# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1908_S84
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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North Carolina and Virginia Items.

_ Mission friends, and especially our colored Lu-
therans, will be glad to hear that the new chapel of
Mount Zion congregation at Rocks, N. C., is near-
ing its completion.

The 15th of November will be

Chapel and Members of Colored Lutheran Congregation in
- Meherrin at Harvest Home Festival.

a. gala day for our Lutherans there, for on that day
its dedication will take place. Every little church
is a small fort in the enemy’s kingdom. May this
modest little chapel also be a bulwark against the
encroachments of the Prince of Darkness and prove
itself a strong fortress to those who find refuge and
shelter for their souls behind its walls. The sister
congregations of the nearby stations are invited to
be present and the audience is promised a sermon:
by Prof. N. J. Bakke.

Bethel congregation ‘at Conover, N. C., will have
a Harvest Home Festival on November 29th. In
thankful recognition of the blessings received dur-

ing the past year the congregation will endeavor to.

show its. gratitude also by giving to the Lord as He
has prospered them, in order to help pay off a debt
that has been on the church for many months. The
congregation. at Catawba is invited to be present.
Sermons will be preached by the Revs. Ph. Schmidt
and Koiner. —

Our parochial school at Charlotte shows a large
number of children that aré daily instructed in the
Word of God. It -opened i in September with an en-
rollment of 63, and since then 40 more are on the
list. -In place of Student John Alston, who taught
here. all, Jast year, his brother, Teacher Frank Als-
ton, a graduate of Immanuel College, is now in

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permanent control of the rod. We hope, however,
that the behavior of his scholars will not necessitate
a regular use of this scepter.

Immanuel College has opened under more favor-
able conditions than ever before. We are glad to
say that our old scholars were more punctual than
before. Room for improvement, however, is not ex-
eluded. It is difficult to instill into our colored
scholars the importance of punctuality. 58 answer
to the roll call, and 22 of these are boys — a larger
number than in the foregoing years.

The faculty, sad to say, is in a worse dilemma
than ever. Last year we had four professors and
one student of St. Louis as assistant; this year
finds us without the assistant as fifth teacher, a new
class in the Theological Department added, and the
same amount of extra pastoral work — owing to the
continued vacancies of the parishes of Grace Church
at Greensboro, and St. Matthew’s at Mcherrin, Va.,
the latter 125 miles distant — resting on the shoul- °
ders of the faculty members. We anxiously look
for the promised relief.

The parochial school in connection with the col-
lege-claims 143 scholars.

On October 4th the congregation at Meherrin,
Va., celebrated its annual Harvest Home Festival.
The church was neatly decorated with the fruits of
the field and garden. Prof. Lochner and the under-
signed filled the pulpit at the morning and after-

Our Catechumen Class at Meherrin, Va.

noon services. This parish is vacant. The people
clamor for.a school for their little ones. These
people have a good record of faithfulness to the Lu-.
theran church in spite of great difficulties. The
number was at one time. extremely small. The
place counseled abandonment. But the tearful peti- .
tion of those who held: fast to the Lutheran doc:
trine for more than a year and_a half, despite their.
being abandoned, again brought a ebepherd to this