# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1915_S61 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) pei. The Lutheran Pioneer. Weber: “I give and bequeath to the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America, and to its Board for Colored Missions, the sum of — Dollars ($ ), to be invested or dis- bursed for the benefit of its work among the Negroes.” REDEEMER Station, New Orveans. — Prof. ‘Meibohm reports that he recently confirmed a class of catechumens, consisting of four girls and one boy, in the small Redeemer Chapel, in the presence of 70 persons. ‘This station was opened about two and one-half years ago by Prof. Meibohm of Luther ‘College, and has been served by him since that time. Cuartorre, N. C.— We hear that Pastor J. MacDavid’s health has not been very good lately, but despite this fact he is hard at work. On June 20, he confirmed three adults at Myers- ville, and on the following Sunday three young ladies and a boy in his St. Paul’s Church at Charlotte. The people of his Myersville charge are giving their chapel a new roof, and the strenuous and versatile mission- ary is personally lending them a hand in the work. Sparranbure, S. C.— Pastor Kent, the young missionary at Spar- tanburg, who was seriously ill last’ fall, has again been obliged to take to his bed since the middle of June. Candidate F. D. Alston, a this year’s graduate of Immanuel College, Greensboro, is temporarily in charge of Pastor Kent’s work. Wasuineron, D. C. — On this new field Pastor Polzin recently baptized and confirmed four adults and baptized two children. ‘The missionary preaches here every two weeks in a rented hall. We hope that Missionary Polzin may find the time to fur- nish the readers of the PioNEER with some par- ticulars concerning his work in Washington, Rich- mond, and Baltimore, all of which are newly opened fields. Ricumonp, VA. — Rev. Polzin has rented a hall , for ten dollars a month on Church Hill in Rich-, mond, and is preaching there twice every Sunday and once during the week. THis first service on Church Hill was attended by 25 adults and 17 chil- dren, and the missionary judges the outlook to be quite bright in this locality. F. J. L. 61 Items from the Foreign Mission Field of the Missouri Synod. Candidate Eric Ludwig, of Milwaukee, Wis., has accepted a call to India. He is to be ordained on August 8, in Milwaukee. Missionary Ludwig has been designated for the northern portion of the mission field. ; After much the American consul at Madras has finally succeeded in getting the Indian authorities to consent that Missionary Freche leave India on a furlough for America. He left Colombo beginning of June, and has probably landed at Seattle at the time of this writing, the middle of trouble, Tamil Congregation at the Missouri Synod Mission Station Vaniyambadi, East India. July. Missionary Freche will be pleased to address our congregations on his work as soon as he has had a much needed rest. Missionary Hamann and ‘his wife, together with Miss Broecker, arrived at Colombo on May 5, and a few days later were safely housed at Kodaikanal. On May 11, Missionary Goerss was married in the bungalow “Loch End,” at Kodaikanal, Missionary G. Kuechle officiating. Candidates Lang and Luecke, to whom calls to the foreign field had been extended, found them- selves compelled to decline their calls. May the Board soon succeed in finding some much needed laborers for the field, as the work is suffering greatly for want ofa sufficient number of laborers. Jun. A. FRIEDRICH. 4