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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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to have him speak at Kendallville, South Bend,
and La Porte, but the missionary was obliged to
eut short his trip that he might entertain the
members of Immannel Conference which meets at
Charlotte August 6—9.— There can be no doubt
that if such lecture trips were more frequently
made by our colored missionaries, the interest in
the work would become more general. We are sure
that the Mission Board would be pleased to furnish
Jecturers just as well to other conferences as it
did to this Ohio conference, and the missionaries
would be delighted to take advantage of the oppor-
tunity to present their cause to their white brethren
and sisters. Of course, the arranging of a lecture
itinerary would be connected with some labor for
the brother who had the matter in charge (for
example, no less than 60 letters and postals were
written by the pastor who arranged the lecture trip
spoken of above), but the results attained fully
.. repay all the work incurred. Conferences interested
in the matter should write to Rev. C. F. Drewes,
the president of the Mission Board.

JOLORED Procress. — In fifty years the negro
race has increased from five million to more than
ten million persons, an increase of more than
105 per cent. ‘There has been a great advance in
education, in ownership of property, in knowledge
and practice in the business world, but best of all
is the increased moral and spiritual uplift of the
people as a whole. However, the negro race is
still in the making, and we must not and dare
not leave it to work alone. ‘The negro needs our
help, and the most prominent members of the
negro race earnestly ask for our help. The problem
of the negro is so Jarge that as a nation we have
but begun to handle it, and as a church we have
only made a small beginning. It is a case where
‘the white man must be educated as well as the
colored man, — the white man to an understanding
of his relation, to the black man and his’ responsi-
bility toward him.

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Obituary.

Mrs. Sidonia Berger, née Roberts, the wife of
Rev. I. R. Berger, missionary at Napoleonville, La.,
has been called to the rest that remains for the
people of God. She died suddenly May 16, in the
twenty-fourth year of her life. The remains were
conveyed to New ‘Orleans, and the funeral services
Were conducted at Mount Zion Church, of which
she had been a member from her childhood. ‘The

Rey. A. O. Friedrich preached the sermon from
John 13, 7: “What I do thou knowest not now,
but thou shalt know hereafter.”

Sidonia was a lovable Christian character, loved
and respected by all who knew her. In her child-
hood she sat at the feet of Teacher E. R. Vix,
who instilled into her heart the fear of God, which
is the beginning of wisdom. After her confirma-
tion she attended Luther College for several terms,
where she became more firmly rooted and grounded
in God’s Word. fFor-a short time she taught a
class in Bethlehem School. In Mount Zion Sun-
day-school she was an active and beloved teacher.
When a pupil of her class was sick, she would
call on him and bring cheer and sunshine into
the gloomy sick-room. On February 8, 1912, at
Mount Zion Church, she was united in holy wed-
lock by the writer to Rev. Eugene R. Berger, of
Napoleonville. To her husband, in his arduous
missionary work, she was a valuable assistant in
school and Sunday-school.

The deceased was an illustrious example to
young and old of a virtuous Christian girl, of an
active and faithful church-member, and of a loving
wife and mother. She is survived by a husband,
who sorrows, but not as one having no hope, by
two children, one a little over a year old and the
other only a few days, too young to know the lass
of a mother, by her stepmother, Mrs. Roberts, and
by several brothers and sisters. ‘To these, cordial
sympathy is extended. May God be a present help
in trouble to the bereaved husband, a comforter
in sorrow, and to his motherless little ones a pro- ©
vider as He has promised. N. J. B.

Let God’s Word Guide You.

A father once wanted to show his children the
moon and planets through a telescope. Little Harry.
was perfectly willing to look through the telescope
in the direction in which his father had pointed it.
But Robert, an-older brother, who was somewhat
vain, thought he would direct the telescope himself
and would not need the assistance of his father. —
The result was that he looked in the wrong direc- —
tion and so saw nothing of the glories of the heavens,
while they were revealed to little Harry.

From this little story learn not to trust in your
own might and wisdom, but to follow God’s guidance
in His Word, and then you will see Jesus and His

glory.