The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1907, Page 8

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

Twenty-Five Years in the Mission.

On the first Monday in December of the year
1881, Mr. E. R. Vix entered upon his duties as the
first parochial schoolteacher in our Lutheran col-
ored mission.. Those were pioneer days for the
mission. ‘There was only one preaching station,
and that was located at New Orleans in what was
known as the old Sailors’ Home. The Rev. Bakke,
now professor in Immanuel College at Greensboro,
N. C., was in charge, with Mr. E. R. Vix as his
assistant. If these two men could be prevailed
upon to publish their experiences at the Sailors’
Home station, it would ‘make very interesting
reading. As it is, however, the reader will have to
content himself with learning that after a few
years of the hardest kind of up-hill work the con-
gregation and school were transferred from Sailors’
Home to the present site of Mount Zion Station.
In the course of time the Rev. Bakke was sent to
North Carolina with instructions to open up new
fields, but Mr. Vix remained at his post, and he has
been there ever since. The congregation has had
many ups and downs during the last twenty-five
years owing to frequent vacancies. But Mount
Zion School prospered all the while because Mr. Vix
was there holding the fort. His activity and his
influence have been of inestimable value to the
station. He has had from 50 to more than 100
children under his care for the last twenty-five
years. Most of these children would never have
known that a Savior bled and died for them if
they had not heard it at our school. Many of them

are intelligent and active members of the congre-"

gation to-day, and many will perhaps not be heard
from until on Judgment Day they arise and bear
testimony to the faithful and fruitful labor of
Mr. Vix.

On Sunday, December 2, 1906, Mount Zion
Congregation publicly celebrated the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the appointment of their beloved
teacher. Hymns, prayers, and a sermon appro-
priate for the occasion made up the service, which
was followed by the presentation to Mr. Vix of a
beautiful Morris chair as an evidence of the affec-
tion felt for him by the congregation.

All well-wishers and lovers of our mission will
join us in praising God for His gracious blessing
bestowed upon Mr. Vix and through him upon us.
May the good Lord continue to prosper the work
of His servant for the welfare of many immortal
souls’ and to the glory of His kingdom !

K. KRETZSOHMAR.

BOOK TABLE.

Tue Anrmcep Treasury oF Prayers. American Lutheran
Publication Board, Pittsburg, Pa. Price, 30 ets.; gilt,
50 ets.

A_charming little book, well printed and tastefully
bound. It will prove a handsome and very useful gift-
book, especially for eatechumens on Confirmation Day. It
contains morning and evening prayers and prayers for al-
most every need and occasion, to which are added a num-
ber of appropriate hymns. The prayers are selected from
the well-known larger “Treasury of Prayers” which was
published by Concordia Publishing House many years ago
and which has become a household book in our Lutheran
families.

HANDBUCIL FUER DEN ERSTEN SELBSTUNTERRICIIT IN GoT-
TEs Wort. Von OC. M. Zorn, Pastor der ev.-luth. Zions-
gemeinde zu Cleveland, Ohio. Concordia Publishing
House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, $1.00.

An eminently practical book. It is a book for “self-
instruction” in the Scriptural doctrines of the Chureh,
which are very ably set forth on the basis of Bible story
and Catechism, in simple language and in plain and direct
style. It is well adapted to ground and confirm its readers
in the truths of God’s Word, and to enable them to give
reason of the hope that is in them. The book will also
prove helpful and suggestive to pastors and missionaries
for the instruction of such as are to be confirmed or re-
ceived into the congregation.

Acknowledgment.

Received for Colored Missions from Zion Church, Gold
Hill, N. C., $5.00; from Concordia Church in Rockwell,
N. C., 3.00; from St. Paul’s Church in New Orleans, La.,
35.00; from Grace Mission in St: Louis, Mo., 5.00; from
Mount Zion Church in New Orleans, La., 35.00; from Beth-
lehem Church in New Orleans, La., 25.00; from St. Paul’s
Church in Mansura, La., 10.00; from Grace Church in Con-
cord, N. C., 10.00; from Mount Calvary Church in Sandy
Ridge, N. C., 15.00; from St. Paul’s Church in Charlotte,
N. C., 5.00; from Bethlehem Church in Monroe, N. C., 2.50.

St. Louis, Mo., December 15, 1906.

A. C. Buraporr, 7'rcas.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.
NEW ORLEANS, LA. °
St. Paul's Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.; F. J. Lan-
kenau, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 Pp. M.; Wednesday,

30 P. M.
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts. ; K. Kretzschmar, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 Pp. M.; Thursday,
30 P.M.
Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10 A. M. and 7.30 rp. M.; Thursday,

7.30 P.M.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Holy Trinity Church; L. E. Thalley, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 A. M. and 8 P. 31.

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