The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1933, Page 61

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much about the Dark Continent and its peoples.
Yes, if these exhibits are viewed in the proper light,
they will greatly increase our mission-mindedness.
“Who’s Who in America.” —Dr. C. Luther Fry,
director of the Bureau of Standards Institute of
Social and Religious Research, makes a claim that
fifty-six per cent. of the 29,623 persons listed in
the 1930—31 Who’s Who in America reported re-
ligious affiliations. Dr. Fry concludes that his study
tends to prove that “not only is a man’s religion
closely associated with his occupation and profes-
sion, but also supports the general thesis that the
dominant tradition in this country is distinctly
Anglo-Saxon and Protestant.”
News Bulletin, N. L.C.
Mission Anniversary. — Ten years ago the Rey.
Zenan M. Corbe, D. D., treasurer of the United Lu-
theran Church Board of American Missions, found
opportunity to work among the Negro population
in the Harlem section of New York City. The
Lutheran Church of the ‘Transfiguration is the or-
ganization which resulted from his work. During
the month of March the tenth anniversary of this
congregation was celebrated in a series of services,
in which every organization of the congregation
united and in which pageantry played a prominent
part and the spiritual privileges of the Lententide
were emphasized. The Negro pastors are the Revs.
Paul E. West and Jesse W. Routte. The anniver-
sary announcement bears the heading “Ten Years
Old and Still Growing.” So great is the interest
and enthusiasm here that at most of the services
there are more persons present in the church on
West 126th Street than can be accommodated by
the seating capacity of the building.
News Bulletin, N. L. C.
Interesting Figures.— A German physician who
for a period of twenty years made a careful study
of the relation between faith and life gives the fol-
lowing interesting figures according to Fobe. Of
342 families who have sunk to poverty and misery
320 never went to church; of 417 young -men who
brought disgrace on their parents only 12 had been
seen in church; of 23 bankers who failed none
had ever attended church; of 40 storekeepers who
disregarded Sunday closing 10 went bad; of 25 sons
who ill-treated their parents 24 had never attended
church since their first Communion.
News Bulletin, N. L. C.
Japan. — Roanoke College calls attention to the
fact that the Rev. Hajime Inadomi, an alumnus of
the class of 1918, is now the principal of Kyushu

Academy, Kumamoto, Japan, succeeding the late
Dr. Sayo Toyama, its head for twenty-nine years
prior to his death. A Japanese newspaper refers
to Principal Inadomi as “a man in the prime of
life and one of great promise, in whom the people
of the province have great hope.”

News Bulletin, N.L.C.

“Greater Love Hath No Man.’’

Bishop Tucker, late missionary bishop of the
Church of England in Uganda, tells the following
in his book Eighteen Years in Uganda and East
Africa: —

“The martyr spirit is not dead in Uganda, as the
following incident testifies.

“Some months ago I was officiating in the ca-
thedral at Mengo. The great congregation had dis-
persed, and a large body of the communicants re-
mained. Slowly the service proceeded, the profound
silence broken only by the solemn words of adminis-
tration. The last communicants had returned to
their places, and I was about to close the service,
when from the extreme end of the building — a cor-
ner of the south aisle, where she had been sitting by
herself —a woman advanced slowly up the nave.
I waited wonderingly. As she took her place, kneel-
ing alone at the rail, Henry Wright Duta, who was
assisting me, whispered in my ear, ‘It is Rakeri’

“‘Rakeri? In a moment her story flashed
through my mind, and with heart uplifted in praise
to God and with a voice ill controlled through the
emotion that welled within, I administered to her
the emblems * of the dying love of our Lord and
Savior Jesus. Slowly and with dragging footsteps
she returned to her place, and with the Gloria in
Excelsis and the Benediction the service came to a
close.

“Now, who was Rakeri (Rachel) ? She was a
woman connected with the congregation at Ngogwe,
near the shores of the Great Lake. Some time pre-
viously it had been told at a meeting of Christians
how on a certain island the sleeping sickness had
broken out and that the people were dying in large
numbers, without any one to teach them the way to
salvation. This so touched the heart of Rakeri, who
was present, that she volunteered to go and teach
the women and the children. She was warned, she
was told of the peril. It would be at the risk of her

* The bishop speaks as one who does not believe in the
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