The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1908, Page 54

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

as Immanuel College, and in the school and col-
legiate departments has at the present time a total
of one hundred and seventy students, instructed by
a faculty of five. ‘The work of Booker Washington
and his Tuskegee Institute is very widely advertised.
Here is one under Lutheran auspices, which, if not
so well known, is doing a most substantial and
valuable work for the negro and the Lutheran
Church.

Immanuel College had its origin in an effort to
supply negro ministers and: teachers to care for the
growing work of the Lutheran Church among the
colored people. of the South. ‘The object of the
‘school is to provide a liberal and practical training
for young men who intend to become pastors or
missionaries, and for gifted girls who desire to
teach their own race in Christian schools.

Those who are educated in a Lutheran atmos-
phere, and who have a training based on religious
principles, are certain to exercise a beneficial in-
fluence upon their race. Their superior Christian
knowledge will make them the instruments in help-
ing to solve the “race problem,” which occupies so
many minds.

Immanuel College is at once an educational,
inner mission, industrial as well as home mission
work, as is seen in the training which is given for
practical, industrial, as well as intellectual, social,
and spiritual betterment. The girls are organized
into sewing-classes and the boys are given manual
training of various kinds, and all are given that
which is the most important, a thorough training in
religion, based on the Bible and Luther’s Catechism.

The main building, which is built of granite,
with cement trimmings, would make a creditable
appearance on any campus. In addition, there is
a roomy dormitory for girls, all of which indicates
that something substantial is being done by the
Lutheran Church to help the negro to solve the race
problem for himself. No one else can do it. But
we can and should help him. Our prejudices should
not blind us to our own responsibilities, or lead us
to neglect our plain duty.

A Happy Old Woman.

Mr. Sheldon says he knew an old woman who

lost all that she possessed, but remained happy and -

contented. First she lost her money; then her
house was sold over her head; then she became de-
pendent upon the charity of the town; then she

then she lost her children, and at
But. she did not. lose

lost her health:
last: stood alone in the world.
her faith in her Savior and her trust in her heav-
enly Father.

A friend coming to see her was astonished to
find her so cheerful and happy and said, “Why, you
have lost your home, your husband, and your chil-
dren; you have lost all your money and your health.
How can you be satisfied ?”

With a happy smile the woman opened her New
Testament at IHebr. 13, 5 and read to her friend
the words there written: “Content with such things
as ye have; for Himself hath said, I will in no
wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake
thee.” ,

She lived by faith, and the loss of everything
temporal could not shake her trust in God. This
made her a happy old woman.

So A ee

Give the People a Chance to Give.

Under this heading an exchange says: “It fre-
quently happens that nothing is given by the people
because they are not instructed and have no oppor-
tunity to give. A pastor who had long been de-
terred from taking collections for missions, by the
want of interest evinced by the leading members of
his church, was finally induced to make the effort,
and was surprised to find that, as soon as his people
began to give money for missions, they began to
ask information about them, and when they had
given once they were ready to give again. [et any
pastor, no matter how indifferent or how poor his
church, give them a chance to give.”

The Best Persuasion.

A Christian soldier Jay dying in the hospital.
A visitor, wishing to learn to what church the sol-
dier belonged, asked him, “Of what persuasion
are you?”

“Persuasion!” said the dying man; and look-
ing toward heaven, he continued: “I am PERSUADED
that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor princi-
palities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things
to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other crea-
ture, shall be able to separate me from the love of
God which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.”

In the good providence of God apparent failure
often proves a blessing. — General Lee.