The great regard in which Doctor Day was held, as well as the impressionable and affectionate nature of the people among whom he worked, is shown in an incident recorded in his biography. When the news came from America that Mrs. Day was dead, the little children of the mission gathered a bunch of white lilies which they put into the hands of one of their number who carried them into the room, where, stunned and grief-stricken, Doctor Day bent under the first shock of his bereavement. Silently laying the flowers before him, the little girl kissed his feet and as silently withdrew. Surely missionary work has its earthly as well as its heavenly reward. To-day the Muhlenberg mission has fifteen men and women at work. It counts its native Christians at three hundred. A valuable and interesting expansion of the work is the employing of _Doctor Westerman_, a distinguished German philologist, to prepare grammars and dictionaries of the native languages, which, to prepare for greater growth, the missionaries must learn. Like all of Africa this mission begs for more workers, more money, more interest, more prayers. Here closes the record of our work in Africa. It has given many examples of faith and courage to missionary history, it has added many names, John Ludwig Krapf, Rosina Krapf, Schreuder, Day, to the roster of Africa’s apostles. But in the words of Frederic Perry Noble, Africa’s chief missionary historian, “Lutheranism is yet in its attitude toward missions a sleeping giant.” Since Mr. Noble gave expression to this opinion, Lutheranism has made a beginning in African mission work. Still, however, she is not yet aroused. As in India, so in Africa, German missions and missionaries have suffered cruelly in the present war. May the true spirit of Christ so influence His Church henceforth that missionary and not military warfare may fill the pages of history. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER V. The Lutheran Church in China, Japan and Elsewhere CHINA. The Land The People Religion Character History Early Missions. Karl Frederick Gützlaff Societies _German_ Basel Rhenish Berlin _Scandinavian_ Danish Norwegian Missionary Society Norwegian Lutheran China Mission Swedish Mission in China Swedish Lutheran Mission in Mongolia Lutheran Gospel Association of Finland _American_ _United Norwegian Lutheran Church Hauge’s Norwegian Lutheran Synod Norwegian Synod Norwegian Free Church Norwegian Brethren_ JAPAN. The Land and the People Societies _American_ Lutheran Gospel Association of Finland United Synod in the South General Council Danish American EAST INDIES Societies Rhenish in Sumatra, Borneo, Nias, etc. Neukirchen in Java Dutch in Batoe Islands AUSTRALIA Neuendettelsau