# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1931_S57
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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

to organize the young people. Mrs. Theiss, a uni-
versity graduate and a recreational worker before
her marriage, has kindly taken over the supervision
of these societies, and she has also gathered a num-
ber of boys into a choir, which has already proved
its ability to beautify the services.

With the help of twenty-five students of our
Concordia College at Oakland, Professor Theiss ex-
pects to conduct a canvass of the colored sections of
the city. Zion Congregation will also participate in
this. good work. It is expected that this canvass
will yield a number of prospects for the congrega-
tion and quite a number of prospective pupils for
the Sunday-school.

We were pleased to hear that this new mission
expects to send in regular contributions to the
treasurer of the mission board at an early date. The
members themselves have expressed their wish to do

Chapel at High Point, N.C.

this. This spirit of gratitude, so evident in the
members of this congregation, must be a source of
great joy to Professor Theiss and his kind wife and

fill them with deep satisfaction. It is a great sac-
rifice that the professor and his wife are bringing
for the cause of missions; but to see the apprecia-
tion with which their services are accepted by our
colored people must indeed be most gratifying to
them. May God richly reward them for their labor
of love! F.J.L.

Immanuel Conference.

This conference met for its winter session in
High Point, N.C., February 13 and 14. Several
papers were presented and discussed. Rev. F. Foard
read a paper on the subject “The Difference be-
_ tween the Lutheran Church and the Reformed

Churches in Spirit and in Practise”? It was

brought out that the Lutheran Church humbly

bows to the Word of God, not to human reason, and

that this spirit in doctrine also causes it to differ
mi the Reformed denominations in practise.

Rey. J. A. Hunt read a paper on “The Third
Article of the Augsburg Confession.” In connec-
tion with this paper the person and work of Christ

Rev. Fred Foard.

were discussed with much spirit. The discussion
was most interesting, instructive, and edifying.
The conference was very happy to welcome the
Director of Colored Missions, Rev. C. F. Drewes, in
its midst. He had come for several reasons; but

Rev. J. A. Hunt.

one main object of his visit was to interest the
brethren in the missionary .expansion movement
now in progress throughout the Synodical Con-
ference. A new missionary interest has. been
awakened among our people, and the conference