The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1933, Page 58

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58 ~THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

Comparative Statistics of Our Missions According to Fields.

and 1932.

1931

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Order the ‘‘Pioneer’’
or the ‘‘Missionstaube’’ for a Friend.

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be very great. One can never tell what good even
a single subscription will do. It may put a mis-
sionary atmosphere into the recipients heart and
home. It was a copy of a missionary monthly sent
him by a member of his church that resulted in the
conversion of a man’ who became an enthusiastic
champion for missions thereafter. The sending of
another missionary magazine many years ago to
a person who-later became a member on the edi-
torial staff of a missionary publication awakened
her heart to missions’ and helped to make her a
mighty power for good for the cause.

Eyery year men and women are led, through the
influence of some missionary magazine, to devote
themselves and their money to the advancing of
God’s kingdom. Perhaps the subscription you pay
for may turn some life into channels of service for
Christ. Don’t you think that this would be worth
while? F.J.L.

Capitalizing Hard Times.

-II.-A Mission-Building Layman.

Eddie Joshua,-3330 Fern Street, New Orleans,
lost his job over a year ago and applied to the Wel-
fare Association for work. Three days a week were
* obtained, which proved a great relief under the cir-
cumstances. A portion of the other three days a
week was used ‘for calling. for washing, assisting his
helpmeet Gertrude in-the washing, and then deliy-
ering it after the ironing was done by her. But
_ Joshua still had some unproductive hours.on his

hands, which he resolved to put to missionary use
for the time being. His immediate community had
no Lutheran church, though there were many other
churches and-many unchurched and “mischurched”
people.

He secured the services of a pastor to start
preaching in his home and the assistance of several
brethren from a near-by congregation for making
a neighborhood canvass. He remembered how his
home congregation in Alexandria, Louisiana, had
been begun with services held in various homes,
house-to-house visits, and spiritual wrestlings with
_the impenitent; and he.was resolved in the same

way, with the help of God, to build another con-"

gregation in this place where the pure Word and
the unadulterated Sacraments were badly needed.

One-year has elapsed since this beginning was
made, and the results justify the conclusion that
the time was well spent and is bringing in great
dividends.

The Sunday-school, which was begun in Joshua’s
home, soon outgrew the front room, and a house
‘was rented. After several removals, due to the fact
that the property had changed hands, and after sev-
eral ‘acquisitions of new members through confirma-
tion and baptism, the situation indicated that it
was time to build. But here hard times held up
a forbidding hand. The ever-willing Mission Board
was unable to assist, and the* few members were
_ Struggling to exist on a few days’ work a week with
~low wages. - Nevertheless there was an attractive
side to the plan of building during hard times.
‘Volunteer labor would be plentiful, a cheap, rough
building would’ be acceptable, a lot could be ob-
tained for $500, payable at- the-rate of $8 a month,
-and-an old*house.near by. could be: bought “for $50