# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1929_S38
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. 37

presentation of a gift to each of them. The pastor
received a beautiful pulpit gown, and Student
Robinson was given an elegant morocco Student’s
Bible. Both gifts are greatly appreciated, since
they are very useful.

The sweet strains of the Christmas songs had
hardly died away when our congregation was
stricken with great sorrow. News came to us that
Mr. Rudolph Berger, a founder and charter member

of our church, had passed away on December 29, at
the ripe age of nincty-seven years, in Alexandria,

triumphant song of hope and victory was the song
of the deceased in life and in the hour of death.
Interment was made in our church cemetery. We
sorrow, but we sorrow not as those who are without
hope. We laid the body to rest until the day of resur-
rection, when it shall rise and, reunited with his
soul, meet his Lord.

May the Lord of all grace and comfort cheer and
comfort the mourners through the mercy which is
in Jesus Christ!

Lutherville, La. C. P. THomrson.

After Services

where he lived with his son, Rev. E. R. Berger,
pastor of Augustana Lutheran Church. He was
loved and honored by all who knew him during his
life. He was a devout Christian and an exemplary
father. He was one of the first to welcome the
Lutheran Church into his community, and one of
the first to become a member of the mission founded
there. He was always ready to help his Church,’ not
only with his earthly means, but also by giving two
of his sons to the service of the Church, the Rev.
E. R. Berger, of Alexandria, La., and Teacher
A. Berger, of St. Paul’s, New Orleans. He leaves
three sons and three daughters and a large num-
ber of grand- and great-grandchildren to mourn
his death.

The funeral service was held on the following
day at his home church in Lutherville. The under-
signed based his funeral address on Rom. 8, 38. 39.
This text was chosen because the Apostle Paul’s

at Lutherville.

Immanuel Lutheran College Chronicle.

According to a ruling recently adopted students
in the Theological Department, to receive help from
the Mission Board, must maintain an average of
‘eighty per cent. in their studies.

According to statistics compiled by the North
Carolina Department of Education, Immanuel, with
seventy-six per cent. of last year’s graduates enrolled
in higher institutions, ranks first among the private
high schools in North Carolina and third among the
public high schools.

The students observed Negro History Week,
February 4—8, with a daily program during the
chapel period (10.00—10.45 4. wf.), consisting of
an essay, an oration, a musical selection, a recitation
of one of Dunbar’s poems, and the singing by the
student-body of the Negro National Anthem. The
titles of some of the renditions were: “The Negro in