# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1922_S14
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with the smaller enrolment as it had been in pre-
vious years. ‘his goes to show that people will
appreciate that for which they pay more than that
which is given to them gratis.

While the attendance at Immanuel College is
just what it was in the previous year, the enrolment
at Luther College has increased by 24 students.
‘The Sunday-school enrolment has increased to 2,580.

We also wish to call the attention of our readers
to the satisfactory increase in the attendance of our
Colored Christians at the Lord’s Table. Note in
particular the fact that the members of our mission
in Atlanta communed on an average more than five
times during the year.

Most encouraging is also the way in which our
Colored brethren and sisters are progressing on the
way to self-support. How many congregations do
on an average what Pastor Hill’s people are doing
in Yonkers? ‘The average contribution per member
of this little flock amounted to $24.91. The total
amount contributed by our Colored people last year
was no less than $30,348, an increase of more than
$10,000 over 1920! Seven years ago the total
annual receipts were only $5,528, and last year over
$30,000! Surely, this is most encouraging.

St. Paul’s, New Orleans, is still the largest con-
gregation in our Colored Mission and also has the
largest school.

May the Lord continue to bless our work among
the freedmen! May He especially bless our labors
in this year, when we celebrate the fiftieth anniver-
sary of the Synodical Conference, which has been
carrying on this work for the past 45 years!

FB. J. L.

India Letter for the ‘‘Pioneer.’’

Dear “PIONEER” FRIENDS : —

This is not the first time that you have heard
from me, and though I do not know any of you
personally, I feel as if I knew you intimately, and
therefore wish to acquaint you, who are interested
in, praying for, and materially helping the mission
‘in India, with some of the successes — and perhaps
:failures, too — that are strewn along the mission-
iaries’ path.

Our Firsr Mission Hosprrrau. — After viewing
ithe problem of a mission hospital from every con-
«ceivable angle, it was decided that Ambur should be
sgraced with this beneficent institution. This pre-
liminary matter once settled, plans were circulated,
zand eventually it was agreed upon to erect a build-

ing along the following lines: There are to be three
divisions: the dispensary, the operating block, and
the wards.

1) The dispensary. This block consists of four
principal rooms and two bath-rooms, arranged so
that the compounding room is immediately behind
and adjoining the consulting chamber. On either
side of these two rooms there are two waiting-halls
which separate the treatment rooms for males and
females from the former. Each treatment room has
a bath-room attached, and the dispensary is pro-
vided with a small window through which the
medicines are to be handed to the respective pa-
tients. This block is to be built with a gable roof.

In line, really a continuation of the right wait-
ing-hall, a seven-foot passage takes us to the

2) Operating-thealer. ‘The first door on the left
as we pass along opens into the store-room, and the
second into the linen-room. After these two rooms
comes a passage branching in to the left, which, we
find, terminates in the sterilizing room. But let us
retrace our steps. As we proceed, we notice that
there is another door opening in to the left, and
upon inquiry we learn that this is the place where
the anesthetics are administered; and if we pass
through this compartment, we come to the operating-
room, where, I hope, none of us will have to go,
unless it be for a casual visit. The operating-theater
is provided with large windows facing the north, and
also with a “slop-room.” After the patients have
been treated in this place, with which mind asso-
ciates white-robed nurses, glittering instruments,
and dumb pains, they pass out of the back door,
then to the right or the left according to sex, along
a nine-foot passage to

3) The wards. At first the wards will be each

‘ one large room, 2026 feet, surrounded by a wide

veranda, and are designed to accommodate eight
beds. Sixteen in-patients will therefore be accom-
modated at one time, eight males and a like number
of females.

The above description, dear friends, is not meant
to do more than assist your imagination to construct
in your minds the building which will actually be
erected here by the funds which our mission friends
in America have supplied. The hospital will be
erected on a beautiful site, will face north towards
the railway, with a splendid grove of tamarind trees
as a background. ‘There it will stand, like a gem in
a beautiful setting, as a monument to the love of
those who made its erection possible.

Building operations have already commenced,