The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1925, Page 11

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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teaching English in a high school, is truly be-
yond me.

But there are brighter sides to the work here in
sin-sick India. Last Sunday I again had the privi-
lege of preaching and administering the Holy Sac-
rament of the Lord’s Supper at Vadakangulam,
seventeen miles away. On my return I stopped in
at a toll-house, where I had exchanged pleasant
words with the toll-collectors on previous trips.
I asked the three or four men present what their
religious belief was. One was a Catholic, the others
were pagans; Tindus they call themselves. I asked
them whether they knew anything about the Bible.
One of them had read it at the school at which that
Masonic missionary holds forth. Upon my ques-
tioning him why one should read the Bible, he said
because of the good teachings it contained. “Yes,”
I replied, “but what is the chief reason for read-
ing it?” None know. Thereupon I spoke to them
of man’s sin and of his hopeless condition resulting
from sin; of the God-man Jesus Christ, who died
on the cross to save us from sin. I asked them
prayerfully to think about these things.

As I arose to go, it was almost pathetic to see
how the (now doubled number of) hearers expressed
their gratitude for the message, and to note with
what helpful zeal they sprang forward to help me
get my motor-cycle under way. The Gospel of
Christ, even at first hearing, manifests itself as the
power of God.

Items of Missionary Interest.

Luter Cotnecr. — Rev. Oscar Luecke has ac-
cepted the call as president of Luther College, New
Orleans, to succeed Prof. H. Meibohm, who recently
accepted a call to Northwestern College, Water-
town, Wis. Professor Luecke was inducted into
his new office on Sunday, November 23. May God’s
blessing rest upon his labors! ‘

InraraNvEL CotiEce. — Rev. A. Bergt, of Schuy-
ler, Nebr., who had been called as professor and
inspector for Immanuel Lutheran College, Greens-
boro, N. C., was obliged to decline the call because
of the strenuous insistence of his congregation that
he stay with them. ‘The call to this important
position has now been forwarded to Rey. William
Wedig, Pascagoula, Miss. May God lead the
brother to come to the right decision!

Sr. Louis, Mo. — The Board for Negro Mis-
sions is looking for a proper site for the new mis-
- sion to be opened in St. Louis, and, at the same

time, they are seeking a suitable man to take charge
of the promising field. May they find both!

Tue PresByTERIAN CHurcH, U. S. A., AND
Foreign Missions. — The 87th Report of the For-
eign Board of this denomination brings the follow-
ing interesting figures for 1924: There are in the
employ of the Board 1,600 missionaries and 8,960
native workers, who are laboring in 159 stations
and 2,911 out-stations. The Gospel was preached
in 5,777 churches and other groups of native Chris-
tians. These churches included in their member-
ship 210,325 persons, trained 129,675 for future
membership and enrolled 19,693 converts as new
members. Nearly 350,000 pupils were enrolled in
4,528 Sunday-schools. As a part of the far-reaching
work of Christian education, 2,711 day-schools with
121,179 pupils were maintained throughout the
year, and 122,043,371 printed pages were issued
from seven printing plants. Over 41,000 in-
patients and 371,917 out-patients were treated by
the 85 hospitals and 116 dispensaries of this de-
nomination. The natives for whom the mission-
aries are working showed their appreciation for the
work done for them, in gifts and fees, salaries of
native workers, church support, home and foreign
missions, buildings, and especially for educational
and medical work, ete., to the extent of no less
than $2,264,633. For every dollar given by the
American Presbyterian Church for foreign mis-
sions last year fifty-two cents were given on the
foreign field. ‘

“Fantuest Norru.” — The most northerly sta-
tion of the Presbyterians is at Point Barrow,
Alaska. Since the withdrawal of the United States
Coast Guard cutter Bear, the missionaries at this
station are out of touch .with the whole outside

- world. The last heard from them was last January,

and it is thought that no further word will come
from them till some time this coming summer. The ~
Presbyterian medical missionary stationed here also
has charge of a hospital.

A New. Missionary Orean. — Its name is The
Macedonian, and it is published by the Students’
Missionary Society of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.
This society has the purpose of systematizing the
efforts of the individual student to do his duty for
missions, to send help where it is needed, to co-
operate with the recognized agencies for missions,
the pastors of the local congregations, the city mis-
sionaries, and the synodical District at large. The
members of the Students’ Missionary Society have
restricted themselves for the present to help in