The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1915, Page 61

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

Weber: “I give and bequeath to the Evangelical
Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America,
and to its Board for Colored Missions, the sum of
— Dollars ($ ), to be invested or dis-

bursed for the benefit of its work among the
Negroes.”
REDEEMER Station, New Orveans. — Prof.

‘Meibohm reports that he recently confirmed a class

of catechumens, consisting of four girls and one
boy, in the small Redeemer Chapel, in the presence
of 70 persons. ‘This station was opened about two
and one-half years ago by Prof. Meibohm of Luther
‘College, and has been served by him since that time.

Cuartorre, N. C.— We hear that Pastor J.
MacDavid’s health has not been very
good lately, but despite this fact he
is hard at work. On June 20, he
confirmed three adults at Myers-
ville, and on the following Sunday
three young ladies and a boy in his
St. Paul’s Church at Charlotte. The
people of his Myersville charge are
giving their chapel a new roof, and
the strenuous and versatile mission-
ary is personally lending them a hand
in the work.

Sparranbure, S. C.— Pastor
Kent, the young missionary at Spar-
tanburg, who was seriously ill last’
fall, has again been obliged to take
to his bed since the middle of
June. Candidate F. D. Alston, a
this year’s graduate of Immanuel
College, Greensboro, is temporarily
in charge of Pastor Kent’s work.

Wasuineron, D. C. — On this new field Pastor
Polzin recently baptized and confirmed four adults
and baptized two children. ‘The missionary preaches
here every two weeks in a rented hall. We hope
that Missionary Polzin may find the time to fur-
nish the readers of the PioNEER with some par-
ticulars concerning his work in Washington, Rich-
mond, and Baltimore, all of which are newly opened
fields.

Ricumonp, VA. — Rev. Polzin has rented a hall ,

for ten dollars a month on Church Hill in Rich-,
mond, and is preaching there twice every Sunday
and once during the week. THis first service on
Church Hill was attended by 25 adults and 17 chil-
dren, and the missionary judges the outlook to be
quite bright in this locality. F. J. L.

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Items from the Foreign Mission Field
of the Missouri Synod.

Candidate Eric Ludwig, of Milwaukee, Wis.,
has accepted a call to India. He is to be ordained
on August 8, in Milwaukee. Missionary Ludwig
has been designated for the northern portion of the
mission field. ;

After much the American consul at
Madras has finally succeeded in getting the Indian
authorities to consent that Missionary Freche leave
India on a furlough for America. He left Colombo
beginning of June, and has probably landed at
Seattle at the time of this writing, the middle of

trouble,

Tamil Congregation at the Missouri Synod Mission Station
Vaniyambadi, East India.

July. Missionary Freche will be pleased to address
our congregations on his work as soon as he has
had a much needed rest.

Missionary Hamann and ‘his wife, together with
Miss Broecker, arrived at Colombo on May 5, and
a few days later were safely housed at Kodaikanal.
On May 11, Missionary Goerss was married in the
bungalow “Loch End,” at Kodaikanal, Missionary
G. Kuechle officiating.

Candidates Lang and Luecke, to whom calls to
the foreign field had been extended, found them-
selves compelled to decline their calls. May the
Board soon succeed in finding some much needed
laborers for the field, as the work is suffering greatly
for want ofa sufficient number of laborers.

Jun. A. FRIEDRICH.

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