# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1918_S86
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

_. want of a bell.
vices because they have no bell.
: writes: “It seems that our plea for a bell for Possum

The Lutheran Pioneer.

Atasama ScHoon Wants. — Superintendent
Schmidt writes that the schools are badly in need
of desks. Any one in position to send old desks, or
money to buy new ones, should get in touch with
him. Rev. Schmidt is also very anxious to get
a number of sewing-machines, new or old, for our
schools. We do earnestly hope that a number of
friends will be found to furnish these so much
needed sewing-machines. We should do all we pos-
sibly can to teach the girls that attend our mission-
schools the important accomplishment of sewing.
The hope of the Colored people are the future

Koontz Memorial in Concord, N.C.

mothers of the race, and all that we do to prepare

the mother and housekeeper of to-morrow for her
important task will bear fruit a hundredfold. Those |

having old school-desks, old sewing-machines, or
money to buy desks and sewing-machines, please get
in touch as soon as possible with Rev. George
Schmidt, Camden, Ala.

_ Possust Benp, Ata. — Possum Bend still is in
The people there still get late to ser-
The missionary

Bend has fallen on deaf ears,” and then adds the

_ plaintive inquiry, “Shall we try again?” We answer,

“Sure, we'll try again, and then again and again,

till the right person hears us and answers our plea.”
Who is the right person? Are you, perhaps, dear
reader?

Scunpry Atanama Irems. — By this time the
new building at Midway will be under construction.
The necessary lumber had been hauled over a month
ago, and the workingmen were then soon expected.
— Concerning Nyland, our youngest station in Ala-
bama, the news is that it is growing apace. Just
recently a number of accessions were made, and the
congregation already has a membership of thirty.

There are very good prospects for a large catechu-*

men class. — During this month —the exact time
is not known to us —a conference will be held at
Midway. his conference will be attended by all
the pastors and teachers of the field, and every con-
gregation will be represented by a lay delegate. All
the members of the conference will be taken under
the hospitable roofs of the members of Mount Car-
mel, at Midway. May God’s bountiful blessings rest
upon this conference and all the people represented !

DEDICATION oF Koontz MrEmortaL.—A few
weeks ago a memorial to Rev. Koontz, the pioneer
Colored Lutheran pastor of North Carolina, was
dedicated with appropriate ceremonies.
Berg of Immanuel College, Greensboro, delivered

the address, while the youngest daughter of the_

honored dead unveiled the monument.

Rey. Henry Darunxe. — This young worker,
who has been obliged to leave his work temporarily,
is now at Strawberry Hill Sanitarium, Asheville,
N. C. He writes that he has been doing well since

- he is there, and expresses the strong hope that he

may be able to resume his labors within a reasonable
time. Missionary Dachnke is a hard and faithful
worker, and we hope and pray that he may soon be
among his flock again.

Vacancies. — The Board. is still seeking a pas-
tor for St. Paul’s and a successor to Teacher Vix in
New Orleans. ‘There is also a vacancy at Greensboro
College. Last month two students of our Seminary
at St. Louis entered the service of the Mission to fill
some of these vacancies temporarily. Mr. Enno
Schuelke has gone to Greensboro, and Frank J. Lan-
kenau went to New Orleans.

OvrictaL Vistrox ror Nortn Carorina. —
Pastor W. G. Schwehn, of Concord, has been chosen
to fill the newly created office of Visitor for the
Immanuel Conference District, comprising our
northeastern mission-field. May God bless him in
the performance of the duties of his important office!

Prof. F..