# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1908_S52
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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Our Parochial School in Charlotte, N. C.

During the summer yacation of last year the
members of St. Paul Ey. Luth. Church, with the
financial assistance of the Hon. Mission Board and
Northern friends, had the church raised and two
school-rooms built under it, our former school-room
being too small to accommodate all the scholars.
Our school has also been divided into two classes,

graded, and two teachers have been employed. The .

The Lutheran Pioneer.

school has a good reputation in the community, and
is a potent factor for good among our people. It is
of vital importance to our dear Lutheran church,
for from it we get not only our members, but also
our future pastors and teachers. And this we ac-
complish by teaching God’s Word. Every year we
receive some of the children inio our church either
by baptism or confirmation.

In January a lady was confirmed in our chureh
who attended our school when a girl. Later on her

Missionary McDavid and Department I of Colored Lutheran School in Charlotte, N.C.

pastor had charge of the first class, and an assistant,
usually a theological student, taught the lower
grades. ‘The assistant also renders valuable service
by preaching in the four churches connected with
this circuit. This year Mr. John Alston, a student
of Immanuel College, was in charge of the little
ones, and in him we’have had a good assistant.
Our school opened here on the first Monday in
September with an enrollment of 53 pupils. By
December the enrollment had reached 106. As in
all our schools, we make it a specialty to instruct
the children in God’s Word and Luther’s Catechism,
besides giving them a general knowledge of the
other necessary branches of secular learning. Our

husband was also received, and then her two chil-
dren were baptized. Fruits of our parochial school !
May God continue to prosper our work and bless
our people with many more Christian schools.
J. M.

Lutheran Work for the Colored Race.

Speaking of this work, a writer in Young Folks
says: ;

We speak of Africa as the “Dark Continent,”
and send our missionaries there, but forget that we
have the sons of Africa by the million all around
us, equally in need of the Gospel. How little has