# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1927_S97 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 96 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. JUST OUT! HALF A CENTURY OF LUTHERANISM AMONG OUR COLORED PEOPLE We feel that we are doing a great service in calling your attention to this publica- tion, which has just left the press. You are interested in our Colored Missions, we know; for if that were not the case, you would not be a reader of the PIONEER. In this new book — HALF A CENTURY OF LUTHERANISM AMONG OUR COLORED PEOPLE you are given a connected, spirited story of our Church’s work among the freedmen for the past half century. ; The author of the book is the Director of our Colored Missions, Rev. C. F. Drewes, who has been intimately connected with the work for a period of almost twenty years. No one else could have written the story so well in every way. His close con- nection with the blessed work during all these years admirably fitted him for the author- ship of just such a book. : _ The value of the book is gceatly enhanced by sixty-six ‘ The publishers have left illustrations. The language se Z ¢ _ nothing undone to make the is simple and chaste, and the x eee : external appearance of the manner of presentation is ee =3 ue it book attractive to the eye. most fascinating. le ; : Then, too, the price! The book is to sell for only 75 cts. a copy! If ordered by the dozen, the price will be only 60 cts. a copy! And, finally, remember that whatever the profits may be, they will all go into the treasury of Colored Missions! Order from CONCORDIA PUBLISHING HOUSE 3558 S. Jefferson Avenue ST. LOUIS, MO.