The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1930, Page 105

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

mission-work, and with good results, for now the
men are all seeking to bring in others. Later we
heard some weird Chinese music on our phonograph.
Mr. Pan brought some records along. The Chinese
music sounds terrible to us.”

Congregation Supports Mission-Field.

Five congregations in the Lutheran Joint Synod
of Ohio each pay all or most of the salary of a
foreign missionary. Christ Lutheran Church, Pitts-
burgh, Pa., and St. Mark’s at Butler, Pa., have paid
the entire salary of one missionary. Emmanuel
Sunday-school at Marion, O., pays the full salary of
a Bible woman, and St. Paul’s Lutheran Church,
Pittsburgh, Pa., pays $1,000 annually toward a
missionary’s salary. St. Paul’s Church, Toledo, O.,
has undertaken to support not only a missionary,
but an entire district in the India field of the Joint
Synod.

The district hitherto known as the Royochoti
and Vayalapad field was taken over by the Toledo
congregation on the first of January and is hence-
forth to be called “St. Paul’s Field.” The field has
been purchased outright, the necessary buildings are
being erected, including a missionary’s bungalow,
houses for workers, and a combination chapel and
school, involving an outlay of $10,000, and the
congregation is assuming the salary of a missionary
sent to the field, together with the support of cate-
chists and native helpers.

The new field thus added to the large holdings
of the Joint Synod of Ohio is about as large as an
American county, contains a population of approxi-
mately 160,000, and is located along a splendid
highway directly west of the Kodur and Tirupati
fields, in which the Joint Synod has worked actively
for some time. ‘Two years ago the new field, as yet
unoccupied, was surveyed by Missionaries Schwan,
Doermann, and Nicholson.

The Toledo congregation which has undertaken
to mother an entire mission-field is served by three
pastors — Dr. L. H. Schuh, Rev. H. F. Schuh, and
Rev. F. O. Schuh. — P. B. N. L. C.

Negro Achievements.

The Negro’s contribution to the achievements of
America has not been negligible by any means.
A memorial building in which samples of what he
has produced will be exhibited, will be erected in the

near future. “Provisions have been made by an act
of Congress to spend $200,000 for the purchase of
land suitable as a site for the erection of a building
to commemorate ‘the Negro’s contribution to the
achievements of America,” says the Uniled Pres-
byterian. $600,000 additional will be needed for
construction expenses. This is to be raised by
popular subscription throughout the country.”

This is in line with other similar efforts of
to-day. There are plenty evidences of what the
Anglo-Saxon element has contributed to American
achievements. And the Germanic contribution is by
no means small. Then there are the Dutch and the
Scotch and the Irish and the Scandinavian. The
John Morton Memorial Building at Philadelphia,
erected through the efforts of the American Sons
and Daughters of Sweden, will serve as a museum
containing articles showing what the Swedish ele-
ment in the American nation has contributed in the
way of achievement since 1638.

The Negro has had a very short period in which
to demonstrate his capabilities, hardly more than
two-thirds of a century since he rose from abject
slavery; yet what he has accomplished is by no
means small. The Anglo-European mind points
with pride to its accomplishments. And it has
developed during centuries while keeping captive the
body and mind dnd soul of the black. Now, when
the Negro is free to accomplish something, he
proves himself more capable than‘at first supposed.

Lutheran Companion,

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Eprror.)

Honors Conferred. — On May 28 Mr. Aaron
Wiley and Miss Bernice Craig, both teachers in our
Bethlehem School (colored) in New Orleans, were
given the degree of Bachelor of Arts after complet-
ing the College Arts course at Straight College,
New Orleans. In passing, we wish to state that
Straight College is not a college in name only, for
its college course is very thorough. One of the above
writes the editor: “If the little knowledge which
I have acquired shall be of service to our beloved
mission and through it shall redound to the glory of
our blessed Savior and the good of His kingdom,
I shall feel that the years of labor spent in attaining
it have been well spent.” By the way, dear reader,
do you think that we have another elementary school
in our great Synodical Conference that has two
Bachelors of Art on its teaching staff?