# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1923_S48 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 48 The Lutheran Pioneer. cient to conduct an occasional missionary service and to take an annual offering. ‘here must be persistent, continuous teaching and training. One of the most important things is to create a mis- sionary atmosphere. Mottoes, maps, and pictures on the wall help to do this. Missionary hymns should be frequently sung. Prayers for missions and missionaries should be offered every Sunday. The library should provide attractive missionary books. A bulletin board containing from Sunday to Sunday outstanding facts, figures, and incidents from mission-fields will help. Occasional pageants may be made very instructive. Five minutes or even one or two minutes before or after the teach- ing of the lesson of the day may be advantageously devoted to striking incidents in the lives and work of missionaries. Above all, definite missionary teaching should be done in the classes. ‘This may be’done, as Dr. Trull indicates, by an interpretation of the missionary idea of the lesson or by bringing in illustrations from missionary history and biog- raphy. ‘The ingenious superintendent and teacher will add to these suggestions indefinitely. Where it is possible, a superintendent of missionary edu- cation should be clected by the Sunday-school Teachers’ Association to cooperate with depart- mental superintendents in working out plans for the different departments. _ , Dr. John T. McFarland says: “Let us carry *missions into our Sunday-schools primarily for the sake of the children themselves, that they may come to their largest development.” aa The Foreign Missionary. ———__+e__ ____ Inadequate Schools. The Russell Sage Foundation has been investi- gating the’ public schools of Atlanta, Ga. It found, in June, 1913, that out of 10,118 Negro children of school age but 2,924 were enrolled. Atlanta furnishes for its 17,000 white Ce thirty-eight grammar schools, a boys’ high school, _a girls’ high school, a boys’ technical high school, a girls’ English commercial high school and five night-schools. ‘ For .the 10,118 Colored children it furnishes eleven grammar schools. ‘The whites have 426 teachers and the Negroes have 82. ‘The report says that inadequacy of equipment was most noted in td the Negro schools. If Atlanta had twice as many ____&chools, she would be making only a good beginning in providing Negro children with school facilities. Not only are the classes overcrowded, but practically all are on a half-time basis. Of the ninety-one classes in'the Negro public schools sixty-six were on part time. In addition, over 300 Negro children were turned away because there were not even enough half-time opportunities. Many others would have applied had there been any possibility of gaining admission. Negro teachers are paid only three-fifths as much as the white teachers. All classes had at least forty pupils to one teacher, and fifty-two had fifty or more to one teacher. Tt must be remembered that Atlanta is ranked as one of the most progressive of Southern cities. The Crisis. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Received for Colored Missions from the following Col- ored congregations: Alabama, $8.20 and 3.15; Bethany, Yonkers, 50.00; Bethel, Conover, 3.28; Concordia, Rock- well, 10.00; Mount Olive, Catawba, 2.25; Bethel, Char- lotte, 11.50; Bethlehem, Monroe, 5.00; Concordi Orleans, 15.00; Grace, Concord, 40.00; Grace, Greens 8.24; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 2.00; Immanuel Lutheran Col- lege, Greensboro, 564.85; Immanuel, Shankletown, 5.00; Lecture tour (Rey. M. N. Carter), 25.00; Luther College, New Orleans, 35.00; Mount Calvary, Kannapolis, 14.00; Mount Zion, New Orleans, 40.00; Mount Zion, Rocks, 15.50; St. James’s, Southern Pines, 8.17; St. John’s, Salis- bury, 14.00; St. Luke’s, Spartanburg, 15.00; St. Mark’s, Atlanta, 15.00; St. Mark’s, Winston-Salem, 10.12; St. Matthew’s, Meherrin, 24.23; Mount Zion, Charlotte, 16.00; St. Paul’s, Charlotte, 32.00; St. Paul’s, Mansura, 12.50; St. Paul’s, Napoleonville, 23.00; St. Peter’s, Drys School- house, 15.00; St. Philip’s, Philadelphia, 5.00; Bethlehem, New Orleans, 57.50; Zion, Gold Hill, 7.00; Mount Cal- vary, Mount Pleasant, 7.00. — Zolal, $1,119.49. St. Louis, Mo., May 1, 1923. H. A. Dirrsrar, Asst. T'rcas., 5329 Cote Brilliante Ave. Please Take Notice. Kindly consult the address label on this paper to ascertain whether your subscription has expired or will soon expire. “June 23” on the label means that your subscription has ex- pired. 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