The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1915, Page 93

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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old: “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken
away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” — We
all hope to meet Mrs. Reid in that land where
there is neither sorrow nor pain, neither sickness
nor death.

The funeral was held in the college chapel,
Prof. F. Wahlers preaching from Heb. 4, 9—11.

On October 31st, the members of Grace Con-
gregation, Greensboro, N. C., celebrated both- the
Reformation and their annual mission festival.
The services were held jointly with Immanuel
College: During the entire day we were blessed
with good singing and good preaching. The Rev.
H. Voltz preached a mission sermon in the morn-
ing, using as his text 1 Cor. 15, 58. In the after-
noon and evening the Rey. W. G. Schwehn preached
a Reformation and mission sermon, basing his dis-
course on Ps. 137, 5. 6, and 142, 4. The services
were enjoyed by all. R. O. L. L.

Items of Interest from Our Colored
Mission Field.

A Surras.e Curistmas Gurr. — A very suitable
Christmas gift would be a subscription to the Pio-
NEER or Missionslaube. Wither one costs but 25 cents
per year. Send the subscription price for either
paper, together with the name and address of the
recipient, to Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis,
Mo., and they will send the paper subscribed for
regularly to his address. Have you a friend who
is not as yet a reader of either one of these mis-
sionary monthlies?

New Vo.unverrs. — Pastor Drewes, President
of the Colored Mission Board, informs us that
a native Maori of New Zealand, whom the noted
Rey. C. H. Spurgeon, of London, ordained in 1896,
and who has been serving a Colored congregation
at Poplar Bluff, Mo., has applied for employment
in our Colored Mission field. — A Colored Pres-
byterian pastor of St. Louis has also made appli-
cation. :

SEVEN FarruFuL AND UNSELFISH WORKERS. —
St. Louis has seven hard workers, who labor year in
and year out for our Colored Mission cause. For
their hard work these men do not receive a cent
of pay, nor do they want it. ‘These seven faithful
laborers, are the members of our Colored Mission
Board. But we feel sure that their unselfish work
would be done with greater pleasure and joy if they
were assured that their work is really being appre-

ciated by us. One way of showing your apprecia-
tion for their arduous and faithful labor would
he the gaining of one or more subscribers for the
PronkeER or Missionstaube, the English and German
organs of our Colored Mission Board. ‘The price
of either monthly is only 25 cents a year. Order
from Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
Could you not gain one or more readers for these
papers ?

Deatrt oF Rey. Henry D. Kent. — Under date
of November 13, Rev. John Alston, of Mount
Pleasant, N. C., sent the following sad news to
Rey. C. F. Drewes, Chairman of the Mission Board:
“Tam writing to inform you of Rev. Kent’s death.
He passed away peacefully last night a little after
12 o’clock, dying in the faith of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ. He partook of the Holy Sac-
rament last Monday night for the last time. That
night he grew worse, and I was summoned to his
bedside. ‘The funeral will be Sunday afternoon,
at 2 o'clock.” Further particulars may be given
in the next issue of the PIONEER.

New Or.eans. — From New Orleans the sad
news reaches us that the physical condition of Miss
dna Walters, a former teacher in our mission
schools at New Orleans, has not improved in Den-
ver, where she went last spring upon the advice of
several physicians. ‘The Denver physician now at-
tending her strongly advises her return to the
milder climate of New Orleans for the winter.

Tite NUMBER OF Our REApERs. — ‘The PIONEER
is read in about 7,000 families, and the Jissions-
taube in about 27,000 homes. We have probably
no Jess than 200,000 families in our Synodical Con-
ference. One or the other of these missionary papers
should be read in every one of these 200,000 families.
Will not you, dear reader, help to place-one of our
missionary monthlies, PIoNEER or Missionstaube,
in at least one of the 165,000 families where neither
of them as yet is read? Order from Concordia Pub-
lishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price of either paper,
25 cents per year.

A New laptes’ Missionary Society. — Last
month thirty-seven ladies in St. Louis founded a
new missionary society. Mrs. N. J. Bakke, the
wife of our Field Secretary, is president of this
new society, which will make the support of :our
Colored Mission the main object of its endeavors.

F. J. i.

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Do everything in your power to give the (tos-
pel to all that are still without it.