# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1919_S44
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enthusiastic part in the recent drive to raise an
Endowment Fund of three million dollars for aged
and incapacitated pastors and teachers. In one
case a member who earns her daily bread by hard
labor, which is not richly repaid, gave $6 for this
purpose.

In reporting the death of an old faithful mem-
ber, one of our missionaries writes to the Board:
“This man loved his church. For a year before
his death he was sick and not able to come to the
services, but yet he never neglected to send his
contribution. It is the custom in his family to
increase the contribution to the church every year.

Mansura Church and School.

While he was upon his sick-bed, he increased his
contribution.”

Our good people in Mansura, Rey. G. M. Kramer
reports, not only intend to increase their contribu-
tion to the Mission Board for their pastor’s salary,
but will in future also pay all their running ex-
penses and repairs. This congregation, by the way,
has bought its pastor a horse, since some of the
members live at quite a distance, and also to enable
the pastor to get around better among those who
may yet be gained for the church. But as we
understand, the vehicle, the buggy. is still lacking.
When the writer was at Mansura about two years
ago, the people asked him whether he thought it

‘probable that the Board would provide a buggy if

they procured a horse for their pastor. I then

offered my good offices as an intercessor with the
Board, and these gentlemen very kindly said that
as soon as the horse was bought, the buggy would
be forthcoming. But should it really be necessary
for the Board to go into the Mission ‘Treasury for
the price of a buggy? Why cannot one of our
many readers crate up that vehicle of his which
has been superseded by an automobile, and send
it, freight prepaid, to our young missionary at

Mansura? His address is: Rev. W. J. Tervalon--~

R. 1, Box 13, Mansura, La. One more thing about
the buggy: Don’t send one that is too heavy, since
the horse is quite small. BF. J. L.

St. Louis — Springfield.

Palm Sunday, April 13, was a day of especial
joy for us in St. Louis. On that day we were per-
mitted to receive six children into our midst through
baptism.
instructed in the fundamentals of the Christian
faith. One of the children was an infant three
weeks old. Previous to this service we had discussed
the remote possibility of not being eble to accom-
modate, with our supply of chairs, all that might
attend. ‘To our surprise the possibility became a
fact, when, in spite of the rain, every chair was
occupied already some time before the beginning
of the service. Benches from the schoolroom were
hurriedly pressed into service, and, while not the

Three of these were old enough to be

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