The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1928, Page 173

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war. The cost of the war to the world in terms of
hard cash is put down .at £72,500,000,000. That is
the estimated value of the whole North American
continent. And the next war, it is estimated, will
cost a good deal more. “What fools these mor-
tals be!”

A Converted Catholic Shows Us Why and How.
In one of our Chicago congregations there is an
Italian who at one time was a member of the Roman
Catholic Church and who now is a most lovable and
sincere Lutheran Christian. Since his conversion
God has blessed his intelligent and unceasing efforts
so that he has attained to a pronounced degree of
prosperity. But this has not turned his head. On
the contrary, he has repeatedly told his pastor:

- “I can see very clearly that whatsoever success

I have had has been directly due to the influence
which the teaching of the Church has had on me.
The instructions which I have received and the ser-
mons which I heard cause me to like the things
I formerly despised and to hate the things which
I formerly thought alone made life worth while.”
He shows this appreciation through regular and
generous contributions to the work of his Church
and of Synod, and his pastor has a standing invita-
tion to come to him whenever he is in need of “$50
or $100 for one church purpose or another.” —
Sometimes it takes people who have seen the dark-
ness to tell us how wonderful the light is in which
we have always lived, and sometimes they must
give us an example of what gratitude to God really
means.

Timely Resolutions. — The first copy of the Afis-
sionary Lutheran, the successor of the Colored
Intheran, has made its appearance. Like its prede-
cessor, it is full of interesting news from the Colored
Mission field. ‘The workers belonging to Immanuel
Lutheran Conference passed a set of fine resolutions
commending Pastor Shufelt for his faithful work as
correspondent of the Colored Lutheran and prom-
ising him the full cooperation of the workers in the
future. We wish that our workers were far-sighted
enough to see the importance of keeping the columns
of the Lurnenan Pioneer filled with up-to-date
news from the field of our Colored Missions. We
cannot expect our white Christians to be interested
in our Colored Missions if the workers in the field
do not furnish news from the field. It is a matter of
impossibility for the editor to manufacture news!

Missionary Information. — On the program of
his recent Mission-day Service, Pastor Berter-
mann, of Wausau, Wis., gave his members the follow-
ing valuable missionary information: “Our Mis-

sionaries: In the Home Missions, 879; Argentina,
South America, 14; Brazil, South America, 44;
India, 28; China, 22; Indian Missions in Wis-
consin, 2; Jewish Mission, 1; Immigrant and Sea-
men’s Missions, 2; Foreign-tongue Missions, 14;
City Missions, 17; Colored Missions, 117. — Our
Contributions: For home purposes throughout the
whole Synod, 1927, $11,679,194; for outside pur-
poses, $3,207,431. Average contribution per mem-
ber, 1913, $1.40; 1927, $4.27. — Every eighth per-,
son in the world is a Mohammedan. — In Central
Africa there are twenty-six millions with no mission
among or near them. Have we a missionary in
Africa? No.— Ninety-six per cent. of all the
Chinese are illiterate—In China not one girl in
2,000 is in a grammar school. — In Ceylon, with a
population of 4,500,000, only nine per cent. are
Christian. — Japan has a population of sixty mil-
lions. Two hundred thousand are Christians. Has the
Missouri: Synod a missionary in Japan? Not one.”

Iowa Synod. — During the year 1927 the Iowa
Synod sent seven workers, four ordained pastors,
one mechanic, and two trained nurses to the New
Guinea mission-field.

Augustana Synod. — The Augustana Synod ac-
quired the mission-field in Tanganyika Territory,
East Africa, and received a legacy from. the late
Mr. P. A. Peterson, Rockford, Ill., of $500,000 —
the largest gift for foreign missions ever nD to
that body.

United Lutheran Church. — The Board of Ameri-
can Missions last year helped the work of 509 pas-
tors in 638 parishes, consisting of 777 congregations
of the United Lutheran Church in America. This

Board has outstanding at present church extension
and interest loans totaling over $2,000,000.

Lutheran Charities of the Synodical Conference.
Pastor M. Ilse, the statistician of the Lutheran
Charities of the Synodical Conference, gives the fol-
lowing figures showing the inner mission work done
in our body: —

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City Missions ......... 13} 30 278748 185165), 49610

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