The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1926, Page 31

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

through the columns of the Pronrrr, a task that
we gladly perform in this instance and shall be
only too happy to perform in the future should
kind friends of our Colored Missions give us an
opportunity to do so.

Pastor Peay’s Tour. — Pastor Peay is filling
thirty lecture engagements in Central Illinois. He
is speaking in the interest of the Girls’ Dormitory
at Greensboro, N. C., which has been so needed for
years. From letters written by pastors where Pas-
tor Peay has spoken, it is plain that he is meeting
with fine success. Pastor Peay may go to Kansas
- from Illinois.

L. L. L. Endowment Fund. — As friends of mis-
sions we are also interested in the Endowment Fund
of $3,000,000 which the Missouri Synod is trying
hard at this time to complete, since mission-workers
are also taken care of by this fund when incapaci-
tated for further work. The article which this
number brings, written by Pastor Kroencke, has
such a touching appeal that we are unable to sce
how any one of our readers will be able to with-
stand it. We feel that all who read Pastor
Kroencke’s pleading words will find themselves
compelled to do what Pastor Kramer’s invalid
member did, as he reports in the short article bear-
ing the title, “A Surprise,” which also appears in
this number. When other denominations are mak-
ing such strenuous and successful efforts to take
care of their old and incapacitated workers and
their families, we of the Church of the pure Gospel
- should not permit ourselves to be put to shame.
Surely, our pastors and teachers deserve it at our
. hands that we take care of them in their old age
or in sickness, since the instances are but few among
us that their salaries have been such as to make
it possible for them to lay by much for a rainy day.

Colored Missions in the Larger Cities. — Of
course, our readers know that we have a number
of prosperous colored missions in cities like Chi-
cago, St. Louis, and New Orleans. It is the opinion
of friends of our Colored Missions that this work
should be greatly extended in the near future. Our
work in Philadelphia and Chicago should be pushed,

and cities like Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwau- -

kee should be occupied as soon as possible.

The Relative Cost of Our Colored Missions. —
Contrary to what might be expected, the work of
carrying on our colored mission work in Northern
cities has been less when results are considered than

has been the work in some rural districts. In com-

parison with results attained, the cost of carrying
on colored mission work has been most expensive in
North Carolina and least expensive by far in Ala-
bama, while the work among the Negroes in North-
ern cities has cost less than one half of what it cost
in Louisiana. Of course, the light expense of the
work in Northern cities is in part to be attributed
to the fact that we have had very little building
expenses till now; in fact, only two stations have
their own buildings, Springfield and Cincinnati,
and of these the Cincinnati building is a present
from the white congregations of the city.

Mission Plants in the Colored Field. — In Lou-
isiana, all the stations except Alexandria have their
church and school.—In the Northern cities, only
Springfield and Cincinnati have their own build-
ing. — In the Carolinas only Winston-Salem is
without a church and school. High Point, N.C.,

-is in need of a school, and Spartanburg, S. C., wants

an additional schoolroom.— In the Alabama field,
the following stations are without plants of their
own: Pine Hill, Ingomar, Mobile, Atmore, Pensa-
cola, and Rockwest. Rosebud, our oldest station in
Alabama, stands in great need of a new church
and school.

Mobile, Ala. — Pastor Schink writes: “Our col-
ored work is progressing in ‘great style’ in Mobile.
Our school has an enrolment of eighty-three chil-
dren, and our services are well attended.”

America’s Debt to Missionaries. — The first plow
that cut the soil of our American prairie was held
by a missionary, and this same missionary planted
the first wheat in our country. Missionaries were
the first to cultivate sugar-cane in the South, and
they were the first to bring the orange to California.
Missionaries planted the first fig-trees in this coun-
try, and they brought the first olives here. It was
missionaries that first called attention to the pos-
sibilities of the cotton-plant, and they first dis-
covered the salt-wells of New York and the copper-
mines of Michigan.

Roman. Catholic Foreign Missions. —In Japan
and Korea there are 162,000 Roman Catholic com-
municants who are served by 282 priests; in China
there are 1,820,000 Catholics who are served by
2,380 priests; the 1,035,000 Catholics of Indo-
China are served by 1,081 foreign priests; in India
2,800 Roman priests have a native Catholic mem-
bership of 2,400,000 to care for; in Africa the
total Catholic membership is 750,000, who are in
the spiritual care of 1,903 priests; finally, in