# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1905_S64 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 64 The Lutheran Pioneer. together with quite a few of our white friends, crowded into the spacious hall and appreciated the execution of a very generous program composed of orations, original essays, and instrumental as well as vocal music rendered by the students, assisted by a choir made up of young people from our local congregations. A report covering the work of the last year was given by Pastor Lankenau, the Director of the in- stitution. Thirty-three students attended lessons given in three departments — preparatory, high- school, and normal. The Normal Department has one graduate this year, Mr. Napoleon Seeberry, from Bethlehem Congregation of this city, who be- gan his studies at our Addison Seminary and is now a candidate for a position in one of our mis- sion schools. The progress of the institution is very encouraging, but a good professor is needed to assist in the instruction and relieve Rev. Lanke- nau, who is overburdened with work. The annual report was followed by a short ad- dress by Rev. J. Kossmann, who dwelt on a few things that are necessary to make the work of our institution successful. Thereupon Mr. Seeberry re- ceived his diploma, and a number of other students were given certificates indicative of having finished the preparatory course. The exercises were brought to a close by the singing of the common Doxology by the whole assembly. May God continue to bless Luther College. May it continue to be instrumental in fitting out enthu- siastic messengers of the Gospel of Christ to old and young, and may it impress upon all that gather within its walls the importance of the truth that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. K. KRerzscHMar. An Example of the Success of Missions. In 1838 three white men from France appeared before the great chief Moshesh in Basutoland with a@ message. They proclaimed Christ the Saviour and the Gospel of salvation. The chief compared their message to an egg and said he would wait for it to hatch before forming an opinion. The egg has hatched. After 70 years there are in connection with the Paris mission in Basutoland 27 mission- aries and 425 native workers, with 22,356 professed Christians, of whom 14,950 are communicants. In the year 1903/04 these Basuto Christians gave nearly $20,000 for home and foreign missions. That is to say, they supported all of the 197 out-stations of the Paris Basuto mission, and besides this they sent $400 to the mission in Barotsiland on the Zambesi. OUR BOOK TABLE. In Memoriam. Dreiszig Leichenreden, dargeboten von Pastor C. Gross sen. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 75 cts., postpaid. Many will thank the venerable Pastor Gross for comply- ing with the request of a number of friends in publishing these thirty funeral addresses delivered on various occa- sions in the course of a long and faithful ministry. The sermons are eminently textual. They are true and faithful expositions of the Word of God in clear and precise lan- guage. They are full of instruction, and especially full of consolation for the children of God in their day of sorrow. The charming little book can be commended in every re- spect, and will no doubt carry a blessing to its readers. SYNODALBERICHT DES SUEDLICHEN Districts. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 25 cts. This pamphlet contains an instructive and edifying doc- trinal paper on the Fifth Petition of the Lord’s Prayer, an interesting report of missions carried on within the bound- ary of the Southern District of the Missouri Synod, also a brief abstract of a sermon on Colored Missions delivered during the meeting of Synod by Rev. Kossmann, one of our missionaries in New Orleans. Acknowledgment. Received for Colored Missions from Mount Zion Church, New Orleans, La., $25.00; from St. Paul’s Church, New Or- leans, La., 35.00; from Bethlehem Church, New Orleans, La., 25.00; from St. Paul’s Church, Mansura, La., 10.00; from Grace Church, Greensboro, N. C., 12.00; from Mission in Rudd, N. C., 5.00; from Grace Mission in St. Louis, Mo., 3.00; from Grace Church in Concord, N. C., 10.00. For Chapelin Salisbury : From Bethlehem Sunday School in New Orleans, La., 3.90; from Grace Church in Greens- boro, N. C., .50. For Immanuel College: From Bethlehem Church in New Orleans, La., 3.10. For Luther College: Collection of the Joint Conference in Bethlehem Church, New Orleans, La., 5.40; from Beth- - lehem Church in New Orleans, La., 3.80, and from Bethlehem Sunday School, 3.15; from St. Paul’s Church in New Or- leans, La., 20.50 St. Louis, July 12, 1905. A.C. Buraporr, Treas. Evangelical Lutheran Colored. Churches. NEW ORLEANS, LA. St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Olaiborne St.; F. J. Lan- kenau, Pastor. ox Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. M.; Wednesday, Mount Zion Church, Franklin and ThaliaSts. ; K. Kretzschmar, Pastor. Diving Services: Sunday, 11 A. sf. and 7.30 P. Bf. ; Thursday, 7.30 Bethichen Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.; J. W. F. Koss- mann, Pasto! Diving Services: Sunday, 10 A. M. and 7.30 P. M.; Thursday, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. Holy Trinity Church; L. E. Thalley, Pastor. Divine Services: Sunday, 0.30 A. M. and 8 P. M. 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