The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1927, Sheet 160

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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developing Christian citizenry. He was known in
the days of his missionary labors as the “mushing
parson.”

Bequests. — The Episcopalian St. Luke’s Hos-
pital at Shanghai, China, some months ago received
a bequest of 200,000 taels by the will of the late
Henry Lester, an English gentleman in Shanghai.—
St. Andrew’s Hospital at Wusih, China, was given a
building for the Chinese women nurses by Mr.
and Mrs. F. R. Kellogg, of Morristown, N. J. —
A Nevada miner died the other month and left his
entire estate, amounting to $30,000, to the Episco-
palian St. Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake City. —
All three of these bequests are mentioned in the
same number of Spirit of Missions, an Episcopalian
missionary monthly.

Jews of Hungary Become Christians. — Since
the World War no less than 40,000 Jews are said to
have joined Christian churches in Hungary. In
Budapest alone about 3,500 have become members of
Protestant churches in that city. — Also in Warsaw
not a few of the city’s 300,000 Jews have joined
Christian churches.

Christian Descendant of Confucius. — His name
is K’ung Hshian Hsi, and he is now in this country
to receive the degree of Doctor of Laws because of
his successful service in public office and because of
his attainments in Christian education. For several
years he was the director of the national railway and
mining departments. He has also been at the head
of the Taiku Academy, one of the missionary schools
supported by the American Board.

Medical Missions in Liberia, Africa — The Meth-
odists have two physicians in Liberia, and so have
- the Lutherans of the United Lutheran Church.
The Lutheran Muhlenberg Mission in Liberia was
founded in 1860 by Morris Officer.

To-Day in China.

Suppose you were a Chinese Christian and the
Cantonese army captured your city and you had to
choose between loyalty to your Savior and allegiance
to your country. If you openly confessed your faith
in Jesus, you would probably be subjected to perse-
cution and ill treatment at the hands of the soldiers,
who would call you a “Christian slaye” and the
“running dog of the foreigner.” If you did not
_ have the courage to stand up for Jesus, you would

Christianity is a foreign religion. ‘This is the
problem that is facing not a few men and women in
many parts of China to-day.

Since the summer of 1926 the Southern, or
Cantonese, army, representing the so-called Na-
tionalist party, has conquered a large part of China.
One of the groups of this party is strongly anti-
christian and antiforeign; so when a province is
taken by a Cantonese army and the radical element
is strong, agitators stir up the people, forming them
into unions, which often present impossible demands
to mission-stations and schools. In one city, for
example, it was demanded by these radicals that all
Christian education be banned from the mission-
schools, that none of the teachers be permitted to
attend Christian church services or read their
Bibles, and that at the request of the pupils and the
radical union they may be expelled if they do so.

Acting on the advice of our American consuls,
all our missionaries, excepting one, have left their
stations at Hankow as well as those still farther in
the interior, and are now in Shanghai or on their
way to America. At Shanghai they can easily be
protected in case of any antiforeign disturbances.
Because Hankow is an inland city and occupied by
Nationalist forces, our missionaries could have
done no work had they stayed; though it was per-
fectly proper, no doubt, that our senior missionary,

Rev. E. L. Arndt, remained on the ground for

various reasons. We hope that in the near future
it will be possible for our foreign workers to return
to their stations in Hankow, Ichang, Kweifu, Shasi,
Shihnanfu, and Wanhsien and resume their friendly
cooperation with the Chinese. Latest reports seem
to indicate that such a wish may soon be fulfilled,
since Hankow is reported under control of General
Ho Chien, a Conservative Southern Nationalist, in
a coup d’elat against the radicals. Borodin, the
Soviet Russian mischief-maker, is reported as
having left the scene of action, and this may mean
that the conservative part of the Nationalist party
will get into permanent power. But should this
become true, it will probably mean that Christian
missions will soon be able to function as they did
before. F.J.L.

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Do not try to hide behind the plea that God

will be merciful to the heathen when you cannot
even take time to pray for them. ;

find yourself joined by, and in the company of, ‘Tx weakness of many missionary sermons is

radicals who are doing their utmost to close

“mMission-schools because they are of the opinion that

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that they are long on exhortation and short on facts.
Men are convinced by facts more than by theory.

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