The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1917, Sheet 79

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sion-schools and of all the mission-property in Ala-
bama. Pastor Schmidt will also have charge of two
mission-stations, Midway and Possum Bend. He
will, for the present, make his home in Camden.

Rev. G. A. Schmidt.

— Missionary Schmidt has been a most successful
worker, and had greatly endeared himself to his
people in St. Louis and Springfield. The St. Louis
mission has doubled its membership during the in-
cumbency of Pastor Schmidt, which speaks well for
his faithfulness and zeal and promises well for his
success in the new and larger fields of labor.

Te New Lazorer in St. Lours.— Rev. Herbert
Claus, a recent graduate of Concordia Seminary at
St. Louis, is Missionary Schmidt’s successor, and
has already put in a hard month’s work on the field.
He opened the school on the first Tuesday of August
with the record-breaking attendance of seventy pupils.

The old shack which serves as a school and chapel -

for our mission in St. Louis did not have desks
enough to accommodate all the pupils. It was sug-
gested to the missionary by a member of the Board
that it might be possible to buy some second-hand
desks from the Public School Board. But upon
closer thought it was not deemed advisable to act
upon this suggestion, since the city officials might
in this way have their attention called to the build-
ing, and upon inspection of the premises be induced
to condemn them as unsanitary and utterly inade-

quate to accommodate so many children. Reader,
what do you think about that? Don’t you feel that
the time has come that our mission in St. Louis
must have a school and chapel? — Candidate Claus
was installed on Sunday, August 9. The installation
service was held in Immanuel Church (white). Rev.
C. F. Drewes, Director of Colored Missions, delivered
the sermon, while Missionary Schmidt read the
form installing his suecessor. On the Sunday after,
August 16, Missionary Claus was introduced to his
congregation in Springfield. — We wish to add that
Pastor Claus is not a novice in the work, haying had
charge of the St. Louis mission-school for a whole
session a few years ago.

Possum Benp, Ata. — This station is to have a

chapel and school to cost $600 to $700. Building
operations are to begin at an early date. The school
at Possum Bend is in charge of Miss W. B. Cannon,

Titpen, AtA.— Here the Board has bought
three acres for mission purposes from the chief of
police at Selma at $30 per acre. Work on a new
chapel has been begun.

Mansura, La.— The infant daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. Tervalon died on August 11, while the
mother and child were visiting relatives in New
Orleans. May God comfort the stricken parents
with His divine comfort!

‘TRANSFER OF 4 Mission. — About a month ago
the China Mission, hitherto conducted independ-
ently by various members of the Synodical Con-
ference, was taken over by the Board for Foreign

Rev. Herbert Claus.

Missions of the Missouri Synod. A new worker for
this mission was gained in the person of Candidate
Lorenz Meyer, a recent graduate of Concordia Sem-
inary, St. Louis. Candidate Meyer will marry a