The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1925, Page 159

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After a short time he was taken on as a worker,
given a salary, and permitted to preach. But after
some weeks it was found that this man, instead
of preaching the Cross of Christ, was actually
preaching against it and the people who were sup-
porting him. Further investigation brought to
light the fact that he had been sent by the Arya
Samaj, an antichristian society, to destroy the flock.
How very much like what the so-called Modernists
are doing to-day in certain denominations! This
emissary of the Arya Samaj was no more a wolf
in sheep’s clothing than are those who are now
“troubling Israel” in the guise of Christian min-
isters while in reality they deny every doctrine of
the Christian religion.

India Missions. — At present there are 125 mis-
sion agencies at work among the 320,000,000 in-
habitants of India. The fact that only about
40,000 of the 750,000 villages of India have Chris-
tians among their inhabitants shows that we are
yet far from having occupied the land as we should.
There is still much to be done before we may
supinely fold our hands and think of resting from
our missionary labors in India!

Rapid Progress. — In another part of this issue
our readers may learn of the slow progress that the
Gospel is making in the Near East of Asia. In
other parts of the mission-field the progress is so
rapid and the harvest so plentiful that the workers
experience one surprise after the other. Twenty
years ago the Presbyterians made a small begin-
ning in Kamerun, and to-day they have over 700
congregations with thousands of members and other
thousands under instruction. In their 600 mission-
schools they are instructing ten thousands of
heathen children daily in the Word of God. - The
liberality of the natives is said to be astonishing.
Though poor, they are taking care of the material
wants of almost the whole native staff of workers.

Mission to the Aristocracy of India. — John
Chowdhuri, son of a converted Brahmin of Bengal,
is one of the few Christians who by personal efforts

are endeavoring to send the Gospel into the palaces
of native’ princes and the homes of noble and
wealthy personages.. And there are more of these
than one would surmise in poverty-stricken India.
It is a land of many languages, dotted over
with more than 00 semi-independent communities
known as “Native States,” varying in size and
importance from the small holdings of a wealthy
landowner to such large states as Mysore and
Travancore. These states are all tributary in vary-

ing degrees to the British Government in returr.
for British protection. ‘They have their own rulers,
and many of them have their own laws, postal sys-
tems, etc. Besides these organized native states
there are many Indian princes of considerable
wealth, but no longer rulers of territories, scattered
throughout the country. Among these classes
Chowdhuri, aided by friends, who have formed the
“Mission to the Aristocracy,” has been laboring for
nine or ten years, mainly through personal letters
and Christian literature. It is an earnest and un-
heralded effort to bear witness to Christ and the
power of the Word. Fruitless endeavors? Who
knows? Paul’s message found its way into the
imperial palace. — Lutheran Standard.

Antichristian Wave Sweeps China. — The anti-
christian feeling is still high in some parts of
Southern China. Some schools and colleges have
not yet been reopened. Bolshevist propaganda is
being spread over a wide area, and in many in-
stances native Christians who refused to contribute
to this propaganda have been killed.

New Leper Asylum in India. — At the request
of the government of the Madras Presidency, mis-
sionaries of the United Free Church of Scotland
are to undertake the management of the new insti-
tution at Tirumani, near Chengalpat (in the former
Leipzig Mission), for the care of Indian lepers.
The larger part of the cost of maintenance will be
borne by the government, including the salaries of
a medical missionary, a matron, and probably the
needed nurses. The Mission to Lepers has agreed

-to provide the salary of the superintendent. Four
hundred patients now in a leper asylum in Madras

will be transferred to the new institution as soon
as it is opened. It is intended to provide eventually
for 3,000 lepers. — Sel. .

Gifts to Missions. — The Baptist Missionary So-
ciety reveals a remarkable case. A would-be mis-
sionary who had been’ rejected for service on the
Congo, owing to ill health, decided instead to go
into business, and to devote, all his profits to the
society. This was ten years ago. Already he has
given £25,000 to the cause. He was twent y-five
years old when the doctor refused to pass him. He
said, “I have £75 in loose money at the present
moment. I will give it. As I cannot work myself,
the money shall work for me.” Though he began
business without any capital, during the next year
he gave £480. In the third year he gave £1,000;
in the sixth year, £3,000; in the tenth, £4,908.
Tn the year of his marriage his subscription was