The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1919, Page 39

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The Lutheran Pioneer. 39

has not been much building of churches going on
for the past. year. However, Rev. C. Hissfeldt, the
large-hearted chairman of aforesaid Bureau, used
his powers of persuasion on a certain manufacturer
of church-pews and induced him to make him a
very reasonable offer for new pews. In fact, the
offer was so very enticing that Rey. Hissfeldt or-
dered the pews for Midway then and there, trusting
that God and the friends of our Colored Mission
would not leave him in the lurch. We are sure

- his confidence will not prove misplaced.

For their information let our readers hear what
Superintendent of Missions, Rey. C. F. Drewes, has
to say about Midway: “In one day our missionary
at Midway was able to baptize 24 persons and con-
firm 38, among them a number of people seventy-
five years old. ... ‘Three months after work was
begun at Midway I there found a little child only
three years of age that was able to recite the Lord’s
Prayer and the Second Article with explanation.
The child had learned it from its mother. Our
Lutheran Catechism is surely much thought .of in
the “Black Belt,” and old and young are learning
it... . About 1,000 children are attending our
mission-schools in Alabama, and are learning to
know Jesus, the Friend of children.”

Send your donation with the designation, “For
pews at Midway, Ala.,” to your district treasurer.

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Items of Interest from Our Colored
Mission Field.

; A Rerurnep Misstonary.— Rev. Otho Lynn
nas been discharged from the army and has re-
turned to his home at Mount Pleasant, N. C. It
is probable that he will soon take up work again
in Alabama.

A New Conrrrence. — The pastors of our Col-
ored Mission in the “Black Belt” of Alabama have
formed a pastoral conference, which meets every
month.

PAsToRS ON THE SIOK-LIST. — Missionary Jesse
Hunt, who was obliged to resign some time ago on
account of ill health, is on the way to recovery.
At present he is with his parents at Thomasville,
N. C.— From Napoleonville, La., comes the news
that our indefatigable and zealous missionary, Rev.
C. P. Thompson, is again threatened with a return
of his old trouble, nervousness. We hope that it
may be prevented from compelling him to give up
his labors, as it did before.

LutrHer Contecr, New Orteans. — This insti-
tution will have five graduates this year, three
young ladies and two young men. The two young
men. will probably continue their studies at Greens-
boro next fall, while the three young ladies will be
available as teachers. Luther College will have its
commencement in a few weeks. — Prof. Wilde was
on the sick-list for several weeks, anid various mem-
bers of his family have been ill during the past
months.

New Orteans Items. — Carrollton is growing.
The school is getting so many pupils that Mrs. Rob-
inson, the wife of Teacher Peter Robinson, is com-
pelled to help her husband every afternoon. — Miss
Lillian Walter, who has taught in Bethlehem School
for a number of years, was obliged to resign be-
cause of ill health. Her successor is Miss Edna
McAllister. — Miss Sylvina Raymond, one of the
teachers of St. Paul’s School, was also on the sick-
list for some time this spring. During her illness
her class was taught by some of the students of
Luther College. The intermediate department of
St. Paul’s School has been divided into two classes,
which are being taught by the Misses Mercedes
Tervalon and Emma Dunn. Teacher John Thomp-
son, who formerly had charge of this department,
was compelled to retire on account of his health,
and he is now at Mansura. Hed:

BOOK TABLE.

Catechizations. Part I. By D. Meibohm. Published by
the Author, 2833 Bell St., New Orleans, La. Cloth
binding; 359 pages. Price, $1.50, postpaid. Order
from Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.

These catechizations by Teacher Meibohm, who looks

back upon a teaching activity of more than fifty years,.

will give essential help especially to younger teachers
and ministers, and those just taking up the task of teach-
ing the Catechism by means of the English language, in
their preparation for the religious instruction in the Chris-
tian day-school. These catechizations are models of sim-
plicity and lucidity in language and construction. The
natural development of the material of the Catechism is
particularly commendable, and makes this book valuable
in the hands of the catechist. The author never loses
sight of the fact that schoolchildren are to be taught the
essentials first, and that the deeper and more complicated
matters shall only then be taught when the pupils have
made the simple fundamentals their own. There is noth-
ing artificial or forced in the sensible and carefully pre-
pared outlines of these catechizations and in the simple
and ingenuous presentation of the contents of Luther’s
Small Catechism, that venerable religious classic of our
Church.

This first volume of Catechizations brings twenty-three
catechizations on the Ten Commandments, ten on the First
Article, and fifteen on the Second Article. The second
volume, which is to appear in the near future, will cover
the remaining portion of the Catechism. The:author has
based his catechizations on the Missouri Synod’s Short
Exposition, commonly known as Schwan’s Catechism.

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