The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1929, Page 157

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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chapter of the Gospel according to St. John. After
hearing this, he thanked me again and again for
reading it and asked me to be sure to have some por-
tion of Scripture ready to read to him whenever
I came back to the Home. This I have done, and
he has been a regular attendant at our divine
services. A. E.L.

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Eprror.)

Who Is Next? — “At its July quarterly business
meeting, Trinity Ev. Luth. Church of Pine Bluff,
Ark., voted to send every family in the congregation
the LuruEeraN Pronrenr for a year, inasmuch as it
publishes no parish-paper. — Epw. R. Mirscx.”

Bethany, Yonkers, N. Y.— On June 23 Bethany
Lutheran Church (colored) had ground-breaking
services on its lots, Willow and Cottage Places, Yon-
kers, N.Y. Pastor William O. Hill preached the
sermon and removed the first three spadefuls of
earth in the name of the Triune God. He was
followed by the founder of the mission, Pastor
A. F. v. Schlichten, who also delivered an address,
and finally by Pastor F. P. Wilhelm. The outdoor
service was attended by the members of Bethany
Mission and visitors from St. John’s Lutheran
Church. At the close of the service, members and
friends came forward to turn a spadeful of earth,
and each deposited a dollar for the privilege. TExca-
vation has been started. A church-house with a base-
ment will be built at a cost of $12,000. Mr. Chas.
G. Hehn, architect, member of St. John’s Lutheran
Church, Yonkers, drew the plans and specifications
and is supervising the building free of charge.

Catechism Jubilee in Alabama.—Our young con-
gregations in the Black Belt have had successful
meetings in commemoration of the four-hundredth
anniversary of the Small Catechism. They had set
themselves the goal of $400 as a thank-offering; but
lo and behold, they gave more than again as
much. The total was $875.21. That is very en-
couraging. — D.

Toledo, 0.—The Lutheran Inner Mission Society
of Toledo dedicated a Neighborhood House a few
months ago. The house is located in a neighbor-
hood where the children do not enjoy the opportuni-
ties of a normal life. Since its dedication more than
a thousand: children have enjoyed its helpfulness.
Besides religious classes. there will be sewing-
classes, clinics, and opportunities for clean play and
recreation.

Cincinnati—Candidate Emanuel Huber, a grad-
uate of the Teachers’ College at River Forest, Ill.
was installed and introduced by Rev. D. Kroger on
Sunday, September 1, in Immanuel Church. He
opened school on September 9 with 32 children.
More were coming. God bless the labors of the
hands of this young worker. — D.

Worthy of Imitation. — There is a Finnish Lu-
theran church in Englewood, N. J., which was
financed by forty Finnish domestics. Each girl has
pledged $100 a year toward the up-keep of the
church. How many of our members, old and young,
are put to shame by these humble girls!

An Agreement Reached.— Because of the World
War the Hermannsburg Missionary Society was
compelled to turn its India Mission field over to the
Joint Synod of Ohio. An agreement has recently
been reached whereby the Joint Synod will remain
in permanent possession of this large field, where
the work has been very successful.

High-Caste Hindus. — Two years. ago there were
not a dozen high-caste Hindu converts in all the
Hyderabad villages. To-day there are said to be at
least 800. This indicates that there is a pronounced
movement of caste Hindus towards the Church in
Hyderabad just in those regions where the mass
movement among the outcastes was most pro-
nounced.

A British Official’s Testimony. — Thus writes
Arthur Mayhew, the Director of Education in the
Central Provinces of India: “The record of the life
and personality of Jesus Christ has done more edu-
cationally for India than the whole of Western
literature. ... India owes more to the Bible than
to schools and colleges. ... All that I have seen of
Christian mission-work in India has convinced me
that work inspired by some such aim can alone
supply the necessary basis. ... Christianity is
a vital force in India.”

A Sacrificial Chinese Giver. —'A native Chinese
Christian, after losing eight of his ten fingers, was
saved from lockjaw by a missionary doctor. When
his pastor, some time after, gave him the subscrip-
tion book during the annual every-member canvass,
the man took the writing-brush in the one finger left
on his right hand and wrote down his subscription
for the year, equal to a month’s wages. How many
American Christians do not even give a day’s in- —
come to the Church!

In a Native Tongue. — Burdened with the name
Kristarinja Welanbarinjaka Pepa (which merely in-
dicates its Christian character), a new Lutheran