# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1895_S18
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The Lutheran Pioneer.

(For the LUTHERAN PIONEER.)

Laying of the Corner Stone of a New Ev.
Luth. Chapel at Elon College, N. C.,
March 30th, 1895.

In the afternoon of the above named day,
there was a scene of great joy and thanks-
giving at Elon College, N.C. The event that
made this day so memorable was the laying
of the corner stone of an Ey. Luth. Church:
the very first house of worship ever erected in
that village.— Well may we also rejoice with
our fellow Lutherans of Elon College that God
has given us grace to build a true house of
worship before the sects could begin to spread
abroad their false and soul destroying doc-
trines and command-
ments of man.

What also added to
‘the joys of that day
was the fine weather.
The very sun seemed
to smile upon the work
which we had begun
in the name of the
Lord.

The people came
from the surrounding
towns and villages to
mingle their voices
with ours in “praising
and giving thanks un-
to the Lord, because
the foundation of the
temple of the Lord
was laid.’’ Having
assembled at the ap-
pointed time, they
were favored with a
sermon by the Rey.
N. J. Bakke of Con-
cord, N. C.

The text upon which
he based his discourse
was: ‘Behold, I lay
in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone,
a precious corner stone, a sure foundation.”’
Is. 28, 16. While the sermon was being de-
livered the eyes of all present were steadfastly
fixed on the speaker as he set forth, in a mas-
terly manner, that Chief Corner Stone, Jesus
Christ, upon whom the entire Christian church
18 built. ;

After the sermon two young men, having
been duly instructed in the word of God, were
received into the covenant of grace’ by Holy
* Baptism. The ceremony was performed by the

minister of that place, Rey. John C. Schmidt.

Immediately after the administration of bap-

tism, the laying of the corner stone took place.

Into the stone were put a Bible, a copy of the

LurHeran Pioneer, a daily newspaper, Half
~aCentury of Sound Lutheranism in America,
"and a number of church papers published by
_ our Synod, together with a list of the souls
“of the Elon College congregation. After the
history and origin of this congregation had

been read and also placed into the corner
stone, the undersigned delivered a short ad-
dress on Ezra 3, 10. 11., in which he en-
deavored to explain to the people the great
reasons we have to give thanks and praise
unto the Lord for His grace and tender mer-
cies towards us in giving us a new house of
‘worship. ;

Although our Elon College congregation is
still small in number, we firmly hope and be-
lieve that from this little acorn, so to speak,
will grow a large and stout oak, as the name
‘Elon’? denotes. To this end may God’s
richest blessings attend both minister and
congregation. Ex. BurtHione.

POOL AT HEBRON IN PALESTINE.

Village Schools in Turkey.

Do you know what a village school in Tur-
key is like? Let me see if I can show you
one. Come with me into this little village in
Central Turkey, with its thirty or forty little
low stone houses plastered with mud. Most
of them haye only one room, or at most two.
These rooms are small and dark, with some-
times one and sometimes two little tiny win-
dows, and at best are not very pleasant. In
one of these little rooms the school is held, un-
less it is warm enough to have it out-of-doors.
The teacher has graduated from the girls’
school in one of the mission stations of Cen-
tral Turkey, and now she is trying to do some-
thing for other girls who have had no one to
help them as she has been helped.

Around three sides of the room sit the little
girls, with their books in their hands. Most
of them are not very attractive looking chil-
dren, and some of them are not very clean,

| what they have been taught.

made.
will feel that they want to know something
more than they can learn in this little village
school, and they will persuade their parents
to send them to the girls’ boarding school.
There they will see and learn so many new

where they may live.

ascent in the chariot of fire.

chariot???
God drove!’’

but they look better than the other children
whom we see playing in the streets. The
teacher calls a class to recite, and five or six
little girls rise and come forward. Slowly and
with a good deal of stumbling and hesitation
they read the lesson for the day, and the
teacher questions them on what they have
read. It is a little book of Bible stories, and
they have been reading the sweet stories of
the babe in’ the manger. ‘These are some
of the questions she asks: Who was Jesus?
Where was he born? Why did He come to
live on the earth? What did He do for us?
The children answer promptly and readily,
showing that they understand and remember
Many of them
will tell it over again
when they go home,
and will repeat to
their fathers and
mothers some of the
Bible verses and the
songs they have
learned at school.
If we should spent
a day at the school,
we should see classes
in geography and
arithmetic, sewing
classes, and we should
see the children learn-
ing habits of order
and neatness and obe-
dience. ‘
If you should com-
pare this school with
a village school in
America you would
see a great difference,
but if you compare
these children with
the other children in
. the same village, you
would feel that a good
beginning had been
By and by, some of these little girls

and -better ways of living, that when they

go out into homes of their own they will

know how to be very helpful in the village
Each life will help
some other life, and so the good influence
will spread. Best of all is the thought that
probably most of those girls will go out from
that mission boarding-school as Christian girls
and their homes will be Christian homes.
F. E. C.
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Two boys were conversing about Elijah’s
Said one,
“Wouldn't you be afraid to ride in such a
“Nol”? was the reply—‘‘not if