# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1931_S40
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

The department of the young people is super-
vised by the teacher of the second grade, Mr. Os-
borne Williams, and by Mrs. Mercedes Vanderhorst,
teacher of the beginners. The young people’s club
which they organized is meeting this Friday night.
We’d better stop in. Here comes Mr. Williams to
greet us. There I knew he’d ask you to give the
young people a talk. The lady surrounded by that
excited group of youngsters is Mrs. Vanderhorst.
She is teaching them to play a new game. She is
the sister of Pastor Wilfred Tervalon in Alabama.
Your talk was very encouraging.

You were highly interested in the work you saw
in our school to-day? I knew you would be. Yes,
our enrolment is very large. According to the last
statistical report of Executive Secretary Drewes our
school now holds the distinction of having the
largest enrolment in the mission.

The School Traffic Squad? Well, that is not

Mr. Robert Dixon. Mr. Aaron Wiley.

exactly new. We've had that since last year. It
became imperative for us to petition the police
authorities for permission to control the traffic at
the corner near the school. Both Washington and
Dryades are paved streets, and traffic comes from
three directions. An officer of the police depart-
ment trained our boys to hold up the vehicles until
our children have crossed the street, mornings,
noons, and afternoons.

Well, we have most certainly enjoyed your
week’s visit with us. We hope you will be able to
come to see us sometime again.

Good-by, and God bless you! A. Winey.

A Large Gift for Our African Mission.

Recently the following letter was received by
the treasurer of the Board for Colored Missions.
We are sure that our readers will rejoice to hear
that a mission which at this time is only con-

39

templated should command such liberal sonsidera-
tion. At this time the board has $7,000 at its
disposal for Africa, the colored Christians having
gathered $6,000.

Here is the letter: —

oatloooe » Mo., January 8, 1931.
Dear TREASURER : —

The enclosed draft in the amount of $1,000
mama is sending you as a contribution to the fund
the colored people of our Church are gathering to
carry on mission-work among their brethren in
Africa. Do not mention mama’s name, but simply
acknowledge this contribution as coming from “an
aged Christian lady.”

May God’s rich blessing rest upon this gift, so
that many heathen souls may be brought to eternal
happiness !

With hearty greetings from mother and me,

I remain, Yours very respectfully,

African Mission Once More.

Of course, our readers know that our Mission
Board has been casting about to see where best to

- open the contemplated African Mission. The desire

of those acquainted with the attitude of the various
ruling powers in Africa has always been that God
might open a door for us in some part of Africa
under British rule. This desire now seems to be in
the way of being fulfilled, in fact, has already been
fulfilled. A door has been thrown wide open for us
in British West Africa, and as it seems, it is a door
to a field that is white unto harvest. The Editor
read a letter sent to the board from this field, and
it is most touching in its insistence that we come
over and help them. He expressed his reaction to
the earnest plea in the words, “If God has ever
pointed out a mission-field to us and told us, ‘Go
there and preach the Gospel!’ He has certainly done
it in this case.” ‘The plea of these native African
Christians that we come to their rescue ends thus:
“Will you disappoint us? ... Come out fully, so
that our situation may be safe. ... Remember us
in your prayers, so that the Father may give us
courage to stand.... We want you to come over
and fill the gap for us.”

A committee has been appointed to study this
whole matter thoroughly. FP. J.L.