# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1907_S8 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) @ The Lutheran Pioneer. Twenty-Five Years in the Mission. On the first Monday in December of the year 1881, Mr. E. R. Vix entered upon his duties as the first parochial schoolteacher in our Lutheran col- ored mission.. Those were pioneer days for the mission. ‘There was only one preaching station, and that was located at New Orleans in what was known as the old Sailors’ Home. The Rev. Bakke, now professor in Immanuel College at Greensboro, N. C., was in charge, with Mr. E. R. Vix as his assistant. If these two men could be prevailed upon to publish their experiences at the Sailors’ Home station, it would ‘make very interesting reading. As it is, however, the reader will have to content himself with learning that after a few years of the hardest kind of up-hill work the con- gregation and school were transferred from Sailors’ Home to the present site of Mount Zion Station. In the course of time the Rev. Bakke was sent to North Carolina with instructions to open up new fields, but Mr. Vix remained at his post, and he has been there ever since. The congregation has had many ups and downs during the last twenty-five years owing to frequent vacancies. But Mount Zion School prospered all the while because Mr. Vix was there holding the fort. His activity and his influence have been of inestimable value to the station. He has had from 50 to more than 100 children under his care for the last twenty-five years. Most of these children would never have known that a Savior bled and died for them if they had not heard it at our school. Many of them are intelligent and active members of the congre-" gation to-day, and many will perhaps not be heard from until on Judgment Day they arise and bear testimony to the faithful and fruitful labor of Mr. Vix. On Sunday, December 2, 1906, Mount Zion Congregation publicly celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the appointment of their beloved teacher. Hymns, prayers, and a sermon appro- priate for the occasion made up the service, which was followed by the presentation to Mr. Vix of a beautiful Morris chair as an evidence of the affec- tion felt for him by the congregation. All well-wishers and lovers of our mission will join us in praising God for His gracious blessing bestowed upon Mr. Vix and through him upon us. May the good Lord continue to prosper the work of His servant for the welfare of many immortal souls’ and to the glory of His kingdom ! K. KRETZSOHMAR. BOOK TABLE. Tue Anrmcep Treasury oF Prayers. American Lutheran Publication Board, Pittsburg, Pa. Price, 30 ets.; gilt, 50 ets. A_charming little book, well printed and tastefully bound. It will prove a handsome and very useful gift- book, especially for eatechumens on Confirmation Day. It contains morning and evening prayers and prayers for al- most every need and occasion, to which are added a num- ber of appropriate hymns. The prayers are selected from the well-known larger “Treasury of Prayers” which was published by Concordia Publishing House many years ago and which has become a household book in our Lutheran families. HANDBUCIL FUER DEN ERSTEN SELBSTUNTERRICIIT IN GoT- TEs Wort. Von OC. M. Zorn, Pastor der ev.-luth. Zions- gemeinde zu Cleveland, Ohio. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, $1.00. An eminently practical book. It is a book for “self- instruction” in the Scriptural doctrines of the Chureh, which are very ably set forth on the basis of Bible story and Catechism, in simple language and in plain and direct style. It is well adapted to ground and confirm its readers in the truths of God’s Word, and to enable them to give reason of the hope that is in them. The book will also prove helpful and suggestive to pastors and missionaries for the instruction of such as are to be confirmed or re- ceived into the congregation. Acknowledgment. Received for Colored Missions from Zion Church, Gold Hill, N. C., $5.00; from Concordia Church in Rockwell, N. C., 3.00; from St. Paul’s Church in New Orleans, La., 35.00; from Grace Mission in St: Louis, Mo., 5.00; from Mount Zion Church in New Orleans, La., 35.00; from Beth- lehem Church in New Orleans, La., 25.00; from St. Paul’s Church in Mansura, La., 10.00; from Grace Church in Con- cord, N. C., 10.00; from Mount Calvary Church in Sandy Ridge, N. C., 15.00; from St. Paul’s Church in Charlotte, N. C., 5.00; from Bethlehem Church in Monroe, N. C., 2.50. St. Louis, Mo., December 15, 1906. A. C. Buraporr, 7'rcas. Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches. 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