The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1913, Page 6

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6 ’ The Lutheran Pioneer.

days I have the pleasure of opening the door to
some wayward boy or girl who has decided to come
to us. By Christmas I hope to have fifty to sixty
on my roll.”

We sincerely hope that our good missionary’s
hopes may be fully realized. There was something
in the plain, simple little mission school which the
children and also their parents missed in the large,
fine, and well-equipped public school, and that was
the Gospel of Jesus. In this respect these colored
parents and their children showed a most commend-
able appreciation of the great value of a Christian
education. :

Missionary Thompson adds: “My church is a
new building, recently erected; the congregation is
very small and very poor. We have no bell and no
altar. Has your church, perhaps, one or the other
which it no longer needs? If you should have an
old bell or an altar which you no longer use, they
would be of great service to us here. We are not
begging your congregation for these, but if you have
them, and would like to see them be of some service,
please send them to us.”

The Editor is sorry to state that his congregation
is not the owner of an old altar or useless bell, but
perhaps some other congregation may be able to
help out. How is it?

Brief Items from the Colored Mission Field.

The school of our Bethlehem Station in New
Orleans has an enrollment of more than 250; the
new school in Carrollton, a suburb of New Orleans,
has 72 pupils. :

Immanuel College in Greensboro, N. C., has
86 students; Luther College in New Orleans has
36 students.

As Rev. Messerli accepted a call to a congrega-
tion in Ohio, the old pastor of Grace Church in
Concord, N. C., Prof. J. Ph: Schmidt, is in charge
till a new pastor can be secured. Shortly before
Rey. Messerli left, this charge was made the happy
recipient of an organ for the church. The kind
donor was Mr. Andrew Werling of Ossian, Ind.,
who in time past has furnished organs for a number
of our mission churches and schools in North Caro-
lina. God bless this friend for his unselfish kind-

ness to our poor, struggling congregations!

For the sixteenth time that noble unknown sup-
porter of our Colored Mission came to the Treasurer
with a gift of $500.00. Again and again has this

friend come to the rescue of our depleted treasury
with his gifts. May God, who seeth in secret, re-
ward him openly for his love to the Kingdom!

Field Secretary Bal:ke, who, was seriously in-
jured in a runaway November 8, while on an official
visit to Mansura, La., after lying in a hospital at
New Orleans for several weeks, was able to go to
his home in Cincinnati shortly before the holidays.
May God enable him soon to enter upon his work
again!

The lwo professors of Luther College, the Messrs.
Wilde and Meibohm, have opened a new mission in
New Orleans, the third one in 1912. ‘The new sta-
tion is about two miles from St. Paul’s Station,
and there is no Colored church in the neigh-
borhood. or the present the work is being con-
ducted in two rented rooms. Miss Sophie Raymond,
a graduate of Luther College, has charge of the
school. Sunday-school and services are regularly
held. An organ is lacking, —a fine chance for a
friend of our mission to make himself useful !

Rev. G. M. Kramer, of our Bethlehem Mission
in New Orleans, sent the following good news to the
Mission Board on December 8: “As a Christmas
present to the Mission Board our congregation voted
last night to increase the monthly contribution to
the mission treasury from $40.00 to $45.00 a month,
beginning with January. We appreciate what the
Mission Board and, through it, our fellow Lutherans
are doing for us, and we realize that with the open- .
ing of new mission stations the treasury has as-
sumed additional burdens; and it is our desire to
help carry this burden. With the help of God we
hope to be able soon to follow with another increase
after we have caught our breath a little more from
the repair work of the past summer.” — This is
certainly a fine Christmas present, and the Editor
is sure that the Mission Board highly appreciates it.
It is a little late now for Christmas presents, but
the Editor is sure that presents of a like nature
from other missions would be just as welcome, even
if they were made in January or February. How
would it be if all our stations would make an earnest, °
strenuous effort along this line? This would be
the most practical and convincing way of showing
appreciation for what has been done by the Mission
Board for our Colored congregations.

On Sunday, September 15, three adult members
were added to Bethlehem, New Orleans, by the rite
of Confirmation.

Our mission in Mount Pleasant, N. C., -Rev.
John Alston, repaired its school last summer. ‘The