# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1927_S4
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

4 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

many cases, congregations already existing in the
neighborhoods of the lumber-camps could greatly
help in bringing the Gospel to men and women in
these camps or their neighborhood. In the State

these more than sixty logging-camps, nine are with-
out religious ministrations. Five hundred children
in and about these camps are without all religious
and educational advantages.

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Harvesting Wheat in the West.

of Washington, for instance, there is a county with
forty-four churches and a total membership of no
more than 3,000. In this same county there are said
to be over sixty logging-camps, employing about
5,000 men, located in the midst of the forests, far
from social, educational, and religious influences. Of

Harvest Hands.

Every year the wheat-harvest is saved by
hundreds of thousands of homeless men who cannot
save themselves from being in the bread-line next
winter. The first harvest migrants come from the
oil- and lumber-camps of the South and from not