# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1930_S119
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

Rev. John Thompson.

Pastor C. P. Thompson, the pastor of St. Paul’s and
also a child of the congregation, ordained the three
young men, assisted by Pastors Berger and Wild-
grube.

Rey. C. P. Thompson celebrated the twentieth
anniversary of his ministry on the same day in a

Rev. C. P. Thompson and Family.

special service held in the evening. The Rev. E. H.
Wildgrube, of New Orleans, delivered the sermon.
Two days after his anniversary, Rev. Thomp-
s0n’s wife presented him with a healthy son.
FE. J. L.

Deaf Mission News from Cleveland, O.

In June we were pleased to greet in Cleveland
Pastor E. Witte, the new member of our Board of
Missions for the Deaf and Blind. Pastor Witte
stopped here on his way to the English District
convention in Akron. Together we looked over some
property in Cleveland which we think suitable for
our purposes as a parish-house for the Cleveland
deaf. For many years the Cleveland deaf have
been sadly in need of a place of worship of their
own. We are attempting to arrange for the pur-
chase of the property without any or, at least, with-
out great expense to our board. May the Savior
bless our endeavors!

The local sign-language deaf and speech-readers
are planning their annual outing in June. After
an address by the missionary and a brief instruction
class the members will amuse themselves in various
ways.

Thirty-six adult deaf attended our service in
May in Findlay, O.

It may be of interest to the friends of Lutheran
missions for the deaf and the blind to learn that
our German Braille quarterly now has grateful and
interested readers in the United States, Germany,
Switzerland, Denmark, France, Russia, Poland, Ru-
mania, Hungary, Austria, and Palestine. May these
new deaf-blind and blind friends learn to know and
to praise with us the name of the blessed Savior!

Among many others, some deaf and sightless
German women living in Erfurt, Germany, this
week informed us: “Your Braille quarterly is
highly appreciated, and we are very happy to re-
ceive it. Please continue sending it to us.”

The first Lutheran tract in Spanish Braille has
been sent to libraries and associations for the blind
in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Mexico.
We hope that some afflicted fellow-men also in these
countries will be led to the knowledge of Jesus
through this agency. If-the deaf-blind and blind
in these countries welcome our tracts, we shall send
them additional literature.

The Lutheran Herald in Moon type is also gain-
ing new friends with every issue. A missionary of
the Indigent Blind Visiting Society of London,
England, recently wrote: “I am writing on behalf
of a woman who is totally deaf and blind and an
inmate of one of our institutions in East London.
She is a very intelligent lady and reads all the
literature I manage to secure for her, but desires,
most of all, Christian literature. She reads the