# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1926_S30
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Receipts, $5,136.91. — Alabama Luther College: 45 students; 3 professors; 1 assistant

Receipts, $1,822.01.

and 1 matron.

1 matron.

Immanuel Lutheran College: 98 students; 6 professors;

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Editor.)

The Latest Statistics of Our Colored Missions. —
An interesting feature of the February number of
the PionEER for years has been Director Drewes’
statistical report. He has again compiled this re-
port for the past year and we are pleased to bring
it in this number. A comparison with the report
that appeared last year, will show a fine growth in
every part of the field and marked improvements
in practically all the congregations. The number of
baptized members in our colored congregations in-
creased by 333 persons in 1925, and has reached
4,709. The communicant membership has increased
from 2,475 to 2,684, an increase of 209 persons.

We have 11 more mission-schools now than we
had- last year at this time, the present number
being 48, in which 3,256 pupils are being instructed
in the common branches of secular knowledge, but
above all things in the Word of God. The combined
enrolment of Immanuel Lutheran College and Ala-
bama Luther College is 148. The Sunday-schools
have a total enrolment of 3,510. The past year
witnessed the baptism of more persons in our mis-
sions than did any previous year, and the number
confirmed also exceeded that of all other years. The
number baptized last year was 419, while 377 were
confirmed. ~ The attendance at the Lord’s Table
exceeded that of the year before by 1,861 and
reached a total of 7,446.

Our colored members contributed a total of
$31,648.47 in 1925, which was $3,073.44 more than
in 1924. The average contribution per communi-
cant member was $11.77.

Besides the more than 7,000 persons who are
under the direct teaching of our mission-workers
in church and school, there is a host of Negroes
which is indirectly influenced by the work which
we are doing. We believe it no exaggeration to say’
that at least 20,000 to 25,000 persons are blessed
by our Negro Missions.

Evansville, Ind. — We know that our Colored
Missions have a number of loyal friends and sup-
porters in Evansville, Ind. One of these left a fine
Christmas gift for our Alabama missions tied to
the door-knob of his pastor’s study a few weeks
before Christmas in the shape of a $50 bill safely
tucked away in an envelope with directions to
forward same to Superintendent Geo. A. Schmidt,
at Selma, Ala. Pastor Schmidt asks us to express
his hearty thanks to the kind unknown donor