The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1926, Page 124

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

A Prosperous Colored Church. — Chicago has
a colored Baptist church which is served by five
pastors. Its membership totals 10,000 souls. The
head pastor has a monthly salary of $500, and the
Sunday collections are said to range from $500
to $700.

Also Missionary Work.— Most reprehensible
and very dangerous “missionary” work is done by
the Communists of our country. Last year they
are said to have spent no less than $1,000,000 in
doing propaganda work among the people of this
land. ‘The secretary of the Communist party in
America boasts of the work the party is doing and
of the success it is having in inducing people to
accept their dangerous creed.

African “Scientists.’— The Batangi, a race
which lives in the interior of Africa, reverse the
Darwinian theory of evolution by claiming that
monkeys are descended from man! Of course, they
are just as wrong as are our evolutionistic scien-
tists and have just as little reason to accept their
theory as have our evolutionists.

The Mormons.— The Mormon sect is said to
double itself every twenty-five years. They have
over a thousand missionaries at work in the United
States alone. In their missionary zeal the Mor-
mons are the equals of the Mohammedans. If we
Christians were as zealous in spreading the Gospel
of Jesus, the whole world would soon be evangel-
ized. We are told that, as a rule, the missionaries
among the Mormons bear their own expenses and
collect for their own support as they go from place
to place.

A Task of Love. — A native Christian in Japan
copied the whole Bible on a piece of paper six feet
long. He wrote every word by hand, and it took
him seven years to do it.

Antichristian Agitation in China. — The Dansk
Missionsblad reports that of ninety-five antichris-
tian articles in the Chinese press, thirty-six attacked
mission-schools, thirty-four condemned Christianity
in general, and eleven were aimed at Christians
personally.

Chinese Christians and Giving.—The total
budget of the Presbyterian Chinese Missions is over

_ $1,250,000; but sixty per cent. of this is borne by

the Chinese Christians themselves. A missionary
reports that a poor Chinese woman, totally blind,

_ who had heard the missionary’s appeal to a wealthy

neighbor, borrowed two copper coins (half an
American cent) from another of the four families
in the little three-room court where she lived, so

that she, too, might give. Reports indicate that the
Chinese Christians are giving in a measure that
American Christians have not yet equaled. — So,
too, we learn that three-fourths of the large yearly
budget of Linghan University at Canton comes
from Chinese sources. This university has over |
1,200 students and has all the ordinary schools and
departments of an American University.

Convention of Synodical Conference. — Soon
after these lines will be read by our readers, the
representatives of the several synods comprising the
Synodical Conference will meet at Lockport, N. Y.,
in the congregation of Pastor Herman Meier, Lock-
port, N. Y. Delegates should promptly inform
Pastor Meier of their coming. His address is
120 Saxton St., Lockport, N.Y. The convention
begins August 18.

Conference at-Mansura, La.— Delegates from
the colored congregations of Louisiana, together
with their pastors, met at Mansura from July 28
to August 1. We understand that a very instruc-
tive program was carried out and that the enter-
taining congregation did its full duty in every way.

Lutherans in America.— People do not, as
a rule, realize that’ there were Lutherans in what
is now New York City almost a hundred and fifty
years before the Methodists set foot on our soil,
more than fifty years before the coming of the
Presbyterians, and fifteen years before the first
Baptists landed there.

St. Philip’s, Chicago. — Not many months, and
the good people of our colored congregation in
Chicago will be able to worship in their own church.
The cornerstone was laid a few months ago, and
knowing how quickly buildings are reared in
Chicago, we shall, no doubt, soon hear of the dedi-
cation of the new church.

Salisbury, N. C.— From Salisbury Mr. F. D.
Dinkins writes that the good work there is pro-
gressing. Just recently three girls who attended
the mission day-school were added to the number
of communicant members. Mr. Dinkins’s letter
breathes the spirit of hopefulness throughout. If
all those connected with our little St. John’s Con-
gregation at Salisbury have the same love for their
church that he has and all of them translate their
love into deeds, the little flock, by God’s help, will
soon grow in number and influence.

Ecuador, South America. — Among the Indians
of Ecuador there is.a tribe of head-hunters who
have a practise of curing the heads of the enemies
they kill. They cut off the head, remove the bones,