The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1915, Page 28

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28 The Lutheran Pioneer.

A Prayer for Peace.

O Lord of Hosts, who makest wars to cease,
Have mercy on the world, restore its peace!
Q Thou that visitest with punishment
The evil-doers that they might repent,
And raisest them again, if they deplore
Their fall, have faith, and henceforth sin no more,
Incline the rulers’ hearts to peace! Extend
Thy helping hand again. The conflict end,
And with it devastation, loss of life,
And all the horrors of this awful strife!
Especially our country dear preserve,
And do not deal with us as we deserve.
As heretofore, bless us continually
With peace and undisturbed prosperity.
O God and Father, grant our prayer in grace,
For in the name of Christ we seek Thy face.

H. Osterivs.

Items of Interest from Our Colored
Mission Field. é

A Worp oF Apprectation.— An article on
“Fields and Forces of Inner Mission Work” in
a recent issue of the American Lutheran Survey
has the following to say about the colored work of
the Synodical Conference: “One general Lutheran
chureh-body in this country is achieving splendid
results in its missionary work among the colored
people. It has established a high-grade college and
a theological training-school in the very heart of
the negro population of the South. From this, as

+a center, it is sending out consecrated colored

leadership into the leading communities of the
South for operation and gradual occupation.” —
Should not words such as these encourage us, not
only to continue the work, but to increase it? When
people who see and know what our workers, colored
and white, are doing, speak of the results attained
by our workers as being “splendid achievements,”
should not this stimulate us to increased efforts ?
God has given us a graye task to perform.. He has
wonderfully blessed the labors of our workers: He
has opened many new doors to us. At the last
convention of the Synodical Conference our Board
called attention to a number of new places that
had been occupied by the workers, and besought
the Conference to provide the necessary means to
build ten cheap chapels. The Conference rejoiced
fo hear of the onward march of our workers, and
with great willingness yoted the asked-for funds.
But, alas! our people have not responded as they
Our faithful workers are still
occupying these new fields, preaching the Word in

shacks, and teaching the children in shanties, wait-
ing for the small sums needed to build chapels and
schools. //ow long are we going to lel them wail?
Among those not in the Synodical Conference we
have the reputation of being aggressive workers for
the Kingdom; are we in this case going to com-
pel these people to change their opinion of us?
Friends, Jet us be up and doing; let us see to it
that every one of the so sorely needed chapels will
be completed in the next three months. Let every
friend of our Colored Mission do his share, and
lel him do it at once!

Some or tHe First CoLorrep CiLurciies IN
Ovr Country. — The first Colored Baptist church
was organized in 1785 at Williamsburg, Va. ‘The

first African Methodist Episcopal church was started ,

in Philadelphia, in 1787. The first African Pres-
byterian chureh in this country was organized in
Philadelphia, in 1807. St. Philip’s Protestant Ipis-
copal Chureh, the first of that denomination, was
founded in New York, in 1818, while the first Ipis-
copal church in a slave state was St. James’ Church
at Baltimore, founded in 1824. The first colored
Congregational church in the South was organized
as Plymouth Congregational Church at Charleston,
8S. C. The first Lutheran colored church of the
Synodical Conference was organized by Rev. I*. Berg.
now President of Immanuel College, Greensboro,

N. C., at Little Rock, Ark., in the spring of 1878. \

Rev. Ep. H. Scusipr ar Work Again. — We

are pleased to tell our readers that our faithful ‘4

missionary, Rev. Ed. H. Schmidt, of New Orleans,
who was so seriously ill that neither the attend-
ing physicians nor the nurses expected him to live,

is by God’s grace upon the high road to recovery...
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He made his first venture at preaching again on
Palm Sunday. God grant him full restoration of
health and strength and many years’ service in
His vineyard! — During his long illness, as was

to be expected, the receipts of his station took °

quite a “slump,” though St. Paul’s has continued

its monthly contribution of $40 to the Mission +

‘Treasury, much to our surprise. The Board, how-
ever, will have to assist the station in making cer-
tain necessary repairs on the school-building to the
amount of $150. The Board is compelled to make
a loan to do this, unless the friénds of our Colored
Mission come to the rescue at once. ;
CONDITION OF TIE Mission Treasury. — The
chairman of the Mission Board informs us that the
expenses for February were $3,858, while the re-
ceipts were only $1,534! ‘The expenses exceeded