# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1924_S105
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104. The Lutheran Pioneer.

of these thirteen homes were old store buildings,
which were in so bad a condition that no merchant
would rent them. During one winter a hallway was
used, and the attic steps served for a pulpit. For
the past six years the mission has used an aban-
-doned school-building. This building is surrounded
by gambling joints, pool-halls, and houses of prosti-
tution, and we can easily understand that the better
class of Negroes does not care to attend services in
such a neighborhood, nor do the parents like to
send their children to school there. — The colored
Lutherans themselvés have already gathered a fund
of almost $2,000, and we understand that the La-
dies’ Auxiliary Society, which is particularly in-
terested in Colored Missions, has a fund of $4,000
for a new building. Let us hope that the Children’s
Collection for Colored Chapels, which is now fully
under way, may be instrumental in gathering what
is yet lacking to make the building of a chapel and
school for the St. Louis Colored Mission a reality.

BOOK TABLE.

Synodical Report of North Wisconsin District, Missouri
Synod. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
56 pages. Price, 27 cts.
Papers: “Vom Roten Meer nach Sinai”; “Dangers
Which Threaten Lutheranism.” Both papers by Prof. Th.
Graebner; the latter particularly timely.

Lutheran Annual, 1925. — Kalender fuer deutsche Lu-
theraner auf das Jahr 1925. Concordia Publishing
House, St. Louis, Mo. Each 121 pages. Price, 15 cts.
each.

It will merely be necessary to tell our readers of the
Missouri Synod that these two annuals are on the market
to induce them to procure a copy. These publications have
become practically indispensable to every home of the Mis-
souri Synod. Get your copy early, since the supply may be
exhausted if you delay in ordering it from your pastor or

~ agent.

Proceedings of the Alabama Luther Conference, 1924.
Price, 10 cts. Order from Rev. E. A. Westcott, Box
683, Selma, Ala. i

Contains a number of very readable papers. If you
want to see what our missionaries do when they meet at
their conferences, send for this booklet. By doing so you
will inform yourself and serve the cause.

_ The Christmas Song Book. Sotarion Publishing Co.,
uffalo, N.Y. 73 songs. 64 pages. Bound in at-
tractive cover in Christmas colors. Compiled by
A. 7. Hanser. Price, 35 cts.; postage, 5 cts. Order
from Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
‘That this book is filling a crying need is proved by the
fact that this is the fifteenth edition of the publication.
When this edition is exhausted, 125,000 copies will have
been sold. There is probably no such complete selection
of Christmas songs to be found in any other book.

The Virgin Birth. A festival service for Christmas Eve.
By W. M. Czamanske, Sheboygan, Wis. Single copies,

6 cts.; dozen, 60 cts.; 100, $4.50.
Concerning this service we shall only say that it so
pleased us that we ordered it for our school and shall
use it in our children’s Christmas service this on

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

Received for Colored Missions from the following Col-
ored congregations: Grace, Greensboro, $35.00; ‘Trinity,
Springfield, 60.00; Grace, Ingomar, 1.00; St. Andrew’s,
Vredenburgh, 1.00; Trinity, Selma, 5.00; Alabama, 5.00;
Grace, Ingomar, 1.00; Trinity, Selma, 5.00; Alabama,
17.90; Augustana, Alexandria, 7.00; Bethany, Yonkers,
50.00; Bethel, Charlotte, 10.00; Bethel, Conover, 1.00;
Bethlehem, Monroe, 6.00; Concordia, New Orleans, 15.00;
Concordia, Rockwell, 6.14; Grace, Concord, 30.00; Grace,
Ingomar, 2.00; Grace, St. Louis, 25.00; Greensboro Mis-
sion, 10.60; Greer, S.C., 2.99; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 5.00;
Immanuel Lutheran College, Greensboro, 523.65; Luther
College, New Orleans, 25.00, and through the same for
poor students, 130.00; Mount Calvary, Kannapolis, 14.00;
Mount Calvary, Mount Pleasant, 7.00; St. Peter’s, Cabar-
rus, 7.00; Mount Olive, Catawba, 1.00; Mount Zion, Char-
lotte, 17.00; Mount Zion, New Orleans, 50.00; Mount
Zion, Rocks, 9.45; Pailets Land, New Orleans, 10.00; St.
James’s, Southern Pines, 8.29; St. John’s, Salisbury, 10.00;
St. Luke’s, High Point, 5.00; St. Luke’s, Spartanburg,
15.00; St. Mark’s, Atlanta, 7.00; St. Mark’s, Winston-
Salem, 13.16; St. Matthew’s, Meherrin, 8.73, and for China,
13.50; St. Paul’s, Charlotte, 24.00; St. Paul’s, Mansura,
5.00; St. Paul’s, Napoleonville, 10.00; St. Paul’s, New
Orleans, 40.00; St. Philip’s, Chicago, 22.73; St. Philip’s,
Philadelphia, 5.00; Trinity, New Orleans, 15.00; Zion,
Gold Hill, 7.00. — Total, $1,305.14.

St. Louis, Mo., November 1, 1924.

H. A. Dirraar, Asst. Treas.,
5329 Cote Brilliante Ave.

The Rev. Th. Norden, of Hooper, Nebr., donated a Com-
munion set to St. Mark’s Mission, Winston-Salem, N.C.
Many thanks to the kind donor!

WANTED!

Pastor E. R. Berger, Box 164, Alexandria, La., writes
that his new congregation is in need of a Communion set
and is not able to buy one. He and his congregation
would greatly appreciate the gift of a used set from some
sister congregation.

Pastor John Alston, 455 McDaniel St., Atlanta, Ga.,
informs us that he is in great need of hymnals for use
in service and Sunday-school. Who is able and willing
to help?

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