# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1930_S7
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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. 7
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There are but two grades in Luther Preparatory
School — the eighth and the ninth. The faculty be-
lieves, however, that the tenth should be added. In
this the conference concurs. Accordingly, a resolu-
tion has been sent to the Board of Colored Missions,
accompanied by a memorial requesting the board to
consider the advisability of adding the tenth grade
next term.

The student-body, according to Director Luecke’s
report, is an earnest, hard-working, well-behaved lot
of youngsters — boys and girls.

Conference adopted a report of the Sunday-
school convention committee. This committee had
been appointed at the convention at Alexandria last

Our Luther Conference in Louisiana.

Seated (left to right): Rev. O. Luecke, Chairman.

permanent, attendance compulsory, and grading
and records are to be kept.

Interesting reports were made by the mission-
aries. They told of their activities, progress, and
particular difficulties. Conditions at Napoleonville
seem to dictate the abandonment of the field.
According to the report of Missionary Kramer, the
town is “dead.” Many of the colored inhabitants,
failing to find employment and sustenance, have
“folded their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently
stolen away.” All efforts on the part of numerous
missionaries to gather a congregation, with many
years of a “labor of love,” have apparently been
fruitless.

PRITZLAFF MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Rev. G. M. Kramer, Superintendent. — Standing (front

row): Osborne Williams, Wm. B. Seeberry, J. Andrew Seraile, Aaron Wiley, Peter Robinson, Rev. C. Thompson,
Rey. E. H. Wildgrube, Teacher A. Berger, Rev. E. R. Berger, Louis Hamilton. — Rear row: Mrs. Dora Allen,
Mrs. Carrie Taylor, Miss E. Dotson, Miss Bernice Craig, Mrs. M. Vanderhorst, Miss J. Jenkins, Miss Alice Robinson.

summer to devise a plan looking toward an annual
convention of the Louisiana Sunday-schools.

A discussion of the means of better and more
thorough instruction in the Catechism led to the
adoption of a plan by which all our teachers will be
afforded an opportunity to become more proficient
in teaching all religious subjects in our schools. The
teachers will be required to attend a teachers’ relig-
lous institute at a given time during every summer.
’ Methods of teaching Bible History, Catechism, and
kindred subjects will be given. There will also be
lectures, class exercises, and discussions. ‘The in-
structors will consist of the pastors and the experi-
enced teachers of the field. The institute is to be

Missionary Wildgrube made an encouraging
report of his efforts to revive interest in Paillette
Land, a suburb of New Orleans, where a few years
ago a school had been opened, but since then closed.
The brother was advised to make a thorough canvass
of Paillette Land, with a view to reopening the
school and starting church-work.

The convention reached a happy climax in a ser-
vice on Sunday night, December 1. The balmy,
springlike weather which had ushered in the first
day of conference had departed, and in its place
a cold, bitter northwind had descended and was
howling around the little chapel. Nevertheless, the
seating capacity of Concordia was taken. The ser-

CONCORDIA SEMINARY
ST. LOUIS, MO.