# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1919_S71
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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Plaquemine before this reaches our readers, will have
canvassed the town, and have told those who accepted
his invitation to attend an informal meeting what
the Lutheran Church is, and what it is doing for
the Negroes, :

New Ortwans, La. — Teacher Peter Robinson
informs us that he and his wife have become the
parents of a healthy, bouncing boy, who arrived at
God bless parents and
child! — Student Theo. Kreutz, whose home is in
Westgate, Iowa, will assist in the Mount Zion school
during the coming school-year.

Mansura, La. — Pastor W. J. Tervalon requests
us to acknowledge with his sincere thanks the re-
ceipt of a package of clothing from Mrs. Gus. Ohlen-
dorf, of Goodenow, Ill.

St. Louis, Mo.—The day-school of our St. Louis
mission closed with an enrolment of 65. The aver-
age attendance during the three months prior to
closing was 56. The average attendance at Sunday-
school has for the past months been 47, while in
April it was 55.—In June Pastor Claus received
two new members, and one prospective member is
now being prepared for confirmation.

ILLUSTRATED L&orurEs. — “Hye-gate” is recog-
nized as the most direct way for information to
enter the mind, and the stereopticon is a great aid
in the presentation of facts through this door. Fully
aware of this, the Board for Colored Missions has
prepared three fine illustrated lectures on the fields
under its supervision. One lecture treats of the
beginnings of the Mission and the stations in
Louisiana, St. Louis and Springfield, Ill., another
lecture describes the Carolina field, while a third

"is devoted to the promising stations of Alabama.

For particulars address Rev. Th. F. Walther, 6406
Haston Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

ScHoot-Drsks NEEDED. — Rosebud, ‘Tinela,
Buena Vista, and Nyland, Ala.,; are in dire need of
school-desks. Any of our congregations that are
disearding their old double desks for single desks
will be doing a good deed by sending their old
desks to our mission-schools in Alabama. Before
you send them, however, communicate with Rev. G.
A. Schmidt, Camden, Ala. Be Dau

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Stx missionaries in one of the hottest stations
in India have reached an average age of seventy-
seven and a half years, thus proving that the Indian
climate and a long life are not incompatible.

Knowing As We are Known.

A blind girl, whose eyes had been opened by
a surgical operation, delighted in her sight of her
father, who had a noble appearance and presence.
With the keenest delight she watched his every
look and motion. It was to the little girl as though
she had just found her father, and for the first time
his constant tenderness and care seemed real to her.
If he caressed, or even only looked at her kindly,
it brought tears of gladness to her eyes. “To think,”
she said one day as she held his hand closely in
her own, “to think, that I have had this kind
father all the time, and never knew him!”

How true is that of us with regard to our
heavenly Father! We have had Him these many
years. His kindness has never failed us. He has
showered His blessings upon us day after day. His
goodness is our constant companion. In Him we
live, and move, and have our being. And still we
do not know Him. We feel all this here below,
but when once we awake in the next life to the
glories of His presence, when we there shall see
Him as we are seen, we shall voice our wonder
that we had for so many years of our life on earth
a heavenly Father, yet never fully realized how
great, how loving, and how ready to bless He
actually is! Yes, that will constitute the real and
greatest bliss of heaven that there we shall know
our God and Savior. What great bliss is in store
for us! F.J.1.

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Renewal of Subscription.

~ We are very much gratified to learn that a large
proportion of our subscribers renew their subserip-
tions as they expire. This is good, and we are
more than grateful for this. But in some cases
our readers neglect to renew their subscription and
oblige the publishers to discontinue sending them
the Pron, a thing they do not like to do. We
should like to write to those of our subscribers who
neglect to renew their paper in time, but this would
cost more than we could afford to spend, since we
are publishing our paper at a loss as it is. Not-
withstanding the. fact that we have 7,000 sub-
seribers, we ran behind $152 last year. We need
the prompt renewal of every old subscription on
our books and several thousand new ones to make
both ends meet. Who will help? Order from Con-
cordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo., inclosing
twenty-five cents for each subscription.