The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1927, Page 29

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. 29

real Christmas spirit had entered the village of Lo
Chia Teng. The schoolchildren of our Christian
day-school, which had been opened not long after
we had begun to preach regularly at Lo Chia Teng,
gave a Christmas program. On Christmas morning
a goodly number of the Lo clan assembled to wor-
ship the Christ-child and bring their gifts of gold,
incense, and myrrh. Strong and clear the voices
of the villagers rang out with the words, “Joy to
the World, the Lord is Come!”

What a contrast to the Christmas of four years
before! On that Christmas Day they had carried
one of their loved ones to the grave. Dread and
fear had filled their hearts at the knowledge that
they, too, must sooner or later pass into “the great
unknown.” Now. there is real joy and peace in
their hearts, for they have learned to know and
love the Christ-child.

There are thousands and thousands of villages
like Lo Chia Teng in China which have never
known Christmas and its glad tidings, where the
Christ-child was not born in the hearts of the in-
habitants. The message of the angel on the fields
of Bethlehem was: “Behold, I bring you good
tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.”
The best way in which you can show your gratitude
to our heavenly Father for His “unspeakable Gift”
is to pray and bring gifts to your Church, so that
through the missionary efforts of your Church the
Gospel of the Christ-child may be brought to many
thousands of villages whose inhabitants live as did
the villagers of Lo Chia Teng before the Christ-
child entered there.

Items of Missionary Interest.
By the Eprtor.

Superintendent Schmidt had intended to return
to his field in Alabama at the beginning of the new
year. His Chicago doctor, however, advised him to
wait a little longer. — C.F. D.

St. Louis. — Building operations are progressing
nicely, and it is hoped that the new chapel will be
dedicated during the Easter season. — Missionary
Gose has been on the indisposed list, but is gradually
recovering. — The great value of our mission-school
appears from the fact that forty-one of our pupils
Were received into the Church by Holy Baptism
during the past year. Rev. Kroenk and wife are in
charge of the school. — C.F. D.

KFUO. — Rev. Herman Hohenstein, Director of
Radio Station KFUO and my next neighbor in my
office, kindly handed me a letter which he received

from a local friend of the radio station. In this
letter the friend says among other things: “I re-
cently bought a radio and must state that I enjoy
your broadcast *most every evening and also hear
of other people who are no Lutherans that they
enjoy KFUO very much. At my working place a
colored porter tells me that he loves to listen in
and that he enjoys your program every evening, if
possible. He told me to-day that KFUO ‘is making
a Lutheran out of me yet.’ And so I could men-
tion many others who talk in favor of KFUO.”
C.F. D.

A Generous Offer.— The writer has received a
letter from a city in Wisconsin in which the glorious
news is told of two Lutheran brothers who intend
to erect a chapel in our Colored Missions every
year. They ask us to designate a place where they
can build a chapel right now. God bless these
brothers! If we receive permission to publish their
names, we shall do so in the next number of the
LuTHERAN PIONEER. — C.F. D.

Golden Jubilee of Our Missions. — This coming
July it will be exactly fifty years since our blessed
mission-work. among the colored people of our
country was begun by the adoption of a resolution
to this effect at the meeting of the Synodical Con-
ference which was held in Emmanuel Church, Fort
Wayne, Ind. The third General Conference, which
will be held in Selma, Ala., next August, is to be
a jubilee conference. The committee in charge is
making preparations for this great and glorious
event. — C. F. D.

St. Paul’s, New Orleans.— This congregation
has decided to increase its monthly contribution to
the Mission Treasury for salaries from $40 to $50
a month. Pastor Wildgrube of this station also
reports that the children’s Christmas service was
very well attended and that the schoolchildren gave
an excellent account of themselves in the service.
The receipt of a box of toys from the third and
fourth grades of Grace Lutheran School, Milwaukee,
Miss Alma Nommensen, teacher, and of a box of
clothing from Mrs. Henry Brunkhorst, Alma, Mo.,
made it possible to increase the Christmas cheer of
the members and children of the station.

Salisbury, N. C. — Teacher F. D. Dinkins of our

St. John’s Lutheran School at Salisbury reports

that the children’s Christmas service was a great
success in every way despite the fact that the
weather was very bad. Judging from Teacher Din-
kins’s enthusiastic report, the children must have -
acquitted themselves in. an admirable manner