# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1928_S96 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. A GRIPPING BOOK! 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 received the unqualified praise of reviewers. 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 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 H : greatly enhanced by sixty-six ! = The publishers have left illustrations. The language : : nothing undone to make the is simple and chaste, and the Mad 37 aie 7 external appearance of the mannec of presentation is ~ eae ed : f book attractive to the eye. most fascinating. i Then, too, the price! The book sells for only 75 cts. a copy! If ordered by the dozen, the price is 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.