The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1933, Page 77

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER 17

a thriving town of 6,000 inhabitants. — A Spanish
mission has been opened in St. Louis after the
Students’ Missionary Society had made a canvass
in the vicinity of a new mission on South Fourth
Street. Spanish radio broadcasts over KFUO have
also greatly helped to bring about an approach.
According to last reports ten services had been held
with an average attendance of eighteen persons.

India.— The Hermannsburg Mission Society
has legally turned over all its possessions in India
to the American Lutheran Church and will in future
concentrate its efforts on the old fields in South
Africa and the new field among the Gallas of
Abyssinia.

Minnesota District Once More. — This District
is subsidizing 148 Home Mission stations. Ten of
these have only recently been opened. They have
called four new laborers into their Home Mis-
sion field.

One in Six.—In the American Lutheran Church
only one home out of six subscribes for one of its
two general church-papers. In the Roman Catholic
Church, it is said, every home has a church-paper.
It is quite probable that the homes in the Synodical
Conference are no better furnished with church-
papers than those of the American Lutheran Church.

Lutheran Free Church Missions. — This small
church-body has two Foreign Mission fields. Its
field in Madagascar serves a population of about
125,000 through seven main stations and seventy-six
congregations. The field in China is served by four
main stations, with a number of outstations.

Rauhe Haus Centennial. — This famous Inner
Mission center will celebrate its centennial in Sep-
tember of this year. This well-known institution
of mercy was founded by the noted John Henry
Wichern to “rescue children from their godless
parents and be able to lead them more surely to the
Savior.”

Mission Hospital Dedicated.— On March 17
the American Lutheran Church’s new hospital build-
ing at Renigunda, Madras Presidency, India, was
dedicated. The funds to put up this building were
furnished by the Women’s Missionary Federation of
that body. ‘The building represents an outlay of
$75,000. It will serve a native population of
1,000,000.

A Gospel-Wagon.— The Wichern Inner Mis-
sion Society of Hamburg, Germany, uses five Gospel-
wagons in its work. These wagons go from place to
place in the city and serve as pulpits for the

preachers. Last summer more than a hundred ser-
mons were preached from each of these wagons to
gatherings of old and young.

Formerly a “Speak-Easy,” Now a Church! —
A Lutheran missionary in Racine, Wisconsin, re-
cently founded a mission. His home and church
and Sunday-school room is in a building that was
formerly a “speak-easy.” The work is progressing
so promisingly that the hope is entertained of the
mission’s becoming an organized congregation by
next fall.

Catholic Charity.— The Catholics have 607
children’s homes in this country. The total number
of Catholic hospitals is 560. St. Vincent de Paul
Conference, a charitable organization of the Cath-
olie Church, has 20,000 members and annually ex-
pends $3,500,000 for the relief of the poor.

A Mountain Mission-School. — The United Lu-
theran Church Brotherhood is conducting a school
at Konnarock, Virginia, for mountaineers’ children.
The school has a large enrolment and is doing suc-
cessful work. Like many other institutions, it is
financially embarrassed at this time.

Home Mission Facts. — Every second person
you meet is no church-member ; there are 68,000,000
non-church-members in our country. ‘There are
ninety-five cities in the United States with a popula-
tion of over 100,000 each. In these ninety-five cities
there are 17,500,000 persons who have no connection
with any church whatever. On our Pacific Coast
there are three cities which alone have an unchurched
population of 1,500,000. Here is another arrest-
ing fact: Chicago has within its bounds more un-
churched people than all of Idaho, Wyoming, Colo-
rado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada combined.
The world’s second-largest Mexican city is Los
Angeles; the world’s largest Jewish city is New
York. In every large city there are missionary op-
portunities to be found in the “Chinatowns,” “Little
Japans,” “Little Italies,” “Ghettos,” and the like.

Contributions for Foreign Missions. — In 1930
the receipts for Foreign Missions aggregated about
$55,000,000. The United States and Canada
gave over $28,000,000 of this sum; Great
Britain, $11,000,000; South America, $4,500,000;
Germany, $1,750,000; Australia, $1,400,000;
Sweden, $900,000; Norway, $750,000; South
Africa, $730,000; Denmark, $500,000; New Zea-
land, $440,000; Holland, $430,000; Switzerland,
$300,000; France, $200,000; Finland, $110,000.

The gifts for 1932 and 1933 will be less.