The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1928, Page 188

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cities are the following: Alamosa, Colo.; Beatrice,
Nebr. ; Buffalo, N. Y.; Chicago, Ill.; Cleveland, O.;
Fort Wayne, Ind. ; intionryenia, Ind.; Los Nereis
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_ Ovamboland, Africa. — The work of the Finnish
Lutheran Missionary Society of Helsingfors in
Ovamboland has increased greatly during the past
year. Statistics recently summarized and published
indicate that within a year the total number of bap-
tized Christians in the field of that society increased

_ from 19,303 to 21,037. The mission engages 17 or-
_ dained missionaries, 2 laymen, and 20 deaconesses
_ for the work of preaching the Gospel. In addition,
_ 8 schools, chiefly boarding-schools, academies, and
_ manual training schools, enroll 358 students and
| employ 5 male and 7 female teachers from Europe.
ative teachers are in charge of the instruction of
ee ie ebildrensi in 158 public schools.—N. L. C. P. B.

Problems of the Foreign Missionary.

There are not a few problems confronting the
foreign missionary of which Christian workers in
the homeland know nothing. We are calling atten-
tion to a few of these problems that not seldom come
to the worker among the heathen: —

A convert was a promising young man, believing
fully in Jesus Christ, and he had asked to be bap-
tized. He would then break caste and openly make
confession of his faith. A date was set for the bap-
tism, and this young man was asked to present him-
self with others for public examination, testimony,
and baptism. The date came, the other candidates
for baptism came, but this young man did not come.
No one knew what the matter was.

Afterwards one of the Christian workers visited
the young man and found him very sad. He asked
him what the trouble was. To put the story short,
this young man had not told any of his relatives or
friends that he was thinking of becoming a Chris-
tian. He had a mother, a widow, who loved him
dearly, but she was a very staunch Hindu. Just be-
fore he was to be baptized he divulged it to her that