The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 171

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

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ordinarily would not be attained through the reg-
ular channels. <A quarterly, edited by the efficient
Director of Home Missions in the Central District,
the Rev. W. C. Birkner, is issued. This periodical
brings a mission study in every number, which is
used by a number of societies. Thousands of pen-
nies, amounting to $20,000, have been gathered by
the ladies’ aids composing the Women’s Missionary
Endeavor. With this money chapels have been built
in Bedford, Indiana, in Willoughby and Canton,
Ohio, in Alabama, and in India. In addition to
this a school has been erected in Louisville, Ken-
tucky, and the University Chapel at Bloomington,
Indiana, has been helped in getting its needed
equipment. The next objective of the organization
calls for $500 to purchase and renovate a chapel
for a mission near Fort Wayne, Indiana, and then
it intends to provide a promising mission at Liberty
Center, Ohio, with a portable chapel.—Dear reader,
remember that all this is being done with funds
that have been donated in the way of pennies.
What great things little things are able to do! Why
should not other parts of our Church try the plan
set in motion in the Central District by its active
chairman for Home Missions, the Rev. Fred.
Wambsganss ?

The Work of an Institutional Missionary. —
During the first six months of this year the Rev.
EE. A. Brauer, institutional missionary of the
Northern Illinois District for the territory outside
of Cook County, made 161 institutional visits and
conducted 114 services in the institutions of his
territory. His services were attended by 2,414 in-
mates. He made 778 individual calls and served
15 persons with Holy Communion. At one insti-
tution he is instructing 50 boys and men and at
another 15 girls and women.

Porto Rico.—Six Lutheran mission-churches in
Porto Rico were completely destroyed in the recent
storm that swept the island. Six other buildings
were unroofed, including a new training-school that
had been dedicated in July. Lutheran churches in
the Virgin Islands were not damaged to any appre-
ciable extent. The United Lutheran Church has
forty-seven workers in the West Indies, who are
taking care of twenty organized congregations and
sixteen mission-stations. The educational work and
the work among the sick and neglected children is
quite extensive. ~

Mission-Offerings Increasing. — The 113th an-
nual report of the Leipzig Mission Society for 1931
states that the income was 693,981.45 marks,

which is 32,800 marks more than in the previous
year. The number of mission-workers in the
Tamil Missions in India is seventeen; in East
Africa, twenty-four. A total of 14,552 souls are
reported for the congregations in India. For both
fields there is a total number of 325 schools, with
14,391 male and 4,776 female pupils; five middle-
schools, eleven evening-schools, two industrial
schools, one teachers’ seminary, and one theological
seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Tamil Mis-
sions. In Tanganyika, East Africa, there are 121
outstations, 86 preaching-places, 175 worship- and
schoolrooms. The missionary doctor took care of
12,000 cases in 1931.

Lutheran Missions in New Guinea. — The
Board of Foreign Missions of the American Lu-
theran Church is taking over the Madang field from
the Rhenish Mission Society, while it is withdraw-
ing entirely from the Neuendettelsau field.

Sumatra. — In another paragraph we have told
our readers that the Rhenish Mission Society has
withdrawn from New Guinea, turning over its field
to the American Lutheran Church. Now comes the
news that this society has been singularly recom-
pensed. <A large territory in the southern part of
Sumatra, containing a number of Christian con-
gregations, has been turned over to them by other
mission societies, which were compelled to with-
draw from the field.

A Successful Mission. — Up to a year ago the
Dutch government would not permit Christian mis-
sions on the island of Bali, one of its East India
possessions. Just a year ago a Christian Chinaman
was granted permission to work among his country-
men. ‘To-day twenty-six natives of Bali have been
baptized, and a hundred others are being instructed
for Baptism. The Gospel is rapidly spreading from
village to village in spite of governmental oppo-
sition.

The Little Hindu’s Reply. — A regiment of
British Tommies, fresh from the home country, was
encamped just outside a town in India. Soon after
its arrival a Hindu Christian preacher went trot-
ting by, a quaint little figure, with a big Bible under
one arm and an umbrella under the other. Some
Tommies hailed him with a question that sounded
more irreverent than it really was, “Hello, Sammy!
How’s Jesus this morning?” The little fellow
pulled up short and looked at them with his bright,
shining eyes. Then holding up his Bible, he said
slowly, “Do you sahibs mean to say that you who
sent us this holy Book talk of the Lord Jesus like