The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1928, Page 46

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

Fifty Years’ Progress. — In 1879 Japan had not
quite 3,000 church-members; to-day it has almost
135,000 Protestant communicants. In 1878 Korea
had not -been entered by Protestant Christian
forces; to-day it has 112,000 Protestant members.
In 1877 China’s total Protestant membership was
a little over 13,000; at present there are not many
less than a half-million members in the evangelical
churches of China. The Philippines had not been
entered by Protestant missionaries fifty years ago;
but to-day there are about 65,000 Protestant church-
members in the islands. The evangelical church-
members of the Netherland Indies numbered a little
over 100,000 in 1880; but this number had grown
to almost 500,000 in 1925. India had a Protestant
church-membership of almost 110,000 in 1878; the
number to-day is over 800,000.

Nanking Professors Invited Back. — Fifteen
American members on the staff of the Nanking
Theological Seminary, Nanking, China, have been
asked to come back to their posts by the Chinese
members of the faculty. These: American professors
left Nanking last spring at the time of the tragic
attack upon foreigners.

Famine in North China. — Sixty-five of the 107
counties of Shantung Province are suffering from
famine. The conditions are said to be appalling.
The famine is due to drought and a visitation of
locusts. In Southern Chihli, conditions are also
bad. All told, nine million persons are suffering in
the two provinces named.

Miss Jane Moffat’s Death. — Miss Jane Moffat
was the last surviving child of Robert Moffat, the
noted South African missionary and father-in-law
of David Livingstone. Miss Moffat was the sister
of Livingstone’s wife. She recently died in South
London in her eighty-eighth year.

Robert College’s First Help. —It is now ‘sixty-
six years ago that Christopher R. Robert supplied
the $30,000 necessary to start Robert College
founded in Constantinople. The college, from the
very beginning, has been a potent factor for good,
especially for Bulgaria, and has done much to draw
attention to the Christian religion among Moham-
medans.

Educating Five Boys on $2.80 a Month! —
A servant in one of the lowest capacities in con-
nection with a regiment of soldiers became a Chris-
tian. He was the proud father of five boys and
two girls, but was receiving only $2.80 a month in
the way of wages. He went to the principal of
Reid Christian College and pleaded so long till his
two older boys were admitted without being obliged

to pay tuition, though the father had to pay for
their board out of his meager salary. Since then
the other three brothers have gone through the
same school; for as soon as the older ones were in
a position to do so, they bore the expenses of edu-
cating the younger ones. The oldest one of the sons
holds a high position in Government employ; the
second is a successful photographer; the third is
serving the Government as a medical officer; the
fourth has entered business; and the fifth is still
in school. All of them are liberal church con-
tributors. ;

Mormon Propaganda. — Mormon missionaries
have found a fruitful field for their work on Long
Island. Foreigners are particularly their prey. At
Jamaica, L.I., two Mormon women missionaries
who know German are devoting all their energies
and time to the newly immigrated Germans.
Sunday-schools are organized by these workers into
which they try to inveigle children, without telling
them, of course, that these schools are not Christian.
They expect these Sunday-schools to develop into
Mormon churches in the course of time.

BOOK TABLE.

Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo., has sent
us the following publications for review: —

Synodical Reports of the Missouri Synod, 1927.
Central District. 112 pages. Doctrinal papers: “Die
beiden Staende Christi,’ by Prof. E. Schnedler;
“Civil Government,” by Rev, A. C. Mueller. Price,
70 cts.— Texas District. 63 pages. Price, 40 cts.
Doctrinal paper: “Der siebte Artikel der Konkor-
dienformel: ‘Yom heiligen Abendmahl Christi,”
by Rey. E. Moerbe.— Oregon and Washington Dis-
trict. 40 pages. Price, 25 ets. Doctrinal paper:
“Wie erziehen wir unsere Christen zur Liebestactig-
keit?” by Rev. M. C. Kauth.— Western District.
39 pages. Price, 25 ets. Doctrinal paper: “Die
Kraft des Evangeliums in bezug auf Gaben fuer
Gottes Reich,” by Prof. F. Pieper, D. D.— Northern
Nebraska District (German report). 43 pages.
Price, 30 cts. Doctrinal paper: “Unsere Stellung
zur Heiligen Schrift nach ihrem Wesen wnd Ur-
sprung,” by Rev. IE. Gehrke. — Northern Nebraska
District (Iinglish report). 52 pages. Price, 30 cts.
Doctrinal paper: “What a Lutheran Christian Should
Know about Synod,” by Rey. J. Holstein. The Ger-
man report brings a résumé of the English paper;
the English report, of the German paper.

The Testimony of Science. By W. H. T. Dau, D. D.,.
President, Valparaiso University. 40 pages. Price,
15 cts.; 100, @ 10 cts.

The introductory chapter of this booklet of seven chap-
ters, on the value and true position of science, was spoken.
from Radio Station KFUO on October 21, 1927. The
other six chapters bring the testimony of science on cos-
mogony, physics, biology, botany and zoology, anthro-
pology, physiology, and psychology, and on astronomy and.
geology. These six chapters were delivered, in part, in
the form of an address at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis,
on October 21, 1927, and later amplified by the addition
of other testimonies. The fact that Dr. Dau is the author
will assure all our readers of the value of the booklet,