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The Lutheran Pioneer.

for quite a while. We now learn that the congre-
gation of Rev. Theo. Horst, of Toledo, which is
building a new school, has donated its old desks to
Greensboro. In this connection permit us to state
that our mission-school at Spartanburg, S. C., Pas-
tor Frank Alston, is also in sore need of desks.
Who will help?

Sparranspurc, 8. C.—A_ good-sized lot has
been purchased in Spartanburg for $200. Plans
for a new chapel are about completed, and in a few
months we hope to see the chapel a reality. So
does Missionary Alston. He already has a pulpit,
and is now anxiously awaiting the chapel in which
to place it.

New Orvreans.— From New Orleans Pastor
G. M. Kramer reports that Mrs. Edna Brandon,
for a number of years a teacher in St. Paul’s School
at New Orleans, has passed away. She died in
Denver, where she had gone for her health about
a year ago; but her body was brought to her old
home for burial.

Sr. Louis, Mo. — Our Grace Mission in St. Louis
has received another fine accession. On Sunday, Sep-
tember 10, Missionary Schmidt baptized three and
confirmed seven persons. Among those confirmed
was a former Presbyterian minister, and three of
the confirmed were pupils of our Grace Mission
school. Pastor Schmidt ought, however, be given
a chapel in the near future. Those acquainted with
the ‘present quarters, a former saloon, claim that it
is an actual surprise to them that the missionary is
succeeding in getting people to attend services at
the present location. ‘Then, also, our missionary’s
health is bound to suffer if he should be compelled
to spend six hours a day for a much longer time in
the present unsanitary room in which he teaches
school.

AnotiEeR WerLcomre Visir.—'That liberal un-
*known friend, who has in the past donated thou-
sands of dollars to our Colored Mission cause,
recently paid our treasurer another visit and left
$520 with him, of which $20 is for a chapel in
St. Louis. May God bless this truly liberal friend
of our mission!

TEACHER BunTROOK’S LECTURE Tour.— Teacher
E. A. Buntrock is at the time of this writing still

lecturing in the interest of our Colored Mission. -

We have already reported on his tour in Western
New York, Northwestern Ohio, and Northwestern
Indiana. . From Indiana he went to Nebraska,
where he spoke twenty times. Last month he

_ have much to commend them;

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toured Minnesota, and lectured there twenty-two
times. All told, Teacher Buntrock spoke probably
eighty times during the past four months in the
interest of our Colored Mission.

SynopicaL Conrerence.— Not only did the
Synodical Conference devote two whole sessions to
our Colored Mission, but at the time of its conven-
tion in Toledo three of our churches afforded various
representatives of the Mission an opportunity to
present the cause to them. ‘The president of the
Board, Pastor C. F. Drewes, and Missionary Frank
Alston spoke in the church of Rev. W. Bodamer,
Missionary Alston also spoke at the church of Rev.
Theo. Horst, and the editor of ‘Tt PIONEER was
privileged to address a congregation in the church
of Rev. G. Blievernicht. On Saturday evening Rev.
W. Proehl, of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., gave an illus-
trated lecture on the work in North Carolina in
the spacious Memorial Hall of Toledo to a large
gathering.

Our Mission Boarp. — Pastor J. H. C. Fritz,
who was elected a member of the Board of Colored
Missions at the recent meeting of the Synodical
Conference, was obliged to decline the office because
of too many other duties.. The Board chose Pastor
Th. Walther to fill the vacancy. F. J. i.

BOOK TABLE.

UNSER HEILAND. avangelienpredigten von Pastor
J. H. Hartenberger. Concordia Publishing House,
St. Louis, Mo. VIII and 431 pages, Svo; substan-
tial black cloth-binding. Price, postpaid, $2.20.
Whoever is looking for a German Gospel postil writ-
ten in plain, simple language need not look any farther,
— Pastor Hartenberger’s Evangclienpredigten will surel;
prove to be what he wants. The sermons in this ‘postil
they are Scriptural, tex-
tual, clear in outline, and simple in language. About
a year ago Pastor Hartenberger published a series of Ger-
man Lenten sermons bearing the title, Unser Erloeser,
which found ready sale, probably just because of the
same qualities which characterize this more ambitious lit-
erary venture. Pastor Hartenberger also has the happy
faculty of applying the truth to the needs of his people,
and of making hearty and heart-searching appeals to his
hearers and readers. Pastors will find this book very
helpful and stimulating, and the people in general will
find it well adapted to private devotional reading. We
bespeak for the volume a wide circulation, and hope to
see an Epistle postil by the same author in the near
future, equally readable, interesting, and helpful.

WILLIAM TYNDALE. By William Dallmann. Concor-
dia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Neat blue
cloth-binding; 84 pages; profusely illustrated. Price,
postpaid, 28 cts.

William Tyndale, the chief translator of the Author-
ized Version of the English Bible, deserves to be well
known among us. Pastor Dallmann and the. publishers
here offer us a fine, live sketch of the man to whom all
English Bible readers owe so much. May we show our
gratitude to author and publishers by procuring many
readers for the booklet.