The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1930, Sheet 109

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

fifty-five deaf, communed 1,556, buried eleven, mar-
ried sixteen couples, and served 1,557 at 169 preach-
ing-stations with 1,871 services. The Deaf-mute
Missions number 281 voters and 1,097 communi-
cants; the latter contributed $4,939.29 to this work
in 1929. In addition to these Pastor A. H. Kuntz
serves about 1,000 blind people with a monthly
magazine, and Pastor O. C. Schroeder reaches about
1,400 blind with two quarterly magazines.

Blessed Institutional Work.—Pastors E. Duem-
ling and J. Helmes are doing a most blessed work in
various institutions of Milwaukee. Among the in-
stitutions regularly served are the following: State
Prison, Industrial School for Girls, House of Cor-
rection, County Infirmary, County Hospital, Hos-
pital for Mental Diseases, Muirdale Sanitarium,
Soldiers’ Home and Hospital, Blue Mound Sana-
torium, Hospital for the Incurable Insane, and the
Milwaukee Children’s Home. Last year over three
hundred services were conducted by our missionaries
in these institutions, and these services were
attended by more than 20,000 hearers. The two
workers made almost 2,500 personal sick-calls,
communed about 850, baptized forty persons,
and confirmed forty. One hundred and four
Sunday-school sessions were attended by 9,780
children.

A Pressing Missionary Problem. — Such is pre-
sented to the Lutherans of Canada by the number of
Lutheran refugees from Russia. Aided by the Cana-
dian railways, they are colonizing in the western

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Long Service. — The India mission-field of the
United Lutheran Church in America is noted for
the tenure of service of several of its workers. In
1923 the Rev. E. E. Uhl, Ph. D., D. D., now living at
Cambridge, Mass., retired after fifty years of full
service in India, having gone to the field in 1873.
Miss Anna S. Kugler, M. D., who still serves the
Guntur Hospital after forty-seven years in the
field, went out in 1883. Two years ago Miss
Katherine Fahs, R. N., retired after serving as a
nurse in the India field from 1894, a period of
thirty-four years. Miss Fahs now resides at the

Lutheran Home for the Aged at Washington, D. C.
News Bulletin, U. L. C.

Andhra Lutheran Church, India. — The Coun-
cil of Missionaries of the India Field of the United
Lutheran Church in America has transferred to the
Andhra Lutheran Church the responsibility for
three departments of missionary endeavor in India;
among these are the theological seminary and He
Bible training-school at Luthergiri.

Mohammedans in India.—Among the 3,500. :
Mohammedans of Southern India there are at
time no more than five male foreign missionari
work. India is the most Mohammedan country in
the world to-day. No fewer than 222 parlodel e
published in India by Mohammedans. They spedk
seventeen different languages.

Missionary Occupation of India. — Accor;
to the Directory of Christian Missions in I
there are in India at this time eleven districts,

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a population of over seven million, that are w Tl

unoccupied by Christian mission-forces ; fifty fours |
districts, totaling over fifty-six million in popuja;=
tion, have less than one missionary for every 100,

provinces of Canada, where homesteads are offered
them undervery favorable circumstances. The United
Lutheran Church in America has assigned three °

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whole-time men to serve these Lutheran refugees.

Brief History of a Foreign Mission-Station. —
Seventy-five years ago the Basel Mission Society
opened a mission at Udipi, in India. The founders
of this mission had to suffer much because of the
persecutions of the Brahmans. At various times
the missionaries suffered bodily harm at the hands
of fanatical natives. The first workers narrowly
escaped death when fire was set to their dwelling.
Later an attempt was made to burn down the church.
Though the missionary escaped, his precious manu-
script of the New Testament in Tulu was destroyed.
At the expense of much labor it had to be rewritten.
During the seventy-five years of the existence of this
mission fifty different laborers served at Udipi.
After sixteen years’ labor there were 400 members.
This number during the thirty years grew to 1,800,
and to-day there are 3,000.

ulation of ten million; only nominally occipied
native states have a total population of ty
million. These figures show that almost 100
Indians live in territory unreached by the Gospel.
During the past three years no progress a been
made in occupying more territory.

Missionary Occupation of China.—The pens
tion of China is thirty per cent. greater that that of
India, but it has fifty per cent. more Christian
mission-workers. This seems strange in view of the
fact that Ziegenbalg and Pluetschau began their
labors in India more than two hundred years ago,
while China was closed to all missionary efforts up
to eighty-five years ago.

Moscow, Russia. — All the churches in Moscow ~
are closed. Priests and preachers have been arrested.
and shot. A Mennonite preacher has gone mad,

persons; unoccupied native states have a ook -