The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1930, Page 157

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place, died on July 3. Dr. Woerner attended the
Training-school for Nurses at the University Hos-
pital, Philadelphia, the Woman’s Medical College of
Philadelphia, and received much of her practical
experience at the Lakenau Hospital and Dispensary.
In October, 1899, she sailed for Rajahmundry,
where she worked untiringly without equipment or
base for her work, until July 20, 1911, when the
Mission Hospital was dedicated. It was in the
operating-room of this building that Dr. Woerner
contracted an infection and became dangerously ill.
She returned to America on furlough in an attempt
to rebuild her health. Although Dr. Woerner was
never able to return to India, she continued to min-
ister to the sick and suffering in and around Inter-
laken, Fla., where she made her home and where she
passed away. Dr. Woerner was the daughter of the
late Rev. G. F. Woerner, a German medical mis-
sionary, who served congregations in Texas and
Pennsylvania.

Missionate or Stagnate. — There is more than
human power in missions when undertaken in the
proper spirit. And the might of that power can
be neither calculated nor estimated. Here is a con-
crete illustration. Less than a century ago the Bap-
tists divided about equally in numbers, one-half
being missionary, the other half anti-missionary.
The missionary Baptists now number nearly
6,000,000, the anti-missionary about 102,000. God
cannot prosper a non-missionary people and keep
His word. A missionary people He always prospers,
and keeps His word. “Go ye and teach all na-
tions.... And, lo, I am with you alway, even unto
the end of the world,” Matt. 28, 19. 20. — Ez.

Paying a Debt. — When a Chinese student with
Ph. D., A. B., B. D., and A.M. degrees from our
American institutions was offered by an idustrial
company $4,000 a year, with an increase each year
of a thousand dollars, if he would stay and work for
them for fifteen years, his modest reply was: “I owe
all I am and have to Christ and must hasten back
home to pay the debt.” He is paying in a way un-

‘surpassed by none in one of the most difficult sec-
tions of China. — Lutheran Missionary.

Disappearance of Sadhu Sundar Singh.—Since
April 19, 1929, Sadhu Sundar Singh has been lost.
Not a trace of him has been found. On that date
he left Rishi Kesh, near Hardwas, at the southern
foot of the Himalaya to do evangelistic work in
Tibet. A Presbyterian missionary, Rev. Riddle, and
the British Government have searched for the miss-
ing Sadhu in vain. Evidently he perished some-
where in the mountains.

His Name Was There. — A Hollander living in
South Africa saw a Hottentot reading in the Bible
and scornfully said: “This book is not for the likes
of you.” “O yes, it is for me,” was the answer.
“How do you make that out?” “Well, my name is
mentioned in it.” “Your name? where?” “Here,”
said the man, pointing to the verse: “Jesus Christ
is come into the world to save sinners. ‘Sinners,
that is my name, and therefore the Book is for me.”

Are You Meant? —

He smoked cigars three times a day,
Ten-centers, too, at that;

Then gave a nickel to the church
And felt right good at that.

She gave five cents for mission-work,
Then spent ten cents for gum;

But piously she bowed her head
And prayed: “Thy kingdom come.”

They sat at home and wondered why
The church did not succeed;

She chewed her gum and couldn’t tell;
He, puzzled, smoked his weed. — Sel.

Radio Effectiveness.

In a general way we say that radio-broadcasting
is “effective,” that it “reaches the people.” But do
we realize what we are saying? Do we comprehend
the tremendous efficiency of radio-broadcasting as
a method of bringing a message to the public?

No one is going to compare the work of the
pulpit, the activity of our missionaries, with radio-
broadcasting. ‘The a-b-c of Christian instruction
will tell us that the Church cannot exist without the
ministry and without missionaries, but has gotten
along without radio so far and may, when better
means are invented, do without it again. Radio-
broadcasting is no substitute for the work of the
pulpit, although it can mightily support the work
of the missionary. On this proposition there is no
difference among us. And yet a comparison between
preaching to the pews and through the microphone
is in order.

Our Synod has 900 home missionaries. Now let
us assume that the L. L. L. would supply the funds
for placing an additional 900 missionaries in the
field. No one would deny that such an act would
be the greatest work ever undertaken by laymen. It
would cost them about $900,000 in salaries. Assum-
ing that these 900 L. L. L.-supported missionaries
addressed on an average 100 persoris every Sunday,
their collective audience for 50 Sundays would con-
sist of 4,500,000 persons.