The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1929, Page 141

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. 141

buildings have been erected in the past five years,
and the large attendance at school and growing con-
gregation loudly call for more room.

Christian Chinese Officials. — The new Chinese
government consists of ten ministers of state, and
five of these are professing Christians. The five
Christian officials occupy the most important posi-
tions. Dr. Wang is minister of foreign affairs;
Dr. Kung is the minister of industry and commerce ;
Dr. Wong is the minister of justice; General Feng
heads the department of war; and Mr. Soong is the
minister of finance. May these high officials prove
faithful Christians!

A Good Way to Begin Married Life. — A young
Christian dyer of silk thread, a Chinese, married the
granddaughter of an elder-of the Chefoo church.
On the evening of the wedding-day the little bride,
no more than seventeen years old, sent for the mis-
sionary to come to her house and establish a family
altar. Surely an excellent way to begin family life.

Japan.—Japan now has a self-supporting native
Lutheran congregation at Kurume; Rev. Kishi,
pastor. The congregation was founded by Pastor
J. M. T. Winther, a missionary of the United Danish
Church in Japan. It is not unreasonable to expect
that other native J apanese Lutheran churches will
follow the example set by their brethren at Kurume.
— Japan now has twenty-two ordained native Lu-
theran pastors. Of this number five were only
recently ordained. Sixteen young men are at present
preparing for the Lutheran ministry at the theologi-
eal Seminary in Tokyo.

Faith in the Power of Prayer. — A little school-
girl in Japan who heard her teacher praying for
a boy’s sick brother showed her own faith in the
power of prayer by saying, “Why do you only pray
for Jiro? JI have two sick uncles in Tokyo; why
don’t you pray for them?” Needless to say, the
uncles were included.

A Successful Mission Enterprise.—Nearly a thou-
sand lepers have been received in the Chiengmai,
Siam, leper asylum during the nineteen years of its
existence. The gates of the institution are open at
all times, and no pressure is exerted upon the
patients to remain; but only one or two have ever
left of their own accord. Practically all have become
Christians.

Increase in Korea. — Korea is largely occupied
by missionary forces of the Presbyterian Church.
Last year intensive evangelistic efforts were carried

on by a group of native workers, with the result that

ten churches were established in non-Christian vil-
Jages during the year.

Hospital Evangelism.—There are great possibili-
ties in the work of the institutional missionary.
A missionary visited a patient in a hospital; by
God’s grace the man was converted and later bap-
tized. Since his conversion the man has brought all
of his family, all of his father’s family, and two
neighboring families into the Church. Six other
families have also been added to the Church as
a result of this man’s efforts.

A Welsh Missionary Honored. — The British
Government gave Dr. H. Gordon Roberts, medical
missionary to India, $40,000 in recognition of his
valuable services in war times. He gave the whole
sum to his hospital, which Lord Reading declares
to be “the most efficient and best-equipped in India.”

A Word on Stewardship. — Says Fritz Kreisler,
the noted violinist: “I was born with music in my
system. I knew musical scores before I knew my
a-b-c’s. It was a gift of Providence. I did not
aquire it. So I do not even deserve thanks. Music
is too sacred to be sold. And the outrageous prices
the musical celebrities charge to-day truly are
a crime against society. I never look upon money
I earn as my own. It is public money. It is only
a fund entrusted to my care for proper disburse-
ment. I am constantly endeavoring to reduce my
needs to the minimum. I feel morally guilty in
ordering a costly meal, for it deprives some one else
of a slice of bread, some child, perhaps, of a bottle
of milk. In all these years of my so-called success
in music we have not built a home for ourselves.
Between it and us stand all the homeless in the
world.” :

Through a Tunnel. — A traveler tells of passing
from a Switzerland winter, through the tunnel
under the Alps, into an Italian spring with its
flowers and soft sunshine. To the faith of a Chris-
tian like Paul, death is no more than the passing
through a tunnel, a short moment of darkness, then
the brightness of Jesus’ face. May we help to make
the death of many just that: a departure from this
life to be forever with Christ!

May This be Applied to You ?— “He who knows,
cares; he who cares, shares; he who shares, dares.”
F.J.L.

An Episode and Its Lessons.

The furnaceman assumes a new role in the
episode narrated by the Living Church: —

“The furnaceman in a Chicago church house-
hold, a Negro, emptying the family’s waste basket