The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1925, Page 95

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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America, came into our hands. From the well-
edited and neatly printed quarterly we learn that
the United Lutherans are conducting missions
among the Jews in four cities of our country:
Christ Mission, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Messiah Mission,
Philadelphia; Salem Mission, Baltimore; Em-
manuel Mission, Toledo, O. The committee is
earnestly thinking of expanding the work, and upon
the whole we get the impression that the work of
the United Lutherans is meeting with much en-
thusiastic support from many members.

Number of Jews in New York. — In New
York City, where the Missouri Synod of the Ev.
Luth. Synodical Conference has been working
among the Jews for many years, the last census

Daniel Landsmann, Our First Missionary among
the Jews of New York City.

shows that there are 2,056,956 Jews. Surely a large
field for our missionary, the Rey. N. Friedmann.
The number of Catholics, as revealed by this census,
is 1,440,635; the number of Protestants, 2,122,457.
This means that, while just now the Protestant
membership of New York City still exceeds the
Jewish population by about 65,000 persons, it will
only be a few years until Judaism will be able to
claim the most numerous religious affiliation in the
city, since the rate of increase among them is far
greater than among the Christians.

Tr is easier to make speeches and write articles
about the Negro and his shortcomings than it is to
help one black man or woman to self-supporting
industry, law-abiding patriotism, self-respecting

. home life, and sincere Christianity.

Just a Little Tract.

In promoting Christ’s kingdom, let us not for-
get to make use of tracts and folders. Permit me
to relate a personal experience.

A number of years ago a young lady, together
with many others, was employed at a large printing
establishment. As usual, mother packed her lunch,
but this time wrapped it in the front pages of the
Young Lutherans’ Magazine. At noontime, when
the whistle blew, every one went to enjoy his or her
little lunch. This particular young lady, after un-
wrapping her lunch, placed the wrapping-paper be-
side her. A middle-aged Scotchman happened by
and espied the front page of the Young Lutherans’

Nathanael Friedmann, Our Present Missionary
among the Jews of New York City.

Magazine. He began to read it. He read also the
second page until the article begun on the first
page was ended. It was an article which presented
one of the doctrinal truths of the Bible.

When he had finished reading, he asked who put
this paper on the floor. When his question was
answered and he had found the young lady, he said
that this was the best thing he had ever read on
that subject; it was the very opposite from what
he had been taught to believe. He had at one time
been a devoted Catholic, had attended none but
Catholic parochial schools, had been a choir boy at
one of Cincinnati’s Catholic churches, and had quite
often thought it a special act of worship to climb
a certain stairs at Cincinnati. For many years,
however, he had attended no church af all, but this
article in that little magazine now made him stop
to think. ~