The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1925, Page 123

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

ministry and teaching force in the not far
distant future. It is a very hopeful sign
that both these colleges are intended to be
built up and supported by our South Amer-
ican congregations. May God’s blessing rest
upon both of them!

In connection with the jubilee the latest
statistics will be of interest. In Brazil we
have 38 synodical congregations, 56 non-
synodical congregations, and 68 preaching-
stations. There are nearly 20,000 souls,
9,655 communicant members, and 2,674 vot-
ing members. We have at present 45 pastors
and professors at work in the Brazilian part
of the field, of whom 25 teach school. Be-
sides, there are 7 synodical and 30 non-synodical
teachers.

Among the synodical congregations there are two

View of Porto Alegre from the Top of Our School.
Picture taken in- 1902. _

consisting entirely of non-German people; they are
partly of Portuguese, partly of Negro descent and
are served in the Portuguese language. Our
mission-work among the Portuguese-Brazil-
ians has been brought almost toa standstill
by two successive revolutions of the last two
or three years. ‘The results among the
Negroes in the vicinity of Solidez, Rio
Grande do Sul, are very gratifying, however.
It is difficult to give an adequate idea of the
heartfelt gratitude of these blacks for the
saving Gospel. ‘One of their first-fruits is
a gifted, though ebony-colored and woolly-
headed student at Concordia Seminary. Work
among the Italians has also been begun,

Chapel and School in Guarany, Brazil
(A. Lehenbauer, Pastor).

Pastor F.

though it is too early to report results.
F. Carchia, a former Roman priest, Italian born,
is an ardent worker in this part of the field. He
conducts services in Portuguese, the language of the
land, but his Italian mother tongue serves him well
in private conversation and pastoral work. While
our jubilee finds our Portuguese work under the
cloud of revolutionary times, our workers are con-
fident that we may expect.a rich harvest in that
large and difficult field, and we ask our fellow-
Christians in the States to continue praying. that
the Lord would graciously send forth more laborers
into ‘this part of the harvest.

Another field was pictured to us as a promising

‘one in one of the addresses held during synod —

the State of Santa Catharina, Brazil, in whose back-
woods thousands of immigrants from Germany are
finding homes. Much of this material is hopeless
from the missionary’s viewpoint, but notwithstand-
ing the hard, godless hearts of the majority, many
a door is thrown open to the preaching of the Word
and to the religious instruction of the children in
our mission-schools. It is no exaggeration on the
part of one of our church organs to say that we need

Concordia Seminary at Porto Alegre.