The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1919, Page 77

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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school will be opened at Statesville. Ingomar is
twelve miles from Tilden, in Dallas County, while
Statesville is in Autaugua County, about twelve
miles from Kingston. Our Mission is at present
conducting the following Christian day-schools in
Alabama: Possum Bend; Sarah Cannon, teacher ;
possibly a second teacher will be added. Midway;
Rosa Young, teacher; a second teacher later. Ny-
land; teacher, Louise Blackman. Vredenburgh;
teacher, Rey. O. Lynn. Buena Vista; Ruth Bonna-
fon, teacher. ‘Tilden; teachers, Chinetia Smith,
Elizabeth Cannon, and Lizzie Mae Stallworth.
Tinela; Mary Pilkington, teacher. Rosebud;
teacher, Rev. M. N. Carter, and a second teacher is

City Missions.

In a number of the larger cities of our country
our Church is conducting so-called city missions,
the work being mostly i the infirmaries, hospitals,
asylums, and other public institutions. Thus our
congregations in and about Chicago have carried
on this blessed work for eighteen years. While in
the past Pastor A. Schlechte has been the only
worker in this mission, since May the City Mission
Board of Chicago has engaged the services of a
second worker in the person of Pastor J. H. Witte.
In the future Pastor Schlechte will serve the County
Infirmary, the County Tuberculosis Hospital, the

The Members of the Luther Institute in Midway, Ala.

From left to right: Rev. 9B.

R. Berger, Louise Blackman, Lizzie May Stallworth, Mary Pilkington,

Blizabeth Cannon, Rosa Young, Chinetia Smith, Sarah Cannon, Rev. O. Lynn, Lulu Underwood,

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to be added. Oak Hill; teachers, James Mont-
gomery and Rey. Chas. Peay. Kingston; teacher,
Rey. Eugene Berger. teacher, Sam.
Young.

A resolution was passed at the Teachers’ In-
stitute to the effect that those children whose parents
did not pay tuition last year will not be readmitted
to the schools until all arrears have been paid.

Superintendent Schmidt also speaks of the great
need of school-desks in the Alabama field. He
writes: “We can still use desks. If any of our
congregations haye old school-desks and desire to
give them to our Colored Mission, I will let them
know where to send them if they will get in touch
with me.” Who has desks to spare? If you have,
write to Rey. G. A. Schmidt, Camden, Ala.

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Ingomar ;

James Montgomery, Rev. Chas Peay, Rev. Th. Walther.

State Hospital for the Insane, and, besides, will
look after the necessary work in the Juvenile Court ;
Pastor Witte will find his work chiefly in the County
Hospital, the County Jail, and the Municipal 'Tuber-
culosis Sanitarium. The following, which we take
from Missionary Schlechte’s latest annual report,
will show our readers what a blessed work is being
done by the city missionaries in our larger cities : —

Cook Counry Hosprrat. —'This institution
harbors only the sick. That there is a great deal
of sorrow, misery, and woe among its 1,800 patients,
is certain. And it is also certain that these sick
people are in dire need of comfort and consolation.
Mission-work at the sick- and death-beds is very im-
portant and has every promise of God’s blessing.
I have in the past year, as in the forgoing, taken
many of this small army of the sick into my pastoral