# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1925_S135 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. 135 eleven communicants. Their offerings by envelope and plate collections amount to more than $6 a Sunday. They contribute $50 a year towards our local Federation’s Budget and since last month are paying $10 a month towards the missionary’s salary. We rejoice and thank God for His past blessings and most heartily beseech Him to continue among us with His grace and help. Verily, the need for this work is crying here in Cincinnati, and the opportunities are plentiful. We humbly ask our readers for. their diligent supplications and inter- cessions. We are submitting to our readers a picture of our first adult confirmation class. Three persons on this picture do not belong to the class proper; Mrs. Livingston and her brother, William Miller (standing at extreme right) were confirmed in Greensboro, N. C.; these two gave us a start in our local work. ‘The other person is Miss Eliza Johnston (standing in center), who was sent here last fall by our Board to assist the mis- sionary in his work with the children. The remaining eight are the class-members. G. H. K. North Carolina Notes. A special service was held at Mount Zion (Rocks), Bostian Crossroads, N.C., on the evening of August 2 for the ordination of Candidate Wm. T. Eddleman to the holy min- istry. The ordination sermon was preached by the Rev. I. D. Alston, of Charlotte, N. C., who took as his text Matt. 9,36—38. The rite of ordination was performed by the pastor of Mount Zion,-Rev. J. E. Shufelt, assisted by the Rev. Alston and the Rev. C. R. March, of Salisbury, N.C. It was a service of joy for all the people of Mount Zion, who rejoiced in this blessed privilege of giving one of their young men to the Lord’s work. May God, who Himself has called our young brother, bless his labors to the salvation of many souls! Our prayers will follow him into the mission-fields - of Alabama. We hereby extend our sympathy to Teacher Martha McTier, of Rockwell, N.C., who with her sisters, Teacher Addie McTier, of Greensboro, and Teacher Mrs. John Parker, of High Point, was called to mourn the sudden death of their father, which occurred on August 2. Mr. Roosevelt Miller, of our church at Gold Hill, N.C., was united in marriage with Miss Virginia | Walker, of New London, N.C., by his pastor, Rev. J. E. Shufelt, on August 8. They are at home in the house belonging to Rev. Foard at Gold Hill. May God bless them richly to His own glory! J. EE. SHuFE.t, Cor. Progress in Our Argentine Mission-Field. The Lord’s promise that His Word: shall not return void is being realized in our mission-work in Argentina. Argentina is building a college with its own funds. Conference in February voted 15,000 pesos, or $5,000, for the Argentine colegio. Over 13,000 pesos have been subscribed to date, over 10,000 pesos are on hand, and by August we hope to reach our quota. Two city blocks in the city of First Lutheran Chapel in Misiones, Argentina. Crespo, Entre Rios, have been purchased for our future college. One city block was donated by several enthusiastic laymen. Our first building is to be 4046 feet and two stories high. It is to have two classrooms, a dining-room, a kitchen, study- and sleeping-rooms for the boys and also two rooms for the president of the new institution. . A presi- dent has already been called. A building com- mittee, consisting of three pastors and five laymen, is hard at work and hopes to have the building ready for occupancy by October. Sessions, God willing, are to be taken up next March. Our colegio is to provide a full German and Spanish course for teachers and a preparatory course for students pre- paring for the ministry. It is to be a teachers’ seminary and a college for theological students. In general our entire work is progressing fairly well. last year our congregations and mission- stations built six chapels and three parsonages. For