# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1915_S14
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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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read an instructive paper on “The Fall from Grace.”
Prof. Schmidt showed that it is possible to fall
from grace; how we fall from grace; how we may
keep from falling from grace.— Tuesday night,
December 29, divine service was held in the college
chapel with Communion, the undersigned preaching.

A number of the members of Conference were
absent for various reasons. We regret very much
that they were not present, as we feel that they
missed a very instructive session of Conference.
Conference adjourned Wednesday afternoon, Decem-
ber 30, to meet again in Grace congregation, Greens-
boro, N. C., next August, God willing.

May God continue to bless Immanuel Conference
and all its members! R. O. L. L.

Items of Interest from Our Colored
Mission Field.

Missionary Ep. Scumipt, New ORLEANS. —
It gratifies us to be able to report that our faith-
ful and efficient mission-worker, Pastor Ed. Schmidt,
of New Orleans, whose most serious illness we
brought to the notice of our readers last month, is
recovering his health and strength. We thank the
merciful Father in heaven for having heard our
prayers, and earnestly hope that the dear brother
may soon be able to resume his blessed work. During
the month of December, Prof. H. Meibohm had
charge of Pastor Schmidt’s station; but the last
tidings we have received inform us that Field Secre-
tary Bakke has gone to New Orleans to relieve Prof.
Meibohm, who, besides his work in Luther College,
has the supervision of Trinity and Redeemer stations.

BETHLEHEM ScHooL, NEw Or.eans. — Mrs.
Edna Brandon has been secured for the Bethlehem
School to fill the vacancy made by the removal of
Teacher Schrieber to Nebraska. Mrs. Brandon is
a graduate of Luther College, and before her mar-
riage was the efficient primary teacher of St. Paul’s
School for a number of years.

A CoLorep BENEFACTOR oF Our CoLoreD Mis-
sion. — The short article with which Pastor Poppe
of Little Rock favors us in. this number of
Tne PIoNEER must assure the supporters of our
Colored Mission that our work among the freed-
men of the South is surely not in vain. How
grateful this dear sister must have been for the
Gospel brought to her and her people by our mis-
sionaries that she should bequeath all her property
to our Colored Mission cause! And let not our

readers think that such gratitude is seldom met
with by our workers. While but few of our colored
members can show their gratitude in the manner
in which Mrs. Bransford proved it, our workers
in the field are again and again strengthened and
encouraged by the thankfulness of those to whom
they break the Bread of Life. Yes, our work among
the colored has its rich rewards.

Sr. Louis. — Missionary G. A. Schmidt, the
new missionary at St. Louis and Springfield, has
gathered a large class of catechumens in St. Louis,
which he is now preparing for confirmation. ‘The
class numbers no less than 19 persons, among them
being nine adults.

STEREOPTICON SLIDES ILLUsTRATING OuR CoL-
ORED Mission. — Rey. R. Jesse, whose new address
is 5231 Wells Ave., St. Louis, Mo., is progressing
nicely with the preparation of his slides on our
colored work, and will have slides and explanatory
lecture ready in a very short time. We hope that
these slides may be on the road all the time.
Churches wishing to use the views should write
to Rey. Jesse at once.

Our New Cuarers.— They are still waiting
to be built! Dear readers, do hasten with your
gifts, for these chapels will have to be built if the
work is not to come to a standstill. The Board
has bought a lot for a future chapel in Atlanta, in
order that a suitable building site might not be
lost to us. But the empty lot will not help us any
without the chapel! So, then, help, dear friends ;

help at once!

Items of General Missionary Interest.

A Cutnesr Missionary For Samoa. — The
students of the theological seminary at Malua,
Samoa, are making up the salary for a missionary
among the Chinese coolies on the Samoa Islands.
The missionary’s name is Li Shue Kwai. He was
reared in Canton and Hongkong, and was educated
in the seminary of the Basel Missionary Society.
Pastor Li Shue Kwai looks back upon several years
of successful mission work in China and on the
island of Macao.

JAPANESE STUDENTS AND CHRISTIANITY. —
About twelve of the professors of the Japanese uni-
versity of Tokyo are professing Christians. Among
the 7,000 students attending the institution there
are 300 Christians. Monthly Gospel meetings held
in a large hall of the university are attended by