# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1920_S79
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The Lutheran Pioneer.

and open these banks four times a year. By using
banks we hope to preclude cutting-in on regular
contributions.

Our Building Fund is started! Watch it grow!

Nores.

The first representative of our congregation has
left for our college in Greensboro, N.C. . His name
‘is George Roberts. We believe he will be a credit
to our congregation.

Our day-school opened on September 7 with an
enrolment of nearly 80 children. Student Paul
Gose is with us again this year.

Our Bible Class has organized under the name:
‘The Bible Students of Grace Congregation.

HeErBert C. Ciavs.

The Urgent Needs of Our Negro Mission.

The Negro Mission, your mission, dear Lutheran
Christian, is in need, in need of funds — in great
need. The treasury is in debt. The debt is alarm-
“ingly increasing. No funds are available with
which to pay it and with which to defray current
expenses.

This debt is not caused’ by any extravagance of
the Mission Board nor by the laborers in the field.
It is caused rather by decreased contributions in
proportion to the necessary increased expenditures
for additional Jaborers, and salaries, and for the
erection of inexpensive chapels and parsonages.

How are these urgent needs to be met? How
are the debts to be liquidated? By borrowing, re-
peatedly borrowing money at a high rate of interest?
Are we to conduct the work of the Savior, the work
of soul-saving, with borrowed money?

By no means! When the Church or a depart-
ment of the same is in need of funds, it appeals
for help to its members, to the citizenship of the
kingdom of God, to those whom the Lord has com-
manded to spread the saving Gospel of Christ and
to advance His kingdom.

The Synodical Conference, which convened at
Milwaukee during August this year, recognized the
fact that more interest must be created and more
funds provided if the saving work among the
Negroes, which the Lord has so’signally blessed, is
not to suffer. To this end it created a new office,
that of Publicity Secretary, and elected the writer
to that office. ‘His duties, as outlined, are to make
the Negro Mission better known among the Lu-

therans of the Synodical Conference, to arouse more
interest in it and to gather funds for the same.

We confidently appeal to the generosity of. the
Lutheran Christians which has never failed us, and
beg every congregation to lift an extra large collec-
tion at its earliest convenience in order that the
pressing debts may be liquidated and the mission
may again be placed on a cash-paying basis.

May the Lord bestow upon this appeal His
divine favor. and bless the givers and the gifts to -
the glory of His name and to the salvation of the
Negroes. N. J. BAKKE.

A Letter.

The Editor received the following letter, which
he thinks will interest our readers: —

Mansura, La., September 6, 1920.

“Dear Pastor : — Please acknowledge the receipt
of a box of clothing from Rey. F. A. Mehl, Sylvan
Grove, Kans., for members of my charge, with
thanks to the kind donors.

“Pastor, if you could collect some clothing from
your members, I could distribute it easily among
my members, for I have some needy ones. The box
that I received from Rev. Mehl helped some of them
a great deal. A number of needy ones asked me
if I could not get some more clothing. Anything
that you can send will be highly appréciated by
them. | “Yours fraternally,

“W. J. TERVALON.”

If any of our readers.are in a position to answer
this appeal, they may send the clothing to Rev. W.
J. Tervalon, Mansura, La. Who can help?

F. J. 1.

Great Interest in Our Colored Missions
Manifested by Our Slovak Brethren.

The Slovak Ev. Luth. Synod of America, which
is a-member of our Ey. Luth. Synodical Conference
of North America under whose auspices our Colored
mission-work is being carried on, held its convention
in the city of Chicago the latter part of August.

Pursuant to instructions, our Pastor George
Schmidt, whose home is in Chicago, addressed the
convention. He writes: “I spoke for about an hour
on the needs and success of our work among the
Freedmen. There were 58 persons present. After
the talk which I gave, it was SEINE to raise @