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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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BOOK TABLE.

The World Is Our Field. A Missionary Survey. By
F.J. Lankenau. 280 pages, 5X7%, bound in stiff
boards covered with brown cloth. Gold and blind
stamping. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis,
Mo. Price, $1.50.

The reviewer takes great pleasure in drawing the at-
tention of the readers of the LuTMERAN PIONEER to this
excellent book, which has the editor of the PIoNEER for its
author. It is the first publication of its kind in our
circles. A book giving us a survey of the field of missions
was a real need. Many of our pastors, teachers, and lay-
men have long been looking for just such a book. We
know of no one in our circles who is better fitted to
write such a survey than Vice-President Francis James
Lankenau. He is not only a missionary enthusiast, but
also a missionary expert. He was himself actively en-
gaged in mission-work for eighteen years and has edited
the LUTHERAN PIONEER, our English missionary monthly,
since January, 1913, in a most able and satisfactory
manner. The reader may justly look for a plain, popu-
lar, and excellent presentation of the missionary situation
in this really admirable missionary survey. ;

The greater part of the contents has appeared in the
ProneEeER. The desire of readers of this missionary monthly
to have the material in book form, as well as the desire
of Concordia Publishing House to render our Church a
real service, explains the appearance of The World Is Our
Field. The House deserves our sincere thanks. The
readers of the PIONEER will find more reading-matter on
the subject of missions than the series of articles in this
paper contained. The material has been considerably in-
creased in this book. :

«The contents of the twenty-nine chapters are divided
into two parts, Foreign Fields and Home Fields. Foreign
Fields: I. Progress During the Centuries. II. Unoceu-
pied Mission-fields. III. Africa. IV. India. V. China.
VI. Korea, or Chosen. VII. Japan, or Nippon. VIII. Far-
ther India. IX. Siam, French Indo-China, and Malay
Peninsula. X. The Asiatic Near East. XI. Malaysia,
Philippine Islands, Australia, New Zealand. XII. The
Pacific Islands. XIII. South America. XIV. Central
America and the West Indies. XV. Mexico.— Home
Fields: XVI. Alaska. XVII. The Indians of the United
States. XVIII. Orientals in the United States. XIX. The
Negro in the United States. XX. Foreign-speaking Peoples
in Our Country. XXI. The Migrant Groups. XXII. The
Southern Mountaineers. XXIII. The Mormons. XXIV.
Missionary Conservation. XXV. The City Missionary
Problem. XXVI. The Old Frontier and the New Frontier.
XXVII. The Country Problem. XXVIII. Safeguarding the
Heritage for Our Children. XXIX. Institutional Mission-
work. A Final Appeal.

In order to make the book attractive to young as well
as to, old, many pictures — seventy-one in all — have been
inserted. Some of these pictures cover a full page. We
must get our youth interested in the great and glorious
work of missions. This richly illustrated and interest-
ingly written missionary survey will help to-create and
promote this interest in our boys and girls. Fathers and
mothers, order this book for your boy or your daughter.
You will never regret it. If you have no children, get it
for yourself. C.F. D.

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ACEN' OWLEDGMENT.

We wish gratefully to acknowledge the receipt of three
bags and one box of clothing from the Tabitha Society,
Merrill; Wis., per Mrs.J.B.Kerble. Joun Tompson.

Contributions Received by the Treasurer.
June 1—30, 1928.

Received for Colored Missions from the following col-
ored congregations: Alabama Luther College, Selma,
$284.65; Augustana, Alexandria, 20.00; Bethany, Ny-
land, 3.05; Bethany, Yonkers, 60.00; Bethel, Charlotte,
1.50; Bethel, Conover, 2.00; Bethel, Rock West, 2.30;
Bethlehem, Holy Ark, .20; Bethlehem, Monroe, 3.00;
Bethlehem, New Orleans, 57.50; Christ, Rosebud, 16.28;
Concordia, Lowerstone, 4.00; Concordia, New Orleans,
15.00; Holy Cross, Camden, 8.93; Ebenezer, Atmore, 2.35;
Faith, Mobile, 2.97; Gethsemane, Hamburg, 12.22; Grace,
Concord, 40.00; Grace, Greensboro, 50.00; Grace, Ingomar,
1.35; Grace School, St. Louis, 25.00; Hope, Kings Land-
ing, 8.19; Immanuel, Cincinnati, 10.00; Immanuel Lu-
theran College, Greensboro, 20.00; Luther Memorial,
Greensboro, 15.01; mission at Catherine, 2.50; mission
at Maplesville, 1.45; mission at Pomona, 5.50; mission
in Rowan County, 2.00; Mount Calvary, Kannapolis,
40.00; Mount Calvary, Mount Pleasant, 12.00; Mount
Calvary, Tilden, 11.08; Mount Carmel, Midway, 2.60;
Mount Olive, Tinela, 6.32; Mount Olive, Catawba, 2.00;
Our Savior, Possum Bend, 2.85; Mount Zion, Bostian
Cross Roads, 12.50; Mount Zion, Charlotte, 17.00; Mount
Zion, New Orleans, 76.96; Pilgrim, Birmingham, 4.96;
St. Andrew’s, Vredenburgh, 3.36; St. James’s, Buena Vista,
4.93; St. James’s, Southern Pines, 10.00; St. John’s, Joffre,
-37; St. John’s, Salisbury, 15.00; St. Luke’s, High Point,
1.53; St. Luke’s, Lamison, 2.10; St. Luke's, Spartanburg,
16.50; St. Matthew’s, Arlington, 5.20; St. Matthew’s, Me-
herrin, 16.02; St. Mark’s, Ackerville, 2.70; St. Mark’s,
Atlanta, 12.00; St. Mark’s, Winston-Salem, 5.00; St.
Paul’s, Charlotte, 12.00; St. Paul’s, Lutherville, 10.00;
St. Paul’s, Napoleonville, 5.00; St. Paul’s, New Orleans,
50.00; St. Paul’s, Oak Hill, 10.57; St. Peter’s, Cabarrus
County, 15.00; St. Peter’s, Pine Hill, 2.40; St. Philip’s,
Chicago, 50.00; St. Philip’s, Philadelphia, 20.00; St.
Philip’s, St. Louis, 25.00; Southeastern Field, per Rev.
Martin Dorpat, 4.10; Trinity, Elon College, 2.75; Trin-
ity, New Orleans, 25.00; Trinity, Selma, 14.12; Zion, Gold
Hill, 5.00; Zion, Taits Place, 4.01.

Miscellaneous: Per H. Schoel, Jr., Treasurer, Dixie
District Walther League, for expenses of Rev. P. J. G.
Weeke, to Tuskegee Hospital, $6.10. For Negro Missions:
A. D. Ruff, Grand Island, Nebr., 3.50; “A Friend of Mis-
sions,” Gardnerville, Nev., 2.00; N. N., Wayside, Wis.,
25.00; Irene Bornmann, Quincy, Ill., 5.00; Lena E.Gross-
heider, Cape Girardeau, Mo., 10.00; William Fellwock,
Juneau, Wis., 1.00; Emil Hall, Grand Rapids, Mich.,
5.00. For Philadelphia: Mission stations at Rocks, Me-
herrin, and Kannapolis, N. C., 55.07.

Tueo. W. Ecxrart, Treasurer.

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