The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1917, Page 16

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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session Rey. Carter, after the devotional exercises,
delivered another good lecture on “The Teacher as
a Social Worker.”

Thursday evening Rey. Bakke was to have de-
livered a lecture on “Family Life,” but a heavy rain
caused all the families to stay at home, and, and —
well, the lecture is still in the Superintendent’s
system. Visit ts next year, and you may hear it.
Since the,lecturer did not feel that the majority of
the teachers present needed a lecture on such an
important stibject, we gave the evening over to the
transaction of business, and then went home feeling
that we had missed a treat.

The session Friday morning was opened by
Superintendent Bakke, after which he lectured on
“Tow the Teacher is to Prepare and Improve Him-
self for His Work.” After the lecture we took up
business, which consisted in hearing the reports and
recommendations of the various committees. All
business completed, we adjourned for the day.

Friday evening was given over to entertainment.
The members of the Oak Hill congregation treated
the members of the Institute to ice cream and cake,
and they (1 almost said retaliated) reciprocated
with songs, speeches, and recitations, and, and, —
well, some people call them yarns. After all the
ice cream and cake was gone, naturally no more
songs, speeches, and the like could be had, so we
said a word of thanks and good-bye, and then went
home. —

This Institute for our Lutheran teachers is a new
thing. But although it was an experiment, we all
feel that it was a success, and hope that it will be
repeated each year; for we were greatly benefited
by it. Each one went his or her way feeling that
they had not lost, but gained by attending it. God
willing, we hope to have another one next year. —
We wish to extend our thanks to the kind people
of Oak Hill for the many good things they gave us
while there, and also for the kind treatment ac-
corded us.

Those who attended the Institute were: Rev.
M. N. Carter, Rev. CO. Peay, Miss Rosa J. Young,
Miss C. M. Smith, Miss BE. B. Cannon, Miss M. EH.
Moreland, Miss G. Marsh, Mr. $8. U. Young, Mr.
Jas. Montgomery, and the undersigned. All the
ladies, with the exception of Miss Young, are new
workers in our mission-field of) Alabama. They are

a fine set of Christian girls with a good education.
All of them, excepting Miss Cannon, have had
several years’ experience as teachers in the public
Miss Cannon is a this year’s

schools of the State.

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' Missions in St. Louis and Spring

graduate of the Camden Academy, which is located
at Camden, Ala. The others are representatives of
Payne and Selma Universities anil the Miller’s Perry
Institute. The teachers will be stationed as follows:
Miss Young at Midway; Miss Moreland at Buena
Vista; Miss Smith at Java or Kingston; Miss
Marsh at Possum Bend; Miss Cannon at Tinela;
Mr. Montgomery at Rosebud; Mr. Young at Tilden.
May the blessings of God rest upon their work!
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All our schools on this field open on the 10th
September, so when you read these lines our
teachers will be busy with about seven or eight hun-
dred children. We shall be teaching in “regular”
schoolhouses and old log-huts, through the eracks
of which you can see the beauties of Nature, and
when it rains you must raise your umbrella if you
But what do we care about the
place in which we teach since we accomplish our
purpose ?

On September 2d the first Ilarvest Home and
Mission festival to be held in Alibama by our Col-
ored Lutherans was celebrated at Rosebud. It is
needless to say that a crowd was in attendance.
The undersigned preached the haryest-sermon, and
Superintendent Bakke was to “ave preached the
mussion-sermon, but his car broke down so that he
could not get there. The local pastor, therefore,
had to take his place. All seemed well pleased with
the services, and some said that; “dem Lucases is,
always havin’ somethin’ new!” You bet! i

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We have two new arrivals, in the persons of the
tevs. Peay and Berger. Welcome! Needed you
long ago.

On October 7, nothing preventing it, our chapel
and schoolhouse at Vredenburgh will be dedicated
to the service of the Triune Gor. We shall have
our Reformation services at that time also. Better
come down and let us show you a good time.

Rey. Carter has a Ford runabout. Let us hope
that, well—let us hope that he stays out of the
hospital. Feo Osi lars

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Missionary Items.

Aw Important TRANSFER. — Rev. G. A. Schmidt,
for the past three years in charge of the Colored
jeld, IL, has ac-
cepted the position of assistant superintendent for
our growing field in Alabama. .As assistant super-
intendent he will have the supervision of our mis-