# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1928_S187 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. 187 A School in the Far North. — “Several hundred miles north of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, a school of thirty-three pupils, taught by a 1928 graduate of River Forest, was opened this fall, just fourteen months after the congregation had been organized. A new log house serves both church and school pur- poses.” (News Bulletin, Missouri Synod School Board.) This school is about 500 miles north of the uttermost boundary of our country. Genuine Gratitude. — A blind deaf-mute lady in England praises the goodness of God in a letter of appreciation for the Lutheran Herald for the Blind. She writes to the editor as follows: “Dear Sir: —I return to you my grateful thanks for send- ing me the Lutheran Herald for the Blind. I think it is lovely, and I do enjoy the reading of it, as I am deprived of hearing; but God is good to place His Word in my hand. Please accept my thanks.” — The Lutheran Herald for the Blind is published quarterly in Moon type. It is almost six months old and reaches approximately 250 blind people. To date the requests for copies have always exceeded the supply. — 0. C.S. An Extensive Inner Mission Work. — ‘The Nor- wegian Lutheran Church of América conducts nine homes for the aged, in which over 400 old people are given loving care. In the eight orphanages con- ducted by this body 860 homeless children were cared for last year. This synod has twenty-seven workers in twenty-one cities of our country carrying on the work of institutional missions in prisons, hospitals, and other places. This synod’s Board of Charities also cares for unfortunate children, housing, feeding, providing them with work, and schooling them. This board maintains a nursery in- Chicago and one in Brooklyn and conducts a summer camp at Spring Valley, N. Y. Last year the Home- finding Department took care of 498 children, among them seventy-four babies. In the three rescue homes of the synod 245 girls were cared for and, besides, 210 children. At the Lutheran Deaconess Hospital in Chicago forty-seven student-deacon- esses are in training. This hospital cared for almost * 6,000 patients last year. Another hospital is being maintained in Brooklyn. Judicious Locating of Churches. — Dr. Leamer, - president of the Iowa Synod of the United Lutheran - Church, is quoted as follows in the News Bulletin of the National Lutheran Council: “They [Lutheran churches in some Jowa communities] are not judi- ciously located, so as to meet the needs of the people. From where I now stand I can almost see a church that was begun some fifteen years ago with about twenty members. They have that to-day.