# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1922_S53
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those students might study that have no recitation
period, is indispensable for efficient work and good
order.

The writer: has always felt that the great im-
portance of Luther College in the economy of our
Colored Missions has not been so generally realized
as it should have been, and that for this reason it
has often been denied those things which it had
a right to have granted. Circumstances conspired
to put Luther College in the background, with the
result that many friends of our Colored Missions
never realized what opportunities were being lost
because of the apparently more immediate and
greater needs of the sister institution at Greensboro.

However, that is no reason why the importance
of Luther College for the Lord’s work should not
finally be recognized and the means provided the
institution fo carry on its divinely appointed task.
The writer knows that no one would be more will-
ing to put Luther College in a position to enter
upon a greater sphere of usefulness than our Board,
and that its members are sincerely longing to be
put in possession of sufficient means to fit out this
institution as it deserves and circumstances and
conditions demand. Who will help swell the Jubilee
Fund so that Luther College may also be taken
care of? F. J. L.

News and Notes Concerning the
Lutheran Deaconess Association.

Dear member, — or if you have not as yet joined
the association, dear prospective member, — the
Lutheran Deaconess Association cordially invites
you to renew your membership in the association
by remitting $1 for the year 1922 to the Lutheran
Deaconess Home, 2916 Fairfield Ave., Fort Wayne,
Ind. It is our desire to increase the membership of
the association to 10,000 members this year. Will
you.not, by sending in your contribution and in-
ducing some of your friends to do likewise, assist
us in reaching our goal?

- he new Deaconess Hospital at Beaver Dam,
Wis., was dedicated on the 29th of January and
opened for service on the 1st of February. This
hospital has room for 30 beds and is worth in the
neighborhood of $180,000. We have every reason
to be thankful to God for having enabled us to take
oyer this institution, which, by the way, is unen-
cumbered by any debts. -

"The Deaconess School at Fort Wayne is at-

tended by eight students. In Beaver Dam six stu-
dents have enrolled to date. The association is
bending every effort to train these students as effec-
tive Lutheran deaconesses for service in the various
missions and charitable institutions of the Synodical
Conference.

The young ladies attending the classes are given
three years’ training in nursing, so that they may
be registered as regular nurses, and in addition to
this they are given instruction that will especially
fit them for work in Lutheran institutions, ete.

It will probably interest the reader to know that
the association appropriates $100 per year for every
student preparing for service as a deaconess. This
appropriation barely covers the expense to which
these young ladies are put in preparing for this
service. In addition to this the association provides
every student with the necessary text-books. This
item alone constitutes quite an outlay, and the
membership dues contributed by the friends of this
endeavor help to defray this expense.

Of special interest is the fact that one of the
young ladies in training at the present time, Miss
Esther Tassinari, a young lady of Italian parentage,
and heretofore a member of the Roman Catholic
Church, took instruction and was confirmed on
Palm Sunday.

It was during the Lenten season of 1920 that
the first general invitation was extended to the
members of the Synodical Conference to become
associated with us in this movement to train Lu-
theran deaconesses and to establish a Deaconess
Home. This call for a renewal of memberships and
for new members is the third that is being issued,
and we sincerely hope that it will be met with a
response that will cheer the officers of the associa-
tion as well as the fourteen young ladies who stand
ready to devote their lives to service in this work
and also bring us nearer to the membership goal
that we have set for 1922.

Frequently, on entering a business establish-
ment, we read a little placard that carries the ad-
monition, “Do It Now!” May we ask you, dear
reader, to do it now, that is, to send your contri-
bution to this splendid cause before you put aside
this paper and possibly forget that you should be
and probably are interested?

May the almighty and gracious God, who has so
signally blessed our work, continue to prosper it
also by giving us a host of friends and supporters!

Pu. W.