The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1933, Page 94

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

angel. Disappearing into the clouds of this sunset
there is to be seen a covered wagon drawn by oxen
to denote the primitive mode of transportation
which brought the pioneers of our Synod to the
western coast to establish there the Church of the
true Gospel on the shores of the great Pacific. In
the immediate foreground the buildings of the
modern city San Francisco appear in outline. The
entire effect is very striking and will leave an in-
delible impression on the minds of all those who

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te India.

Separated from the West Mural by a pilaster we
find the chart on India. This will contain the
statistical information with regard to our missions
in India — the number of schools, high schools, col-
leges, seminaries, white workers, native workers,
woman workers, preaching-places, etc. Beneath this
panel at the thirty-inch level you will find the
diorama of “The Ascending Christ,” giving His
command to His disciples to go into all the world
and teach all nations. In this way we intend to em-
phasize the Scriptural basis for our mission-work
‘in foreign fields, showing that we are not believers
in the social and moral missionary urge, but that
we base our work entirely on the command of the

Savior’s “Go.”
ae China.

Set between pilasters we next find the China
chart giving the same information with regard to
our missions in China which had been found with
regard to missions in India, in the chart of that
name. The diorama beneath this chart will be
“Christ Blessing the Little Children,” emphasizing
the fact that one of the prime objectives of all our
mission-work is the education of children.

North Mural.

The next large section contains a mural paint-
ing five feet square representing our work in the
North. This is a very bold and striking conception.
Almost the entire life side of the picture is occupied
by a snow-laden pine-tree. In the immediate fore-
ground is shown the primitive mode of transporta-
tion, the musher and his dog sled. Breaking the
brilliant white of the snow, to the right, is a beauti-
fully executed totem-pole, symbolic of the heathenish
worship of other days among the people of the
North. The totem-pole is tottering. In the back-
ground, set against the brilliant blue of the northern
sky, we find a little village and in the center of it
a tiny mission-chapel, the windows of which are
illuminated as if for a service. Rising above the

chapel there is a brilliant display of northern lights
in all the colors of the rainbow, and all who see this
mural will immediately be reminded of the fact
that these northern lights have in our conception
taken on the form of the ancient symbol of the
Savior —IHC. Just at the edge of these northern
lights there will be noted the modern means of
bringing the Gospel to the frozen North, a red-
winged airplane, symbolic by its red of the Gospel
of the atoning sacrifice.

South Mural.

The next large section will contain the mural
painting representing our work in the South, par-
ticularly among the Negroes. In this picture you
will see the Christian colored cotton-pickers at work
in the foreground. To the left, on a slight rise, will
be seen a beautiful Southern colonial mansion.
Going from the left, from the mansion of the rich
white folks, will be seen a beautiful rainbow, which
ends at the right-hand side of the picture in a great
glow of glory surrounding a little chapel, made pos-
sible for the Negro through the generosity of the
white man. The entire heavens behind the rainbow
is filled with turbulent storm-clouds, typifying the
trying days through which the South went during
the Civil War. But the section included beneath
the arch of the rainbow has taken on the form of an
outline map in the heavens of that portion of the
country in which we are doing our work. There
will be seen the Florida Keys, the entire Gulf
country, shaping downward to Central America and
South America, where new possibilities for this
work constantly beckon us.

South America.

The next chart, set between pilasters, deals with
our work in South America. It will contain ap-
proximately the same fund of information that was
found in the charts on India and China. The
diorama beneath this chart will represent “Christ’s
Sermon on the Mount” and will include in the
background the figure of “The Christ of the Andes.”

Pigmies of New Guinea.

New Guinea, or Papua, is the home of what are
probably the most backward and primitive people on
the globe. They are pigmies, and they live in the
interior of that large island, surrounded by high
mountains which protect them against the attacks
of the other inhabitants of the land. ‘They attain
an average height of only about four feet; the