The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1915, Page 21

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The Lutheran Pioneer:

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gave you all your sins. Christian parents and faith-
ful pastors have taught you this knowledge. At
times, when you heard of His love toward you,
His words fairly burned within your hearts, and
you are now resolved to swear that you know your
Savior, and that you will suffer all, even death,
rather than ever fall away from Him or from His
Church. And both to strengthen you in your faith
and to:encourage you unto a faithful performance
of your vows your Savior will give you His body
to'eat and His blood to drink in the venerable
Sacrament of the Altar. Yes, you know the grace
of your Lord Jesus Christ.

But what of those who do not yet know the
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ? Or what of those
who enjoy the preaching of this Gospel only
sparingly, while you enjoy it abundantly? Do not
your hearts go out in pity to them? We have
in this country millions of colored people. Many
of them have never heard of the saving grace of

Christ Jesus. Many of them are hungry and
thirsty for a more thorough knowledge of the

Savior. Will you not help us to bring them the
saving Gospel? Our treasury, out of which we
salary our colored missionaries, -is almost empty.
Lend us a helping hand! If you will devote a little
time of the few remaining days before Palm Sun-
day to soliciting little contributions among your
relatives and Christian friends, it will be a great
aid to the Savior’s cause. Will you not do so, and
send in the donations received as a thank-offering
to the Savior and His cause? As dearly as you love
your Savior, as much as you appreciate your own
blessedness and desire that others, too, come to
know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, we ap-
peal to you in the Savior’s name, Lend us a help-
ing hand!
Yours in the Lord,

By order of the Mission Board. R. JESSE.

Notes from Atlanta.

We are glad to state that’ our Lutheran mission
in Atlanta is on the road to prosperity. We are
now occupying the place purchased for us by the
Board in December of last year. During that month
four persons were confirmed, and at present a young
man is receiving instruction for confirmation. He
will later go to Immanuel College, and prepare for
the holy ministry. ;

Our day-school, after much hard work and

serious handicaps, has an enrolment of 21. Sun-
day-school enrolment is 68. ‘The average church
attendance with us is between 30 and 35.

We are extremely glad that the pastor in charge,
the Rev. Chas. Stoll, of Staten Island, N. Y., has
recovered from his severe illness and is with us
again, having arrived on the 5th of February.

During the month of January we received a very
handsome communion set from the congregation of
the Rey. Hf. F. Soeldner, of Okabena, Minn. ‘This
is indeed a worthy gift, and is greatly appreciated.

The pastor (Rev. W. G. Schaeffer) and the
people of the local Lutheran church, white, mem-
bers of the United Synod South, have been very
kind to us, and are willing to forward our work
in every way possible. They have given us a black-
board and a yery good organ, the latter of which
we are now using in our services. Since they are
not conducting any missionary work among the
Negroes of the South, this synod is willing, and
some of their pastors and Officials have offered, to
lend their aid financially and otherwise, that the
work our Board is doing may prosper. ‘They are
hoping that some arrangement may be made whereby
they may cooperate with us in gathering the great
harvest of the unchurched Negro population of the
South. We understand that this matter of coopera-
tion has come before the proper authorities in our
Lutheran body, and more will be heard of it later.

The ery from this part of Macedonia is, “Come
over and help us build a chapel!” In our present
quarters we cannot seat all who may come to us.
On one occasion we had to excuse a number of chil-
dren who had attended Sunday-school, in order to
make room for the adults to hear the sermon. W/
NEED A CHAPEL. M. N. Carter.

Items of Interest from Our Colored
Mission Field.

. DEATH OF AN OLD MEnser. — Death has taken
another faithful old member from our small flock
at Little Rock. We want all our readers to read
Brother Poppe’s interesting article on Aunt Leah
Jones in this number. We feel certain that it will
encourage every one that reads it to increase his
efforts in the interest of our Colored Mission.

Encouragina Lerrers. — Letters like this are
an encouragement: “Dear Editor, — Please accept
my thanks for our LUTHERAN PIONEER. I can ~
get so much spiritual inspiration by reading it.