# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1926_S9
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. 9

returning home from a visit to Greensboro and was
riding in a Ford coupé. Near Thomasville the
driver was blinded by the light of a machine com-
ing from the opposite direction — it was about six
o’clock in the evening, and the pavement was wet
from the rain that was falling —and ran off the
pavement into a post. The steering-wheel kept the
driver in his seat, but Mr. Dinkins was hurled
through the glass to the ground. The fall didnot
seem to have injured him, but his face was badly
cut by the breaking of the glass. After his wounds
had been dressed at Thomasville, he went to his
sister’s home at High Point, where he is still re-
ceiving treatments. All the cuts are now healed
but one on the right cheek; this one had healed
on the outside, but had to be opened again. God
grant that this wound, too, will soon be healed!
Mr. Dinkins hopes to be back in school next week,
but the doctor makes no definite promise. A mem-
ber of the congregation, Mrs. Caldwell, who has had
experience as a teacher, is now acting as substitute,
taking the second division of the school, and Miss
Barnhardt, teacher of the second NAL is taking
care of the first division.

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Concordia Conference, a small body of pastors
within Immanuel Conference, met at Monroe, N. C.,
November 28 and 29. The main subject in both
formal and informal discussions was how to deal
with lodge-members. One of the young mission-
aries wished to know whether he was proceeding
along lines that would be approved by the others,
and thus he broached the very matter which Rev. J.
KE. Shufelt had chosen as his theme for a paper.
This coincidence gave Rev. Shufelt the right of way
over Rev. Fuller, who had prepared a paper on
Baptism, but must wait until the next meeting to
deliver it. On Sunday Holy Communion was cel-
ebrated, and sermons; were preached by Rev. G.
Roberts and Superintendent J. P. Smith.

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One of our churches;in Rowan County, N. C.,
must literally turn; about, Rev. J. E. Shufelt re-
ports: “A rally . for our Building Fund at Mount
Zion, Bostian Cross Roads, on November 15 netted
$26.37. The county highway has been changed
from the front of the church and now runs behind
the building. We plan’ to build a new tower with
front doors, etc., orl’the!end of the church facing
the highway and tol put the altar, ete., in the other

end of the church.”
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In line with North Carolina’s present policy of
consolidating rural schools and conveying children
from the outlying districts to school in automobile
vehicles, Rev. J. E. Shufelt writes that “the chil-
dren of our Gold Hill congregation are being trans-
ported to our school at Rockwell this year. Several
new school desks have been purchased.” ‘The chil-
dren are, in a way, in school when they enter the
conveyance; for the teacher, Miss Sadie Russell,
stays_at Gold Hill and accompanies the children
and, according to a recent statement, even is the
driver of the conveyance. Miss Martha McTier,
who has been teaching at Rockwell the past two
years, has been transferred to the school opened at
Shankletown, near Concord.

Lutheran Chapel at Monroe, N. C.

St. Philip’s, our mission congregation at Phil-
adelphia, is not large, but is very promising. There
are seventeen communicants, but enough good pros-
pects to warrant the expectation that the member- .
ship will be doubled during the new year, with the
possibilities of even greater growth. The congre-
gation is very eager to get a church property; for
the place where the services are held is not large
enough, unless some alterations are made to pro-
vide more room, and, besides, it is for sale. There
does not, however, appear to be any chance of buy-
ing a vacant lot in the vicinity for less than
$10,000. Yet, strange to say, the property, part
of which the mission rents now, may be bought for
$9,000. It would seem to be the part of prudence -
to jump at the chance to purchase this property,
and the pastoral conference of Philadelphia advises
this course. There is not much more than $1,500
available for a church property at this place, and
so the problem for this station is whence to borrow
nearly $7,500 for the purchase of this property and,