The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1916, Page 29

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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accepted the call of a white congregation in New
Orleans. Rey. Mueller previously served the Colored
Mission for two years as professor in Luther Col-
lege, and is therefore no novice in the work. He
is a very energetic and efficient young worker and
will be a decided acquisition to the missionary
force in New Orleans if he should see his way clear
to accept the important call.

A Fine Exanwperie.— The Editor of the Jlis-
sionslaube, the German organ of our Colored Mis-
sion, some time ago received a letter from a pastor
in the East telling him that the Sunday-school
teachers of his congregation had passed a resolu-
tion to the effect that they would use their en-
deavors that a missionary paper be read in every
family of the congregation. ‘They carried out this
commendable resolution in a very practical way,
for they ordered 50 copies of the Missionstaube and
15 copies of the Pioneer. Of course, if any of
the recipients of these papers desire to pay for
them, they may do so; but if they do not, the
Sunday-school will do so, Isn’t this really a fine
example? Who will do likewise? We hope many
will say, “Yes”; -for the reading of our missionary
papers is bound to increase the interest of our people
in the grand work of missions.

INSPECTION OF ‘tHE CoLorED Mission IF LELp.
After Easter two members of the Mission Board
intend to visit our two Colored mission-fields.
Rey. Wisler will visit the stations in Louisiana,
and Rev. Drewes, the president of the Board, will
inspect the work in the Southeastern States.

CoMMENDABLE INTEREST. — A pastor in Iowa
writes that one of his members has ordered. our
German missionary monthly for 15 families of the
congregation in which no missionary paper had
heen read. If we had such a friend of missions in
each of our congregations, what a blessed thing it
would be for the cause of missions! Will not at
least some of our readers follow the example of
this layman in Iowa? F. J. 1.

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William Waltke.

Our Colored Mission has lost a sincere friend
when on February 25th Father William Waltke
passed away-at the age of more than ninety-one
years. ‘The funeral service, which was largely at-
tended, was held in St. Paul’s Church, St. Louis, of
which Rey. W. J. Schulze, a member of the Board

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for Colored Missions, is pastor. Father Waltke was
one of the charter members of St. Paul’s, and served
his congregation as an elder from the time of its
organization till his death.

“Papa” Waltke was the founder and president of
the William Waltke & Co. Soap Works of St. Louis.
During the Civil War Father Waltke, whose fac-
tory was near the scenes described in Winston
Churechill’s “The Crisis,’ witnessed many of the
incidents described in that novel. He personally
knew not a few of the characters of this popular
story.

William Waltke. ‘

During the past four or five years “Papa” Waltke
gave $200 or $300 every few months for the cause
of Colored Missions. -A few days before his death
the dear old Christian said to his pastor: “Sad
to say, only too often our various missions are
hampered-in their blessed work because of lack of
funds. But it seems as though it is always easier
to get contributions for other mission enterprises
than for our mission among the Colored. people,
and yet we know that the Savior is as anxious to
have them saved as He is to save others. Because
this fact was brought home to me more forcibly
than .ever during the last few years, I have felt it
my duty to contribute to the blessed work done by
our Church among the freedmen more freely than