The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1915, Page 78

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

tember and October. He is booked to deliver 17
lectures in Northwestern Ohio during the first three
weeks of October. — Missionary Freche, from the
same field, who was expected to arrive in this
country already in July, and who was also to have
delivered a number of lectures, is held by the British
authorities as a prisoner of war at Hongkong.

F. J. L.

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Stereopticon Lecture and Slides.

The stereopticon lecture and slides on our
Colored Mission are now ready. We have been told
by a competent judge that the lecture is splendid.
Rey. Jesse made very extensive studies preparatory
to writing this lecture, and the many slides that
illustrate the lecture have been selected with rare
judgment. Such being the case, we hope that the
lecture and slides will find no rest for many a day,
but will travel from congregation to congregation,
and thus do their part toward increasing and sus-
taining the interest in our work among the freedmen.

It augurs well for the success of the lecture and
slides that Rev. Jesse writes the Editor of the
PIONEER, who wished to use them as soon as con-
venient in his congregation, that he would not be
able to get them until the end of October, since all
dates between September 10 and the last week in
October had already been filled!

In his lecture Rev. Jesse embodies such incidents
as tend to picture conditions in the field, the diffi-
culties under which our missionaries labor, the needs
of the cause, and the remarkable successes with
which God has crowned the labor of our workers in
spite of the many difficulties they have had to con-
tend with.

The size of the field made it practically im-
possible to cover it all in one lecture, since one or
two minutes devoted to each station do not suffice
to enlarge sufficiently on the work to give a clear
insight into the work at that particular place, and
into the general conditions obtaining in the field.
This first lecture covers the following stations:
Little Rock, Ark.; New Orleans, Mansura, Napo-
leonyille, and Johnson, La.; Atlanta, Ga.; Meherrin
and Richmond, Va.; Washington, D. C.; Yonkers
and Brooklyn, N. Y.; Caldwell, N. J.; Springfield,
Tll.; St. Louis, Mo. A second lecture will follow
this first lecture, and will cover the stations in North
and South Carolina. It is confidently hoped that
all congregations hearing the first lecture will become

so interested in the work that they will want to
hear the second.

The first lecture, now complete, will be furnished
in a legible form, either typewritten or printed, and
is accompanied by over a hundred slides. The
lecture and slides will be furnished on the following
very liberal terms: Congregations promising the
collection of the evening for Colored Missions will
be furnished the lecture, slides, machine, and gas,
where machine and gas are desired, free of charge.
Where no collection is lifted for Colored Missions,
the charges will be as follows:

$7 for lecture, slides, machine, and gas, where
gas is desired...

$6 for lecture, slides, and machine.

21% cts. per slide to those who have their own
machine.

It is to be noticed that these charges are ex-
ceedingly liberal, and that even congregations
having no stereopticon, and those having no electric
light in their churches, need not forego the pleasure
of this illustrated lecture. Congregations having
a machine can procure the lecture and slides alone;
those having an electrically lighted church or hall,
but no machine, can get the machine, slides, and
lecture, while congregations that have no machine
and no electric light service can get the lecture,
slides, machine, and the necessary gas.

The Editor of the Pioneer, for one, wishes to
take this occasion to express his hearty appreciation
to the Board of Colored Missions for its enterprise,
and to Rev. Jesse in particular for the great labor
he has spent in preparing this lecture and slides.

FR. J. L.

A Bad Heart.

A little seven-year-old boy was watching the
cook of the household peeling potatoes for dinner.
When the cook cut through a particularly large
one, it was seen that its heart was hollow and
black. At once-the little fellow cried, “Look, look,
Anna, that potato is no Christian.” “What do you
mean, child?” asked Anna. “Don’t you see that
its heart is bad?” ,

The little boy had been told that a Christian
must have a good heart, and, like good fruit, be
sound through and through, and it was in this way
that he applied his knowledge to the potato.

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Pray for more laborers and greater harvests.