Project Gutenberg's The Story of Lutheran Missions, by Elsie Singmaster This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. Title: The Story of Lutheran Missions Author: Elsie Singmaster Release Date: October 26, 2017 [EBook #55819] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF LUTHERAN MISSIONS *** Produced by David Edwards, Barry Abrahamsen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) PORTRAIT OF A. H. FRANCKE The Story of Lutheran Missions BY ELSIE SINGMASTER (Mrs. Elsie Singmaster Lewars) Published by Co-operative Literature Committee Woman’s Missionary Societies Lutheran Church Copyright, 1917 By the Co-operative Literature Committee Woman’s Missionary Societies Lutheran Church PRESS OF SURVEY PUBLISHING CO., COLUMBIA, S. C. FOREWORD For many years there has been both a need and a call for a book on Lutheran missions, which could be used as a text book and also as a book of reference. Mrs. Lewars has met this need and answered this call with The Story of Lutheran Missions. It is fitting that this book should make its appearance in the Quadricentennial Year of the Reformation and that it should be the first book issued by the first Co-operative Literature Committee of the Woman’s Missionary Societies of the Lutheran Church, representing the General Synod, the General Council, and the United Synod in the South. The courage and devotion of our self-sacrificing missionary pioneers has been little known even among Lutherans. Our hearts must be thrilled as we read of the superb courage and the unselfish devotion of the brave men and women who, surrounded by indifference were fired with unquenchable missionary zeal to carrying the Word to the ends of the earth. “Through peril, toil and pain,” they blazed the way for Protestant missions. May this study of the Reformation of the sixteenth century and the subsequent efforts to carry the Word into all of the world help to unite our Lutheran forces in a determined missionary purpose to hasten the transformation of the twentieth century. Co-operative Literature Committee: Mrs. E. C. Cronk, Chairman, Member from United Synod. Miss Sallie Protzman, Member from General Synod. Mrs. Chas. L. Fry, Member from General Council. Literature Headquarters for Missionary Societies: General Synod, 105 E. 21st St., Baltimore, Md. General Council, 844 Drexel Building, Philadelphia, Pa. United Synod, 1617 Sumter St., Columbia, S. C. CONTENTS Foreword List of Illustrations Chapter I The Beginnings Chapter II Pioneers and Methods Chapter III The Lutheran Church in India Chapter IV The Lutheran Church in Africa Chapter V The Lutheran Church in China, Japan and Elsewhere Chapter VI Lutheran Foreign Missions on the Western Continent LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Portrait of A. H. Francke (Frontispiece) Bartholomew Ziegenbalg Christian Frederick Schwartz (Preface) Louis Harms Hermannsburg Parsonage John Evangelist Gossner Men’s Bathing Ghat at Purulia Stall High School for Girls, Guntur, India Faculty of Watts Memorial College for Men, Guntur Hospital for Women and Children, Guntur Hospital for Women and Children, Rajahmundry Central Girl’s School, Rajahmundry Chapel of Leper Asylum, Kodur, India, (Joint Synod of Ohio) Inmates of Leper Asylum All India Lutheran Conference in 1914, Delegates from Eight Missions A Malagasy Witch Doctor Native Lutheran Ministers in Madagascar Main Station at Muhlenberg, Liberia, Africa Girls of Emma V. Day School, Muhlenberg, Africa Carrying Water and Sewing in Garden Central China Lutheran Theological Seminary, Shekow, Hupeh, China Chapel and Mission Homes, Chikungshan, China, (United Norwegian) Administration Building and Class Rooms, Kyushu, Gakuin, Kumamoto, Japan Pastor’s Residence, Chapel, and Student Dormitory, Tokyo. American Missionaries, Native Pastors and Workers with Wives and Children First Graduating Class from Kindergarten at Ogi, Japan Group of Theological Students, Kumamoto Lutheran Church in Borneo Lutheran Church in Java Officers and Teachers of Lutheran Sunday School, New Amsterdam, British Guiana Ituni School in School Room Which is Also the Church Some Indian Members of Ituni Congregation Lutheran Chapel, Monacillo, Porto Rico, with Two Missionaries and Two Native Workers Porto Rican Hut with Miss Mellander and Three Members of Church at Palo Seco Immanuel Colored Lutheran College, Greensboro, North Carolina Bethany Indian Mission Band, Wittenberg, Wisconsin (Norwegian Synod) PREFACE The author acknowledges her indebtedness to the many persons who have furnished data for The Story of Lutheran Missions, and to those who have read the manuscript. The authorities consulted have been chiefly The History of Protestant Missions by Gustav Warneck, D.D., The History of Christian Missions by C. H. Robinson, D.D., The History of Lutheran Missions by the Rev. Preston A. Laury, Geschichte der evangelischen Heidenmission by R. Gareis, The Lutheran Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of Missions, beside numerous magazine articles and reports. Only enough statistics have been included to indicate the size of each mission. With the book should be used such admirable books and pamphlets as Missionary Heroes of the Lutheran Church, Our First Decade in China, The United Norwegian Mission Field in China, Our Colored Mission, Our India Story, and the many interesting illustrated mission reports. Above all, maps should be constantly referred to. If the study of The Story of Lutheran Missions gives to the reader, as its preparation has given to the author, a sense of the essential unity of the Lutheran Church and a renewed love for her and her history, it will achieve its purpose. BARTHOLOMEW ZIEGENBALG. CHRISTIAN FREDERICK SCHWARTZ.