The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1925, Page 98

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98 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

More about the Children’s Collection.

In a recent issue of this paper I reported to you
the amount received from each District for the par-
ticular building project in the Colored Missions
assigned to the school and Sunday-school children
of the respective District. No doubt, you absorbed
those figures with much interest. You found the
record of your own District or Synod and were
presumably surprised. Let me analyze your sur-
prise. You belong to one of two classes. The first
class are those belonging to congregations in which
great interest was taken in the whole building
project, the circulars distributed and read, the
envelopes passed out and again gathered in the
little paper huts and then the contents carefully
counted and immediately dispatched to their des-
tination. If you belong to this class, you wondered
that the results were not greater. The other class
are those belonging to congregations in which all
of the above things were not done or some essential
omitted. If you belong to this latter class, then
you also wondered, not that the results were not
greater, but that they were as great as they were
without the whole-hearted, enthusiastic support of
the children in your congregation.

In order that your wonder may be greater or
less, as the case may be, the report appended this
time shows the total receipts for each project, irre-
spective of where the money came from. We have
included all receipts from October 1, 1924, to
June 10, 1925. The greater portion came through
the regular channels, the various synodical treas-
urers. A large number of individual items reached
this office direct. All of the latter were not in-
cluded in the previous report, but are contained in
this one. Here it is. rpen Recital:
Pine Hill, Ala.— church and school $ 1,000.00 $ 1,655.08

Ingomar, Ala.—church and school _1,000.00 1,249.57
Kings Landing, Ala.............. 1,000.00 ‘1,001.00
Rosebud, Ala.—church and school 1,500.00 963.34
Selma, Ala.—church and school.. 3,500.00 2,634.52
Mobile, Ala.—church and school.. _ 5,500.00 5,517.43
Alabama Luther Coll peers 20,000.00 12,119.00
Alexandria, La.—church and school 6,000.00 2,253.17
Atlanta, Ga.—church ........... 8,000.00 6,433.35
High Point, N.C.—school........ 2,000.00 1,821.65
Immanuel Lutheran College, Greens- ;
IBOKOMNE Optobiae icons siniiaia ea > 5,500.00 4,181.16
Winston-Salem, N.C. — church and
‘ LUT! ondsapoopnasaBsgoedaes 8,000.00 6,437.39
Spartanburg, S. C.— addition..... 1,500.00 701.74
St. Louis, 3,736.11

.— church and school 13,000.00
: $77,500.00 $50,704.51

You will note that only four of the projects
have received sufficient offerings to cover the appro-

' priation. Most of the major projects are not even

close to the goal. You can readily understand how
this hampers your Board. We are ready to proceed
with these operations just as soon as we feel assured
that the necessary money will be available. And
the need for these buildings is greater than ever
before. The little Negro boy still sits upon the
organ because there is no other place for him to
sit; and the missionary must still hold an um-
brella over his Bible to stop the rain from falling
on it. These distressing facts should expedite all
collections that are still in progress and hurry on
those moneys that have been collected, but not yet
remitted. Tneo. W. Ecknant, Treasurer.

P.S. Send your money through your congrega-
tion to the treasurer of your District.

Reclaiming Christ’s Heritage.

VII.
JAPAN, OR NIPPON.

Japan is an island empire. It is said to include
no less than 3,000 to 4,000 islands, of which, how-
ever, only 548 have a circumference of two and one
half miles or over. Including Korea, which belongs
to Japan by annexation since 1910, the area of the
empire is 260,738 square miles. The total popula-
tion of Japan is 80,704,800. It consists of five
main islands, including Formosa, which came into
possession of Japan as a result of the war with
China in 1895. Japan proper is about the size of
Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana combined and could
be easily set down inside of California. If it were
lying off the eastern coast of our country, it would
extend along our shores from Maine to the southern
extremity of Florida.

Physical Features.

Japan is a beautiful land. Everywhere high
and rugged mountains, many of them thickly
wooded, are in sight. Placid lakes, deep bays, and
island-dotted seas give to the landscape a rare and
wondrous beauty. Handsome pines, delicate cherry
blossoms, stately -chrysanthemums, and gorgeous
lotus flowers captivate the beholder by their charm.
Few countries have an object of natural beauty to
compare with the peerless Fuji, the highest volcano
of the archipelago, which has been inactive for two:
hundred years. It is the pride of the people and
the center of their poetry and art. It is on their
lacquer trays, on silks, in paintings and carvings.
To many it is a sacred place of pilgrimage, and
thousands ascend its difficult slopes every summer.