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Vol. XLV.

ST. LOUIS, MO., JANUARY, 1923.

No, 1.

OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY MOTTO. "God's Work Must Not Stand Still."

New Year's Greeting.

May the new year of grace, just oegun, stir us to a lively appreciation of our great responsibility to bring Christ to the lost millions among the heathen and in our own fair land, and thus to do all we can towards lifting the stupendous, stagge1·ing burden of the world's great need!

Missions: What Have Ye Done?

H;Lve ye looked for sheep in t)1c desert, For t hose who h:we missed their way?

Ifave ye been in the wild waste places W here the lost nnd the wandering stro.y?

Ha\·c ye trodden the lonely highway, 'l'hc foul and d,uksome street?

It may be ;t'.e sec in the gloaming The print of My w?w1dcd feet.

Htwe ye folded home to your bosom The t rcmblin_g, neglected lamb1 And taught to the little lost one 'l'he sound or the She11hcrd's name?

B1we ye searched for t he poor and needy With no clothing, no home, no b1·ead?

The Son or Man was among them, Be 'had nowhere t o lily His head.

Ha"e ye folded home to your bosom 'l'he parchM and thinty soul?

Hn,•e ye sllid to the sick n.nd wouuded, "Christ Jesus can mnke thee whole"?

Alabama Notes. 'l'he Alabama. Luther Conference held its 1922 sessions nt Tilden, Novembe1· 5-9. 'l'hese sessions of Conference once more brought to mind the beauty nnd truthfulness of th_e words : ''Behold,

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Hnve ye told :My fainting children Of the strength c[ the Father's hnnd? ll1we ye guided t he tott ering footsteps To the shore of the "Golden Land" ?

Hn\'C ye stood by the snd _and wenry To smooth the pillow of denth, 'l'o comfort the sorrow-stricken, And strengthen the feeble fn.ith?

And luwe ye felt when the glory Has strenmed through the open door, And flitted across the shadows That I had been there before?

H1we ye wept with the broken-hearted In their , agony of woe?

Ye might hear Mc whispering beside you, '"Tis the pathway I often go.

My disciples, My friends, My brethren, Can ye dnre to follow Me?" '!'hen, where,•er the :M:~ster dwelletb, '!'here, too, shall the servant be. .tl11on.

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how good nud how pleasant it is for brethren to clwell together in unity!" Ps. 133, 1. During the entire sessions of Conference not n discordant note wns struck, but nll worked together in harmony nnd in unity of spirit. nnd mind £01· the upbuilding of God's kingdo1n here on earth. Such gatherings

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ancl ·uch unity of !<pirit c:annot help but bear the clcsircJ. fruit nanwly, the spreading of the Word :md the cementing of a stronger bond o[ follow hip in t he faith among those who luwc been ,rathcrcd from the rnlc of darknes:;. 'l'o attcntl one sc ion o[ our Alabama Luthcl' on[cl'encc i worth all th8 labor antl money spent here during t he la t ·ix years for the spreading of tJ1c Word among t he Ncgroc. o[ thi section for one must l en,·c lhc conference wif.h the firm co1H"iction that there has been joy in hca\"C11, not once, but many times, orer those who have been brought to n, true knowledge of their SaYior.

On Sunday, :Sorcmbcr 5, the ho. tcs congregation held its annual Han-est. Home and )[issi9nfesti\"al, tluring which Holy Communion was also cclcbrnted. The· confessional aclclrcs· was spoken by t he local pustot·, Re\". E. R. Berger, while the

the conference, 11c,·. Berger. Before proccctli11g wit h Lite bu ·inc 0£ Lhc morning, the following 11ew mc111l,crs were rccei,·ccl nml given t.hc privilcire of the Hoor: Hcv. J. Holness, u na tirn of the We -t Jnclics, lfov. RB. ozart, a recent grutluute of Jmmnnucl olleirc ' l'eac:her John 'l'homp ·on, formerly of .Plnqucminc, La., :i\l rs.' l~lh1:al'Cls, teacher ·in ou1· school a L Selma )I iss \. J c11ki11s, t:enchc·r at '1'ilcle;1, )[is 'annon, lcncher at Vredenburgh :i\fi!' · Jo11es, teacher at l 11go111ar, 'i\l is:- Montgomery, tcachc1· at ll! idwa y, 'l'cachcr •'. D. :i\foCa11ts, of Hoscbud, anti Student G. Kre(t, or t. Loui ·, ::i\Co. ACtcr the reception of ·the new members 1011forc11cc wa · fo rmally orgnnizccl for lite ensuing year. 'l'lte organization howcd the fo llowing re ·ult:, : He,·. Peay Chairman ; Hcv.'i\fontgomery Vice- 1 lmirma11; He\'.

Lynn, 'ccrcta ry; 'upcrinlentlcnt 'chmidt, 'l'r •a. lll'er. Delegate. [rom the ,•nriou con.,.1·cgalion · were ;:eatccl nnc1 g iven t he pri,·jlege of the floo r.

J u the aftcmoon '011fcrence li. tenctl to t.wo well-wri tten ancl i11structh·' e~ ·ay 011 the ~ubjccl!' ' \\"inning , 'ouls" nncl " 'hilclren's Home-work," presented by the i\fi~ses '. l\f._ S mi th and L. )I. Stnllwol'th. :Much benefi t was clerivccl front t.hu rencling aml tliscm:. ion of these papers. Both authors rccuivell the thanks o[ the conference for their goocl work on I.he subjects assigned. \t the . evening session of Conference .ne,·. Chas. Peay preached nn excellent s~1·111011 on the theme "'l 'he Uplifted Chri t. ' . ftcr the sermon Superintendent G..A., 'ch midt treatccl the conference to a very comOne of Our New Chapels in Alabama. prcheu:i,·e paper on the timely subject, "Conjuring harvest sermon WllS delivered by Re,·. Chas. Pc,1y of and Similar , 'atnnic ~\rts." During the readi ng Ouk Hi}), 01id the mission-sermon by the unclcr- aml discussiou of the paper the devil was giYen hi. signccl. At .the night service Rev. E. B. Cozart, of due, but it wns shown at the same time t hat more Joffre, delivered an inspiring sermon. All the ser- than ninety per cent. of so-called conjuring is J>lll'C vices on Sm1day were well attended the speakers humbug, practised fol' the purpose of emptying the · hn,·ing the joy of speaking to overflow houses. Auel pocketbooks o.f the credulous. 'l'he author received the communion service was something to inspit:e a Yury enthusiastic vote 9f thanks for his excellent I th~ heart of him who grows weary in the work of 1?11})01'. 'l'uesday niorning's session was given o,·cr to the l\foster ! Old men and women, bent aucl gnarled with age, youths and maidens, young in years, but business. At this session Superintendent Schmidt strong in faith, dark of skin, but white o.f heart. rend the names oi the four teachers making the kneeling to rcceil'e the body aml bloocl of Him who highest avernges at the Institute helcl in July; they knows no race or color, but those only who arc "of were 1\riss R. J. Young, Miss C. M. Smith, Miss L. the household of faith." 'rhere, brother, is the i\f. Stallworth, ancl :i\frs. Lorena Madison. 'l'hc disanswer to your prayer, "'rhy kingdom come!" Rise cussion o! Christmns programs, bags, etc., was then and' conCess on~ more : "r believe in the com- entered into. Confere1fcc passed a resolution to the mun ion of saints; the forgi\'cness of sins." effect that Superintendent Schmidt, in the name of On lfonday morning, Nol'ember 6, Conference the eonforence, thank all :fricncls who send .us ,vas formally opened aCter n welcome address hy• mo1;cy, etc., to help mnke glad' the hearts of Olli' the J>nstor ol the congregation and the chnfrmnn of children at C11ristmas-time. At the afternoon scs-

The L-rLtlLer·t.n Pioneer. sion t he ,niter of these l ines l'entl a paper 0 11 ', 'elf·npport." 'l1J1c c11tirc a ftern oon was given o,·er lo I.he discussion of I.h is subject. '.L'hc 1·eacl ing and dii::cus ion of this 1>npe1· resul t.eel in a 1·esoJ11lion hcing pas eel that it be ugge ·tcd lo I.he congregn1.ion I.ha t each communican t member pay t he um or ten ·cn t each month 0 11 the pastor's alm·y · thus A lnbama has taken a step, small l.hongh it be, toward self-support.

A t t.he night sc ion 'tuclent Kreft clcli,·crccl an edifying mis-ion- crmon to a packed house, after which Hev. Wcst·cott l'cacl a ve ry instru ti,·c paper on " Good Works." '!'his paper wn discn secl with profit to al l, t he essayi-t recei\-ing the hea rty thanks

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annua lly, for all communicant members in sa id c:orwregation 1111(1 I.ha t each member of the cong regation payi ng I.he pro-rata price for the J>aper he c:on ·idcred a . ubsc:ribcr. .Furthermore, iu order to comply wi th the po lal laws, said ub cription price ·honlrl be in the hands oC the treasurer not later than .Fcbrnnt·y J , 1023; finally, t hat ~pccial offerings be raisccl in mid-week sen•ices for this J)urposc." 'l'hc commi ttee con istcd of Supcrinteudcn t. , 'ehmidt and ]le,·. P eay. lt is hopecl that n1e cong regations on t he other ficlcls will take p rompt action in t his matter, so t hat the Oolorctl l,nlhcran may soon become a welcome Yisitor to cac:h home. lt was nlso cleeicled at t hi· scs:·ion 'to

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of the conicrcnce for his h wicl Jlaper on this important subject.

During t he business session of. \\'eclnesdny morning t he matter of publishing tltc A labama l,11.thei-a,i under a dil-l'C1·e11t 11111ne, so as to sc"rve the entire missio11- fi elcl, was thoroughly gone into. After much discussion as to the name t he new pnper should bear, it was .finally resoh·cd to call t he new periodical '.L'hc Oolorecl l,-rtllt eran. 'l'he matter o.f fin1mting the pa.per was then tnkcn up. A committee appointed by the con[ercnce to work out n method of financing the pa,p er reported the following resolut ion, which wns adopted by the conference: "Be it resolved, that we believe the -following method t he best in financing the Oolorecl h11ll1 cra:n, to wit: Enc•h co11gregntion be nskecl to pny t he prorata subscript ion price, thirty-fi,·c , cents per copy

again publish the minutes of Conference. tt is hoped that these minutes will ham a better ,;:ale nmong om own people than they clicl Inst year. We hope t hat the brethren on the other mission-fields will be curious to know wluit we arc doing here in Alnbnma, nn~l t hat copies of Olll' minutes may find their way iuto the homes of our brethren and i;isters of t11c North Cnrolilia nncl Louisiana fielcls. We were a bit disappointed last year. Copies may be ordered from He,·. E. A. Westcott, Selmn. \la.1 Box: 683.

At t he afternoon session oC Conference on Wednesday, He,·. Penv rend a ,·cry goocl paper on "lTow the Chmch of Clnist Is Built." Some interesting points were brought out in the 1·eading nncl discussion of the .paper. 'rhe nuthor 1·eccin1cl I the thnnks of the 'conference ior his paper.

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Conference was brought to a close on \\ cdi1csday night with an address by Superintendent G. A. Schmidt and a paper on "'!'he Lords Supper" by Rev. E. B. Cozart. '.l'hc congrega.tion at Buena Yista will entertain the conference next N ovcmbcr, while Holy Ark, one of our yo1mgcst congregations, will have the pleasure of entertaining the 'l'cachcrs' Institute some time in June, July, or August of next summer. * * * On 'l'lrnrsday moming, November 9, a new body . came into existence, namely, "'l'he Alaba.nui. Luthcr811 Sunday-school Com·cntion.'' Almost all the Sunday-schools on our field hacl delegates present. 'rh.is new body is made up eutil-cly of laymen. "'I N th }> ted 1•t s flu-st CJmn·man, • 1, r . .c a an ~amsey was e1ec "'I Fl d D k • tl. v· Cl . . . an d .l\ r. oy oc ·cry IS 1c ICC- ia1rman, w1u 1c · i\{ p i) · ti S t At 1"tsfi11 t 1 t : ' r. ercy. tumast_is ie ecre ary. d " :s EneeBmg some m ercs mg papers were 1·ca . JJ11ss • . .

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"I> scI1001, .l' ISS . . oung rea a paper on re· f d 'I' 1 • ti L ,, "'I ,;,1 d parmg or an eac 1mg 1e esson, 1\ r. J! oy . d dd "R 11 D D oek·cry .de11Vere an a ress on a y nys 1or ,, 'I'h" fit t· our S und ny-scI100Js. 1s n·s mec mg was an h • t· · \V • th t ti11.

1 1iopcS ad ent ~sms ~ . one. eblsm~crety s convention w111 prove a cssmg o our un ay-sc11001s ·· • tl Bl k B It and cImrc11cs 11ere m 1e nc · e .

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" We wish to ·e:tcnd 0~11• hea;tfelt sympathy to the Smith family a.t Midway in their recent loss ~.f husband and father, C.. P. Smith. May God comfort them with His blessed Word and teach them to pray : "'l'hy will be done !"

On November 13, our new institution, the Teachers' '!'raining-school, was opened at Selmn.

1\iay the blesssings of God rest upon this inst itution and its work!

R. O. L. L.

The Alabama· Teachers' TrainingSchool.

On No,•ember 13, 1922, the doors or our new 'J'enchers' · 'rraining-school, located £01· the present at Selma, _Ala., were opened; on the morning of the 16th lectures were begun by the undersigned and llis assistant, Mrs. Nettie Moore, recently of Coiumbus, N. Mex. Such was the beginning of the realization of a dream which had its inception in the fertile mind of our pioneer missionary, the sainted_ Rev. N. J.

Bakke. Our new school was opened with :m enrolment or lire girls; we now boast the imposing number o.f nine, and have room !or just two more; these two we are expecting every day. 'l'hc home of our new institution is located at 520 First A,·e., Selma, Ala. A bcauiiJ:ul a.ncl well-built cottage serves as dormitory, cl!!SSt·oom, nncl dining-hall for our first stm1cnts. When one walks i11to the hallway, he will lind the main classroom located at his right, at his left is a bedroom ; farther clown the ha ll is ihc dining-room, which al o serves the pm·posc of a classroom; to the left of the dining-1·oom is another bedroom, and near by arc the kitchen aucl pantry."

In our main clussroom you will find a full set of maps, blackboards,. n. globe, a . teacher's desk cl ihrec . . . au cha.u·, and about n. dozen umvcrs1ty chair , .1 . 1 ti t d t . d k tl , II . \\• IICl 1e s n ens use <lS cs s. On 1e \\a s nic beautiful pictures from the liic o.f Christ. In ihc . . . . . dm1ng-room 1s a large tn.blc, n1·011nd winch the gi rls CY' ti . t . t· f , ti . . .., • , · o s,1 1s ) 1c Innet man - 01 "oman, 1n .~111 0 a 1e1 case. Here we gather also :fot· our chapel services. l cl "ll r.. d J: n the be rooms yon wt Jlll · a number o army ts . h ti . t f , • b ,. co , upon w111c · 1c gtr1s res 'l'0m t 11eu· 1a ors 0.1 ti d , I ti b k · ti ll ,) ·· I 1 .

1e n). n 1e nc is 1c coa - 1ouse, " 11c 1 Ott bl f . . . , ll 'IL II 1 . .vc cl asasa meryse1 c 01a-e1-\\e ,we en . b" ~r • b k , it an automo tie. .l, cat t 110 ac steps 1s the p ump, which fumishcs water for our daily needs, and in. ., . c1clcntnlly 1>lcnty of exercise for those who would · t . A l'ttl queue1l thCl•r tilll'S t . e tO one SI"de I· tIIC basket-ball court, where the girls take some more exe1:cisc if the pump has failed to satisfy their longing for development along athletic lilies.

We ha\'C as our firS t students a group of uprigh t, Christian-hearted girls, gathe1·ed from our parochial schools here in the "Black Belt." One is struck with their Christian bearing and ladylike deportment. They are Lutherans all, and that accounts :for the Christian.spirit which p1·evails in the classrooms and the home-life of the girls. '!'hey arc, indeed, a· family of "Big Sisters," ruled a.nd governed by the love o! Him whom they have learned to know ancl love in our Christian day-schools. You will · have to travel far to find a better set of girls than

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And why arc these girls here? They are here to be trninecl to become Christian teachers in our schools in Alabama. 'l'hey want to help lift up their brothers and sisters, using the only means which can Ii.ft them up out of sin and degradation, the blessed Word of God. 'rhat is the sole 1·cnson for theii: becoming the first students at our new institution. Could there be a better one? Smely not!

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1\1i s Rosa J . Young acts as ".Big Si ·tcr' to the g irl ·, am! a. good big si tcr he i . he moLhers I.hem and comforts them and ccs lo it that they 'get. 11p" in Lhc morni11g and don't fall out o.C bed at nigh t. (as one of the brethren did during our rece nt conference at 'l'ilclcn) . )n horl, l\Ciss Young is ou r mntro11. 'onlcl a better one have been found ? \\ c thi11k not. \\ hen you, brother and sister, pray for ihc prcading or the kingdom of Christ clon't forget. to a k 1 li blc · ing upon our chool here, that t rue 'hri !.inn women may go out from here to ca rry -the Lorch of JI i. :o pcl into the dark places of our , 011U1lancl.

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·cud potato :mcl other Ihi ngs lo the collerre every '!'hank g iving Day in the future. Student; of ) mmnnnel College, rejoice ! you have a warm friend in Mount Zion .. l\Iay mnny others do as )fount Zion cl iJ. and will clo !

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Thanksgiving at the Rocks.

J t was a cold and frosty moming when P rofessor Smith, a s!.ndcn t of !.he college, nnd !.he writer set out for the Rocks before the dawn ·of day in fro. Icsso1· Smith's trusty car. A !.rip of seventy miles lay before us, ond we hod to reach our destination before eleven o' clock for the 'l' hnnksgiving service at Mount Zion Chapel, known as !.he Rocks. Professor S mith was scheduled to preach.

We were among the first to arrive at Mount Zion Church, ' way out in the CO\mtl·y, on thnt ideal 'l'hnnksgiving morning. Soon niter our nrrivnl our Colored fcllow-Luthernns assembled in their house of worship lo thank and pi·nise God io1· His mnuifold blessings. Not only did the people manifest their gmtitudc to the Lord by their attentiveness during the sermon, but they also showed it by real Thanksgiving gi.fb. After the service they loaded . potatoes nnd other crops from fnrm and garden into our car. 'l'hcse things the people had cheerfully brought for the hungry mouths and hearty appetites of the students of Immanuel Lutbemn College.

Not only thnt, but then and there, while they were in the giving mood, they unanimously resolved to

- - --•-- -Springfield and St. Louis Items. ~ovembcr 5 was i\Cission-Sunday ot Holy Trinity, 'pnngficlcl, Ill. Fo1· the first Lime in many years, our people there had !.he opportm1ity to hear a Colored Lutheran preacher. Rev. l\I. N. Carter, of Chi cago, deli\·crcd ihc c,·cning ncldrcss. The collection for ihe clay totaled $67.10. About $12 of this was g iven by the undoy-school. By resolution of the congregation, the collections were sent to Holy Ark for 11 e in the erection of a chapel at Urnt place.

Regnlat· weekly sc1·viccs, which were • dropped Inst yco r because of the w1·itcr's duties in the local chool have been 1·csumccl at the St. Louis.. Colorccl City Jnfirma1·y. One hundred and five old -folks, tottering on the brink of the grave, 1·eside there, '.L'hey arc agnin henring the pure Gospel e,·ery \Vcdnesday.

Our ~lay-school ·in St. Lou·is now hns nn enrolment of fifty children. Re,·. G. L. Kroenk is in charge. Children attcniling the day-school nrc requirecl to attend olir Sunday-school .also. Result: lm·ge Sunday-school :i.Ltcnclnnccs. 'l'hc following studcn.ts 1uc rendering valuable ' assistance in our work : In St. Louis, Messrs. Bank nnd W. H. Bouman ; in Springfield, Messrs. Dorpat, A. -Schulze, F. Raasch, and C. Neuhaus. All of these gentlemen nrc displaying :rn admirable mission.spirit. God bless them!

HERBERT C. Cuus.

"Uncle Joe:" 'l'he mnks of those who passed through the terrible 01·denls or slavery anfl the Civil Wn.r are thinning from year to yen.1·. Another vetemn, old Joseph i\foxwell, bas passeq away. He departed this lile on November 18 in Springfield, Ill., and now, ~mnks to the Gospel, which was brought to him b)°• the Lutheran Chmch, your Church, is safe in the Savior's arms.

What a story these people of pre-Civil-War days, pnrticula.dy those unfortunates who -felt the bite of

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But we can gh:c here only t he mnin :facts o( l nclc Joe's life.

He was born nbout the yenr 1 30 in )lccklenbmg, N. C. During early mnnboocl he was tnkc11 to Austin, :Uiss., where he remainecl fo r a period or t wo years. From t here he was sold into Arkansns to a certain 'Major Baldon. H is new "owner • wn a laYe-trndc'r by profession. According to Uncle J:oc's story this trncler kept his sla,·c hcrdccl in n fenced-off pen. When plncccl upon t he aucti~nblock, his !:)aves were given orders to help sell t hemselves by looking pleasant. JrrcspcctiYc of sex, sln,·es were stripped ·and cxposecl to the gaze of prospecth-c buyers. nclc Joe remained in the

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service of this broker in human flesh ancl hloocl until the outbreak of the CiYil War. One night he broke the shackles which held him fast ancl with three other sla,·es escapecl in n wooa-chopper's skift to the Union Army, which wns encamped forty miles clo'\rn the lfississippi R.iver. He then enlisted with the Se\'enth 1llinois Ca\'alry as a cook, ancl remnincd with this group until discharged. He wns present when Vicksburg fell. In 1864 he reenlisted with the 'l'wenty-ninth lllinois Infantry. · After , being clischargecl at tl1e expirntion ,of bne ycnr, he cl)me to Springfield, Jll. Uncle Joe was more than a soldier ! or his country. He was also a "soldier of the ilross, n :f'ollower of the Lamb." It ,~•as in Springfi~cl thnt he came, thanks to the e,·erlnsting Gospel proclaimed by the Lutheran Church, ·to a saving knowledge of

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Trinit y <JoJ1grcg11tioJ1, Ui1clc Joe wa · one of t he t faithfu l hearer of the \\ orcl. 'l'o him age was 110 bar to clmrch-attcnclancc. His wcnkcning ,·i ion nnd waning ·t rcngth cnu eel him,. n it scvcrnl occnsions, to become lost on his w;t_y to church. .Despite his increasing f.ccblcness, hi · desire lo hea r t:hc Worcl d id not wenkcn. ll'or n ear ly a year before hi death he lay sick, fi rst a t home, then i n. n hospi tal. D nrin n- t hi period t he Worcl was broug ht to • J1is bedside.

D uring 0 110 o{ our Inst \'i, its to this agccl man; 1'110 quc. tion was a ·keel. of him: 'Do yon bclicYc yon a re a sinner ?." ''Ye ! ' ' .Do you know whn t Jesus clicl for yon ? ' Yes, H e wnshccl m y si ns away!' Oh, clear friend t he Worcl that you scHL to t his aged gcntlcmnn bore frui t. It wn this \\ orcl t hat cnnblccl U ncle Joe, like imcon o[ olcl to sec Goel s salrntion, which He has prepared hcf'orc t he face of all people. Ancl though U ncle J oe wa: not pri\'ilcgccl to hold t he Christ in his a rm. yet, wlw L is more he enshrinecl the , nvror in hi:; heart.. And now one more soul ha been ndclccl to t hose who nrc • ing ing the , 'n,·ior's prni~c in heaven.

Dear render, will you cont inue to li ft your heart in prnycr 1111<1 your hnncl wi th generous gi fts to 1·cscuc others anrl bring them into the s1inlight of Goers snh-nt.ion? Lorcl,. help 11 ! lfmrn 1m'L' 0 . C: 1.A , -~ • 1110

Items of Missionary Interest.

VoLU.lrn XLV. - Diel you notice t hat with t his number t he l'J0~1mn begins its forty-fifth ,•olumc? , 'ehcrc is no doubt t hat om little pnpcr has clone much goocl during this long stretch· o:f time, but it is nlso true that it could have clone more if its ch·culation Imel been lnrger. 'l'he ch·culat ion of om little missionary pnpc1· is not keeping up with our g rowth in membership. Kind reader, could not you help to incrense its number o:f readers? Will you not try? We need your help ; don't rctusc us.

Oun Oi m,ST L.rnon1m. - 'l'enehe1· D. l\Ceibohm, of our Mount Zion Colorecl School, New Orleans, celebrntecl his s~vcnty-sevcnth birthday a :few weeks ·ago. He hns been lnboring in this school nlmost thirty years, hut his first tenching experience he hncl sixty-one yca.1-s ngo in Hnnnover, Germnny, when he was less than sixteen years old. · . 'l'HE ST. Lou.1s LA oms' Am 1,on COLORED M1ssroNs. - 'l'his nssocintion of white Jndics is showing

The Lutheran Pioneer. u ,·cry laudable iutc rc t in lhc welfare o( om Colored mi ion in , t. Loui . \t a recent rumnwgc .. a le t he c lndie clenrcd no le lhan !j\250 for lite build ing funtl of ou r t. Loui i u ·sion. Ir c,·ct· thi · mi~ ion will hu,·c a chapel of its own, •it will in a rnry lnrge men urc l,c due to the u11 ·clli ·h am1 un1,iring c ll'orl · of t hese white hulics o(, 'l. J,ou i~. Uotl bless t hem I

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a t the ] ndian rc~c1·valion · and .:chools, aud there a rc employed in lite Ind ian .erricc 150 physicians, eighty-one Hnr~c and ·cycnty field matrons, the latter d iti ng the home· o[ Indian to improve li,·ing ·omlilion ·. 1n no s mall mca;.urc the consct·,·at ion o[ l mlian li,·c · duri ng the pat ten years i · due lo the influence of Uhristian missiona t·ics.

Ax UNoccu 1•1 irn ]f 1El,D. - Pr11ctically the whole interior of outh Amcri ·n is a va t unoccupied mis·ionary field. 'l'ules o[ hcacl-hunting savngcs who 11 • ihaL the wire o[ n e\'. Btl H. 'chmi1lt of, ' heboyworship the ucv il a1ul spend their lixcs gathering gn n, \Vi:., tlictl n. week after having ltnclcrgonc an \l'ilu a nimal kin to 11 ·c in p urchasing wi,·cs arc operation [or appenc1icit is. , he reached the ll"'e of being tolll by ex plorers 1·eturni11g from Sout hcm only thirty- ·even years and is snn·i\' cl by her hu l,and aml four ehik1rcn. .Pa tor ch111itlt . uccectletl J-:cuador. .l II l hc \l'i k1 nnd largely lmcxplored the ~1'J'iter ns pa tor of , 't. Pau l s 'hnp I, ~cw Or- fo rest~ of the '011th l\me1·ican interior there are leans, and a l:-o cn ·cd Xapolconvi llc. 1'1 rs. ·hmitl t million · or poor human bein"S ;.itting in darkness willi1wly shared with hc1· !tu bantl the toil: and and the hallow or dt'al h. l 'l\l'C' mi ~ionnry life aml : he t ill lh·c in the lc1c.,:-o, ' 111 :-., . - ··He,·. nnd lfrs..T. H. Halg rale l'ul memory o[ the people among whom . he both or 'ai.cn<le. \\' i~., 1·ecci,·ed a cablegram from~ worked with her hu. baml )lay ou r he1\\'enly l cha1w, Uhina, inl'ormin•~ lhem of the arriml of a~ }'uihc r comfort the sun·i\'ors wil h Ii i · abiiling little girl l,orn lo Jfo,·. antl )lrs. Henry Theiss, the~ CUlllfOt't !

• la tter ha\'ing forn1crly been Edna Halboth. '£he )-4 baby recci,·cll t he name Hut h Lydia in Holy Baptism. ,_:i ~ .\ P .\IUU ll.\l'I C 1' 110.\l A )l 1 ·.-10:-.\ll\'. T,1-:-1~rn11. \ He,·. 'l'hci~ i: the son of illr. ,T. G. 'l'heis of Oak~ • ·He,•. W. and l went to N. to-day. Got stuck wi t h land, Cal." :;:] ~0 our Gospel-Pord only once. ·r had a short tnlk fo r J .\l'A:-ESI·: \\°,\\"Sll)I•: 'l'lnll'l,ES.-:\11 o,·er Japan t he ehilclrcn in the school at~- \\ hilc at the chool, J a ·keel n. little :c\'cn-ycar-old g irl: '.!for whom !lid wnyside temples arc to be found. E,·crywhcre they O C/l ,Jc 111- 'die?' , 'he promptly nn~wcrctl: 'For you ,and arc in c,·iclcnc:e.• e,·c n in t he rice-fields and in t he ~ for me.' 'l'hc t rip ;to K. was wort h while, i( only ' yarcl~ of home. . 1n some plnccs they look dccnyecl ~ and forsaken, nncl ut other places prosperous aml ~ ~ • to hcnt· the li ttle girl i-ay thnt."

O t\[1 . 10~ J,r.c -.r rms. - Hcv. }L N. Carter will crowded. Idolatry is not declining in beautiful Japnn, though ' it is snicl that e,·et·y home in Japan~ o gi,·c n number or lectures on the work o.f our olorccl ~ :;\fissions in Alabama in and about Elgin, 111., next hns been furni sllell n Gospel pot·tion or a Christian t ract by n colportnge ocicty several years ago. 'l'his 0 month. distribution has not becu in min, f or, though three CH.\HI.O'.l".L'I~, N. C. - On November 2-1: a young years hnvc passed si11cc these booklets were passed ~ son nmde his advent in the family o.f i\Cissionary nround, the clistributing agency still hears of cases Carlson. where the Holy Gho t is using these tracts to draw LAnOE :i\CrssIONAnY 01:·1,·i,;m_xo. - 'J'he :First Lu- men to Jesus. thcrnn Chmch of Stoughton, Wis., connected with 'l'm!\K 01,• 'l'ms ! - If Christ had started on the the Norweginn Luthernn Synod, at 11 mission-service day. of His bnpti,m1 to preach in the Yillages of Inclin hcl<l on October 24, gnthcrecl $f,976.10 for missions. and l11ul continuc'cl since then up to the present clay, 'l'hc pastor of the congregation is Il.ev. i\C. R. Hegge. visiting one village I\ cln.y, He woulcl still ha\'e 30,000 'l'1rn !NmANS NoT DnNo Oo·i•. - 'l'he Indian villages to visit.

COLORED Po1•uL,,·r10N OJ-' NoRTHER~ C.1Tn-:s. race is not n dying one. Contrary to popuJar opinion, the present Indian population o.f our coun- 'l'he Negro population of Pittsburgh js officially try is to-dny greater by 13,500 thnn it was ten gi\'en by the Nntionnl Census Bureau as 37,688, ycnJ·s ago. We have nt present in. the United States nn ii1crensc of almost fifty per cent. in ten years.

3-1:0,017 Jnclinns. 'i'he inc1·ense is attributed to im- The present Colored population of Philadelphia is . pro,·cd ho\ising conditions ancl bctt~r. hospitnl _nnd 13.J.,0!>8, 1111 inc-rcnse of almost sixty per cent. in medical fncilitics. '!'here are scYcnty-01ght hospitals ·ten ycan:.

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Gnitcful acknowledgment. is mude by contribut ions from friends of the mission: .For the Ool~recl l.rtithenm: N. N. Fort Wnync, $5.00; Rev. P hil. Lnnx, Yorkshire, 0., 1.00; N. ~ -• Fort Wn.y nc, 5.00 ; Elon College, N . C., 1.32; High Pomt, N. C., 0.43; :Mount Zion, New Orleans, 28.25. l!, or Olwpcl l•'~11cl : Dcn_f-mu tc cong regation, Chicago (Rev. Dahms)_, , .0-1. h1c1clc11lC1t : Rev. 1~ctc1·son, l?armcrs villc, I ll., _J lc1c11-L~g:it., 25.00; N. N., Dccmc1·, Nebr., 5.00. l!"or Oltr1s'11tas F1111d : H . I•'. l!"ischcr & Sons, Chicngo, 25.00 ; Re,·. Suncr's ·undny-school, J lcrschcr, Ill., 14.80. Cloth es : :Mrs. Pless, Chicngo, two s hipments; Re,·. Ditzcn, Dattlc Cr eek. Nebr.; )!rs. Theo. Lemke, Mndison, Nebr.; ldn.

Doctor . .Fort W.iync, Ind.; Mrs. Anna Kreft, New Minden, Jll:; Rev. \\"idigcr, Dnzine, Kans. ; Mr. Burk, New Ulm. i\l11111.; Borthn. Rcumkc, New Ulm ?.Iinn. · Rev. Knsc Cincinnati, O.; llcv. Kuehn, Pi nckncyvi'llc Ill.: t. J'olm'~ Lndics' 1\id, Winfield, K 1rns.; llcv. Ahren~, S:{bi n Minn. • Tl"ini ty Ladies' Aid, Seattle, \Vnsh.; Lut hcrnn ' , ewing Circle, Seymour, Ind. ; Rev. J3eckc1·, Seward, Nebr.; Rev. A. Brnucr, Stntc Center, Iowa; ·ltev. l\fans•s• Lntlics' Aid l c111ilt. Ccrncllcsticks_: Re,·. A. Brnucr, Stntc Center: Iowa. •~•mday-sch_ool literature :• Rctlccm~1· S undtLy-school, St. Lotus, t.wo slnpmcnts. Ol111rcl~ F·rinut11rc: Rev. 'Wirsing, Huntington, Ind. Through C. Durmcstcr, Chest.er, Ill .. from Mrs. Justmnnn, 1 bell. Jlyrmw ls: Rev. Jncoh l~lmdnlc, )~1111s.; Re,•. Linncmcicr, North Judson, I nd . ' Rev. C. ll. ill,irch for n. box of clothes from Re,•. l•'. C. Ahrens' congrcgntion, Sabin, ?lfir111.

Rev. iJl. N. Curtc,~ for the following gifts : Mrs. E. A. Stammer, Belle P~ninc, Iown, $~.00; Mrs. Mn.gtl. Paulson, Keystone, Jow11, u.00; Mr. Hcm·y Kocpping, l .50; Mr. Ernest Bocthkc, .50; Jordan family, Decat ur, Ill., 3.50; ?lln.rg. E mde, \Vcllmnn, Iowa, .05; Helen Emde, \Vcllmnn, Iown, .10 ; Herb. Soenksen, De Wit.t, lown, .05; Dible Clnss of Re,·. Heync's congregation, Dccn.tur, 111., 5.00; Miss Irma. Jordnn (Rev. Hcyno's congrcrrntion) Decatur G . .ti.. Schmidt of t he followinrr

Festival nnd Occasional Sermons. By Prof. I,. Wessel.

Concordia. Publishing House, St. Louis, l\Io. 201 pngcs; bound in cloth. Price, $1.25. 'rhis book of thirt,r-two sermons wiJl pro,•c of value to mun~• n. busy pnstor during the festival scnson, 01· when uncxpcctcclly cnllcd upon to speak upon some SJlC· ci:1 I occasion. These sermons ·arc soli(l its to contents, nnd the thoughts nrc clothed in chaste n.nd .simple la11g1inge. We do not hes itate to say that these sermons nrc models of sncrcd rhetoric.

Church Finances. By J. 11. C. F1•it::. Concordia. Publi~1ing House, St: Louis, )Io. 88 pnges; bound in pnper co,·crs. Price, 35 cts.

Wo wish thnt this prnctical little book could be pl11cccl into tho Imm.ls of every member of our congregations, and thnt, this being done, some wn.y could bo do,•ised of inducing c,·cry member to read it with cnrc. \Ve arc sure thnt, if this could be done, most of our financial worries in congrcgntions and ~·noel would be things of the past.

Synodical Reports of Missouri Synod fo1· 1922. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, ?lfo. No. 9.

Te:ras-Distril:t. Paper: "Der vicrtc Artikcl dcr Konkordicnformcl, ' Von den gutcn \\1crkcn.' " 71 pages.

Price, 32 cts. - No. J0. Canada-Distril:t. Paper: "Die Flcrrlichkcit des Gcbcts des Hcrrn." 4.8 pages.

Price, 21 cts. - No. I J. Jlfichi ya11~Distl"'il:.I. Paper: ''D.ic Kirchc 1111f dcm Acker d,cr \Veit." 88 pages.

Price, 30 cts.

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I,enl.-. Trnnslntcd from t he Gei-mnn. Johannes Herr-

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Price, 25 cts. Order from Concordia. P11blisl1ing House, St. Louis, Mo. ' Mrs. Lcnk's children's stories arc well worth trnnsJnting into the Jnngungc of our country, and it always nfl'ords us grcn.t joy when we sec nnot hcr one of bc1· ju,•cnilcs in English dress. i'\foy mnnv others follow this beautiful story!

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NOTICE. Acknowledgments for sums of money gi\·cn me for Colored Missions by inclh•idunls hn."c heretofore appeared only in the M;BBio11sta,1tbc. Henceforth such acknowledgments will be found also in the PIONEEJI. M. N. CARTEi!.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. • Received for Colored iJUssiotl8 from the following Colored congregations: Bethany, Yonkers, $45.00; Bethel Charlotte, 11.50; Bethlehem, New Orleans, 57.50; "Christ' Rosebud, 2.00; Concordia, New Orleans, 15.00; Concordia'.

Rockwell, 5.00; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 1.00; Immanuel College, Greensboro, 620.25; Immnnuel, Shnnklctown, 5.00; Grace, Concord, 20.00; Grace, Greensboro, 6.14; Lecture tour (Rev. Carter), 40.00; Luther CoJJege, New Orlcnna, 15.00; Mount Calvary, Kanno.polis, 14.00; Mount Calvary, l\fount Plcasnnt, 7.00; Mount Olive, Catawba, 1.00; )fount Zion, New Orleans, · 40.00; Mount Zion, Rocks 10.00; St. James's, Southern Pines, 4.00; St. John's; So.lllbury, 14.00; St. Luke's, Spnrtnnburg, 15.00; St. ){ark's, Atlanta, 7.00; St•. l\:lark's, Winston-Salem, 14.00; St. Matthew's, Meherrin, 20.87; St. Paul's, Charlotte 31).00; llount Zion, Chnrlotte, 15.00; St. Paul's, M:nn: aura, 10.00; St. Paul's. New Orleans, 40.00; St. Peter's, Drys Schoolhou■e, 10.00; St. Philip's, Philadelpfain., 5.00· Zion, Gold Hill, 7.00. Through Prof. H. lfoibohm, 10.00: ,1)1rough Dr. Nau, 5.00. -Total, $1,123.85.

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ST. LOUIS, MO., FEBRUARY, 1923.

Vol. XLV.

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OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY MOTTO. "If we cannot do all we want to do, let us do what we can."

Service. 'l'hc Mast.er is cn.lling to service to-tfay .AR once in the days long ago, He beckons to you, a you trend your life's wn.y, 'J'o help nil oppressed with sin's woe.

Oh, wm you be slothful to nnswer t he c1lll, 'l'o lift up lost. mankind, deprn.ved by the l~nll !

Encircled by darkness, the wanderers moan Dcne11t.h their iniquitous load, ' '!'he heathen in blindness bows down to mute st.one, Ami eountless nre lost on sin's road.

Oh, will you be heart.less to souls gone nst.rny?

Go - tell t hem of Jesus, go- help them t.o-dny !

Arise, let. us traverse cncb mountain and glen, O'er paths, be they distant or near, 'fo tell of t he Savior to wamlering men, 'l'o scatter sweet comfort nml cheer.

Come, enter His scn •icc, ' I.is ut!\•cr in vain; Go - sprcnd the glnd tidings tl111t J esus may reign.

A. G. SOMMEII.

Christmas Celebration in Atlanta, Ga. 'l'hc Christmas festival wns fittingly celebrated in St. Mark's Chmch on Sunday, December 2-1.

Promptly at eleven o'clock mn.ny adults and children hncl gn.therecl to tnke pnrt in the Chdstmns service. Appropriate hymns for the senson were used. '!'he pnstor bnsed his Christmns mcssngc on Luke ·i, 1,~. He urged upon nil to give thnnks ancl prnisc tu Goel :for the gift o.f His Son to be our Snvior nnd to celebrate Christmas in. the true Cltrist-spirit oi "Pence on earth, good wm towards men.'' Every ,one, both young nnd old, returned home filled with joy nnd happiness.

Again at ,.1: o'clock the children, parents, nnd .friends assembled for the Christmas-tree exercises by the primary nnd advanced scholars. At this service our little chapel was crowded to·'its utmost capacity. Standing room-was hard to find. T he program at this service was under the direction o.f Urs. Alston, the faithfu l nssistnnt of Pastor Alston.

Needless to say, it was enjoyed by all, for all of her programs are said to be the best in our parts. 'l'he church was beautifully decorated for the occasion. ~[uch of the decoration was made by the children in school. 'l'hc tree ,vas laden with gifts, and all around the altar the presents were heaped up. ~Iany o.f t hese were serviceable gifts, since many nre in. need o·f the necessities of life. To several poor children, who could not nttend the Christmas exercises, for Jack of clothing- and we we1·c not able to supply the sn.me - gifts were taken enrly Chri ·tn1as mol'lling by the pnstor and his wife. Our only regret WilS thnt WC were not able to give as in fo1·mcr years. Howc,·cr, we appreciate whnt tlw friends· in the North sent us. All were told thnt the gjfts were to 1·crnind us of the great Gift, Christ, our Savior.

Oh! how restless were the children, who with be~ming fnccs waited in turn for their,nn:mcs to be called. 'But nmong the happiest wns Grnudmn Charlotte Burch, who is in her ninetieth year nnc.1 i · the oldest member o:f our congregation. She wns the recipient of n pair of mother-comfort shoes.

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the congregation presented to Pastor AJstou, who Go<l when so much has been accomplished considerhas sen•ed the congregation and school ior five ing the poor location oJ: om· chapel, snnoundcd with yea.rs, :fifteen dollars iu go]cl and two clolln rs in hills nnd cl itches.· Bcsirlcs, our chapel is inadequate currency. 'l'hc pleasant surprise was much app1·c- !or c:iiy work wilh only a shnck .for a schoolbo11se. cia.tecl.

A pa tor, :cning the whi le 'l\Iissouri" congregation 'l'be past five ,Yt'a rs ha \'C been fillc,1 .with bless- here. who recently mnlle us a visit, said that we ings from the Lord for , 't. Mark's, A tin ntn, for '::;houkl wrap up our chapel n.ncl send it by parcel which we nre trnlv tlumkCul. Whilo several have post to tlle ruml districts. Ile happened here just departed this life to be .forc,·c1· with the Lord nud after a min nnd saw what we must contend with ethers have moved to otl1er parts, God ha sent the year round. May the Lord open the hearts of others to take their places in this om· " lone" con- the fric1ids o.r our mission in the North to do something to better the co11dit ion o.f our . mission fo r the ncccly Colored people o.f Atl:rntn, Ga.. ! I might also aclcl that nbout 50 fold ing chairs could be u:ccl in our mission hcl'c. Posibly some cong t·egation has a number of clui.irs to cl isposc ol', ot· some friend s would' clonntc for this plll'posc. H so, notify the Rev. J'ohn .Alston, 1J.55 ~IcDa11 iel St., Atla nta, Ga. Our New Ycn L' greeting is Lhat Gods richest blessings may rest upon our sister coug rcga.tions, and during 1923 may many souls be han•cstccl into His kingdom here on 'Ca.rth, afterwards to be received into His kingdom above!

From the Cradle of Our Colored Mission.

I'astor Adolph Poppe in the :fu-st number of the Colored Lutheran gives several /interesting reminiscences of the cal'ly clays of our mission in ICY. F. Berg. ner. G. Allenbar.b.

Teacher E.W. Jeske.

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St. raul"• Cbapel, Little Rork. an. Leah Jones, Little Il.ock, Ark., th·e cracllc of our Foander aad Oldrst llc1nber.

Negro ~:fissions. 'l'he congregatiou grcg11tio11 fo Georgia. Hence we c11n sec om· con- ltt Little Rock was brought into being on July 3, ' gregation slowly, 'but steadily growing, and our 1878, Prof. F. Berg, now of Immanuel College~ • Lord's promise is verily coming true: "My ,,rord bei11g the pastor. Soon after the cong1·egation had shall not return unto Me void." been formed, a pretty little chapel was built. Vfo On next Sunday, December 31, the pastor, God continue by quoting :from Pasto1· Poppe's article in willing, in his nfth-annh•ersary address, will review the Oolo1·elJ, Lutliera1~: the "ork for the pa~t fil'c years. While all has not "A newsboy sauntered into this cluipel one night been joy and sunshine, and temptations a.nd ob- to satisfy his curiosity. '!'bis was Tommy Bransstacles had to be overcome, . yet the I,ord has so ford, you might say one of the :founders of the richly blessed our church at this place that both Colored Missions of the Ev. Lutheran Synoclical pastor and people have cl'ery reason to say: "'J;'hc Confe1·ence. Tommy became so interested he Lord is good, and His mercy eudureth forever." wo1ildu't gh•c his mother any rest till she nlso came.

Especially do we see the goodness aucl mercy of It took her quite. some time to decide, but sh,e de-

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c~dcd. Here i.s who.t she tolcl me: ' .No, Pastor, · it was a L11U1eTan m1d most of whom were present out was not a dream, it was a fa ·L. l nw a large bolt o[ m ere cu riosity. From that day until a few o:f ribbon um·oll from me, nnd it went direct to the months ago when they 1·eccived wol'd from the }[ission Board that money had. been 1Jppropriated fo r nltat· in o. stt·night line. I snid t-o myself: ''l'hnt'. a sign Goel wnnts me to come to t he nltm· nncl be- a chapc:1, it wn an up-hill griud, a se,,cre test of the come n. Lutheran." ' H er 'l'ommy cliccl, but she was fai th nncl incc ri ty of t ho. c members who wc1·e won loyul, loyal t ill dcn.Lh. Her legacy to t he :Mission, -o,·cr from t ime lo Lime by t he power of the Word.

1n spite of the inacleqnncy of t heir place o:f worship, gh•cn m e by the ndmini trntor, amo1111t-ecl to eleven t he ridicule o( frie nds nncl n eighbors, anc1 a t t imes t.housancl ancl ninety-six clollMs. "Another member, one of the fo ur chnrLcr mem- o[ what seem cl n. forlorn hope of ever obtaining n bet·s, was :Mr s. L eah .Tones. She was a unique chnr- dmpcl , t he member. oC Mount Olive cluna to the 0 acter. 'l'hank[ul to the uttermost. ' What' · m ine confession of the Lutheran Chmch with n tenacity is yours, pastor,' she was accustomed to . ay. She wanted to will all she lrncl to the writer, but 1 quotec1 t he pa .."'a""e o-f Abram to the King of , oclom: 'I will not take a thread even to a shoe-lntchct, nncl thnt T will not take anything t hn t is thine, l est thou houlclc t ny, I hnvc macl e L\brnm ri ch.' H er properly nncl m oney she cliviclecl between the whi te congrcgati011 nncl Col o1·ecl mission. It amounted to several L11ousnncl clollnrs in totnl.'

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December 17, 1922, will long be remembered by the people o.f 'l'ineln, :for on tho.t clay t he faithful mcmbm·s o.f Mount Olive Congregation as:emblcd to bi.cl adieu to t heir olcl log hut up 0 11 t he hill nncl to dcclica.lc t hei r 11cw chapel to the service of Almighty God. Although t he sky was overcast with threatening clouds ancl the eo.rth was wet and muddy, the hearts of these faithful people were (i11ed with genuine thanksgiving to God, who has wrought so wondrously among them. After six years o:f hoping, praying, and worshiping in nu old log cabin, God hns hem·d their pmycrs and g iven them o. beautif ul chapel in which to sing His prnise nnd hear the sweetest story ever told. 'l'he dedication of the cho.pel at Tinelo. is o. crowning victory .of unwo.vering faith and incessant prayer. Numbered o.mong the :first of om missionstations here in Aln.b ama 'rincla is the Inst of the old stations to be blessed with a. chupel. Although other congregations, estnbl ishcd long a rter the one at ~L'inela, were blessed with new chapels and schools, and the news sif tcd through to these peopl~, still, their fa.ith never wavered, and their com·nge was undD.ltnted.

Six years ago the wl'itcr of these lines preached , the 'first Luthernn sermon ever l1enrd in that community to n hnnclful of strn.nge1·s, none of whom

Chapel at Holy Ark, Ala. Supcl'intcnclcnt G. A. Schmidt is "fixing'' his Forcf.

born o.f faith and a tr ue love for God and His pure Word. Aud now, thanks be to God, their faith has been 1·ewardcd, they have a chapel in which to worship · the Giver of all good gifts.

On the day of dedicn.tio,n the· undersigned p1·enched the dedico.tory sermon at the morning service, .aucl in the afternoon Superintendent Schmidt bnd n. catechizn.tiou, after which he confirmed fi,•e adults, two of whom were baptized. 'l'hus G-oc1 ga"e not on.ly a. building on that day, but nlso members to help fill tho.t building. May the l"ich blessings of God rest upon pastor and congregation in the Iutme as they h~ve in the past!

Alter tlie busy holidays we have settled clO\Yn to routine work ngain. AncT when we sn.y "busy"

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we mean busy, for as everywhere else so here in Alabama Christmas is a time of joy, worry, ancl hurry. A sample of Alabama joy, worry, nnd hmry: Superintendent Selunidt, Student Kreft, and the undersigned had Christmas serviees ancl ehildren's progmms at Buena Vista, Tinela, and Vredenburgh on · Sunday, the 24th. On Christmas Day we hacl children's programs at Vredenburgh and Longmilc, and t hen a drh•e of seventy miles that same night.

Before leaving Longmile, however, Superintendent Schmidt performed an emergency baptism, aucl then we were on our happy way Selma-ward. And that trip! \Vhat with a broken •exhaust pipe, a leaky feed rnlve, and a "winky light," - well, use ..-our imao'ination ! - A wad of chewing gum soon ., 0 caused the light to keep its eyes on the road, and red clay mud stopped the waste of gas, - but that broken exhaust pipe with its noise and blue flame!!

First Cl~ss of New Teachers' Training-School, Selma, Ala.

But we are digressing,, beg your pardon! On 'ruesday we had QJ.µ-istmas service and a children's progr~ at. Holy. Ark, about forty miles Jrom Selma.

Student Kreft preached. the sermon, Superintendent Schmidt, Miss Young, and the undersigned made short talks. Elev~n o'clock 'l'uesday night found !!_S back at home and· glad it was over with. - If you want to enjoy a real Christmas next year, come to Alabama. We ean guarantee plenty of work and a reasonable amount of good weather.

The undersigned wishes to thank the members · of Holy Ark Congregation for the batch of foodstuffs they sent to our 'l'eachers' 'rra.ining-sehool. l{ay God bless them for it!

Don't forget the minutes of the Alabama Luther Conference. Copies may be had from Rev. E. A. Westcott, Box 683, Selma, Ala. R. O. L. L. RRAJ, consecration to God wi11 nhvny11 be -Cnllowcd by service to mnn.

Items of Missionary Interest.

A SoGGESl'ION. - Everybody while in good henlth should think of properly disposing of his property in a correctly drawn-up last will and tc tament. Pos ibly one or the other of om readers thinks of do.iug the very thing in the near future. lf such should be the case, perhaps, he might be willing to remember our Negro Missions with a gift.

Herc jg a form that he could use : "I give and bequeath to the Missionary Board of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America for l\lissio11s among the Heathen and Negroes the sum of ..... •................ Dollars ($ .... ) , to be used for the benefit of Hs work among the Negroes." lt is quite important that the f ull and compictc name and t itle of the i\Iission Board be used.

ILLUSTHAl'ED LECTUllES. - D11riJ1g the long winter evenings is the best time to make use of the three :fine illustrated lcct1.1rcs which the Colored :i\Iission Board has put out. If you should want one or more of these lectures, w1·ite t o Rev. 'l'h. F. Walther, 6402 Easton Ave., St. Louis, lio. Pastor Walther will :furnish you the machine, slides, and German or English lecture free of charge. All that the Bom·d c~1lccts is that you give those who have heard and seen 1111 opportunity Jo give what they will to the cause of Negro Missions.

SAD, DOT TnuE. - Out of every three persons on earth two k-now nothing of Christ. Though sixty generations have lived on this globe since Christ in His own person revealed Himself by word aud deed as the Son of God and the Savior of the world, there are more people on em·th to-day that clo not know Him; than ever lived on earth at one time before! '!'here are lands having a population of over a lnmtlred million into which no Protestant missionary has ever entered. Fifteen hundred of the walled cities of China have no Chris_tian workc1·s. In South America there arc millions that have never been reached by the Gospel. In Mexico there are several millions that are living in practical heathenism. Two-thirds of the popula.tion of Japan has not hea1·d the Gospel. · J ,\P,\N NEEDS THE GOSPEL. - The religiou!i census of Japan shows that there are 72,000 heathen temples and over 51,000 priests, besides public ancl private shrines by the hundreds of thousands. ~ certain Shinto sect, founded only forty years ago, hns 4,000,000 mcml1crs nnd sends out every yenr

_Statistic~! Report of -Our Colored Missions for the Year 1922. ' PASTORS

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Ber ger, E. n. ; Tilden, Al11, . , , . .• • • • . • Ingomnr, AIII. . • • .• • . , . . . •. • , . • .• Coznrt, E, B. : Jortre, Aln, • • • , ••••. . , , Selma, Aln..• , .•• . ••• •. • .• ••• . • • Montgomery, J . S.; Nyland, A,.111• .••• ••.

Pine Hlll, Aln. . • , .. • •• . , • • • , , • , , .

Penr, C. D.: Onk Hlll, Aln•• ••• " .. .. .. ~ h Rosebud, Al11: • , •.. . , • ...• • . •• , , • . .. c mldt, Sufct. G. A, ; Holy Ark, Aln, • , • Longml e Aln. . . • . .• . , •.•.••• , • • Selunldt nnd 8tud, G. Kre!.t ; Tlneln, Aln. Buena Vlstn, Aln. . .. .. . ... . ... . . .

Moblle, Al11. • , , •• , , , • , , •• . ••• , •• . Vr edenburgh, Ala , . •.•.• ••• • . , , ..

Westcot t, E. A,; Midway, Aln• ... , , •..

Possum Bend, Aln, • ••••••. • , • • , • • .

P Tnlts P ince, Ala. . ..... , • • .•••••• oppe, A, H. ; Li ttle Rock, Ark. . .. ... , Alston, John; Atlanta, Gn.. • , . • . , • • .• g 1uus, H. C. ; S~rlngfield, Ill, • •. • , • .• , lnus nnd Kroen , G. L. ; St. Louis, Mo. • Tervalon, W. J.: M11n1ur11, Ln • ••• • • •• • , Thompson, C. ; Napoleonvllle, Ln. • •••• • .

P lnquemlne, Ln. . .... • . • . • . •. • • . • Beck, W. H. ; New Orleans, Ln• •• •• . • . , , Kramer, G. M. ; New Orleans, Ln• •.• •• • .

New -Orleans, Ln. . • • •• •• •. •• • • , •• Wlldw ube, E. H. ; New Orleans, La. • , •. ew Orlenns, Ln. .. . .... . . ... . ....

HUI, Wm. O. ; Yonkers, N. l'. .. . . , , . , . , Brook~ n, N. Y. . .. .... . ...... . ..

Alston, F. • ; Kannapolis, N. C. , • , , ••• Snllsbu~, N. C. . , , •• , . • , ...•• • , • Cor lson, W. ~ Charlot te, N. C. , •• . • , • l\lonroe, • C. • •.•. ••• , , • .• . . • •. • Foard, F. H. ; Rocks; N. C• •• .•.• • ••. • • Rockwell, N. C. • • • •••• ••.• , •.•••• .

Catawba, N. C. . • • •.•. • , , •.•• . • , • Conover, N. C• • .•. •• •• • •• • . .. .• •• Gose, P ro!. P. FJ,; Ht~h Point, N. C•• • • • Blon Collei:e, N. . .. .. . ... . .. , .. .

Hunt, J. A. ; Wlnston-Snlem, N, C. , •• • • Southern Pines, N. C• • • • .. • • • •••• Lehman, P. D. ; Concord, N. C••• • , •• •• Dl'JB SchoolhouseC N. C. • , • • , • , • •• Shankletown, N. . . . ... , .. . ..... llcDavld, John Charlotte, N. C. • • • • • • Charlotte, . C. • •• •• , . • , • . .• , •. , March, C. ; Mount Pleasant, N, C, • •• •• Gold ' Hlll, N. C. , •• , • , • • , , .• • • , • , Schuelkei,,Pro!. E. ; Greensboro'NN. C•. • • Shufel& rof. J . ; Greensboro, • C• • • •• .

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GOO missionaries. '!'he highest officinl:- of the government, mnny of tl1cm cduca tccl in Amcricn or England, oftcu cngngc in hcnthcu ceremonies. Not long ago, for example, a Inrgc number of high officials of the govcrnmant took pnrt in n public ceremony which hnd :for its purpose the trnnsfcr of the spirit, or god, from nn olcl pina-trcc, which hnd cliad, to n younger tree! Yes, Jnpnn 11ccd the Gospel !

CAN~ruAls AsK 1,·on 'l'EACREn . - 'l'hc Africnu Bashilelc tribe, hitherto cnnnibnl , who hn.vc navcr permitted white man to cntar, arc now asking fol· teachers. About twenty nntive workars, who h:wa hnd a two-years' Bible trnioing coursa, arc nlreacly at work. Whita missionaries arc expected soon to follow, ns well as n doctor nncl trained nurses. 'l'hc mission among these iormer cnnnibnls is under tha care of the Congo Inland :Mission, which hns its heaclqunrters nt Grauel Rapids, 1\fich.

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Facts Worth Knowing Concerning Our Deaconess Cause. '!'here nre 20 deaconess pup.ils in tha course of instruction, 14 in For t Wayne and 6 in Beaver Dam. M:iss Ina Kcmpfl: was installed ns danconess in n solemn service held September 27, in the evening, at Emmaus Church, Fort Wayne. 'l'ha Rav. H erz.berger dcliveracl tha sermon. Sha will tnka charge . oi our deaconess hospital at Beaver Dam by tha :first of the year.

Our deacone·ss pupils now 1·acciva an annunl allownncc of $100 for cmrcnt expenses. 'l'his nllowancc will be paid them in semiannual instalments, in June and December, $50 each time. '!'his necessitates a sum oi $1,000 for the middle part ~f December. We have about 4,000 paying n)cmbers.

Hence we should have received nbout $4,000 up to this time for the year 19.22. But this is not the case by nny means. \Ve have just about enough to pay the sums granted to our pupils. There is therefore an urgent necessity for each member to pay his annual contribution if it has not yet b~en done.

Our association may count on n new deaconess hospital, which is located at Jiartford, Wis. It is owned by :Mrs. Margaret Westf~hl of thnt place, a .

J,,utheran Christian and a- member o! the Lutheran congregation at Hartford. She offers it to our association entirely free of charge it we wi11 use it as o. deaconess hospital. It was opened {or use on December 1, 1922, 1\fiss Edna Kroeger, n. N., who ol,t.nined her training as nurse at the Luthcrau Hos-

pitn l nt Fort Wayne, actinrr as head nurse. 'l'his ho pit-al rcpre cn t. a. value o( $50,000, has a capacity of 15 becl. and hns n bennt ifol location, half a mile from the cily limits, on the main thoroughfare be- · tween Fond du Lnc and :i\lilwn.ukcc. Who docs not hc1·c recognize lhe J.orcl' s vi ihlc blessing? ~Liss Mar"arct Danner :i d acouess from the L utheran mothcr-hou. c o[ lhc Passavaut Jiospital at ~Cilwa ukcc, ha been g ran ted a. penccfol nucl honorable cl i mis al to our Deaconess A sociation, by the deaconess boarcl of said i nstilution. Arter ha ving been tra ined a~ nurse in our Lutheran Hospital a t , t. T,ouis, she entered the Dcaconc s . chool at Milwaukee, where she was active in the service of love and mercy un t il the fo repart of December.

Tiavi11g now been admitted into our Deacone s A uciat ion, she will at fir. t be active in our Dcoconc s Hospital nt Beaver Dam, Wis. , ' he wi ll not only pro,·c uscfol as a sistnnt of our deaconess, :Miss Inn. Kempff, but also as a. teacher within om· clcaconc s school of that place. Also in our sister y11ocl, lhc L utheran lhcc Church o( Germany; a. school for clcncouesse hns been called into existence in connection with the newly founded children's home, Spcl'lingshoi. '!'his school is bci11g conducted by two head nurses who have lef t the established chmch o( Gcrmn11y irncl joined our Lutheran Free Church. ~n connection wi th our Lnthcr:m '!'raining-school for N ur ·cs, a new class of our Deaconess School here at Fol't W~'l.ync will begin in April, 1923. 'l'he principal conditions fo1· admittance are that the applicants must be members of a Lutheran congregation within our Synodical Confe1·ence, thnt they must be animated by an ardent love to thefr Siwior, that they must ha\'c reached the age of 19, ancl, finally, tha.t they have obtained a high school ellucntfon of ouc yem·. For further particulars apply to: Lu·.rmmAN DEACONESS Hoirn, 2916 Fairfield A\'c., Fort Wayne, Ind.

BOOK TABLE. The Neto Oo11cordia Sm,da.y-selwoi S eries. Concordill Pub· lisbing House, St. Louis, Mo.: I. Tiny Tots' Bible Pictures. A set of twelve colored Cradle Roll cards. 'fhe bock of each ellrd brings the story-lesson llnd practical hints for the mot her.

Price, 10 ets.

2. Concordia Primary Leaflets. Twenty-six leaflets for the year, Each lcaffet brings 11 beautiful colored picture, the lesson-story, llnd some memory work. l'rice, 30 cts. 11er year.

3. Concordia Sunday-school Lessons for Junior De•

partment. Price, 30 ctll. 11er yMr.

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EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN COLORED CHURCHES. LOUISIANA. N>:W OllLl~\SS : -St. 1'011Vs, lG2u ,\nnello St. : 1-1. IJ. Willi• i:rubc, Pnstor. - Sen•lccs: Sumlay, ll "· lt. nm! i.30 1•. M.; Wednesday, 7.30 P. II. Sunday-school, 10 A, ll.

Tril1ity Chapel, Elmira 11111I Vlllere ts. ; Jo:. II. Wllcl;:rube. Pnstor. - Scr,·lccs: Sundny P . lt. Sumlny-school, 10 A. II. , Bethlehem, Washlni:ton Ave. and Dryades St.; G. Ill. Kramer, Pastor. - Services: Sunday 11 A. :11. and S P . 11. ; Thursday, 8 P. :u. Sunday-school 10 A. 11.

Co11cordio cor. Cohn nod nolly Gro,·e St,;.; G. M. Krnmcr. Pnstor. - Service : J,:,·ery Sunday, 10.l ::i .,. M. Sunda:,-achool: Evel'J' Sunday, 11.30 A. 111. j)(o1111t Zlo11, cor. l~rnnklln n111l '.l"hnlln Sts. ; Wnlter Heck, Postor. - Sen•lces: Sumlny, 10 " · M . nnd S 1•. M.; Wednesday, 8 P. ar. Sunday-school, 11 A, u.

NAPOLEONVILLE; - se. Pa111'a; C. P. Thompson, l'nstor. - !3ervlces : Every Sundny, i.30 r. M • • Sunday-school, e,·ery , m!• day, 10 A. ll.

PLAQUEIII!'IE: - Bllflld; C. P. Thompson, Pastor. - Services : Ever:, second and !ourth Sunday or the month, 3.30 r. 11.

IIIANSURA: -St. Paul'•; Wilfred J . Tervalon, Pastor. - Ser-· vice: Sunday, 10 A. 11. Sunday-school, 9.30 A. >t.

NORTH CJROLINA. Coscono: - Grace; Paul D. Lehman, Pastor. - Services: Sunday, 11 A- :u. and 7.30 r. u.; Sunday-school, 3 r. 11.

Dn:rs ScBOOLBOUSl!l : - St. Pctcr'al· Paul D. Lehman, Pastor.

- Services: Second nnd tour b Sunday of each month, 1.30 P. u. Sunday-school: Every Sunday, 1 1•. 11.

Srusi.LETow.s : - 1'n1nanucl; Paul D. Lebmnn, Pastor. Service: First and third Sunday of each month, 1 P. >1.

SALISBua:r : - St. Jolin'•; F. D. Alston, Pastor. - Service : Sunda:,, 7.30 P. u. Sunday-school, 3 P. u.

ICAN.SAPOLIB : - Mt. Ca1varv; Frank D. Alston, Pastor. Service: Ever:, other Sunaay, 11 A. M, GREESSDORO: - Immanuel Oollcoc AHi,1011,; Prof. J. Pb. Smith, Pastor. - Service: Sunclay, 7.30 1•. ll. Sunclnyschool, 10.30 A. u.

Grace, 904 s. Ashe St. ; Prof. Euno Schuelke, rustor. Sen-tees: 11 A. 11. and i,30 1•. >t.

HIOB POINT. - St. Lukc'a; Prof. P. E. Gose, Pastor. - Service: Sunday, 2 P. 11,• Sunday-school ofter preocblng.

WINSTON-SA.LEU: - Colorcll Mf••lon; Jesse A. EJunt, Pastor.

- Sen-tee: Ever7 ftrat, second, and fourth Sunday or the month, 3 l'. :u.

SoUTBEaN PINES : - St. Jame,'; Jesse A. Hunt, Pastor. Service■: Ever7 third Sunday of the month; 11 A. 11. and 7.30 P. u . Sunday-school: Ever1 Sunday, lu A. u.

MT. PLEAS.L'IT: -Mt. Calt:aru; C. R. Jllarch, Pastor. - Ser'rices: Every second ond fourth Sunday, 12.15 r. a1. Sundny■chool, 1 P. :u.

GOLD HILL : - Zion; C. Morch, Pastor. - Services : Ever:, o.r■ t and third Sunday, 12.30 P. 111. Sunday-school, 10 A. u.

Roca: ■: - Jlt. Zion.; II'. Foard, Pastor. - Service: Ever1 llr■t and third Sunday of the month, 11 .t.. u. Sunday-school : . Ever:, Bunda:,, 10 .L :u.

CATAWB.A.: - Mt. Ollve; F. Foard, PHtor. - Service : Fourth Sunda:, ot the month, 1.30 P. a1. Sundny-school : E very Sunday, 11 .A.. K. Co:sovBB: - Bethel; F. Foard, Pastor. - Service: l•'ourtb Sunday of the month, 11 .A.. :u. Sunday-school : Every Bunda:,, a P. 11.

Roca:wm.L: - OonconHa,; II'. Foard, Pastor. - Service: Ever:, ftrat Bunda:, of the month, 2.30 P. 11.

Sundoy-school, 10 ,._ :u.

GauJrVILLE: - Bethel; Walter Carl■on, Pastor. - Service: 11 .A.. u. and 8 P. u. Sunday-school, 3 P. 11.

MONROE: - Bethlehem; Walter Carlson, Pastor. ~ Services every ■econd and fourth Sunday of the month.

CJUru.oTn:: - Bt. Pa.ul'•" cor. Second and Aleiander Sta.: J. KcDavld, Pa■tor. - aervlce■: Sunday, 8 P, u. Sunday1chool, 8 P. II. Jlt. Zfn, Luther, near Baldwin Ave. : J. McDavld, Pulor. - Service: Sunday, 11 .A.. x. Snnda:,-school, 12 :u.

BOOTH CAROLINA. 81'.A.BT.ulBUIIO : - Bt. Luk'•, 388 Cleveland St. ; J. \V. Fuller, Pa■tor. - Services: 8unda7J 12.;lG l', u., and Wednesday, 8 P. x. Sunda:,-achool, 11,lD A. )I. ILLINOIS. , 8PB1xor11:LD: -Hol11 2'rfflHJf; B. C. Clau1, Pa■tor. vice: Sunday, 8 P. x . Sunday-1chool, 10.30 .i.. u.

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MISSOURI. ·r. 1.ou1s : - G,·ttco, 1;;10 Mor;;n n ~ l.: II. C. Cluus u nd G. I,.

Krocnk, t'ns lors. ·cr,·lce : . und:iy, 11 A . M. • undnyschool, .10 ., . M .

St. Lo11la Co1111ty l11{l n11arv Mfsafo11 a11d St. Lo11f1 Cft11 /Ioapitul; 11. C. Claus, Pas tor. Services: Wednesday, 12.30 nod l.<15 r . ll.

AnKANSAS. R'5cK : - St. J>a ul'a, 25th and Cross Sts. ; Ad. EI. Poppe, Pastor. - Sen •lce : E,•ery second nnd fourth Sunday of the . UIODtb, 3.30 l'. ll. Sunday-school, 3 P. 31 ,

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NEW YORK. YoN1rnns: - /Jctlumu, -14 Hudson St. ; W. 0. Rill, Pas tor. Services: Sunday, 4 r. 11.; Wednesday, S r. ar. Sundnyschool, 2.30 r . 11.

BROOKLYN:- ll11111a1111d, 1524 Bergen St.; W. O. Bill, Pnstor.

- Service : Sunday, 11 A. At .

• • PENNSYI,VANIA. PJlll,ADELl'lllA: - 437 N. 32d St.; Carl Stoll, rn.itor. \•lces every Sunday.

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VIRGINIA . . l\lF.UEIIIIIN: -'- St. Matt11c1o'• " L. G. Oormit, Pas tor. - Services: E,•ery second, third, nod Courtb Sunday, 11 .30 A. M, Sunday-school, 10 A. M. RICJIMOSD: - L. G. Dorpat, Pastor. - Service: li"lrst•Sunday of the month In St. Luke's Einll.

• GEORGIA. ATLASTA:-St. Mark'a, 247 Garibaldi St.;' John Alslon, •Pastor. - Services : Sunday, 7.30 P. 11. : Wednesday, 7.30 1•. >I, Sundoy-scbool, 12.30 P. at.

ALABAlllA. 01t.i. RILL: - St. Pa11l'a; Chas. Pen:,, Pastor. - Services: Every Sunclny, 12 M. Sundny-scbool : Every Sunday, 11 A, M. ROSEUUD :-OllrlBt Olmrch; Chas. D. Peay, Pniltor.-Servtces: First and third Sundays, 11.30 A. u . Eilunda:,-school: Every Sunday, 10 A. u.

Tit.ITS Pr.., c ti : ~ Zlo,~;' E. Westcott, Pastor. - Services; Second nnd fourth Sundays, 2 l'. M. Sunday-school : Every Sundll)', 3 1•. M. SEL>tA M1ss1os: - R 13. Cozort, Pastor. - Services: Second Sunday, 3 r. M. Sunday-school : Every Sundo:,, 11 "· a1. \"nP.DllSOUROJI : - St. A111lrcw'B ; G. A. Schmidt, Pastor.•- Servlees: Every Sunday, 7 P. u. Sunday-school: Every Sunday, , 11 A. M. · BUP.N,\. Vt STA: - St.• Jame,; G. ,\. Schmidt, Pastor. - Services: First and third Sundays, 11 A. u. Sunday-school : Every Sunday, 2 P, u .

Trst:t,A: - il!o1mt Olive; 0. A. Schmidt, Pnstor. - Services: Ever7 second and fourth Sunday, 11 A. JI , Sunday-school: Every Sunday, 9 A. ·111.

UonrLE: - G. A. Schmidt, Pustor. - Services: Every second .Sunday, at 606 St. Francis St., 7,,30 P. :u.

Eior,Y AnK: -Bct11lc11c,11; G·. A. Schmidt, Pastor.

C,O!'IOMU,E: - Our Rc1lcc1ncr; G. A. Schmldt, Pastor, TILDEN : - Mount Oalvaru ; E. n. Berger, Pastor. - Services: Second and fourth Sundays, 7.30 P. u. Third Sunday, 11 A. u. Sunday-school: Every Sunday, 10 A. :u.

INGO:UAR: - Grace; E. R. Berger, Pastor. - Services: Second and fourth Sunday■, 1-P. u. Sunday-school: Every Sunday, 12 u.

JOFFR& : - E. n. Cozart, .Pastor. - Services : First Sunday, 12 >I. Sunda:,-school : Every Sunday, 11 A. :u.

MIDWAY : - Mount Oarme1; E. A. Westcott, Pastor. - Ser• vices : Flr■t and third Sunday■, 12 :u. Sunday-school : Ever1 Sunday. 11 A. :u.

POSSU)I BIIND: - o'ur Savior; Ill. A. We■tcott, Pa■tor. - Ser'riecs : . Second and fourtJi Sunday■, 12 11. Sunday-school : Ever:, Sunday, 11 A, u.

I • NrLAND: - Bdhan11; J. Montgomer7, Paator. - Services : Second and fourm Sundays, 12 :u. Sunda7•1chool : Ever7 Sunday, 11 .A.. 11.

PINE HILL: - J. Montgomery, Pastor.

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Vol. XLV.

ST. LOUIS, MO., MARCH 1923.

No.3.

OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY MOTTO. "The prospects of missions are as bright as the promises of God." Some Difficulties in Our Mission-Work Among the Colored Race.

The lack o[ ufficicnt and adcqualc buildings hus repeatedly been cmpha izcd. Yet, wi thout seeing and fceli11g the d ifficultics cau cd thereby, one can hardly realize what t his lack means to om mission. .t\ ncl still there are many other difficulties g reatly aggravating the difficulties caused by the lack o.r proper housing.

Bad roads - many a one would cull them impassable - hinder not only the missionary in reaching his stations at the appointed time, but the chmchgocrs and t he schoolchilclren as well. '!'he : result is :frequent tardiness at divine services ancl at st:hool, which alway mean · loss or waste of time.

Lack of proper clothing- ns among the whites - keeps many a one :from attending church and school regularly. In goocl weather some arc ashamed to appear in rags. I n bacl weather many of our Colored people have insuflicicnt clothing nnd shoes to protect them from colcl and rain. When the missionary puts ou winter clothing, some oi the people, cspccinlly children, if they. dare to come at all, come in the flimsiest of summer clothing ancl bare·f oot. 'l'his has repeatedly ha.ppcnccl around Christmas. Then, if there is no room that can be heatccl well, the poor sltive1·ing bodies, crowding fil"O\Uld the stove or fireplace, make it well-nigh impossible fo1· any one to listen attentively to what the missionary or teacher is trying to say to them.

How can chj)clrcn read well under such circumstances, or write well ,with t heir colcl, numb little

fingers? 'l'hink or lhosc poor old shacks, gmt1g free ac<:c s to torm ancl rnin, which must be used, because nothing better can be obtainccl !

Lack of books and writing-matcrinl ' is another source of t rouble. 'l'hink of singi ng without hymnbooks, 1·cacliug without 1·caders, writing without pencil, slate or paper! Sometimes there is, onc book or one slate to four or fi ve chilclrcll, and their parents or guardians, though they allow the chil~ dren to attend our school, will not give them n penny :£or equ ipment. Nor do things last long under such conditions. '!'he peculiar clialcct of the uncduc:ntcd, illiterate Colored people will puzzle the missionary who is not yet fnmili1u- wHh it. 'l'o give an example: ,t\. boy says, "Magomahan ?" and after Jong questioning ancl guessing t he missionary finally understands that the boy means to ask, "May I go to l\[eherrin ?"

'J'he ,,orb forms " is," "am," "arc," "was," "were," are used with apparently no regard for their proper meaning. Some words and lphrascs are used in a cnsc unknown in the North, as, "Carry the mule to the pasture and tote the bridle to the barn," fo1·, " Take the mule to the pasture aucl carry the bridle to the barn." 'l'hc final "s" is frequently omittecl or soumlcd in n wrong place. Big worcls a.r e· contorted or used monstrously! In reading or writing, quotiug a · text or learning it by heart, there is nlways the tendency to "correct" it according to the " rules" of the common dialect. '!'he nctunl wilclness of some of the newcomers, who hnvc not learned to clean their feet of mud and to tnkc off t\1eir hats on entering a room, or to_

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the noisy clapping of hands, nud plain tive plantation melod ies, punctuated with the hysterical screams of cmotio1ial women exhortecl to seek "'ligion bcfo' it is too late."

In the midst of the strains of

, rcma.in quiet and orderly dming services or lessons, to wash and comb thcmsebes and to refrain from stnrting a fight with a neighbor, or to remain in the scat assigned to them and deny th~msclvcs the pleasure of talking nloud, or to bombard some one with chips, nutshells, or other missiles, oftcu utterly breaks up the precnriously established discipline nnd "Ood order and.- of course, dishll'bs the service or 0 teaching nnd lea.ming. 'rhe hot temper or lack of patience nnd tact of the pastor or teacher mn.y nJso be mentioned, since they have flesh and blood as well ns other people.

By God's grace alone all these difficitlties can be L. G. Dom>Nr. overcome.

old Uncle J ess' was reminded of the fa ct Lhat n flaming pit a.wa ited the delayed coming of all hardened sinners such as he was. Ancl then a zealous, pm·spiri11g clencon would bend ove1· the groaning, gray-hait-ed sinner and urge him ou to louder nucl moi:e eamest prayer i·f he would escape the yawning g ulf. An.cl during the singing of

Darkness.

Prny, sinner, prn.y, nn' don.n yo' be nshnmcd, Fo' Jesus Chris', de Lnm' o' Gnwd, Done written down yo' nnmc,

'l'he fest.ival beauty of the flowers has faded; "the blossoms that nodded and smiled each morni11g to the warbling birds have withered and surrendered their last fading tints to the :first pricklings of Jhe frost. All nature is draped in a cloak of sadness and seems to be mourning for her lost beauty. The spreading oaks haYe changed their dress, and their lea,•es are crimsoned, offering a contrast to the dark, scintillating green of the lordly pines aml queenly magnolias. Here and there may be heard the plaintive call of a .b ird as it flits from bough to bough, seeking the mate that has vanished with the dying days of suJlllllCr, The shades of night had descended, ancJ there was a deathlike silence over all the surrounding landscape. Soon, however, this silence was broken by the happy laughter or earnest conversation of. umber-hued couples as they wended their ,,,ay toward the dilapidated church, set in a circufar . clearing on the hillside. Here and there could be seen the ,vavering flame of a torch or the flickering and uncertain light of a lantern, carried by some old grandfather or grandmother, to light their path as they limped and stumbled toward their house of worship. The roads and paths teemed with people; both old and young, for the time of "big meetin' " was at hand. .

Old Uncle Jess' was dange1·ously near his allotted "threescore years and ten," but he still re"mained a hardened sinner, untouched by the pleadings and threats of many revivalists. For over forty years he had been, at each revival season, literally

dragged forward to the mourners' bench, and there, amid the stamping of many and sun~ry-clad feet,

Gnwd"s gonnn sci dis worl' on fiah Some o' dese day-,

some obese and devout "mother" of the church would, between panting hallelujahs, assure the gnarled old man that such, indeed, was the case · that his name was "done written down," and all he had_ to do was to pray and pray until he saw it. ~d now, having been 1·eminded of the fact that the Lord was goi11g to set t he worlcl on fhc, aud that his name was "clone written down," some old silver-ha.ired vetcrnu of many battles arouud the moumcrs' bench would, in a high, tremulous voice, offer further e11couragcme11 t to the aged "seeker" by siuging: · \Vhen I wn.s a mourner jcs' like you, I prayed, nn' I prayed, till I come t1100.

For forty years and more these same sougs had beeu sung over old Uncle Jess'. And for forty yea1·s and more Jess', and then old Uncle Jess', had at each "big meetin' " moaned and .mourned at the bench to no avail, for immediately after each meeting the old man would slip back into his fom1e1· habits. 'rhe Saturday night following the close oj ~ach revival he could be seen, in the gathering dusk, with his old battered banjo slung over his shoulder, limping along the' public highway or a. path through the fields on his way to fm-uish tlie music for the Saturday night plantation frolic. And so for over a generation young Jess', and then old Uncle Jess', had kneeled in the dust at the moume1·s' bench, "called the figures," and played his banjo at the frolics without having missed a revival or a frolic. _ And now again, on this particular night, during the time of the annual ''big mcetin'," the gray old mourner and banjo-player had, as was the annual custom, been dragged to the mourners' bench. Afte1· the sermon the deacons' class-leaders, brethren, and

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The Lutheran Pioneer. sisters of Lhc chmch gathered around the mourners to ing, clap, nucl stamp Lhcm "Lhoo." For lwo week they hncl been p1·eparing themselves for Lhc o casion by holding n ightly prayer-meeting , in which pccinl prayers had been offered up for particular inner in the community, nnd olcl Uncle Jc ' had not been overlooked during these preparnLo1·y meetings. In fact, as one brother expressed ii, " pccinl special p rayers" hacl been made for him. 'l'hosc, therefore, whose cluiy it was Lo help the mourners "thoo," gave Lhe mn.jo1· portion of lhcir att ent ion to the veteran banjo-pick r ancl mourner.

AbMc t he ~ta mping, clapping, and si.nging an

un nglcd from their heads a they swung and swayed and stamped and screamed. J n the midst of all this I.he mourners were ex horted to pray!

At miclnight the pa tor of the church, the Rev. J oseph .James, D.D., joined the singers and led the ~ongs. With a deep vibrating basso he sang: I wn i:cven ycnr$ n-mournin',

lo which t-hc congrcgntion sang the chorus : When I come out o' de wilderness, Come out o' de wilderness, Come out o' de wilderness.

'l'hc ,·er c and chorus were repeated several times, niul then fol lowed the second verse and chorus. ' L'hc second ve1· c was, "Oh, didn' t I shout!" to ~ which the congregation answe1·ed with, "When L come out o' de wilclcrness," etc., adding to the la -t line of the cho!us, "Leanin' on de Lawd."

At the rcpc~ition of the second verse old Uncle J css' began to shake as with the ague. Slowly his old gray heacl came up from its bowed position, t rembling like nu aspcu-len-f in the morning breeze.

His nostrils were distended, his eves rolled, and his J jaws, flecked with foam, worked as if he were in the clutches of a fatal spasm. Suddenly he spranrr ·i to his feet all(l began to jump nnd clasp his hand;, I nil the while crying with a loud voice, "Mah soul's happy ! :i\fah soul's hnppy !" 'l'hesc actions and wo1·cls of. olcl Uncle J ess' were the sianal for 0rrenernl .

0 rejoicing on t he p01·t of the congregation, since the most hardened sinner in the community had "come thoo at las'," and they must 1·ejoice with him. Earsplitting sc1·cams pierced the air, benches were ovc1·Lurncd, men and women hugged each other nnd shouted, "Glory to ·Gawel! Uncle Jess' done come Prof. R . O. L. Lynn. thoo !"

In the mean time Uncle Jess' hnd shouted his occasional voice could be heard exhorting the way to the door and out into the cool, fresh air of momncrs not to give up, bnt to pray, pray, pray. the first hours of the morning. And now, with bend In the pel'fervicl zeal of the singing, clapping, t hrown back, straggling beard flecked with foam, stamping baud, there soon came a rhythm, o. harand eyes staring straight ahead, he shouted his way mony, smooth to the eye and melodious to the ear, homewm·d.

Limping toward h_is old cabin, nestled ·:forcing mnuy "hallelujahs" and "glories"- from the among the plum bushes nnd blackberry brinrs, his swaying, groaning, 1·ocking congregation. 'l'he atvoice rang out, in perfec~ march tempo, on the stillmosphere in the small building was freighted with stifling dust and an n.lliaceous or hircine oclor, it ness of the eal'ly morning breeze, "Glory, glory! wns hnrd to tell whicli it was. 'l'he singers gnve Glory, glory, glory!" And the echoes ·answered, vent to their feelings either by screaming, jumping, " 'Ory, 'ory ! 'Ory, 'ory, 'ory !"

That snme nigh~ a Lutheran minister in the far or violently waving their arms. The perspiration .

North. preached on the text, ''Wbnt must I do to be streamed down their faces and oozed through their saved?" to which he gave the only· correct answer, outer garments; some of them, in their frenzy, ".Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt were foaming at the mouth, and some of the women be saved."

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a s11ecinl "'Crmon on the hri t ian clut" of 0o-1vmo·' Q was prcach 'cl. Jmmcdiatcly after the se rmon t he new .ystcm was again thoroughly cxplainctl, whereupon plccl o-c-can] · were passed out among all communicant member- pr sen t. Lalcr, absentee. were ,·i"'itccl in ( hei1· home . \\'c hare rea on to rej oice onir the r esul ts of our efforts in introdu ing Uii.- n ew cnYClope syslc111. 'l'hc tota l or weekly pledge; rcccfrecl in , 'L. Loui · amounted to o,·cr $10; i11 , 'pring ficld, to over !J;12.

Pnll rc<lcmption of a ll pledge~ will mean total receipts (ria onrclopc:) of $1,H ·I- during 102;1 in lite t reasuries of IJolh cong 1·cgatio11.;.

If om new sy tcm rccei,·cs lhc proper npport o l' the member it will mcnn much for the Curthcrn nc·c of t he Lord"s work.

It is . clf-criclcnt t hat t he n ew cnYclopcs will make it en ictt for t he members to con tribute. Our hopes will hn,·e been en t ire ly misplacccl if rrrcntcr rcgulnri ty i · not brought n.bout by t he 11cw : _ys tcm.

One of the most inspirjug sen ·ices of the pa t ycnr wa - held in om· chapel iu t. ];oui· on 'hl"istmns morning, at 5.30 o'clock. Just before the beg inning of t he scrd cc the ·congregation . tcpped to the outside of the chapel and sent fort h lhc strai11s o( that powerful hymn, "Joy to the \\ oriel.' U nder t he bright lights of the Christmas-tree t he congregation tfien re,·icwcd in spirit t he wonderful happenings of .the first Christmas. After the service om fourth clime-bank opening of t he year was held.

Om total Christmas receipts were $}0S.52. .i\fr. J. Cantwell's bauk wns high with $6.-1-0. '!'his is t he highest bank contribution e,·er received. .I t was a mther dmmatie moment when t he opening of banks was halted and the announcement was made that we had reached our 1922 goal of $1,000. A ftcr a song o( praise had been o:ffcrccl, the opening of bankwas 'cont inued.

Our annual children's Christmas program was rendered on the night of December 27, nnd again News from Alabama. on January 2. The children and their teacher, J>astor Kroenk, deserve credit for the splendid t reat A Bn,\.NO , 'AvJm vnolr 'J'HE BunNrNG. - 'omc they gave the Lutheran public.

Our children's p1·ogram at Springfield was h eld t ime back t he writer receivecl from one of the pason December 26. It was a c1ecided improvement tors on the Alabama field t he following letter: 'Jn over the 1921 program. l\Iuch praise was heai·d the Book of the Prophet lsninh we rend: :My Worcl from the large audience. One of the most delightful has gone ou t nncl shn ll uot return nntd i\lc void! parts was the beautiful song rendered by li ttle Miss 'l'his prophecy has been fulfilled h ere in - - , as Dollie Roberts, of St. Lo1tis. Springfield .is looking well as in mnny other places in the Black Belt. 'l'hc forward to another visit f rom her. 'l'he c\inlog given _ Gospel truths which yon and .others taught U n cle by the ten little"girls of our Sunday-school was very - - have melted this old uncle's stubborn heart, unique, and little Emerson Conover's recitation in nncl he is now a member of our Ll1theran C.hurch. his lisping baby voice was sweet. As a last, but not To-clay, a:Cter J had visited his aged wife, he asked least, feature we would mention the clistribnt ion of me ,~hethcr L would please receive hjm into men1.bership of om Lutheran Church. I clicl so, of gifts and goodies. course.

He asked me to w1·ite you to-night nud let .At six o'clock on Christmas morning the main you know t he good news. I trust you will be .able lesth·nl service WllS held. J3cfore the S(ll"\'iCC the soon to visit U 11clc - - , ancl let l1im tell you ,,,)mt congregation sang "Joy to the World" out on the ch'urch-steps. '!'he quietness, the clnrkness, and the instruction givc11 him hns clone for him. He the twinkling stars made a beautiiul setting for the was born during slavery clays. He is now eighty-six · singing o:C this hymn, through which the congrega- ycurs old, having been born, JtJne 18, 1836.'' 'l'he tion thus gn,•e expression to its joy over the birth old uncle here referred to fought against t he t rut h 1 of the Savior. Professor Engclcler preached the ser- f01 four years. But now he has surrendered his heart to Jesus, the Savior of sinners. We saw him mon on this morning. It was a sen·ice long tq be since we received the above letter from him, ancl he remembered.

After much thorough and painstaking preJ>ara- tolcl us: "I'm sure happy now, f or I'm leaning on tion the weekly en\'clope system o! contributing to Jesus.'' - G. 1L. B. A HAnv,~s·r DAY AT HoLY AnK, ALA. - 'l'he the support of the church was introduced in Grace and Holy 'l'rinity congregations 011 December 10, fourth day of February was n clay of rejoicing for and December 17, 1922, respectively. On these days our congregation at Iloly Ark. That clay had been

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_T he Lut h e ran Pioneer. set a ·idc for a special scn ·ice. \\ hen we left , elma a henry rain was foll i11g. 1l'ltc moi. tu rc-lnclcn air' ~1cnctratccl to the bo11c. ']'he roads were muddy.

J3ut to our joy for ty-Lwo people a Lt.cnclccl the service, notwith ·tancli ng tho fact that the weather was wori:e than at any other time this winter. One woman walked two miles bring ing with her three chilclrcn to be confi rmed ancl the smaller ones to be bap tized. \ case o.f love .for t he ':wior nncl His Word.

•'L'hc entire <lay wn spent in our little builcl inaOJ wl11ch sct·,·es ai; school nn<l clrnpcl. A special offe ring wa. lHtccl fo r a new building, which is badly needed nt t hi p lace. The collection n11101111tetl t~i $28. 3. Thi liltlc cong regation al. o pay · $,5 townrcl the pastor· · salary each mo1Jth. A ftcr t he sen ·i ·c we cl rove our :E'orcl orcr two mil e. ol' lum ber trai l through the clarku~ss and the clri,·ing rain to baptize a sick boy. ln thi home, the home of' one of our newly onfirmccl members, five children we re bapt ized by us that CYCn ing.

'•L'hi · little scn ·icc o,·cr, ,we hcaclecl our :Forcl town.rel Selnrn, haring been able to ncld fiftce11 souls to t he Church, and being again co11\'incecl t hat there arc in th is world people whose lo,·c :fo t· God's house will C'nu:c them to walk t hrough colcl nncl rain to hear t he mcsi::age of t he Word. - G. 1l. S. AJ,ADAlCA' s ANNUAL u,~1•011T. - '!'he Superintendent reports that the church attcnclancc show. qui te an improvement fo1· 1023, t hough there is still an opportunity for improvemcu t. '~he a,·erngc attendance every Sunday in 1922 ior the whole field was 638. 'l'hc average Sunday-school attendance for 1922 was 538. 'l'he attendance at the Lord's 'l 'able is a pretty safe indication of the spiritual life of a church. Such being the case, our Colored Christians in Alabama g ive us cause to rejoice, for · the 5'l0 communicant members of om· Colored cong,:egntions in that State attcnclecl the Lord's 'l'able in 1922 no less tlmn 1,536 times. The finauciol goal which these mission-churches set f or Inst year was $3,000. Because _of the general poverty of the people of the Black Belt, men acquainted with conditions we1·e afraid thnt the mm:k Imel been set too high. However, the total contributions in the field f01: last year amounted to no less than $3,525.03.

'1'hcsc earnest Christians have set the goal at the $4:,000 mark for 1923. During the yem· Hl22, ~32 baptized members were nclded to the Yarious missionchurches of this field. 'l'he Alnbnma Sunday-school enrolment is 1,031 ; the clay-school enrolment, 79.~. 'l'he twenty-nine laborers i11 the field, pastors ancl

teachers maclc 5,971 ,·i it · in 1!)22, and the nine pa tors prcachccl !)0 times clmi ng the same period. 'l'i~,, ou 1m ·' 'l1 RAt}-;1xc.-. 'cnooL. 'L'hi_ new insti lution has an enrolment of nine student ·. 'l'he rented tlwclling i f ull to capacity.

A 1mmbcr of the 'oJorccl congregation. ha,·c sent l'ood su1~plic; r~r the chool, and th is has helped g reatly Ill kccpuw rlown t he mnni11g expenses 'oI the in. Lit ution. A fric ncl of the school recently presented (hi in. lit.ution with a ~cwing-machine.

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J u1111,i;E ' c:11nc 1-: A'l' Pos UlC Bmrn. On Fcbrnary 11 t he congregation a t t his place eel-' cbrntecl the fifth anni,·crsnry of its organization. pon the occasion a neat sum was raised by the ·clcbraLing congregation for it chapel fund. l3nnrr~GI L\ :"IL. - A year ago work at this place was discont inued, but it bas been resumed. The fir t cn°ice wa well attended an\l gh·es promise of iucrcasing attendance, which, no cloubt, will mater ialize on ce it i known that the work has again been taken up.

.Mou11,E. - For t he past two years monthly ser,·ices wct·c held in this city in the school of Pastor Hennig's white r.011grcgatio11, which was kindly put nt t he disposal of our Colored Christians. Now, howe,·cr, a house has been 1·cntecl fot· the work, and a S unday-school has been organized.

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Colored Mission Statistics for 1922.

For sevet·al yem·s past the Dii-cctor of Colored :Missions, Rev. C. F. Drewes, has carefully compiled the statistics of om· Negro l\Iissiou at the end of the yeni- nnc1 in this "'ay gh•eu us all an opportunity to note t he progress of this blessed mi~sionm·y enterprise o.f the •Synoclical Conf!!rence.

'1.' he statistical report of our CQlorecl Missions 'l'or the year 1922, as given in the February number, g ives much cause for thought ancl thanksgiving.

Compared with the previous year, n clecicled p1·ogress is to be rccorclecl in pmcticall5• every phase of the work. Herc are the totals as gh•en for 1922 compared with 1921: Pastors, 30 (gain of 4); congregations ancl pr_e aching-places, 57 (gain of 1) ; baptizecl members, 3,705 (gain, 252); conununi-' cunt membe1·s, 2,105 (gain, 126) ; day-schools, 38 (gain, 3); clay-school pupils, 2,684 (gain, 34); Suuclny-school pupils, 2,729 (gain, 149). In the course o[ the year our pastors bnptizecl 246 persons

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(gain of 79); and 251 persons (gnin o.f 60) were confirmed during the same period. 'rhe number of comumnicn-nts increased from 4,322 in 1921 to 4,S11 in 1922.

W11iJc the ordinary contributions of om Negro Christians show an increase of about sh: thousancl dollars, the total apparently shows that there hns been a decrease of tbnt amount; but this is due to the fact that in the total of 1921 are included the lcn-ncics of Ellen Bransford nnd Leah Jones, which n;gi·cgatcd oYer iwelve thousand dollars.* This sfoady increase in the contributions of our Colored members is truly most commendable. It plainly shows that they nre striving hard to become selfsupporting, even as they ha, e gone a grent way in makinothe Colored Lutheran Churcli in our couno . t.ry a self-propagating body. God bless them rn their work and permit them to attain the goal they arc striving to reach. 'l'o every earnest Lutheran the large enrolment of most of our mission day-schools must be a cause for satisfaction. Mount Zion, St. Paul, and Bethlehem in Ne,v Orleans each boast nu emolment of over 200, nud Pastor Fuller's school in·Spartanburg has no less than 175 pupils on its rolls. 'rhc steady increase in ·the Sunday-school attendance is also a n-ratifvincr sirn since it shows that f.rom year• to 0 JO OJ •• , ,,ear o. lm•aer number of children are 1dentifymg ., 0 themselves with the Lutheran Church; for experience has taught the writer that, )when once tl~c Ncaro child attends the Lutheran Su'nday-school, 1t rcg~rds the Lutheran Church as its church and will become a communicant member in due time.

That In1manucl College, Greensboro, has practically as many students this yea1· as in the previous year was to us a most agreeable surprise, since the Board had not been able to provide those necessities that the students had felt would be forthcominn, because they seemed so very indispensable, such 0 as a girls' dormitory, not to mention anything else.

Equally gratifying is the fine showing that Luther College makes with its enrolment, despite the fact that its faculty is working under great difficulties and is greatly handicapped by lack of room and necessary facilities. In both our colleges some of the barest necessities m·e lacking, to the great annoyance ,of the teachers and students and the possibly permanent injury of the institutions.

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• (:Moreover, owing to o. mistake, Grace Church in St. Louis waa not credited with $434.22. Its total con• trlhutions were $1,281.04. - 0. F. D.)

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Items of Missionary Interest. i'\IouN'l' PLE ASA N'.r, N. C. - Ou F ebruary 4 the wife of the Rev. C. TI. March presented her hu b:m tl wi th a fine, hcalU1y baby boy. 1\ t la t report: mo ther :md child were doing well.

AN I N '£1HJCTl VE 'l'AllLE 0 1' 'l 'A'J?l. '.l'ICS. - 'J'hc U1lited Steward. hip Council reccnUy published a number of tnbJes showing what l;hc various Protc ta nt clcnominations clid in the year l!J21 by way of mission ancl congregation coniributions. Rev. Drewes, Supcrintcuclcnt of our olorcd l\fi ion ·, ha studied the c tables and from them has compiled ' Lhc ioUowi ng tnblc, which shows what t he variou. bodies comprising ou1· Lnthernn , ynodical Conference did in 1921 for mission.-, bc11cvolenccs, nncl co11.,.rcgatio11nl cxpcn'<cs : ,111cro(Jc OT111rc1t-Botl y.

Our Colored MiRsions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~lissouri Synod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , lovuk Synod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Wisconsin Synod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~orwcgian Synod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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J ust stop nud think, dear rcade1· ! Our Colored Christians head the list! Om· Colored Cini -tians, . who arc surely not to be cla scd nmong those who c income is very large, actually smpass nil the white synods of the Synodical Conference in their average contributions. Were the S25,090 communicant members o.f our white congregations to increase their indiviclual contributions so that they would equaL the average contributions of our Negro Ch1·istians, it would mean an increase in the total mission nnd congregational contributions o:f om Synodical Conference of almost $2,000,000 ! If this vast sum were devoted to increase our missionary activities, it would practically mean the doubling of our present efforts.

RocKS, N. C. - Rev. F. H. Foard reports that on December 16, 1922, Mr. Sandy Holmes, an olcl member of Mount Zion Congregation in Rocks, N. C., was stricken with paralysis and passed away in peace. - 0. F. D. ' • Nmv ORLEANS, LA. - . Teacher D. l\foibohm, who has faithfully and successfully discharged the duties of a Christian teacher in Mount Zion School for nigh unto thirty years, has been obliged by advancin o- age and poor health to tender his 1·esigno.tion t; our Board for Colored Missions. At its regular meeting on .February 15 the Board regr~tfu)ly accepted his resignation. Let us all, pa1·t1cularly those to whom this good and faithful servant

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The L nthc1·:..1,n Pioneer. of the Lo1·d has shown the way of life, pmy that onr Father in heaven would make life's evening for him most pleasant. - 0. F . D.

L u·.rHER,\N WOl\IEN's i\IrssIONARY ocrnTms. 'l 'he various women's missionary societies of the Uni tecl Lutheran Church (Merger ) set out four yca1·s ago to raise funds for an enlarged mis ionary p rog ram. Dmi11g the Jirst two years of their work they m ised $261,000. 'l'his encouraged Lhcm to set their goal somewhat h igher for the ncxL two yen.rs.

N ow, at the biennial meeting, held not very long ngo in Pittsbmgh, they reported that t hey had ri1iscd the sum of $~50,000, which is $150,000 in excess of what they had expected to raise. Could not we of the Synodical Conference encourage more than we do the organization of women's missiona1·y ocicLics among us?

A i\IISSION SOCIETY'S CENTENARY. - On November •.I:, 1922, the Paris Missionary Society was a!Jlc to look back upon a hundred years of service. 'l'hc chief mission-fields of the society arc in Africa, on Madagascar and on the mainland. 'l'his mission sbciety is one of the most successful on the European continent. · T 1rn Sou·.rHERN B,u>TISTS ,\:ND MISSIONS. 'l'hc Southern Baptists, through their Fo1·eign :Mission Board annually spend the sum of $2,500,000.

Of this sum about $500,000 is contributed by native Clll'istians in the field. The Home l\Ussion Board of the same church-body annually spends about $1,500,000 and employs almost 2,000 missionaries. 'l'he church-building fund which this bo:frcl controls has assets amounting to over $1,000,000. ( GnRl\LAN M:IssroNs IN HUNAN, CHINA. - The Gc1·man Liebenzeller Mission has a long chain of stations in t he central province of Hunan. The progress in t his field has been gratifying especially since 1916. Since that date the number of outstations has increased from 12 to 55 and the munher of congregations from 24 to ~2., JEWS IN THE UNITED ST,\TES. - There a.1·e 3,900,000 Jews in this country, of whom 1~750,000 are in New York City, whlch is by far the largest Jewish center in the w·orld. There are 160 other cities in the United States with a Jewish population o:ll from 1,000 tQ 300,000. · , LUTHERANS IN EAST AFRJC~\. - Befo1·e the Worlcl War the Luthemn Leipzig Mission was doing very successful mission-work in East Africa. During the war this work was continued with the help of the Iowa Synod. During the 'first half of last \

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year the National Lutheran Council maintained the work. But now the Aug ustana Synod has ta.ken over the whole work, and new forces are being recr uited in .Ame1·ica f or the field. '!'he field in Kilimanjaro, this year, will be under the direction of eight ordab1ed aud two unordained missionaries, besides one womnn mis ion ai·y.

Gooo NEWS FROl\( Aus-rRALtA. - '!'he Rev. Ernest L\ppelt, one of the District Presidents in Au tralia, writes about his District as follows : " Our District is au enormous Djstrict with respect Lo area, but very small as regards parjshes: It is now two and one half years since I left the Koonibba Mission to take over the Trungley Hall parish. 'l'here were only two other ministers in the District at the time. . . . Now we have si.\'. ministe1·s here, and good headway is being made. Two yem-s ago ihe contributions for college, missions, and otlier synodical ti·easuries were £150 ($750). Last year the total was £690 ($3,450), and this year [1922], up to August 1, £950, which, we hope will climb to £1,200 ($6,000) by December 31. That is fair I prog1·ess, considering that we have only 927 communicant members and only three self-supporting parishes. . . . The collections at mission-festivals are generally fair. The last one held at Jindera, where we have 139 communicants, but no wealthy members, realized £76 ($380). The preceding one was spoiled by rain. It poured ince'Ssantly from the evening before till the morning after the festival and not even all the families belonging to the local congregation could be present. Still the collection amounted to £56 ($280)."

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- Methodist women spent more last year on cosmetics than they cont1·ibuted to home mission funds, mite boxes, and other missionary causes, according to l\f rs. Dan B. Brummitt, Chicago, national field secretary of the Women's Home Missionary Society: speaking at the eighth annual meeting of the Newark Confe1·ence branch of the as.sociation at' Newark. Mrs. Brummitt estimated that Methoclist women had spent $30,000,000 for the various articles that go 1mder the head of cosmetics.

Mil10aukcc Journa.l.

LAURIUM, MICH. - "Mrs. Mattiebelle Polk Jackson, daughter of Mr. Edmond Polk and Mrs. Phillis Louis Polk, born July 13, 1886, in Shrevepoi·t, La., baptizecl January 31, 1923, in the Calumet Public Hospital, Laurium. Mrs. Jackson is of negro parentage and had never belonged to any church."

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En tered ns !'ccuntl-clus~ mutter nt the Post Office nt , t. Louil<. :\lo., uml~r the Ac t of ::'tlnrch 3, lSiO. Accc pltlt1ce (or mnlllug nl s pcclnl rnte or pos tns;e pro,·ltlctl for In section l 103, Act or October 3, JOli, itnthorlzctl on July u, 1018.

ST. LOUIS, MO., APRIL, 1923.

Vol. XLV.

No.4.

OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY MOTTO. "The more religion we export, the more we shall have."

Unchanged.

Jcho\"ah' wnys nre ulways 1·ight., On Him !''e will rely ; For though at time we wnlk lhroug11 night , Bis grace revives our joy. '.ro trnst 1md heed Ris holy Word Is ,,•ondcr[ul, forsoot.h; Great is the mercy of the Lord, Unchanged abide.~ His truth.

B. O.

Our Jubilee Collection.

Several times dm-ing the past months, iTiends o.f om Colored Missions have asked me how the Jubilee Collection had turned out. All these inquiries came from places where old and young had faithfully triecl to make the collection a success. l\[y answer to these inquiries invariably wns that. I uicl not kno,,,. Of com-sc, I might ha\'c asked 'l'rcasurer Sclmcttncr or Director D1·cwcs £or particulars us to lite amount that has been collected, but I was tifra·i d, yes, really, I WAS AFRAID. And now lhn.t I have hem·d froJn the Bo01·d that the net proceeds o:f the JuQilee Collection a.mount ,to only $28,000, I see that my worst presentiments and [cnrs have been realized. Oh, how arc those among us that have turned a dc~f ear to nll the pleadings of the Board for assistance in carrying ont the missionary program iltal Goel lias given tis lo do, I say, how are they ever going to clear themsehres?

Only $28,000 ! 1\'Iore tba.n $100,000 short of what

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is needed in order to be able to accomplish what should be done at once!

God is daily gi\'ing us plain indications that He is willing to honor us by asking us to be His helpers; but, alas! ,vc do not seem to appreciate the great honor He would bestow upon us.

Om men and women in the field are willing to bring almost every conceinble sacrifice in the service o:f the Lord, but we cio not seem willing to give them even a word 01· token of cheer and encouragement. Some of om missionaries nre doing the work of two or three ordinary men, and some of our lady teachers have four and five times the number of children that most teachers are expected to teach, and we apparently appreciate their unselfish labo1·s nnd arc lmwilljng to relieve them of a part of their load. · Owr missionaries are down in the South working fo1·. us. 'rheir insistent cry is: "Send ns men · nnd money; we will do· the work." But we arc scmling few men nnd \'cry little money, and let these heroic work-crs try to clo with their limited man-power nnd small :financial resources what really requires far more laborers and far more money. "orry because of the work that they arc obliged to len.ve undone is eating out the hearts o.f these faithful workers. They cannot understand how we, who know of the crying needs in the field and have the means to supply these needs, can be so indifferent to it all.

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The Lutheran. Pioneer.

Director of our Colored :Missions wrote to me the other day that he had told several of the worke1·s: ''If you don't let up on your work, we'll reduce your salary !" And of another worker he says : ''When he heard of S.'s work in Alabama, he. volunteer<!d to spend his ne:\.-t summer's vacation in the Blaclt'Belt and help him." Is not this a fine spirit that is filling our missionaries? But should we permit them to be th~ only ones that are burning ,vith a zeal for the salvation of the freedmen? Is not the command to bring the Gospel to every creature spoken to us just as well as to them?

Let me relate to you a little incident that occurred a few weeks ago. Perhaps your hearing of it will prompt you to do a similar thing. A lady of our church some weeks ago came to me and said: "Pastor, how much will it cost to keep a native mission-worker in India for a year?" I answered : "About $75. But why do you ask?" Her answer was: "I have beeii. thinking for some time that I should like to have somebody over there in India teaching the poor heathen for me. God has blessed me with health and my husband in his business, and I should like to show my gratitude to God by paying the salary of a native worker." Now, wasn't that fine? Who will show his gratitude to God for His favors in a simiJar way? There is so much opportunity to do so in our Colored Missions.

dition and then pointed to the blood of Jesus Christ, which can cleanse him from all his sins.

Back from 'the 1·oad, in a. little clearing, "live two men'lbcrs of Mount Cnrmel Colored Luthemn Church. Both "Uncle" Edmund and "Aunt" Fnnny arc good old souls. '!'heir home is a miserable one-room hut, rotten with nge. To keep the cold out in winter, newspapers and pages out of mnil order catalogs have been pasted over the cracks between the boards which serve as outside and inside wall. The chimney is a tumble-down affair. And the 1·oof is a. sieve, drenching the people living under it, so that they often staml up all night before the fire to dry thei_r clothes as fast ns they get wet. But "Uncle" Edmund ond "A.uut'' Fanny are all smiles

Wnke Israel from bis sleep, 0 Lord, And spread the conquest of Tliy Word!

F.J.L.

A Question from the Black Belt: Does It Pay? It is a hot day, althQugh only April. After the long winter rains all nature is rejoicing in the warm sunshfue, having put on the sp:i;ing dress of green grass and leaves, decorated with an abundance of flowers. The missionary, having just crossed the Alabama River, stops his "Gospel Ford"· in front of a one-room dwelling- "shanty," you would say.

He enters the uninviting house. It is hot outside, but inside the heat is stifling. On a filthy mattress, trying to ward off the flies that persist in pestering his face and hands, lies an old Negro. A short time before he had suffered a paralytic stroke. His daughter, forsaken by her husband, takes care of her suffering father as best she can. The :missionary steps close to the bed, anc1, after a few remarks, proceeds to· tell him a .Gospel-verse. In simple words "uncle" is told of his sinful and lost con-

Rev. E. A . Westcott.

when the missio11a1·y drives up in his car. Gladly they drop their wo1·k, eagerly they listen to a. Gospelstory or a psalm. With many a nod and exclnmation they register their thankfulness and joy. '"!'hat's right, feed yom sheep!" ",4unt" Fanny says. to the missionary as he is taking leave of the olcl couple.

Again we step into a cabin. Quietly the room fills with Negroes, young and old. The two missiona1·ies are crowded almost into the fireplace.

Before them is a sewing-machine, serving •as pulpit and altar. Attentively all listen to the sermons.

And then 21 adults are confirmed as members o'f the Lutheran Church, having confessed their faith in Jesus, their Savior, while 11 children are baptized into the name of the Triune God. Think af it - 32 people who a few months ago knew nothing about being saved by faith in Jesus' blood and

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T he L uthert.1.11. P ioneer. righteousness, who formerly would rather have let their children go t hr ough :fu-e than have them baptized!

It has been 1·aining for some days. 'l 'he 1·oads are in a bad condition. And t he river is repor ted as having gone " over t he top." Since it is Sunday and the skies have cleared a bit, the missionary sets out for his congregation, :fifty-four m iles distant.

About half a mile from the river he fmds the roads under water for several hundred yards. Turning back is out o.f the question. "Let's go !" is the slogan. So a member who lives near by is asked to 1·ide tluough the water. It 1·eaches over the knees of the animal, but the missionary risks life and car.

Into the gurgling fluid he noses the Ford, and ..,a lthough the engine coughed, it b1·ought him safely to dry land. Farther down the road he encounters more water. Here his car slips off into the ditch. .c othing to do but pull off shoes and socks, 1·011 up trousers, and in the mud and water use jack and chains to get out of a "tight." Such are his experiences the rest o·f the day, unt il finally, having taught Sunday-school, delive1·ed a catechizat ion, and conducted two services, he reaches home completely fagged out.

And now the question, Does it pay ? Does it pay to give your money for such pmposes ? Does it pay your missiona1-y to bring to J esus a man down on h~s s!ck-bcd, who has been discarded by the Baptist "church" he once belonged to because he no longer could pay his " dues"? Does it pay you to send missionaries to feed t he souls of such people a~ "Aunt" F anny and "Uncle" Edmund?

Does it pay you to make sacrifices in order that 32 people grop_in_z about in .sin and darkness may come to faith fo J esus? Does it pay you to send men in your place to carry the Gospel through wind, and water, and rain, and mud to hungry souls? 'l'here can be only one answer: It docs pay to invest my money in Negro Missions, for it brings the dividends of precious blood-bought souls saved , ·through faith. Or would you rather invest ( ?) your money in "wild-cat'' oil stocks and the like?

If not then let not the constant appeals for help pass y~u by unheeded. Give! Make a sacrifice, even though thereby you may have to wait ~ little longer· for that suit or hat, for that new Victrola record for that automobile tire. Give, and know that it pays to glve ; "for the Lord Z011oth a cheerful giver."

E. A. WESTCOTT.

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A Few Days' Work.

Several days ago t he Editor received a letter from P astor Drewes, t he Director of our Colored Missions. In this letter he speaks of the work that is being done by the workers, pastors and teachers, and 1·efers to them as "a band of heroic and faithful men and women." 'l'o give the Editor an idea of the work accomplished by one of these laborers in a few days, the Director describes a trip that he took in his company. While we have not the formal permission of Director Drewes to publish extracts from his most interesting letter, we feel that we shall not be guilty of an indiscreet act if we give our readers a few exce1·pts, prov'ided we respect the great modesty of the }Y'Orkers concerned by not using their names. Here follows what Rev. Drewes has to say about the work of one of t he laborers : "S. is more than overworked. Let me give you a little insight into his work. I can do it best, perhaps, by briefly describing my recent trip in his company. I arrived at Vredenburgh sawmill, in Monroe County, on Tuesday night when it was getting dark. S. had told me in New Orleans that he would have some one there to meet me, because he would have to be at Buena Vista for services ( eight miles distant). After waiting fifteen minutes, I E. B. in his Ford. His wife and sister.-in-law were with hii_n. They had come down from Tilden, a distance of thirty-two miles. From Vredenburgh we rode to Tinela. The road was very bad. At one place the bridg~ had been washed away by the high water. I crawled across the dilapidated bridge in the darkness. When we arrived at the new chapel in Tinela, after a. ride of eight miles, K. had started the service. After the sermon by K. I also delivered a. sermon, on 'sin-offering,' and then reported on our work. After sel'Vices, we went to McCants' (postoffice, general store), where S. met us at 11 P. ll.

He had come from Buena Vista, sixteen miles away.

Mccants' is the stopping-place of S. and K. - bed and good breakfast, 75 cents. The next morning we attended the school at Tinela, which is taught

by Mrs. Mary Bradford. Took some pictures. On the way to Longmilc -=- oh, the miserable roads! we stopped to take dinner at Cammie Jackson's.

The distance from Tinela to Longmile is about ten miles. At Longmile we spent some time in Miss Anne Mae McBryde's school, an old log cabin. We had supper at Simon Bodley's and then held services· in the old schoolhouse. The services were very well THE army of Christ must advance upon its knees. attended. S. and I preached, and after the sermons

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The Lu.tb'.e ran Pioneer.

I also reported on our missions. 'rhe services over, we started for Selma, sixty miles distant. Again abominable roads most of the way. But the last fen miles were good, and S. made the Ford go as fast ns the wheels would turn. We 1·eached Sehna at 12.30 A. ll. A cup of coffee at the Dixie Restaurant; a short stop at the post-office; a few minutes' chat at the :fireplace in the lodging-place of S. and K., and we turucd in at 2 A. 11c. in the K.-and-S. room and slept together.

"On Thursday forenoon we visited the •renchcrs' 'l'rnining-school, where S. gives several Catechism lessons a week to a number of students who wish to join the Church. Before dinner we paid a short ··a:

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After supper at Smith's cabin, we repahed to the church and school, which arc housed in a private Negro school-building. l\Irs. J ulia Abrams, of Oak Hill, teaches the school at this place. A bell consisting of par ts of a steel rail calls the people to services. I n ihc sen.ices S. and I preached. After . the services we ate a lunch at the pulpit table to strengthen the "inner man ' for the strenuous jom·ncy back to Selma. Not a living soul did we sec on the whole long way back I Upon our an ival at Selma we took a cup of coffee at the depot rcstaumnt and then went to S.'s lodging-place, where J,e · and K. wrapped the 1\Iarch munber of the Ool01·cd Lut hc1'an till 2.30 A. i.r. We retired at 3 A. i.e. . -

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Sooted (lert to right) : llfrs. Nettle l'iroorc, teacher; lih·lc D:ile, ll[ary BocJey, Carrie Gullett, • 1~mnm Dukes, Pror. Otho l,y1111.

Stnmllng (left to right) : .Julh1 Jenkins, Grnce Smltl.!z Gertrude llfcBrytlc, Fnnnle Jtnrus cy, Cnrrle Stallworth, Irma uulnuey.

visit to the mission-,school in East Selma. After taking our dinner at a restaurant, we returned to the East Seb;na mission-school, where S. gives several Catechism lessons a ,veek to the upper .,grades, in which are a number of pupils he expects ~ confirm in due time . . In the aftemoon we started for Holy Ark, which is thirty-five miles northeast of Selma. The first ten miles were good, but when we turned off the main road, we struck the worst ·road I ever saw in my life. Never before have I traveled on such a rough, winding, desolate road as the one to Holy Ark; washout to the right and · to the left at places that -were over a hundred feet deep and a quarter of a mile long; long stretches of deep sand alternating with deep, miry swnmps, etc.

"On Friday morning we looked at several building sites for the Teachers' Training-school. On the way S. complained to me that he had not found time to mail out the salary checks to the missionworkers nor to take a bath. S. and K. go to Mobile and Birmingham once a mouth. On the other Sundays. of the month S'. clrives 100 to 150 miles to preach at two or tlll'ce stations. In between he writes for, and edits, the Oolorecl wtlieran, looks over the monthly and the quarterly reports from fifteen schools and eighteen mission-stations, and worries over the perplexing problem how to get time to visit places from which calls have come fo1· Lutheran services, in some cases for several yen.rs, in vain." · ·

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After writing the above, we received a letter forward. 'l'hc contributions of many were astonishthat contained the follo,,,ing paragraph. From ing. 'l'hc make-up or the gifts plainly showed that these lines our readers can easily see that our mis- the childl'cn themselves had saved the money which sionaries arn not "resting on ro y beds of case." lhey ga,·e. But it 1·emainecl for the little boy whose Herc is the paragraph in :eoint : 'L. is more than picture i shown on this page to create the biggest a writer; he is quilc an adept in 110uticnl o.rls. urprise. His name i 'R. Ct Ivory. Yes, "R. C.," La t 11ight, or rather this mor.ning, aftct· two holll's ju t that; is bi given name. He is seve.n years old of futil e effort, he : uccecdecl in land ing the fcrry- and cntcrccl om day-school ln t September. As he boaL 0 11 which we tried to cros the Alaba ma River. bl'ought his o(tcring to lhc front, he said: ''lly I lc(t 'clma with him yesterday morning. l:Jad an cm·clopc warn t big enough!" In his hand he carnnuivcr ary crvicc at Longmilc · another amli- ried a cloth sack which he had brought in place of vcrsary crvicc at Po ·sum Bcncl; then ded icated his offering envelope. 'l'his sack, filled with pennies a bell at 'l'incla.. 'l'hr c servi , held miles apart and nickel , was found to- contain $1.561 - Ernn nt place. Lhat could ouly be reached over bacl roads I little children may be ta ught to give for Jesus!

1\(ter rolling, rattling and shaking in a Ford" for 125 m iles. we reached the Alabama River nt midnight. As stated above, it took us two hom to lnncl the ferry-boat, and we finally reached Selma at fh·c in the morning, more dcacl than alive."

F .J.L.

Zeal. 'l'hc renders of our missionary .papers have tmdoubtedly noticed the splendid increases during the Inst few years in the contribut ions of the members of our Colored congregation . 'l'he zeal wh ich has made these _increases possible is strikingly exemplified by the incidents described below. 'l'hc writer has made it a practise in Jiis work not only to remind our gro,m Christians of the duty of giving, but to give also the Jittlc folks entrusted to his spiritual care pecial opportunities to contribute fo1· the Savior's cause. Se,•cral times a year we distribute envelopes among the chilchcn enrolled in om mission day- and Suuclay-school in St. Louis and suggest to the little folks to make a. special offering to the Lorc1. The c spQcial collections usually net about $15.

Shortly before the Inst Christmas season, envelopes were nga.in passed out among the children with the reminder that the Son of God was born a little chilcl to save all people f rom tbeir sins, and the suggestion wns mncle to these little folks to show t~1cir love £01· J csus by making a. special Christmasoriering. 'rI1cy were ndvised not to go immediately to their parents to help them make their offerings, but first to try to fill their envelopes from their own savings or from money earned by running errands, etc.

Sunday before Christmas, after the Sundayschool service, the children brought their envelopes

The Little :Boy with the Lllrge Gift.

'i'his calls to mind another incident. On Christmas morning the dime-banks were opened which the adult members and a few children of om- congregation in St. Louis h,wc. 'l'he money received in these banks, which arc opened four times each year, is appli$?d to a fund for the erection of a new chapel.

Each bank is· supposed to hold about $5. Of the many banks turned in one was bound together with ' twine. It belonged' to one of the adult members.

So large was the number of di~1es put into this bank that the catch-lock was broken. The broken bank was found to conta.in $6.40 I Gladly ,vould ,ve supply a new bank at each opening to a person whose container was b1·okcn by the multitude of his gifts. Gladly would we do this, if for no other 1·cason thnn si'mply to maintain that zeal for giving. 'l'he1·c are a nmnber of our people both in

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St. Louis and Springfield whose bank contributions usually range between four and five dollars at each opening. 'l'hese incidents show again that where the Gospel is brought, there hearts are turned to the Savior in faith and love. May these incidents serve as enmples for us, inducing us to fill the Lord's mission-coffers to more than capacity, - to bulging!

- so that mo.ny more blood-bought souls may be rescued from the power of darkness and brought to the Savior's bosom!

HERBERT C. Cuus.

'l'hc smile of that little boy not only did some jumping in L idderdale, but it has been jumping to other places. It jumped to the face of the 1mdersigned, and will also jump to the faces of those whom the gift helps.

May many of our readers catch the spirit o.f this boy, a spirit which will make us willing to lay down in sacrifice at the feet o.f our Savior the gifts that are needed in the building of our Lutheran Zion, in bringii1g the saving Gospel to blood-bought souls.

G. A. Sc1n1ro·.r.

A Letter from Lidderdale, Iowa.

For Those Interested in Mission-Schools.

The undersigned just received the following letter from Lidderdale, Iowa : -

Mount Zion School is the oldest Colored school we have in New Orleans. 'l'he beginnings of t his school go back to the days of the old " Sailors' Home," out on the ri\7er front. 'l'his is the school that Messrs. Vix and Meibohm made famous throughout the Colored population of New Orleans. Mr. Vix taught in this school for almost fo1·ty years, and Mr. Meibohm spent about thirty years of his life in teaching the intermediate grades of this institution. Mount Zion School has an enrolment of about 250 pupils, who are taught by Mr. Sch1·oeder, Pastor Beck, and Miss Ethel Johnson. Here is a description of Miss Johnson's room that will be encouraging and also discouraging to the friends of our Colored Missions: "She has four classes - chart, C, B, and A. Her enrolment was 145 some time ago. We urged her to reduce the number of pupils. Now she has 127 on the roll. Eighty-two of these were p1·esent on the Monday motniitg when we visited her class.

The day was gloomy, and it soon began to rain.

The desks in her room a1·e double desks. However, I counted no less tho.n sixteen desks in which tlu·ee pupils were seated. Miss Johnson told me that she has had as many as 124 childr.en present - four children in most of the seats, and one pupil occupying the teacher's chair ! Every available inch in the room is being used. The re.a r desks are close up to the wall. When I entered the room, I saw three children at each rear desk, sitting, kneeling, or standing up, and doing arithmetic work on the rear blackboard. In one corner of the room there is an old square piano, and on it were pile_d the wraps and hats of the pupils. On either end of the piano sat a large girl figuring on the blackboard. Oh, that we had more room in Mount Zion SchooZI At the noon hour three new pupils were standing

DEAR BROTHER: -

Shortly after four o'clock yesterday aftemoop, when I was sitting in my study and had finished reading about half· of your article in the Ooncord~a Junior Messenger, one of our schoolboys, who 1s also a member of my confirmation class, rapped at the door.

Opening the door, I immediately noticed that he had an unusually broad smile on his :face. Ergo - he must be glad to come to me at this time. He was. He promptly handed me a five-dollar bill, saying: ''I want to give this to the poor." I said to him: "Have you any pa1·ticular poor in mind to whom I am to send this gift?" I was pleased to hear his ans,ver: "I read that long letter in the Junior Messenger last night, and would like to give this five-dollar bill to the poor Negroes in Alabama."

Say, that made me glad, and I believe the smile on his face jumped across to mine. Rather pleasantly D:Stonished, and not thinking of anything better to say, I asked: ''Why, Ottomar, ho,v did you get so much money for this good purpose?" His smile grew broader as he said : "I raised a f cw geese last summer an'd sold them now. But when I read that •lett.er in the Junior Messenger, I thought I would give the money _to the poor Negro_es in Alabama."

That pleased me still more. I realized that the boy not only gave in the right spirit, but . had also brought a real sacrince.

The little donor is Master Ottomar Fricke.

May the Lord, our Savior, bless both you and your work in Alabama !

Yours, H. P. SOHmDT.

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Items of Missionary Interest.

AN hIPORTANT CONFERENCE. - The President of the Board for Colored Missions, Prof. G. Mezger, and the Director of Colored Missions, Rev. C. F. D1·ewes, held a Yery important conference with representatives of Luther College, Immanuel Lutheran College, and the Alabama 'reachers' Training-school at New Orleans last month. The conference extended over two whole clays, and matters of vital importance ,verc . discussed. 'l'RANSFERS 0 1/' WORKERS IN THE COLORED FIELD. Rev. W. F. Carlson, who has had charge of our churches at Greem•ille ancl Monroe, N. C., is to be transferred. to Alabama, where he is to take cha1·ge of the former · congregations of Professor Lynn.

Rev. Frank Alston will be requested to take over the former congregations o.f Pastor Carlson: He will be in cha1·ge of four churches. 'l'EACl:IER ARTHUn BERGER A.ND WIFE have been enriched by the advent of a little Ruby into their family on February 14.

CHICAGO, ILL. - Information reaches us that M1·s. Carter, the wife of Missionary CartC.l', is seriously ill. May the heavenly Fathe1· strengthen her in body and soul !

SAD NEWS. - It has pleased Almighty God to send sudden sadness into the home of Pastor Lankenau, the editor of the PIONEER. His Son Arthur was killed in an autom~bile accident on February 24, in Toledo, O. A street-car ran into his auto, killing him instantly. The departed was twenty-seven years of nge and leaves a wife and two little daughters, aged four years and fourteen months, · Tespectively. Pnstor Blievernicht· conducted the funeral services. May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of a.U comfort, comfort the bereaved in their tribulation 1- 0. F'. D. · '

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Possu:u BEND, ALA. - James Bradley is at the head of this important school since Christmas.

Teacher Bradley is a veteran of the World War and ~aw service in France. Director Drewes writes of this school: "'rhe schoolroom and the premises had a prim and clean appearaucc, although the building stands a distance from the main road in the ,voods.

About half o.f the children were barefoot, though it was the 28th of F ebruary when I was there."

LoNGM:ILE, WILCOX Co., ALA.. - After a long wait building opemtions on the new chapel at this place are again under way, under the direction of Jim McBryde, a charter member of our Oak Hill church. This new chapel is much needed, and it is earnestly hoped that the friends of our Colored l\fissions will open their hearts and bands for this modest structure, so that it will be free from debt when completed. '!'he total cost will be only about $1,000.

BUENA VISTA, l\foNROE Co., ALA. -Our little flock at this place has collected about $80 and bought, and paid for, the lumber to erect an addition to the little chapel, which also serves as a school, though it is wholly inadequate in every way.

The Mission Board hns appropriated $200 for the doors, sash, hardware, etc. This chapel is a Christmas-present (1918). Perhaps some good friends who read this will be moved to add an Easter gift to the original Christmas-p1·esent. Director Drewes writes concerning the present Buena Vista chapel: "When Superintendent Schmiot preached in the chapel some time ago, the little buildirlg was so crowded that he saw but one man during the whole sermon; this one man was standing immediately in front of him, cutting off his view of the rest of the audience. Imagine conditions in that little Lutheran Buena Vista chapel if you can !"

SELMA, ALA. - "Selma asks for a modest church and school. It is estimated that a lot can be procured for '$400, and that a ci1npel and school (both under one roof) will cost about $1,100. Mrs. M. Edwards and Mrs. Mary Smith are instructing a great number of children in East Selma in an old abandoned cabin, which was not good enough for a poor Negro. The only partition between the two departments is a thin curtain. The children sit on chairs. When they write, they kneel down before the chair, place the tablet on the sent, and proceed to practise penmanship. You may imagine the noise. made by the moving of the chairs when the children rise or sit down, and by the two teachers and their two classes in that one little room. A

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tern of lighting and ventilating cannot be claimed for the old shack. Of course, this little temple o:f learning costs our Mission only $4: a mon th 1·ent.

On Sundays senices and Sunday-school arc held here too. Despite these most uu:I:wo1·able conclitious our Selma mission is showing signs of growth.

How that active little band would· grow if we coulcl only give tl1em a clcccnt church nnd school ! 'Scncl us men and money,' was Superin tendent Schmidt's parting word to me, 'nnd we will clo the work.' Ile is n. heroic worker nt the head of a heroic band of workers clown there in the B1ack Belt of Alabama.

May our Clu-istinus hold up the arms of the little band by praying and paying !" (From a Jetter by Director Drewes.)

F . J. L.

Go and Do Likewise.

From Delano, Minn., little Lacorcla Schimmelpfennig sent the sum of $26.S5 to 'J'rensurer Ewald Schuettuer, 922 Pine St.., St. Louis, l\fo., for Colorecl Missions. This little friend of our Missions solcl ,,arious articles that she had gathered from friends, and the above sum repre~ents the result of her sales.

Besides, she also solicited subscriptions for the ProNlmR and· succeeded in getting tlnee new subscribers. We arc convinced when the friends of little Lacorda learn of the wonderful success of her "enture in the interest of our. Colored Missions, they will sha.re with her the gratification that comes to those whose labors God crowns with success. l\fay Lacorda's example be emulated by other little girls among us! · -And here is another gratifying bit of news.

A few days ago a good friend wrote us among other things that were good to rend also this: ".Can you suggest to me some Negro mission-station that might use about sixty hymn-books (A. L. P. B.) ?"

But that wasn't all l1e nskocl. His letter had cvon a more weJcome ques~ion. Herc it' is: "A member hns been contributing $25 per qunrter for missions.

Perhaps you know where such n. sum would be nu immediate aid in the Negro Mission's."

Isn't that fine! '£wcnty-fi,,e dollars every quarter for missions! One hundred dollars a year! God bless the kind friend of mis!Jions nucl awaken others to follow in Ms foot.steps !

At the last convention of the Synodical Conference the wish ,was expressed thnt the PIONEER might from time to time tell its readers of different

methods by which moneys for 1mss1ons might be . raised. L ittle Lncorcla, shows us two ways to do it, ancl my friend in his letter tells us of t wo other ways. Let us go and do likewise.

F . J. L. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Hccch ·ccl for Colored, ,lfissi,ms from t he following Colored co11g rcg11t ions: Zion, 'fai ts Pince, $4.5:3 ; Dcthlcl1cm, H oly Ark, 0.0S; Dirminghnm, 2.05 ; Mount Carmel, l\[iclw11y, 5.07; 0111· Savior, P os um Dcncl, 15.37; St. John's, J offrc, 5.75; Sclmn, 5.:3S; Pinc Hill, S.50; Dcthn.ny, N y• lnncl, 5.00; St. Pnul's, Onk Hill., 2.01 ; Christ, Rosebud, S.!l:3; Grncc, Ingomnr, 10.17 ; 1\fount C:ilvnry, Tilden, 0.52; Our Hcclccmcr, J.ongmilc, S.1:3 ; St. Andrew's, V redenburgh, 14 .07 ; St. J11111c:1's, D11c11n. Vist:i, I 1.05; 1\fount Olive, 'l'inel11, 4.03; Dcthnny, Nylaml, 2.00; Bethel, Chnrlot.te, 11.50; .1.\ lnbnmn, 2.00 nncl IO.SO ; Mount Olive, Cnbiwbn., 1.50; Bethlehem, Monroe. 0.04; Concordia, Rockwell, 5.00; Grace, Greensboro, 2.S7 : Jmmnnucl College, Greens boro, 70S.OO; Jmnmnucl, Shanklclow11, 5.00 ; lecture tour, 5.00; Lut her College, New Orlcn11s, 20.00: Mount Cnlvnry, Kan• mipolis, 14.00 ; Mount Cnlv1uy, Mount Pl ea sant, 7.00; 1\ro1111t Zion, N ew Orleans, 40.00 ; Mount Zion, Rock s, 10.00 ; St . John's, S1ilislmry, 14.00; St. Luke's, S partan• burg, 15.00 ; S t. Mark's, A t lnntn, 7.00; St. 1\Jn.rk's, '\Vinston -S1Liem, 7.S5; S t. Jnmcs's, Sout hern Pines, 10.47; _ Mount Zion, Charlotte, 10.00; S t . Paul's, Charlotte, !32.00; St.l?aul's, M11ns111·n., 12.50; St .Paul's, Nnpoleonvillc, 23.00; St. Peter's, Drys Schoolhouse, 15.00; St. Philip's, Philadcl· phin., 5.00; Zion, Gol(J Hill, 7.00; St. Paul's, N ew Orleans, 40.00; Immnnucl, Drookly1i, 1.00; Bethany, Yonkers, 50.00; Concol'<iia, New Orleans, 15.00; Dcthlchcm, New Orle1u1s, 57.60. - TotaZ, $1,305.27 .

St. Louis, l\lo., M11,rch 1, 1023.

H. A. Drrr~rAu,' Asst. 'l.''l'ca,s ., 1044 Clara Ave. '.l'hc foitowing do111itio11s were gratefully received: Dy Pas tor E. A. Westcot t : From Mr. A. Kmnklis, St. Louis, (?) fol' Chnpcl Fund.

Dy Pastor M. N. Carter : From Miss N. N ., Dundee, III., $5.00; :M r. N. N ., Dundee, Ill., 4.50; "A Fricncl," .50 ; "A Friend of tl1c Missio1_1," .60.

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ST. LOUIS, MO., MAY, 1923.

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OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY MOTTO. "The Church that ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical." .,_

"He Sitteth at the Right Hand of God." I

A I, C:ocl' ,; l'i~:hL hand I.he , 'a \•iol' s iLld,h nuw,.

Tn glOI',\', far aho\'C all puwcr and might.: J hl\•iug o'crcu111c our forl! in nml.chlci,s light., lfoiw' n, cal'Lh, aml I.he ahyss 11111st lu JJ i111 liuw.

Xo1· will Uc 'atnu, world, 111111 ,flesh allow 'l'o uverthl'OW Mount Zion, His delight ; But grn.nUng it fresh help in e\•'ry plight,, He doth it evel' with n ew strength endow

By His good Spirit. Why, then, tremble we ?

Let us not flinch, ours is I.he ,·icto1·y, But spread His trnth and still mnkc known His grnce.

He will em)lO\\'CI" our infil'mity To build 1Iis Church and fight iniquity, .And, blessing us, lift up on us His fnce.

JI. 0S'f ERllUS.

Stop, Read, and Think!

IF is an insignificant-looking word, but vc1:y important notwithstanding its insignilic1i11t looks.

So much could be done for Goel aml the Church IF-; so mnny poo.1· heathen could be saved IF-; our Colored Missions ancl nil other missions would prosper IF - ; yes, IF each one of us did his duty-. Docs this concem and interest you?

Kindly take the time to 1·cncl over the fol1owing list of IFS aud sec how many of them you can help to remove.

1Con~idering the humuu side of it alone, the whole world coulcl cosily qc brought to Christ iu thirty-two years, in one gcnoratiou of m1111, IF there were only one Christian on earth to_clny, and IF he wonld work one yem· and by Gocl's grnce would win just one soul to Christ, nncl these

Lwo i;111tls woultl cont inue to win one more each·• year: 1111tl JFcm:h man U111s_lcd to the Savior would win anothur each year by God s help - then, in only..

Lhirty-Lwo years, ovory person in the world would ; IJu a Christian.

114' only ouc ol' every 2,0UO Luthurnu da.y- and i:>umlny- ·chool ~hikli-cn of this cow1try would become ·n missionary, we would have au additional force of 750 missionary workers; and IF each of the 10,000 Lutheran pastors of the United States would secure during his life just one boy for the missionary field, we could pince 10,000 laborers in the Lord's harvest-field - y_es, IF. IF every one of the nhnost ·4,000,000 Lutherans in .t~mcricn would give just 50 cents each year for missions ovc1· aucl above what he is doing now, it would mean an incl'ense in our mission tl'ensuries of almost $2,000,000 ancl a gl'cut increase in our missional'y efforts. Or IF every Luthel'Uu in the United States woulcl give 10 ccuts a year for mlcry year thnt he has li,ecl, who can mei~sure how much miscl'y_ and. sulforiJ1g coulcl be rclie,•ccl in the mis..: sion-ficlcls of our Chm-ch ! Who will help to remove this IF? IF every ou.c of the more than 12,000 parishnncl Sumlay-schools of -the American Lutheran 'Church woulcl support just oue hcntheu child n year nt a c:ost of only $5, how much joy and sunshine coulcl thus be spread!

JF each one of the 224,000 pupils of the parishnncl Sunclny-schools of the Synodical Conference would give 25 cents a yenr to our Colored Missions" - the sum spent at one or two movie ehows, - it

The Lutltera,n J? ioneer. would mean $56,000 for the Jielcl, more Lha11 twenty'ulorcJ :i\'[issio11s the Gospel of ont· L ord is bearing Jive chn.1>els and schools! .dh, IF-! fruit, breaking thro11g h the banicrs uE inclifl'e rcncc, IF ench one the 6,000 reader o[ f he J ,u- • ~uspiciun nntl supersf.if.io11, l,hrowi1w lig ht in lo : i11TJIBUAN P10Nmm were fo hand U1is l'llPY, nCtcr he bud oJ1dccl J1cnrl: n11cl f.11rni11g them lo Inifh in llirn bus i·end it, to a friend wHh a killll word for f.he whu l •ft His fhro11c of' divine g lory nml majl'.'L)' pa.per ancl nn nppcnl t.o him also to beco me a ~111>- fu ente r a 11rn11gl'l" ancl wns nailed to U1e ·ross fo t· scriber, there woulcl be, jn Lhe space of a !cw ho11r~, I.he ~alrnf·io11 of' 111nnkiml. many more people interested iJl missiom:.

0 11r lit.tic fl ock iu , t. T,oui: will probably 1icvcr II!, every one of our G,000 snbs ·ribers would . ci !'urge~ I.he imprc.:sivcncr-:s o r this year's Basler :craside for missions just one-Len th of what he spends vi1·e. We rcj oi ·etl over I.he r csurreclio11 of: our on tobacco, candy, shows, and othe r anrn ·cmenf· nnd ':l\·ior proclaimed to us by the Easler Gor-:pcJ ; but luxuries, the mission treasuries would hnvc nu in- :itlt:litional joy fill<;tl our hea rts when we :::aw that creased a1munl income of at least $60,000. Do you l!iglti new c·omniunicnn t member; wrrc r •c:civecl i11lo think that you would miss t he one-tenth while en- our mid:;t. Four of. the ·c were nd.ulls. 'L'wo or Lhc joying the other nmc-tenths? . ''IF you will give me $100; 1"11 cri r c you immortal souls in retum," saicl an ludian mi.:sionary some time ago. Row? you ask. Why, lJ;l 00 wiJI support n. ca.tcchi~t for one year, and he will iu l.ru c:t and prepare the hl'athcn for bapti!--111. '.l'hc m11nb •r of. converts that I.his c:atec:hist will make, depentl., of course, next fo Ute grace of God, upon how long your generosity will co11tinuc.

'J'hc various Pmtcstant clcnominatin11" of our com1try arc annually spending many millions f:or missions at home and abroad. Sho11ld not we American Luti1crans, whom the Lord hits blessed still more abundantly by giving us the ptu·e doctrine of His saving Word, and especially we Lutherans of the Synodical Conference, be more genc1·ous for the cause of the Gospel? Wo of the Synodical Conference give sca.rcely $125,000 to foreign missions; or, in other words, we communicant members of the Lutheran Synodical Conference contribute townrd the glorious work of convertwg the heathen the William Hnll, St. Louis. small smn o! only 16 eeuts n. year! Do you think that our sJ111re is represent.eel hy th;1t· insignificant _ adults, ouc a gra~y-hcadcd muu of seventy-five yeaus, - sum? IF you don't think ~o, won't yon h~lp to and one of the chil<lrcn were baptized ait .tbis service. change thnt lF? In addjtion, we were privileged to baptize two smo.ll IF I IF! IF! 0 yes - there arc so many J.ll'S. children. 'l'hrcc other chilchcn wcf·c prevented from We arc tired of hearing them. But, dcnr reader, llcing baptized at thi.1! service by sickness in t heir are you not sufficiently conccrnecl in this vitally im- home. portant matter to help in removing some of them?

A picture on this page shows 1\fr. William Hn.11.

IF you arc, then may God help you to go to work He is the old man rcf:crred to nhovc. Ncn.dy at once I _________ F. J. L. scvcnt-y-fivc yen rs l_tc 111\cl been without I.he light of the pure Gospel. Uc Jrnd wanderccl from church Glimpses of_St. Louis and Spring.field. to_church, hut could not, according to his own statement, find rest £01· his soul. l!,inally one of our "Aud the Lord nddcd to the church cluily i:nch merubc1·s !nought him to our church, anci he has as should be saved.'' So we rcacl at the end oi the been coming ever since. He was instmcted in the second chapter of I.he Book of Acts. As in those' trnths of the Catechism, n.nd then expressed a desire earliest days of the Christian Church, l!Q in our to join the . Lutheran Church. But he had lodge

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connections. lt was explained to him that lodge- Twelfth Annual General Conference of membership js inconsistent with true Christianity.

Our East India Missionaries.

Ile l eft the lodge. On Easter Sunday he was bap'.L'his conference, which was held at Trivandrum, tized. l\ s he stepped fo nvard, sobbing aud wiLh his h::mdkerchi ef to his eyes, to the baptismal font lo N ovcmbcr 22-30, lff.l2, was attended by all orconfess his iaiLh and receive the washiug of 1·cgcn- daiHed missionaries in both .fielcls of om India MiscrnLi ou, a lrn. h of rcvm·en cc cam e over I.he n scmbJccl ~ion. 'li·ivan clrum is the parklike, extensive capital OJ1g rcgal.ion and many hearts, uo rloubt, Lhanked oC the native kingdom of '£rnvancore, which inGod Cor having brough L Lhi s person in Lhe ,· •ry eve- cludes withi n ils bouncls the southernmost point of ning of his life to a knowledge of nncl fai th i11, Jndin, Cape Com01·in. When the conference had la:t a:- ·cm bled there, a year after the war, there ihe Savior. · A confirm ation service wa.- l1elu in 'pringficld ·were cxncLly five men on the whole flelcl. Now Ill., on Palm Sunuay. Four girl· were received as lherc a rc more than th.rec t imes that number. Our r;ommunican t members. The church auditoriu m rnnks were augmented even during the con ference was ·bl'a ul.i(nll _y cl ec:orntcil wil.h fe rns _1111d fl owers sc. sions by t he arrival of the Pastors Lutz and by om· li:ulie ' Aid 'oeicty. \\ c cx t·cncl I.hanks Lo, Lnrl ents F. HansC'h :rncl A., 'ehnlzc fo r insLl'II ·Ling 1:IIC'. c yo1111~ people in !he Ll'llth. of 'hristinnit._r.

H i. 110w lh irL_y-fivc years since Holy 'J'rin iLy Clrnn •h. , 'prino-ficlcl was founded by t he ·ninterl l'roC. FL C. W_yneken, and twen ty years since the fo unding of Grace Church, St. Loui . Both cougr gati011s are plnnni11g· anniversa ry eelcbrnt iou, for the fall of the year. We recently saw conlirmaf.ion certific:at·c: issuecl to Lwo of the first; members o:f lJoly ~l'riniLy 'hurc:h. 'l'hc inscriptions on t hese time-worn ·crtifi caf cs arc a work of art. 'l'he embellishments, Twelfth General Conference a.t Triva.ndrum, 1922. consisting of fancy flouri shes and p.1in tccl ·tn111/lr1y: Rc,·s. Bnrms, Outkueeht, Lc,·lhn, Lutz, Oberheu. Heckel, l•"rltzl', Bfocss, Jesudnsou ; Or. Docdcrleln. and finely drawn shadings, which 1nust H11 ccli1111: ne,·s. llorl:ick, Mcluzcn, Kuechle, Nol?kc, Schroeter, Dncbmann. Knull'eld. Strnsen. have cost Prof. Wynekon hoUl's of work, Jli11sir1y: rtc,•s. Zucker, Samuel. reflect the pains •which he must have tukcu (Jcsudnsou uud Samuel nrc n1Lll\"C Indian pastors.) with, and the pride he must ha,1 e :f:elt in, '.l'hr conrerencr. wns hul<l In the lc1LCy 11nncl11I tu the rear, erected / ••spcclnlly ror the c,mCu1·e11ce sessions the day bcCorc the opening, but 1.hesc first-fruits of his mission-work among blown down on I h , lnRt dny oC the couCercnce by n cyclone.

We ure able Lo Cumleh our renders this Interesting cut through the I.he Colored people in Springfielrl. l;hulnr.1111 oC Or. DoedL•rleln. who 1mrreuclercd Illa private photograph tor .As an expression of thankfulness to Goel the 1111r11osc. for the gift of His pure Wonl foL· ~o mnny years, Holy Trinity, SpringJicld, during the next few 1\feinzeu. Besicl·es, there ,vas Teacher Bachmann, months will endeavor to raise about $300 to make who since June of last yea1· is in charge of our much-needed improvements O? our chm·c~ p1·operty. Kodaikann.l home and school for missionaries' 'l'hc Ladies' Aid ancl Friendship Yom1g People's So- r:hildren. '£he conference partook of the natme o:( a jubilee cieties have unclertnkeu, besides, to aclcl a kitchen to gathering.

We celebrated the diamond jubilee of the chm-ch parlor. Grace Congregation, St. Louis, th~ home Church ( the East is P.1·overbinlly slow) ! ,vill make special efforts in bebo.lf of their Building. '.rhe sermon, based on Eph. 3, 1-12, held up Fund.

Mo.y the Lord continue to bless om work among St. Paul ns nn example to show us how to celebrate the Colored people to the salvation of mnny precious, in a G-od-pleasing manner, 1. by acknowledging, like P11.11l. our unworthiness, 2. by extolling the grace of blood-bought souls! llmtmm·.1· C. Cr.Aus. Guel, :1. by recleclienting ourselves to the preaching T iFtE gon.l of history is the redemption or f.11c worlcl. or tho unsearchable riches of Christ as contained in

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the Gospel. - 'l'hc main pp,pcr, 1·cad by Bl'Othci· Harms, also hacl refeTcncc to n. jubilee topic, viz., Lhc doctru1e of the Ohw,,ch, from the discussion of which our church might be said to have been born. We discussed mainly the practlt:al side : how to make our i11iant Clnuch mo1·e self-supporting. A committee a.ppointed at the previous conl:crcnce read a. vn.lunblc statement, la.yfog clown the lines a long which Olli' self-support campaign, which jL was J'Csoked to couduct throughout our mission, is to proceed. Onr Christians arc for the most part poor, stiH 't hey must learn to bring tl1cir mites, ancl Lo bring them rogulwrly, or if t hey cannot co nt ribu te

men, under the leadership of Brother Gutknecht.

But our main aiDl is to train a number of younger men for the offices of teacher ancl catechist, t he former according to the Go,·ernment syllabus and the latter accordil1g to a course outlined at the former con:Cercnce. 'l'hus we h ope to get faithful ,·illngc pastors wit.bin a reasouablc, time.

Dr. Doeclerlcin and the Medical Boal'Cl reported on t he p rogre. s of the J\fccl icn.l Mission. 'J.'he hospi tal buildings arc prncti ·ally finished now and will be cleclicatecl irt Ja nuary 1923. So far the pln nt has cost only $10,000, but certain addit ions will soon have to be made. 'l'hc most pressi11g neccl 1s

Boys' School nt Ambur, India.

ThlR school Is nttemled by •190 11111111s, or whom 70 nrc Chrlstlnns. 'l'he white mnn 'w ith the tlnrk cont IR Dr. Docderleln. !tight l11ihlml him Ill Jte,·. Horlnck, J>rlncl flnl. i\frs . Kuechle Is on his lef t , nm! In rront or her 111 lllr. Snmncl, the hcndm:1111.cr or the 1<chool. Astdo or him wc s,ic lilt'. li<1111c11, who hullt the nd11IU011 to the school. l\fo11t or the· crowd :ire tcnchllr~ :11111 ,<choolhoy1<.

money, then a handful of rice, or some other prod.net n bungalow for the tlll'ee Ai~erican nurses, so that of their labor. Yes, the writer cnnnot help but re- t hey-cnn Jive near the hospital. Lntc1· n residence mark, if our Christians at home ·with centuries of for the :M:issimi doctor will also become necessary.

Christia11 upbringing behind them, had learned that Who will contribute· $4,000 for each of these bunit is more bl~ssed to giYe than to 1·eeeive, our synod- galows? 'l'hc Medical . M:issio11 management is in ical treasuries, inch1ding the Mission Trensury, the ·hands of a so-called Medical Bonr cl, consisting would :qot be sadclled with such large de:ficit.s. of the doctor, the nurses, the deaconess! (:Miss For the sake of our King, who is also the Light Georgi), and two missionaries. Besides the daiJy of the Gentiles, l1elp, send your gold, and let the . ~ispensnry in Ambur, the doctor inakes a weekly frankincense of j•our prayers ascend to Him I We run to Ba1·gur, thirty miles distn.11.t by car, and, conare facing a big deficit and are seriously •m·ippled ducts a dispensn.ry there as well as at several poiuts a.long the t)•1mk road. · in · our work for lack of funds. · Among important matters discussed was the proLnngnngc stucly was discusse9 nt some length, posed seminary nt Nngcrcoil, with wl1ich is . to be since the majority of tlie brctlll'en arc learning the linked a provisional conrse for a number of older "ernnculnr. We 11.l'e doing our work il1 two main

The LutlLeran Pioneer. lang uages now, 'l'amil and :i\:[aln.yalam, besides a liLtle iu T elugu. When work will have been sLartcd among Mohammedans, as we hope it will be this year by commissioning ReY. Drux, a third vernacular will be added, ·viz., IIindustau i, the lingua Ji'nwai of J ndin.. '.l'hc P ublicity Committee presc11leu ils schedule, assigning articles fo r the <liffo1·ent clmrch-pn.pcrs Lo Lite bre U1rc11. We feel this to be n. very important. pnrt. or our work, to which we arc lumlly cloing jm;Lice. 'l'hc editor of the 'J.'n.mil churc:h-papcr, called Scill·iascilchi · (Witness o.J: I.he '.L'rntl1), repor ted, a11tl asked fo r, more co11Lrib11Lio11s. It was nlr,;o r sol ved Lo i:sue fo r I.he Jirst t ime n. wn.11 calendar for <lii;Lribut.ion 11.111011g our members n11cl friend . ' l')iis ha: 110w nppenrcll in a nea t. ero!<s-dc: ig11 with th• 11s11nl i11forrnn.tion in t hree lang uages.

1n 1'lny 1a -t the first in lcr yJ10ll ical conference was held with I.he Ohio Synod missionaries, with :at.isl'nctory resul ts. It wns resolved to accept the in vilat.io11 o.J: the Ohio m en to m eet them in Janum:y, rnia, nt 'l' irupahi, n. stat.ion of the Ohio Synocl mi ssion. May God.blc~s this meeting! 'on fcrcnce Sunday was spent out in the villages with Oll i' Chl'istin11s, who had nrrnngeu two j oi11t 'l'hu11ksgi,·ing-fcsl.ivals nt conrnnic nt c:cntcrs. Sermm1R we re dclivcrccl by locn.l ancl viRiting brctln·cn in hoth "Mnlayalnm nnd 'l'nmil, but the writer cloubts whet.he r mu ·h o.f the Int.tar wns 1mclcrstoocl , since the vm·11ne;11ln1· on the 'J'rivnu<lrum sillc is 1\Cnhiyalam.

In the evening we rode out to Kovnlnm bench ancl inchllgecl in a little sud-ricli11g - as f'nr ns the sharks would nJJow. 'J'his is pnrt of the so-cnllccl " missionary coast," since not far 11orth o[ this poi11t Frnne;is Xnvier lanclecl in '15-~!l anrl hcgnn Roman Cnthol ic mission-work.

'J'his year the Port.nguesc in Tnclin. hnvc nrrnngccl for n big festivnl in Goa, the Portuguese poi,;scssion on the west coast, somewhat sontJ1 or Bomb:_i.y.

Xaviel''s body . is being exposed to tho pious (?) pilgrims, who kiss his shrnnkcn ieet n.ncl look for rnimclcs to hnppen. Xavier's faun.ticism nnd clevo' tion to the Pope :we clo not wnnt, but we ought to \rnve h.is consuming 1.en.l .' Mny God grant us grace to become burning aml shining lights reflecting the glory of J;Iim who i's the Light of the world, n.lso the Light of the Gentiles!

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The Prodigal Son.

lt was on a. cold winter evening in the year of 10· 0. A Luclcnt o.f the Keio Unfrersity in 'l'okio wa piniug on his weary bed o.J: pain - the end of a. cli::olu tc l ife. 'J.'ruc, he wa by no means ns bad as his scd uccrs ,· l,11 t h is. or rather his :father's for. ' tune hn<l hecn am1>lc and this bncl hnstcncd his ' r uiu. \\ ic:kecl friends had lccl him nstrny, n.nd he hncl willingly folluwccl. I Lis father, displeased by his poor reports ancl I he la rge bills presented, hacl once ucrorc ordered hin1 home from school. llut. when t he son hnc1 show n I.rue signs of rcpcntnncc, he hacl nllowcd him to rel.um to 'l'okio. After I.his all hnc1 gone nl ong well fill' a t ime. But soon his 'goocr' com panion. j oined him ngnin, nnd "the Ja~t . late of that ma n wn. made worse t han Lite first/• Within a few weeks he hacl incmrccl n debt o.f seven hnmlrecl yen ($350), besicles having poisoned his body by means o.r nmncnt ionable ,•ices. 'rort urcd in mind and bocly, he lay on his bed. None of his iormcr frfoncls now cnmc to comfort him.

Wilcl with clcspnir, he re ·olvcd to encl his misery by committing snicicle.

J,atc in the cvcnini:{, however, he recci\'ccl a vi ·itor. 1 t wa. ;i 1'-ricncl, this t ime a t.rnc ouc, n sluclc!lt of the un iver~it.y, who hnd only lately become n Christian. He n.t once realizccl the condition of the patient nnd lost no time in telling him of the beauties o.C t he Gospel of J esus Christ ancl of its power to heal nil his wotimls. To the sick mnn this cnmc as n mes. ngc :Crom heaven, as n. light in the darkness. Ile said with enkindlcd hope: "If whnt you sny is trnc, I will become Christian nt once. Bnt it seems almost incomprehensible to me." " Rise nncl tnkc conrnge; this very clny yon must come with me to the '.~hfo1,p'" (priest).

"No, T cannot go iu this wny; my whole bocly is in rcctccl."

"Very well, then we shall -fhst go to the baths." 'l'hc pnticnt tried to conceal his pain, nncl resolutely iollowcd his friend. It was already after nine o'clock, amf when they came to the missiounry's house, it was exactly eleven o'clock. 'rhe missionary hacl nlrencly retired. When he heard the noise nt the cloor, he tnrnccl on the light ancl nsked what wns wanted. "'!'his young mnn has sinned and is now nhnost clcspnil'ing; help him!" cnme the answer.

W1tAT is needed is "senders~' nncl "prencheTS'' 'fho rnis.c;ionm·y bntlc both enter, nnd soon the (Rom. 10, 14-15); then there n.re su;re to be gas-stove mnrle the little room quite com!ortnble. "henre rs" nnd ''believers.'' - Jaffray.

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'l'hc m1ss1onary, with his snow-white beard and kindly eyes, appeared to the unhappy youth like a being from another world.

His encouraging words of God's mercy and compassion, the story of the prodigal son, were like balm to his wounds.

Co11tril.ion and tTust and love - cmoLions which he had 110vcr before experienced - filled his soul. . It wn · past midnight when they left the pastor. . l3ut new iiic had come to the prodigal's heart. \\ hen his fa.Liter heard of the change in .his sons conduct, he paid his debts, thus t·elieving him at once of these worries. Now t he young man, formerly a sinner, is a. :r.ealous stuclcnt at n. Christian college in 'l'okio.

The Most Difficult Problem of the Missions. 'l'hc greatest difficulties of missions are not to be found iu the mission-fields, in spite of all the obstacles of people and country and of the adversaries of the Gospel who do everything in their power to nlTest its onward course.

What is the greatest question in this case? 'rims the question was put. to many of ~!1e lending practical Protestant missionaries nttcuding the .Ediubm·gh Conference. Almost unanimously the answer given by men who best know the needs and necessities of the missious wns this: "'1'/,.c question of the allif1tcle of the home Ohm·ch."

The answer is one which possesses a value all its own for Christians.• I When the home Church- fails, when it comes to surrender its interest in missions in favor of the self-centcrc<1 and selC-seeking tcnclcncics of these ]alter days, then it must be snicl that the death sentence is pronounced upon the -futmc p1·ospccts of mission-work !

A Touching Plea.

The following plea of the Director of the Missouri Synod's Foreign Missions shoulcl be heeded : To the Churches, Schools, and Societies of Our Synod.

Never before in the history of our Foreign Missions have we had so many foreign nncl native workers in the field as since the fall of the past year. Including the wives of our missionaries, we have 72 white a(lult lnborel'S in nil brnnchcs o! our

work in Chinn and in India. 'l'hcsc are assisted by 276 native catechists, evangelists, and teachers. The Gospel of salvation through faith in Christ Jesus is proclaimed in 110 main stations and outstations.

Round about us the field is white ali·eady to harvest.

Is it surprising t.h at with the mpid increase oi the number of our workers and stati.ous our t l'easury in 1922 wns not able to mensm·e up to all leg itimate requirement.·? In spite oJ: very careiul scrntiny of all cxpencl it11L'es 011r deficit amounted Lo about lj;l ,000 at t he close of 1922. Auel since then our clcbt has nearly doublctl. Do onr brethren want us Lo close down some of 011r stnLions? Or shoulcl. we recall omc of our mi:- ionnrics? urcly 0 11 r Christ ians do not a'sk us to do a t.hing of that kind. We focl that we need but report the actual condition o[ affairs to the brethren in order to get relief. We, therefore, ask all who have cspcricncecl the great Jove of our blessed Rcclecmcr in I.heir hcnrts, and who desire to see the saving Gospel preachccl to the uttermost pnrt of the earth, to help us in our distress. We k11ow there arc many claims upon your Christian liberality, but for the sake of our crncified and 1·iscn Snvior help us! And may the Lord be with you ancl bless you!

13y resolu tion of the Board o·f Foreign l\[issions, Si11ccrcly. yon rs in Christ Jesus, · FRlmE1ucK BnAN o. 'l'hc Ecljtor knows :Crom cxpcdcncc how discom·ng.iug it is to the missionaries ancl thefr little flocks when they ]earn that the home base is not paying ANO PRAYING. F. J. L.

An Incident.

Not lo11g ago a Southern white gentleman related· this encouraging incident. On the 1>rcvious Sunclny he had been in the country, about fi[tcen miles :from C. Finding that there was to be no service at the white church that dn.y, and being accustomed nlwnys to attend church on Suudny, he walked across the field to the Negro church near by.

Sunda.y-school was in session, ancl he sat clown ncnr n Bible class tn1ight by n Negro of middle ngc. 'l'hc truths oJ the lesson were clearly presented, ancl the listener said he had never heard in any Sm1dayschool a class better taught. Preaching service followed, and the minister plcnsed him ns well ns the lnymnn had clone. 'l'he exercises of praise, rending lhc Scriptl}rc, nncl prayer followed en.ch other jn an orderly "i'n.y. 'l'hen came n pointed Scripttue-text \

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The Lutheran Pioneer. wi th a sermon well thought out and delivered with earnest power, whicl1 m ean t t hat t he pasto1· had a rca.l m es age lOL' h is people. H was a clclightrul se rvice throug hout ancl, so t he visilor tlcclarctl, vc1·y bclpfol to him.

'J'hc prcncltc r was !I p rod ucL of schools or Lhc Mis:ion 13oard, first the li ttle paroch ial school, where he leamccl that h e wcmlecl nu education ; then the coeducational secon dary school, whe1·c he fouml out what ClnisL can clo for om lives Ull(l fo r what pm·posc we n re pl aced in this world ; then on Lo t he t heological seminary. Not one step in the sy Lem must be necrlcclcll. IUaeh must be made as effective u po ·siblc, nncl God will lake care of resul ts.

'J'his little •lnfrch is the direct out«rowth o.f t he work o.f n, few :tuclcntl at hom e during summc1· vacation, . 'l'hcy ga Lhcr cl the childl'cn for three or fo ur miles around into a S unrln.y-schoo], child ren who w •re ~row ing 11p wi t hou t nny knowlcclgc or the Bible or 1· ·lig ioui; Lr:1 ini11g-. ' l'hc 11umbor g rew, older people bernmc in tcrc:tctl, t he .followi1ig ycm· fl1is chur<:h wns u1•cran i;-.e<I, t11l(l g reat goo,l is being clone. 'l'hus ~lw li crh t reaches ou t ir1 to the dark pln.ccs.

Items of Missionary Interest. 'l'bc people of a little sawmill town called Lamison, Wilcox Co., h ave askecl for a Lut heran church aud school. Supcrintcnclcnt Schmidt has visited the place and opened a mission-stntion, which is now ilt cha rge of Rev. ·\Vestcott. - A S1mday-school has been organized at Nokomis by Mrs. Mary 1\fontgomcry, formerly a m ember o.f 0111· church at Vr cdcnbnrgh. It is to he hoped that m ore workcTs can soou l~c sent to t he growing Alaibama field, in order t hnt the Louchin« nppeals t hn t come :from all directions of the State may Le answcrccl.

Scuoor, .A·.r1·1~NDA NCJ•: IN ALAD,\ MA. - Eighty per cent. o:f the child1·cu seven to thirtceu years o.r 11ge in the State o:f Alabama m·c attcnc1iug school. '.rcn ymirs ago only L"\vo-thircls o:f the children wm·e in nttenclancc at school. 'l'cn years ngo only 53 pc1· cent. of t:he Colorecl children in L\lnbamn of the nhovc given age wc1·c n.ttcnclillg school, while at present the school attendance o:f Colored chilclren 11,p to thirteen years has incrcnsccl to 70 pc1· cent.

NonTFC CAROLIN,\. - 'l'he Lutheran Edueationnl Society recently p1·esented I,umnnuel Lutheran College, Greensboro, N. C., with a new piano. This gif~ µlled a long-felt want and is highly appreciated.

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- ] mmanucl 'on[ercncc wiJl li<Jlcl its summer meeting in :i\Lount Ca lvary 'hurch, l(:uina polis, of which Hcv. P. D . Al. Lon i pastor. 'l'hc con~regation is pla1mi1w Lo builtl an adcliLion lo t he chapel.

'1rn·1·1m 0 1,• N1,;cno PoPULA'l'ION. - 'l'his is now fou ntl i n the extreme n orthwc -tern corner of :corgin. Strange lo sny, t he center has movccl in a northca tcrly clircction during the last decade, instead of southwest, as was t he case in fo1·mcr years. 'l'hi 11ortheastcr)y m ovem ent o:f the center of NcgL"O population is clue to the great migrat ion of Negroes to t he North a.ncl N01:thcast o.f the country. It is saicl that in the last few years mnny Negroes have ugujn bccu m oving Sou th to t heir fo rmer h omes.

FnoM Y1~sT~HDAY'~ SJ,,\YES. - 'l'o-clay there arc in the Un ited States among the chil clrcu of .former slaves - 500 Negro authors, 57S Negro den t ists, 125 Negro chemists, 1,000 Negro inventors, 2,000 Negro lawyer ancl ;juclrrcs, 237 Negro civil nncl mining eng ineer. , •1,000 Negro phyi;icians ancl i:urgcons, '1,500 N cgrn m1 r!':cs, 3, ,000 N cgro teacher ·.

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A Co~rr,\ln::;oN. - 'l.'hc p1·icc of n i;inglc lmt t.lcship to-day i quite beyond the comprehension of the orclinn.t·y cit izen. Dr. Art hur ,J. B rown; an American missionary ccrctary, has recently figured out what a battleship woulcl buy iu missions. lie asscds that the entire missionary program o.f Amet·ica, reachiug s ixteen countries, 4-,000 cities, ancl employing 24,000 American workers and ·109,000 native lallo1·c1·s, is being cal"l'iccl 011 at an expense less t han the price of one battleship. - South. 01·oss.

R,r,;tTGIONS OF '.l.'HB EARTH. -The population of the earth is rcckonccl nt over 1,G00,000.000. OI t hese, 5(;5,000,000 nrc a.clhcrcnts o:f t he Christ.inn relig ion, uncl more than a bi11ion a.re non-Christians.

'L'hc Prote:l~'lnt p~pulnLion of the earth is e. timatcd • a t a pproximntcly 180,000,000. Lnthcmnism is credited with 80,000,000 :Collowers.

• UN RE,\ ClrnD M:JLLIONS. - 'l'bcre nre 120,000,000 people in the world who a:re not iuclnclecl in tbe pluus o.f nny missionary society. ~L'o millions more the plans arc merely projected - the people have not been rcnchccl. "Probably 500,000,000 will pass out o·f this genernt-ion with9ut hnving n f air opp01·tunity of knowiug Christ n.ncl His m ci:sagc, unless the Chm·ch pours out a princely ofl'ering or li\"cs nml money ancl prn)'Cr to give them that opportunity."

"PANTHER MEN" IN '\Y'1~s·r Al·nrcL\. - Such lmve been found not long ago in French Guinea. '.rhese natives, it is said, work themselves into· a

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frenzy nml then tear the Lhronl · or their victims wi t h I.heir teeth and cnt portions of lhcir bodies, int.1"llllll~ !hem clvc. to be panther·. 'l.'wonty native ·, Cound gui lty o,f t his rare fo rm uf c·annibali:-111, wcro ~cnLcm·ccl to d alh in the ]'ranch (;UUrts or Conakry and Forccnriuh. 'l ' h' pric. l antl ·orc:ercrs strll have n. very Lnmg hold on t he 1mf.i\'Cs 111 t his district of We t Africa and arc the ]caller in these horrible cannibal orgies. 'l'HE J-I,.\WAlUN Tsr, ANDS hn.vc as many Buddhist f;cmplcs as Christian churches - 235,000 pagans to 20,000 Chdstinns. 'l'he islnnds have 255,000 population : nnt ive .FTnwaiinJ1s, 23,773; mi:xecl 18,000; J'nrt ugucsc, 27,000; Spa.nisl1, 2 400; Caucnsia11, 1!J 70S; Chinese, 23 500; Jn.pancsc, 109,27'1; Fi1ipino, 21.000; nnd c,·cry young Jnpaucsc wife hns a ha.by on her back.

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ST. LOUIS, MO., JUNE, 1923.

No.6.

OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY MOTTO. "Only as the Church fulfils her missionary obligations does she justify her existence.''

Our Missionaries' Need.

Do you hl'ar I.hem plc:uling, pleading, Not for money, comfort, power, llnt Umt you, 0 Christian worker, Wi ll but 11ct 11 ·ide an hour \ herein they will be remembered Daily 1tl. I.he Throne or Grace '!'hat I.he work which they a1·c doing In your life nmy Jm.vc n. pince?

J)o you know that they arc longing J!'or U1e sympathetic touch 'l'lml. is I.heirs when friends arc pmyiug Ju I.he homcln11d very much, 'J'h1tt 0111· God will bless the efforts 'l'hey are mnking in His nume, And •I.hat. souls for whom they're working With His love m:ty be nflnmc?

Do you sec t.liem seeking, s<:eking, ],'or t he gift or priceless worth 'l'lutt t hey count of more imporluncc 'l'hnn all other g ifts or eartl.1?

Not the gold from rich men's coffers Nor l'Clier from n.ny care; 'Tis tt gift tlmt you cnn give them ''l'is I.he Chrisl.itu1's daily prnyer.

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The Direct End and Purpose of the Church. · Chl'ist instituted His Church to snvc the nntions. 'l'o His disciples, His Church, Christ snid: "Go ye lind tench all nations, bnptiiing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost·, teachiD" them to observe nil things wlmt0 soever I have commanded you. And, lo, I nm with

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. '!'his missionary injunction of the Lord is a holy and stirring call to arms. Upon 1is is imposed the bu rdcu to gather all mankind under the banner of Oht·i t and His Gospel. We shall exercise to the fullest extent our power and strength and gilts to briug all men into Christ's kingdom. We shall "compel them to come in" by means of the persuasive power of the Gospel-message, ,which is the powc1· of God unto salvation to all those who believe. '!'his matter of b1·inging the saving Gospel to men becomes for us an cvcr:-prcsent, most urgent, and binding duty. 'l'hc task of preaching the Gospel to all creatures being given us by the Lord, it is true that in a sense und measure we stand responsible for the salvation of the world. 'l'his is indeed a solemn thought, a thqught that may well overwhelm US:.. 'l'he extent of our application to this stupen- dously great mission-service should. correspond at all times with the g1·eatuess of the task ,which lies bcCorc us. A few missionnries, dispersed here and there upon the earth, will not suffice to fulfil the missiona,·y requirements of Christ. No, no; as sure as we arc Christ's disciples, so sure arc we pledged for the conquest of all mankind for tho kingdom of our Savior and King.

And let us mark it ,vell, the responsibility rests upon all of us individun.lly. The individual member cannot load it on tho congregation, neither can, the congregation load it on tho synodical District;

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the synodical District cannot turn o,·cr the responsibility to the General Body, 11ot· j:, it po~ ·ible for the General Body to impose it upou the , yuoclical Con!crcncc. U pon every person in the Church ancl upon the whole bocly resl:s t.hc 1·e ponsibility of execu ting the mis ion mauclatc or the ]:',orcl J c ·us.

So the responsibility is . ha1·cd jointly by all ; each aud every Cln·istinn, by the fact thn t ·hc is a. Christian, assume a personal burden in lhis matter, and he is thereby oblignted to use his abilities antl means to the uttermost if he dcsil·cs to receive commcnclat ion from the lips of H im who died that we migh t live nnd reign wi th H im forever. 'l'hc work of spreading Christ's kingtlom among men must IJC curried on by us·trnceasiugly T/trottgh sincere ancl ca'l'licst labo1·; Tll!rouglt the 10.ill-i119 sacrifice of whatm,er goocll:J

ltavc been ent·ruslecl to 11s~· . 7'/u·ottglt. persistent ancl lrus lin9 vra,JJc1·.

Thus, and thus only, will we truly lea rn to recognize and p1·ovc to be truo diseiples or J esus Christ ; and in performing this blcssccl task of spreading the Gospel of Jesus we shall realize and apprehend more and more the glo1·ious purpose ancl end for which tho Church was founded, and for which she continues, by God's strength and grace, to be maintained and to exercise hor functions throughout the earth and to the end of .time.

Blessed purpose ! Glorious end ! i\fost happy ~~~ may

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A Pastoral Call in the Black Belt ·of -Alabama.

It had not rained for some timo, so we decided to make the trip as a venture. 'l'hc "piko" roads which we usually traveled were dry and dusty, the sun beamed upon us out of a southern sky, aud our "ever-ready" Ford was waiting to be oi?.

Pastqr Scl1m~dt came a1ong, not so much for the sake of a ride ( there isn't any pleasure in bumping, rattling, and rolling over "Black Bcltian" roads); but he accepted my invitation because it is always sa!er for two to travel together into unknow~ territory, for when troublesome mud-holes arc encountered, one of them may have tho pleasant task of getting out into the mud .and pushing the "John Henry" along. O!ten enough a mud-hole which would mean getting a mule when one is alone surrenders its victim when there is some one to push. · As wo chuggetl through the country, we talked

". hop. ' 'l'o bo e11gngccl in Negro .Mi sion work mean·, 1 think to discuss m i.· ion maLlcr. mol'C and o.flcncr than in n11y othc1· Gospel udcavor. 'l'hc problems whic:h we lllcct wiih arc o peculiar, so difficult, n11cl o varietl i hat our mind i always • dwelling on them. Aml so, whCI! we worker · got to,,ethor, you will inval'ia bly Jintl u: talking ":hop," not only mis ·io11-co111111tl r11ms, but also llli ·. ionsormon ·. '.L'hus m:rny uncl m:my a sormon is hatched out while \\'C arc silting on I.he ga.;olinc lank. 'l'hus many an outliuo is fra.rnccl, cri i icizcll, acccpictl, 01· left lo die by the wayside. ]3cing '011 t he go" so much, WO have to make ihc 'L u.f our time in some way, lo1· frequently but fow 111omc11is 1 arc gnmted us to sit iu our study.

So the time passed, and, soon we were i11 new parts. U nbelievable I.hough it may . ouml, particularly as t he r oads we hn(l left behind u · wcl.'C so dusiy, we ran upon n. stretch o( several mile: which tnxccl our chiving skill to the utmost. Den ·c woods flaukccl us 011 both sides - I would 1111110: t call them jungles - while swamps ancl morn ·s lurked at the very edges. Wbat n "road" ! Negot iate its mit·y depths aftor the skies had been weeping for n. week ? Even horso nnd buggy would 11ol ~c nblc to mako it then! As we crawled along, we snw the implements left sticking in the mnd by othors who hacl been here before us. Planks, shuls, boards, trees, stones.- nll were mute evidence of what had happened. How ,ve got through tho sticky stuff, I do not know. I suppose, at times, we simply shut our eyes and plunged in. With a sigh of relief we started to climb the hills of red clay now hcaying iu sight.

WJ1en we had al'l'ivcd at our destination, t ho top of a steep hill, we "parked" our car, took om· Boston bag, nnd made for 'the woods. If evor a pince could be caned ·"miles from nowhere," this was it. Once bcfol'c I had come out here, and the man I had with me said, '"rhis is the cml of the world," and he himself was not living in a metropolis! What n forsaken and dreary pin.cc! It clidu't · seem possible that any one could cndm·c cxfatcncc ' am.id such surroundings. Yet I'll venture to say that, . buried iu these "piny wqods," hundreds of blacks with their families arc living.

In such woods we found our old .Auntie. Formerly she had been living on a plantation close· to Midway, one of .my stations. But because she was so old and had no means 'of earning a. livelihood, she went along with some of her children when they move~ away. We sat down on the porch. 'l'ho

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Will yo n nnt hnck t hem up wi th your prnycrs and your g ifl. ? \\ ill yon n ot help so thn ~ other Aunties ancl U ncle.. wh o othe rwise will die in their ins, mnr . he feel with the\ Brend of LiCc?

E. A.

WESTCOTT.

Closing Days at Immanuel Lutheran College.

At many institutions it is customary to de,•otc the Inst week of the school-year entirely to closing cxel'ciscs. Though Tmmanucl Luthcrnn Cotlcgc cannot nfford to lose that much time, it does hnve some of the usual closing :fcatmes.

Generally n speaker from some plncc not far from Greensboro delivers the annual address. '.J:'his ycnr we were very fortunate in securing the scn•iccs of Rev. lr. J. Lnnkenan, of Na1>olcon~ 0., the editor o·r the PmNF.F.R, who was on a lecture tour under , the n.uspiccs or the Walther. LCngue, which brought him into om vicinity . . Rev. Laukcnau tmve)cd in -an automobile with two members of his congregation. 'l'hesc vi.sitors were nble to spcucl a :low clays -with us ou their way to some congregations nncl to return to 01·ecnsboro for the closing cla.ys of Immanuel College on their home journey. Thus they were able to sec the school in session ancl thoroughly to inspect the huilclings ancl premises, \T"hicl1 they

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hegnn to clo nt once. They were greatly imprcssecl with t he need o( cl01·rnitol'ie,. nnd filled with sincere rc<rret thnt WC ca nnot obtain nfficicnt funds to erect . nch huil,ling!'. Aml o they began to consider ways nncl men ns o( makinrr Lite best or the present. itnnLion. ~l'he Cmiel on hancl do not permit such c-hm1rrc: in the p re. ent huilding::; a~ would give the g reat!.,· nceclccl r elief. Doubtless they arc clclibcrntin rr on what they r nn clo to help us make the n ecc. :-n.r.r repair. nncl to supply bettc1· accommodntion in the prc_cn t building. On the first visit ]1c,·. Lnnkcnnu spoke twice in the morning chapel exer cises, ancl "thus t he students had a .f01·etnstc oC the fen t lhnt awaited them t he following week.

'I'hc commencement sermon was deliverecl on , untlay evening by Rev. P. D. Lehman to an nudicnce t hnt overflowed the chnpel. The text cho. en for t he occa ion was J osh. 24, 15: "Choose you this clay whom ye will serve." The speaker pointed o,nt thn t the grnduates hncl been under the Christian influence oi the institution, but coulcl no longer be guided by t hci r in trnctors. Now they hould by the grace of God, determine to crrn the Lord wherever they might be in the future. At t his scr\'icc there was also a vocal solo and an nnthcm by the students' chorus. Rev. F. J. Lankeuau.

On 1\fonday evening the Seniors hod their. class exercises. 'rheir pcr!ormance was pronounced very crcclitn~lc. In inct, it seemed remarkable to those who hacl no iclen that these students would be able to do so well.

Tuesday a'Ctcmoou Pastor Lnnkenau :favored us with a lecture on "America the Beautiful." The lecturer made us realize thnt we live in the finest, richest, and \most blessed country in the world. He • urged us to guard our ch·il nnd religious liberty as the apple of our eye and not to be i11timidated by such as represent a spurious Americanism.

On 'l'uesday evening the Immnuuel Luther,m College Alumni Association rcnclqrccl n splendid program. nev. W. 0. Rill, of Yonkers, N. Y., the speaker of the occnsion, nn alumnus of 1910, in a hmnorous • wn.y reminded the :form.er stucleuts of the good old college clays; thou, becoming serious, he remindccl the alumni of the debt of gratitude they owed their alma 111atcr, and exhorted them to be ready {!,t all times to .promote the interests of the institution. ·

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After t11e program n business meeting was held, in which it was decided to misc $200 for the librnry. 'l'lic rest of the evening was spent in n sociable wny in the dining-hall. While t he refreshments were being enjoyed, pledges amount ing to more than $200 were given by various nlnmni nmicl -short tnlks b1·ea.thfog allegfonce to, nnd suppor t of, I mmanuel.

Teacher Dinkins, who hns the rcpntn.tion of being n. humorist, did not mnkc us lnngh, ns we e::1.7lectcd when he arose to sny n. few 1vords, but was serious.

He strnck the proper key" nnd expressed the sen timent of all i ormer grnduntcs when he snid: "Ebenezer! Hitherto hnth the Lord helped us....

Jmmnnnel Lutheran College, we former students love you, we love you !" \Vednesdny wns the big dny, ior this was the dny of · tl1e commencement exercises. The• spacious chnpel wns filled to capacity. Rev. F . J. Lnnkennu delivered the annunl address. H e took up the c1nestion as. to what constitutes success ancl how to attain it. .The address was 1·eplete wi th instances nnd illustrations that ,,ividly impressed the hearers with the lessons which the ·speaker sough t to drive home.

If the good renders could linve been nt Immnnuel during eommenceme11t week, they would hnve left as did ;Pastor Lnnkenail a;nd his friends, iull of enthusiasm for the institut ion, nt tl1e same time deploring the fnct thnt it is J1ot properly equipped for its work, and determined to help it to obtain what it ought to have. What a golden opportunity we have to sene God, the Church, and our country when Colorccl boys and girls come to us for a Christian education nnd hear the Word·of God morning, noon, and night! May the Lord grant grace and wisdom to fiud ways and means of accommodating our students, to His glory and the salvation or many blood-bought souls I P . E. G-.

A Problem in Values.

A profound truth was that uttered by the art critic, "A portrait hns. two values, n present value and an eternity vnlue." 'l'he artist paints, the architect ·builds, the sculptor chisels, and if possessed o! this double vision of values, though he departs this Jife, his w01·ks live nfter him. If this be true of workers in oil, wood, and stone, what shall we say of those who have to do with tbe molding o! the heart and mi.nd nnc1 with the building o:C character? Surely el'ery teacher's vision sho_u ld

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Was it not this tru th that fi.llcd the hen.rt a.ncl mi nd o.r the fai thful teacher for sixteen years nt her post in n. chool for Colored g irls who, wh011 a. keel if he wn. erer <l i courngell ornr the fault. :rncl Inilure of 1.rnstccl pup il., repIicd : ' Y e., sometimes I nm n bit cl iseourngecl, when . ome J thought were stro11g slip :ntcl fall. Hu t then; with brightening fa ce and perfect assurnnce, ' 'but then I remember we nre not laboring alone fo r the pre ·eni.

I look ah encl nnd sec the child ren of the e gi rls one] their chilclren's children, nnd I know I.heir li ves will be stronger nnd the'ir homes clea ner because of the Christian i rnin ing given to-clay."

Perhaps this thought needs Lo be passc<l along to some who are loath to support ihc work wh ich is making this t raining for tlie presen t and fuilll'e possible. " Docs it pay?" asked with donbLCul inflection, is the question too often on the l ips o( those whose per. pective is easily blurred by the knowledge of some :failure. 'l' rue it is, the sndclcn ·opening up of new w01·lds docs sometimes iurn the head of the Negro youth, and fo1· t his reason, whnt is cleemccl i1ccess:n y for the development and f uture usefulness of I.he white child is considered a mistake for t he blnck.

But on what g round should this weaker m ce whet.her viewed ind ividually 01· as n. shm·er or the bm:dens of this workaday world, be ask.eel to meet its fn ture handicapped by ignor1111ce and inefficiency, when we, the stronger, hn.ve the power nnd opport un i.ty to show them " the better way" ? \'Vith the poet's instinct, Paul Lawrence Dunbnr says : " Slow moves the· pageant of n. climbing race."

Yes, we iorget the genern.tions we have been cli111bing ; we iorget -thn.t our twcnt iet11 c'cntury is but the rich inheritn.nce which lms come clown to us from those whose labors hacl a value not only :for the present, but for the f utme ns well.

It has been our Church's privilege to l1elp direct the :first steps of many hundreds of Negroes. 'J.' he Bible hns n.lways been the fomidation of om clayas well ns of the Sunclay-schools, ancl to-dn.y there are men and women of high ideals nncl o:f strong character, the :fruitage of those "first yen.rs,:' upon · the shoulders of whom has been rolled a large share of the responsibility of training the ever-increasing numbers who follow.

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upon whom r est in g reat measure Lhe iu t1ire t.mi11ing of the il· ra ce. H we were always t o r ealize thnt \\"C o.f Lhis g ene ration should 11ot only think oi the presen t, bu t also o r Lhc fn Lurc, it would g ive us n larger vi. ion :111rl len1l 11~ t.o Lh ink m or e of I.he future vnluc or the work Urnt we arc doing in · Lhc presen t. ]t wonlcl nlso mcnn bette r eq uipme nt. for the presen t clemnncls or the work. }[o re buildings woulcl he creel.eel, cnlnrgcd, nncl repaired; iench cr. would be ndclcd wh re schools Jrnvc ou tgrown the p1·esen I: tench i ng .force; benches won lcl 1:nkc the plncc o r boxc~. and blackbonnls t he place .oi ber.halkcd wn.lls. O rga.ns, Loo, woukl find n warn\ welcome i II ch u 1·che. nnd :chools, which 11ecd -such ·help t.o hcnnl:if'y I.he se rvices in the former and to aid t he wol'I~ o r U,c icncher s in ihc ln.ite1·. And ·,thus I.he list of pos: ibili t ic. conkl he co11 iinucrl indefini tely.

Whn t sr<S· yon, clonr render will yo11 help the Bon rd build for I.he f'utnrc?

F. J. L.

''l'hc class has collected this for missions. 'fhc girls collected $7.10 :incl the . boys $11.40.' " Asked wha t induced them to collect this money nm ong thcmi::ch es, Lhcy saicl: 'Pastor, Jnst :fall, just b •Co re our mission-festiml, you taJkccl to us nbout missions nml tQl(l 11s what even schoolboys nncl -g irls could do fo r mi . ._ions. We then ngl'cccl to collect among oursclvc. cni:h week, nncl Lhi s is the result.'

"Now Lhc rcm:nknblc thiJ1g about this is thnt we nlwn.ys lnkc up nn offering eacl1 F riday morning.

Wi t h Lhc· m011cy collcctccl on Fridays the class mnnlly buys some nceclecl art icle for the church as n rcmcmbr:mce oi Lhc class, nncl the l1alnncc is given Lo mic::sion. . '.L'lrns Lhc class this year supplied the fund s for the violc_t nltm·- nnd pulpit-hangings.

Y on may _imagine how pleased I was when they ha nclecl me this ext ra amount for mission purposes, collcctccl wi thout my knowledge. We hnve clesignatccl one half for the Negro Missions Chapel Fund nncl one hnH :for the Foreign Missions Cha.pol Fund. :i\fny th9 Lord's blessings accompany the gifts!"

F.J.:L.

Where There Is a Will, There Is a Way.

An Echo from Slavery Days.

When we rcccivcll n let ter which, nmong other While looking over my old letters· the other day, good things, nlso contained the following pnr:tI cnmc · across one that wns reeeh•ed by me over grnphs, we at . once cleciclccl thnt the informati.on would be too valuable to keep to omsclves, a1Hl we twenty years ago. At the time when I received the so in{ormccl tl1e writer, Pastor ·w. )f. J,ichtsifm, of letter, it ·tonclied me deeJ>ly, n.nd when I sn.w it IIa.mmoncl, Incl. 'l ' hcsc few Jines ,once more show again the other clny, it brought tears to my eJ~ s; -for· thnt it oftc11 r equires only n few words o.f cncom- it brought back to me the sad truth that I hncl agcment on Lhc part of the pnstor or teacher to not been able to gi,•e the letter-writer the informainterest the pupils o.f om clay-schools nncl Sunclny- . tion she- so much desfred.

The cnvelo.pe bore the address: schoo]s in the blessed work of spreading the mcsSANT PALL Church sn.gc of salvation. Then, too, let us notice that this mincstcr I chn,rgc handsome sum was gathered by boys and girls, who :NEW Orl1111s City ha,•e less to give thn.n nny one else among us. H J:Ie1·e follows the letter: ''Nor.folk vn. October th(\ly cau clo so much, how m11cl1 mo1·e conlcl the the 5 1902 to the mister of this church My sister wnge can10rs mnong us d.o jf they but cnmcstly Was sold nt speculatcr snle buy betsey gri:ffern nt clesirccl t:o clo so! May ma,ny other clnsscs of cnt- perry carter tnwer [ lavern.] my Mother W ns Name cr.hnmens a.ncl also mnny grown-ups fo]low the lln.tl:sy (lriffe11~1 My sister Was Name fnmine Grifexample of these boys and girls in Ffo.mmoncl I Rut. fen 1\fy Nnme is sopbia C Griffen sister famine ·hci-e is the story : Was My twin sister sam Wiuuborne bogh Jife. We "Aitm· 1·encli11g ·the :first article in the current nil Was sold in Muftbr~·o N C · i Would like to number o:f the ProNmm, I decided to write. to yon hen.re :Crome her if she is a.live i trust Goel Will about a plcnsa.nt smp1·isc J had n short. while ago. help 1\fo to ;inquire nnd to hcare fromc her please nucer this n.t once Mrs james ferguson 72 snlter· st l kno,v it wi11 interest yon nlso. , "1.A.t the close o.f the lnst confirmation lesson norColk Vo!' As sl:ntecl nbo\'e, I wns not able to locate the bei'ore Pnlm Sunday, n boy mid n gh·l oC my clnss inquirer's twin sister n.ucl wns obJiged so to inaP,pronchecl my desk, ancl each plncecl a.n n111ount form her. of money on it. AskQd what it meant, they said:

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,, lint n cruel thing slnvery was! How glad we hould be that the hideous cmsc hns been removed from the bounds of our dear country !

But there is a, wor. e slavery than thnt of the hody. nncl there nre sti11 millions npon millions of frccclmcn who nre the s1:wcs of Sntrm nnd sin. Let ns clo nll we cnn in order ~hat the libcrt·y whir:h Christ hns gninecl nlso for the1Y1 be brought them through the mes!:ngc o:f the Gospel !

F. J. L.

for Foreign Missions, hns put out to inform the people ::mcl interest t hem in t he wor~ of bringing the Go. pel of Christ to onr fellow-men. J ust rccc11tly there wns sent to us from Pnlmyrn, l\fo., n copy of the Marion Oounty Tl cral rl, bcnrin.~ the elate or Fcbrunry 1'!, 1D23, which hri11gs po. iiive proof thnt thee illustrn tcd lectures nrc indeed nn excellent mcnns of bringing missionary in f:ormn Lign nncl n1·011siug mi::;sionn.ry intcrc. t. Occnpyi"r1g n very conspicuous plncc on the first pnge o[ ihc pnpcr is n. very full report of nn illu:-tratccl lecture · Our Cut. clclivm~ccl in om church n.t Pnlmyrn by Rev. C. F. Drewes,. the Dirccto1· of Colorccl Mi. sions. F rom 'J'his is the picttnc of n Baptist Colored th is 1·eport we print several excerpts: "chmch ' in Ji[j]wankcc, Wis. l\fissionn.ry B. Sira.- .

"Notwithstnncling the very inclement weather sen, now of Nngercoil, Inclin, wns kincl enough to , 'unclny ernning, Zion L utheran Church in lhis giYe us the photogrnph quit.c n while ngo. city w1Js comfortably filled to hcn1· ni1 illusirntccl · What interested us wns not so much the buildlccbne dcliverccl by R.cv. C. F. Drewes, of ' t. T,ouis, ing which scrvqs. for the plncc of worship, - it is who hns chnrgc o.f the mission-work •o[ the Luthcmn Chmch [Bv. J,uth. Synotlicn.l Con rcrcncc of Nor th Amcricn.] nmong the Colored people or. ihc South.

"IlcY. George :i\Coeller, the pastor ot the congrco-ation, ... very earnestly cn.llccl nttcntion to the cl ut._y the Church owes to every one, rcgarclless of creed, color, 01· nniionali ty. Rev. Moellcr's 1·cmnrks wm·e , received with mn.rkcd attention. 'rl1cy showed thnt he lrns given this sul~ject, tlint of missions, a g reat clcal oi study and n.ttcution. I n introduci ng the speaker of thc·cv~ning, reference wns made to the an old; abandoned store, - but rather the nnnouncc- grent .work Rev. Drewes has accomplishecl during mcnt. ntta.ched to the "church.". ·w hoever wns his long cnrccr in connection with the :Missionary · guilty o'f doing the job of lettering tl1is pnintccl ' Bon.rel. . . . announcement wns unwilling· to be bound by any . "At the b!lginning of the lecture, pictures were conYcniionnl rules of lettering; punctuation, and shown of Lhe prinnipal crop or the S011tJ1, which is nbbrevintion. While all the other letters in the an- cotton. Vn.rious SC"ClleS -were nsccl in showing to nouncement arc capitals, the paintei· dottcil his "I" the nudicnce· \1ow cotton is cultivated nncl how the in <?very illstnnce, ns if he wonted it to be n. smn.ll stnlk looks in ~nrions stnges of dcvc\oprricnt. A picleticr. You ' wiU also notice that he is very libernl tu rc was nlso shown of lumber camps with oxen with his periods, putting one after every wofcl. It nncl men busy rmnoving huge logs to the mills. mny be ncccssnry to tell our renclcrs tl1at the abbre"As the scenes were thrown on the cnnvns, viation " .P RE." undo,1btedly stands :f'or ''"preaching," Il,ev. Drewes gave n full explanation, showing thnt he while "PRAY." means "prnycr." ''B. Y. P . U." was very Inmilin.r with thnt section or the country, are the initiit.ls oi "Baptist Young People's Union," hn.ving visitecl it on mnny occnsions. a socfoty qC young people in the Bn.ptist Church.

"A mn.p of scvcrnl counties in the Stn:te o.C F . •T. T,.

Alabama. which incluclccl tho activities o·f the Mission Bonrd wns Lhcn produced, and the speaker A Secular Editor's Opinion.

J)Ointcd out the principal towns 'and places wher~ the missions arc located.

We l1avo upon various occasions called the atten."In order forcibly to bring to mind the very tion of our readers to the ilhu;tratcrl lectures which great disaclvnntnges the missionaries ln.bor under, the Board for Co]ored Missions, as well as the Board views were shown o! the poorly equipped buildings

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the District oI Columbia. 'L'hc g reater number of ou1· schools nncl churc11es arc in Alabama, No1·th 'arol ina, and Louii;inna. 'l'hc mcmbcl's o.f our Colored Mi.- ·iun.- lead a ll 0U1cr Lu therans or the , 'y11odi ·al Co11[crc11cc in Lhcfr ·contrilmtions, the avcrnrrc contribuLiou of ou1· Colored L ut herans being $1G.30 per member.

So1.o_,1ox ]: r.ANJJS. - '.L'hc ·c islands oI the Pacific nrn rapidly being Chdstia niir.cll. Men who L111·cc ycnrs ago were naked sav11gcs, with absolutely 110 know1cc1gc of God, arc to-tlay able to read the E w•liHh Bible nml n.1·c lning ing its blcssccl truths to their ow11 people in dat·kncss. 'l'hc head-hunters of ye ·tcrday have become tbc so ul-winners ~f to-day.

What great wonder· Ood cau clo !

All the Peoples of the Earth Shall Serve the Lord Jesus Christ.

But there arc more than a b-ill-ion hccilhcn bowi11g iii worsl.1ip before the images or dcpic:tious o.f human m-tificc.

But what is the significance o.f a billion soulsone hmidrcd thousand -mill·io11s of z1coplc? 'l'hc significance is this: If t hey shonlcl be caused to march before the door of y·o ur home, nJarching four abreast, six ycai·s aucl a half would pass by before you would sec the encl of the procession. Do you fully grasp the stupendousness of this :figure? A billion people with ·immortal souls, with souls that were redeemed by the bloocl of the same Savior as was your soul, arc hastening to the gmve without Christ, without hope! Oh, the awfulness of the thought! What will you do to change this sad state of affairs?

FmmoirnN L1v11. - 'l'hrcc-iourths o.f ull the Ncgi·ocs in the United Stntcs live in the Carolinas, Gc01·gin, Floricln, Alnbumn, Mississippi, Missionary Education in the and Louisiana. '!'here is one Negro to every eight Sunday-School. whites in the United States. In· some of the' ' II. 'l'rull, who wrote a good little Southcl'll States there is one Negro to each white Dr. George ·man. In Mississippi and South Carolina the Negro book on · JI-issiona·rg M clhods f&r Sunday-school population is in excess of the white.

W orkcrs, says : "In the hands of Sunday-school Oun CoLOltED MISSIONS. - Om· Board fo1· superintendents and teachers lies the real solution Colored Mission~ has t1ih-ty pastors prcacb,ing at of the missionary problc~, and if they improve fi!ty-scvcn places. 'l'he~e churches have almost thcfr opportunity, within n generation there will be 4,000 members, 2,684 day-school a.n d 2,729 Sunday- a Church whose intelligence about missions and school pupils. The Board has thirty-eight day- zenl for them hns ne\1 er been equaled in the world's schools under its supervision an.d supports thr_ee history."

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cieuL to conduct nn occasional missionary service and Lo take an annual offering. '!'here must be pe1·sist.e11t, contiuuous teaching and training. One of the most important t hings is to create a missionary atmosphere. l\Iottocs, maps, and pictures ou t he wall help to do this. :Missionary hymns should be frequently sw1g. Prayers for mission a.nd missionaries should be oirercc1 every Sunday.

The library should _provide attractive missionary books. A bulletin board containing from Sm1clny to Sunday outstanding facts, figures, and iucidellts · from mission-fields will help. Occasional pageants may be mndo very instructi ve. Five minutes or even one or two minutes before or niter tho teaching of the lesson of tho day mny be ndvnutagcously devoted to striking incidents in the lives nnd work of missionaries. Above all, definite missionary teaching should be done in t he classes. 'l'his may be• done, as Dr. 'l'rull indicates, by an interpretation of the missionary idea of the lesson ·01· by bringing in illustrations from missionn1·y- history and biography. 'l'he ingenious superintendent nod _teacher will ndd to these suggestions indefinitely. Where it is possible, a suporintcnc1ent of missionary education should be elected by the Sunday-school 'l'cnchors' Association to cooperate with departmental superintendents in working out plans for the different departments.

Dr. John T. McFarlnnd says: ''Let us carry · missions into our Sunday-schools primarily for t he sake of the child1·en themseh•es, that they may come to their largest development."

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Inadequate Schools.

in providi11g Negro children with : chool facilities.

Not only arc I.he classes overcrowdcll, but pn1cLically all arc on a half-Lime basis. O.f the 11i11cLy-one classe · in , Lhc Negro public schools si.xLy-six wqrc on part time.

In aclclition, o,•er 300 Negro children were t.ul'Jlec1 away because Lhcl'C were not even enough half-Lime opporLuniLie: . :Many others woul d have nppliccl liac1 there been any possibility o.f ga ining aclmissio11.

Negro Lcachers arc paicl only three-filths ns much as tho white teachers. All classes had at least fol'Ly pupil to one teacher, a11c1 Jifty-Lwo hacl fifty or more~ Lo 0110 teacher.

It must be remembcrccl t hat Atlanta. i · ranked as 0110 of tho most progressive of Southern cities.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Received for Oolorc,Z Missio11s from the followin:: Colorc.'<l congrr:gn.tions: AIn hrunn, $S.20 11 ml 3.15; BeU111 ny, Yonker;;, 50.00; IlcU1cl. Conover, 3.28 ; Concordirt, llock• well, 10.00 : :M ount Oli\'e, Crttnwba, 2.25; DeU1el, ClmrloUc, 11.50; DeU1lchc111, Monroe, 5.00; Concordia , New Orleans, 15.00; Grncc, Concord, 40.00; Grace, Creen;;borM 8.24; Jnmmnucl, Brooklyn, 2.00; Jmmnnucl Lutheran College, Greeni;boro, liG4.85; J1111111umel, Shanklet.own, 5.00; J.ccture tour (RC\•. M. N. Carter), 25.00; Luther College, New Orlcnni;, :35.00 ; Mount C1ilv1try, Kannn.polis, 14.00; Mount Zion, New Orlc-n.ns, 40.00; :Mount Zion, Rocks, 15.50; St. Jamcs's, Southern Pines, 8.17 ; S~. John's, S1ili11b11ry, 14.00; S~. Luke's, Spnrtnnburg, 15.00; St. Mark's, Atlantn, 15.00 ; St. Mark's, Winston-Salem, 10.12 ; St. l\fn.tthew's,, l\feherrin, 24.23; Mount Zion, Clmrlotte, IG.00; St. P1i11l's, Charlotte, 32.00; St. Paul's, l\fansnm, 12.50; St. P1U1l's, Napoleonville, 23.00; St. Peter's, Drys , choolhousc, lli.00 ; St. Philip's, Philaclelphia, 5.00; JlcUrlchem, New Orle:u1s, 57.50; Zion, Gold Hill, 7.00; Mount Calvary, Mount Pleasant, 7.00. - 7'ola,l, $1,110.40.

St. Louis, Mo., l\fay 1, 1023.

H. A. Drr·uIAR, A.ssl. T1·c11s., 5320 Cote Drillhmte ,\ ve.

Please Take Notice.

The Russell Sage Foundation hos been investigating the public schools of Atlanta, Ga. It found, in June, 1913, that out of 10,118 Neg1·0 children of school· ogc but 2,924 were enrolled.

Atlanta furnishes fo.r its 17,000 white ohi~drcu thirty-eight grammar schools, n boys' high sc\1001, a girls' high school, a boys' tcclmienl high school, a girls' English commercial high school and five nigbt;..schools.

For . the 10,118 Colored children jt furnishes eleven grammar schools. The whites have 426 teachers and the Negroes have 82. The report says that inadequacy of equipment wos most noted in the Negro schools. If Atlanta had twice ns many schools, she would be making only a good beginning

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ST. LOUIS, MO., JULY, 1923.

No.7.

OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY MOTTO. "Every man, woman, and child in heathen darkness is a chailenge to the Church."

An Earnest Appeal.

Hare yon c,•er wanted to sec something nnd thcu, a[tcr yon had seen it, felt sorry that you had seen it? 'l'hat is the way .I feel sometimes since I have seen our I mmnnuel College at Greensboro. I always liad the wfah to sec this institution, but since I have seen it, I often ha,·e a feeling much akin to sadness for ha,·ing seen it. You ask why I should feel thn.t way. J;ct me tell you.

I found at Greensboro a faculty, mostly composed of young men, that was just "aching'' to clo things. All of them w.crc as busy ns they co1tlcl be; every one of them practically bubbling over wi th enthusiasm fo1· the work he ·wns engaged in;· every ·one o·[ them doing more work than is ordinarily CXJ>ectcd from 1111 instructor; not one of them complaining of hnving too much w0t·k, but apparently willing to do even more. Aud nil this despite a host o.f handicaps; all this despite innumer11blc diflicultics and clrnwbncks. .Actually, friends, the conditions and circumstances unclcr which our young p1·ofessors at Greensbo1·~ are cxpectecl to work arc

· sztch cu~ shoulcl not be fowncl no1· tole-ralecl in the Sy,iocU.cal Oonfe1·en,ce. What would you think o·f a contractor who would expect workmen to dicr .

0 n d itch or make a road without shovels, spnclcs, scrapers, and the like? What would you think of lli farmer in these clays who would expect his hired men to farm his land without plows, harrows, Cltltivators, mowers, reapers, horses, nud all the other

thing: tlmL a farmer ncccls to make far111i11,., o a succc~s? " hat would you think of a contmctor who cxpccfcd his. citrpcntcrs to put up a house without hammers and saws and nails· and ·screws? 0£ com sc, these things can be tlone ; ditches cnn be' tlug ancl roads can be made without proper toolsr a farm can be tilled without modern implements, nml I ha vc seen log houses that had been· erected wit hout hnmincr, s~w, nail, or screw. But isn't it unrcnsounblc to expect these things to be done u ncler such handicaps? Isn't it n waste of precious time and valuable maJ1-power in these clays of modern implements to build roads and houses and rnu farms without the aid of ndequn.te tools?

Our faculty n.t Immanuel College is doing wonclerl'ul work despite the hanclicaps besetting them on nil sides. ~l'he grnduntes they tum out arc the cq1111ls of any iustituti.on of the same grade in the , 'outh. 'l'he writer is in n position to make n compari!:011, and he herewith declares without hesitntion thnt the showing which the grttduates oi lnununucl Lutheran College made WI\S most favorable. Several times he said to two friends who had nccompn.uiecl hini OJI his trip: "If these teachers nre able to make such n goocl showing under these most deplorable conclitious, what couldn't they do if they were given n real chance!" rt wns said of Mark Hopkins, the celebrated American college president, that to mnke a university all that ,,,as necessary would be to put him nt ·one end o~ n log and n student at the other end.

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,vell, it seems that our Synodical Conference must have had that remark in mind for the past years with regard to Immanuel College: for this institution bas not much more than a "log" besides the faculty and t he students. And if the Synodical Conference actually did think that the Immanuel faculty would see its way clear to do good work and turn out graduates properly equipped for life's work, even if they had little by way of equipment; I say, if Synodical Conference did think this, their faculty of spirited and faithful teachers at Greensboro fully came up to expectations. And the Colored people of North Carolina realize this too.

Though Greensboro has a well-equipped State school, the Agricultural and Technical College, our poorly equipped Immanuel College has more than half as large an enrolment as the State school with its excellent buildings and up-to-date equipment. The Colored youth of North Carolina know that ,ve have a corps of teachers at our school that more than discount by competency and faithfulnes~ the physical advantages of the State institution.

For ~his reason they have been willing to bear with all manner . of inconveniences and even hardships and baYe come to our school.

But is the equipment of Immanuel College really so very bad? Let me tell J OU what we found.

We found the dormitories of .the mnle students in the a.ttic, directly under a slate roof. Temporary "beaver board" walls, some of them all "out of plumb," served as partitions for these rooms.

There is no provision made to heat these dormitories in winter and practically no lights are installed. The fumiture of the classrooms is such that our poorest congregations would refuse to have it in their day-schools. 'l'hc male students study in these classrooms at night, though in some of them I found only a single light bulb of about forty candle power. All the classrooms are heated by stoves, and these, as well as the pipes, show the raYages of age. There .is scarcely a 1·oom in the whole main building whose walls and ceilings arc not in need of repair. 'rhc classrooms are utterly too small to accommodate the students, and · not a few of them arc· so dark that half of the students must ·find it difficult to read from their text-books during the recitations. 'rhe most necessary teaching apparatus is lacking. Aside from a number of theological books the volumes in the library are practically useless.

The female students are housed in the former mission-school . on the college campus. A Yery

hopeful elementar-y school with three teachers had to be. closed to afford room for the girl students of the college. One of the former schoolrooms now serves as a study for girls, while the other two rooms have been partitioned off into bedrooms and furnished with single iron beds. But though the beds are single, they a.re each occupied by two girls!

Just think of it: two girls in each narrow bed!

Do you think it is right to expect this of these girls?

And these conditions will continue to obtain another year if something is not done at once. 'l'he Mission Bon.rd has tried hard to awaken our people to see the needs of Immanuel College. It 'was largely because this institution stood in need of so very much that t he Board made such strenuous efforts during the past year to interest the whole Synodical Coufc1·ence in the Jubilee Collection.

Ho\\·e,•cr, its efforts were most rlisappointing as to results. Instcacl of the $150,000 needed to carry out its building plans, the Mission Board has only about $30,000 at its disposal. Immanuel College, which needs -yes, needs- at least $30,000 to put it into proper condition, was given an appropriation of only $7,000. 'l'he Board is not to bla.me, since it cannot give what it has not in its possession.

Neither can we expect the Board to borrow a sufficic11t sniu of money to make the 11.ccessary improvements, for its experiences in the past in this respect have been so sad that it has_practically decided never to borrow for building purposes again.

SQ, then, it is up to you ·and me to do something if past conditions are not to continue :mother year, and if we do uot want the dread eventuality to ~ome to pqss of seeing om· college closed by the authorities because of certain unsanitary conditions due to 0Ye1·crowding and other causes.

Fellow-Christians, can we let this matter go on any longer? Can we affo1·d to let these young men of the faculty, who are so willing to work, continue . to labor under such difficulties? Is it right ~or us to expect them to waste their energies so unneces- · sarily because we selfishly withhold from them what we owe them? Ah, brethren and sisters, I am proud of our young teachers at Immanuel ! I rejoice to think that we still have young men who are willing to sacrifice their health, their energies, and their comforts ill the service of the Lord.

I should be delighted to climb to the very housetops and proclaim it to the world that our seminaries are sending out young men filled with such zeal and heroism to do the Lord's work.

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But, alas ! what abo1it usV What are we doing hearts. l\fay the Llessings of God continue to rest • to encourage them in their work? What are we upon St. J ames's Congregation and keep all her doing to cheer them on in their labors? What members in the faith which saves!

- are we doing to hold up their hands? Will our * * * Colored Missions have to share the fate of other , After the harvest at Buena Vista the pastor JOk Lutheran missions which once were flourishing and to the road once more and after an hour's cIHve then liacl to be abandoned, not because there were found himself at St. Andrew's Congregation, located no missionaries willing to wor k, but simply because at Vredenbmgh. Here three souls were received the people at home refused to support the work into the Church, one by baptism and two by conwhich God has commissioned the Church to do? firmation, after which some twenty odd went to Brethren and sisters, I fear for the future of Holy Communion. our Synodical Conference! Goel is showing us the When the pastor nnd the writer reached Selma work He wants us to do; He has given us an open at half past three Monday morning, they were tired door t hroughout t he fa ir Southland, but particu- and sleepy, but thanked God for the wonderful larly at Immanuel College. Do you think that He harvest He had permitted to be gathered into His will long continue to recognize us as His people? garner. As we parted at the corner of Selma Ave. Do you think that He will much longer leave open · and Lapsley St., Superintendent Schmidt remarked, the door of opportunity for us if we do not heed "I am glad I don' t have to get up early this mornHis call? 0 Lord, give us the desire and abiiity ing," and the ,vriter began to envy him the hours to do Thy will! .

F. J . L. of sleep he would be enjoying while he, the writer, would be plugging away in the schoolroom. But he changed his mind, for besides taking the main Alabama Notes. services the day before, the Superintendent had sat at the steering wheel and piloted tlte "Gospel Ford" April 15 will long be remembered at Buena over miles of tortuous 1·onds. And so he deserved Vista as a day of happiness, for on that day more a few extra hours of ·well-earned rest. than a. score of souls were added to our little .con* * * gregation there by baptism and confirmation. The On the 22d of April another congregation was little chapel was crowded with members and made glad by an event for which the members h~d strangers who wished to .witness the reception of been hoping and praying for months and months, the candidates into the communion of the Evan- and which they will remember for years and years: gelical Lutheran Church. And as the candidates, A little over fourteen months ago a small band of infant~ in the arms of thei.J., mothers, others just people assembled in the bedroom of Sid McDowell's beginning to learn to walk, children from sL-x to home at Long l{ile Place, a few miles southwest twelve years of age, youths and maidens from fom- o'f Camden, and for the first time heard the pure teen to twenty, mothers ancl grandmothers from Word of God spoken by a Lutheran minister. From · thirty-five to sixty, came forward to be received that time on this little band assembled regularly into the kingdom of God, the members of the con- to hear the Word of God. In the course of time gregation sang in their hearts "0 Day of Joy and. this Word bore fruit,· and a congregation was orGladness," and the pastor forgot that less than an ganized. More and more people came to the meet• hour before he had spent over half an hour in ings, and Brother Sid's bedroom could no longer prying his trusty Ford out of a mud-hole. As the aocommodnte them. They then moved into an old Sacrament of Baptism and the l"ite of confirmation log shack, which sened as chapel and schoolhouse . we1·e administered to these blood-bought souls, the for many months. In this old shack the Gospel was pastor forgot that his clothes had become soiled preached by Superintendent Schmidt, and the Catwith mud and soaked with perspiration in liberat- ecltism and Bible History taught to a host of chiling his Ford from a Monroe County mud-hole. All dren by Miss Annie M. McBryde. Here the conthis was forgotten because he rejoiced that over gregation talked and dreamed of a chapel in which a score of souls had been delivered from the bond-=- they could worship God in peace.

April 22 brought the realization of that dream, age of sin. After the baptism and confirmation for 011 that day the congregation at Long Mile Place over thirty persons partook of Holy Communion was permitted to dedicate its new chapel to the and thus gave evidence of the faith that is in their

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senice of the 'l'rhme God. Long before the time set for the dedication the people began to gather to · witne!:s the glorious event, so that, when the ministerJ arrived from Selma. a goodly numbet· of people were already J>resent. At half past twelv~ the· congregation assembled outside of the new chn.pcl, where a brief dedicatory service was held.

Pnstor E. A. Westcott spoke the words of clet1ication, Superintendent Sclnnjclt, pn tor o'C U1c con"'regat.io11, offered the prayer, nncl the 11111lcr;;ignecl rencl a Seri pture-Jcsson. At U1c encl of t he i::ervice

i\ t ll1e close of the afternoon service, Pastor Wcstcott hastened to his congregation at '.l'ait's ]>]nee, where he had services Uwt evcn i1ig, while Supcri11lc11dent Schmidt and the 1mdcrsigncd rcmnincrl nf: Lon~ 1'file for an Easter progrnm g iven by the c·h ilclrcn of: the school. Anc1 the program!

When we tell yon it wn..~0 11ie program you should bcli.e,•e us. 'J.'he sing ing cspccinlly, all circumsf.nnccs coni:itlcrccl, wns nil (:hat could be desirccl.

You sho11ld have ·l1l'arcl Lho e chilchcn sing ! H I.here· is nnythi11g uncl <' r h •:wen tlrnt Nr.grncll c·n n

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1'np reno: TeucherR A. Wiley, ,\. neri:er, n. :\h•lhnhm. W. Sccbc1·ry, 'l'h. Scl11·oc1le1·. n c,·. C. 1'. 'XbomJ>kOII, '.l'enchcr ,\1. Julm><OII, lit•,•. I~. Wlhl;;rubc, 'l'c11chcr1< ,\. Scrnllc, 0. Wll11111111<.

J,'. Vorlcc 111111 llcrnlcP 1·rn1::, ltc\'. W. llcck, 'J'cnchcrR 'Syl.-hm rtnymund, Jluth Uonnufon, nnd Jtuth ,Toho11O11, I'ro!. U. Nam, '.l'cncher J•:111 ..1 Johnson, He,·. G. h:rnmcr, Prof. H . J\lcibuhm.

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the congregation filed into the new building and ·do, and do well, it is singing. Some time ago. the heard the ffrst' sermon in their new church, which 'l'uskcgee Quartet su.ng over the WSY b1·oadcasting the \\'riter was privileged to deliver. 1.\ t th<! end station at Birmingham, and a "listenc1·-in" :from of thii,; scr.,·icc there was a brief intermission, n:(tcr Iowa wrote thn.t he never expected to hea1· angels which the congregation reassemb1ed and listened to s~ng ,vhilc here on this earth, but that on the night an inspiriJ1g dedicatory sermon by Pastor Westcot,t. of the co11ccrt he ]ind distinctly heard the angels 'fhe speaker dwelt on the purpose for which that cnlliug "Old Black ,Joe." ,Yell, if he had heard house had been bu.ilt, namely, for the service of the the chilchcn o.f Long Mile singing on the night of • almighty God. · After the sermon the congregation the 22d of April, methinks he would have heard the celebrated FioJy Communion, in which they were cherubs singing "I Know that M:y Redeemer Lives," joined by members from their sister congregations. "Awake, l{y Heart, with Gladness," and many other About fifty '}>eoplc partook of the Lord~s Supper R!lstcr melodies which our Lutheran Zion knows. on tlJiS day: A ftcr the children's senice the Superintendent 1·e-

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'l'hrough the kindness of Professor Schuelke the students at our tra.iuing-school are able to listen to concerts :Crom " nil over." So .fnr the following stations linvc been heard: St. Louis, Mo.; Jefferson City, Mo.; K nnsas City, l\fo.; Omahn, N cbr.; Los Angeles, ,Cal.; Louisville, Ky.; Memphis, 'l'cnn.; Birminghnm, Ala..; Davenport, Iowa.. All join in thanking you, P1·0:Ccssor, for the fine receiving-set.

We hope to be able to "pick up" Immanuel College some fine dny.

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The writer gratefully ack:nowleclges the receipt of a set o:f schoolbooks from littl~ Lacorda Schimmclp:fcnn ig. God bless the dono1· !

We nlso wish to acknowledge the receipt o:f two barrels nnd one box of ~lothing from the "Ruth Girls'' of St. J olm's Congregation, York, Pa. The shipment wns sent to Miss Young, but as she was ill at the time, she asked the ,vriter to take charge of it. Many thanks to you, "Girls" l May the blessings of God rest upon you!

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::Hiss L. i\L Stallworth, teacher at Taits Place, was uuited in holy wedlock with Teacher Braclley, of Possum Bend. l\'Cny the young couple have a long ancl happy liCc !

R. 0. L. L.

Teachers' Training-School, Selma, Ala. :b.,riday, J unc 1, our 'l'enchers' •rraining-school, located nt 'clmn, L\ In., finished its first year's work. :b'or scn;irnl ve11• good 1·easo11s we did not have a closing exercise. On ] riclny evening, however, -•11pcrinte111lent , chmitl t ma!lc a short nl1dress to the sl.udcnt:-. 'l'hc b11r1lcn of hi: ndclress was, that ,luring their su111111er \'lll'ntion the students should be witnesses !or Christ; they should practise and spread the teachings which they have learned concerning their Savior. Goel grant that they heed the admonition I After Supcri.utendent Schmidt's address, p1·i?.es were awarded for sewing aud map-drawing. 'l'he girls then served a Live-course luncheon,· ~frs. E. A. Westcott acting as hostess. During the luncheon _E. A. Westcott, Jr., was the center. of attraction, compelling every one present to pay special attention to him; if nn engaging smile failed, then a. lusty cry was sure to get results. At the close of the luncheon the teachers received-a Ycry pleasant surprise on hcing J>rcsentcd with little tokens of . love ancl appreciation from the sh1dents. God bless them for their thoughtfulness!

As we look back over the past year's work, we nre compellccl to confess that Goel has blessed both students and teachers, and cnch one of us must acknowledge with Jacob of old: "I nm not worthy of the least o-f nll the mercies and of nll the truth which 'l'hou hast showed unto 'fhy servant." · DuriJ1g the past year we have had two cases o.f seri01;s illness. Miss Rosa Young, om matron, bad to discontinue her work because o.f sickness, and one of the girls, :Miss Carrie Stallworth, had to undergo an operation for. appendicitis. We thank God that the operation was successful, nud that l\Iiss Stall. worth will be nl,lc to continue hcl' studies next :fall.

During tl1e school-yca.r we enrolled eleven students and· closed the session with an enrolment of ten. 'l'lfc discipline at the school has been all that could be desirecl. God grant that the character of the s~clent-body may remain the same during ' all the years to come!

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teachers, and of all who have an interest in t hem, that the Lord God would keep them dur ing the summer from all temptations, from sin, and every evil of body and soul.

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this great loss Rev. John ~{cDnvid writes under date of June 4: "I returned last night from Clarkton, N. C., where it was my sad duty to preach the sermon at the burial services of Mrs. Avy Victoria Fuller, beloved wife of Rev. J. W. Fuller, of Spar tanburg, S. C. lfore than 700 persons, white and colored, had turned out to pay their Inst tribute of respect to this <lcnr sister in the Lord. Last Wednesday I received a letter informhig me of her death. 'l'he next morning I went to Sp.artanburg in the company of Revs. Alston and Hunt. Rev. Hunt and I remained till 11 P. 1r., when the body was removed to Clarkton, and accompanied Rev. Fuller and his mother-in-law as fa1· as Charlotte. We had a sho·rt service at the house before we left. About an hour before the service it started t.o rain, bnt

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this did not prevent a large crowd from gathering to see l\frs. Fuller for the Inst time. Many could · not get iuto the house, but remained outside in t he rain till the service was over. I never saw so many flowers at a funeral. We took a number of large boxes wi th us, but had to lca,•e some behind. Her little pupils, with tears chipping from their eyes, would come and place their wreaths and bouquets near the casket. More t han a hundred people went with us Lo the train despite the rain. '!'he people of Spar tanburg held l\Irs. Fulle1· in highest esteem, nncl t he children loved her as a dear mother. " When we were in Spartanburg a month ago, l\Crs. F uller was in school, tho,~ h she looked weak and care-worn. A. week later she was no longer ; able to leave her bed. The be t physicians, after examining her, declared that he had only a very slight chnucc of recovery, and that only if she would submit to a very serious operat io11. '.rhc operation was performed by the most skilful u rgeons. She rallied after t he operation, nml for a nu mber of days hopes were ·cute1·tai ncd that she would recover. But sucldcnly, on 'fucsclay evening, :i\Cay 29, she grew .worse and ha.cl passed away hcforc her husband could reach her bcclsicle. ":i\[rs. ll'uller was born near Clarkton, N. C., 't•ptcmber 9, 1880, and was the second daughter of l\fr. and Mrs. 1.\ . 'l'. Spaulding, a very industrious and pious olcl couple. She attended the local chools t ill her graduation in 1898. In the following year she entered Shaw University, :finishing the normal com·se of that institution in 1902. During Lhe next three years she taught public school. In 1905 she was married to R.e,·. J. W. Fuller, who was then a druggist. T heir imion was blessed with one sou. W11ile living in Charlotte, t heir boy attended om· school, and through hini th~ wr iter became acquainted with the parents. The little boy was so carried away with our school that he told his parents that he wanted to be a Lutheran pastor.

The boy was accidentally killed. Sho1·tly afterwards the father declared that he would take the boy's place.

He was instructed at Concord by Pastor Schweim, now of Philadelphia, was confirmed, entered Immanuel College, and since 1917 bas been · one of our most active missionaries. While her husband was stationed at .M:eherrin, Va., .M:rs. Fuller was active in helping him ; but in Spartanburg, as a primm·y teacher, she especially showed her remarkable tnlent.s and proved a wonderful missionary asset. She had the gift not only of imparting knowledge to her pupils, but of winning their most

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ardent affections. It will be hard, indeed, to fill will bring a report on this important missionary her place in school. As a wife she was a true help- gathering. meet to her husband. No one could eutcl' her home L UTHER 001,LT::G.E. - We 1·eJ01ce to hear that without ieelillg the ,rnnntb of her genial hospitality · J>rof. H . Nau, Ph.D., will uot accept the call to the and lrnr unselfish joy in serving others." , 'cminary at Porto Alegre, Brnzil. Luther College Mny our heavenly Father comfor t ])astor lt'ullcr may, indeed, be tbankft1l that the services of this iu his g reat bereavement and assnrc him of His excellent man m·e to be retained for the institution. nbicl.ing p1·cscnce and strength!

F. J. L .

H is removal would have been a most serious loss for our Colored Missions as a whole.

S1·. Lom , Mo. - We a1·e very sorry to be comItems of Missionary Interest. pelled to report that Rev. Herbert Claus, for a number of years the faithful and successful missionary RES IG.N'A'.tION. - Prof. G. Me7.ger tendered his at St. Louis and Springfield, has accepted a call to resignation as member and presiden.t of the Board a white congregation near St. Louis. As a result of of Colored l\Iissions at the boa1·d meeting held l)nstor Claus's leaving, certain changes are to be l\[ay 10. With clecp regret his resignation was made in the manuing of the St. Louis aud Springfielcl. charges. · hll\lA:S-trnr, · coLT,EG£. Rev. G. Viehweg, of Arapahoe,• Nebr., has been culled as professor at U recnsbol'O. Should he accept, he will be acti"e in the theological department of the school.

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Walther League Convention.

Prof. G. Mezger, D. D .

Prof. Th. Graebnel'.

accepted. l:Ie hacl becen a member of the board since 1908 nnd its president since 1917. H is pi·esence nt the meetings of the board and his wise counsel will be greatly missed by his former comembe1·s. Prof. 'l'hcodore G1·aebner was unani• mously cliosen to succeed P rofesso1· :Mezger as the head of the board. We congratulate the hon.rel upon its wise nnd happy choice. ' '.rlli.\NS1mns. - Pastors L ehnmu und Carlso11 have been transferred from North Carolina to Alabama. 'l'he forme1· will become teacher at the Teache1·s' '.rraining-school, and the latter will take charge of a number of congregations ancl thus relieve Superintendent Schmidt, who has been o"erburdened with work and is just now taking a needed 1·est in Iowa.

TEACHERS' !NS'.L'I'.rUTE. - The annual teachers' institute· of the Alabama workers ,will be held nt Holy Ark, Ala., August 1 to 5. . Our next issue

'l'he thirty-til·st iuternatiounl convention of the Walther League will be held in Detroit, Mich., July 15 to 19. Reports f rom all parts of the c·otmtry imlicatc that this will be the best-attended convention in the history of the Walther League.

Jt is expected that about three thousand young people will attend the sessions, and that the opening service, Sunday afternoou, July 15, will be attended by uo less than five thousand Lutheran people.

The usual 1·eports o.f the committees will give n general sur,•ey of hospice work, charitable endeavors, Foreign Missious work, Junior department, educational uctivitiei;, aud uH phases of League work. '.rhe missionary exhibit will display curios, charts, literatm-c, and idols fron1 heathen lands. '.rhe tenth hospice of the League was secured iu Los Angeles, Cal., where the need of such an institution for travelers and visitors was keenly felt.

It is a fi"Qe $18,000 residence, which can be used for hospice pmposes witi1out many alterations and is situated in one o.f the finest sections of California.

At a recent comeution of the Eastern District it was resolved to establish a large hospice in our nation's capital. The Pennsyhania District at its . recent conYention likewise gave hospice work the

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support it rightly deserves when it resolved to estnb]ish a hospice in Pittsburgh, if feasible.

The Foreign Missions end!?nvor has bec11 iustrnmental iii a1·ousing great interest in our mission- · work. Tweh-c districts of the League now support t hirtecu missionaries. The last clishict to pledge itself to the support of an ambassador for Christ in h_cathcn Jauds is the Eastern District. When it is considered tho,t this 1·esoh~tion was adopted in addition to the resolution pledging tha estnblishment of n hospice, both at the same convention, it is indeed encouraging and is expressi,•c o.f the Christian optimism and faith that is guiding the resolutions and accomplishments of our com•cntions. 'l'hc Pmu1sylvU:uia District, wit h only 295 members, again oversubscribed by several hundred clol]ars the amount p1edgccl for the support of ~ for.cign missionary. '!'he l\fissohri District, which o.trercd to contribute $1,800, raised o,·cr two thousnnc.1. Tu 11, recent bulletin i t was reported thnt the Northeru Cnliforuin am] Ncvndn District hall cxcccclcll Hs pledged amount. All this is in hn.rmony with the convention- motto, which has been chosen with n view to leading the Leaguers on to greater heights of sacrifice and service: ''Let us go 011 unto perfection." _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ P. G. P .

"De Min's of All Dese Yere White People."

At a meeting held recently in Virginia an old Colored preacher, in opening tlie service, prayed thus : "0 God of all races, will you please, Sfr, come in an' take charge of de nun's of all desc yerc white p_eople an' :fix dem so dat dey'll J.."Dow an' understan' dat nl1 of us Colored folks is not lazy, dirty, dishones', an' no ,.count, an' help dem, Lorcl, to see dn.t most of us is prayin', workin', an' strivin' to get some land, some houses, nn' some ecl'cation !or ourselves an' our cbillun, an' get tmc 'ligion, an' dat most c,•e'y Negro in Northampton County is doin' hfa lebel bes' to make frien's an' get along wid de white folks. Help dese yerc white folks, O Lord, to understan' dis thing. Lord, while you is takin' charge of de min's of dese white people, don' pasil by de Colored fo1ks1 for dey is not perfec' dey needs you as much as de white folks docs. Open de Negro's blin' eyes dat he may sec dat all of de white folks is not mean an' clishoncs' an' prejudice' ag'inst do Colored felks, dat dere is hones', bardworkin'' J"us', an' God-fearin' white !olks in dis yerc . c;ommunity who is tryin' de bes' dey know how, w1d

llc cir'umstnuces ag'iust elem, to be fair in clcrc dcaliJ1's wid de Colored folks, an' help elem to be 'spectable men on' women, Help us, Lord, black nn' white, to 1mderstan' ca.ch .other more eve'y clay."

The prayer of this old Colored mnn expresses, in a crude, but effcctfre fashion, the feeling aucl clesires of the bc1;t Negroes and the best white people of the 8011th. - 'J.'he Bottlhern Worl.mutn.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Received fo1· Colorc<l Missions Crom t he foll owin~ Colored cong1·cgntions: For ,lfo,rch: Selma, $5.80 ; St. John'1<, ,Toffrc, G.10; Ilctlmny, Nyland, 5.00; St. Peter's, Pinc Ilil I, -t.17; Ilirminghanr, 1.20; St. Jnmcs's, Bucnn, V ista, 2.24: Our Redeemer, Longmilc, 3.73; Zion, Tnit.s Place. 5.07; Bethlehem, Holy Ark, 8.05; St. Andrew',;, Vrcdcnlmrgh. !J.33; Christ, Rosebud, 7.83; St. Paul's, Oak R ill, !i.70; Grace, Ingomnr, 1-70 ; Mount C1ilv1iry, 'l'ihlcn, i.50; Mount Olive, Tincln., 4.07 ; Mount C1u-mcl, Midw11y, 2.!18; Our Snvior,, Possum Den cl, 5.72.. For 1lpril: l\fouile, A In., l.2:i ; St. Peter's\ Pinc H ill, 4.00; Dctlumy, Nylnnd, ii. Hi; Birmingham, Ala., 2.i7; Grace, Ingom,u·, 1.24; Mount C11lv1try, Tilden, 10.04; St. Pnul's, Onk Hill, 4.!l4; Chri>'L, Hostlbud, 12.00 ; Our Ticdccmcr, T.ongmile, 2.!l!l: llclhlchcm, Holy Ark, 2.21; Mount Olive, Tim:hi, 3.!JO ; St. ,Tnmc11',;, D11c1m Vistn, 5.55; St. Andrew';;, Vrcrlllnhurl{h, ii.54: l\Iount C1irmcl, Midwny, 3.i4; Our S1wior, l'o>'>111111 llcnd, 4.i8; Zion, Tnits Pince, 4.02; Sclmu, .-\ ht.. l.H I ; Alnunma, .00, I 1.00, and 2.05; Dcthnny, Yonker>', 50.00; llt!thd, Conover, 1.50; Concordia, Rockwell, 7.00 ; Grace, Greensboro, 0.73; Grace, Iugomar, ~.00; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 3.00; Immanuel Lutheran College, GrccnslJoro, 003.80; Lecture tour, Re,•. M. N. Carter, 30.05; Luther College, New Orleans, 25.00; l\fount Cnlvnry, Kannapolis, 14.00 ; llount Calvary, Mount Pleasant, 7.00; Mount Oliv.c, Catuwbn., 3.00; Mount' Zion, New 01'lcuns, 40.00; l\'lonnt Zion, Rocks, 10.00; St. Jnmes's, Southern Pines, 8.28: St. John1s, Salisbury, 14:00; St. Luke's, Spartanburg, 15.00; St. Mark's, At.lantn, i.00; St. Mark's, Winston-Salem, 20.40; St. Matthew's, Mchcrrin, 38.G0; l\fot111t Zion, Chal'lottc, 10.00; St. Paul's, Charlotte, 32.00; St. Paul's, ~lamsurn, 12.50; s ·t . Paul's, Napoleonville, 23.00; St. Philip's, llhilndclphin, 5.00 ; Zion, Gold Hill, 7.00; Concorclhi, New •Orleans, 15.00; Bethlehem, New Orleans, 5i.50; St. l,c_ tcr's, Drys Schooll1ousc, 15.00; Grace, Concord, 40.00."Tota.f., $1,403.17. . 1 St. Louits, Mo., June 1, 1!)23.

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ST. LOUIS, MO., AUGUST, 1923.

· No. 8.

OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY MOTTO. Every church should try to. support at least two pastors- one for the thousands at home, the other· for the •millions abroad. · Not by Bread Alone. 'l'hel'c m·e two essential pm·ts to every human being, - the physicnl, which perishes; ancl the spiritual, which will never die, - ancl each must have its proper sustenance. Goel, in His loving-kindness, has 'provided both, and Jesus tells us which is the more important. Ile says, John 6, 27: ''Labor not fo1· the meat which pe1·ishcth, bnt for that .meat which endureth unto everlasting life." Spiritual life and the food needed · to sustain it should have first place in our thought and plans for ow·selves and others. Those who have fed upon the Bread of Life and know the satisfaction which it gives ,to the soul .ml~st feel compelled to obey Christ's command to "go tell" the hungry tha,t th ere is S?lllfoocl for them.. God has <;>pened wide the doot· for us to brin.g this Gospel-message to the millions of Negroes in our country by sending ministers and teachers, by building churches and schools.

Our Church hem·d God's call, assumed its responsibility in this mission-field, and organized its Board of Missions, asking every church and every organization in each church to contribute to this cause. Churches and schools were establishecl by the board in many localities; the work which has .been accomplished in the past forty-five years shows rich frui-tage. Thousands of Colored people have been gained, for Ghrist and our Church, and in honesty, morality, purity -of life -and home, in in-

tclligeuce and thrift, the upward progress has bceu unmistakable. Yes, om Colored b1·ethr~n a.nd sisters are steadily climbing and lifting as they climb. 'l'o the Colored race of our country we owe a debt equa.l to the opportunity offered to us. 'l'he Negroes have a double claim upon us. As ·physical and social beings they need to be taught how to live and how to make a· iivi~g. They are eager to learn ; but their environment has been such that it will require patien,ce, faith, and yea1·s of training to lead the whole race onward a nd upward· 'l'hey are like little children in their eagerness and faith. Here is an opportunity for us, to do much. . Let us put away our prejudice a.nd gh•e this race the Qppo1·tunity of growing upward.

However, the Negro, as a spiritual being, as the possessor of an .immortl\,l soul, has a still greater claim on us. As such he has a right to looJ{ to ~s for the Bread of Life, which alone, as we very weij. know, can satisfy the soul's wants. . Shall be look to us ' in vain for this soul-food? · Shall we whose soul~ ,have. fed upon the Bread -of . Life since the da)is ."of om childhood, shall we who know what _sweet sa.tisfaction it gives, - shall we refuse to ·b1·ing to the soul-hungr$ N~gro th.e Bread of Lite?

-SureJ.y not; on the co~trary, as .God has .given us -the. means and as He is giving us the opportunity, we ,shall gladly support the schools and churches _,..1md13r -the care of our Mission Boa.rd and thus be partners in this most blessed and wonderful work. · F. J. L.

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Luther ·Conference.

Luther .Conference convened in Trinity Chapel, New Oi:Ieans, 1\foy 9-13, inclusive. 'l'hc Re,•. W. 'l'errnlou, of Mansura, La., :failed to an wcr to the roll-call owiug to the iUn,ess o.f many members of his congregation.

Trinity Chapel is situated iu the lowct· part of the city. Pro:f. A. Wiley, now teacher in the Bethlehem School,- was pastor at 'l'rinity m1til ill-health forced him to resign his chnrgc. 'l'he ]Jc,·. E . H .

WiJdgrube, o:f St. Paul's Cha.pel, is iu charge o[ Trinity at 1)l'esent. \\ ednc;::day uigl!t the init inl scn ·icc was held. 'l'he Rev. C. P. 'l'hompson, of Napoleonville, Lu., delivereel a Yery int01·csting mission-sermon on

Trinity Chapel, New Orleans.

Where Luther Conference met thlR ye:ir.

John 20, 21: "As My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you." It was truly an edifying sermon. 'rlmrsdny morning, Pro:f. H. Meibohm, our chairman, exhorted the members o,f the conference not to be deceived by what may be termed '"om success" in the Lord's vineyard, nor to despah because of what may seem "lack of success." Whatever success ,ve m(!,y boast of, t.he speaker showeel, ·we owe • to the Holy Spirit. He will bless -our humble efforts in His own time and in His own way. i'he speaker's remarks were based on Eph. 5, 18.

Df. H. Nau, of Luther CoJ]ege, n~xt read a vel'y instructive paper on ''Preclcstination." 'l'he discussion of this paper consumed a part of the three morning sessions of conference. This splendid essay drew out much discussion nnd was well received.

Thursclay afternoon was devoted exclusively to business pertaining to Luther College and our · parochial schools. To increase· the efficiency of

J,uther College, it is }llnunccl to c.1.rop tbc seventh g rnde from the coJlegc program which 1n·occdure wonlcl automatically aclcl the cventh grade to our parochial scl1ools. 'l'his pl1tn was cli~cu ·sccl at length. 'l'lmrsclay night the Rev. G. i\'L Kramer, of Bethlehem Chapel, Jccl the discussion on "Christian Burial." '!'here was not a. tlull paragraph in this papei·. Of the many valuable suggestions offered on thi.- subject, the essayist . tressed especially the folly of Clu·i ti:ms in going to uuncces m·_y and u nreasonable ex pense nt the death of their lo,·cil ones. 'l'hc in terming ling oC crricf wi th extravagance was . hown to be Ycry unwi e to . ay the lea t. T his essay, concluded F ridiiy night, was clcciclcdly i11tcrcstil1g ancl was well r eceived. ]!'riclay a(torn oon a cliscns~io11. was cntcrccl upon which wns of g reat importance to Olll" lacly tcnchc1·s. , ·'f'hc acti\'ity o.f our lady teachers is, generally, encouraging. ']~heir work s_peaks :fol" itself:. Hen ce, whatever encouragement cnn be. given these workers ·in the Lorcl's vineyard shoulcl not be cleniccl them.

We wnr1t efficiency- efficient wor~crs - ancl schools that are second to none. It is from om schools that our congregations arc largely feel. Whatever progress; therefore, is maclc hi om· Christian schools is also progress in t he upbuileling of the kingclom or Ch'rist here upon earth. '!'his, pritna1·ily, is the end nml aim of the Christian school. Should we hesitate, then, in using any legitimate menus of keeping alive the interest of our workers, in this blessed cause? God forbid! Goel :furthermore gmnt that we never forget the :fact that the g1·eatest compensation a Christin11 ca.u receive for his humble effo1·ts in the Lord's service here upon ea.rth lies in the honor of being permitted to clo the Lord's work. ' Friday night questions put by the laity were drawn iTom our " Question Box." Came again the lodge-question ! "Shoulel a Christian join n loclge, 01· secret society?" Conference chose Prof.

H. Meibohm to answer this question a.nd to show that the lodge is a Christless association. ~rhis was ably and easily done. A. Christian should blush with shame to enter any organization thnt slams. its doors in the face of J csus Christ.

Sunday night, May 13, conference came to a. close with a stirring sermon on John 1, 35-43 by the Rev. W. Beck, of Mount Zion Chapel. His theme was, ''How Souls al'e Won· for Christ." This was the featuro service of conference, and the Rev. Beck did justice to the occasion:. A very lg.rge audience listened attentively to the able sermon.

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Holy Comnmuiou wns celeu1·atccl in this service. '! 'he Rev. Kramer clelivcrccl the confessional acld1·cs:.

Many partook of the Lord's · upper. '!'hough :few in numbers, the dear lnclies of ~L'rini ty cm·ecl for 11. well tlU'oughout our session .

Ju t hanking these belovccl mcrnuers iu the unmc o.f conference, a moTC fitting, cxprc sion coulcl not have uecn i.onnd than the words o.f• Christ chosen by t he Ucv. Beck: " Inasmuch as ye have clone it unto the least o.f t:ltcsc My brctlll'cn, ye have clone it unto i'lfo."

Such were the proccccliugs of Luther Conference. '!'he bles eel fruit oi the Gospel o.f Jesus Christ i still i n evidence. It is all the Master's work. Lea rn about it cheerfully ; seek to fmther it diligently; prny for it fervently. '.L'o Him nll praise ancl glory!

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Luther College, the song "Welcome," r endered by the college chorns. 1'hc othe1· number o.f s1Jecial • interest was the song "Ready to Serve," composed by the late Rev. N . J . Bakke and sung by t he students in commemoration of the author for his lifelong service .in the cause of Negro :Missions.

We understand that Luther College had the la rgest enrolment in its histo1·y last yeal' or, at least, the largest curohn cnt it has had in many ycm·s. 'l'he two regular 'members of the teaching taff, P1·of. H . Meibolun and Dr. H . Nau, were asistecl by Mr. Hugo Hoyer of our s~minary at St. Louis ancl by P rof. W. Seeberry and Miss A. BurthTong. '! 'be board has called a third f ull-t ime teacher ior this institu tion, the Ilev. Carl Stoll, of l'hilaclelpbia, and we are in the happy position to say that be has accepted the call and will be ready to take cha1·gc o'f his classes at the beginning of the new school-year.

May Goel continue to hold H is protecting hand over the teachers and students of Luther Colleae • 0 nnd pour out His blessings upon them! F . J. L.

Our New O;·leans· institu tion held its closing exercises on t he eYcuing of J une 13. 'l'he Normal Department of Lut her College Imel four graduates this year, while nine students fmished the PreparA Letter to the Editor. atory Com·se. F rom tl1e program of the exel'ciscs sent us, we conclude t hat those who attended must '!'he following letter was written to the Editor, have spe1it a most enjoyable 1111d profitable evening. but he would feel that he was unfaithful to his '!'he literary par t of t he program had among its renders, were he to withhold t hese lines from his numbers an essay on the subject : " The Necessity rcnclers. And he is convinced that his readers, once of the Religious Day-school" ancl a paper on " The they have read the letter, will concur with him in · Christian 'l'eacher's Glorious ·work.'' O.f course, his judgment. Here follows the letter; judge for the customary salutatory and valedictory occupiecl yoursel,•es : ..... prominent places on the progl'am. . 'l'o give variety tQ the exer cises, several musical numbers were giveu "DE,m PASTOR LANKENAU: "I have been teaching Sunday-school for a year i>y students. '!'he com;uencement addJ·ess was denow, and during tha.t time. I have become acquainted livered by Rev. Walter H . Beck, the young pastor of with, and much attached to, the little . periodical -~fount Zion Church. In his rema1·ks Pastor Beck emphasized the fact that the end and aim of edu- called the LuT.HERAN PIONEER. Our pastor was so cation is not to 1·eceive a diploma, but the ability kincl ns to hand me a copy whenever they were dis· the bettc1· to serve God and man. In his conclud- tributed to the children.

"I want to tak~ only a minute of your time to ing senten.ces the speaker exhor ted his hearers, aud tell you how interesting the paper is. It always• especially the graduates, t o cling closely to J esus, seems packed ,vith interesting things to read, a.nd since in clo.ing this they would receive from Him I look forwar d to receiving my copy each month. strength from day to day more fully and .perfectly Your article 'Our Jubilee Collection' was very gripto se1·ve their Lord and their fellow-men. '!'he exercises closed . with the singing of the ping. I hope it will serve to awaken a greater innational hymn, "The Star-spangle_d Banner," the _terest in our Negro Mission~. I aon't think the audience joining the students in rendering the song. Negro Missions get ns much tliought and attention We must not forget to mention two special as some of our other missions, at least not out here features of these interesting exercises. The :first where I live. Before I came into possession of the . number on the program was an original composition PIONEER, I can only ·vaguely remember having

by Prof. 'J.B. Seeberry, the musical instructor of heard the term 'Negro Missions.' Perhaps it is .

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bucausc we have few .Colored people here in comparisou with Japanese and Chinese. And I suppose that the Chinese people have beco.ine closer to us young people since the Walther League has endcavored to arouse our interest in foreign mission work. 1 think the Walther League should also arouse t he young folks' interest in the Negroes, and, no doubt, it plans to do that very thing. "'!'here is one statement in your article that I shall not forget very soon: 'Wori·y because of the work that they are obliged to leave undone is eating out the hearts of these faithful workers. If t hey were the laborers of ,some other denomination, they would be made much of:' '!'here surely must be something wrong with us. I can hardly understand how we ever allowed things to get into such a. condition. " I haxe been trying to build up a bank account, and every month a certain sum must go in. But J lmrdly think the clerk at the bank will miss me ii I inil to show up for a month or two, so in due course this .money will reach the Negro Mission field. Inasmuch as Sehna, Ala., is so much in need or a school, I think it would give me the most pleasure if· I knew my small gift was helping there.

So I shall ask Rev. - - kindly to designate Selma when forwarding the money.

"I hope you will be able to continue giving us so much va.luable information on· Colored Missfons, nnd I also sincerely hope that it will do us some good.

"Jt is my 'sincere -wish that the Lo1·d may st:rengtben the missionaries in their great task, especially those working among the Negroes, while we 1uho have everything may learn to give up a few · of our luxuries to supply funds io1· the Black Belt oi our country."

Now, isn't this a beautiful letter, indeed?

Don't you think that sucll n letter must make every iriend' of missions rejoice? When once our young people, our young men and young women, will be.come :CuJly interested in the work of ~issions, then, . we :f'eel sure, a new day will come, a day when the Lord will grant the Gospel many glorfous victories o,•er the 1powers of darkness.

F. J. L.

thurch and School Badly Needed in ~tlanta, Ga. ~otli the pastor 1µ1d the members of St. Mark's Mission at Atlanta would very much like to have it church and schooJ. The buildings · now used are indequate for the fast-growing work in this city.

Abont a. month ago, during our clevotiou in the old buildi?g uscc.l for a school, the floor gave way. Our school-building, therefore, has been condemned and cannot be used another season. ' O~r membership is not very large and is mncle up of humble people, who arc not richly blessed with this world's goods. However, each S unday our little chapel is well filled . . It has a seating capacity of only one hundr ed and fifty. You can readily see that for the Negro population of Atlanta.

- 80,000 - this is far too small.

Once we can get these poor people inlo our church to hear a sermon from a Lutheran pulpit, they arc always anxious to come again. 1:.\ t first, when they move here from the colfntry, they arc afraid of our church which they call "a new ch11 r h." 'l'hey know of no church but the Baptist.

One-Room Schoolhouse in Atlantn.

Now corulernnetl hy lhc :n•thorilies.

Besides, om church is poorly located, nncl the streets leading to it a.re in such bad condition that upon the occasion of several deaths of members, the undertaker refused to bring the bodies of om denci io the church.

Although our attendance at services is very goocl because of nn overflow o:f people driven from the country on account of the ravages of the boll weevil, which has made work scarce and wages low in the ru'ral districts, we are unable to provide the buildings so greatly needed, and must call on our friends in the North to help us.

A student of Concordia College, Springfield, Ill., reading an account of the ·crowded condition fo our church, sent us a clollar to start a church-building fund for Atlanta. Who will be the next one? May God open many hearts to hear the cry of Macedonia and co~e over and help ui; ! This is the! only mission we have· in the State of Georgia.

JOHN ALSTON.

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A Token of Gratitude.

A few weeks ago we received the following letter, which, though written iJ1 faulty English, bears an eloquent tribute o.C gratitude to the services of one of our workers in Alabama and places the grateful \VJ'itcr in a class wit,h Mary of Bethany, whose grn.titucle impelled her to an.oint the Savior with precious spikenard. Every word of the simple epistle is pulsating with appreciation. It is as though the writer was driven by some inward force to give expression to the thoughts that fill her heart: ''Dear Readers: It is said that there is a time for nil things. So it is. And there has come the Lime for me Lo say a few words concerning the Bread that J"csus prepared tluough our Rev. - for us on the night of the eighth of April. He came many miles through the mud and over the great waters to bring it to us. And just as he arrived and entered the chm·ch, one of our friend's lamps began to flame up. And all of the congregation were amazed at it and much afraid, but Rev. - ran ~p and took tlic lamp out of the door, where it went down to shine no more. He then entered the rostrum and began to break the Bread of Life, which was soothing to our hungry souls. Ile took 'his text from the twentieth chapter of John, where Jesus appeared to His disciples. And, ah, how our hearf;s did burn while he preached! His sermon treated especially of unbelieving 'l'homas. Imel, grant that he may live long to preach Gocl's holy W01·cl, that sinners may fall out with the ways of this world n.nd come asking, 'What must I do to be saved?'"

Such is the letter we 1·eceived from om good Colored sister in Alabama. Is not such gratitude touching? Must not such honest and simple-hearted appreciation be a mighty incentive to our workers in the field and nlso to us to continue and expand the wo1·k? Slll'ely, as long· ns there nre 'such Marys to npp1·eciate the Word, we ought to be willing to p1·oclaim it too! · F. J. L.

· Items of Missionary Interest.

EFPJCIENT -PUBLICITY WORK. - Pastor Wm. Bnieggemnnn, chairman of the Educ~tiono.l and Mission Committees of the . Walther League in Nebraska, is doing roost efficient work -i n the way of arranging lecture tours for Rev. M. N. Carter in his ~tate. Lnst year· h~ successfully arranged for

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gations o.£ his State, and Lhis so encouraaed him 0 that this year he determined to make an attempt to have our Rev. M. N. Carter cover practically the whole State with his lecture on Lutheran missions in -the Alabama Black Belt. According to recent reports his attempt is proving a fine success, and the lecturer is being kept busy filling the dates the efficient "advance agent" has a1Tanged for him.

We make bold to advise the chairmen of Walther League Mission Committees in other Districts to get into communication with Rev. Wm. Brueggemann, Box 34, Tilden, Nebr., fo1· we are certain thnt they could get a number of ('pointers" from him.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL. - During the next twelve months our _mission in Springfield wHl be in charge of Prof. 'rh. Engelder, who has kindly consented to supervise the work. Student Andrew Schulze. who in time past has proved his interest in Colored 11iissions, will probably look after the Sunday-school.

ALEL\NDnu, LA. - Mission-work has been resumed in Alexandria. Pastor Tervalon, of :Mansura, La., made his first trip there in June. We have ten communicant members there and twentyeight baptized members. The services held during June and July were attended by twenty-five to thirty people. Rev. Tervalon expects to visit Alexnnd ria twice crnry month ana_preach on every first and thircl Sunday. fu\~NAl'OL1S, N. C. -'!'he enlarged building ut Lhis station wns declicated on ·.Tuly· ·rn. Rev. John Alston, oC Atlanta, G-n., ,preached the dedicatory sermo.n. Hev. Frank Alston hns charge of the flourishing ancl active congrcg-ntion nt Kanno.polis. The greater pa1·t of the expense for the large addition to the old church is being borne br the congregation.

The old pn1·t of the building will 4J. the f!lturc be , used for school purposes, while the ndclition will serve as the chnrch. Folding cloora -~onnect the two buildings. .

CHANGES IN NORTH CAROLINA. - Rev. F. D. Alston, of Kannapolis, will in future also take care of Mount Calvary at Mount, Pleasant, while Rev.' March.will assume charge of St. ~ohu's at Salisbury.

ALABAMA. While on their journey :from North Carolina to Alabama, Pastor Carlson and family were compelled to stop off at Atlanta because of the serious illness of their baby. For a time its life was despaired of, but by God's help it recovered after a few days, and the journey was resumed to Pastor Carlson's new field of labor in Monroe Co.

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l l\£?.£,\....~OEL Lu·1·1umAN Cor.t1w B, GRE;ENsnouo, N . C. - '£he crying need nt this institution is to be supplied, at lea ·t in p11rt. 'l'hc girls' d~rmitory is to be enlarged this summer. 'l'hc Mis'sio11 Bonrd hns given orders to P resident Smith to begin building operations nt once, t hough sufficient funcls nrc not on hand to foot the bills. i.\[ny Goel open the hnnds of our Christinns to help nlong the good work!

A Kon.RAN Cr-rn1101-c I~ N1~w YonK C1'J.' L Not long ago the fh·st Korean church in North America was dedicate·cl iu New York. '!'he members of this church l}re mostly sttideuts nncl merchants, numbering sixty communicants. 'l' hc New York City 11fissionary Society wns helpful in seclll'ing the property. i\'lonl\CON M1ss1o~ARY Ac·1·1v1:rrns. - It is estimated that the annunl incren~c of the autichristian Mormon sect in our country is about 50,000. 'l'hese large additions' arc largely clue to the aggressive missiona,ry activity of the more than 2,000 emissaries of Mormonism, who arc dc,•ot;ng their ' whole time to endeavoring to make converts. Were ti1e Synodical Conference to have ·a p1·oportionnte number of missionaries at work in the homeland and in foreign fields, we should be ~ompelled to treble our present force ·of missionary workers.

What a pity that the children of darkness should be more active than the c:hilclren of light !

F.J.L.

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News and Notes· from the South Indian Field.

'l'he Bcrgheim (mountain home) at Kodaikanal has been well populated these months. Pursuant to the resolution of the General Conference, a large number of the younger brethren have taken to the hills for language study, either for the preliminaries or for the polishing processes. March 1, however, found three of the members of the broadly ad;vertised 1921 Indio. party returning to the plains for their first taste of the actual work. All three of them - Pastors Levihn, Schroc~er, and Strasen have been assigned to the Nagercoil field. Little of pomp and ceremony marked their departure from Kodai, but the importance of the event shoulcl, not be underestimated. It·means that now, finally, our mission is embarking upon days of greater manpower, after the dreadful paucity of men during and after the war. The remaining three new men of the 1921 party (Revs. Jank, Boriack, Obcrheu) will enter the field withjn the present balf-year.

'l'he strn.in ou the Fol'cign Missions treasury has been, and still is, acutely felt hem across the sens.

It fills t he missionaries with grave concern iu the face of the growing scope of om: expansive opportunities. Our work is leading us beyond t he borders of the nn.th•e State of 'l 'rn.vancorc into the inviting field of the 'l'inuevclly District of British Indin.

Ro1md about Yaclnkknugul nm ancl Ovari, two villages which have broken wi th the viciously veneered Chmch of Rome, heathen vi11nges or higher caste people, arc coming to us for instrnction and prcachi11g. And this jg :i happy omen, indeed. ~L'hc outcaste pariahs, mnong whom we have hHhcrto worked, almost to the exclusion of caste I ndians, do not nsunlly offer the. degree o'f intelligence J"Cq n ired in our native agents (tcnchcrs, catechists, nnd pa. tors) , while higher caste converts, ns a l'ulc, combine larger mental powers with greater chamcter and fodepenclcuce ; hence we ennnot but welcome th is intrusion iu'to the more clcvatccl ranks of Hindu society. It is chiefly Missionary Lutz, back from American furlough only a few mouths, who is cnnying on this work. He has plunged in to his work at Yaclakkangnlam with great zest. H is shattered ncr,•es luwc been much restored by his year an4 a hali at home. By t)le eud of the coming hot season (June) , he will have completed his new bungalow t here in the 'l'innevelly District. , O.f no small import is the opening of the new theological seminary at N ngercoil. Realizing tbc weight of many obstructive considerations, the men immccliately concerned arc bringing to the task a somewhat fearful heart, but tbc paramount urgency o:f the school so vital for the future of . our mission, makes them 1·esolutc in spite of apprehensions. Goel ,villing, the first lectures will be given in June or July. 'l'he course will embrace practically all theological subjects; but the knowJ:edgc of . Latin, Greek, and Hebrew is not to be . a prerequisite for emoln~ent. Studcl)ts will be required to stucly at least three years. It neccl hardly be added that the teachers of the seminary will retain the.ir respective fields along with their work in !he seminary. · Two of the nurses of our Ambur hospital are at Kodai for language study at present, compelling Dr. Doederleiu and Miss Ellerman to .d.ouble their effort.s. Yet the medical mission is working faithfully. In add~tion to his medical duties, Dr. Doedcrlein has ten1porarily replaced Missionary Borinck as head of the Ambur Boys' Boarding School, while Boriack is studying in the hills.

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The K oclaiknnal chool io1· :i\Lis ionaric ' Chil- their crown ., before the throne. It' t he ~ame dren i · fnring plcndidly. :i\l.r. :mcl Mr . Bachmann - word. 0 the lonlline , the prodigality of her g h·arc evidencing tcrling qualitic in the manngcmcnl ing ! 'he gave wi th the abandon of it spenclthri rt of the school nnd the Bcrgh eim. 'l'hc latter com- king! pl'isc · no more thnn .foul' . mall . Lone cottages, in 'l'wo mite :· fs that n climax or an anticonsequence o( which many missionn.ri c: will spend climax? Call it a mill, the tenth part o_f a cent, the hot season on the plains t hi · yea r. Ri ll-leave, and yon cxagrrcrnte. with some, began in Ja nuary· the lust will remain "And J-~c called His di ·ciplc unto Him." IL through until , 'cptcmber. 'cveral .families arc was "too good to keep." He was afraid that they always in one cottacrc torrcthcr - and the cottage would not "catch on" ; that the rattle o.f the Pha1·i cc • gold would distract their attention. hn,·c only I.om or five i-oom .

"I -say un to you that this poor widow hath cast English •rvicc (or Amcrica us nrc held at Kotlaikannl in :i\[r. Bnchma1ln di ni1w-room every more in than all." Uclnti,·ely? Yes. But actunll\' ~•more than all." For they quit. he is still " fling. 'unuay morning : Tamil !:ervi •e for the ·crrnnl uud m11,11 his ( langungc tutor ) in t he afternoon. ing it in."

'F01· all they did cast in of their abundance." , 'uch rc.rnlarity o( d ivine wor. hip is highly appre"Superfluity," "overflow." Oh, that the. Church of ciated by the familic. of mi f-ionarics. I n fact, Christ would do e\'Cll that much - reach the ' c pccially in I nclin, ll ivine worship becomes a very lli tinct ncccl, nncl n pleasure hardly comparable to ·stand:ll'd or the Pha ri ccs and give some of their "overflow" money to carry on tbe Lo1·d' s ,vork ! any other. n 'CllllSC of n den rth or competent '/11,lt//Shis the When thnt standard o_f giving is reached, the Church will have millions for .missions ; for the writer and his wife have joined a language cla " overflow'' alone is reckoned by hundreds o_f milconducted n t Koda ik1mal.

To-day, more than a decade or two ago, fudia lions.

"But she or her wnnt." "Penury," contrasted · presents unparalleled fields ior the entry of the with "superfluity." God bless this princely giver!

Cross. Mn,y we not in charity suppose, knowing '!'he dictionary of your experience does not cont~in as we do that in .some circles of our Church at the word " want," but is crowded with the synonyms home t here is a, truly ass~rtivc demand for expanof "superfluity." sion in missions both continental and abroad, tha.l "Did cnst in all that she hacl, even all her liYing." the day is nd vn ncing when the eloquent appeal o_f Every coin she hnd in all the world. the foreign field will find a somewhat propo1·tionate 'l'wo mites-half a mill! Ho,v small! But answer from the host of our Christians in America? the collective voice of the ages cries out: "0 woman, Here on the scene or conflict we cry: God speed g1·eat is thy munificence !" that day!

E. H. MErNZEK. 2 Cor. 8, 9: "For ye J..-now the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty How Much Am I Asked to Give? might be rich." • i\{AJIK 12, 41-4;:l.

"Jesus sat over against the treasury." He is still watching. All our giving is in His sight.

"And beheld," not ,critically, or with faultfinding, but delighted.

"How the people cast mof1ey into the treasury."

"Flung it." They liked to do it.

"And many that were rich cast in much."

Thank God for consecrated wealth.

"And there was a certain poor widO\v." Nameless? Yes, but so we~e the "rich." No discrimination here.

"And she threw in," just a,s the saints "cast

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Vol.XLV.

ST. LOUIS, MO., SEPTEMBER, 1923.

No.9.

OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY MOTTO. Whoever is not interested in missions is either woefully ignorant or wilfully disobedient.

Some Reflections Prompted by a News- $5,000,000 a~d nett~d the Government the tidy )itt~e sum of $500,000 in taxes, the report shows. paper Clipping.

The following newspaper clipping fell into the Editor's hands a few days ago:-_ "UNITED STATES SPENDS 13 BILLIONS FOR LUXURIES. "Government Receives $1,000,000,000 Tax on · · Recreation and Gewgaws in Year.

"Washington, July S. -About $13,000,000,000 a year now is being spent on luxuries, 1·ecreation, movies and other amusements, and personal finery, Federal tax receipts show.

"More than/ $1,000,000,000 a year in· taxes are being received by th~ Government as a result of purchases of foibles. 'rhis is nearly one quarter of the total ordina1·y 1·eceipts of the Government.

"Sporting-goods, autos and motorcycles, amusement parks, fancy bathing-suits, smumer ha.ts for women and Panamas for father, are now netting the Government thousands daily. Cigarcts, cigars, and candy bring in millions each month. 'rhe pennies that are paid with the pUl'chase of soft drinks and soda water a1·e helping to pay the annual interest charge of $900,000,000 on the national debt. {'Battleships are being built with the tax on motion pict{ues, sporting-goods, face-powder, cosmetics, and other beautifiers.

"Chewers of gum in the past' twelve months have contributecl more than $1,000,000 in tnxes to the Fedeml treasw·y. <'Tennis racquets and sporting-goods paid nearly $4,000,000. Summer furs alone cost approximately

'"roilet soaps and powders brought more than $2,000,000 in taxes into the Government's coffers in the :fiscal year just ended, indicating total pUl'chases of these articles of about $20,000,000.

"Smokers in the past paid the Government in excess of ovef $232,000,000 ip. taxes over and above the actual cost of tobacco and cigars to dealers.

"More than $23,000,000 poured into the" Government pocketbook from taxes on engagement diamonds and other jewelry, indicating total purchase of taxable jewelry of SOII\ething like ten times the colledted amount." 'rite Government tax returns as·reported in this cHpJ>ing show that the people in the United States in one year spent about $15,000,000,000 for luxui:ies, that is, for things that they do not need. In other words, on an average every man, woman, and child in this country spends every year over $120 for amusement and pleasure.

Let .us now apply these . :figures to ourselves. 'l'here are in ohr' Lutheran Synodical Conference about 1:,250,000 baptized members. If these members of the fi,,e bodies comprising the Synodical Conference are average spenders, - and there is no reason to think that they have not been such, they spend about $140,000,000 for luxuries a year.

No,v let us see how much these same Lutherans belonging to the. Missouri, Wisconsin, Norwegian, and Slovak synods, as well as our Negro :Missions, pay for missions in a year. 'You know that missionwork is the chief work of the Ohri1Jti1ms; it is to

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do mission-work that we nre living. Were it n ot tha.t t he L ord wanted us to bl"ing the souls o[ onr fellow-men to Rim, lie would ta ke us to liimscli into glory ns soon ns we had become H is own through fa ith. 'l'hc chief cud aud purpose of our ynodica l Conference is to carry ou t Christ's parting commaild to preach t he Gospel to every creat ure. What, then, arc the million nnd a quai-tcr members of the Synodical Conference cloiJ1g for t hat which is t:he greatest need_o.f the world to-da,y ?

Statistics show that the total amount cont ri buted by our large body o·f more than a million souls fo r home and ioreign missions was $1,112,360.71 in the last year of which we have a complete record, that is, in 1921. You will sec th·a t we spent a lmnclrcd l·i mcs more for l1m,-i1.rics, for ihi-ugs tlta·l we did nol ncccl, than we cl-id for lhcil wh·ich the •world needs 11wst ! For luxuries, f or lm.ncccssary things, in some cases hamrlul things, we spent more than $120 each, while for missions, for· the 'snlrntion of poor souls that know not Christ, for the sp1·eading of Christ's kingaom among those t ha t have n!)t yet accepted Him as t heir King, we spen t less than a dollar a year. Do you "get" that, dca1· fellow-Lutheran?

And here is another t hought. Probably about half a million of the one and a quarter miJiion baptized members of the Synodical Conference arc engag«rd in some gainful occupation. Of course, these 500,000 persons are not all getting large wages aud salaries; while the wages aud salaries of some amount to two, three and niore hundred dollars a month, others are perhaps not earning over $40 or $50 in the same pP-riod. But I am sure that we shall be putting the aver-age income at a .ve1•y low figure when· we make it $750 a year. This would make the total annual income of 500,000 wageearning persons in our whole Synodical Conference to be $375,000,000. Now, suppose that we should set aside one per cent. of this for missions. Surely no one could object to thjs be·i ng too much to carry on t/i.e 111ai1~ business of the Chu:rc'lt. And yet, if we should give only one per cent. of our total annual income for missions, it would be $3,750,000, in other words, three and one half times more than we are doing no,v. Do you "get" t his, ,denr fellowLutheran? Of every three dbllars we earn we give one cent for missions; of every doIJnr we receive as our income we give less lhan 011,fJ-U,i ,·d of a cent to carry 011 tlial 100,·k 10Mcl1, s1,.ould 7,e 01tr cl,;ief btl8inUB in li/6 I , Other Protestant deno:ininu.tiona ·a.re doin~ far

more than we arc .for missio11s ; for fo reign missions alone they arc doi11g n m uch as we nrc ' doing for all missions. 'l'o put it in another way : All P rotestant Christians outside of t he L itt hc rn n 'y11odicnl Con Ccrencc give an average annual cont ri butiou for foreign m ission of abou t one dollar, whi le we members of the Synodic,11 1011 fercncc give fu r fo reig n mis ions a. li ttle over ten ccnf n. yea r! Beside. the miJJions which, for c.xampl •, the )[cLhodi. ls an d J3ap tisLs g iYc eve ry yea r fo r fo reig n 111 iv ion ·, they have pledged t he cnormon sum of $i15 000,000 Lo cover their other bcncvolcnces fo r the next fi vc vcar .

Not to speak of the need. or Lhc homcl:m cl clu rc we member s of Lite , ynoll ica ( Con fc rcncc - cla re we who ha.vc the Light o-f 'l'rn t;h - sit .i d ly by wh ilc we sec two-thirds of the worlcl _: 1,200 mill ion i,n-, mortal° souls - mnrching in spfri tnal clarkncss Lo endless perdi tion. or nt mo t, offer ten cent a yca1· o.f our income. ·1e s than a tho11: and th part of whnt we waste for useless things every ycin to p rcrnn t the disaster ? \ncl. iricncls, can we be sin cere h i our profession nncl. yet 'have 110 more t han aliou t ninety cents to bring salvation to t he millions o.f onr own co11nt r~• and oth er so-called Chri. Linn countries, to t he Neg.roes, the Inclinns, the Info immig m.u ts; t he clc:if~mutcs, the submcrgccl clnsscs, and all t he others ? · Lack of interest in the work of missions can be due only to a lack, of knowlcclgc of th e g reat ncccl in the various mission-fields or to n lack of conviction that i t is the duty of every Christian to help carry · out t he Savior's g reat m issionn1·y command.

Now is the ncccp tecl time! A yc111· from now it may ho too late. The cl.ool·s are now open everywhere; the near future may see them closed and the opportunity gone forevci·. What will we clo?

It is for you nud me to decide 1·ight now. The pl'i?.c is surely grea,t- millions of immortal souls bought with the Savior's blood. 1 What will our n.n swer be? We can give· only 01ie nnswc1· i f we are sincere in om· profession.

F. J . L.

Teachers' Institute at Holy .A:rk, Ala. Holy Ark - the name brings to mincl Noah's nrk, "where.in few, thnt is, eight souls, were saved by water." But the ark we nre writing a.bout: is cliifcrent, for it is the name of 11, community in the Black Belt, thh-ty-fh•e inilcs irom Selma. Now,

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Numbcrlc~. «ullic nn.cl ynw11ing g ulchc, the latter

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c,·cry de cri pt.ion· from both race. tried and testccl the little band of people into who c mid t the pure Go pcl hacl come. Yes, even. threats were mnclc ngnin t the liCc of t he mi ionnry. , till all the c '·fiery b-inl ' hn,·c been wcnthcrcd, nncl another olorcd Luthcrnn Zion wns c tnblishecl. Now the nnmc Roly Ark mea n more than its clonors hnd c,·cn fn intly gue eel - a pince, where in n bonrcl ~hack, graced [ot· tho time being, by t he terms "<'hnpcl ancl " chool, ihc Lord·s honor dwell c,·cry 'l'hur clny night nncl , unclay n1orning; a spot lo which, o,·er Lhc trail nncl paths of the snncl-hillll young ancl old head lo hear the sweet Go pclme~~nrrc o[ Goel Jo,•c in 'lrri t, c,·en a thouc:a nd of yca ri; ago the Jews gntherccl around the Ark of t.hc ovcnn~tt to wor~1ip the Lord, their Goel.

1n th is shack wi th it three holes in the wnlls for window , twenty-two Colorecl teachers, fh·e Colored pa. tor and three white mi~sionnrics gathered Augui;t l [or the annua l 'rcachcrs' Institute. uperintcm1cnt • chmidt, in hi openin(I' address, pointed out that whcrca ,111110 t nil chools round about 11 were tcnchin" c,·ery conccivahlc doctrine contmry t.o the Bible, the Word or Goel still reigns supr •me

the Way to Holy Ark.

minin l11l'C 'olorndo nnyon ; stru rrgling pine ancl scrMi•ny onks; cotton, corn, sweet potnto, nncl peanut Jiclds; one- ancl two-room log aml board shack scattcrecl here and there on the hill. - that i the sort o~ country oI which l:IoJy .t\ rk is n little spot.

And snnd, and, deep, trenchcrou snncl c,·crywhcrc ! :i\forc than eight miles away at Jofrrc, the sa.intccl Pnstor Bnkkc J111d :Counclecl a Colored Luthcrnn congregation. 'ro its tcnchcr n mnn from Holy Ark wrote, asking for Luthernn service.

S11pe1·i11tcndcnt Schmidt answerecl the call. 'l'hnt wns 011 the night oI Jnmrn1·y 15, 192~. From the ,,cry s(;n1·t the Wol'd of Goel gripped the hen1·ts of n number ot :f amilies, so thnt by J1me 4 n clnss of twenty persons wns confirmed, ancl t hirteen were baptiiecl. Since then the congregation hns grown to a totnl membership of forty-nine. And more arc coming, so the members optimistically affirm. .But nll this has not linppcned so easily ns it reacrs. Hatred, persecution, slander, opposition of

"Cl!apel" nt Holy Ark, Ala. .

in 0111· schools, enc.ournging us to be 1~1ore fnithCnl. nnd to show still more zeal in instilling into t~tc hcnrts of our little charges the precious dh·inc truths. Burl('C Durden, .11 member oi the congre-.

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gation, in overalls, spoke a few well-chosen words of welcome to all.

That day and the next were given over to examinations of the teacliers. In religion especially some of the answers were remarkable in view of the fact that these teachers have only a short time ago become members of the Lutheran Church. 'l'hosc winning scholarships were Lorena Madison and Hattie Lee; with the high averages of 90 and 89 per cent., respectively..

Two catechizntions ,vere delivered, one on " What Is the Bible?" by Pastor Montgomery, the other on "'l'he Forgiveness of Sins," by Pastor Holness.

During tl~e ensuing discussion the institute went on record in favor of a simplified Catechism for 1 our work in the Black Belt."'

August 3 was spent in discussing vai·ious papers and mission-matters. For instance, such topics were treated as, "The Work of a Parochial School 'l'eacher and the Impo1·tauce of Faithfulness in This Work," by Percy Dumas ; ." Why should the Envelope System be Introduced in All Our Congregations and a Correct Record Kept of .All Contributions?" by i\fiss C. i\{. Smith; "Report Cards; Why Issue Them Monthly?" by Mrs. i\L S. Edwards. Another subject was the completion of our collection for the purpose of raising enough money with which to build a chapel in some benighted community in the Black Belt and presenting it to the mission board as a thank-offering from our people. We now hav~ $429 on hand, but $400 more are needed to put up n modest chapel. It was suggested that we conduct reunion sef\•ices on tlic second Sunday in September and take a special offering. for the proposed chapel. 'l'hcn there was the money that had been collected several years ago and was commonly known as the Normal Fund. $737.51. What are we to do with it now that the mission board is about to build a Teachers' Training-school in Selma? The suggestion. was adopted that we use the above-named sum as a basis for a new fund 1o total $4,000, which amou~t we shall try to raise through whole-hearted efforts by ~he end of 1925, this money "to be used for tho erection of a building in Selma, known as the Alabama.

Luther Dormitory. Enthusiastic expressions were ,•oiced on both projects. May the Lord bleBB these undertakings!

Divine worship was conducted at night, and several instructive papers were read. As the shack ·serving as chapel was too small, the mecting_ii were held out in tbe open. Planks had been nailed to

chunks of logs set in the ground and a khaki coYcring spread o,,crhcad.

Sunday, August 5, bl'ought the institute to a close with thl'ec inspiring services of a missionary chal'acter. About :forty-Jive communicants were guests at the Lord's 'rnblc in the afternoon, ancl four persons publicly expressed their desire to be instructed in the Lutheran doctrine. All are agreed that this year's institute was "the best ever." May God bless the people of Holy Ark, their faith nncl love and hospitality, and mny 'rrc imbue us workers with greater zeal for His kingdom!

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.Sidelighls. - In convel'sation with a i\Icthodist " preacher," who has belonged to that denomination Ior thirty-two years, Superintendent Schmidt nskccl him, "Suppose I were lying on a heel in th is room sick unto denth, ·coulcl yon give me nny hope or comfort from the Bible ?" And the answer was, "~o!" 'rhink of it! '!'his only goes to prove whn.t "Aunt i\Iary," n very old member of the congregation, often has confessed, namely, that although she had been a fa ithful member in the Bapt ist Church for forty yen,·s, she knew absolutely nothing about Jesus and salvation by :faith in Him until the Lutherans came. And another member told the ~riter that the Baptist " minister" has a standing bargain with his people: So much money, so many minutes of preaching. "Pool' pn.y,. poor preaching; good pay, goocl '( ?') preaching." And all the "preaching" consists in is thnt the ma.n on the platform starts to hum ancl sway his bo~l.y until the whole crowd joins in, and it finally ends iI! a shouting, stamping, and clapping orgy. Oh, :for more workers to garner in the overripe harvest! 'rhc collections during Institute flowed into the congregation's building fund. Over $80 was the total raised. How was it done? By the members' either giving nil or one hnlf of the board they received from the teachers. One woman gave $10 ; a man with a very large family, $11. Wonderftd ' spirit? Yes!I

We white missionaries ''bimked" overnight in the chapel. A bed in one corner accommodated two of us, while the third man stretched himself on ,t he auto cushions which he had placed on the chapel floor. ~xactly sixteen hours' sleep the latter received in four ~ights. ..:.... · While we attended the institute, word came to us from the most ·distant point on the field that a former teacher was at the.point of death. So after

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Beaver Dam Lutherans. 'rhis hospital with its deaconess. school is also in a flourishing condition.

For the information of those who are thinking of becoming deaconesses, - and we hope there are a good number nmong the young ladies who will read this, - I wish to say that the applicants for cmolment in our schools must be members of congregations belonging to the Synodical Conference, they must have reached the age of nineteen, and above all they must be filled with a fervent love An Appeal for Deaconesses. and an ardent desire to serve theh- Savior in His Church. To enter our school at Fort Wayne, one Deaconess work offers the young women of our year of high school is rcquit·ed ; the Beaver Dam Church a splendid O])portunity for service to their school requires a good common school education.

Church in the ministry of mercy, in caring ior the During three j•cars at chool the pupils receive, sick and the poor. Deaconess work elates back to free of charge, tuition, room, ancl boa'rd, laundry, the enrly hi tor_y or the Christian Church, where, books, uniforms, ancl a yca"rly allowance of $100 for under guidance o[ the apostles, its work of mercy personal expenses. In this way the association takes was performed in the . crvicc of eternal love. In the care of the training o.r its deaconesses from the sixteenth chapter of Romans we rend of Phoebe, beginning. After completing their course, our clean scrvnnt oi the church at Cenchrca, who was a conesscs enjoy the iollowing prh·ileges: clcaconc . ; and so were also Priscilla and 1\fory. l!"irst, au appropriate salary whcnc,·er they arc 'rhcrc is a great need of such clcnconcsscs iu our engaged in the service of the association.

Lutheran Church to-clay. Many large congregnSecondly, pr~vilcgcs o( a home in the mothcrtions, our city missions, our chnritahlc institutions, house whenc,•er they arc out of work. home-finding societi~s, hospitals, hospices, and last, Thirdly, free mcclicnl attcntiQn in case of but not least, our foreign missions, - all these arc sickness.

Jields of labor ior deaconesses.

Fourthly, maintcunncc during life. _ Deaconesses must be well trained in order to be Now, my dear sisters in Christ, what do you prepared for their glorious calling. Our Church is think of the matter? Would you not like to become actively engaged in this work; a deaconess associa- a deaconess and dedicate your life to this noble tion wns organized in 1918. 'l'hc imrposc of this cause? '!'hose oi you who arc not so inclined have association, as expressed in its ·constitution, is to the opportunity of joining the Lutheran Deaconess educate and train Lutheran deaconesses, who are to Association by contributing one d~ll~r per year or cnrc for the sick and the needy and to ndn:iinister more to support this 1mdertaking. charity and mercy in the charitable institutions, as Those of you in whom the above appeal has well as in the home and foreign missions work of awakened a desire to become deaconesses are inthe Synodical Conference, ·and to erect and main- vited to communicate with Rev. Ph. Wambsganss, tnin Luthemn deaconess schools and motherhouses, President, .Lutheran Deaconess Association, 2916 and other institutions of like character. ' Fairfield Ave., Fort Wayne, Ind. The :first class of deaconesses, four in number, PH. W.umSOANSS. cntcrccl om school at Fort Wayne in 1920, where the association has its headquarters. 'l'he course African l{ings Refusing Crowns.

- comprises a three years' training in the F01·t Wayne Luthcrnn Hospital Training-school for Nurses, and A missionary in the Belgian Congo, J.C. Wenduring those three years a course in diaconics, congnntz, tells of two noteworthy i~tances where sisting of religious branches, is offered. In 1921 Christian converts refused royal crowns. the Lutheran Deaconess Association succeeded in .

One . day the missionary preached the Gospel in gaining possession of il. deaconess home on the Lutheran Hospital grounds at Fort Wayne. Last year a certain king's village and then passed on. Some our society also acquirecl its o,vn deaconess hospital time after he came through tpe same village on at Beaver Dam, Wis., a free gift mnde to us by one of his missionary tours, when the king's son service, one night, Snpe.rinteuclcnt Schmidt, Student Kreft, and the writer started on a -flying trip over the worst roads imaginable to go to her bedside.

Holy Ark to Tincla and r eturn- 210 miles! Such arc the distances we oiten hn.ve to cover to mnke one sick-vi it. Question: Do we n eed more help, or shall we break down unclcr a strniu which is getting bcyoncl endurnnce?

E. A. W ES'XCOTT.

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came to him and asked to be prepared fo l' BaptLm. him, Lhe Gospel garn him a new view or liic nnd His wi h wa g ranted, and at his bapt i m he wa · ll C\I" idea:; II Lo the shnm ful COJTll})tion or mt Arrirri,·c11 t he name Antonio. Not ,·cry long after his c·nn cou rt. baptism his .father wns clcposccl, and Antonio beN'ow, not long ago, t he old kinrr wn ou. tecl nn<l came his succcs or. A few cla~· after hi n ·cc ion the popular cry wa , " J o. 6 shall be our n ew kin~.' to the throne. i.\ nt011 io tnrlcd on a t r ip Llirou rrh ,\t -the lime when the ourt ier came to ill\·itc him his ,·illagcs. Whcrcrnr he wen t, he poke kintlly to Lite rncant th rone, he wa ick in bed; hut wli •11 to hi s people and aclmoni hcd I.hem to lh·c hone tly he heard them coming he gn lhcrecl all hi ·Lrcng lh. ancl lovingly together. nch bcha,1 ior on the pn l't got up from hi sick-bed, and hid in t he tall c•oru of a king was a mar,·cl to the people, and they !:a id · of his rrardcn, where they c:011ld not fi nd hint. I le to one another, " \\ hat is t he meaning o.f all this? knew how wicked nncl immornl Afri c:rn co ur t Iii'!! · Reforc t·his the king robbed us of our crop. nnd i. and wo1fl<l hare nothing of. it. l re. too. lah•r

A Native Villa_g e on the Congo.

stole our goats anc1 wives. This new king, however, treats us Jdndly and touches nothing that is ours.'' , But while this grca.tly pleased the common people, the members of the new king's court were much dissatisfied since the new king hacl no due ·, regard for them and their profit. Soon Antouio was obliged to leave the throne as a 1·esnlt o.f the courtiers' plotting. But far irom beil1g disappointed at this change of _his iortune, he rejoiced to be rid of his burden and came to work in the mission. Jose, another convert of n royal iamily, in his early days had had ambitions some day to occupy the throne of his native ]and and to wear the royal crown. However, before the opportnnity en.me to

came to the mission, seeking refnge thcJ'e :f rom the men who would make him king. 'l'hus, in their way, clid _these African princes bring the same sacrifice which i\Coses brourrht when he tuhtcd his back upon the splcndo1:s and glories of the Egyptian court nncl cast his lot wit h t ho despised people of God. F. ,T. L.

An Appeal.

By the time tltis number of the ProNmm gets into the hands of its readers, our Lulher College, Immanuel CoJlcgc, and the Teachers' Training-

.T he L uther a,n. Pioneer. sc}1ool a rc pl'Cparing to open their cloors for ihe new school-year. .Amo11g the students will be a 11umbcr who will have to depend upon the help of Christinu friends to help them thr011gh. 'l'hesc students h::wc been preva iled upou to p repare themselves fo r the work in the L ord's vincyarcl, to be pa tor:; aucl teachers among thcil- people, and they have been told !:hat kincl Chri tian friend · will help them along. 1Iowcve1·, the :fund for ind igent Colored . l,udcnts is not only down lo uothing, but to less than nothiJJg - it has a defi cit of $1,000 at the time or t his wr iting. · All in nil, we have pr obably twen ty-five students who need fmancial help, and to take cnrc , of them we ough t to have abo ut $3,000 a nnually. Will not .omc kin d Ch ri. t i1111. com e to the r escue? \"'i'ould it not be po. ibl c iol' a number of D istrict ind i.,cnt 0 stuuunt.' fund , a they now cxjst, to take ovc1· the care of one 01· two Colored st.·u dents? 'l'he Ed itoi: knows · o.t a con ference students' fund which has clone that. What a pit.y it would be if t hese tuclc11ts who arc pr cparin'g t hemselves fo r t he min istry or for the onicc of parochial 5chool teach er should ha\'C to g ive np t heir studies because of a lack of funds to can y them tlll'ougb !

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Items of Missionary Interest.

A :i\I1ss10NARY D OCTOR CALLED. - Dr. W. H oopmann, a son of P astor Hoopmanu in 'Sou th Australia and one of our young Lutheran medical practit ioners, has received a can from t he F oreign l\:Cissioi1s Board of the Missomi Synod in America to cuter thcu: mission-fields in India, ther e to succeed Dr. Docderlcin, who has done the pioneer work of n medi~al man. Because a doctor or nurse can often win the heart of a heathen by ministering to the body with tender care, ancl especially with genuine Olnistian chm·ity, we a.i~ to call Cluistian medical men and nurses, who are of the household of faith, so that they can w01·k in harmony with the missionaries ancl, whe1·ever opportlmity presents itself, tell the affiictccl patient of his spiritual ailment and point him to Jesus, the -Savior. -A11s-

bralia1i• Lutheran,.

ST. PAUL'S, Nmv ORLEANS. - Pnsto1· Wildgrube was able to receh•e a number of adults by confi.1-mation a short time ngo. We learn that he is also cloing systematic missiomn·y 1,•01·k in the Colored wards of the large Charity Hospitnl of the city.

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u noccupied Colored nu ss10nary territory several m iles we. t o-f his chmch. 'l'hc neighborhood is called Pciilct's Laiid, nml since he has a n umber of fnmilie living in that 11cighborhood, he is looking about for a builcling suitabl e to hokl se1Tices. As ~oon as he has found such a building he will have rcn-ular ~crvircs and ' unclay-school sessions. Pos~ibly a chool will be opened there also.

A Nmr '1'.EAC1crm .\ T 'T. Lou1 ·. - ~Iis Plivllis Jones nn honor g rad uate of t he Spr ing field, ~TIL, pu blic high school, bas been a ppointed tcachc1· of the lower g rades of om· mission-school at St. Louis. :i\fi i:s J ones is a. member of our S prinrrficlcl 0 · conrrre0 ga t ion nncl has always been ~ hm·d church-worker. 'oxcono, N . C. - l [r. Holsten,, a gracluatc of Concorcl in Semi11m·y, St. Louis, l\Io., has been callccl to snc ·eccl l?C\'. P aul Lchmau as pastor o.f Grace Chm-ch, Concor d. U r. Holsten has accepted the call extended to him.

Cruc~\GO UNIVERSITY. - P rof. R. O. L. L ynu, of the 'l'cachcrs' Training-school at Selma, Ala., m1d Re,·. Paul Lehman, who has been called as the second: professor o.f• this institution, are atte11du1"' 0 Ch.i cago . Urtivct·sity tl1is sununcr. 'rhcy arc, of course, pursuing st.·udics that will be helpful to t hem as teachers of the Teachers' Traihing-school.

NEGno MrGRATIOY. - I t is reported that more than 225,000 Negroes lmvc migrated from the State of Georgia during the past three yea1·s. '!'his enormous emig ration is causing a very acute labor shortage in t he towns and on the f arms. Business men aml also f armers are beginning to realize that they are largely to blame :Cor this state o.f affairs and arc ·earnestly considering ways and.means of remeclying the evils o.f the present situation.

GREAT SuonTAGE OF EDUCATED NEono P ,\STons. 'l'hc clcmancl is for 1,500 educated Negro pastors every yem·, while the schools supply only about one hunched t rained men annually. There are about 5~,000 Negro churches in the United States of all clcnomina.t ions. There a.re not a few Colored ministerial ,training-schools in the country, but there m·e only a few -Colo.r ed men, comparn.th•ely, who \ m·c willing to take theological training: This is most deplorable ; :for one of tlie most serious drawbacks · confronting the N cgro mce in America is the lack of training on the part of seventy-fi,•e per cen t. of its ministers. · . A 'l'nnn,Y Anl{ONITION. - Rcfcring to the great migmtion of N egrocs to the North, Our Oat1,olic Missions, a pe1·iodical devoted to Roman. Catholic .

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Negro ~fissions, has the following to sn.y: "When we know that many of these Negroes len.,ring. the South for the industrial centers and big cities a1·e Catholics, it is our duty to give them the glad bond of fellowship. . . . Our Catholic laity cnn render good service to the newcomers. Tell them the hours ior masses nrtd other services and even accompany them. Do not tell them to go, but nsk them to come." Herc a stnndn.rcl of approach to Negroes is set that we white Lutherans will do well to think over.

Gnow1'R OF RELIGIOUS Booms IN T HE UNITED S·.rATES. - Religious bodies in our country never had so great an increase as they had last year. The increase was no less than 1,220,428, aud was iHty per cent. greater than in any of the preceding five yen.rs. 'l'he gain in congregations was 9,591; 'in ministers, 15,252. The total number of members now is 47,461,558, belonging to 243,590 congregations and served by 214,583 pastors. Each day of the past year saw an average addition to the Church of 3,345 persons. The Roman Catholic Church has the largest membership, followed by the Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, and Presbyterian Churches in the order named. All in all, the churches raised sixteen million dollars more last year than in the year before. The total amount of money raised was $505,052,978.

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ALASKA. -Ten different denominations, through their various · agencies, are carrying on work in Alaska. There are 113 mission-stations with 170 missionaries, conducted at an annual expense of about $250,000. Schools for the training of a native ministry are wanting. Trained missionary doctors and nurses a.re needed. 'l'HE WORLD'S BEST SELLER. -The best selling book is still the Bible, thirty million copies having been printed and distributed last year throughout the world. Parts of the Word of God may be read in 770 languages and dialects. The first written and printed product of most languages has been the Bible. Many a language and dialect would have no written alphabet if it were not for the translation of the Bible, or parts of it, into that particular language or dialect.

Cmo.&.oo, ILL. -Born to_ Rev. M. N. darter and wife, August 1, a 'fine healthy boy. Mr8' Carter has been auffering with a tumor for a long time and will have to be operated on for this in the future.

'Hay God hold His protecting hand over mother and child I ,F. J. L.

BOOK TABLE. Weight;d and Found Wanting. An Inquiry into t he Aims nnd Method of the Ku Klux Klan. Dy TV. n.

T. Da,11.. Published by t he American Lut her League, Fort Wnync, Ind. Another tract from t he prolific pen of Professor Dau, the ~qunl of, ll.lll'. thing Umt he hns ever written . T hough n. brief trcnttsc, ,t covers ihc whole ground t horou«hly nnd co1n·ineingly. The subject is treated under the f~llowing heads : 'l'hc Price of J,iberty. The Aims of the Ku Klux , Kinn., 'l'hc Methods of the Ku Klux Kinn. 'J.'hc Member• ship of the Ku Klux Kinn. The tract is for free di t ribu• tion and muy be hnd for the nsking in any rcnsonubll! qunntity.

F. J . L. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Hcv. :\I. N. Cnrter grntefully neknowled••cs the follow• 0 ing : From l\Ic.isr ·. William, Albert, and Ernest Du s, Pierce, Nebr., $5.05; l\Irs. N. N., Pic,·cc, Nebr., 5.00.

Received for Oolorc1l Missions from the following Col• ored congreg1itions : Ou,· nedccmcr, Lon,.milc, $8.8!> ; Our S,wior, l 1 ossu111 Demi, 8.00 and 1.12; St. James's, Ducml Vista, 5.00; Betha ny, Nyland, 4.85; Zion, 'fails Pince, 0.85 ; St. Peter's, Pim: Hill, 5.07; Dct hlcJ1cm, H oly Ark, 2.20; Mount Olive, 'rineln., 7.44; St. Andrew's, ·v redcnburgh, 5.38; St. John's, Joffre, . 0.75; Sclmn., Ahi., 5.31; Grace, Ingomnr, 3.:JO; Mount Cn.lvary, Tilden, 13.04 ; St. Paul's, Onk Hill, 10.47; Christ, Rosebud, 10.35; Mount Carmel, Midway, 3.34; Birmingham, Ala., 2.80; Trinity, Springfield, 25.00; Alabama, 4.30; Bethany, Yonkers, 50.00; Bethel, Conover, 2.00; Bethlehem, New Orleans, 57.50; Concordin, New Orleans, 15.00; Concordia, Rockwell, 8.00; Grace, Greensboro, 4.00; Inunanucl, Brooklyn, 5.00; Luther College, New Orlen.us, 16.15; Mount Calvary, Kannapolis, 14.00; St. Peter's, Drys Schoolhouse, 7.30; l\iount Cnl\'nry, l\'Iount Pleasant, 6.00; Mount, Olive, Cn.• tnwbn, 3.00; Mount Zion, New Orleans, 40.00; Mount Zion, Rocks, 10.00 ; Bethel, Chn.rlotte, 8.00; Dcthlchcm, :Monroe, 2.00 ; l\fount Zion, Charlotte, 16.00; St. Paul's, Charlotte, 32.00; St. John's, Snlisbury, 10.00; St. Luke's, Spartunbur~, 15.00; St. Mn.rk's, Atlanta, 7 .00; St. J nmcs's, Southern Pmes, 10.05; St. Mark's, Winston-Salem, 8.05; Zion, Gold Hill, 7 .00; St. Paul's, Mansura, 12.50; St. Enul's, Nn.polcom•illc, 23.00; St. Philip's, Philadelphia., 5.00. -Total, $540.76. . · St. Louis, Mo., August 1, 1023.

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No.10.

OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY MOTTO. Let us preach the Gospel wherever we can, and leave the result to Him who bade us proclaim it.

Training Our Children to be Interested in Missions.

If the great cause of missions is to be properly furthered among us, om- children will hM!e to be trained for missionary · activities. 'rhis training Should be begun in the home. Our Christian mothers should endeavor to m·ouse in the hearts of their offspring a lively and sympathetic interest in those poor children who sh in darkness and the shadow death because they have not the light of the G?spel. By contrasting the benefits and comforts of the Christian home with the squalor and degradation in. which heathen children are raised, a.nd by telling their chiidren of the great love of Jesus, the Savior, of which heathen children know nothing, Christian mothers can do much to animate the hearts of their little boys and gMs with a zeal for missions. Such a spirit on the part of the parents would lend their offspring to be grateful _for the blessings of the Gospel which they possess, and encourage them to do their share in having the Gospel sent to their less fortunate brothers and siste1·s in other lands.

The tender hearts of the little ones arc easily aroused to sympathize with the poor children who know not God when they hear of the many miseries of soul and body, which a.r e their daily portion.

And this inte1·est and sympathy, once awakened, would probably never leave them. The impression which the unhappy lot of these less fortunate chil-

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dren would make upon their plastic and impressionable minds would p1·obably have a lasting influence upon their whole li\rcs. 'l'he sad pictures which their imaginations would draw while mother· would tell them of the sad lot of ;unny Negro babies and childrnn of our ·southland and of the millions of little boys ancl girls of India, China, and Africa, woulcl possibly remain with them through all their later years' experience.

And our mothers can do yet another thing in helping along the blessed cause of missions : They can encourage their children to make little savings for the work of spreading the Gospel, thus not only aiding in the greatest of all Christian ~nterprises, but at the· same time also giving the little ones a wholesome lesson in self-denial and self-conquest.

In this way parents will create a pleasing interest in the lives of th~ir children and keep alive in themselves and . their offspring an ever-increasing lo,•e for the Go.spel and the Crucified One whom the Gospel exalts and glorifies.

With the knowledge and love of missions thus nlr~ady implanted 'in their hearts, the children; on entering school-life, should find the same sp~rit for missions in the Christian day-school and the Sunda.yschool. Ou:r teachers should take a warm interest 'in fostering mission thoughts in the hearts of the children entrusted to their care. In season and out of season it should be impressed upon the mind11 of our boys nnd girls hmv blessed they arc to know their Savior, and how they can in no better wa';f

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show their gratitude than by helping to make Him to bring this before our schools, nnd if you clccm known to those children who arc still in ig norance it aclvisablc, I should like lo ee this or any other of Him. It would seem to the writer that there is plan appear in 1111 early i ·ue. Let u pu t om no religious lcs on in the Christian day- chool nnd children to work. Let them know that they, too, no lesson in the Suuday-school that will not atrord arc a part of the Church ancl ha,·c a ~cr,·icc to perthe teachc_r an opportun,ity to refer to the work of form. A. busy per on in Goel ki ngdom ntrords an missions in some way. And besides thc~c brief ancl infe rtile oil for atan to till. ' passing references to missions, t here i many a lesIIerc a. plan i · ·present •cl which is most pracLical son where t he iniportn"1ce ancl meaning of mis- bccnu e of the case of i t execution: Give all our siono.ry activities coil be rcfen-ed to at some length boys nncl girl in om· Clll'i tian clay-school ancl and properly emphasized. Our teachers hould all Sunday-school. nn opportunity at C\"Cry chool csfully realize that the Christian education of a child sion to contribute their mite to the work of misis not complete if it has no knowledge of, ancl no sions; hnve a. mite-box hnncly in every room wh ere interest in, missions, and for this reason they should the children mny deposit their gift of love. Who not lose sight of this important feature of their will follow the example of our Suuclay- chool iu duties and opportunities, but sec that the children ~ancaster ?

P . J·. .L. entrusted to their care receive all that stands for - -- -•,--- - a complete Christian education.

North Carolina Notes.

The other day the writer received a letter from the superintendent of our Sunday-school in LanWell, first of a.II, we had a. great, big conference caster, 0., l\Ir. J. A. Frisch, which prompted the down at Kannapolis, N. C., August 23-26. 'l'alk- • above lines, and be feels that he cannot do better Jing about a. co11Ccrcncc, this surely was a g reat one : than close this article with an extract from this interesting communication. After referring to the bigger ancl better than anything we have had in appeal which appeared in the July PIONEER for years. Those who were n.ot present missed the event Immanuel College, Greensboro, , . C., Mr. Frisch of their lives. 'l'he pastors and teachers arrivccl continues: "Is it not possible to harness 1\p our early 'l'lmrsclay morning. 'rhat Thursday was truly Sunday-1?chool [and Christian day-school - En.] a colcl day in August. We sat a.round a hot stove pupils throughout the Synodfonl Conference to raise while having sessions. Ol'ganization :followed the the necessary funds for Inmianuel College? We usual devotional services. 'rhe old officers \\;ere rehave never given our children the necessary encour- elected. We hacl a number of p~pers for the pasagement to give for missionary purposes in a sys- toral conference, but did not find time to hear or· tematic man_ner. I feel that through the medium discuss them. Various problems of our field came of the P10NEJm each and e,•ery one of our Sunday- up 'for consideration. The other fields have been schools [ and day-schools - En.] could be lined up turning to us for professors ancl missionaries, and our field has been g6ne tlnough as with a :fine-tooth to collect the fund. . "In passing, I will say that our Sunday-school ~9mb, so that we arc suffering for, want of workers. takes up a collection for missions every , Sun.d ay Our great §';ta.te is making gigantic strides, particualong with the regular collection for the Expense larly in education, and we nre striving to keep our Fund, and this collection averages $1.50 each Sun- schools abreast of the public schools. Professors day from an enrolment of 110. We had $90 in our Smith and Schuelke a.n d Rev. Hunt were a.ppointed }fission Fund when your appeal appeared, and we a school board for our 'field to devise ways and means • - ~nt this a.mount to 'l'reasurer Wolf to be used for and p1·ocure information to enable us to make our ~mmanuel College. . • . For the recent collection schools as efficient as possible. How to fill the for the Chinese children $43 was gathered in four vacancies in our field was discussed. Various other weeks. As superintendent of our Sunday~school questions were also considered. '£lmrsdny night divine services were held. Rev. I know it is a pleasure for the chi1'1ren to give J. W. Fuller preached an able sermon from Hos. their pennies and nickels to their. Snvipr. While 13, 9. being a pleasure for them, they a.re also being educated in Chris~ian giving, which surely wi)l be a.

Friday morning the delegate conference began. great asset of the Church in the iuture.

Thunday night and Frida.y morning the delegates "It seems to me that the PIONEER is the paper and visitors arrived. At 10 A, l{. the president, Rev.

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cerniJ1g the $1,000 pronti eel for the dormitory at Gree11 boro. was brought up. Conference resolved to have the sum rai eel before the encl of the yea1·.

Pa tors i\IcDnvid and Al t on a11cl Pl'Ofessor Schuelke were appointed to , act n steering committee and . n1i e lhe promisecl sum. Every comm{micant member of onr conierence jg to be called upon for at least one clollar. It was also resolved to ask the congregations to send a collection along for our con ference b·easury. . In the afternoon Re,·. F . Foard read a well-prepared paper Oil the "Persuasiveness of the Gospel." 'l'hi paper was discussed at length and the author thanked. It was resol ved to encourage the various ladie aid societies to form a state hotly and meet at the place ancl time appointed for our summer conferences.

On Sunday clh;ne ser\'ices were held in the morning ancl aftemoon and at night. In the morning ei:vice Holy Commun.ion was celebrated. Uev. F . D. Alston delivered th~ confessioual address, which was based on i\fatt. ~l , 9, while Rev. J. Hunt preached the sermon from 2 Cor. 2, 8-10. He ~1towed that the purpose God has in sending affliction to His Christians is to make them know their weakness ancl to strengthen their faith. Ue,-. Foard Grace Church, Concord, N. C. preached in the afternoon. His text was 2 Cor. 5, 19. He made -it plain that the two facts which A cordial welcome address was made by Rev. F. D. .Alsto11, and a brief response wns given by the Rev. should. move. us to be zealous in om· mission-work Fuller. 'l'he election of officers followed. All the old officers were reelected: Rev. J. W. Fuller, president; Rev. J . A.lston, :first vice-president; Rev. J. Hunt, secon d vice-president ; Prof. E. Schuelke, ·secretary; Rev. F . D. Alston,. treasiu-er. Invitations were seut to conference for the 1924 session from Charlotte; Concord, and Salisbmy. Salisbury's invitation was accepted. Various committees were appoiuted, and routine business transacted.

In the aiternoon, niter devotional exercises, IleY. W. 0. H ill rca.cl an instructive doctrinal paper on "Loyalty to the Clnu-ch." 'l'he paper was thoroughly discussed. llowC\•er, it was not finished before acljomninent. At night, after a. short liturgical service, the reading of t he paper was 1·csumed ancl Bethlehem, Monroe, N. c.. · coucludecl. Those who heard the paper read and ' cl iscussed were deeply impressed, and, Rev. Hill was are that in Christ, God is reconciled to the world, and Umt Goel has communicated the Word of R'ec:onwarmly thankecl for his effo1·ts. eiliation to us. Rev. J. Alston .filled the pulpit· at Saturday morning's sessions began nt 9.30 night.

He had selected 2 Tim. 2, 5 for his text: o'clock. After the usual devotional exercises, ConEfe brought out the fact tlmt a ·true Christian is ference proGeeded to business. The program :Cor a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Prof. J.P. Smith: the next conference was arranged. The 1hatter con'

J. \L Fuller, opened Lhc confel'ence in the name of the 'l'ri unc God. Aft r the crcclcl)tials had been examined, t he cleleg11 tcs were seated. 'J'he mi nutes oC the prcviou. conf rcnce were 1·cacl :incl approved.

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who was the founder and former pastor o.f the conA Fine Example of Gratitude. gregation ~t Kannapolis, then addressed a· few words to the congregations, expressing his gratifiA mission-worker, who !ms been connected ior cation at seeing the remarkable progress the church many years with one of the Colored schools of the had ·made. In a few well-chosen words Prof. Sim- South, gi,•es the following beautiful example o.f .felt then thanked the congregation and the kind gratitude on the 1mrt or a young man who hncl peopie of Kannapolis for the splendid hospitality nttencled the school of which the writer is the hcatl : extended to the conference. Adjournment .followed ' "Docs the Negro show g ratitude fo1· what is by singing " God Be with You till" e Meet ~\gain." clone for him? · It is needless to add that erery member and "'.rherc cnme to us, several years ago, a lad from visitor of our conference was well cared for. On the one of our sister Stn.tcs •who had n. great thirst for Sunday of conference there were visitors pre cnt education, but little nioncy to gratify his t hirst: from practically every station in our North Caro- He asked me to tnke liim for less than the fixed lina field, and we had the largest communion seen charge. His honest face and his eager and earnest here in a long time. desire for knowledge impressed me favorably, and During the summer the good pc;ople of Kan- 1. took hin for what money he hnd. I took him as, napolis, with the assistance of the Board, built a I ha,•e taken many, belie,·ing that God would pronew chm·ch alongside o.f the old one. 'l'hc latter is vide for him. By ~nuch rigid economy he spent the now being used as a schoolroom. '.rhe building is yc11r in school. He wont to tl)e mines dm-ing vacation to enable him to rehn·n to school. Ju propornea~,. well arranged, and well furni,shed. tion as he made more money, he paid more :for board BnrEF NEws IT1,ics. nnd tuition until he paid the full amount 1·equired. . Rev. L. G. Dorpat, of Meherrin, Va., was called He conti1iuccl' at school until he. finished the normal home from conference on Saturday to conduct n course and spent a year and a half in the high funeral. Sam, the grandson of Mr. 11. B. Doswell, scliool department. Failing means and · failing of Meherrin, h~d passed away and was laid to rest health forced him to learn a few months before the on Sunday. year closed. It was n matter of great reluctance to On September 12 Imnianuel Lutheran College him, as his thirst for knowledge and his desire for will open its doors, and the fall temi wilJ begin. usefulness had increased rather tbnn diminished by · Immanuel College is accredited by the State nncl his experience in school.

"He clid not get back the next year, but he did now ranks as an A 1 school. Our venerable Board ' has set aside $10,000 to enlarge the dormitory., We not forget us. When 'l'hanksgiving Day came, he are looking for · a fine enrolment and n successful sent us ten dol'lnrs. in gold for ·our boys' new dormitory. year: · "H;e had expected to return Inst year and study Mr. Culbert )'.[alloy, and l\fr. Walter Pierce were for the ·ministry, but :for some cause was .prevented confirmed in St. Paul's (Charlotte) on September 2. from doing so. Just before Inst 'rhnnksgiving Day Rev. C. Stoll, of Philadelphia, who was called to I received a ·letter from him from the far-off Pacific a professorship at Luther .College in New Orlenris, coast: 'Don't report your Tha'n ksgiving offering passed through Charlotte e1i route to Louisiana, to until you hear .from me.' - And soon I received-a take up his work. Our prayers and best wishes registered Jetter containing twenty dollars in gold accompany him.· · 1 and a five-dollar bill for the boys' library.

I can. Rev. ?ricDavid, who has. been teaching in our not tell you what a thrill of joy and' delight ran schools since 1897, will have to look after St. Paul's, throughout the student-body and the hea1·ts o-f the Mount Zion, and Bethel in Charlotte and Bethlehem teachers when I rend his letter and showed them • in Monroe this year. , · · the glittering gold. They had a real jubilee!· In •On Sunday, September- .12, Rev. M. Holsten, a my judgment the salutary effect upon ·-the school 1928 graduate of Concordia Seminary, St: Louis, inr outweigl\ed the gift. It raised every thinking who has served as a supply in Ne,v Orleans, will be and ambitious one in his own estimation and exordained and installed at Grace Church, Concord. cited a glow of emulation. You could see it beamProfessor Smith and Rev. McDavid will officiate. ing from many countenances, 'What he has done J. MoD. I can do, and I am resolved to do it.'

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"I feel tha.t we arc not tlu·ongh hearing from that young mau. ,,,c have never had a more devout, em·nest, and active Christian in the school.

Others also have shown a spirit of generosity and grntiLude. 'l'here arc many Ncgrn youths at our very doors a.nd all about us who arc begging for a start and a chance."

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'l'he sermon preached by Pastor Paul Lindemann in the opening service of the convention in Detroit on the words of Jesus, "Ye are the. salt of the earth," was in reality a missionary sermon. 'l'he inspirational sel'vice, held on Wednesday evening of the convention, in which Pastor C. J. Buenger, of Kenosha, Wis., and the eclitor of the PIONEER wer.e privileged to speak, was held in the interest of ntjssions, especially Home Missions. And e,•en Pastor New Missions Opened in New Orleans. Hertwig's closing address, the writer thinks, had a missionary flavor.

Pastor Wildgrnqe has opened a new mission at The missionary spirit of the comention also Pailet's Land, a new settlement within the cor- found expres~ion in. resolutions suc~1 ~s the followpoi'atc limits of New Orleans and lying about two· ing: 'l'hat the Walthe1: Leagu~ Jlfesseng~r b~ sent miles west 'of St. Paul's Chapel. He gives the fol- to all foreign missionaries; that cordi_al greetings lowing very en tertaining account of the first service a11d best wishes ior cqn_tinued success be extended he held there : " I got there at six o'clock and opened to all workers in the foreign field; that the soci~ties. the doors. You know I expected a real big crowd! be urged to give special mi~sion studie~ a pla~e in But it got to be 7.30 o'clock, and no one was there their program ; that the societies be urg~d to aryet. At 7.45, '!'cacher Speberry came, then '!'cacher range mission rallies; . tl_mt the socie~ies be __ urged Berger with l\Ir. Demouy, and then Mr. 'fhompson to continue. their support of the I¥edical ,nission from St. Paul's. At eight o'clock, the time set to anc,l the mountain home 1·etreats in Indi11; and begin· the s~rvice, we were still alone! Mr. Dcmoi!y Chinn; that nativ~ pupils p1·~paring fo1· the minant:1: I went outside and invited every one that passe~ istry in foreign fields be supported.. . _ to cop~e in, but though probably fifty persons passed However, the mos~ ip1portant and far-reaching the door, npt one entered the door. '!'hen the manifestatio,n of the missionary sp~rit th_a t .1_1:nimnted . thought came to me, Wl~y not let 'l'eacher Seaberry the convention was the enthusiastic, but deliberate play the organ and the rest of us sing? ·wc did so: adoption of the foll~wing resolution, in ~hich th~ Mr. Seaberry played 'Nearer, My God, to 'rhee,' Walther League pledges· itself as f!- body t_o ·a sysmid ,ve sang. Presently • some children came in, tematic effort at missionary service: then some g1·own ppople, and finally we began our : "WHERE~s, We, as ~~~her~n Clu-isti~ns, by -yirscnice." At this fii-st service there were present, tue of our baptismal and con~rmation ~,ow·, have not counting tlie abo~•e-named workers, nine adults pledged ourselves to nurture our. spiritual life ~y and seventeen child1·en. The second service was at- a constant contc.1J1platio11 of _the gr~at saving truths feuded by fifteen adults and seventeen children, and o.f the BibJe; and : . .. . . at the fomth service the attendance Iiacl increased ."WHEREAS, We a.re, furthermore, uncle! th~ to twenty-two adults and seventeen child1·en. solemn vow to lend lives which are in agreement ' . . F.J.L. witli. the d~mands ,of Script~re; and .. ."}VHEREAS, It h_ns, ~ore<?yer, be~n op.e of ~he fundamental _o°Qjects o~ the Walther League _to _be The Walther League and Missions. of assist_nnce in keeping the you~g people with the 1 1 he 'rhirty-:first International Convention of the Church by lend~~1g 01\r per~onl}l services t? our con"\Vnlther League went on 1·ecord as a missionary gregations ~s indivi_duals ~nd as. soc~eties; there. . , . convention. In every way did our young people fore be \t "Resolved, That we give e~pression to this spirit gathered in Detrpit show their great interest in the glorious missionary enterprises of ou..1 Church. No of consecratjo.n nnd p~ service, w~th the coµsent of doubt, it is :known to our readers that the Walther our cQngrcgation and under the leadership of . our League hns for several years already taken over the respective pastors, that is, ·that we put into e."'tecus~pport of a number of missionaries .in foreign tion a strenuous and systema~ic missionary e.nden.vor lands. At .the recent convention it could be re- in the interest of our beloved _Chui·ch: "1. By reaching out for, and leading back to, ported that twelve districts of the League a1·e now the congregation, if possible, by personal appeal and supporting fourteen such missionaries: '

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admollit ion, such as are drifting, ~r hM•e iallcn, uway from the t ruth ; " 2. By supporting nll projects connected wit h missio11nry aims in our respective congregations nud in our immediate neighborhood in a .fi11nucial way, by bearing the expense of letters, cnrcls of invitat ion, and other publicity printing connected wi th reunfou services and all other similar endeavors; that we, furthermore, "3. Organize our efforts as indfri duals and ns societies in bringing strangers under the sound and pure Gospel by means of personal visits ( canvassing) in the interest of church ancl school, distribut ion of t racts, dodgers, letters of invita tion, ser vice programs, nnd all the nece!isary follow-up work in the interest of a healthy missionary publicity and acth·ity." " (It is understood as a matter of course that this eff~rt is not to be under taken except wi th t he approval of the Young People's Board, nor without the consent of each congregation im·oh·ed ancl uncler the leadership of its pastor. - It is also understood that the office of the Educational Secretary will give all information concerning this move to nil societies in need oi such assistance, wit h the express 1mderstanding that every society participating ben1· the nominal expenses_ of its own effort, the office furmshing all material fo1· properly conducting the entire undertaking at cost.) " It was just after the close of the fifth se.ssion, in which this resolution had been adopted, that the writer arrived at the conYention hnll. He is not ashamed to say that tears of joy came to his eyes when he beard of it soon af ter his arrival. He cannot but believe that the adoption of this resol i1tion by our young peqple will mean, by God's grace and· help, a wonderful expansion of om missiona.r y work in the future. This resolution shows that om· • young people appreciate the preciousness of man's soul and expresses their desire to do all they con, to bring men to Christ, the SaYior, by personal effort. And this personal effor t p.ut forth by the Leaguers will result in an increasing interest in the general cause of missions. God bless all Walther Leaguers and grant them the courage and strength and patience to carry out their momentous resolution I ________ F. J. L. ' A DISTINGUISHED American visitor to. Siam, inquiring ·about the government schools, was told by the viceroy that the only ·schools worth seeing were those conducted by the missionaries.

Items of Missionary Interest.

AN 0F.FJ Cf,\L VISI '.l'. Pn~tor Albrecht, President or the Minne ·ota District of ihe \Vi con ·in ynod ond n member of the C'oloi·ecl 1'[ii-. ion Board . pent a fow weeks in Loni innn a nu ,\lnbama f'or t he purpose or taking an in. ight into Lhc w~rk or our Colored Mi:; ions. F rom r>por t · tlrn t ha\'C come to us, we j uclgc that he lms bt'cn well plea eel wit h t.he work that our worker; nr doing nnd only llcplore that more cannot be done beca use of the lack of men nncl money. We u nclcrstnncl, howcn?r, that he was not well pleased wi th the Alabama road a11cl was much surpr ised lo sell that our 1111 • • 11)11ari c:; ucceeclecl in " navigating' t.hcm with their Forcl . .

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A l,ADML\. Pastor Cn,rlson was recently installccl by Superintendent G. A. Schmidt at B uena Vl~ta, Vredenbu rgh, and 'l'inela. 'l'hesc three charges a.re all in Monroe County. - F lorence K ruse, P aullina, Iowa, collected $60 for a uew sewing-machine, to be used at the Training-school in ·Selma. - Pastor P eay an.d wife have been made happy by the arrival of a little boy. - Our hearty sympathies go out to P astor Berger, whose mother recently died at Mansura, La. ST. Lours. - Our mission in · St. Louis this month celebrates its twent ieth anniversary. On the fourteenth· of this month it will be t wenty _years that work was begun there.

NEGRO lfISSIONS AND THE WISCONSI N SYNOD.

At its 1·ecent {lOnvention the Joint Synod. of Wisconsin and Other States voted $35,000, to be 1\sed for our Negro Missions cluriug the next t wo years.

The Wisconsin Synod has two representatives on the Board for Negro l\Iissions, as this missionary enterprise is a common mission of the Synoclic~l Conference.

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MrssroN LEC'l'OllES. - Rev. :M:. N. Cal'tcr, who was obliged to discontiuuc his lecture tour in Nebra ka for a wl1ilc in Augu t because of the serious illnc ·s or his wife, 1·csmnccl his work on h1g ust rn.

In Lhc mcmth o.f cptember alone he spoke at twenty-five differen t pl aces in bchali of our Colored i\Iissions. Wherc,·ct· Pastor Ca r ter speaks, he seems to aTouse much interest iu the work which he represents. Pa tor W. Brueggemann, 'l'ildcn, Kcbr., deserve much prai c for the efficic11t manner in which · he mapped out the speaking tom. fo1· Pastor Carter in the State of Nebra ka.

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bas graduated 231 students after confirmation. It is maintained, in part, by board money paid by the parents of the ·pupils according to ability, but it relics chiefly upon the charitable contributions of Luthcrnn congregations. 'rhis institution was one oi the first deaf schools in our country to introduce the so-called oral method as the best means of instructing the dcaf.1.\ ssocIATJm CFL\.RITrns WITHIN THE LUTHERAN

SYNOJ?ICAL CoxFERE~CE. ......,, Thfa association held its convention this summer at Watertown and Beaver Dam, ·w is. Delegates were present from JNDUN l\.[ISSIONS OF 'l'HE WISCONSIN SYNOD. all sections of the country. The city and institu'l'his · body has a flouri shing mission among the tional missions of the Synodical Conference were Apaches i11 Arizona. 'rhc present p,wsonncl con- also represented. "'rhere are now sixty institutions sists of nine missionaries, one male teacher, ancl one of mercy and charity within the Synodical Conlady teacher. Besides these white workers a number fe~ence. 'l'hese institutions employ 604 people, and of natives arc employed as l1elpers. 'l'hrec Chris- last year helped and benefited 211,107 poor, aged, tian clay-schools arc supportecl by the missi.o n; they sick, forsaken, and otherwise destitute and deare attended by 133 pupils. 'l'he work done in these pendent 1>cople. The sum invested in property by sch'oo.1.· i.- o.f vast importance and very successful. charitablo institutions ~f the Synodical Conference A boa1·di11g- chool is to be erected at Milk Ranch amOlints to $5,028,098, while the operating expenses at an expense of $12,00.0. In this school dependent were $1,592,873 during the last fiscal year. These and abandoned Apache chilchen arc also to find a vast sums were contributed by our Lutheran Christians out of love for the Savior. Not one cent was home. solicited from the general public. God be praised :MEDICAL 1\IISSION IN AMDUR, INDIA. - From for these fruits of 01111 faith!" the very interesting first 1·cport of the Medical NunsEs IN C111NA. - Fifteen years ago nurses Mission in Ambur, In.din, we cull a £cw items that in Chinn ·could be counted on a person's fingers. prove t he value of this missionar)' enterprise. Dur- '!'here was not even a word for "nurse" in the ing the first yea1· the hospital handled 6,490 medical Chinese language. Now the Nurses' Association in . and surgical cases. The in-patients numbered 336 China holds a national convention. At the last and the out-patients, 14,400.. Of the expenses, convention thirteen of the eighteen provinces were which amounted to Hs. 5,280, the patients, though represented, and more than a hundred foreign and mostly very -poor, paid no less than Rs. 2,830. Pas- Chinese nurses attended. . tor N. Samuel, the native chaplain of the hospital, PEKING UNIVERSITY. - Peking University, preaches daily to the inmates, distributes printed Peking, China, has just launched an effort to raise handbills, in the cours~ of the day_visits the wards, . funds for its million-dollar building program to and directs the individu"al patients to the divine make possible the removal of the university from Physician. For the benefit of the feninle patients its present temporary quarters - which are inadea Bible woman is engaged. quate for housing 430 students_.:_ to the new site MISSIONS IN POLAND AND THE WISCONSIN on the road to the Summer Palace by September, SYNOD. - An urgent call to take up work among 192~ .

Konu. -There are 144 foreign missionaries in' the 500,000 Luthera.n s of Poland has come to this body. At its recent convention the Synod em- Koren. They come from nineteen different States powered its mission board to /take u'p this work in of the Union and nine foreign countries. Penn·Poland, so far .as means at hand will permit, and sylvania heads the list with twenty-five representae,•entually to send over seveml pastors into that field. tives.

JAPAN. -At Sapporo, Japan, is located one of GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY. - In June the Ltttheran Deaf-mute Institute at Detroit observed its fiftieth the five imperial universiti~ of that country. Over ; anniversary. This is the only, Protestant school of thirty per cent. of its teachers are active Chris· its kind in America. Since its opening the school tian men.

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INDIA. - The Leper Asylum at Allahabnd, India, is flourishing. 'l'he mi sionnry docto1· reports a cure. A boy of seventeen years, son of leper pnreuts, a leper since early childhood, was persuaded to undergo n. vigorous course of treat men t, wit h the result thnt he is now declarecl to be free from the disease.

A L ~\RGE CHURCH. - Enst Ca-lvary l\Iethodist Episcopal Church (Colored), Philadelphia, Pa., has 6,700 members_, and 3,200 arc enrolled in its Sunday-school.

BELGL\N CONGO. - 'l'hirtY years ago, in the Belgian Congo, Africa, no one knew n. letter of the alphabet. Now thousands are able to read the Bible.

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Au Appeal from Alabama. , uperintcndcnt G. A. chm idt. writes the Editor t hi t the crops in Alnhnmn arc nlmo. t. n. totn.l failure am\ tha t in con cqucncc lhc need nnd clistrc s among o,;r Colored people will be \'l'ry g rcnt this winter. R e a k s that. our go_od people send him for distribut ion their ca t.-off, bnt st.111 usalJle old clothing. Address: !le\', G . A. Schmidt, Dox 083, Selma, Ala. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Rcceh·ccl for Colorecl 1ll i ssio11s from the followiiw Col• orccl congrega t ions : St. .Andrew's, Vrcdcnbnr<•h, $2 1.15 · St. )fol.thew's, Mcherrin, 11.79; Richmond, V:t.~ l.00; .Ala: bnmn field. 10.40; Alnbn.mn, 2.75 ; Bethany Yonkers 50.00; Bethel, Cono\'er, LOO; Bethlehem, Ne{\. Orlenns' 57.50 ; Concorclin, New Orlen.ns, 15.00; Concordia, Rock: well, S.00 ; Grncc, Concord, 59.51 ; Grace, Green boro, 4.50 ; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 5.00 ; Immanuel Lutheran College, Greensboro, SS.50; Lecture tour, Rev. Cn.rtcr, 10.05 ; Luther College, New Orleans, 5.00 ; Mount Calvary Kan• nnpolis, 14.00; 1\£ount Cnlvtuy, Mount Plensnnt, ' 10.00 • St. Peter's, Drys Schoolhouse, 9.S5; Mount Olive Cntnwbn.'

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No.11.

OUR MONTHLY. MISSIONARY MOTTO. Indifference to missions is the worst kind of treason.

Enduring Monuments.

Voice, the parjsh paper of om congregation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Rev. N . P. Uhlig, pastor, in its last number carries an article under the caption "An Endurh1g Monument," which will sm-ely interest our readers. '!'he space at our conmmnd will 11ot permit us to reprint the whole article, buf here is a part of it : "The trcasu.rer of our Missouri Synod, :Mr. E. Seuel of St. Louis, 1·ecords 011 page 284 of t he L-i.illtemner, .A.ugust 21, the sum of $15,322.80 from t he estate of Fred John William Durr. The pmp9ses to which this money is to_be put are, to quote the words used in the testament: " 'Fourth, one-quarter of my estate, rnmaining after clauses one, two, and, if possi~le, three have b~en f ulfilled, I give and bequeath to the Chavez Fund of the Negro 11Iissions of the Synod·ical Confe1·ence of N orth Ame1·ica.' 'rhat means, our friend Fred puts up, practically, two cha71els, in which fo1· yea1·s and years souls of the Colored veople a·,.e led to J esus." ($3,830.70). ' Pastor Uhlig's article then proceeds to state that Mr. Durr gave the same sum of $3,830.70 each to . the General Church Extension Fund of the Missouri Synod, to the Pastors' and 'l'enchers' Pension Fund, and to the Board of Directors ; the latter to use the proceeds of this legacy to enable full orphans or fatperless boys to prepare themselves for the service of the Church in this manner, that one once chosen shall be enabled to complete his course ,if he proves himself worthy.-

Now follows the concluwng paragraph of Pastor U11lig's article: "By making these bequests Fred Durr has given a noteworthy example. You perhaps have sometimes wondered what that verse meant: 'Make to yourselves •friends of the mammon of unrighteousness' ('l\Iachct euch Freunde mit dem ungerechten Mammon'). The use to which Mr. Durr put his money was exactly within keeping of this verse. His memory will be blessed by many, and they will thank God and him. How many have wonderful opportunities to do something worth ,vhile with ri9hes, but they leave it to already wealthy, vultureeyed relatives, who fight at court over the rich~s; and these bring them no blessings, but dissatisfaction, jealo~1sies, losses, bad feelings. How many thousands have been put into speculations here among our Iowa Lutherans during the last six years ! One could name offhand a half dozen instances where amounts ranging ·between ten and ninety thousand dollars were lost. And even if such an investment brings big financial returns and therefore is not, 'lost' as we say, there is no comparison between its value and the good that an 'investment' such as our deceased friend made brings to thousands of souls. Think of the satisfaction it must bring to him at the throne of God when the 1·eports 'come in at_headquarters' up there how money enabled souls to find the Savior through the preaching of the Gospel and stilled the tears of needy here below ! Now do not fail to open your Bible at l Tim. 6, 6-21. If y_ou are able to read

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both languages, rend these \lerses in both, also when 53,000 Negroes in Detroit. about to make an in\lestment and making your will."

We cannot pass on without quot ing from n. letter 'l'hrce year ngo Detroit had a Colored populawritten by the pastor of Mr. Durr, who so )jbcrally tion of 40,000; to-day the Negro population of this remembered the Chapel Fund of our N cgro i\U"sion city is 53,000. Bcca11. c of t his large infl ux of with the sum of $3,830.70 at n. time when the need Colored people om pastors and members hn"c fo1· for chapels and schools is so "ery great: "Of the some time considered the need of a Colored mission, la.tc Mr. Durr I can tell you that he was a princely partly to take care of the Colored Lutherans who fellow, so kind, so gentle and humble, tha t certainly have moved there from the South and partly to of him could be said what Fitz-Greene Halleck gather in some of 1he thousands of 1mchmchcd wrote of his friend James Rodman Drake : 'None Negroes that hn."c made Detroit their home. Four knew thee but to love thee, None named thee but years ago, upon the occasion of the convention of to praise.' The love of his Sa,•ior inspired his ~he Synodical Conference, it was dccjdcd to open action. He died a young man, thirty=six years of a mission in the growing "Automobile City," but age, of cancer of the throat on· January 11, 1923. circumstm1ces prc\lented the plan from being carried He suffered terribly, but "ery patiently. He lies out. However, the good people of Detroit have not buried. near Victor, Iowa, beside his young wife, given up the idea and arc still convinced that somewho was taken from him four years before c1uring thing ought to be clone, as may be seen from the the influenza epidemic." follo,ving paragraphs which appeared -iu a recent May many othe1·s follow in the footsteps of this number of the Det1·oit TVaZlhm· Leaguer: young Christian brother to the glory of God and "53,000 Negroes in Detroit and no Negro L ufor the welfare of souls bought witli the precious theran church! Why not ? Have we been too busy blood of the Suior ! establishing white missions, so that the Colored Another member of Pastor Uhlig's congregation, people were forgotten? How can we forget them?

Fr. R., recently contributed the sum of $50 for the They are at our very. doors and are taking over Negro Chapel Fund. lfay God richly bless the kind entire se_ctions of the city. donor here in time and hereafter iu eternity ! - · "Ten years ago the Negro population of Detroit We wish to· take this occasion of erecting another was only 5,740; to-day it is 53,000, or about five • monument of gratitude in these columns to n,sainted per cent. of the entire population. In these ten sister who kindly remembered the cause of Negro years the population of the city doubled while the Missions in her testament. From Logansport, Ind., Colored population increased more than nine Pastor E. H. Reuter ,vrites: "Just sent a draft to times.

It is estimated that about 5,500 Negroes our Dii;trict treasurer, Mr. Paul E. Wolf, for $500, left for mission-work by a good Christian lady, Mrs. have come to the city in the first six months of this Caroline Strauch, who recently died. The deceased year, as high as 600 and 700 coming in dming some was a member of our St. J nmes's Congregation. ·of the 'peak' weeks. Some of the families consist She was a regular attendant at public worship .and of seven and eight chilru·en besides the parents. a constant render of our church-papers, also of the Between 1910 and 1920 Detroit had the largest per Missionstaube and the PIONEER. She had a heart cent. of increase. in Negro population of any city for the good work our Synod is doing among the in the country with the exception. of Gary, Ind., Negroes and was distressed when the work ,vas re- whose total population, white and Colored, is 55,378; tarded on account of lack of iunds. The sum of where, on account of the gigantic steel industry, the $500 was distributed as follows: For ~uilding Negroes increased 1,000 per cent.

"There a.re three large Negro sections in Deti:oit. c'ha.pels among the Negroes, ,1i800; for the General Church Extension Fund, $100; for the Pension The largest may be called the down-town central Fund, $100. May God bless the gift and those section, beginning at Jefferson Ave., east of Woodwho will receive it, as He has already blessed the . ward .'\\le., and extending to the :Soulevard on the ,, north. The second is the Hamtramck section, giver!"

"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord though the larger pa.r t is in Detroit. The third from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit, that they section is between W. Warren and Tireman avenues. may rest from their labors; and their works do Besides these three large sections there are a mnn-ber of small ones and no Lutheran church. foZlov, tliem."'

F. J. L.

The Lutheran Pioneer. "'!'hat is the situation. ,ve have, besides estabHshing white missions, been making thiugs comfortable for ourselves, building halls for pleasure, buying automobiles, etc., but what have we been doing fo1· the immortal souls of the Negroes in Detroit?

Practically nothing. Shall we continue thus? No I "The City Conference has appointed a committee consistfog of the Pastors C. J. Kmhuke and H. Quitmcyer to organize and supervise mission-work among the Negi-ocs of Detroit. 'l'his committee has been at work, a survey of the situation has been made, general plans have been adopted, one nmn will be placed in the work, anc1 several others will devote part of their time to this cause.

"But money is needed for hnll rent, salary, etc., and no funds are available. 'l'he needs of this work were laicl before the last meeting of the Detroit Walther League, and n, resolutiou was adopted authorizing the presiden t to appoint a committee to work ont ways and mea n toward raising money for the support of Colored mission-work in Detroit. 'l'ltis committee will be appointed in the very near future rind present plans which will make it possible for every Wal ther Leaguer to help save the souls of our Colored f ellow-citizens by contributing liberally toward this work.

"Another thing. Sunday-school teacher~, singers for the services, accompanists for congregational singing, and helpers in other phases of the work will be necessary. Who will volunteer? Do not leave it to others; do not be afraid that too many will offer themselves. Just send or telephone your names, addresses, telephone numbers, and what you are willi11g to do, to Pastor .C. J. Krahnke and 'Do it now',' before you forget it. " 'And let the beauty of the Lord, our God, be upon us; and establish Thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish Thou it.' " Pastor H. A. Quitmeyer informs us that they - have secUl'ed the services of Student Hunsinger of St. Louis, who will devote his whole time to the work to be inaugurated among the Negroes of Detroit by our Lutheran brethren in that great city.

Pastors Quitmeyer and Krahnke will give as much time to the wot·k as they can spare from their regular fabors.

Now, if only the means were at hand to build a chapel, even if it were only a por~able building!

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the committee in charge with the means to procure a lot and erect a building in which a dn.y-school could be opened and services as well as Sundayschool be held. We ieel, if that were done, by God's grace Detroit would soon have a flourishing Negro mission of our faith. God speed the day!

F.J.L.

I terns . from North Carolina.

On Sunday, September 16, the Rev. Melvin Holsten, a graduate from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo., was formally ordained and installed in Grace Congregation, Concord, N. C. The Rev. John i\foDavid delivered the charge to the pastor, using 1 Tim. 4, 16 as his text. Prof. Ph. Smith preached the charge to the congregation reminding them of their duties, using Heb. 13, 17 as his text, after which he formally ordained the minister and installed him as pastor of the congregation. A large crowd was present to welcome the new pastor. On the following '.fuesday a public reception was given the new minister. Several addresses were made by prominent citizens of Concord, and the Indies served a sumptuous banquet. May God's blessing attend the ministry of this young man, and may he be instrumental in bringing many souls to Clirist !

Dming the latter part of this month the North Carolina field was visited by the Director of Missions and Mr. E. Sclmettncr. Immanuel College was badly in need of many repairs, and they came to see what was to be done. 'l'he administration building of the college is to receive a thorough overhauling; the roof is to be altered, and several changes are to be made in the interior of the building. The ·plastering of the chapel is to be taken off, and a metal ceiling is to replace it. The library is to be changed and made more accessible to the students, and the present library is to be used as a faculty 1·oom, while the former faculty room is to ,be the office of the president. The professors' dwellings a1·e also to be e.."ttensively repaired and f;reshly painted. · Immanuel College opened on the 12th of Sep- · tember, with a goodly number in attendance. This is a somewhat early opening, and most of the students could not be present. At present writing more than one hundred have matriculated. Mr. E. Sehuettner returned to St. Louis after an inspection of the college. The Rev. Drewes, however, reina'ined and is maldng an extensive inspection and visitati9n '

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of our churches and schools. He is paying special band gathers once a mon th to hear the Gospelattention to the schools, hearing the teachers in- message of our Savior, and to sing the grnnd old struct and listening to the recitation of the pupils. hymns. T he singing is wonderful; even the chilWe have always been impressed with the Rev. dren join in and learn stanzas by heart. One of Drewes as a preacher, but the hints, suggestions, the women at one time was teacher in a Lutheran nnd advice he gave the teachers show him to be school. 'l'he other clay the :f ruit of om· labors became a preceptor of no mean ability. apparent when little Louise Murray, just thirteen 'l'hc Director also visited Greer, S. C. H e held no informal meeting with somq of the citizens of years old, closed her eyes in dea th, after a weary that town, explored the place, and authorized the illness, with a confession of faith that would put Rev. ;J. W. Fuller to start n mission there. l\Iiss E. many o.f us to shame. 'fhc use of our church was ;Johnson, of Charlotte, N. C., was appointed teacher freely offered for the f uneral service. And it was and opened a school there on October 1. Prospects a great missiomtry opportunity. Nearly a hundred for our church and school at this pince seem bright, Colo1·cd people of the fi nest type attended, and the and we expect soon t o Jmve a scconcl flourishing flornl offerings and expressions of sympathy showed congregation in South Carolina. May Goel g rant the high esteem in which our Colored fellowLutherans here are held. T he pastor spoke on Rev. His blessings!

Several changes haYe taken place in our field. 21, 1-4, the theme being : "Beyond the Grave." 'l'he Rev. C. ·n. :March, who was serving Mount Twenty copies of the Oolo1·ed L1ilhoran, published Pleasant, moved to Salisbury aml is pastor of in Selma, Ala., were dist,.-ibutccl, and an annou nceSt. ;John's. The Rev. F. D. Alston took charge of ment was made of the regular mon thly service hclrl the congregation at Mount P leasant and also of for Colored people in their section of the ci ty.

It seems t his would be a f,.-ui t.ful field fo1· n.

St. Peter's at Dry's Schoolhouse, which formerly belonged to the Concord circuit. 'fhc Rev. W. H. Color ed missionary. H e might make his headLash has reentered the work and will immediately quarters in Los L\ngclcs, from where he could reach take charge of Grace Congregation at Greensboro Santa M:onicn by trolley. With a nucleus of staunch Lutherans, who nrc so well liked in the community, and St. Mark's at High Point. .he could surely build up a large congregn.tiou by We noticed some improvements on the church the grace of God. An cl the congregation, uo doubt, property at Salisbury, N. C. The street has been would soon be nearly self-supporting. Some t ime bouleYardcd and paved, and the congregation has ago om· seYcn communfoants here raised $20 for erected a neat ,vire fence around the grounds. the missions of A.labnma.

W,\LTER F. '.rnoEGEn.

Santa Monica; Cal. Four years ago two little colored ·boys appeared in our church one Sunday morning. On being asked whether they were visitors or intended to become regular attendants, and whether they had ever gone to a Sunday-school before, the older 1>roudly an. invered, "I am a Lutheran!" · On further inquiry it developed that a number of communicant members of Bethlehem Church in New Orleans had located at this beach resort. So we ·began to reap what others had sown. This little band . of faithful Lutherans has since grown to 18 souls and 7 communicant members.

At the request of the Los Angeles Pastoral Con.ference the writer arranged to bold regular services !or these brethren in the faith. One member offered the use of her home and piano, a.nd so the little

A New Mission in South Carolina.

Up to the present time we have had only one Colored mission-station in South Carolina, a State having one of the densest Negro populations in the country. Now, however, we are to have another station in that State. This new mission has been opened at Greer, a town of about 3,000 inhabi~ants, and lying approximately seventeen miles west of Spartanburg; the location of our 'first mission-stat ion in the State.

The Negroes of Greer had heard of the good work which our Lutheran Church is doing in Spartanburg, and this prompted them to ask Pastor Fuller to begin the same kind of work in thefr town.

On ·an extensive tour of inspection which he made last month, Director Drewes visited Greer nnd looked over the field.

The Lutheran Pioneer. 'l'hc following extract from the Director's interesti11g letter will give Olli' readers t he result of his investigation : "In the eastern part of Greer, called Smmyside, stands a small new frame builc1ing, which was used as a movie theater for the Colored people until recently. 'l'his building was our stopping-pince.

Our com ing ,vas unexpected. However, Re,·. Fuller soou succeeded in calling several persons together.

Iu my foformal talk I stressed these points : First, owing lo lhc rapid expansion of our Colored Missions and t he scarcity of laborers, we are not looking for 11ew fields. Secondly, t he aim ancl object of

circumstance, since it will insure a more permanent residence of our mission material.

"But let me also mention some unfavorable circumstances. 'l'here ~re already three Colored churches in Greer - Methodist, Bapt ist, and Holiness (the sixteen Presbyterians have no churchbuilding and no ser vices) . The Baptist Association main tain a school (in another part of town), which had nu enrolment of nbout 300, including children from the country and from other places. Again, the city and county arc taking steps to erect a sixroom school about a mile away from the movie theater. L\11 this' is inauspicious. However, our people made the following explanations: 1. There are unchmchccl Negroes in Greer, particularly in S unnyside. 2. Some parents would rather not send their chilcl t·en to a Baptist school, where immersion is sti·csscc1 nncl mnc1c much of. 3. The new school will not nccommoclnte all children ; and as the Luthernn school in S1>nrtanb11rg is gradually making the local public schools almost superfluous, so the sch!)ol which would be under Re,,. F uller's direction in Greer would also not ha,,c to fear competition.

"Rev. Fuller is eager to open a station at Greer and has g iven me the assurance t hat he will not slight the Spartanburg field. He is physically strong ancl able to carry the additional bmden.

I slept over the matter Sunday night, talked it over once more with Pastor Fuller on :M:oncla.y, and in t he afternoon made known to him my decision to let him open a mission-station at Greer. He was happy."

Miss Eliza Johnston, a teacher of experience, has been transferred from Charlotte; N. C., to take chm·ge of the new school at Greer. There is every Rev. John W. Fuller. reason to believe that this competent teacher, by our mission-work is not to provide an education for God's help, will do efficient work in the scliool, and Negro children, but to spread the knowledge of our the faithful labors of Pastor Fuller, we hope, will blessed Savior and to extend the borders of om· be l'ichly blessed by the Lord.

F. J. L. Lutheran Zion. Dming the discussion which followed my informal talk one of the women said : Roman Catholic Missions among the 'We would be glad to get a Luthcrau chm·ch, even Negroes and Indians. if we . do not get a school.' Jones Casey, who is black in spite of his I1·ish name, made this stateRecently several archbishops of the Roman Cathment: 'During the ten yea1·s that I have lived i:n olic Church in Ameri.c a sent out an earnest appeal Sunnyside everything has been m·ound here except in behalf of the missions of their Church among a church.' He and the others promised , to send their children not only to school, but also to Sunday- the Negroes and Indians in the United States. In school and to pay part of the e:\.-pense of main- this appeal they give the following data, sho,ving the extent of the work conducted by the Roman tenance. · Catholics among the 300,000 Indians and 11,000,000 "'l'he Negroes living in the eastern part of Greer Negroes of our country : mostly own their own homes, which is a favorable

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"In the Indian Mission field, there are 150 mission centers, twice as many churches nnd chapels, 55 boarding- and 20 day-schools, and 3 Catholic hospitals. There are 200 priests, 450 sisters, 60 brothers, and many devoted lay teachers. Five Govemment hospitals and 3?' Government Indian boarding-schools are attended regularly by priests.

St. .John's Farm School · near Phoenix-, .Ari1.., attended by -over 500 children, many of whom nre orphans, depends solely on Catholic charity. It is at present in grave danger of being closed for want of support. .At the Nez Perces mission in Idaho seven sisters are still living in shacks erected by the Indians as a shelter sb: years ago, after the fire that destroyed convent and school. The last mission boarding-school among the Crows was closed in

and four chapels, some of which are rapidly becoming self-suppor ting. Iu a Southern city a parish three years old has n. school enrolment of 1,000, and the church is crowded at five masses every Sun:. day. Results such as these show what could be accomplished in our great Ncgrn population. In rural districts, pnrt iculorly of the South, dire poverty confront t he missionary and the sisters. , 'isters in n climate of burning heat are living in attics over the schools and are totally wi thout sanitary accommodations. 1rhe Colored sisters of Sarnnnah m·c obliged to take in wnshing as a means of support. In poverty, in privat ions of the most ordinary com·cnicnces of li fe, our p riests and sisters are laboring. ' F . .J. L.

Items of Missionary Interest.

GAINS Anno,,o, LossEs AT

Parsonage, Church, and School of Lutheran Indian Mission, Globe, Arizona.

1921, and the sisters were obliged to abandon their work.

"In the Cqlo1·cd Missions 175 priests, 700 sisters, besides brothers and lay teachers, are devoted exclusively to the work, while 50 more priests give part of their time to it. There are two colleges where Colored Catholic you~h are trained !or the priesthood. J?lans have been made ior the establishment of a Colored Catholic industrial school, the Cardinal Gibbons Institute. Parishes have suffered heavily from flood and hurricane, and successive failures of the cotton crop have placed a.t lowest ebb the resources of parishes that were almost selfsupporting. A large number of children whom their parents wished to come under the influence of the sisters are turned away from the schools on account ol lack of accommodations. Sixteen years of de,·oted work in the missions of Georgia have brought over seventeen hundred converts into the Church, - over seventeen hundred children were placed in the schools, - established six churches

Hol\rn. - 'l'he :Meth-

odist Church North is making rnpid progress nbroad. bu t the growth in the home fields is very mall.

1'hc gain in membership last year in the whole co1.mtt·y amounted to only a little over 25,000, and over 22,000 of these came irom foreign countl'ies.

1'hat is to say, a religious denominat ion of more than two million members had n. net growth in the U nited States, during the whole year of 1922, of only a few hundred above 3,000. Some of the Eastern conferences even r eported n henvy loss. \:Vhy is this? May not the main cause be this, that in the foreign field the Methodist Church maintains Christian day-schools, whe1·e the children are daily given religious instruction, while at home half an hom's teaching in Sunday-school once a week is· deemed sufficient?

ALA.DAMA GAINS. - The Colored Lutheran reports fifteen accessions in the Alabama field of our Colored Missions for the last month. Among these accessions is a baby girl that was born to Teacher Thompson and wife.

FROM COUNTRY TO CITY. - The genera.I observation has been ·that for the past twenty-five years the city chµrch has grown at the expense of the rural churches. Just as people in general are moving from the country to the towns and cities, so also our church constituency is leaving the rural parish for the to,m and the town for the larger city.

Thus the Disciples report that in forty-one cities they have grown from 35,654 in 1891 to 166,930 in 1923.

T he L uthe ran P i o neer.

Nm,cnEn o:r No~aNAL L u THRR,L~S. - There nrc in the worl d abou t· 75,000,000 people thnt clnim io · be Lutherans. Accep ting the clnims of these persons, the Lutheran Church would consli tulc almosi half of so-called P1·otestant Christcmlom. Aboui 3,500, 000 of ih is number live in America.

WELCOME GrnTs . - The church at Tincln, Ala., was prescntecl wi th an organ by i\Irs. A1mn Kreft and wit h th e ncce ar y pews through the e[ or ts of Rev. E is Ccldt. 'l'hc latter also provided t he church at Longmilc, AJn., with pews. Pastor E issfclclt is ma.in tain ing an agency through which l,c ncls as broker for cong regations tha t have used church furniture which lhey arc willing to donate to p oorer congrega tion s and the struggling congregations thnt arc happy to r eceive such f urniture as the mo1·c pro pcrous churches wish to dispose of. Congregat ions having altnrs, pulpits, pews, organs, an d chauclelicr wh ich th ey wish to dispose of m·e asked to nddre s Rev. C. Eis foldt, Nor t hville, i\[ich.

A. J u T H•~ o r.UTJON". -1'he Presbyterian ch urch at Madi on, Il l., has decided to withhold nil its offerings to i hc F oreign l\Iission Board of its den omination until such time as the v ersonnel of said board sha ll be above suspicion of being "i\[odernists." 1'he session of t he l\Iadison church recently made n statemen t to t he effect that their congregation stands ior t he whole Bible an d n ot for n "Bible f ull of holes." It is surely a sad state of affairs when a cong regation is obliged to take such a stand towm·cl on e of its m i sion boards. How thanh.--ful we should be that we have mission boards which, we know, stancl four-square on t he Bible us God's inspired and infalli ble Word and insist that n11 their · missiomnies know nothing but Chr ist crucified!

L ATIN A:rnmrcA.. - During the past year Protestant mission-work has made great strides on the island o.f San Domingo. Up to a year ago this islnnd with its fifty-three Protestant church-members was n comparatively neglected field ; but this number was quadrupled last year. There are at this date abont 500 pupils in the Protestant Sundayschools on the island. -. The Presbyterians recently began work among the 200,000 l\Iams o:f Guatemala.

Until n ow these people have been who11y without Gospel-preaching. - N ot more than one out of four of the 750,000 Ouban children of school-age is attending school. Various Protestant denominations are gather ing many of these neglected children into Christian day-scliools and Sunday-schools.

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HARVEST H olm AND l\[IssroN-FESTIVALS. - We arc pleased to learn that our Colored congregations in Alabama are going to g ive the collections which they will l iit at t heir annual harvest home and mission-fe tivals to our L utheran Foreign Missions in India. Having themselves tasted the sweetness of t he precious Gospel o.f J esus, they wish to help that others mny likewise share its blessings.

A HIGH-HANDED ACTION. - Latvia is one of the new states within the bounds of t he former Russian Empire; its capital is Riga. Recently the government of this new state took the finest Lutheran church in the whole country and ga,,e it to the Homan Catholics to be th e cathedral chu rcl1 of the Roman archbishop ! Surely t his is no improvement on the doings of the Czar and does not speak well f or the Latvian governmen t's sense of j us.tice.

A.,._.,_ A.GED E AST I N DIA 1\I rssro NARY. -Dr. W. F. J ohnson, who is now eighty-two years of age, began his missionary labors in India sixty-three years ago.

This aged missionary was especially active along literary lines. Among other products of his pen his simplified version in Hindi of the four gospels dcscn-es par ticular mention.

NEw l\IrssroN IN A LEL\ NDRL\, LA.. - This mission is in charge of Re,,. W. Tervalon, the pastor of our l\Iansura congregation. N ot a f ew former members of our l\fansurn church have remo,•ed to Alexan dr ia, which will make it easy for our work to· gain n foothold in this growing city. Pastor Gernannt of the white congregation in Alexandria has offered to assist Pastor Tervalon in the work.

A Christian d.1y-school is to be opened as soon as a competent teacher can be procured.

AFRICA. - Nige!ia is to be a future missionfield of the Church of t he Brethren. The English go,·ernmcnt has received the first two missionaries wi th kindness, an~ also the natives have git-en them a co.rclial welcome. A station has been established nt Garkicla. - An Af.ricn-for-Africans movement has been set afoot in the coast towns of Southwest Af rica. There is reason to fear that this nativistic inovem~nt may work harm for the various Christion missionary actMties in the D9:rk Continent.

'1'1rn A.nT OF PRINTI NG ,\ND TRB

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The

:first book that was ever printed with movable type was the Bible, 4 67 years ago. To-day thousands of Bibles are printed every hour to be sent into all the corners of. the inhabited world. From the time that the first Bible was printed till the present time the

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Bible has neYer been off tl!e press. For more thnu four centuries it has been the "best seller.' 'l'he Bible during all these years has been translated into almost eight hundred languages and dialects. It is said that in the lnst ten years the Bible has appeared in a new language, on nn average, about every six weeks. O,•cr half a billion copies of the Bible were printed in the last century.

F. J. L.

Notice.

We again desire to en.II tl1c attention of nll the friends of our Colored l\Iissions to the three fine illustrntcd lee• turcs which so graphically picture our three most important fields. Congregations" sl1ould not fnil to tnke advantage of the opportunity ofTered by these lecture~ to become ncqunintcd with our Mission. For pnrticulars write to Rev. Theo. F. Walther, 0406 Easton A,•c., St. Louis, Mo.

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by A. B. Philley, Decatur Road, Fort Wayne, Ind. Price, 60 eta. · A very simple, but expressive J?Oem set to beautiful, yet very simple music. The music is particularly ap• pealing.

An Appeal from Alabama.

Supcrinlcmlcnt G. A. , chmid t writ es t he Edilor Umt tl1c crops in Alalmmn :ire almost n lolnl failure, nnd that in consequence t he need :u11l dist ress among our Color ed people will be ,·cry grcnt (his winter. Ile nsks thnt our good people send him Jor distribu tion their enst -ofT, but still usnblc 0111 clot hing. luldrc s : Re,·. G. A . Schmiclt, Box 0S3, Selma., .Ala.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Jlccch•cd for Coto,·c,l Miss ion., frou1 the followi ng Colorccl co11grcgations : J ·1111<' : Christ, Rosebud, $l!l.17 ; Our Rcclccmcr, Lo11gmile, 13.G0 ; , t. P eter 's, P inc Hill, 10.70; i\fount Cnrmcl, l\Iiclwny, 10.47 ; Zion, '!'ai ls P lace. 10.0-J ; Our Sll.\·ior, Possum ]lend. S.3ii: , t.. Paul's, Oak ITi ll , S.31; Bethlehem, Holy .!.\ rk, Q.Sii ; llet.h:rny, Nyland. 0.50: St. Andrew's, Vredc11burgh, 5.!l5 : Moun t. Calvary, Ti lden, 5.52; l\lount Olive, Tincln, 5.47: Sclmn, Ala., •l.05 · St. Jamcs's, Buena Vi ta, :3.GG; , 't,. J ohn's, J offrc, 3.Q0; i\Iobilc, .Ala., 1.40 ; 0-rncc, Ingomnr, 1.23 : Birrninghnm, A la., .05. J u ly : Chri. t, Ro ebud, I S.GO,; Our Rcclcemcr, Longmilc, 1 l.<1:J; St. Peter's, Pinc Ilill, 5.00: :\fo unt Carmel, l\lid way, 7.45 ; Zion, Tnits 1>1acc, 3.15; Our Savior, P ossum Bend, 4.17 ; St Paul's, Oak Ri ll, S.2 1; Dcthlchcm, Roly Ar k, 4.57 ; Bethany, Nylnncl, 0.15; :\Ioun t. C11lm1·y, Tilden, 7.33; l\fount Oli\"c, Tincla, 0.S4; Sclm:1, Ala., 6.25; St. Jnmcs's, Ducna Vista, 3.S5; St. John's, Joffrc, 5.05; Mobile, Ala., 1.00; Grncc, Ingomar, 2.00; Trinity, , pringficld, 25.00; St . Matt hew's, l\lchcrrin, 25.52; Alnbnmn, S.20 n.ncl 5.05 : Dethnny, Yonkers, 50.00; Bethel, Charlotte, 10.00; Dcthel, Conover, 1.00; Dct hlcl1cm, Monroe, 5.00; Concordia, Rockwell, 5.00 ; St. P eter's, Drys Schoolhouse, 7.10 ; l\founl Cn lvnry, l\[ou11t Pleasnnt, 7.00; Grncc, Greensboro, 3.15 ; Immanuel, Ilrooklyn, 5.00; Immanuel Luthc1'l1n College, Greensboro, 700.10; l\[ount Cn.h·nry, Kn. nnnpoli , 14.00; l\[o11n t Olh·c, Catawba, 2.00; Mount Zion, New Orlcan , 40.00; 1\fonnt Zi on, Rocks, 15.00 ; St.Jnmcs's, Southern Pines, 7.60; St.Jolm'i;, Salisbury, 10.00 ; St. Luke's, Sp11rtnnburg, 15.00; St. Mark's, Atlautn, 7.00 ; St. Ma rk's, Winston-Salem, S.20; t . l>nul's, Charlotte, 32.00; Mount Zion, Chnrlottc, 10.00; St. Paul's, :Mansura, 12.50; Zion, Golcl R ill, 7 .00. - 'l'oto,L, $ 1,277.67.

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H. A. D1rnc:rn, ;lss/,. T reas., 5320 Cote Drilliantc Ave.

He,·. M. N. Carter gratefully nckuowlccl"CS t.hc following gift for Colored :Mi sions : P rom Ncbrn ka: Ccclnr Bluffs : Andrew Jurgens, $ .50; Geo. l\Iahrt, .50; C. Anderson, .50; Ruel. Rohwer, .50 ; Preston: N. N., 5.00; Leigh: Irene Johannes (t.wo ycnrs old), 1.00; Columbus: Dorothy \VolfT, .15; Juanita WolfT, .10 ; Geo. Wolff, Jr., .05; Dcsh• !er: Mnrtin Albrecht, 5.00. ( $13.30.) Thanks !

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OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY MOTTO. "Enthusiasm for missions is the measure both of our faith in Christ and our love to man."

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wrath, but through the Gospel we have been made acceptable to the heavenly Father in Christ our S . ,r , av1or. .1.es, grace and peace and love and hope "Fear not.; for, behold, I bring you good tidings ~f great. joy, WHICH SHALL BE TO ALL PEOPLE. a,ud sah'.ation are all ours through the Gospel.

For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, Such bemg the case, how can we otherwise than a Savior, which is Christ the Lord." exclaim with the psalmist: "What shall I render unto the Lord for a.Jl His benefits toward me?" 'l'hus gratitude to God should impel us to become Every Reader a Missionary. missionaries and make us willing at all times and under all circumstances to spread the light of the Why should every reader of the PIONHEn be an Gospel fm· and near as a token of appreciation for active mis. ionary ? For se,rcral reasons. all the spiritual blessings we have received.

In the first place, every one of om readers In the third place, love and pity for our less should be a missionary because or Clu·ist's com-. favored fellow-men should prompt us to carry and mancl: "Go ye and teach all nations," and : "Preach send the light of the Gospel in every direction. the Gospel to every creature." Even if we had no Without this light of Truth men are buried in reason to expect that our work would do the least falsehood, groping in fear and doubt, and lost in good to those among whom we worked and to superstitions. Without the guidance of the Gospel whom we brought the Gospel, the plain command men never can find the way to God end truth and of Christ, our Lord, to teach the nations and preach love and happiness. Christ, who is the sum and the Gospel should suffice to induce .us to do so. An substance of the Gospel, declares: ''I am the unfaithful servant is he who refuses · to obey his Way . . . ; no man cometh unto the Father but master; a poo1· soldier who declines to obey the marching and fighting orders of his commander! by Me." Hear you not the wail of the countless In the second place, what we have ourselves re- millions moving on to eternity ignorant of the ceived through the Gospel shoulcl make us anxious birth . of God's own Son, uninformed as to His to tell it to others who know it not. Without the a.toning death, His resurrection from the dead, His· Gospel we should all be the heirs of hell, but ascension into glory, and un·aware of the full and through the Gospel we have become the heirs of free deliverance from sin, death, and hell through heaven. Without the Gospel we were ,vithout hope Him who is our only, but all-sufficient Savior? As in this world, but by the Gospel the glorious hope you hear the sobbing of these millions who live and of life everlasting has been planted in our hearts. suffer without Christ sounding in your ears, are Without the Gospel we were the· objects of God's not your hearts moved to attempt to measure some'..

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And in the fourth place, every one of our readers should be a missionary because Christ, bis Master, was . one. Jesus is our Pattern and Model, n.nd we are to follow in His footsteps. Jesus was and is the greatest Missionary, commissioned by His Father to be the Light of the world and lead men to bliss and glory. Surely our holy ambition should ever be to become more and more like our Master also in the blessed work of winning and saving souls.·· Dear reader, think you not that these -reasons are sufficient to induce you seriously to consider the matter and to acl.."Jlowledge your share of the stupendous responsibilities that rest upon all of us who bear the· Christian nat:Qe? Is it not plain to you that the Lord wants you to help that His great commission to preach the Gospel to every creature acc'ordfog to the ability and means which He has given you be· carried out?

It ·is the duty oi every Christian to do some missionary work iri the capacity best suited to Iris capabilities. Some are called to be actuar missionaries, and when the call comes· to them; they should not shirk ·their duty. Others are called to assist, by their earnest prayers and their temporal means, those w110 are giving themselves entirely to the holy cause of missions. There is not a single Christian who ha'S not some important work to perform in the great work of bringing the Gospel to men. _ But when should we begin with our missionary work·? Now is the time! It is very probable that we ha.ve already neglected .great opportunities. Do not delay; · every hour · precious s~uls, · purchased by the Savior's blood, are lost because the message of :salvation has not been brought to them by those who. should have done so. It is possible that upon your immediate assistance in the cause of missions hinges the salvation of benighted human souls.

The n~ is so pressing, the call to missionary service is so. urgent, that we cannot neglect our plain duty without risk of serious regrets.. Let us. realize this and. without delay go to work. All of us are need!!4; no one can be permitted to refuse • bi,& aid. Let this; then, be our missionary slogan, "Every reader of the PIONBBR an active mis~onary I'' .

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Items from North Carolina and Other States.

KANNAPOLIS, N. C. - On the third Sunday in 9ctober the people in Kannapolis held a rally and raised money enough to pay ofl: all local debts and buy for the new chapel a good stove. At the end of the month the Ladies' 1l1Iissiona1·y Society gave a reception, to which they invited the men. They served a sumptuous supper. It was quite an enjoyable occasion, and the Rev. J. :M:cDavid and the pastor made brief encouraging addresses.

IMMANUEL CoNFERl!lNOE. - At its last session Immanuel Conference appointed a committee of three, a Ways and Means Committee, for the purpose o~ raising $1,000. This committee has now apportioned this sum among the thirty congregations belonging to the conference, according to size and mean§, nnd has informed each congregation of what is expected from it. The committee has apportioned these sums with great care, and it is to be hoped that the desired sum will be· forthcoming in each case.

ATLANTA, GA.-The Rev. J. Alston reports that on October 28 he preached a special sermon to a. large gathering, in which he stressed the needs of the college in Greensboro. During the service a special collection was raised for the school. - On Reformation Day the Rev. C. H. Broder~, of the white Lutheran Church, preached a splendid sermon to our Colored Lutheran congregation. On November 4, at a special service, several members were confirmed, and Communion was celebrated. Pastor Alston reports a very good attendance at the day-school.

CONCORD, N. C.-The Rev. M. Holsten held· his first Harvest Home Festival in North Carolina on the second Sunday in October. In the morning service the Rev. F. Alston preached a mission sermon from Acts 17, 16-18. In the afternoon the Rev. J. McDavid delivered an address based on Esther 4, 14. At night the pastor preached the Harvest Home sermon. All services were well ·attended. Visitors had come from all the neighboring congregations and brought their friends with them. A large collection was raised. 4t these services the choir, trained by the Rev. Holsten, rendered several beautiful selections. . After the morning service the ladies of the congregation

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MONROE, N. C. - The people of Monroe celebrated their Harvest Home Festival on the :first Sunday in November, and in spite of the fact that it rained incessantly the whole day, the services were well attended, and a good collection was raised. The Monroe chapel is being repaired and painted. Mr. Ferguson, who has charge of the school, is doing efficient work at this place.

GREENSBORO, N. C.-The many friends of Professor Smith will be grieved to learn that he is in such poor health that he had to stop teaching. 'rl1c Board granted him six weeks' vacation, and he has gone North to recuperate among his friends.

We hope he will soon recover and return to his post.

Items of Missionary Interest.

MADRAS, INDIA. - "A new mission was opened by the missionaries of the Missouri Synod in Mad1·ns. The nucleus of the new mission consists of people who left the Swedish Lutheran mission "because of the· liberal teachings of the missionai-ies.

After protesting for several years in vain against the liberalism of their pastors, they asked our missionaries to supply them with the preaching of the ·true Word. The outlook is very p1·omising. - How sad it is to think that Christian missionaries, called to preach the truths of the Bible, can so far forget themselves as to neglect their sacred duty to these former heathen and give these the opportunity to reprove them for their unfaithful conduct!

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THE NEi,m EAST. - Christian missions are in . a sad way in Asiatic Turkey. Most of the Christian churches are closed, and the colleges are doing little. The Congregationalists lost property to the value of almost three million dollars, ·and about ninety-five per cent. of their members are dead or have been deported. Half of the foreign workers are dead or have been deported or removed, and two-thirds of the native workers have died a violent death at the hands of· the Turks. ·The village school systems of the various missions have been destroyed. Eight colleges are closed, and of fortyfive high schools only four are still open. Over ha~f of the hospitals ni·e in ruins.

FREE SOIL, MICH. - Pastor H. J. Storm recently confhmed nine adults in his Colored missionchurch near Free Soil. Our readers will probably remember that Pastor Storm, wh9 is a pastor · of

a white church in Free Soil, about three years . ago opened a mission in a Negro settlement near his town, and these nine adult confirmands are the first-fruits of his self-denying labor. Pastor Storm preaches every Sunday afternoon to his Colored people and also conducts a Sunday-school among them.

NEGRO MIGRATION. ..,.,..,The Fede:ral Department of Labor reports that in the year ending September 1, 478,700 Negroes left thirteen Southern States. The largest migrations were as follows: Georgia, 120,000; Alabama, 9.0,000; Florida, 90,000; and Mississippi, 82,600.

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The funeral, which took place Octo.ber 8, was attended by n large number of relatives, friends, and acq~aintances. The writer based his ~!lrnl address on the words: "It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the Judgment." Heb: 9, 27.

His death caused our c~ngregatio~ and , his many friends and acquaintances muC9· sorrC?~· It was at the home of Uncle Scott, we all called him, that Pastors F. J. Lankenau ~cfF. ~ ~.s~~belitz held the first Lutheran service in this n~jghborhood, and under his hospitabie roof· iiiany 'of our missionaries have been ·entertain~d'. .. : '' ' ... ~ ~ . The sudden death qf 'Q'ncle ~-~~tt b~i?gs to 9ur minds with double force the truth 9f the wor~ of

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The Walther League and Missions.

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The Walther League has now called a fulltime worker to take care -of its hospice work.

Bev. Erwin Umbach, of Muskogee, Okla., has ac. cepted the call.

Hospice work is one of the most important and bl.i:ssed missio~mry endeavors of the League. The hospice system of the Walther League provides for the Lutheran travelers and strangers, as well as for others. It may be said that the Church suffers . one of its greatest losses when thousands of young : Lutherans annually leave their homes to make a better living or make the change for other reasons, and, as it so ·often happens, get away from church when they are away from home.

The fact that an ever-increasing number of young men and young women are going to the larger cities and thus are given into our care constitutes a problem which calls for the best ·efforts · o·f the League and the Church. It has been estimated, for example, that from two to three hundred people annually go to Toronto, similarly, that one ·:thousand young people go to Detroit every year.

The international hospice secretary is at the ·head of the entire system, which includes thirty-three district hospice boards, hundreds of central committees, and about seven hundred local ho~pice secretaries. Furthermore, the system also provides for the establishment of hospices, and there are now nine such institutions in the following cities: New York City, Buffalo, Chicago, Milwaukee, Omaha, Sioux City, Los Angeles, Washington, D. C., and St. Louis.

It is safe to say that within a comparatively short time six more such institutions ,vill be established. With the above-named new worker the · League begins a new chapter in the history of hospice work.

The Eastern District · of the Walther League very ~;11tly secured one of the finest hospices in our system. The property is valued at $43,000 and . is situated in one of the finest sections of washingto:n, D. O. It is a three-story building with four-

teen rooms. It will provide for from thirty to forty guests. It is hardly 11cccssary to state that this hospice will ser ve its pmpose well in our nation's capital, where so many interests center.

This hospice will be of national interest to the League, as it will also provide for a memorial room to the Luthem n boys who fell in the World War. 'l'hc international Walther League plcclgcd itself at its t hirtieth com-cnt ion to the extent of $1,000 for-·a memorial room. F1·iends and relat ives of the boys who foll in that war are urged t o furnish rooms in memory of them at t he hospice in Washington. 'rhe Southern California District convention, which recently met in Ornugc, pledged itself to the extent of $1 per member toward the support of a foreign missionary. P astor K uolt is the missionary who will be suppor ted by t he Eastern District. It is expected that he will shortly leave for India.

Students' work is receiving eyer more attent ion ou the part o-f the League nncl wiJl get a. new impetus through the efforts of the newly called hospice secretary. 'l'hc Kansas District r ecently pledged itself to the extent of $10,000 for a students' home at Lawrence. Similarly the :M:issouri District Executive l3oard pledged itself to cooperate with the mission board of the Western District in establishing a students' home at the University of l\fissouri, in Columbia. 'l'he Western Pennsylvania District of the Walther League is one of the smallest districts of the League, but by no means the most backward in its missionary enterprise. One society belonging to this district alone pledges itself to contribute $500 annually to the support of a foreign missionary.

This society is the .Missionary Guild of YiceP1·csident Eckhardt's congregation in Pittsburgh.

We take the following from the last B1tllel11n of the cl istrict : ~ "We have now entered upon the third year of our foreign mission endeavor. · Of the eleven socities in the district nine took part iu the support of 'our missionary,' Rev. l\fa.x Zschiegner, of Hankow, China. 'rwo hundred fifty-two members _pledged $1,107 last year, or $4.38 per member, and up to October 1, $1,061.75 had been paid. The balance due is $46. We cannot but thank God for having maae our young people ·willing to give of their earthly g~ods to this extent. To our financial support let us not fail to add that of prayer. Our mis-

The Lutheran Pioneer. sionnrics need our prayers in their difficult and oftentimes discouraging work. Let us, therefore, work for the Lords cause with heart and hand.

How about the new pledges? We arc uot alarmed.

We arc sure they will be fo rthcoming in the same liberal mnnnc1· as iu the past. "'l 'hcrc is now one more member in the missionary's family that is looking to us - n. Mnx, Jr. Congratulations to the happy parents ! May God bless both parent and l\fa~, J r.!

"Our missionary has sent us a number of wood carvings and another highly interc ting letter.

These carvings arc to be sent to the societies of the district for exhibition. 'l'hc letter will be sent to nil socictic a soon as it can be copied. Le t we forget - we wish to call attent ion to the article in the o ·ctobcr Messenger by onr missio1mry."

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Remember that in buying these Christmas seals, you are supporting a mo t important mission enterprise. By making it pos iblc for poor tubercular patients to procure free treatment at our Wheat Ridge Sanitarium, you nrc also making it possible fo r them to be under constant Christian influence ancl care.

What Makes the Missionary?

First, n deep and abiding conviction that this is n lost and sinful world, and that it is the business of the ministry to hasten its redemption. Secondly, n clecp and abiding conviction that the only means of redeeming the world is the Gospel of J esus Christ, which is the power of God unto salvation.

Thirclly, a deep and abiding love for the souls of men, such as wHl drive him to become all things to all men in order thnt he may by all means save Christmas Seals and Missions. some. If this will not set a missionary on fire and m_akc him a " live wire," nothing else will.

As in former yea rs the Walther League is again 'I'o this mny be acldecl three qualifications or selling the Wheat Ilidgc Sanitarium Christmas characteristics on the human side that cannot well seals to raise fonds for the fight against the white be left out of account. The first is initiative n clisposition to do and to dare things in order to reach n fixed goal. The second is resourcefulness - the gift of devising ways and means whereby to reaqh that goal. The third is inspirational :•pep" - that warmth of spirit and of action which will spread like n contagion, warm the ·hearts of others, ancl marshal them into line for action.

Undc1· such leadership missions are bound· to prosplague which annually carries away 250,000 young per, and no cheap, sensational methods need be people in our cotmb·y. 'I'he i und rcalizetl through resorted to to insure their prosperity. - uutlieran. the seals enables many a Lutheran to fight the dread disease among friends and fellow-Lutherans First Influences towards Christianity. at the excellent sanitarium maintained by the Walther League in Colorado. 'l'hc $26~000 raisecl last What first influences heathen men and women Christmas made it possible to give :Cree treatment or reduced rates to that amount during the past to pny attention to Christianity, thus giving them year. This year the League hopes to realize the first impetus to leave the religion of their $40,000. · The most of us use seals on our Christmas fathers and to accept the teachings of Christ?

On the island of Formosa the Christian workers mail and packages. Let us patronize our young sent out inquiries to about four hundred church. people and use our own seals. Surely our own Lumembers who were not the children of Christian theran sufferers arc closest to us and should be parents.

The answers received gave most interesttaken care of first. So do your Christmas shopping early. As you prepare to commemorate the coming ing results. Of those asked, 37 per cent. answered of God's great gift in Bethlehem, help give some that they had been urged to attend Christian serunfortunate fellow-Lutheran that temporal · gift vices by friends; 22 per cent. had embraced Chriswhich is most appreciated - health. Buy at. least tianity because they bad found it a help in sickness and distress; 20 per cent. had by chance heard a one book for twenty-five cents.

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!':ermon which had arrested them upon thei,r old path, while only 13 per cent. had been impressed by the good character and exemplary life of Christ ians. · Of t he remaining 8 per cent. some became first interested · in the new relig ion because they noticed that Christians were more prosperous. On,!? man said that he had gone years ago out of mere curiosity to _see a Christian missionary who had been described to him as "a red-headed barbarian," and that the preacher had then and there "captured him for good." Another man answered the question by saying that he had lost all confidence in the heathen religion because the pig which he had been fattening for the heathen god died I F. J. L.

BOOK TABLE. Lutheran Annual for 1924. Amcrikanischer Kalender fuer deutsche Lutheraner auf das Jahr 1924. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Ea.ch 116 pages. Price, each 15 cts.

One of these annuals should be in every family of the Missouri Synod. We see t hat these annuals have increased from 108 pages in 1023 to 116 pages in 1024. Among other improvements· we notice the addition of a list of pastors doing pastoral work among our students at higher institutions and an index.

The Spirit of Christmas. A festival poem by Dr. Paul E. · Krct::mann. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price: Single copies, 10 cts. ; dozen, $1.00; 100, $7 .50, plus postage. · A tast~fully made-up booklet with chromolithograpbed colors, which bas the purpose of bearing t he Christmasmessage into our homes. May it take the place of the silly Santa Claus rhymes that luwc found such great sales in the past!

Lessons in the Small Catechism of Dr. Martin Luther.

By Geo. Mczgcr, D. D. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Blue vellum cover; 173 page.a. Price, 00 cts.

This book of fifty-one short, easy lessons on the Catechism from the pen of that master of catcchctics, Dr. .Mczger, will prove a most welcome publication for our pastors and teachers. The day-school and Sunday-school \cacher, as well as the pastor in preparing children and adults for confirmation, will find the book of very great value.

• P.roceedings of the Thirty-Second Regular Meeting of the Missouri Synod. 1023. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. 06 pages. Price, 75 eta.

Every English-speaking member of the Missouri Synod who wishes to know what his representatives did at the last scasion of his Synod will have to procure a copy of thla book.

A Little Queen. Black and White and Other Stories.

Ellch OG pages. Green binding. E ach volume illustrated with four colored pictures. Price: Single copies, Cllch 30 cts.; dozen, ellch $3.00; 100, each, $22.00. Orclcr from Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. The Neighbors at the Brook. The Little Rag-Picker.

Ellch 32 pllgcs. Bonrcl cover s. P r ice: Single copies, each 20 cts. ; llozcn, cach $2.00 ; 100,cnch $ 15.00. Order from Concorclin P ublishing House, St. Louis, Mo. In these four Yolumcs t he publisher, Johllnncs Herrmann, Zwicknu, Saxony, Germany, has given to t he Americnn public in n \'Cry good E nglish trnnslntion a number of Margarete I.cnk's cla ssic juveniles. The trnslator, Louis P . Lochner, has been hnppy in reproducing t he spirit of the German origina ls in the language of our count ry. We l1ope that mnny of our Sunday-schools will present t heir pupils with copies of these fine examples of Christian juvenile literature.

Ein let.ztes apostolischcs Wort an alle rechtschalfenen Diener am Wort. Dargebotcn von Dr. 0 . iJI. Zorn.

Verlng uncl Druck von Johannes Herrmann, Zwickau, Snchscn. Orclcr from Concordin. Publish ing House, St . Louis, Mo. 60 pngcs: Price, 20 cts.

An earnest nclmonition based on 2 Tim. 4, 1- 5. While addressed, first of nil, to tl1c public servn.nts of the Word, these worcls of loving caut ion and warning by tl1c vener able writer mny be rend with grcn.t profit also by our laymen. May this pamphlet find many careful readers among our past.ors n.nd t heir members!

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Trouble of Carrying in Your.'.Mind· Another Item that Needs Attention. '. • THE -LUTHEll°AN PIONEER will Visit You for Fifty Cents a Year, and Do It Right Gladly.

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

An- Appeal from Alabama.

Superintendent G. A. Schmidt wrote the Editor that the crops in Alabama have been almost a total failure, and that in consequence the need and distress among our Colored people will be very great this winter. He asks that our good people send him for distribution their castoff, but still usable old clothing. Address: Rev. G. A. Schmidt, Box 683, Selma, Ala.

The Antichriatian Spirit of the Lodge. By Rev. Pa.ul Notice.

Pieper. No~western Publishing House, .Milwaukee We ngain desire to enll the attention of all t he friends Wis. 28 page■. Price: Single copies, 10 eta.; dozen; of our Colored :MiBBions to the three fine illustrated lec60 eta.; 100, $4.00. tures which so graphicnlly picture our three most imWhen we announced the publication of the German . portant fields. Congregations should not fail to take original of this treatlae, we Cll:preued the wish to see it advantage of the opportunity offered by these Ject~res printed in Engllab. Thia our wish baa been gratified, and to become acquainted with our MiBBion. For part1cu• we hasten to appriae our readers of the fact. .May tho Jars write to Rev. Theo. F. Walther, 6402 Easton Ave., pamphlet find many readers in it■ English translation 1 St. Louis, Mo.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Received for Colored .tllissiotrs from the following Col• orcd congregations: Trinity, Springfield, $25.00; St. 1\Iatt.hew's, Mcherrin, 24.18; Alabama field, 3.00; Bclhany, Yonker s, 50.00; Bethel, Clmrloltc, 10.00; Mount. Zion, Charlotte, 10.00; Bethel, Conover, 2.00; Mount Olive, Catawba, 10.00; Bethlehem, 1\Ionroc, 5.00; Bethlehem, New Orlcnns, 57.50; Concordia, New Orleans, 15.00; Concordia, Rockwell, 10.00 ; Grace, Concord, 40.00 : Immnn· uel, Sho.nklclown, 10.00 ; Greer, S. C., 1.35; Immanuel Lut heran College, Greensboro, 1,017 .SO; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 5.00 ; Lecture tour, 13.50; Lut.J1cr College, New Orlea ns, 20.00 ; Mount Co.Ivary, Kanno.polis, ltl.00; 1\Iount Calvary, Mount Plcnso.nt, 12.00; St. Peter's, Drys Schoolhouse, 10.00; 1\Iount. Zion, Rocks, 10.00; , t. Jnmc 's, Southern Pines, 6.05 ; St.. John's, Salisbury, 10.00 ; St..

Luke's, Spartanburg, 15.00; St. Murk's, Atlanta, 7 .00; St. Mark's, Vi1 inston-So.lcm, 14.55; St. Mo.t.t11cw's. 1\lcherrin, 31.55; St. Paul's, Chnrlott.c, 32.00; St. Paul's, Mans ura, 12.50; St. Paul's, Napoleonville, 20.00; Zion, Gold Hill, 7.00; A ln.bama field, 8.20; Mount Zion, New Orleans, •10.00. - Total, $1,580.08.

St. Louis, Mo., November 1, l!l23.

H. A. DITTMAR, 1l sst. T,·cas., 5320 Cote Brillinnte Ave.

A Most Appropriate Mission Box. To meet n. real demnnd, we offer thie splendid Mi11ion Box to our readers, fully convinced tha.t we are in a. poei• tion to offer them o. mission box that is bound to draw the attent ion of old and young at o. price that ie remark• ably low. Thie little Colored solicitor for missionary gifb can be appropriately placed in the church, the school, the Sunday-school, the society ho.II, or the home. We are sure that this collection device will increase the donations for

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Supt. G. A. Schmidt ncknowlcdgcs l hc receipt 9£ several boxes of clothing from t he congregation of Ucv. F. J. Lo.nkenn.u, Nnpolcon, 0.

Rev. 1\I. N. Carter grnt.cfully a cknowledges t.he receipt of t he following : l~rom Miss Lenn. Obcrmuellcr, Lincoln, Kans., $1.00; Miss M innie Wulf, Cheney, Kans., 50 els.; Mr. Carl Timm, V iclor, Iowa, 50 cts.

The Edit.or r eceived $5.00 from 1\Irs. G. Doege, Fort Wayne, Ind., for t.hc Chapel Fund. God bless t he donor!

missions, since it is a standing appeal to every one that sees it not to forget the grca.t work_of spreading the Gospel. M11ny a. nickel and dime will find its !f&Y into the mission treasury that would be lost to the ca.use, were it not for the silent, but insistent appeal of this little kneeling Negro boy in his white garment, ,vho gi"a.~efully and most politely acknowledges even the smallest gift by a nod of his shapely hcnd. Size, 5X7Xll inches. Price, $3.00, plus 15 cents for postage. Order from Mr. Ewald Sehuettner, 022 Pinc St., St. Louis, Mo.

"1esus Died for Both."

A postal ca.rd in colors bearing this title baa been published by our Colored :Mission Board. J esua is blessing a kneeling Negro child, while a little white child is on His lap. The card is intended to a.waken and nourish the love for missions in the hearts of our people, and is also appropriate for distribution in our da.y-1chool1 and Sunday-acboola. Price, 2 for 5 eta: ; 30 eta. per dozen; $2.00 per 100. Order from Mr. Ewald Schuettner, 922 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo.

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EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN COLORED CHURCHES. MISSOURI. ST. J..ou1s: - Grace, lu10 Morgan St.; G. L. Krocnk, Pnstor.

- Scr,·lces : I•:very Sundny, 11 ., . ll. Sundny-school, 10 A . M.

LOUISIANA. N&W OnL&ANS: - SI. Pa11l'11, 1G2G Annette St.; E. IT. Wlld,:rube. Pnstor. - Scr,·lccs: Sundn1·, 11 A. 31. nnd 7.30 1•. lt.; Wednesday. 7.30 r. >t. Sundny-scliool, 10 A. >t.

Trl111t11 Chapel, Elmlru nnd Vlllere Sls.: E. ll. Wlldi;rube, Pnstor. - Scr,·lces: Sundny, S 1•. >t. Sundny-school, 10 .,. )I. Paflct1 11 La11d, 1517 Ne Plus Ultrn St. ; E. 1:1. Wlldi;rube, Pnetor. - Scr,·lces: Sundny, 2 r. >t.

JJctlllcl1cm, Wnshlni;ton A\"e. nnd DryndCll St.: G. M. Kromer, Pnstor. - Ser,·lces: Sundny, 11 A. M. nnd S r. M.: Thursdny, 8 1•. 11. Sunday-school, 10 ,,. M .

Oo11cordl11, cor. Cohn nnd Holly Gro,•c Ste. : G. lll.

Kromer, Pnstor. - Services: E,·cry Sunday, 10.15 A. u .

Sunday-school : E,·ery Sundny. 11.30 ., . u.

Mo,rni Zlo11., cor. Frnnklln ancl •.rhalla Ste.: Walter Heck, l'nstor. - Ser,·lces: Sunday, 10 A. at, nnd S 1•. ar. : Wcduesdny, 8 r. M. Sunday-school, 11 A . M. N.U'OLt:ON\' 11,t.l:: - St. Pa11l111; C. P. Tl1pmpson, Pus tor. - Scr,•lces : Every Sunday, 7.30 1•. ll. 8unday-school, 10 A. >I. PLAQU&i111rn : - Dc'1rcl; C. P. Thompson, Pus tor. lllANSURA :-St. 1•11111•11; Wilfred J . Te.r ,·alon, Pastor. - Ser,·lces: Sunday, 10 A. ll. Sunday-sebool, 0.30 A. 11.

AL&X..\NDDlA: - w. J. •.rcr,•nlon, Pnstor.

• NORTH CAROLINA. CoNcono : - Oracc; Meh•ln Holsten, Pnstor. - Senlces: Sunday, 11 "· u. nnd 7.30 l.'. ll.: Sunday-school, 3 r. >1.

SUANKL&TOWN: - Jt11ma1111cl; lllelvln Holsten, Pnstor. - Scr,•lecs: .Every first nnd third Sunday o! the month, 1 1•. 11.

SALIBUUR\' : - St. Jolm'11; C. n. March, Pnstor. - Services: E,•ery Sundlly, 7.30 r. M. Sundny-school, a 1•. 11.

GOLD HJLJ,: - Zion; C. Mnrch, Pastor. - Services: E,·ery tlrst nnd third Sunday of the month, 12.30 1•. a1. Sundnyschool, 10 "· u.

Gn&&NBUOIIO :-J,n111a11ucl CollC{IC Jff1111!011; Prof. J. Ph. Smith, l'nstor. - Services: Sundny, 7.30 1•. ,1. Sunday-school, 10.30 A. 31.

Grace, 00-1 S. Ashe St. ; Wiley H. Losh, Pnstor. Services: 11 A. Joi. nnd 7.SO 1•. Joi. J:IJOU POI.NT: - St. Luke'•; Wiley H. Lnah, Pnstor. - Services: Sundny, 3 1•. u. Sunday-school R!tcr preaching, WINSTON-SAL&:U : - Colorcrl Miadon; JcSBe A. J:lunt, Pnl!tor.

- Services : Every first, second, nnd tourth Sundny of the month, 3 P. :u.

SOUTDERN PINEii: - St. Jamu'II; Jesse A. Hunt, Pnstor. Scnlccs : E,·cry third Sunday of the month.t 11 A. M. and 7.30 r. u. Sundny-school: E,•cry Sundny, lu A. :u.

KANNAl'OLIS: -Mount Cah;a,·u; Frnnk D. Alston, Pastor. Service■: l~vcry other Sundny, 3 1•.

DnYS SCBOOLHOOIIE: - St. l'c&Cr'II; F. D. Al11ton, Pnstor. Services : E,•cry second and fourtb Sundny of the month, 11 A. .11. Sunday-school : .Every Sunday, 1 1•. u.

MOUNT PLKAIIA.'IT: - Mount Caluaru; l~. "· Alston, l'll11tor. Scnlccs: Every second and fourth liunduy of the month, 12.16 P . M. Sundny-11chool, l P. M. lCOCKB :-Moun,& Zion; 1•'. l!'onrd, Pastor. - Services: Every ftrst nnd third Sunday ot the month, 11 A. 111. Sundayschool : Every Sundny, 10 A. M. CATAWnA: - Mount -ouuc; l•'. l•'onrd, P1111tor. - Services: Every fourth Sunday ot the month, 11 A. 111.

CoNovxa: - Bother • l•'. Fonrd, Pastor. - Services : Every fourth Sunday o't the month, a P • .11. Sundny-11cbool : Every Sunday., 1 1•. Joi. ltocKWELL: - Concordia • 1''. 1''oanl P1111tor. - Services: Every firat Sunday of the month, 2.30 1•.u. Sunday-school, 10 "· )I. CHARLOT'l'll: - St. Paul's, cor. Second and Alc:i:nndcr Sta. ; J. UcDavld, 1•1111tor. - Services: Sundny, 8 1•. u. Sundayscbool, 3 r. Joi. .11011,n& Zion., J,ut11er~ near Daldwln Ave.: J. McDavtd, l'Htor. - 8crv1cca: Sunday, 11 A. Joi. Sunday-school, 12 ar.

GnEl'llC\'ILLII: - Dothcl; John McDavtd, Pnstor. - Services: 4.30 r. Joi. • MU.NDOII: - Bo&hlchcm; John )(eDavld, Pastor. - Ser,•lccB: every flrat and thlro Sunday of the month.

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St. Lul.o'111 350 EY1n1 St.; J. W. lfnller, · Pastor• ....:. Semcea : Sunoa:t, 12.111 P. M., and Wedncsda:,,

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ILLINOIS. SParxoruw,: - B0111 2'W11CtJf; Prof. Theo. Enplder, Pastor.

- Benlcea: BYe17 Banda7, 8 P, M, Sunda7-■chool, 10.80 A, I[,

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St. LOIIIB Co1111ti ]11fl1•111ary Jll&BiOll a11d St. Lo,1111 City llo1pltal; G. T,. 1'.roenk, l'ns tor. Services: Wednesday,

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AUKANSAS. LtTTL& ROCK: - St. l'a11l'11, 26th nud Cross Sts.; Ad. U. l' oppc, Pn11tor.-Sen•lces : Every second and !ourth Sunday of the month, 3.30 1•. M. Sunday-school, 3 I'. at.

NEW YOUK. YoNKt:ns: -1Jctlu111u, 4·1 llndson St.; w. o.

Services: Snnclny, 4 r. M.: Wednesday, 8 school, 2.30 r. 11.

DIIOOKL\'N: - /m111a1111cl, lG24 Bergen St.; w.

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P1':NNSYI,VANIA. PDJLADl!LrlltA : - 437 N. 32d St.; '"· G. Schwchn, l'as tor. Scn·lces: E\'e ry Sundny, 3.30 1•. M. Sunday-11chool, 2.30

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VIUGINIA. M&nt:aRIN : - St. ilfllttlle10'11 • L. G. Dorpat , Pastor. - Services : Every second, tllrd, and !ourth Sundny or t he month, 11,30 A. )I . Sunday-school, 10 A. M .

RICIIMOND: - r,. G. Dorpnt, Pastor. - Services: r~vcry first . Sunday ot the 111ontl1 In St. Luke's Holl.

GEORGIA. ATl,ANrA: - 8t. Mark111, 247 Gnrlbnldl St. ; John Als ton, Pastor. - Scr\'lces: Sundny, 7.30 1•. M . ; Wednesday, 7.30 1•. M , Sunday-school, 12.80 1•. lt.

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AT,ADAMA. OAK HILL: - St. l'n11l'11; Chas. Pcny, Pmitor. - Sc r,•lcc11: Every Sundny, 12 >t. Sunday-school, 11 A. ll. ltO!IEDUD: - Cllrl11t Cl111re1t • Chas. D. Pcny, Pnstor. - Scr\'lccs: E\"ery Orst nnd (bird Sunduy of tile montll, 11.80 A. ll.

Sund11y-school: I•:vcr~• Sunday, 10 A. u.

•.rAtTS PLAC& : - Zio11; 1~. Westcott, Pastor. - Services : Every second nnd fourth Sunday of the month, 2 r. >i. Sundayschool : E,•cry Sundny, 3 1•. M. SELllA llhSSION : - E. D. Cozart, Pastor. - Services : Every sccontl Sunday of the month, 3 1•. ll. Sunday-school: Every Sundny, 11 A, M. VD&DENIJUROll: - St. Andre10'11; w. I•'. Carlson, Pastor. - Services: E,·ery Sunday, 7 1'. )I. Sunday-school, 11 .,. at.

DU&NA VISTA : - St. Ja,nc11•11; W. 1•'. Cnrlson, Pnstor. - Ser• ,·Ices: Every first and tl1lrd Sunday of tile month, 11 A. M. Sunday-school: Every Sunday, 2 r. lt.

TtN&LA: -Mount Olive; W. F. Carlson, l'nKtor. - Services: E,·cr,- second and tourth Sunday of the month, 11 A. 11.

Sunday-school: E,•cry Sunday, 0, A. M. Mont LE: - G. A, Schmidt, Pastor. - Services: Every second Sunday of the month, at 000 St. Francls St., 7.30 r. ll.

HOLY ARK : - Dc'11lel1cm; G. A . Schmidt, Pnstor.

LoNOJolJLE: - Our Redeemer; G. A. Schmidt, Pastor.

TrLD&N: -Jlou11t Calvarul· E. R. Berger, Pastor.~ Services: Every second nnd four h Sunday of the month, 7.30 P. M. Third Sunday, 11 A, u. Sunda7-school : E,•ery Sunday, 10 A. Joi. INOO&IAR: - <Jraco; E . R. Berger, Pnstor. - Services: Every second nnd fourth Sundny of the month, 1 r. M. Sundayschool: Every Sunday, 12 M. Ju:rvaE : - E. D. Coznrt~ I•nstor. - Scr,•lccs : E,•cry first Sun• day of the month, .12 ·u. Sunday-sehool: Every Sunday, 11 A, M. M1DWAY: -Mount Carmel; E. A. Westcott, Pastor. - Services: Every first nnd third Sunday of the month, 12 11.

Sund117-1chool: Every Sunday, 11 A·. ar.

Possu:u BEND: - Our Sa,vlor; E. A. Westcott. Pnstor. - Services: Every second nnd fourth Sundny of the month, 12 u.

Sunday-school : Every Sunday, 11 A. u, NYLAND: - Dothan11 • 1. Montgomery, P11Btor. - Servtcea: Every second nnd fourth Sunday of the month, 12 ar.

Sundny-school : Every Sunday, 11 A. ar.

PIKE DILL: - J. Montgomery, Pastor.

DIRKIICOHAJol )118810.N, 7616 Morris Ave., (Woodlnwn) Blrmslngham : - I. Holnca, Putor. - Services: Ever7 'third UD• da7 of the month, 2 P. ar.

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