The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1913, Page 37

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'The Lutheran Pioneer.

God Bless and Reward Them!

In these days of the colored man’s struggle for
religious and educational advancement, it is cheer-
ing, to say the least, to learn that a number of our
white Lutheran brethren, pastors of congregations,
administer to the spiritual wants of the ‘colored
people, and thus assist them in their hard struggle,
whenever opportunity affords it.

The Rev. Enno Duemling, City Missionary at
Milwaukee, is no respecter of persons, but wherever
in the public institutions he finds churchless colored
‘people, he offers them his pastoral service, and
shows them the way to salvation through faith in
Christ.

Rev. Paul Schulz, at Cincinnati, found in the
City Hospital a colored woman, Goldie ‘Taylor, who
in her infancy had been baptized in the Lutheran
church at Springfield, Ill. He visited her fre-
quently, instructed her in God’s Word, and admin-
istered to her the Lord’s Supper. She died in the
Lord, and was given a Christian burial by him.

Rev. IF. Kroencke, also at Cincimnati, preaches
regularly to the colored people at the City Infirmary.
He has 34 hearers, who receive the Word preached
gladly.

Rev. F. £. Villy, at Long Island, N. Y., has had
colored people in his church for years. At present
he has nine members under his pastoral care.

Rev. A. I. Poppe, at Little Rock, Ark., has
been supplying the remnant of our once prosperous
church in that city.

Well done, brethren! God bless and reward you
for the services you render to our colored people!
Will not ethers copy the example of these brethren ?

N. J. Bakker.

News from the Colored Mission Field.

Froat THe Yran-Book or THE Missourt SYNop
ror 1912 we take the following items concerning
our Colored Mission : —

The Colored Mission of the Synodical Confer-
ence numbered 37 congregations and substations at
the end of 1912: 21 in North Carolina, 7 in Loui-
‘siana, 3,in Mississippi, 1 in Virginia, 1 in Arkansas,
1 in Tllinois, 2 in Missouri, and 1 in New York.
The work was carried on by 46 persons: 13 white
missionarics and professors, 12 colored missionarics,
+ white and 10 colored male teachers, 4 colored fe-
male teachers, and 3 student helpers. The mission

has 2,266 baptized and 975 communicant members.
The parochial schools are attended by 1,739 chil-
dren, and the Sunday-schools by 1,229 pupils.
2.439 communed during the year, 96 were baptized,
126 confirmed, 25 couples married, and 42 persons
buried. Immanuel College at Greensboro, N. C.,
has 3 professors, 1 assistant teacher, and 55. stu-
dents; Luther College at New Orleans has 2 pro-
fessors and 36 students. Most of the professors
are also engaged in preaching besides doing their
regular school-work.

In 1912, the total receipts amounted to
$33,556.06; of this amount $2,694.48 was contrib-
uted by the colored congregations, and $269.30 came
in by way of tuition. The German mission monthly,
Die Missionslaube, with its 25,000 subscribers, was
able to turn into the mission fund the sum of
$2,480.11, while Tie PIoNEER, with its 5,700 read-
ers, only netted $174.39 for the mission treasury.

Rev. L. W. ANDERSON, our missionary along the
Gulf Coast of Mississippi, writes: “Our school in
Gulfport is well attended, but it is very difficult to
get the children to come to Sunday-school.” No
doubt, this is a somewhat discouraging state of
affairs, but patient work will gradually bring about
a change, and the pupils of the day-school will also
become scholars of the Sunday-school.

Our THREE NEW SCHOOLS IN NEW ORLEANS are
making good progress. No less than 134 pupils are
enrolled in these schools, though they have not been
opened more than a few months. ‘The school in
Carrollton actually has more pupils than one teacher
ean ’satisfactorily instruct.

OUR MISSION WORKERS IN Nortit CaRoLina are
earnestly considering the opening of missions at
Winston-Salem, ‘Kennersville, and Wilmington,
N. C., and the extension of the work into South
Carolina, where the colored population is very dense.

Rey. C. P. THoMPsoON, our missionary at Green-
ville, N. C., writes: “We feel grateful to the Mis-

sion Board for all it has done and still does for us,

and shall, therefore, endeavor to do all we can.
Next Sunday (April 6), God willing, four adults
and one youth will be confirmed, and also two
children will be baptized. A few months ago Bethel
was made the happy recipient of a beautiful com-

munion set and baptismal font by the congregation —

of Rey. Aug. Buuck, Wren, 0.” He also. reports
that his school has an enrollment of 60 pupils.

Rev. Joux McDavip, of Charlotte, N. C.,

writes: “The past quarter has been a very pros-