The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1933, Page 76

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

the floor of the little schoolroom among the smaller
boys. “Except ye become as little children” seemed
to him to fit the case.

In the spring he went back to the island, with
new lessons for the Christians there. They wel-
comed him gladly, and in time better-educated men
became Christians and, after studying the Bible,
were able to give instruction. The old leader grace-
fully took a humble place once more; and now
every Sunday he climbs the steep and winding
mountain pass and plods over five miles to the
church. There he takes his place on the floor,
a humble, earnest listener, always striving to take
in some new truth. Surely he will find in heaven
One who will say, “Friend, go up higher.”

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Eprror.)

Going Forward! — The Home Mission treasury
of the Minnesota District, Missouri Synod, has a
deficit of $17,000. That is not encouraging, though
there are many other funds in the same condition.
But this is encouraging: Superintendent Meyer re-
ports in Our Home Mission that twelve parishes of
the Minnesota District have become self-supporting
since January 1, 1988. This shows an admirable
spirit indeed on the part of these parishes and their
pastors and is worthy of emulation on the part of
others.

A Missionary Book.—A book of more than
ordinary interest to every mission-minded person is
a book recently published by the Minnesota District
of the Missouri Synod. The author is the former
President of the District, the Rev. H. Meyer. The
book brings the early history of this, probably the
most outstanding, Home Mission District of the
Missouri Synod. Just about every page brings a
Home Mission story. An English edition will soon
be published. The German edition costs fifty cents
per copy. Order from J. H. Deckman, 3236 34th
Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

City Mission Work of Our Churches in Detroit.
Pastor O. Turk is the whole-time missionary. He
conducts regular services every Sunday in several
divisions of the House of Correction. Last year
these services were attended by 16,174 persons.
Pastor E. Fackler assists the missionary in his work
at the County Jail, where 2,701 persons were served.
in 1982. Regular work is also done at sanitaria
located at Maybury, Howell, and other places.

Forty-four catechetical classes were held at Maybury
Sanitarium. At a number of these institutions,
radio services are held by the visiting missionary.
Besides Pastor Fackler other pastors of Detroit as-
sist the city missionary, among them Pastors Hieber,
Hoenecke, Eickstaedt, Boecler, and Hensick. This
practical cooperation of the pastors is to be com-
mended and is worthy of imitation in other cities.
Our city missionaries would most heartily welcome
the active assistance of the pastors of regular con-
gregations. The work in Detroit has an enthusiastic
sponsor in the Lutheran Ladies’ Mission Society,
which in 1932 contributed over $2,000 to the
support of Pastor Turk and his assistants. This
society consists of ladies belonging to Michigan
District and English District congregations of
Metropolitan Detroit.

Mission-Schools.— The Southern Nebraska Dis-
trict, Missouri Synod, finds it a profitable mission-
ary investment to support Christian day-schools.
At the present time it is subsidizing fourteen such
schools, with an enrolment of 385 pupils. This
District is subsidizing forty-four Home Mission
stations, with a communicant membership of 3,000.
About one of every six communicants is a member
of a mission congregation.

-Pidgin English.— Can you make this out?
Try it! We found it in the Lutheran Missionary:
“One fellow papa he got two fellow piccanninny,
two fellow man. This fellow papa him he talk long
one fellow piccaninny, you go make him one fellow
work. This fellow piccaninny him he talk all right,
me make him, behind him he tink Maskie and him
no make him. This fellow papa now talk him other
fellow piccaninny, you make him his fellow work,
too. Him he talk, me no like, behind him he tink
long talk belong papa, and him he make him. Now,
what name piccaninny hear him talk long papa be-
long him?” Pidgin English like this is spoken by
the white people that live in Guinea to the natives.
Missionaries generally learn the native language of
the people among whom they work, though it
usually takes a white man a long time to do so.

New Home Mission Stations. — The Western
District, Missouri Synod, has at all times showed its
mission-mindedness. In the last few months two
new stations have been opened, one at Neosho, Mis-
souri, and the other at Kansas City, Missouri. Both
stations were opened after a thorough canvass had
revealed the promising nature of the fields where
they are located. As the result of another canvass,
a new station has been opened in Clinton, Missouri,