The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1930, Page 93

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the services in the schoolhouses and in the homes
of members quite regularly.

Indeed, the Lord and Master of missions has
commanded every Christian to go out into the high-
ways and hedges and to compel them to come an.
Those in highways and hedges, the poor and lowly,
far out from the streets and lanes of the city, ask
for your prayers and your assistance that they, too,
may continue to hear, believe, and be saved. God
bless our missions in Northern Minnesota!

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Eprror.)

Atlanta, Ga. — Our church now has a neat ap-
pearance from the exterior. The trees and shrubbery
are doing their part. A fresh coat of paint is being
given both inside and outside. Our morning service
on Good Friday was well attended. Many were
turned away from the Easter exercises on Sunday
night. — J. J. Alston.

Summer-School.—The day-schools of the South-
eastern Field will come to a close on May 23, and
the various teachers will then repair to Greensboro
to attend the two-week session of the Lutheran
summer-school, beginning May 26.

High Point, N.C. — The sunrise Communion
service on Easter morning was well attended. Seven
pupils of the day-school were baptized during the
Taster season. The attendance on May 4 reached
the high-water mark — sixty! — J. L. Shufelt.

“Light in the Dark Belt.” — Concerning this
book by Rosa J. Young (Concordia Publishing
House, St. Louis, Mo.) we recently read the follow-
ing review in a periodical not published within the
Synodical Conference: “This little volume is written
by a colored woman and is a recital of her personal
experiences on the home mission field among her
own people in Alabama. It is an interesting story
and shows how God can use a willing, consecrated
person in furthering His cause. The conditions
among the colored people are described and the diffi-
culties were met in giving them the Gospel.”

China Mission Schools Hampered: — In several
provinces of China the work in the mission-schools
is greatly hampered by antichristian agitation. The
antagonism is directed against the religious teach-
ings in the schools. Some schools have even been
closed. Mission-schools in some provinces have been
‘compelled to register with the government and to
promise not to make religious instruction com-
pulsory. Many schools and colleges have entered

upon the required agreement. The radical Chinese
go so far as to demand that all Christian instruction
cease, even in the mission-schools. Of course, if the
Chinese government should insist upon this, the
mission-schools will have to close. Several prominent
mission-schools are controlled entirely by Chinese,
the foreign missionaries serving in an advisory ca-
pacity only. The provinces principally affected are
Shantung, Honan, Kiangsi, and Fukien.

Word of a Real Missionary. — What love for
souls is expressed in these words of a man who
sought to save souls in the slums of a great city!
He said, “I love these fellows. I love to pick them
out of the gutter. It’s more fun than helping
Pharisees. And it pays.... So I hang around
those places. I’ve been criticized for doing it. They
say it is no place for a minister. But the dirt doesn’t
shock me; I’m thinking of clean souls.” Oh, that
God might pour such love for souls into many hearts!

Estate of Confucius to be Confiscated. — The
seventy-seventh direct descendant of Confucius is
threatened with the loss of all the property of the
old sage which has come down to him through the
ages. It is a remarkable fact that the estate of the
old Chinese scholar, who lived centuries before
Christ, is still almost as intact as it was when he
died. The literary classes of China are vigorously
protesting against the high-handed action of the
Nationalist Government. )

The Little Teacher. — A missionary at Constan-
tinople mentions the case of a little girl, four years
old, whom he met in one of the Protestant schools
and who, when her turn came, read her verses in the
New Testament with as much facility as the older .
scholars, the only difficulty being that she was too
young to speak plainly. The missionary further
learned to his astonishment that the little girl was
the teacher of her mother. This mother, having from
her own little daughter learned to read the Bible
and haying been taught also by the Holy Spirit, was
about to be received into the church.

Northern Illinois Messenger.

Overcoming Handicaps.—A missionary in India
noticed two lepers sowing seed in a field. One had
no hands, the other had no feet; these members had
been wasted away by the disease. The one who had
no hands was carrying the other who had no feet
upon his back, and he carried the bag of seed and
dropped a pea every now and then, which the other
pressed into the ground with his foot. — So be-
tween the two of them they did the work of one.

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