# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1922_S45
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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passed over his stomach. Marvelous to state, he
escaped with only a scalp wound. Truly, “He shall
give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all
thy ways.” Who will doubt that it was the angels
of God who held up the load so that no internal
injuries resulted? So may He ever keep and pre-
serve His servants from all harm and danger!

“When it rains, it pours,” so says an old adage.
One week from the date of the accident related
above our Superintendent was on his way to Buena
Vista to hold services. Once more he must abandon
his car ard mount a prancing steed. Midway be-
tween Vredenburgh and his objective, darkness came
down over the landscape like a veil, and the rider
and his horse were thoroughly lost. From an old
tumble-down shack by the side of the railroad they
set out to find their way; after wandering for what
seemed ages through the undergrowth and fields of
waving broom-sage, they found themselves back at
the old tumble-down shack. And the people at the
church were waiting. Nothing daunted, horse and
rider bravely set forth once more to try and extricate
themselves from the bowing bushes and enveloping
darkness. After exploring the entire country-side,
fording creeks, testing the barbed points of pasture
wire and satisfying themselves as to the quality of
the points of the said barbs, horse and rider, after
long wandering, once more found themselves at the
old tumble-down shack. And the people at the
church kept on waiting. Faint heart never fath-
omed flowering forest, and so horseman and charger
girded up their loins and made another dash for
civilization, hoping to rid themselves of the noise
and sting of nocturnal insects and the incessant
croaking of the frogs. After stumbling over fallen
logs, decaying stumps, and discovering abandoned
tram-roads; behold, after another lengthy period
of time, horse and rider back — at the old tumble-
down shack! And the people at the church kept on
waiting. By this time the rider in question had
become desperate, and so had the horse, for that
faithful animal, taking the bit between his teeth,
turned his head down the railroad track and began
negotiating the cross-ties homeward. The rider now
began to reason with himself in this manner: “This
horse is going home, and the thing for me to do
is to take the opposite direction.” So dismounting
he tied his companion in misery to a friendly bush,
dropped a handkerchief near by to insure recovery
of the steed in case his venture didn’t prove success-
ful, and began to count the ties Buena Vista-ward.
All things come to him who waits, and so the

preacher, after counting several million cross-ties
for the Vredenburgh Saw Mill Company, finally
came to the people waiting at the church!

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Notes from Napoleonville, La.

The dark cloud of apprehension which hung over
our little mission in Napoleonville since 1918 is
about to disperse, and the smiling sunlight of
serenity is about to dawn. Plans have already been
drawn up by the Mission Board to erect the new
chapel this summer. In a few weeks from now work
will be started; the storm-wrecked building will be
torn down, the lot cleaned and laid out into a cem-
etery plot, the parsonage moved to the rear of the
newly acquired site, and the new chapel erected on
the corner where the parsonage now stands. What
a relief! What peace the reception of such news
brings to the apprehensive mind! And we are not
unmindful, dear reader, of the fact that next to
God we owe it to your Christian giving that the
erection of our new chapel will be made possible.
You have sympathized with us in our distresses, and
now our joy shall be also your joy. Watch the
columns of the Pionrer for the joyful news.

We are rapidly approaching the end of the
school-term. Ere our article goes to press, our school
will have closed. While looking back on this present
term, in spite of the many disadvantages and ob-
stacles, we must confess that it has been a very
successful one. ‘Though the present enrolment is
not the largest ever reached in the history of our
mission, yet the daily average attendance and re-
ceipts far surpass that of any previous year. Much
of this.success is due to the indefatigable work of
our two lady teachers. We have two faithful and
conscientious workers in our schoolrooms in the per-
sons of Mrs. Anna Nelson and Miss Alma Goudeau.
Both of our teachers have endeared themselves to
their pupils, a feature which contributes much to the
success of a good school. Mrs. Nelson has charge of
the upper grades since the fall of 1918, and Miss
Goudeau took charge of the primary department in °
the fall of 1920. We regret very much that after
this term we shall lose the services of Miss Goudeau
in the primary department, who will, as we are in-*
formed, resign school work to become a summer
bride. We wish her much happiness and God’s
blessing in her new sphere of life.

On the 16th of March a “surprise attack” was