The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1912, Page 68

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The Lutheran Pioneer. ,

REV. ALBERT 0. FRIEDRICH,
Installed as Pastor of Mount Zion, New Orleans.

potted palms. Programs for this particular occa-
sion were also on hand. In short, congregation,
Luther League, Senior and Junior choirs, and the
Reunion Committee had left no stone TELAT
to make the day one of success.

Rey. H. H. Hartmann, of Christ Church, was

REV. EMIL H. POLZIN,
Pastor of Colored Lutheran Church, Meherrin, Va.

the chosen orator. The sermon was a clear-ringing,
Gospel-true, and magnificent piece of Lutheran
pulpit oratory. The audience that crowded into
the sacred edifice was a loud and splendid testimony
of the hard and earnest work of the Reunion Com-
mittee and others. 348 people in a mission church!
Friend, do you want to fill your church? Stop
idle talk, put your shoulder to the wheel,
stand by your pastor, and go to work as this com-
mittee did.
The next
picnic.
marking

your

great event was the Sunday-school

lt took place on the 21st of June, also
the closing of

school for the summer.

CANDIDATE LOUIS POLLERT,
Teacher-Elect of Bethlehem School, New Orleans.

The Sunday-school. teachers and our old friends,
Mr. and Mrs. Rousseau, took the children up in the
trolley-cars, collected the funds, saw to it that
cream, cakes, and lemonade did not run short, and
otherwise attended diligently to every want of the
children. Not a single complaint was made. ‘The
day passed quietly and enjoyably. Of course, Uncle
Bob went up for a couple of hours to chat with
the old folks, sample the good things on hand,
and to enjoy himself in general. A goodly number
of older folks spent a day of rest under the shady
oaks of beautiful Audubon. ‘Then, again, Uncle
Bob was interested in the ball game between the
Slugs and Bugs, significant names for pent-up
energy, between which two teams there existed the