The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1928, Page 91

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. 91

on the fields; -for they are already white unto the
harvest. The harvest, truly, is great, but the la-
borers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the
harvest that He would send forth laborers into His
harvest.” And to those who obey He says: “Lo,
I am with you always, even unto the end of the
world. Amen.”

Nore. — This article is a reprint of a tract by Dr. John
M. Springer, who has given us permission to use it and
has also kindly lent us the cut accompanying the article.

Items of Missionary Interest.
By the Eprror.

Cleveland, 0.— The first Sunday in May, Pastor
Katt baptized four colored children. A boy who
is to be confirmed this year has the desire to study
for the ministry, says Pastor Katt. The mother
of the boy is a widow, but is willing to give up her
boy in order that the boy’s wishes may be realized.

Mount Zion, New Orleans. — When this issue of
the PIioNEER will reach the hands of its readers,
Mount Zion will have celebrated its golden jubilee.
The editor of the PronEEr has been asked to deliver
the jubilee sermon on Sunday morning, May 20.
In a reunion service to be held in the afternoon of
the anniversary Sunday, Pastor Kuss and Pastor
Kramer will deliver addresses. In a special evening
service Pastor er ealon, of Napoleonville, will
preach.

Immanuel Lutheran Conference convened in
March at Concord, N.C. We are sorry not to be
in a position to tell our readers more about this
conference of the workers of the Southeastern Field.

Mobile, Ala. — Pastor G. Kreft has asked for a
year’s leave of absence. The board has granted
his request. A candidate will be called to fill his
place while he is gone.

Alabama Luther College. — Next school-year
this school will need another instructor. The Board
has granted it another teacher. The school also
needs another classroom and more equipment for
its laboratory and library. The enrolment is wholly
Lutheran, since the number of applications of Lu-
therans has been so great from the beginning that
others could not be accommodated.

Immanuel College. — This school needs better
equipment for its Economics Department, and its
library also stands in great need of enlargement.
Other improvements are also sorely needed.

What We Spend for Luxuries.—A total of
$22,000,000,000 is annually spent in our country

for what the Government statistician calls “lux-
uries.” This is three hundred times more than is
annually spent for missionary work and more than
fifty times the amount spent for all church-work.

Korea.— The Christian Church has been at
work in Korea for forty-five years, and the native
Christian community to-day already numbers three
hundred thousand. Million portions of the Bible
are sold in Korea every year.

What Is My Share of the
Missionary Enterprise?
J TueEss. 1, 1—10.

My share may be: —
Money.

The Romans worshiped their standard, and the
Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our
standard is only one-tenth of an eagle, a dollar;
but we make it even by adoring it with tenfold
devotion.

Yielding my life for the cause.

After the Mexican War, Melinda Rankin tried
in vain to rouse the churches of the United States
to send missionaries to Mexico., At last she ex-
claimed: “God helping me, I’ll go myself!”
Supporting a missionary.

An English lady gave liberally for the support
of a missionary in India. When the two met, the
missionary expressed great appreciation for the help
she had received. But the lady, with an earnest
look, said: “You are under no more obligation to
go and teach the women of India than I am.”

Hearing the cry of heathendom. If I cannot heed
it, get others to do so.

“Paint a starless sky; hang your picture with
night; drape your mountains with far-reaching
vistas of darkness; darken all the past; let the
future be draped in deeper and yet deeper night;
fill this gloom with sad-faced men, women, and
children crying for light” —that is the cry of
heathendom.

Advocating the giving of one-tenth of one’s income (
to the Lord’s work.

Did you know that every Mormon who joins
their sect is pledged to give one-tenth of his income
for the spread of Mormonism? Thus the authorities
have plenty of means to make Mormonism such a
menace against which the Christian forces have to
contend.