The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1914, Page 30

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

Brief Notes from.Eastern North Carolina.

We are moving on nicely down here. I opened
school in Fayetteville on the 5th of January. We
have enrolled 60 scholars, with a daily attendance
of 50 children, from the a-b-c class to the seventh
grade. - We also have a good Sunday-school, an
average of 30 scholars being present every Sunday.
The church attendance is also increasing.

Mr. D. Ashley, of New York City, the owner
of this plant, has also visited our school. He was
very much impressed with our work, and said that
he hoped we would continue our good work and
build up a strong school, Sunday-school, and church.

The work at Southern Pines is also moving on
finely. We have some stanch members there who
have been working for the church and giving freely
of their little means to the mission treasury. Miss
Pearl Winsdow, of Greensboro, is teaching there.
I received for that congregation for the Christmas
celebration from the Rev. Geo. Buch’s congregation,
Wellsville, N. Y., $5.20. We thank them ever so
much for the kind gift.

Our hopes for Wilmington,are also good. We
have secured a place and started divine services.
In this town, down by the ocean, the people seem
to be very much interested in our work, especially
those who are of the same faith, 7. ¢., the white
Lutherans. These are good Germans, who immi-
grated into this country years and years ago. They
are in sympathy with our work. They have the
finest church property in the city. Their pastor
says that he will do all he can to help us. ;

May God help His servants to set up our Tn-

theran Zion in these parts! C. R. Marcu.
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Items from the ‘Colored Mission Field.

DirecTory oF Our CoLoreD Mission CrruncueEs,
— Have you looked over the list of our Colored
Mission churches on the last page? Quite a stately
array, isn’t it? Forty-two stations where God’s
Word and Luther’s doctrine pure is taught and
preached to our colored people. Now, one of the
reasons why we publish this list’is to afford the
friends of Colored Mission an opportunity to look
up these stations when on a southern trip. We
know that the directory of our New Orleans stations
has induced many a tourist to look up our churches
and schools while in New Orleans on a visit. And
now we hope that the complete list of our stations,

‘impression the work made on you.

which will now and then appear in THE PIONEER,
will also bring welcome visitors to, our other sta-
tions. Dear friend, whenever you get into the
neighborhood of one or the other of these mission
stations, be sure to pay it a visit. Such a visit will
make you a stronger friend of our Colored Mission
work, and it will also encourage the workers won-
derfully. The editor speaks from experience. And
after your visit the editor will be pleased to get your
opinion of the work; just a few words telling what
Will you do it?

Missionary JAMES DosweELi. — A report from
Denver says: “The general condition of Rev. Dos-
well shows a little improvement; his voice espe-
cially shows a good deal of improvement. He is
compelled to be a bed patient in order to lower his
temperature.” Rey. Doswell himself writes: “I
am improving some, but very slowly.”

Mount Zion, New OrtEANs. — Pastor Alb. O.
Friedrich writes to the Board: “Church attendance
has improved considerably since the beginning of
the new year. May God grant that it continue! —
A week ago I confirmed a woman fifty-seven years
of age, having instructed her four weeks during her
illness. ‘The day after her confirmation she de-
parted peacefully, and, so we confidently hope,
entered the congregation of saints in heaven. At
her burial from our church I had. an opportunity
to address approximately 200 people who were
strangers to our Lutheran Church. — Since the first
of the year we have organized a Bible Class for
adults. Our enrollment at the end of January
was 15. 9
Repeemer Srarion, New Orieans. — Reports
from this station are quite encouraging. ‘The en-
rollment of pupils in the school has reached 51.
‘The Sunday-school enrollment is also increasing.

Mount Pieasant, N. C. — Pastor John Alston
writes that he has been compelled to take his wife
to Charlotte to be operated upon in the hospital
there. She has been ill for some time.

From the Foreign Mission Field of the
Missouri Synod.

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_ The latest reports have it that the plague has

“now broken out at Vaniyambadi, Missionary Freche’s

station.

The statistical report from our mission field in
India has just come to hand. The totals are as
follows: Stations, 7%; missionaries, 15;

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