The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1933, Page 35

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER 35

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The Missionary Monthly.

Missionary effort calls forth our help in almost
exact proportion to our knowledge of its needs and
progress. That is why our Lord told His disciples:
“LIFT UP YOUR EYES AND LOOK ON THE
FIELDS.”

But the mission-fields are often far away, and
most of us can look on them only through the
printed page. This makes missionary monthlies
such as our Missionstaube and the LurHeran Pro-
NEER very important factors in the work. Books on
missions also serve to bring us in touch with the
mission-field and inspire us to service; but it is the
regular, up-to-date information presented in the
missionary monthly month after month that keeps
the fires steadily burning. And it is the knowledge
of immediate need that calls forth the largest and
readiest assistance.

The Missionstaube and the P1ioNEER form bonds
between the missionaries on the various fields and
those “who stay by the stufl” at home, and they are
a real necessity to those at home who would be in-
telligent workers and who desire to fulfil the obliga-
tions they have undertaken as members of Christ’s
Church. Not to read one of the missionary month-
lies means that one will remain in ignorance of
much of one’s own Church’s mission-work and lose
its full blessing and inspiration. F. J. L.

O—W—N. W—O—N. N—O—W.

OWN. — We should want God to OWN this
land of ours and should be ready to do our part.
But the Evil One is fast preempting the land.

WON. — If the Lord is ever to OWN this fair
land, it must be WON to Him. This means that
not only the ministers and a few members must be
active, but that this work of winning is to be done
by the whole Church.

NOW. — If God is to OWN this land of ours,
it should be WON for Him NOW. To-morrow may
be too late, for there may be no to-morrow; to-
morrow, if there be one, sin and worldliness will
have had an opportunity to become more entrenched
and to make the task of winning far more difficult
than to-day.

Therefore let us strive to WIN what God would
OWN NOW! F. J. L.

“Ts it fair to God to call Him blessed and holy
and then to use His name in vain by profanity ?”

In the Parishes of Louisiana.

1. Our Mission at Hickory Hill.

About at the same time that we took charge of
the mission at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a door was
opened for a Lutheran mission at Hickory Hill,
about eight miles northwest of Marksville and about
twenty-six miles southeast of Alexandria. Marks-
ville is about three miles from our Lutheran church
at Lutherville. The growth of this mission has been
slow owing to the difficulty in starting it and the
handicaps which we now must struggle against.
A beginning was made in an old, dilapidated farm-
house. To secure even this ramshackle house, it was
necessary to take a one-year lease. Before our lease
had expired, notice was served on us that the house
could not be rented after the expiration of our lease.
The last Sunday we held service in it a tenant

Rev. C. P. Thompson.

moved into the house. Thus our mission was with-
out a home. The problem that now confronted us
was one not easy to solve. Where should we find a
suitable place of worship? What made the problem
especially difficult was the fact that our little flock”
is scattered in all directions. Our first house of wor-
ship had been rather centrally located. It was sug-
gested that services be held at one of the members’
homes; but this suggestion was not favorably re-
ceived, since this house was too far removed from
the homes of some of the members. Finally, Brother
Ed. Batiste, the founder of the mission, offered his
home for, the services. After much discussion it was
decided, to accept his offer, though with some reluc-
tance, because of the great distance from the homes
of some of the members.

In the midst of our despondency we were thrilled
to learn that the Mission Board, through a kind ~
friend of our Colored Missions, had offered to pur-
chase a building site for the Hickory Hill Mission.
A centrally located plot at a reasonable price was