# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1922_S64 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) The Lutheran Pioneer. printed this: “The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Pilgrim Lutheran Church cordially invites you to attend a Birthday Party,” ete., giving the place and time of the party. On the lower margin of the card is a space for the name and address of the invited person. Attached to the card by means of a silk cord is a dainty little bag for a contribution of as many cents as the invited person might be old, or more. ‘This request. for the missionary donation is printed in verse on the reverse side of the card. A DeEpLORABLE AccIDEN'T. — Pastor Drewes, the Director of Colored Missions, met with an accident a month ago that might have ended fatally. While returning with a brother pastor from a meet- ing, the auto they were in was run into by some reckless driver. Besides receiving a number of bruises and gashes about the head and on the right hand and left leg, the severity of the collision brought a hemorrhage of the brain perilously near. After staying at a hospital for several days, the patient was removed to his home and there rapidly improved. We hope that when this reaches our readers’ hands, our beloved Director may be fully restored. Forr Saarrir, Ark. — It always pleases us greatly when we hear of people in the Southland taking an interest in our Negro Missions. ‘Thus we were much gratified when the principal of our parochial school in Fort Smith sent us the copy of an appeal which had gone out to all the pupils of the school, urging them not to forget the Jubilee Collection for our Colored Mission Building Fund. Principal Eug. E. Wunderlich writes: “We are staging a vacation drive among the day-school chil- dren of our school in Fort Smith. If everything goes well now, we hope to give’ you some nice sup- port by September. We are sending a letter to all our children as a reminder.” God bless the en- deavors of this zealous friend of our Negro Missions and all others in the same great cause! THE Jornt CoNFERENCE at NEW ORLEANS. — Our readers must not neglect to read Pastor Lynn’s vivid account of the General Conference held at New Orleans. All reports that have reached us speak of the Conference as a great success. Let our readers particularly notice the resolutions re- ferring to the attainment of self-support on the part of our Negro congregations. If the congregations will prove as earnest as were their representatives in this matter, it will probably mean that the sum of $500 per month will be released for us elsewhere in opening up new fields. We know of several con- gregations that have already acted upon the resolu- tion and done so enthusiastically. Tur Jubiwee Fonp.— Our Colored congrega- tions have contributed about $2,500 to this Fund. How are our white congregations doing? God give us all willing hearts! F.J.L. OO — BOOK TABLE. Select Songs for School and Home. Home Edition. By J. A. Theiss and B. Schumacher. With an in- troduction on the Rudiments of Music by K. Haase. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Sub- stantial cloth-binding. XVI and 392 pages. Price, $2.00. Special introductory and exchange prices upon application. This is the four-part edition of a book of songs put out about two years ago. The publication of this Home Edition will make this collection of English songs even more popular than it has been. The introduction of this book into our homes would prove a fine means of expell- ing a lot of “undesirable musical stuff.” Address at the Celebration of the Seventy-fifth An- niversary of the Missouri Synod at Fort Wayne, Ind. By Prof. W. H. T. Dau. American’ Luther League, Fort Wayne, Ind. The American Luther League is willing to furnish this booklet free of charge, one copy or in quantities, to any one who will make good use of them. Help to spread the message contained in this booklet! Das erfolgreiche Kuvert-Finanzsystem. Seine EKin- fuchrung und Durchfuehrung. By Pastor 8. A. Stein. Second edition. Published by the author, 416 W. Co- lumbia St., Springfield, O. Sold at Lutheran book- houses. Price, 25 cts. a copy; $2.40 a dozen; $18.00 a hundred. In calling attention to this very serviceable pamphlet, we wish to say that the author has also put an excellent English booklet on the market covering the same subject; it bears the name, A Guide in Church Finance. We be- lieve that if we could induce our members to read either one of these booklets, all our churches would soon intro- duce the weekly duplex-envelope system. F. J. L. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Received for Colored Missions from the following Col- ored congregations: St. Luke’s, High Point, $2.40; St. Philip’s, Philadelphia, 5.00; Concordia, New Orleans, 15.00; Bethlehem, New Orleans, 50.00; Mount Zion, New Orleans, 40.00; Bethel, Conover, 1.00; Bethel, Plaque- mine, 2.00; Bethlehem, Monroe, 4.25; Concordia, Rock- well, 5.00; through Rey. Carter, 14.50; Grace, Concord, 100.00; Grace, Greensboro, 7.96; Immanuel College in Greensboro, 19.70; Immanuel, Shankletown, 10.00; Lu- ther College, New Orleans, 20.00; Mount Calvary, Sandy Ridge, 12.00; Mount Olive, Catawba, 2.00; Mount Zion, Rocks, 10.00; St. James’s, Southern Pines, 6.13; St. John’s, Salisbury, 12.00; St. Luke’s, Spartanburg, 26.28; St. Mark’s, Atlanta, 5.00; St. Mark’s, Winston-Salem, 3.44; St. Matthew’s, Meherrin, 20.36; St. Paul’s, Char- lotte, 30.00; Mount Zion, Charlotte, 15.00; St. Paul’s, Mansura, 5.00; St. Peter’s, Drys Schoolhouse, 75.00; Beth- any, Yonkers, 45.00; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 15.00; St. Paul’s, Napoleonville, 20.00; Trinity, New Orleans, 10.00; St. Paul’s, New Orleans, 40.00. — Total, $649.02. St. Louis, Mo., July 1, 1922. H. A. Ditraar, Asst. Treas., 1944 Clara Ave.