The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1929, Page 109

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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gospels into the Navajo language. In past years he
has already reduced to writing in the Navajo dialect
twelve books of the Bible in whole or in part.

She Gave All She Had. — Speaking of a visit he
had made to an Indian village, a mission-worker
writes the following: “The last Sunday in January
was my last day there. At 9.45 we went to a little
shack, 1014 feet, where an old Indian woman,
‘Sally,’ lay on a pallet of straw on the floor. No one
knew her age, but all ten of her children were born
prior to 1873. She had four great-great-grand-
children when we visited her. Her great-grand-
daughter, the mother of two bright-eyed little In-
dians, acted as interpreter. In that poorly furnished
room we spent a most happy hour. Since the old
grandmother desired Holy Communion, the Lord’s
Table was spread for her. As we were ready to leave,
she asked for her old pocket-book and took out of it
all it contained — twenty-five cents. ‘I’ve been keep-
ing this for the Communion service; use it to tell
somebody else of Jesus,’ she said.”

Foreign Missions at Home. — Jim Lum was the
laundryman of the Episcopal rector in one of our
cities. Though he could not speak English very well,
he was quite able to understand it. One day the
minister invited him to his services. These he greatly
enjoyed and appreciated. After a while the pastor
talked to him about confirmation and received his
consent to accept instruction. Two years ago Jim
Lum was confirmed, and his pastor says that his
‘Chinese member is one of his most faithful com-
municants. He contributes more than he promises
to both sides of his envelope. The other members
of the church have learned to like and respect their
Chinese fellow-member and do all they can to make
him feel at home. — Question: While we are send-
ing money to China in trying to bring Christ to the
Chinese there, which is quite in order, would it not
he consistent to trouble ourselves about the Chinese
in our own country? Here they are living at our
very doors, often lonely and hungry for a friendly
word; why not bring them the friendliest Word the
sword. has — the Gospel of Jesus?

The Mormons.—The number of Mormon churches
‘at this time is almost 2,000, and the membership is
over 600,000. In 1926 the expenditures were over
-$3,000,000. In the same year they had over 200,000
pupils enrolled in their Sunday-schools. The growth
is not to-day what it was in former years. The in-
crease from 1906 to 1916 was 80 per cent., but from
1916 to 1926 it was only 20 per cent. However, in

* the former decade the expenditures were not quite

a million dollars, while in the latter they were over
three million. For missions and benevolences the
Mormons contributed about a half-million dollars in
the decade from 1916 to 1926. The Mormons have
churches in forty-five States. They report over
a thousand missionaries and almost 7,000 helpers.

School for Deaf in Chefoo, China. — This school
is maintained by the Northern Presbyterians.
Recently it received several requests for trained
teachers of the deaf for Chinese schools. One letter
from Shanghai, where a group of Chinese intends to
start work among the deaf, stated that they par-
ticularly wanted a Christian teacher, since the
Christians would take more interest than others in
the progress and happiness of their pupils.

The Leipzig Mission in Africa.— The Leipzig
Mission Society has mission-stations near Mount
Kilimandjaro. In 1927 almost 1,500 applicants were
baptized. Almost 3,000 are under instruction at
present. The communicant membership of the
stations totals about 13,000, but the church atten-
dance is about 15,000. In the 126 mission-schools,
in charge of 220 teachers, there are 11,000 pupils.

A Comparison. — In New York City alone there
are 3,800 religious and philanthropic agencies. In
the United States there are 207,734 Protestant
churches, or one for every 427 of the non-Catholic
population. Africa has one missionary for each
24,000 population; Japan, one for each 52,000;
India, one for 62,000; China, one for each 65,000.
There are over 160,000,000 people in the world
wholly untouched by missionary influences.

Education for Negroes. — In the past years the
number of higher schools for Negroes has more than
doubled, while the enrolment is six times greater
than it was a decade ago. However, despite this gain
there is still only one Negro physician for each
3,500 of the colored population in our country.
Worst of all is the small number of educated minis-
ters graduated every year, since there are said to be
19,000 vacant pulpits in the Negro churches of
the United States. The Negroes themselves own,
manage, and largely maintain sixteen colleges and
universities.

Missionary By-Products. — Every missionary
helps to open up the markets of the country where
he labors for the output of American mills and fac-
tories. A missionary brought the use of quinine
from Peru. A humble missionary, Schneider, in-
troduced us to the navel orange, which in a single
year netted our commerce the sum of $36,000,000.
A missionary in South America opened up the