The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 91

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

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equipped, splendidly housed school five days a week,
will not be attracted to the little, shabby, poorly
equipped country church on Sunday. This is not
said by way of excuse for our young people; it is
rather given as an explanation of much that we see
and deplore in their attitude to their church, with
the hope that these remarks may lead us to ask God
to help us to find means pleasing to Him to make
their church an object of affection and respect, to
increase their interest in the things of the kingdom
of Christ, and to give them a vital, genuine desire
to spread the influence of the Gospel in their com-
munity. F. J. 1.

The Missionary Monthly.

The synodical organs are the friends and allies
of the missionary monthlies. Missionary news is
naturally brought by these periodicals. The editors
of these organs are glad to get missionary informa-
tion of a striking and important character. Most
of them have regular missionary departments, and
it is an interesting and hopeful sign that the re-
ligious papers of all denominations are devoting so
much attention to missionary work. It is an in-
dication that the interest in the great extension
work of the Church is increasing. Missions offer
the very best field for news features to these papers.

But no amount of publicity in the general re-
ligious press can make up for the lack of interesting
articles such as a missionary magazine brings. It is
clear that the end and purpose of the missionary
monthly is not so much to interest those who are
still uninterested in, and even hostile to, the cause
of missions as rather to develop the interest of
friends already made, upon whose fidelity rests to a
large extent the stability of the work described. Un-
less a reader has already become interested in mis-
sions to some extent, it is not probable that he will
keep and read the missionary monthly.

The articles of a missionary monthly should be
to a large extent full of news portraying in a vivid
and crisp manner what is being done in the field.
It should make its readers acquainted with the
people among whom the missionaries are working,
the nature of their work, and their success.

In every larger church-body there is room for
such a missionary monthly, and in a body like the
Synodical Conference there is room for a German
and an English magazine. The subject and re-
sources of information and inspiration open to @
Missionary magazine among us is so great that it
should be widely taken and read.

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Eprror.)

New Orleans, La.— From Mount Zion, New
Orleans, comes the sad news that Miss Beulah Mil-
lender, the principal of Mount Zion School, has
been forced by ill health to lay down her work and
return to her home in St. Louis. The two years of
strenuous work spent in Mount Zion have won for
Miss Millender many friends both among children
and adults, and it goes without saying that she is
being sorely missed. Mrs. Eldray Doley, a graduate
of the old Luther College of New Orleans, is teach-
ing Miss Millender’s room till June, while the prin-
cipal’s duties have developed upon Miss Elsie Gil-
bert, Mount Zion’s experienced primary teacher, and
the task of organist upon Miss Maud Berkley, recent
graduate from Immanuel College, Greensboro, N. C.

Work among the Deaf in Los Angeles.— There
are five church-bodies carrying on work among the
deaf of Los Angeles besides our own Church.
Pastor Ferber, our missionary, preached to 394 deaf
people during the past half-year. He has thirty-
eight communicant members at his various stations,
nineteen of them in Los Angeles. He greatly de-
plores not having a chapel for his people because
the deaf are backward about coming in contact with
speaking people.

City Missions in Los Angeles. — Our city mis-
sionary in Los Angeles ministers to 893 Lutherans
in various institutions of the city. Besides these he
serves many unchurched persons. He preached to
over 7,000 persons in the past half-year, communed
315, made over a thousand bedside visits, confirmed
ten adults, and officiated at sixteen burials. — Our
colored missionary in Los Angeles, Pastor John
McDavid, visits the General Hospital and the
County Farm regularly and in this way comes in
contact with many colored people. He also visits
the Olive View Sanitarium for the tubercular
regularly, in the company of Pastor Schlichting,
two whole days in every month. Due to the work
done in this sanitarium a mission has come into
existence among the colored people of Watts,
California.

Two Hundred Eighty! — That is the number
of children of unchurched parents that are attend-
ing the ninety-eight parish-schools of our Michigan
District. Besides these another 170 children of
parents belonging to some non-Lutheran church are
enrolled in these schools. Of the 7,700 pupils en-
rolled in our parish-schools in Michigan 450 are
non-Lutheran children.