Evening star., 1924-10-26
LUTHERANS ASSIST
L|BER|AN SCHOOLS
Join With Other Churches in
Project to Create Modern
System There.
BY the Associated Press

| BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 25.--The United
Lutheran Church in America, conyen-
| ing here today, approved all recon-
! mendations of home and foreign mis-
sionary boards for an expanded pro-
gram. These recommendations entail
cooperation both with other Luther
an organizations and with other Prot
estant denominations.
The convention adopted plans to
help set up ii complete, modern edu-
cational system in the negro Republic
of Liberia. A joint committee has
been appointed for the purpose by
the PhelpsStokes Foundation in New
York, the American Colonization So
ciety, the New York Colonization So
ciety, and the foreign missionary
| boards of the Protestant Episcopal,
Methodist Episcopal and United
Lutheran Churches.
Farming to BE Taught.
The committee is seeking the right
man to be sent to Liberia tn ascer-
tain what kind of a school system is
best suited to it's needs. Negroes of
Liberia are to be taught farming
methods. The first agricultural mis-
sionary has been sent to this little
republic on the west coast of Africa.
He is George Copea, graduate of Penn
state College. chosen by the United
Lutheran Church of America.
The convention voted to take the
lead in developing the Anhra Union
Christian College in India. A group
of denominations will cooperate in
building this college. The initial cost
| is estimated at 100000.
| The missionary enterprise dare
not disregard certain contributions of
| the Oriental civilizations of past
times" said the report of the board
of foreign missions. Yet new storm
centers will appear unless Christ gets
His rightful place among men and
nations
Christianity's Task.
Every ethnic faith must bow to
tho Nazarene. Accomplishing this
! must be Christianity's task before it
can become the bridge between East
and West But the West needs to
practice the way of the cross per
fectly."
X. Hirai of Fokuoku. Japan,
| brought greeting from the Chris
tians of Japan. r. B. Manikam of
South India told of the desire of
Indian students for educational op-
portunities.
The report of the board of foreign
missions pointed out that iss had
assumed responsibilities which Ger
man missions had been obliged by
| the World War to lay down.
! The fact that there are two colonies of
! lepers on American soil, and within a
| few hundred miles of the shores of the
| American mainland, is brought out in a
| statement submitted today. One of
! these colonies is located on little
! island in the harbor of San Juan, Porto
Rico. Another is on the small island
/ OF St. CroiX, one of the Virgin group
recently purchased by the United States
| from Denmark.
Attention is called to their exist
| ence and need of care in the annual
/ report of the West Indies mission
| board of the United Lutherans. Mis-
! sionaries emplayed by the board con-
tribute to the care of the lepers in
| both colonies.
LuthernnS Take Turns.
With other Protestant denomina-
tions, the Lutheran missionaries
take their turn in conducting re-
| ligious services among the lepers, and
| bring gifts TO them to supplement the
| supplies furnished by the Govern
ment.
] Economic conditions in the Virgin
! Islands are declared by the West
Indies mission board to be so bad that
|
/ as fast as passage can be obtained.
! Describing the industrial situation in
both Porto Rico and the Virgin
! Islands, the report continues:
! Many hundreds never know what
| it is even to have enough to eat, for
| their earnings seldom exceed few
! pennies a day. To reach this class
| successfully, they must be aided in
| improving their living conditions
Other denominations have establish ed
well equipped industrial schools. but
! with our limited income it is impos-
sible to attempt to equal the mag
nificent work that others have ac-
complished.
| Training for Poor.
| However the Lutheran West Indies
Mission Board has endeavored to
| solve this problem by directing its
| missionaries in Porto Rico and the
Virgin Islands to train the poor peo-
| pie of these dependencies in making
| baskets and lace work, which were
! sent to the United States for sale
! through women's missionary societies
! Pointing out the need of extension
| of Lutheran missionary work to
Santo Domingo and Cuba. the mis-
sion board says that many natives
| of the Virgin Islands migrated to
| those nearby islands, seeking employ
/ ment, and that they are now asking
| that pastors be sent to them.
| Attention is called also to the es-
| tablishment of large German colonies
in Mexico, thus opening an oppor-
| tunity for Protestant work there
| that has seldom been equaled in this
| western world" Mexico is declared
by the board to be a most promising
| field.
Great need of Spanish-speaki
| missionaries and tranSlationS of
Lutheran literature into the Spanish
| language is pointed out by the board.
The West Indies Mission Board
maintains, in cooperation with the
| Woman's Missionary Society and
| other organizations, so FULL time
workers and IL pastors in its fields.
| 1t supervises 19 organized congrega-
tions IL additional preaching points
and 26 Sunday schools. The baptized
membership is 3,S41, and the Sunday
schools enroll 1856 children. The
West Indies missionary property is
valued at over 100000, half of which
came from the Danish National
Church at the time of the transfer
! A. r;ro-;p Tel tho Jypitod