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The Lutheran Pioneer.

housewives here know so well how to make. Supper
over, a few minutes with the man of the house, and
then back to work, preparing lessons for the next
day, getting a sermon ready for Sunday, preparing
the Sunday-school lesson, and studying for the wel-
fare of the congregation, is the daily routine. It
is quite a load for a young inexperienced man.
But under all these trying circumstances may God
bless my labor in this important mission field !”

New Onteans.— From Zhe Southern Lutheran
we take the following statistical report of our three
colored Lutheran congregations in New Orleans for
the year 1911: Souls, 766; communicant members,
$22; voting members, 52; day schools, 3; teachers,
8; uppers 492; Sunday-school pupils, : 327; bap-
tized, 41; confi rmed, 28; communicants, 624; mar-
riages, 8; burials, 15.

Lirrte Rock. — Our mission station at Little
Rock, Ark., still enjoys the faithful services and
self-denying labor of the Rev. A. Poppe, pastor of
our German Lutheran congregation in that city and
editor of The Arkansas [atheran. In a recent issue
of the paper he writes of his work among the col-
ored Lutherans: “The year of 1911 has been a year
of progress in the negro mission work. The editor
had the work of instructing a class, and the pleasure
of confirming six pupils, ranging in ages from 60
down to 14. May God bless the cause and give
them their own pastor in due time!”

A Mosr Important Task. — Speaking of the
needs of the colored people, a Southern editor
writes: “It seems to us that a most important task
in caring for the colored people is the training of
faithful negro ministers. ‘There are thirty thou-
sand negro ministers in the United States, only
ten per cent. of whom: have been trained for their
work. ‘There are twenty-seven thousand untrained
negro ministers, upon whom has devolved the lead-
ing of ten million people less than fifty years re-
moved from slavery.”

A Tempest’s Work.—In 1861, a group of
Polynesian Christians were blown away from their
homes 1,800 miles, and were finally washed up on
the shores of the Ellice Islands, which they sect to
work to evangelize. Last year the contributions to
missions of the Christians on these islands amounted
to $1,650.00.

BOOK TABLE.

LENTEN PRAYERS. From “Meditations and Contem-
plations on the Sufferings of Our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ,” by J. J. Rambach. Compiled by Rev.
R. W. Huebsch. Concordia Publishing House, St.
Louis, Mo. Price, 35 cts.

A compilation of prayers for the Lenten season, avail-
able not only for publie services, but also for private edi-
fication, and helpful to all that heed the Lenten call to
holy meditation on the sufferings of the Savior. The
little volume of 40 pages is neatly bound in special black
cloth, with gold stamp on front cover,

“Acknowledgments

Received for Colored Missions from the following con-
Beth-

gregatior
Iehem, N
leans, I

s: St. James, Southern Pines, N. C., $5.00;
y Orleans, La., 40.00;, Mount Zion, N
50.00; St. Paul, New Orleans, La., &
Grace, ncord, N. C., 7.00; Mount Calvary, Sandy Ridge,
N. C., ; Bethany, Yonkers, N. Y., 11.00; Bronx Mis-
sion, New York, N.Y., 2.00; St. Matthew, Meherrin, Va.,
2.87; St. John, Salisbury, N. C., 5.00; Zion, Gold Hill,
N. C., 3.00; Concordia, Rockwell, N. C., 2.50; Mount
Zion, Rocks, N. C., 3.00; Station in Napoleonville, La.,
14.78; St. Paul, Mansura, La., 5.00; St. Paul, Charlotte,
N. C., 8.50; Bethel, Greenville, N. C., 4.00; Bethlehem,

Monroe, N. » 2b Grace, St. Louis, Mo., 2.00; Grace,
Greensboro, N. C., 3.— Total, $219.63.
St. Louis, Mo., February 16, 1912.
H. L. DorEveERtern, T'reas.

848 E. Prairie Ave.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.

St. Paul's Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.;
Ed. Schmidt, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 a. at. and 7.30 r.3t; Wednes-
day, 7.30 P.M.
Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11] a. xf. and 7.30 Pp. a.;
day, 7.30 P.M.
Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.;
G. M. Kramer, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. a. and 7.30 rv. at.; Thurs-
day, 7.30 pr. Mt. Sunday-School: Sunday, 10 a. at.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Thurs-

Holy Trinity Church.

Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 a. ar. and 8 P. x.

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