# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1914_S30 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 30 The Lutheran Pioneer. Brief Notes from.Eastern North Carolina. We are moving on nicely down here. I opened school in Fayetteville on the 5th of January. We have enrolled 60 scholars, with a daily attendance of 50 children, from the a-b-c class to the seventh grade. - We also have a good Sunday-school, an average of 30 scholars being present every Sunday. The church attendance is also increasing. Mr. D. Ashley, of New York City, the owner of this plant, has also visited our school. He was very much impressed with our work, and said that he hoped we would continue our good work and build up a strong school, Sunday-school, and church. The work at Southern Pines is also moving on finely. We have some stanch members there who have been working for the church and giving freely of their little means to the mission treasury. Miss Pearl Winsdow, of Greensboro, is teaching there. I received for that congregation for the Christmas celebration from the Rev. Geo. Buch’s congregation, Wellsville, N. Y., $5.20. We thank them ever so much for the kind gift. Our hopes for Wilmington,are also good. We have secured a place and started divine services. In this town, down by the ocean, the people seem to be very much interested in our work, especially those who are of the same faith, 7. ¢., the white Lutherans. These are good Germans, who immi- grated into this country years and years ago. They are in sympathy with our work. They have the finest church property in the city. Their pastor says that he will do all he can to help us. ; May God help His servants to set up our Tn- theran Zion in these parts! C. R. Marcu. / Items from the ‘Colored Mission Field. DirecTory oF Our CoLoreD Mission CrruncueEs, — Have you looked over the list of our Colored Mission churches on the last page? Quite a stately array, isn’t it? Forty-two stations where God’s Word and Luther’s doctrine pure is taught and preached to our colored people. Now, one of the reasons why we publish this list’is to afford the friends of Colored Mission an opportunity to look up these stations when on a southern trip. We know that the directory of our New Orleans stations has induced many a tourist to look up our churches and schools while in New Orleans on a visit. And now we hope that the complete list of our stations, ‘impression the work made on you. which will now and then appear in THE PIONEER, will also bring welcome visitors to, our other sta- tions. Dear friend, whenever you get into the neighborhood of one or the other of these mission stations, be sure to pay it a visit. Such a visit will make you a stronger friend of our Colored Mission work, and it will also encourage the workers won- derfully. The editor speaks from experience. And after your visit the editor will be pleased to get your opinion of the work; just a few words telling what Will you do it? Missionary JAMES DosweELi. — A report from Denver says: “The general condition of Rev. Dos- well shows a little improvement; his voice espe- cially shows a good deal of improvement. He is compelled to be a bed patient in order to lower his temperature.” Rey. Doswell himself writes: “I am improving some, but very slowly.” Mount Zion, New OrtEANs. — Pastor Alb. O. Friedrich writes to the Board: “Church attendance has improved considerably since the beginning of the new year. May God grant that it continue! — A week ago I confirmed a woman fifty-seven years of age, having instructed her four weeks during her illness. ‘The day after her confirmation she de- parted peacefully, and, so we confidently hope, entered the congregation of saints in heaven. At her burial from our church I had. an opportunity to address approximately 200 people who were strangers to our Lutheran Church. — Since the first of the year we have organized a Bible Class for adults. Our enrollment at the end of January was 15. 9 Repeemer Srarion, New Orieans. — Reports from this station are quite encouraging. ‘The en- rollment of pupils in the school has reached 51. ‘The Sunday-school enrollment is also increasing. Mount Pieasant, N. C. — Pastor John Alston writes that he has been compelled to take his wife to Charlotte to be operated upon in the hospital there. She has been ill for some time. From the Foreign Mission Field of the Missouri Synod. \ _ The latest reports have it that the plague has “now broken out at Vaniyambadi, Missionary Freche’s station. The statistical report from our mission field in India has just come to hand. The totals are as follows: Stations, 7%; missionaries, 15; Hil iin native