# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1919_S76
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16 The Lutheran Pioneer.

Does It Pay?

The following letter was received some time ago
by the undersigned : —
Dear Pastor: —

I hope you will not think me bold in writing
you these lines. But I desire to tell you how much
I enjoyed the church-services while in Springfield.
Now that I am here in , | have no Lutheran
church and Sunday-school to go to. I hope you
will be able to open a way here for sister and me
to go to church and Sunday-school. I really want
to take instructions and be confirmed in the Lu-
theran Church as soon as I can. It is the dearest
Church on earth to me.

Please pray God that I may be a very good girl.

Sincerely yours,

— , Il.
Kind reader, does it pay to contribute toward
the support of our missions?
Haurpert C. Ciaus.

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North Carolina Sunday-School
Association.

This Association held its sixth session in Con-
cordia Church, Rockwell, N. C., August 22—24,
1919. The local pastor, Rev. F. Foard, extended a
cordial welcome to the visitors in the name of the
congregation. ‘he undersigned responded.

We regret very much that so many of the mis-
sionaries were absent. However, with God’s bless-
ing much good was accomplished. All present
manifested a deep interest in the deliberations.
Rey. John MeDavid recommended that a Teachers’
Course of Study be prescribed, that a State Sunday-
school Superintendent be appointed, and that the
reward system be introduced to increase the atten-
dance. The Association, after some deliberation,
came to the conclusion that a Teachers’ Course of
Study would be most desirable, and that a State
Superintendent of Sunday-schools could do much
good. The honor and responsibility of serving as
State Superintendent was conferred upon Rev. J.
McDavid, and he was also requested to work out
a Course of Study for the teachers. The plan is
to give the teachers a correspondence course of three
years’ length. If at the end of this time the teacher
passes a creditable examination, he or she will be
entitled to a diploma.

In the two services held during the convention
Rev. C. R. March and Rev. John Mclavid preached
the sermons. On Sunday afternoon a special pro-
gram was rendered. Following this the reports from
the various schools were heard. The Sunday-school
banner was awarded to St. Peter’s Dry’s School
House; its average was 90 per cent. The collection
on Sunday afternoon amounted to $49.70, which will
be sent to Immanuel College.

Mount Calvary, Sandy Ridge, will entertain the —

Sunday-school Association next May,
Exiza J, JoHNson.

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A Mission Study Class.

A class of young ladies wishing to study missions
could use the PronrER as a text-book. Here is
a plan in outline that might be considered: The
lessons could be planned for the month from each
month’s paper. Take, for instance, the July num-
ber of this year. Pastor Osterhus’s splendid poem,
“Thy Kingdom Come,” together with his article
on “Our Glorious Future,’ would make a fine lesson
for one member, in which the thoughts could be
brought out that we can only come into the King-
dom of Glory through the Kingdom of Grace, and
that we should therefore earnestly strive to lead
men to Christ’s kingdom in heaven through His
kingdom here on earth. The article “Hrom Canni-
bal to Christian” will afford ample opportunity to
speak of the great work that has been done in
Africa, and the still greater work left to be ac-
complished. All the other articles could be used
as the basis for a look into the work done by our
Colored Mission. A good idea is to use Bible

references with each lesson, a thing that is of great .

value in more ways than one and which will bring
its rich blessings.

The PrioneEr costs only twenty-five cents a year
and should be ordered from Concordia Publishing
House, St. Louis, Mo.

Alabama Items.

Just at present Superintendent of Schools, Rey.
G. A. Schmidt, is a particularly busy man, but for
all that he took the time to send us the following
brief items: —

All the mission-schools in Alabania opened Sep-
tember 8. A new school was opened at a place
called Ingomar, and it is possible that another