# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1928_S117
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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be honest — I learned these wonderful truths in the
Lutheran Church.” The man referred to is a leader
in a sectarian church, leader of the choir in a local

New Chapel in Mobile, Ala.

congregation, and also teaches and preaches in his
church at intervals. There is a large number of
other cases of this kind which might be reported,
eases which show that hundreds of others not in-
cluded in our membership lists have learned to
know about Jesus and Tis love through the glorious
work of our Lutheran Church here in the Black Belt.

Let me mention another case, similar to the one
just related. Two weeks ago we buried an active
member of one of our churches. When this member,

all just watch and see how lovingly ‘them’ Lutherans

will take care of that member of theirs.” She
added with emphasis: ““Them’ Lutherans take
care of their sick; yes, they do.” When this

member of our Church died, among the 180 people

Alabama Colored Mission Chapel and School.

at the funeral was the minister of a large sectarian
church. I was informed that he had come again to
see how “beautifully” Lutherans conduct a funeral
service and to get material for a sermon for use in
his own church. Thus people who are not members
of our Church learn to know Scripture and proper
Christian practise. Many sectarian preachers are
influenced for good through the work of our Lu-
theran Church and are offering better sermons to
their people.

Congregation at Kings Landing, Ala.

a woman, was brought to the hospital to be operated
on, it was soon found out by other patients in the
same ward that she was a Lutheran. Said an elderly
woman, familiar with the care our sick members
received, to other patients in that ward: “Now you

In quite a number of communities where no
Sunday-school had been conducted at all or, at least,
only spasmodically, this work was pushed energetic-
ally when the Lutheran Church began its work
there. So the membership list above, though the