The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1929, Page 108

Transcription machine transcription, uncorrected

⤓ Download .txt · copy text

108

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

and Wilma Steepleton intend to enter the Normal
Department, while Theo. Johnson, Chester, Ill., and
James Pasley intend to take up their studies in the
Theological Seminary. — Latest information from
Greensboro is to the effect that Dr. Nau’s condition
is not improved, and that the wife of Prof. H. Mei-
bohm is far from being well.

A New Church for Greensboro, N. C.— Plans
have been completed for a new church in Greensboro.
The building will cost about $30,000 and will also
serve as a chapel for the students of Immanuel
College. It is to be built near the college. — The
alumni of Immanuel College expect to gather the
sum of $1,500 for the benefit of the Immanuel
College library. ;

A Splendid Gift. — Bethlehem Congregation,
Milwaukee (Pastors Oscar and Clarence Kaiser),
sent four boxes of clothing to our Negro flood suf-
ferers in Alabama. Several societies of the church
paid the freight.

Personal Interest in Missions. — During 1928

foreign mission “patrons” of the Lutheran Joint
Synod of Ohio supported 437 boys and girls in the
mission-schools in India. Apart from the financial
aid, real contact was established between child and
patron. Through correspondence handled by the
secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions the In-
dian children were brought into touch with their
spiritual parents. “In some cases the patron received
a picture of his boy or girl in India. Though
separated by thousands of miles of land and sea,
these American Christians and their Indian pro-
tégés come to know each other, to love each other, to
find a personal interest in each other. And since it
was through the work of foreign missions that these
mutually profitable contacts were made, are we not
justified in saying that we have here 437 reasons for
interest in the foreign missions cause?” — Rev. E.
W. Schramm, missionary editor of the Lutheran
Standard, comments: “Incidentally, it is true of all
mission-work, of all church-work, that one does not
begin to take a real interest in it until he has a per-
sonal part in the venture, and that interest increases
in proportion to personal participation. If you can-
not get enthused over Inner Missions, Home Mis-
sions, Foreign Missions, possibly it is because you
have always held yourself aloof from these branches
_ Of service. Why not stoop to conquer your indiffer-
“ence, your coldness, by ‘adopting’ a family, a mission

here at home, a child, a school in India, and making

it the special object of your prayers, your interest,
your gifts? Money cheerfully refunded if the recipe
tails to work.’ New Bulletin, N.L. C.

Adopt Foreign Mission Budget.— The Board of
Foreign Missions of the Lutheran Augustana Synod
has adopted a budget for the coming year totaling
$185,955. Of this sum $55,000 will be used to carry
on the work in Tanganyika Territory, Africa;
$109,955 for the mission in Honan-Hupeh, China,
and $20,000 for the mission in the Rajahmundry
district, India. The communicant membership of
the Augustana Synod is 225,932, so that this budget
for foreign missions will mean less than $1 per
member.

Conference of Institutional Workers. — Repre-
sentatives of seventeen Inner Mission institutions or
societies of the United Lutheran Church met recently
in a three-day conference at Loysville, Pa. Vital
Inner Mission problems were discussed regarding
the care of dependent children and the aged and
delinquent youth.

Iowa Synod Mission in New Guinea. — The mis-
sion is conducted in conjunction with a Lutheran
body in Australia and has property valued at
$500,000. The annual expenses for conducting this
mission amount to about $110,000. Part of them
is met by the proceeds of plantations and stores.

Indian Missionaries. — The United Presbyterian
Church has been working among the Nez Perces of
Idaho for forty years. One of their workers reports
that these Indians are much concerned about the
spiritual welfare of their fellow-Indians. Jor the
past ten years they have at their own expense reached
about sixty tribes with the Gospel. One of these
Christian Indians one day spoke thus to his red
brethren: “You know when we used to fight our
enemies, we neither ate, slept, nor rested till we
conquered them. Can’t we do as much now for
our Lord?”

A New Indian Mission. — Plans have been com-
pleted to send Christian workers among the Mayas
of Central America. There are almost 300,000
Mayas. A Maya Indian with full college and
seminary training has been found who is ready to
bring the Gospel to his own people.

The Gospels in Navajo.—The Presbyterian Mag-
azine reports that one of the Presbyterian mission-
aries among the Navajos preached to them for four-
teen years without gaining a single convert. But in
the last five years the work has borne such blessed
fruit that this same missionary, Rev. F. G. Mitchell,
hopes to reach the whole tribe by the time he can
celebrate his silver anniversary of work among them.
He is now on leave of absence for a year to devote
himself almost wholly to the task of translating the