# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1920_S52
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

The Lutheran Pioneer. 51

ervation of the Health of Our Children?” The dis-
cussion centered principally around the question of
sanitation for our people. It was brought out that
the appalling death-rate among the Colored people
of the South from tuberculosis and other diseases
is due in a. large measure to their unsanitary sur-
roundings. In many cities the Colored people are
compelled to make their homes in parts where dis-
eases are bred, such as in the midst of dumping
grounds and other unhealthful places. But it was
also shown that diseases are fostered in many of the
very homes of our people. Therefore, to improve
the health of our people we must educate them in
keeping thein homes in proper sanitary condition.

members. of some synod. ‘The white workers in the
Mission, while members of a synod, yet have no
vole. Therefore they, too, feel that we should have
a synod of our own. Hence the request. This res-
olution, so full of meaning to the workers in the
Colored Mission, was submitted at the open session
on Friday night, and after full discussion, was unan-
imously adopted. The brethren appointed to agi-
tate this matter are the Revs. N. J. Bakke, John
Alston, and A. Wiley. God speed our cause!

On Thursday night Prof. H. Meibohm read a
paper under the caption, “Lutheran Customs,” in
which he explained the meaning of the gown worn
by Lutheran pastors, turning to the altar, burning

Group of Worshipers at Bethlehem Chapel, New Orleans, during Conference Week.

In Thursday afternoon’s session a most import-
ant resolution was adopted —a resolution to re-
quest the Synodical Conference to organize the
whole Colored Mission field into one body, or. a
synod, if you please. ‘The request is to be made
through the Hon. Mission Board after the resolu-
tion has been presented for adoption to the Im-
manuel Conference and to the Alabama Luther Con-
ference. The facts in the matter are these: Our
mission has grown by the grace of God until it has
reached considerable proportions, and the brethren
feel that much greater good can be accomplished
for the cause of missions by their operating as one
‘united whole: ‘Furthermore, the Colored workers
cannot belong to any synod within the Synodical
Conference, and they feel that it is time they were

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candles it Communion, ete. Superintendent Bakke
made a report on the Alabama mission-field from
the beginning to the present day. Superintendent
Bakke’s report was intensely interesting from start
to finish, while Pastor Lynn’s experiences were such
that he had his audience ‘laughing at one time and
at anothey in deep sympathy with him. (All who
were present will remember Pastor Lynn’s “corn-

‘bread and syrup and syrup and corn-bread” story.)

Friday morning Pastor G. M: Kramer read a
very able paper entitled, “What is Giving Offense
in thé Scriptural Meaning?” Its reading and dis-
cussion occupied the whole morning session.

The session was long drawn out on Friday

night. Pastor Miles Gebauer of St. Paul’s read a
paper, the subject of which was, “Why do We Lu-