The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1930, Page 26

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

an entirely different life as compared with that of
the average member of the race. God says in the
Fourth Commandment: “That thou . . . mayest live
long on the earth.”

The contributions amounted to $31,063.18,
which is $538 more than in the year 1928. The
total of moneys received in the mission-fields was
$41,189.03, an increase of $3,263.22 as compared
with the receipts during 1928. This, too, is.a
record-breaker.

The Lord is causing our Colored Lutheran
Church to assume larger proportions. To Him be
all honor, glory, and praise!

The artic of 6,528 souls, or baptized members,
does not convey a complete idea of the lessinee
which flow from the work of our missionaries in
church and school and college. It may be safely
estimated that in addition to our 6,528 members
20,000 people are through it either directly or in-
directly influenced for good.

May our gracious God, the Lord of the harvest,
bestow His heavenly blessing in abundance on the

labors of our good missionaries in 1930!
C. F. D.

Negro Missions in Brazil.

From recent articles in the Lutheran Witness we
cull the following facts concerning work among the
colored of Brazil.

Our missionaries in Brazil have for years come
into more or less intimate contact with the Negroes
of Brazil while pursuing their work among the
whites. -Not a few opportunities for aggressive
mission-work among the millions of Negroes of
Brazil presented themselves to them. Recently Rev.
R. Hasse, while in Rio de Janeiro, was looked up by
several Negroes, and as a result of the interview our
missionary is of the opinion that work could be be-
gun in Rio among its colored population with good
promise of success.

At present a Negro is studying at our seminary
in Porto Alegre. After his graduation he will, God
willing, become a missionary among his people.

A beginning with Negro Mission work has been
begun in an out-of-the-way nook called Solidez, very
appropriately so called, since it is a real solitude.
Here Pastor Drews began work as long as ten years
ago, and now he is devoting his whole time to the
little flock of colored people at Solidez and to a num-
ber of Negroes. whom he is serving at four other
places. He is assisted in his labors at Solidez by
Teacher Wille, also a white man, who has a school

Our Colored Mission at Solidez, Brazil.

attended by upward of twenty children. It is worth
while mentioning that the Negro student preparing
for the ministry is a product of this*mission day-
school at Solidez. I. J. L.

Cholera Raging near Nagercoil,
South India.

In a recent letter our Indian pastor G. Jesudason
writes: “We are now passing through a season of
cholera. One of the best members of my congrega-
tion at Palkulam, a young mother, passed away in
a cholera attack within eight hours, only a few weeks
ago. She has left behind a baby eight months old,
the very picture of her mother. The story told me
by the women when I visited the village was this:

“One evening she called in her illiterate sister
and read to her from the Bible. Then all retired
for sleep. ‘Toward midnight the young mother be-
gan to grow very ill, to vomit repeatedly, and by
five o’clock in the morning she had been called away.

“She was a good Christian woman and a, bright
example to her sisters in the village. There is still
cholera in the neighborhood, and people are dying
every day, but so far we have had no additional
deaths, the persons affected having recovered under
the blessing of God.”

Mission-friends in the States will surely not
forget to commend our missionaries and our Chris-
tians in India to the gracious protection of our Lord.

FREDERICK BRAND.
EE

Onty as new tides of spiritual life begin to flow
within the Church, can the waiting tasks be ac-
complished.