# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1916_S86
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86 The Lutheran Pioneer.

cordia Seminary at St. Louis. His first charge was
at Alexandria, Va., from where he was called to
a professorship in Concordia College at Fort Wayne
in the year 1872. For a number of years he also
served as president of this institution. In 1886,
he resigned the presidency of Concordia College to
take charge of St. John’s Church at Bingen, Ind.
After serving heré for a period of four years, he
‘returned to Concordia College to occupy the chair
of English. In consequence of an apoplectic stroke,
he was compelled to resign this office after a few
years, and retire to private life. Until about a year
ago he resided in Conover, N. C., but when his son
Walter accepted the call to his father’s former

Professor R. A. Bischoff.

charge, he also removed to Bingen, Ind. _ He reached
the age of sixty-nine years. The funeral services
were conducted by Prof. L. Dorn in St. John’s
Church at Bingen, but interment was made in Con-
cordia Cemetery, Fort Wayne.

_ The present editor of the PIONEER owes much
to the departed. It was due to the sainted pro-
fessor’s persuasions that he gave up the idea of
entering the profession of law, and entered the
theological seminary to prepare for the ministry.
Professor Bischoff had a hard struggle to change
the writer’s mind, but he would not cease until the
victory was his. And the writer has never been
sorry for the decision he then made, now twenty-
nine years ago, and will always hold the memory
of Professor Bischoff dear for haying induced him
-to enter the ministry of the Word. F. J. L.

Items from Our Colored Mission Field.

Sr. Louis, Mo.— On Sunday, September 11,
Rey. G. A. Schmidt, our active missionary :at
St. Louis, confirmed eight persons and baptized
three others. About seventy Colored people at-
tended this service.

Sprinerierp, Inu.— At Springfield, Missionary
Schmidt confirmed six and baptized three on Oc-
tober 1. This service was attended by probably
one hundred Colored and fifty white people. ‘I'he
service was much beautified by a song rendered by
the choir of the congregation and a duet by several
students. The sermon of the missionary was based
upon Rev. 2, 10b. The members had beautifully
decorated the church for the occasion. — Our mis-
sion in Springfield is prospering, and would prob-
ably prosper still more if the station could have its
The congregation would greatly
from

own missionary.
desire the transfer of Missionary Schmidt
St. Louis, and has promised to pay $25 a month
towards his salary if such a change were made.
But the Board has been compelled to deny this
request, since Rey. Schmidt cannot be spared in
Si. Louis just now, plans being under way to build
a chapel there.

Drati OF AN OLD MEMBER. — Missionary Jolin
B. Alston, of Mount Pleasant, writes: “On the
morning of October 3, Mrs. Martha J. Reid lost
her life in a fire which destroyed her home. She
was in her eighty-fourth year. The deceased was
the mother of Teacher I. W. Reid, and is survived
by six sons and one daughter. Mrs. Reid was a faith-
ful member of St. Peter’s Congregation. Because
of her infirmity she was not able to attend public
preaching; hence from time to time services were
held in her home. By faith in her Savior, whom
she confessed, she is now blessed with all those
who die in the Lord.” :

AxLaBaMa Items. — Rev. N. J. Bakke, the Super-
intendent of the Alabama field, left for his new scene
of labor the end of September. — Mr. M. N. Carter,
having completed his lecture in the Middle West,
has been transferred to the “Black Belt” of Ala-
bama. He will do church and school work at
Neenah (Rosebud), where the door was first opened
to our Church in that section.. Mr. Allen ‘Taylor,
a student of Luther College, New Orleans, will
assist in the Rosebud school, and should the num-
ber of pmpils justify it, a third teacher will. be
appointed. — Rev. Sidney C. Tervalon, whose ordi-
nation was reported in the last number of the