The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1933, Page 29

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

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Echoes of the December Board Meeting. —
The Missouri and Wisconsin synods have been com-
pelled to further reduce their apportionments to our
Colored Missions. This reduction will mean $26,000
less income and a further reduction of salaries and
other cutting of expenses. — At the suggestion of
Jonathan Ekong, a native of Africa now studying
at Immanuel College in Greensboro, the Board de-
cided to send a number of sermon books and other
literature in the English language to the Ibeskipo
people in Nigeria. This may lead to the eventual
taking up of actual mission-work in the Dark Con-
tinent by the Synodical Conference. In this connec-
tion we may state that the Board at this meeting
received a communication from the Lutheran La-
dies’ Aid for Colored Missions, St. Louis, that it has
$500 in its treasury for traveling expenses for the
first missionary to be sent to Africa. —'The Board
encouraged Missionary Fey of Grace Colored Mis-
sion, St.Louis, to follow up canvass-work done in the
Second Street Mission with the active cooperation
of the students of the Seminary. — A white women’s
society is to be organized in Cincinnati in the in-
terest of our colored mission in that city, and much
help is expected from this organization. Our white
congregations in Cincinnati have always shown a
most commendable interest in our colored work and
have provided our mission there with a fine and
adequate church home. — Professor Scherf, the
director of Luther College, New Orleans, till it was
closed last year, will in future serve Concordia Mis-
sion in Carrollton as its pastor. — Mr. Henry Horst,
a member of the Board of Directors of the Missouri
Synod, has engaged the services of a student who
will work among the colored people of East Moline
with the consent of the white congregations of that
vicinity. This action on the part of Mr. Horst is
most commendable and worthy of imitation in other
centers with promising mission-fields.

The Missions of the Missouri Synod. — To
carry on the Home Mission work of this body
requires 821 pastors, 166 teachers, and forty-seven
students. Its Foreign Missions have forty-two mis-
sionaries in India and twenty in China. Eighteen
missionaries are working in its Deaf-mute Missions.
One missionary is specializing in work among the
blind deaf-mutes. Six missionaries are working
among the Indians. Three men are engaged in the
Immigrant and Seamen’s Missions. Nineteen mis-
sionaries are giving their whole time to work among
the foreign-language peoples in our country; this,
of course, does not include work in the German lan-
guage. In the Colored Missions, conducted under

the auspices of the whole Synodical Conference,
there are fifty-two missionaries. The Synod is sup-
porting sixty-six missionaries in South American
Missions, located in Brazil and Argentina. In
Europe the Synod is subsidizing more than twenty
pastors, located in England, France, and Germany.
Finally, there are twenty-five missionaries within
the confines of the Missouri Synod who devote their
attention to the spiritual needs of the inmates of
benevolent, corrective, and penal institutions. In
the larger cities several of these so-called city mis-
sionaries also work in the slums.

New Missionary Opportunity. — Three million
Mohammedans in Albania, Jugoslavia, Roumania,
and Bulgaria are showing a great interest in Chris-
tianity. The forefathers of these people were Chris-
tians, but were forced into the Mohammedan re-
ligious camp at the time of the conquest of their
countries by the Turks in the fifteenth century.
A desire for the Christian education of their chil-
dren is especially manifested by the Albanians.
What a pity if the Christian Church could not take
advantage of this promising opportunity to re-
conquer this field for Christ!

Los Angeles Institutional Missions. — For ten
years the institutional work in the large institutions
of this city and its surroundings was carried on
under the auspices of an association. This associa-
tion has now been dissolved, and the Southern
California District has assumed the responsibility
for the work. In recognition of faithful ser-
vices and in view of the great need of a new auto-
mobile the association turned over all the money it
had in its treasury, almost $500, to the District
with the understanding that it be used to buy Mis-
sionary Wachholz a new automobile. Pastor Wach-
holz will continue to serve as institutional mission-
ary under the District’s Board of Missions. During
the ten years of his service under the old association
he made 30,074 bedside visits. THe confirmed 174
adults during this time and baptized fifty adults
and seventy-four children. During these ten years

-he contacted no less than 4,558 nominal Lutherans,

many of whom he succeeded in reclaiming for their
Church.

Sunday-Schools Support a Missionary among
the Colored of Jamaica, Long Island. — According
to the 1930 census the Negro population of the
United States was 11,891,143, more than half of
which has no connection with the Christian Church.
The Negro population in Metropolitan New York
in 1930 was 327,706, an increase of 114.9 per cent.
in the last decade. The Long Island Conference of