The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1915, Page 4

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4 The Lutheran Pioneer.

sionary Richert has over 100 pupils in his day school,
in which he is assisted, since November, by Stu-
dent Becker, of our Seminary in St. Louis. May
God continue to bless the work of these young la-
borers ! ;

St. Louis, Mo.— The Board has given Mis-
sionary Schmidt an assistant in school, so that he
may devote more time to the work among the adults
in St. Louis and Springfield, Il]. In the latter
place Rey. Schmidt has a class of five adults pre-
paring for confirmation.

BETHLEHEM, NEw OrLeans. — Teacher Schrie-
ber, of our Bethlehem school in New Orleans, has
accepted a call to Nebraska. Mr. Schrieber was a
faithful teacher and willing worker, and for this
reason his loss to the mission will prove a hard
blow to the Bethlehem school. ‘Teacher Seeberry
of this school has been unable to teach since last
spring, so that the school, with an enrolment of
288 pupils, has only two teachers.

THe Unrrep Synop snp CoLorEeD Missions. —
In a recent issue the Lutheran Church Visitor
brought the following item: “The practical attitude
of the United Synod towards the negro race in the
South has been the subject of discussion privately
and in the Lutheran Church Visitor for several
bienniums. For years, the question of the duty of
the Lutheran Church in this connection has been
on the consciences of many individuals. More than
a year ago, the Rev. J. C. Kunzmann, D. D., Secre-
tary of the Board of Home Missions of the General
Council, offered to the United Synod an ordained
Lutheran minister of the negro race, for whom he
had not been able to find a suitable field at the
North. This grave problem should be faced with
courage and resolution. In the survey of the terri-
tory in which God has called this body to advance
His kingdom it at once appears that the negroes
constitute a considerable part of the population.
Have the negroes in the South been Christianized ?
Is there a field still open for work for this race with-
out proselyting? What is the civic duty of the
Southern Church in the premises? Is there really
a call to this body to advance the Kingdom of God
among the black people?” — A special committee
was appointed at the recent convention of the
United Synod to investigate the field, study the
problem, and propose action at the next convention.

Serious InnNEss or Missionary Ep. Scuwmwr
In New Or.eans. — We are sorry to report the
serious illness of our faithful missionary, Rev.
Schmidt, of New Orleans. His brother, Rev. P.

G. Schmidt, of Sherwood, Ohio, has been kind
enough to send us the following particulars: Mis-
sionary Schmidt took to bed on November 15,
though ailing about a week before. The attending
physician diagnosed his illness as an attack of
malaria, but expressed a fear that typhoid might
develop. On November 29, the patient suddenly
grew worse, and that night he had two, and the
following day three, hemorrhages of the bowels.
For several days his life was despaired of, but at

.the time of this writing a decided change for the

better has set in, which we pray may be permanent.
For weeks before Missionary Schmidt’s illness, his
wife had been suffering from a severe attack of
malaria, and her husband’s severe illness found her
in a very weakened condition. God grant that the
severe strain which her husband’s illness will lay
upon her will not cause a relapse! Added to all
this, the children of the missionary are suffering
from a severe attack of whooping-cough. May the
good and gracious God, who calls Himself the Ia-
ther of us all, hold His protecting hand over this
stricken family.

Items of General Missionary Interest.

Dratrn or Missionary KELLeRBAUER. — Rev.
G. O. Kellerbauer, one of the East Indian mis-
sionaries of the Missouri Synod, died, on October 27,
in a hospital at Leipzig, Germany. ‘The deceased
had left India in the early summer for his home in
Germany, and was upon the eve of coming to
America to deliver a number of lectures in the
interest of the work in India when the war broke
out. Missionary Kellerbauer, who had not been
well for some time, became seriously ill soon after
the outbreak of hostilities. He was buried, on the
day of the Reformation, in St. John’s Cemetery,
Leipzig. His death is a great loss to his widow
and young son, as well as for the Missouri Indian
Mission, since he was among the oldest and most
experienced of its missionaries.

LutiHeran Missions 1N Japan. — About twenty
years ago the Lutheran United Synod took up the
work in Japan. Concerning the progress and
present conditions of this missionary ehterprise the
Lutheran Church Visitor brings the following:
‘Membership in the Lutheran mission in Japan
has grown from nothing to 553 souls during twenty
years of work. At the opening of Protestant mis-
sion work in Japan, sixty years ago, at least four
of the larger societies labored for fifteen years before