The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1888, Page 44

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44 The Lutheran Pioneer.

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Letter from New Orleans.

DeEar PIONEER: —

The Lutheran Church is, undoubtedly, grow-
ing in favor among the Colored people of this
city. The progress which is noted all. along
the lines of our Mission fields is the hest evi-
dence of this fact. The two new houses of
worship, the Bethlehem Chapel on Washington
Ave. and the St. Paul’s Church on Annette Str.,
both erected within the last six months, have
attracted considerable attention and set great
many of our Colored friends athinking. As a
consequence your Missionaries are preaching to
larger congregations, and applications for mem-
bership are of frequent occurrence. The schools
are well filled, some overcrowded, yet all in
good working order. The new laborers, quickly
adapting themselves to their new surroundings,
are working with an energy that will not fail
to bear abundant fruit.

_ The Mount Zion school at present can easily
seat 200 scholars, and before another month has
rolied around we shall have gathered them in
under the Gospel sound. The school now has
an Intermediate and a Preparatory department,
Mr. Vix being in charge of the former, and
Mr. Berkhalter presiding over the latter, using
the auditorium of the church for a class room.
An acquisition to our property here of a portion
of ground would greatly facilitate the discipline
of the children during recess. The yard is so
small that with 150 to 200 children it scarcely
affords comfortable standing place. Amusement
of any kind is out of the question. This should
be remedied. Some months ago there were
fifteen new accessions to the congregation, eight
of which were children. An equal number of
adults and children are now receiving cate-
chetical instruction preparatory to confirmation.

Thanks to the generosity and prompt re-
sponses of Mission friends in the bonds of fuith
the St. Paul station has been provided with a
church which for neatness, comfort, and seating
capacity leaves nothing to be desired. The
Sunday school with nine teachers and 116

scholars has plenty of room and to spare, and
50 has the congregation, but the members have
earnestly set about to fill the unoccupied seats
and have met with considerable success; at
present 7 children and 16 adults are being pre-
pared for baptism and confirmation. The school
has an attendance of 104 scholars, which is 24
more than the chapel can comfortably hold.
In the near future either an addition has to be
made to the chapel or a new building erected.
In the latter case the chapel could be utilized
for a preparatory department, which could be
filled with little ones on a short notice. If our
mission is to prosper we can ill afford: to send
@way every year 2 large number of children
that knock at our doors for Christian instruc-
tion. It is also bad policy to put our teachers
to work in small, poorly ventilated rooms like
‘our Chapel, and that among a class of children
that are not noted for cleanliness, and thus ruin
the health of the laborers in the midst of a

behind the older stations both as to member-
ship and church attendance, is alive and active.
The members of our church in Carrollton are
few but they are earnest christian workers,
faithfully proclaiming the deeds of Him, who
has called them. And what can not a few
earnest active christians accomplish through
Him who is mighty in the weak? The field is
a hard one, and so have other fields been, yet
the word preached in season and out of season
must eventually overcome and obtain the! vic-
tory. Mr. Joeckel opened his school with some
90 scholars, 12 of whom are receiving catechet-
ical instruction from the pastor.

ades, the youngest of our Missionary stations,
is fast growing both in*number and strength.
Scarcely six months old, yet the school in
charge of Mr. Rischow, has an attendance of
over one hundred children and .about as many
have been sent away for want of room. For ser-
vices, too, the Chapel is already too small, a
fact that should make every christian heart leap
for joy. Sixteen adults and fourteen children
are being prepared for confirmation. Now, as
the greatest portion of the school children at-
tend the divine services, but a few seats remain
for the throng of adult worshipers.

the shortest possible delay. A plain but spa-
cious building for school purposes must be
erected by the side of the chapel, the latter to
be used exclusively for church. Put in church
benches instead of the patent school desks and
the chapel will easily seat 200 people.

Lord richly blesses the work of his servants
here. Between 80 and 90 adults and young
people are receiving catechetical instructions
from the Missionaries preparatory to their ad-
mission into our church. Nearly 500 children
are being brought up in the nurture and ad-
monition of the Lord by our teachers. Indeed
the harvest is great. Lord} send more laborers,

ready to harvest.

great harvest. Hence, fellow christians, more| their three churches can only be reached by
and better rooms for our Colored Mission.

the sea in Summer and by the ice in Winter,

The missionary needs to be one of a thousand,

a man who can handle a boat and go to wind.
ward in a bad sea, who can plunge into an 7
opening between two fields of running ice and |
swim across as best he can. } He should be able

to face the snowstorm and freezing blast.2 He
should have some medical knowledge, for there

is no doctor on the islands. { He should be con-

ient to be cut off from all the amenities of social

life, for there are scarcely any above the fisher-

men class.’’? To crown all these hardships,

Mr. Chalmers has also suffered all the.discom-
fort of a damp and desolate house. ‘Work of]
this kind must be its own reward, ’and the
humble character of the sacrifice makes it all

the nobler. A man might readily give up ease

and life itself for a nation, where success or
failure would be almost equally glorious, but

few would have the true-heartedness to live and
labor almost unknown under inclement skies

far away from their country and their friends,
their sole joy that they are serving Christ.

Carrollton, though numerically somewhat

Bethlehem Chapel, on Washington and Dry-

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New Orveans, La.

EV. LUTIT. 8ST. PAUL’S CITAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services nt 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 7%
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday school from 2 to 4,
EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine petv ices at 74 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday
evening.
Sunday School mects at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 734 Tuesday evening.
N. J. Baxxe, Missionary.

This evil must be remedied, and that with

EV. LUTII. TRINITY CIURCIL.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CaRnoLtton.
Divine services at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 73
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
EV. LUTII. BETIMLENEM CITAPEL. ~,
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 73¢ o’clock Sunday evening and at 734
o’clock Thursday evening. é

Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
Ava. Bunoporr, MissionaRy. ,

From the above facts it is evident that the

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock & 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.

Divine service panaey evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School from 10—12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.

* G. AuLennacn, Missionary.

build us more barns, the fields are white al-

New Orleans, Oct. 25, ’88. Missionary.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church,
Springfield, Ills.
Sunday School at 2.30 r. x.
Divine Service ut 3.30 ». 1.
II. C. WyxrKrs, Missionary. _

In the Magdalen Islands.

Random critics who are fond of depicting
the easy and quiet life of the modern missionary
will’ be put to the blush, if it be possible, by
the work of the Rey. James Chalmers, who for

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tells us, these islands are ‘“‘cut off from all com-
munication with the main land by an impene-
trable barrier of pack-ice.’’ ‘Situated from
ten to twenty miles apart, the scattered flock
of some four or five hundred Protestants with

six years has been living a life of unselfish and 1Co
isolated work in the Magdalen Islands, at the 10 Coples

entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence from the 50 Mi a vi
Atlantic. For six months in the year, Dr. Forbes| inh rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent

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