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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

work of Bible distribution shows no decline. In the
Egypt agency, which comprises the Anglo-Egyptian
Sudan, Abyssinia, Palestine, Syria, Cyprus, and
Egypt, the sales were the highest on record:
166,740 volumes in ninety-five languages.

The colporteurs carried these volumes far and
wide. One of them visited a Bedouin camp of
three thousand tents in Syria and sold a Bible to
the sheik, who confessed that he had never heard of
Jesus Christ.

In the countries lying between Egypt and the
Atlantic close upon 70,000 books were distributed
among the heterogeneous population. The Bible
society motor caravan traveled 5,650 miles in dis-
tricts fringing the great desert, and for every mile
it went a copy of the Scriptures came into the pos-
session of an inhabitant. Colporteurs reached places
far away in the Atlas region of Morocco which
probably had never before been visited by Bible-
sellers.

Almost 60,000 volumes of the Bible were dis-
tributed in Persia and ‘Iraq, mostly by the colpor-
teurs, and this was considerably in advance of
previous figures. In one remote community the
only man who could read gathered his neighbors
together to listen to the reading. “God has thought
even of us,” he said. “See how these men have
crossed mountains and rivers and have come to our
village hidden in the hills.” When they heard a few
chapters of St. Matthew and St.John, they ex-
claimed: “This is something quite new; we never
heard anything like it before”; and they subscribed

a farthing each to buy a Testament, so that their -

only scholar might read to them of an evening.

BOOK TABLE.
(By the Eprror.)

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, and Other Prayers.
Gathered for youthful believers in Christ. Concordia
Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. 45 pages, 414X614.
Bound in special silk-finish green cloth. Price, 25 cts.;
dozen, $2.40.

A beautiful little prayer-book: well printed, well illus-
trated, well bound, contents well sel: Contains morn-
ing, evening, and table prayers, also special Sunday prayers
and prayers in sickness; a selection of Bible-texts; the Ten
Commandments, the Three Articles, the Sacrament of Bap-
tism, and the Sacrament of the Altar. The front cover
has a fine color print of the painting “Samuel at Prayer.”

The Millennium: and the Bible. By L. A. Heerboth.
(Tract No.120.) Concordia Publishing House, St.
i Louis, Mo. Price, 6 cts.; dozen, 60 cts.

In this tract of thirty-seven pages the author vei
tersely and
lenarianism in the light of the Bible. He answers such ques-
tions as these: What are the different kinds of millena-
rians? What test must be applied to millenarianism?
What does the Bible teach about the condition of the

et clearly shows what is to be held of mil--

Church on earth? What does the Bible teach about the
conversion of all Israel? What does the Bible teach about
Christ’s second coming? Will there be two resurrections
from the dead? How is Rev. 20, 1—10 to be understood?
What effect has millenarianism on the Christian’s hope?
The author’s answers make interesting and instructive
reading.

Concordia Collection of Sacred Choruses and An-
thems for More Ambitious Choral Organiza-
tions. No.29. Christ the Lord is Risen. By Ros
Vors. Price, 20 cts.; dozen, $1.60.— No. 30. Praise
Ye the Lord. By Ros Vors. Price, 30 cts.; dozen,
$2.40. — No. 31. Haster Song. By Matthew N. Lund-
quist. Price, 25 cts.; dozen, $2.04. Concordia Pub-
lishing House, St. Louis, Mo.

Two of these fine compositions are Easter anthems.

The third is a hymn of praise, suitable for any festival

occasion. All three are for mixed voices.

Die Abendschule. Osternummer. Louis Lange Publish-
ing Company, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 25 cts., postpaid,
anywhere.

This special Easter number of the well-known German
periodical is a number,de luwe. The literary contents and
the illustrations are of the highest character; the mechan-
ical make-up is the best possible. Several very interesting
Easter stories, a valuable article on Lincoln, and a beauti-_
fully illustrated article on the protection of wild swans
are especially worthy of mention. Personally we always
found the editor’s Aus der Zeit, fuer die Zeit deserving
of careful reading. Die Abendschule is a biweekly publi-
cation. The price per annum is $3.00.

Contributions Received by the Treasurer.
March 1—31, 1933.

From Several Mission Friends at Wolcottsburg, N.Y.,
for Chapel in Jackson, Miss., $15.00. From “A Friend,”
Paola, Kans., for Negro Missions, 1.00. From Mrs. August
Busse, Fort Wayne, Ind., for Negro Missions, 5.00.

Teo. W. Eckwanrt, 7'reasurer.

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