission-work. The
Sunday evening service is broadcast at 7.30. On
Mondays, at the same hour, organ recitals, choir
singing, and helpful addresses are sent out.

Kasr Ciricaco, Inv. — Pastor Theo. Claus, the
pastor in charge of our church at this place, has
begun successful work among the many Mexicans
that have lately settled there. His Sunday-school
is in a flourishing condition and increasing in at-
tendance from Sunday to Sunday. Pastor Claus is
to be admired for his missionary zeal, which im-
pelled him to take up the study of Spanish at his
time in life. He is conducting his work in a former
public school building, which has been kindly put
at his disposal for several hours every Sunday by
the civil authorities.

CotumBus, 0.— From this city the following
interesting missionary item has been sent us by
Pastor Geo. Allenbach: “Have taken up my work
again in the various institutions since my return
from my vacation. Am preaching at the State
Home for the Feeble-minded here in Columbus
every Sunday morning to an audience of 1,200.
These are not idiots, but only subnormal mentally
and have been taught in the day-school to read and
write almost as well as normals. Of course, the
rest of the inmates of this Home — more than
2,000 — are not teachable. As I have opportunity,
T also preach, about once in three or four weeks, at
the State Hospital for the Insane to about 400;
at Lancaster, in the State Industrial School for
Boys, to over 1,200; at Mount Vernon, to the pa-
tients of the State Sanatorium for the Tuberculous,
about 250, every Wednesday evening; and at Chil-
licothe, to the patients of the Federal Hospital for
World War Invalids, every three weeks, to about

150. This last is a new institution, and the number
of patients is rapidly increasing. I was the first
to get in my bid for service, for which they seem
to be sincerely grateful. You see I have quite a
large and varied audience.” May we add that
Pastor Allenbach is a man over sixty years of age?
It isn’t only in the young that you find the desire
and the ability to work. One would have to travel
far to find another man with the capacity for work
that is shown by this veteran.

Deaconess Worx. — This work is making good
progress among us. Some time ago three deacon-
esses from the Fort Wayne Training-school were
installed at a special service at St. Paul’s Church,
Fort Wayne, Ind. — The present enrolment at the
various training-schools totals twenty-four students.
The fourth annual meeting of the Lutheran Dea-
coness Association was held at Fort Wayne in Sep-
tember. Because of the great need of trained
woman workers in the Church a resolution was
passed to open a summer school at Watertown, Wis.,
which will offer instruction in parish-mission work,
in institutional mission work, and in religious social
work. The course is to be both theoretical and
practical. — Because of the expansion of the work
an increase in membership is desirable, for which
reason all friends of missionary endeavor are en-
couraged to join the Deaconess Association by send-
ing a dollar to the Lutheran Deaconess Home, 2916
Fairfield Ave., Fort Wayne, Ind: This includes a
subscription for the Lutheran Deaconess, a quar-
terly edited by Rev. F. W. Herzberger. *

Woman Workers IN Ovr ForeicN Mission
Fretps. — At present we have eight woman workers
in the foreign field, three of whom are working in
China and five in India. Four of these workers
are registered nurses, while the other four are serv-
ing as teachers and zenana workers.

Tue Success or Instirutronan Worx. — ‘The
following gleanings from the report of Superin-
tendent H. F. Wind, Buffalo, N. Y., will show our
readers how signally the Lord blesses this phase of
missionary endeavor: Twenty institutions were
visited 693 times during the year, the Gospel was
brought to 3,932 persons upon occasion of these
visits, and 1,392 of these professed membership in
our Church. Nine prisoners were led to Jesus dur-
ing the year.

Sr. Louis, Mo. — Our Colored Mission in
St. Louis was begun twenty-one years ago. During
the first fifteen years of its existence it was com-
pelled to move not less than thirteen times. Most