# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1933_S72
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

Chapel at Lamison, Alabama.

peated his visits and is trying to get his family to
come with him. — Our Buffalo mission last month
received two new members by baptism and three
by confirmation. Since the dedication of the new
chapel this congregation has almost trebled its
membership. — Pastor McDavid of Los Angeles
made over two hundred bedside visits at various
institutions last month. He reports that none of
his members were injured in body or property
during the recent earthquake, neither was the
church property damaged.— Our Cincinnati mis-

sionary, Pastor O. Rau, is finding
many unchurched patients in the
hospital which he visits regularly.
— At a recent money-barrel open-
ing in Trinity, Springfield, Illinois,
the twenty barrels opened yielded
the handsome sum of $22.66. With
the money thus realized the last in-
stalment for street-paving was paid.
The Sunday-school’s average atten-
dance has increased from thirty-
nine to forty-one. Efforts are being
made to bring in the children in
the neighborhood of our chapel who
are attending no other school.

There are 410 Negro Presby-
terian churches with approximately 23,000 members
scattered throughout the South and sixty-seven
churches in the North and West.

The total Negro population of our country at
present is about 12,000,000. There has been an in-
crease of Negroes from 1920 to 1930 of only 5 per
cent. in the South, but the North has increased
64 per cent. and the West 53 per cent. In four
Southern States there was an actual decrease. Dur-
ing the same period twenty-four of our important
cities showed an increase in Negro population of

St. Philip’s Church, St. Louis. -