The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 28

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28 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

doing a fine and noble thing in trying to establish,
and keep up, a religious contact with these young
men and should be encouraged in its endeavors.
Pastors having boys from their congregations at-
tending the academy would greatly help Pastor
Schleede by informing him: of these cadets. Write
to Rev. Karl Schleede, 11 Furman St., Schenec-
tady, N. Y.

A Promising Missionary Agency. — St. Paul’s,
Austin-Chicago, has a flourishing parish-school. But
besides this it has opened a vacation Bible-school.
The enrolment of this school has risen from twenty-
one in 1929 to 135 in 1931. The curriculum of the
school included one and a half hours of daily re-
ligious. instruction. Of the 135 children enrolled
last summer a hundred were non-Lutheran and
many of them were not connected with any church.
Six of these summer-school pupils have enrolled
in the parish-school, and more are expected to en-
roll. Quite a large number attend St. Paul’s Sun-
day-school. Here is also an example of missionary
enterprise worthy of emulation.

Inner Mission Work. — The Lutheran Institu-
tional Missions of Buffalo, N. Y., before Christmas
had a depository for clothing gathered by the Wal-
ther League societies and local congregations and
from there distributed wearing apparel to about
2,500 needy persons.

Serving the Deaf. — Pastor Theodore Walz of
Cincinnati is doing this in a uniqué way. Through
a retired minister, who is a member of his congre-
gation, he became acquainted with two deaf daugh-
ters of the retired pastor. Through them he came
in contact with other deaf-mutes. This led Pastor
Walz to think of the spiritual need of these people.
Next he aroused the interest of his congregation in
that need. The outcome is that a certain part of
the Rey. Theo. Walz’s church has been reserved for
the use of attending deaf-mutes and an expert
interpreter translates the sermon to them into the
sign-language. Pastor Walz has here pointed out
a way in which many of our congregations in larger
cities can bring the everlasting Gospel to those who
cannot hear or speak. Who will emulate the ex-
- ample of Pastor Walz?

“The Call of the Ages.” — Under the super-
"vision of Dr. Theo. Graebner of our Theological
Seminary at St. Louis and the Rey. L. Meyer, our
Publicity Director, a six-reel motion-picture setting
forth the activities of the Missouri Synod has been
put out. ‘Ten sets of reels and ten projectors are

available for the congregations of Synod. Standard-
gage film has been used. In putting out this film,
the Missouri Synod is the first to give a motion-
picture view of the entire work of a larger church-
body. “The Call of the Ages” cannot but increase
the interest of the “Missourians” in the work of
their Synod and awaken, as a natural result, the
desire to assist in carrying on this good work. Those
responsible for putting out this picture deserve the
gratitude of their entire church-body.

Anniversaries. — Two of the PIONEER’S es-
teemed contemporaries are celebrating anniversaries,
the Lutheran Witness and Svedok. The former
looks back upon fifty years of faithful work in the
service of the Lord, while Svedok (Witness) has
just celebrated its quarter centennial. The Lutheran
Witness is the English official organ of the Mis-
souri Synod; Svedok is the official organ of our
Slovak brethren in this country. God grant both
periodicals many years of successful labor in the
service of the truth!

Bequests for Missions. — A wealthy Lutheran
who recently died in York, Pa., in his last will be-
queathed $4,000 to Home and Foreign Missions.
In doing this, he set an example which others might
well follow. We know of no other monument that
could be erected in memory of a departed Christian
that would be more lasting. He that makes such

‘a bequest continues to live and bless though he

be dead.

Foreign Mission Contributions in 1929.— These
were about a quarter million dollars more in 1929
than in 1928. In the United States the Foreign
Mission contributions for 1929 exceeded those of the
preceding year by more than a million dollars. In
continental Europe the contributions were less,
though Germany and a number of other countries
increased their contributions. We give the Protes-
tant Foreign Mission contributions of a few of the
countries: United States and Canada, $28,523,939 ;
Great Britain, $11,172,525; Germany, $1,448,517;
Sweden, $1,247,745; Denmark, $528,472; Norway,
$481,328.

Be Evangelistic.—“It is not enough to be evan-
gelical;, we must be evangelistic. The church that
is simply evangelical is a reservoir of pure water,
but without a pipe running anywhere. If you will
take the trouble to go to it and climb the embank-
ment, you will get a good drink. The evangelistic
church is a reservoir of pure water with a pipe to
every heart of the world.” — Good News.

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