# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1933_S108 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 108 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER e3500V3Re0e[NRjTTYl#z“Tranan=#s=s=q#NwO@wvoOWwOwOoOoOoOo——OooOoeeeeeeoeoeoeoeoeoeoeoqoqo®«>«®$«<—sS—S— DC “Indians; 3) cleanliness and neatness of clothes 2 4) study and work in and out of school. A word about skin disease and head lice. Espe- cially at the beginning of the school-year we find most of the children afflicted with both. The ma- tron makes these conditions so unpopular that towards the end of the school-year, if any of the girls are still infected with either, they are so ashamed that they gladly do anything to get rid of them. The little black girl with the cropped head of hair kneeling at the left of the picture came to me and complained that her head was covered with lice. She had tried kerosene to get tid of them, but it did not help, and her scalp was scalely, too. I looked her over, took her out under a tree, and cut all her hair off close to her head. Her hair was one nest of nits. She enjoyed the operation, however, and laughed with the girls when they saw her. @ This will give you a little picture of these girls and their life. The more one deals with them, the more one learns about them. Will we ever learn to understand them fully? Trivandrum, India. GERTRUDE STELTER. Items of Missionary Interest. (By the Eprror.) Montgomery, Ala. — This city has a large col- ored population. Some years ago we began work here, but later were forced to discontinue operations. We hope that the intended thorough investigation of the situation may encourage the Board to take up the work there again. Spartanburg, N.C. — The pastor at Spartan- burg, Rev. W. Hart, married the teacher of his school, Miss Sophie Shelton. God bless them! Immanuel Lutheran College, Greensboro. — This school will graduate five ministerial candidates this year: Messrs. Lester Charles, Rockefellow Jenkins, Theodore Johnson, Lucius H. Means, and Brice L. Thompson. A member of our Chester, Illinois; congregation financed the education of Theodore Johnson. Should these young men not be placed for lack of funds, they will return to the college for a year’s post-graduate work. — Immanuel College also graduated five students from _ the Normal Department. 3 “Bakke Memorial Fund.” — More than ten years 8g0 a number of congregations in the Ala- bama Field started this fund to erect some kind of a memorial in memory of Pastor Bakke. We understand that it has decided to place a plaque in his honor and memory in Immanuel Lutheran College at Greensboro. This seems an eminently happy decision. Ibesikpo, Nigeria, Africa.— Our Board con- tinues to get insistent calls from the people living there who have organized themselves into the United Lutheran Church of Ibesikpo. Our Board has sent them Catechisms and tracts in considerable quantity, and these good people have acknowledged the receipt of this material with every token of gratitude. They are conducting their own schools without any outside help and have one school with eight teachers, which costs them 300 pounds sterling a year. In addition to this large school they have eighteen village schools, with thirty teachers. But what these poor people are looking forward to is a visit by a representative of our Board. They are convinced that such a visit would mean much to them and would also open our eyes to see the promising nature of the field that they are trying to occupy with the meager means they control. Whose heart does not go out in sympathy to these people calling for help! A Southerner’s Appeal. — “Our forefathers wanted laborers. To supply them, the slaver sailed. He bore no cross, he carried no light, when he came to Africa and entered that land of darkness and death. Instead, he brought the yoke. Men, women, and children were gathered in gangs. The lifeless bodies of the weak marked the path through the forests and grass to the coast. The dead swirled in the wake of the slave-ships returning to our shores. Those who lived became our slaves. They worked our fields; they carried our burdens. War came. And the children of those who had been stolen and dragged from their homes cared for our homes and protected and supported our defenseless mothers, wives, sisters, and children while the men were away to the front. Great is our debt to them. God help us pay! The debt grows greater when a Negro, un- taught by love, commits a crime. The fault, the sin, ts ours! Father in heaven, help that Thy chil- dren do not stand idly by while men prey upon the weakness of those to whom we owe so much! Ten millions and more are at our doors! What have you done for the Negro? Christ died for him. What will you do? Were and there a faithful few are giving their hearts and lives to help lift this race. But you-—never have you done your share. You should. In God’s name begin to-day.”