# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1928_S107
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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is modest, ’tis true, yet neat; and to our Lamison
people it looks like a “million dollars.”

But its cost was not quite that. On the con-
trary, $1,000, donated by a friend in Wisconsin,
will foot the bill. Could $1,000 be used for a better
purpose ?

And to that unknown friend in Wisconsin the
congregation would say, in the words of one of
the members, “Thank you ten thousand times!”
She ‘asks the Lord to bless him or her bodily and
spiritually in richest measure.

Dedication Sunday was a beautiful day and one
of great rejoicing for the people. Pastor Schmidt
preached the dedicatory sermon, and the writer
exhorted the members to greater missionary zeal
and efforts. The collection, amounting to $14, will
be used to purchase pews.

May the Lord bless this young congregation, so
that it will grow both in grace and in numbers!

And to the Triune God all glory and praise,
who made “another one at Lamison” possible!

E. A. WEstcorr.

P.S. We have three more places where $1,000
would build a modest chapel and school. The
returns? Precious blood-bought souls brought to
Jesus, their Savior. i. A. W.

+ Theodore H. Lamprecht. +

Theodore H. Lamprecht,
of New York City, the well-
known philanthropist and
Lutheran layman, died at
Cannes, France, April 30,
at the age of sixty-nine
years. He had been a woolen
merchant, but since his re-
tirement a few years ago,
had devoted the greater part
of his time to the blessed
task of assisting his Church
in its various enterprises.

He was president of the American Lutheran
Publicity Bureau, owner of the Lutheran Film
Division, and a director of the Concordia Finance
Corporation. Up to a few years ago he was the
president of the Lutheran Laymen’s League. In
recent years Mr. Lamprecht’s influence was felt
strongly in the Missouri Synod’s ministerial endow-
ment campaign, in the founding and enlarging of
Radio Station KFUO, and in the purchase of the

Mr. Th. Lamprecht.

Neu-Zehlendorf Seminary for the Free Church of
Germany. ee
Since his retirement from active business h

spent much of his time traveling in foreign coun-
tries, partly for pleasure and partly to gain first
hand information about Lutheran work in others
lands and about the mission-fields of his Church.
At the time of his death, which was due to hea:
trouble, he was engaged in making a trip aroun
the world, planning to visit the mission-fields of=4
the Missouri Synod in India. But he was take:
severely ill shortly after leaving San Francisco. H

rested for a number of weeks in a hospital on CS

island of Java and was there advised by the Dutch’

physicians to go at once to the southern part offty

France. So his intended visit to India did not
materialize. Upon his arrival in Marseilles he was

met by a Swiss heart specialist, who sent him on toN)
Cannes, where death soon occurred. His widow,{

a,
Funeral services were held on Friday, May 18,04

who accompanied him on his trip, survives him.

upon arrival of the body in America. A memorial
service was held at Immanuel Church, New York,
Rev. Geo. Schmidt, pastor, on Monday evening,
May 21.

Mr. Lamprecht is no more among us, but the
works of this consecrated layman do follow him,
and his memory will long be blessed among us.

China’s Dire Plight.

Three years of short crops, followed by drought,
locusts, and the ravages of war, have blighted an area
the size of the State of Wisconsin, with a popula-
tion nearly equal to that of New York. The ap-
proaching harvest season will see almost no crops
harvested.

The future holds only despair.

The hungry are dropping by the roadside.
Each day records an increasing number of dead
from starvation. And to-morrow will be worse, and
the day after still worse.

Fathers are selling their children. Baby girls
are sold to the singsong houses for two dollars;
they even sell their sons for five and six dollars.
Little children are worth scarcely more than the
sparrows !

Some fathers are killing their children. Any-
thing to spare them from slow death by starvation!

Men and women and children are eating the
chaff from the cotton-seed and the bark from the
trees. And to-morrow — they will not eat that.

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