Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-18
GERMAN CHURCH
MISSION SERVICE
Immanuers Lutheran Congrega
ton Will Celebrate Annual
Festival Sunday.

The Immanuers Lutheran congrega-
ton will celebrate its annual Mission
festival next Sunday There win be
German services in the morning at 10
O'Clock, and in the afternoon at 2:30,
and English services in the evening at
1880. The speaker al the morning SER
vices is the Rev. F. Brand, of Spring
field. Ill, who fs the president of the
central Illinois district of the Luther
an Missouri synod, while in the after
noon the pulpit will be occupied by the
Rev. Christ Bergen, of Geneseo, Ill. At
the evening services the Rev. o. Horn,
of Davenport, will address the audi
ence. All three speakers are eloquent
pulpit orators and all who will attend
the services will not regret doing So
The ladies of the congregation will
serve dinner and supper in the base
ment of the church to all partakers of
the festival at a very moderate price
and it is expected that all will re-
main and thus kindly assist the ladies
| in their effort. The choir OF the church
will render some selections at all the
services and the orchestra will furnish
the accompaniment to the singing of
the congregation in the services. Be
sides this the orchestra will render
a musical program during the noon
and afternoon hours in the basement
of the church. All members and
! friends of the congregation are invited
! to attend and give aid to the various
missions of the Lutheran church. The
/ Missouri synod of which the Imman.
uels Lutheran church is a member,
carries on a great mission work in this
country and many others. Nearly 900
missionaries and their assistants a-e
engaged in the home mission work
with almost 400 mission fields in
nearly all states of the union and
provinces of Canada. In Brasil and Ar
gentine il has 80 missionaries work
ing at some 80 different stations. Its
main foreign mission is among the
Tamil nation in East India, where s
white missionaries and a number OF
assistants are at work at 35 stations
and four missionaries and a mission
airy nurse are now on their way 10
that far off country. The Missouri
synod owns one of the finest mountain
homes for the families of the mission
aries in the Himalaya region, and will
erect new college building for young
Tamil missionaries. The enrolment OF
that institution is 60 at present. The
/ colored mission in our country is an
other thriving missionary. enterprise
OF that synod, 81 missions are taker
care of by 46 ministers and teachers
In order to obtain colored missionaries
the synod has two colleges for coloreC
young men, one at New Orleans ant
one in Greensboro, n. c. Besides this Il
has missionary workers among the
inns, Let's, Lithuaneans, Esthes, Sic
vonians, Poles, Cubans, Persians, anC
Indians. Extensive emigrant mission
is carried on in New York, Philadel
phia, Porto Allegro, and other seaports
and a seaman's mission at PhilaGel
phia- Another extensive mission o.
that synod is a mission among thu
deaf mutes. II has organized congre
cations of deaf mute members and &
number of missions among the silen
in various cities, besides a vel
equipped school for deaf mutes at De
troit, Mich. 1t also maintains a mis-
sion among the Jews in greater New
York and a mission among the Gu
bans in Havana and other cities o
Cuba.