[Sidenote: The Work of Deaconesses.] Schools and hospitals at Jerusalem, Beirut, Constantinople and Cairo are supported and conducted by the _Kaiserswerth Deaconesses_, who for sixty years have labored in the East. The last report gave one hundred and twenty-eight as the number actively engaged. The _Danish Lutherans_ have small stations in Syria, Asia Minor and Arabia. The _Church of Sweden_ conducts a hospital in Bethlehem. The only direct work by American Lutherans for the Near East is done through the small _Intersynodical Orient Mission Society_ of the American Norwegians, Swedes and Germans, whose field is Kurdistan. The _Joint Synod of Ohio_ supports a missionary in Persia, a vast and uncultivated field, where there is one missionary to two hundred and twenty-one thousand of the population. There has also been another Lutheran Society at work, the Syro-Chaldean. [Sidenote: A Lutheran Scholar.] It is doubtful whether all other enterprises for the conversion of the Jews have equalled in bulk or importance the work of a Lutheran, _Dr. Franz Delitzsch_, one of the most celebrated scholars of his time, who was born in 1813, and who died in Leipsic in 1890. His greatest devotion was given to mission work for the Jews, and for them he translated the New Testament into Hebrew. The first chapters appeared in 1838; by 1888 eighty thousand copies had been published. Though to millions of Jews the languages of the countries in which they sojourned had become familiar, yet to them religion and religious instruction could be given in no other tongue than the sacred Hebrew to which they were accustomed. Doctor Delitzsch’s translation was not the first which had been made, but like Luther’s translation of the Bible into German it far surpassed in accuracy and literary value all that had gone before. On account of his close friendship with the fathers of the Missouri Lutherans in this country, Doctor Delitzsch’s name is a familiar one to a large part of the American Church. Beside his translation of the New Testament he contributed many other works to Hebrew literature, tracts upon various subjects, commentaries, and a monthly journal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER VI. Lutheran Foreign Missions on Western Continent SOUTH AMERICA PORTO RICO THE AMERICAN INDIAN ALASKA THE AMERICAN NEGRO CONCLUSION. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER VI. LUTHERAN FOREIGN MISSIONS ON THE WESTERN CONTINENT SOUTH AMERICA.