The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1925, Page 71

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Colorado District ............++
Eastern District ...............
Michigan District

North Wisconsin District.......
South Dakota District .........
Southern District .............
South Wisconsin District ...... 2,7

$9,804.85

Alexandria, La., chureh and school.
English District ...............
Atlanta, Ga., church ..............
Central District ...............$5,304.16
High Point, N.C., school ..........
Southern Nebraska District.....
Immanuel Lutheran College, €
boro, N.C. ......
Central Hlinois Distri

$6,000.00
$1,782.07
$8,000.00

$2,000.00
$1,549.15
Greens-
ot $5,500.00

.. $1,428.66

Northern Illinois District *. A 122.24
Southern Illinois District . . 1,194.70
Norwegian Synod .............. 385.00

$3,130.60

Winston-Salem, N. C., chapel and
school
Towa District .

$8,000.00

Spartanburg, 8. C., addition ....... $1,500.00
Oregon and Washington District $469.06
North Dakota and Montana Dis-
trictie tie nieces setateercieem create 165.58
$634.64
St. Louis, Mo., chureh and school. . $13,000.00

Western District ............. rs 2,993.89

Tureo. W. EcKILART,

3558 S. Jefferson Ave.,

Treasurer,
St. Louis, Mo.

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Our Missions in China.

Our mission-work in China is car-
ried on in two provinces, Hupeh and
Szechwan. At the recent census the
population of Hupeh was given as
28,574,322 and that of Szechwan as
61,444,699 souls. It might be said
that no exact census of China has
ever been taken. ‘The estimates yary
greatly. However, the foregoing fig-
ures are official and rather understate
the actual population. Have you
noticed that the above two provinces
together lack only some twenty mil-
lion of the entire population of the
United States?

Both Hupeh and Szechwan lie on
the Yangtze River. With one excep-
tion all our stations can be reached
by steamer.

Some 150 religious organizations

* See footnote on preceding page.

of all descriptions are doing some form of “Prot-
estant” missionary work in China. In Hupeh there
are twenty-four and in Szechwan eighteen. The
total number of foreign missionaries last year was
389 in Hupeh and 543 in Szechwan. The whole
number of Christians for Hupeh was said to be
26,364 and for Szechwan 32,942.

Our own work was begun in 1913. At that time
a missionary society had been formed by members
of the synods of Missouri and of Wisconsin, under
the leadership of the Rev. E. L. Arndt. After they
had carefully looked over the ground, they decided
to begin work in Hankow. In 1917 this society
offered the mission to the Synod of Missouri, which
accepted the proffer. The original society then
disbanded.

Hankow, together with the sister cities of
Wuchang, the capital of the province, and Hanyang,
the great steel and iron center, has a population
frequently estimated at 1,500,000. It is believed
that no city in China has a brighter commercial
future than Hankow. Its growth has been as
phenomenal as’ that of Chicago. Ocean-going
steamers of medium tonnage ply between American
and European ports right through to the Hankow
docks. All of Central and Western China is tribu-

MONGOLIA

Map of China Showing Location of Hupeh Province together with:

Our Three Mission-Stations.

Kikungshan (dshigungssahn) and Kuling (guling) are summer-resorts.
At Peking is the language school.

Shanghai is the landing-place.