The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1928, Page 127

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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sions of this church-body cost $7,000 a year. Mis-
sions among foreign-speaking peoples are carried on
at the annual expense to the general body of
$25,000. The extensive Deaf-mute and Blind Mis-
sions of the Synod require an annual budget of
$43,850. Sixteen missionaries are serving 134
preaching-places and congregations.

The Indian Missions of the Missouri Synod are
carried on at eight stations, at an annual cost of
$17,855.

The Synod has only one missionary working
among the Jews. He is laboring among the teeming
thousands of Israel in Greater New York.

Together with the other synods comprising the
Lutheran Synodical Conference, the Missouri Synod
is carrying on an extensive work among the freed-
men of fourteen different States. Four thousand
boys and girls are attending our colored mission
schools. Our missionaries are preaching the Gospel
to more than 20,000 persons.

Hundreds of mission-stations and small congre-
gations have received loans from the Church Ex-
tension Fund of the Synod to build chapels and
schools.

The Beginnings of Isabella Thoburn
College.

One bright noon in North India, sixty-five years
ago, a young missionary, on an evangelistic tour
among the villages, paused to rest by the wayside.
As he paced up and down beneath the tamarind-
trees, pondering the problem of India’s womanhood,
shut in the zenanas beyond the reach of the Gospel
which he was bringing to the little villages, there
fell at his feet, a feather from a vulture’s wing.
Picking it up, he whimsically cut it into a quill.
Thinking that his sister in far-away America might
like a letter from so strange a pen, he went into his
tent and wrote to her. He told her of the millions
of girls shut up in those “citadels of heathenism,”
the zenanas of India —a problem which only Chris-
tian women might hope to solve. Half playfully,
half in earnest he added, “Why don’t you come out
and help?” As swift as wind and wave permitted
was Isabella Thoburn’s answer, “I am coming as
soon as the way opens!”

Already a group of women, stirred to the depths
by the words of Mrs. Edwin W. Parker and
Mrs. William Butler, returned missionaries from
India, were forming a society to help the women
and girls of Christless lands. At the first public

meeting of this Woman’s Foreign Missionary So-
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal Church, though
but twenty women were present with only three
hundred dollars in the treasury, when they learned
that Isabella Thoburn — gifted, consecrated, wise—
was ready to go to India, they exclaimed: “Shall
we lose Miss Thoburn because we have not the
needed money in our hands to send her? No, rather
let us walk the streets of Boston in our calico dresses
and save the expense of more costly apparel!” Thus
was answered the letter written with the feather
from the vulture’s wing by the wayside in India.

In 1870 Isabella Thoburn gathered six little
waifs into her first school in India, a one-room
building in the noisy, dusty bazaar of Lucknow.
From this brave venture have grown the Middle
School, the High School, and finally, in 1886, the
first Woman’s Christian. College in all Asia, housed
in the Ruby Garden, Lal Bagh. Here for forty-one
years Isabella Thoburn lived and loved and labored
for the girls of India.

Lal Bagh, as the college is often called because
of its location, has been a wonderfully paying invest-
ment. If all those whose dollars and prayers helped
to rear its walls could but see what streams of
blessings have gone out from this Christian school
throughout all India, first to the women and then
to all its people! Here, through Christ’s Gospel,
a light has been kindled which is shedding abroad
a wonderful glow of life and cheer and comfort.

: F.J.L.

Waar you spend for others you have; what you
keep for yourself you lose; what you give you still
possess.

KFUO to Broadcast Frequently All Summer.

The KFUO Radio Committee is determined to conduct
as many broadcasts during the summer season as possible
and announces the following schedule for August: —

Sundays, 3.30 vp. w., 4 P. M., 9.15 P. x6.; Mondays,
7.15 a.M., 12.15 vp. a, 9 P.M.; Tuesdays, 7.15 A. x,
12.15 p.M., 9 p.xt.; Wednesdays, 7.15 a.a., 12.15 P.M,
9.30 p.ar.; Thursdays, 7.16 A. M., 12.15 p.a., 9 P.a.; Fri-
days, 7.15 A. M., 12.15 P.M, 9 P.at.; Saturdays, 7.15 A. x.,
9 Pp. x£.— Musical program with each broadcast. lurii

A listener-in recently interpreted the call letters to
mean: “K-nown F-or U-pholding O-rthodoxy.” (What
meaning can you give the call letters of The Gospel Voice?,
Your suggestions will be appreciated. oy vat

KFUO broadcasts on a wave length of 545-1 meters,
corresponding to 550 kilocycles, oviths1;000 watts power.

KFUO publishes a bimonthly radio bulletin, known as
The Gospel Voice. Subscription price, 25 cts. a/year.. «j

Herman .H. 'HoHENSTEIN; ‘Director<