The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1917, Page 45

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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present school makes a grand showing, don’t. you
think so? It makes the “old boy” “kinder” blue
to note that he was on the one and not on the other.
You can just bet, had he known that they were
going to be taken, he would have been there. A com-
parison of the two pictures shows the wonderful prog-
ress the glorious work has made. Great good is
being accomplished here, and we all feel proud that
Dr. Martin’s doctrine is being so gratefully received.
Our work here has been greatly handicapped, as our
present location is in a very humble house, poorly

confirmed. Others are being instructed. When it
comes to doing things, we think our pastor leads
the field.

Great things will take place by “dem Luthrens,”
as we are called in this “burg.” During the next
month the school finals will come off, and a pleas-
ing program is assured. Then, the first Sunday in
June, our new chapel will be dedicated. This day
will mark an epoch in the history of our church
here, and nothing would please us more than to
have our Field Secretary with us on this occasion,

The Grand Showing of Our School in Spartanburg in 1917.

ventilated, with none too good facilities for heating.
In order to accommodate the crowds, we are using
two rooms with a stack chimney in the middle, the
partition on one side of which has been removed.
Tn this space the pulpit and organ are placed. But
we will have this remedied upon the completion of
our very neat little chapel and school-building com-
bined, which is nearing completion; and its snowy
whiteness is a fit emblem of the pure doctrine that
will be preached therein.

We are not asleep in our church-work by any
means, as the addition to our church on Palm Sun-
day will show, viz., 2 children baptized and? adults

as I learn he will be in these parts about then. Look
for a complete account of this later.

Be it said, however, that the Board has been very
generous to us, and we were very, very thankful to
them for all that has been done, and we hope to
prove that their beneficence has not been ill-placed.
Watch Spartanburg !

Though conditions are chaotic, and the cost of
living is ever soaring, yet we intend to rally to the
call of the Board as a unit, since they need the:
“long green” to send the light to others.

Spartanburg is wide awake, believe me.

J. F. Boso.