# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1923_S3
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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4. The Lutheran Pioneer.

Conference was brought to a close on Wednesday
night with an address by Superintendent G. A.
Schmidt and a paper on “The Lord’s Supper” by
Rey. E. B. Cozart. The congregation at Buena
Vista will entertain the conference next November,
while Holy Ark, one of our youngest congregations,
will haye the pleasure of entertaining the ‘Teachers’
Institute some time in June, July, or August of
next summer. cs 5 *

On Thursday morning, November 9, a new body
came into existence, namely, “The Alabama Lu-
theran Sunday-school Convention.” Almost all the
Sunday-schools on our field had delegates present.
This new body is made up entirely of laymen.
Mr. Nathan Ramsey was elected its first Chairman,

and Mr. Floyd Dockery is the Vice-Chairman, while °

Mr. Percy Dumas is the Secretary. At its first meet-
ing some’ interesting papers were read. Miss E. B.
Cannon read a paper on “Creating Interest for
Mission-work,”’ Mrs. Flora Deramus presented a
paper on “Getting the Adults to Attend Sunday-
school,” Miss R. J. Young read a paper on “Pre-
paring for and Teaching the Lesson,” Mr. Floyd
Dockery delivered an address on “Rally Days for
our Sunday-schools.” This first meeting was an
enthusiastie one. We sincerely hope that this con-
vention will prove a blessing to our Sunday-schools
and churches here in the Black Belt.
CG _* * * ‘

We wish to extend our heartfelt sympathy to
the Smith family at Midway in their recent loss of
husband and father, C. P. Smith. May God comfort
them with His blessed Word and teach them to
pray: “Thy will be done!”

On November 13, our new institution, the
Teachers’ ‘Training-school, was opened at Selma.
May the blesssings of God rest upon this institution
and its work! R. 0. L. L.

The Alabama Teachers’ Training-
School.

On November 13, 1922, the doors of our new
Teachers’ ‘[raining-school, located for the present
at Selma, Ala., were opened; on the morning of the
16th lectures were begun by the undersigned and
his assistant, Mrs. Nettie Moore, recently of Co-
Iumbus, N. Mex.

Such was the beginning of the realization of a
dream which had its inception in the fertile mind

_ of our pioneer missionary, the sainted Rey. N. J.

Bakke. Our new school was opened with an enrol-
ment of five girls; we now boast the imposing num-
ber of nine, and have room for just two more; these
two we are expecting every day. The home of our
new institution is located at 520 First Ave., Selma,
Ala. A beautiful and well-built cottage serves as
dormitory, classroom, and dining-hall for our first
students. When one walks into the hallway, he will
find the main classroom located at his right, at his
left is a bedroom; farther down the hall is the
dining-room, which also serves the purpose of a
classroom; to the left of the dining-room is another
bedroom, and near by are the kitchen and pantry.
In our main classroom you will find a full set of
maps, three blackboards, a globe, a teacher’s desk

_ and chair, and about a dozen university chairs,

which the students use as desks. On the walls are
beautiful pictures from the life of Christ. In the
dining-room is a large table, around which the girls
gather to satisfy the inner man — or woman, in this
case. Here we gather also for our chapel services.
In the bedrooms you will find a number of army
cots, upon which the girls rest from their labors of
the day. In the back is the coal-house, which for-
merly served as a stable for a — er —‘well, we'll call
it an automobile. Near the back steps is the pump,
which furnishes water for our daily needs, and in-
cidentally plenty of exercise for those who would
quench their thirst. A little to one side is the
basket-ball court, where the girls take some more
exercise if the pump has failed to satisfy their long-
ing for development along athletic lines.

We have as our first students a group of upright,
Christian-hearted girls, gathered from our parochial
schools here in the “Black Belt.” One is struck
with their Christian bearing and Jadylike deport-
ment. They are Lutherans all, and that accounts
for the Christian spirit which prevails in the class-
rooms and the home-life of the girls. ‘They are, in-
deed, a family of “Big Sisters,” ruled and governed
by the love of Him whom they have learned to know
and love in our Christian day-schools. You will

"have to travel far to find a better set of girls than

we boast of here. : 2

And why are these girls here? They are here to
be trained to become Christian teachers in our
schools in Alabama. ‘They want to help lift up
their brothers and sisters, using the only means
which can lift them up out of sin and degradation,
the blessed Word of God. ‘That is the sole reason
for their becoming the first students at our new in-
stitution. Could there be a better one? Surely not!

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