# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1926_S59
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58 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

money must be borrowed to do so. By next fall the
‘dormitory must be ready for occupancy if we are to
continue our work.

If you, dear reader, will help soon and according
to your ability, and if other readers will do likewise,
this will be the last time that this matter need be
referred to in these columns. Will you help that
Immanuel gets its dormitory ?

Taking it for granted that you will regard this
as a final appeal, the writer makes bold to suggest
that you. send your contribution to your District
Treasurer for the Greensboro Dormitory, or else
direct to the Treasurer of the Board for Colored

Missions, see
; Mr. Tueo. W. Eckwart,

8558 S. Jefferson Ave.,
St. Louis, Mo.

7 Superintendent J- Ph. Smith. 7

Just before.the Pioneer is going to press, a tele-
gram from Greensboro, N. C., informs us of the death
of Superintendent John. Philip Smith. He passed
away after.a .brief illness on Friday, March 26. In
* the following, number the PIONEER will bring a biog-
raphy of this faithful servant of our Colored Missions.

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-~~Luther College-in Selma. -

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Editor.)

California. — Let every reader be sure to read
Pastor Theiss’s beautiful poem on our new colored
mission at Los Angeles. It is largely due to the

: untiring efforts of Pastors Theiss and Troeger that

our work among the colored people on the.shores of
the Pacific is progressing so well. As was reported
in our columns last month, the mission has its own
pastor in the person of Rev. John McDavid, and for
several months its happy and grateful members are
worshiping in their own chapel. The church home
was made a possibility by the generous help of the
white Christians of Southern California, who in
a most whole-hearted manner came to the assistance
of the Board for Colored Missions and thus made
the purchase of the chapel a possibility. ‘The white
Sunday-schools of the California and Nevada Dis-
trict, Missouri Synod, are supplying Missionary
McDavid’s salary for the present. — Of interest to
our readers must it be to. hear that Rev. John
MeDavid, the missionary in charge of the colored
mission at Los Angeles, is in touch with colored
Lutherans of Oakland, Cal., and will, according to
time and strength, supply their needs.
Alabama. — The Alabama Bee is the name of
the paper published by the students of our colored
-The primary purpose of
the- mimeographed periodical is to keep alive the
esprit de corps, as the editor tells us. The number
sent us has several well-written articles. We wish
the publishers success! — At Mobile those in charge
of matters are looking about:for'a suitable location
for a church and school.-It is the intention to be-
gin building operations as soon as a proper site has
been found. The Joint Wisconsin Synod collected
the funds for this mission’ plant, which till recently
has been in charge of Missionary Schink. We are
sorry to hear that Pastor Schink, who is a son of
the Wisconsin Synod, will not be able to use the
plant so generously provided by his synodical breth-
ren, since he has accepted a call to some white con-
gregation in Wisconsin.— Our colored work in
Alabama looks back upon’ ten years of existence.
Just about the time when this number of the

PIONEER reaches our readers, it will be ten years »

that Pastor Bakke confirmed the first class at Rose-
bud, Ala. That first class consisted of seventy mem-
bers. During these past ten years God has added
hundreds to our Church. The ery for more churches,

more schools, and more workers comes with insist-”

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