The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1919, Page 79

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The Lutheran Pioneer. 79

One Way of Using the ‘‘Pioneer.”’

In our congregation we have a Ladies’ Mis-
sionary Society. ‘This society meets once a month.
The two main parts of our monthly program are
the study of a chapter from a book on missions
under the leadership of a member and our PIONEER
Question Box. What is the Pronner Question Box ?
Listen while I tell you. One of the ladies who
was appointed by the president of the society for
the work presents a series of questions referring to
the articles in the previous month’s PIonEER, and
the members have their try at answering them.
You may be sure that since we are doing this,
twenty-five copies of the PronmER are read very
carefully in our congregation! Will not others
secure readers for the PronnErR in the same way?

There should be a Mission Study Class in every
congregation. In such classes the Pronrer could
be used as a basis of study to a very good advantage.
Try it!

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Gratifying Letters.

To-day we received a short, but very fine letter
from “A Friend of the Negro Mission.” Some time
ago the same friend sent us a donation of $10 for
Midway and a little later the sum of $5 for the new
building at Napoleonville, La. In this last letter
he writes: “My donation of five dollars towards the
new chapel to be built at Napoleonville, Lia., seems
so small against the estimated cost that I have
decided to send more. Therefore find inclosed an-
other $5. I will try to send more. A Friend of
the Negro Mission.” :

Dear reader, isn’t that a fine spirit? How much
more the Church could do if we all had that same
willing spirit! But here is another letter that will
please you. It comes all the way from New Zealand:
“Several months ago I became a subscriber of the
Lurreran Pioneer through Pastor Arthur Appelt
of our congregation. As he has written several ar-
ticles in the Pronger on the Maoris of New Zealand,
it was my desire to have the back numbers from
October, 1918, sent to me, which has been done,
I having received the numbers up to March last
month.”

Right here we will just take a little space to tell
Pastor Appelt that a number of our readers have
told us how interesting they found his Maori ar-

ticles, and that they would like to see him write
more for the PIONEER.

But let us go on with the letter: “An article
appeared in the number for last November under
the heading, ‘A New Baby, in which a description
of Nyland, the latest colored congregation of the
Lutheran Colored Mission, is given, stating how
very eager the people are to hear the Word of God.
The article also spoke of the great need of a chapel
at Nyland.

“Will you kindly accept the inclosed money-
order — equivalent to $75 —as a donation towards
the building of a chapel at Nyland? In case a
chapel has already ‘been built and is free of debt,
then, please, use it for any other purpose where it
may be of greatest spiritual benefit for the Colored
Mission. May God, our heavenly Father, bless the
work of bringing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the
Negroes, that many may learn to know and love
Him as their Savior and remain faithful to Him
unto their end.”

Another very short letter from Missouri yester-
day brought us a check for $10 for a designated
purpose connected with our Colored Mission.

God bless these friends of the Colored Mission,
and cause their example to be imitated by many
others! F.J. LL.

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Items of Interest from Our Colored
Mission Field.

LutHer ConFERENCE at New Orteans. — The
workers of Louisiana held their conference at the
end of May at St. Paul’s Chapel, New Orleans.
Teacher Wm. Seeberry was selected to send in a re-
port of the Conference to the Pronrer, and he did
so; but for some reason this report did not get
into the editor’s hands till a few weeks ago —
another proof that our postal facilities are not al-
ways the very best. The report arriving so very
late, we deem it best not to publish it in its entirety.
Suffice it to say the brethren had a very satisfactory
conference in every way. A number of most
interesting papers were read and discussed, and
several very edifying services were held in connec-
tion with the Conference. Judging from Mr. See-
berry’s report, the good ladies of St. Paul’s did all
they could to show their appreciation of their guests
by providing the body with the necessary food dur-
ing the strenuous days of the Conference.