The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1910, Page 15

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The Lutheran ‘Pioneer! 15

ment, for instance, on the railroads and at the saw-
mills; and many, both men and women, work in the

Northern States much of the time. ‘Those at Yonk-,

ers, N. Y., are cared for by Pastor A. Von Schlich-
ten. Absence from home of one or the other of
the parents renders the right bringing up of the
children a difficult matter.

A number of older members are faithful in
attending services, and support the work with will-
ing hearts. Some younger ones are learning to
do so.

A very old member, Ann Taylor, is blind, and
has been quite helpless for some twelve years. She

* is cared for by members of our congregation. Her
children are not of our church and have given her
no help.

Our Board of Missions, unable to secure a reg-
ular, resident pastor for this station, has requested
me to serve it temporarily. November 20th of the
past year, I was introduced to the work and to the
people by Prof. Martin Lochner, of Greens-
boro, N. C. Since that day, I have preached at
St. Matthew’s every Sunday. I once administered
the Lord’s Supper there to twenty-seven communi-

* cants.

We have a number of children, and a school for
them is a chief necessity. For at least five years
they have had no good school. All are sadly un-
trained. November 29th I reopened the school,
and thirty-one were enrolled before Christmas. One
day was very rainy, and not a pupil came. Most
of them live one to two miles from the church and

school. Our people here, as elsewhere, have some
offenses and troubles because of sin; many are
weak. Pray for us! J.’S. Korner.

NOTES.

BELL AND Orcan NEEDED. — The hearts of the
members of our Colored Lutheran chureh at Mount
Pleasant, N. C., are made glad by the prospect of
soon getting their much-needed chapel for which
_ they have been working for some time. ‘The con-
tract-for the new chapel has been given, and the
work is expected to begin very soon. Jiverything,
we are told, is complete excepting a bell and an
organ. ‘These are still needed, and our people at
Mount Pleasant would be very thankful and their
joy would be increased if this need would be sup-
plied by the time the chapel is finished. Any dona-
tion to this end will be highly appreciated.

CoLorED Misstons.— Speaking of “Qutheran
Missions for Afro-Americans,” a writer in the
Luther League Review says: “The Evangelical
Lutheran Church of America has been slow in tak-
ing up missionary work among the colored popula-
tion. In the days ‘before the war’ many of our
Southern churches had balcony seats reserved for
the slaves, and counted slaves among their most
faithful members. Leading men in our Northern
churches used to say that it was utterly impossible
to train the emotional negro in accordance with
Lutheran custom, to indoctrinate him in Luther’s
Small Catechism; that he could never appreciate
the Lutheran type and cultus. The Missouri Synod
[Synodical Conference] has taken hold of the prob-
lem more vigorously than any other portion of our
Church and has proved, by her success; the fallacy
of the theory of the divines of a former generation
referred to above. May their example stir up all
the other synods to the great importance of doing
this missionary work at our very doors!”

CneERFUuL Givers.— The Rev. C. Wiebusch,
who is laboring as Lutheran missionary among the
native blacks on the western coast of Australia,
relates in his latest report that on a Sunday evening,
after the mission services of the day, a member of
the congregation of native Christians came to his
study, and declaring that he considered it his duty
to help support his pastor and teacher, laid some
money on the table and said to the missionary:
“Half of this. money for you, and half for the
teacher.” He told the missionary that this was
only the beginning, as he from now on would con-
tribute regularly every week a certain sum towards
the pastor’s and the teacher’s salary. He also told
the missionary that he considered it the duty of
the congregation to support the two young men
from the mission station who intended to prepare
themselves for mission work in church and school,
and that both matters should be laid before the
congregation for action. ‘The next morning an-
other member of the mission church, who had for-
merly, when asked for a contribution, always ex-
cused himself by saying, “I am too poor to give;

I can hardly clothe my family,” brought the mis-.

sionary a contribution towards the. pastor’s and
the teacher’s salary, saying that he would give more
later on.— These native -blacks of Australia are
not wealthy but poor men who have to work hard

to support their families. God’s Word has made |

them cheerful givers for the mission cause. Ap-