# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1931_S8 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 8 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER and the isolated stations in the Northern cities. He plans to continue residing in Greensboro, N. C., the seat of the Mission’s theological seminary. The Lutheran Teachers’ Conference of the Southeastern Field held a profitable meeting at Rockwell, N. C., November 28, 1930. Papers were presented by Prof. W. H. Beck of Immanuel Lu- theran College, Miss Addie McTier of Grace-Luther Memorial School of Greensboro, and Miss Hopia Kirkpatrick of Monroe, N. C. The work of Grace-Luther Memorial Church and School is showing commendable growth. The Sunday-school attendance frequently exceeds 200. The collections are now exceeding $100 a month. The day-school is being conducted by three expe- rienced teachers: Mrs. A. B. Johnson, Miss Addie McTier, and Miss Helen E. Mason. The last-named is a new teacher here and has already won the hearts of her coworkers. Pastor Lehman is conducting a confirmation class among the students of Im- manuel Lutheran College in addition to his other duties. The school of St. Luke’s, High Point, N. C., is being developed into a genuine Lutheran school. The pastor informs all parents who wish to send their children to this school that the school is main- tained to build the church and that it is desired to have every child who attends the school to grow up in the Lutheran Church. The pupils are re- quired to attend regularly the morning service and Sunday-school. Many of the children have been added to the church by Baptism, and all who are of sufficient age for confirmation either have been confirmed or are being prepared for confirmation. Five were confirmed last May, and a class of three is now being prepared for confirmation. J. E. SHUFELT. A Letter from China. Shasi, Hupeh, China, October 6, 1930. DEAR FRIENDS IN THE HoMELAND : — Greetings from Shasi! I has been a long time since our last news-letter went forth— June 4. Since that time much has happened, in fact so much that we hardly had time to write letters. : After June 4 it got one degree hotter each day until if reached over a hundred, and then we left for the mountain retreat at Kuling. We shall say nothing about China’s heat in this letter, for you ‘also had a most unusual and miserable summer. Your summer was similar to what we have every year here. For about two months straight the thermometer stays right about 100 during the day and 92 at night. On the mountains it was very nice this year. The weather was ideal, and we enjoyed our stay very much. At Kuling. During this time we were busy almost every day, until we left, with mission business, conferences, ete. Our General Conference meets but once a year, and that at Kuling. This year we again had a most blessed meeting. Much time was given to the dis- cussing of our seminary at Hankow. We really have the start of a fine school, and we pray God to bless it and Missionaries Zschiegner, McLaughlin, Theiss, and Riedel, who are doing the teaching. We also discussed the matter of ordaining native pastors. Missionaries’ Children in Kuling. The school-question was also discussed. The Chinese government has simply ordained that we may have mission-schools, but no religion dare be taught. Please pray that our precious schools may not have to be closed. It might be of interest to you to know that every mission, even though the church-body maintaining it does not have Christian day-schools in America, has one here. | It might also interest you to know that our dear Pastor Riedel and family have come back to China. Although some of the children are in their teens,” * nevertheless this pious family came back. Pastor Riedel is well founded in the language and is a won- derful asset to our mission. According to plans two new missionary couples landed at Shanghai. They are Pastors Buuck and Werling and their wives. May God bless their stay in China! We had hoped that one of them would be sent to Shasi, so that we would haye some one to counsel with, as they have at each of our other stations; but on account of disturbed political conditions it has been decided to keep them both in Hankow.