The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1927, Page 42

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moved. Some of the articles taken from the chapel
were found in the homes of natives near-by; but
though the police were notified, nothing was done to
restore the stolen property to the rightful owners.
The officials made a few arrests, but soon liberated
the marauders again. This chapel is located in the
heart of the native city, at Lao Kuan Miao. Other
chapels were also disturbed, but no serious damage
was done.

Worthy of: Imitation. — Stolper Brothers, of
Plymouth, Wis., members of a Wisconsin Synod
congregation, are going to build a chapel for
Colored Missions every year!

At Last! — The contract for the girls’ dormitory
at Greensboro, Immanuel College, was signed
January 26. The cost will be a little over $41,000.
“We were a happy lot,” writes a correspondent from
Greensboro, “when the work on the new building
was started. Including the basement, it will be
four stories high. At the present time the basement
has been excavated, and the foundation cement is
being laid.”

The Crisis of Mission Endeavor. — At the crisis
of an important battle which proved to be the
turning-point of the war, one of the commanding
generals sent word to the supreme command: “My
right wing has been driven back; my left has been
turned; my center has been smashed. I have or-
dered an advance along the whole front in all direc-
tions.” These were the words of a man of faith
and initiative. The result was that from that time
on the tide turned. — Let us take a pattern from
this general. Though our forces may be diminished
by the defection of many; though the treasuries
may have a heavy drain put upon them; though
there may be many demands made upon us, — the
Leader and Commander of the Christian army
orders an “advance along the whole front in all
directions.” We are at the crisis of the war, but
we should have no doubt as to the final outcome.
We are at the crisis of missionary endeavor, and we
should have no doubt as to its final outcome.
Trusting in the promises and strength of our
Champion, let us advance in all directions!

As Others See Us.—A gold coin from the United
States labeled “Christian Idol from America” is a
part of a collection of idols from many lands pos-
sessed by a man in India. — Lutheran.

Orientals in California. — There are 28,812

Chinese in California and 71,952 Japanese. The
Chinese population is steadily decreasing, due to
4 heavy death-rate and to voluntary migration back

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

to China. The Japanese are steadily increasing,
due to the establishment of family life and the
rearing of large families of children. The Chinese
come to sojourn, the Japanese. to colonize and to
build a permanent community life. The Church
must see a great missionary obligation in these
great numbers of Orientals.

Indians in the Great Lakes Region.—The native
Redman is still to be found here in his old haunts.
Scattered throughout Michigan and Wisconsin are
not a few Indian missions. The Lutheran Church
has several. The Presbyterians have a number.
And the Methodists have more Indian missions in
these two States than in any other two of the Union,
namely, fourteen.

The Calumet Region. — In the famous Calumet
Region of Northwestern Indiana, Whiting, Fast
Chicago, Indiana Harbor, Hammond, and Gary
comprise one of the most promising “foreign”
mission fields imaginable. Over ninety-five per
cent. of the people in this section are “foreigners.”
The religious needs are acute. Such “foreign”
mission fields are to be found in all our larger
industrial centers.

If Every Church-Member in the United States
Tithed. — The 1925 statistics of church denomina-
tions give the total number of communicants in our
country as 46,883,756. If the average income of
these church-members is equal to the average income
of other people, the per capita income of each will
be about $500 a year. By multiplying the total
number of communicants with the per capita in-
come and then taking the tithe of it, you get, as a
result, the astounding sum of $2,344,187,800! What
an amount of good could be done with this great
sum! Fifty million outcasts in India would find
light and life. Christianity could call a halt to
the onward progress of Mohammedanism in Africa
and win for Christ the 80,000,000 blacks in that
continent. In the homeland every minister’s salary
could be increased—and some of them are in
desperate need of it! very church could have its
own Christian day-school in charge of competent
Christian. teachers. All the mission boards could
carry on their work with joy, and our higher
schools of learning would flourish. Humanly speak-
ing, the simple matter of giving a tenth of our
income would mean the beginning of a new world.
Go and figure it out for yourself!

Rosebud, Ala.—In Christ Church a special

jubilee service is to be held next July upon the
occasion of the Third General Conference, to com-