The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1920, Sheet 63

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The L. E.S. is not a spasmodic drive. It is a
permanent organization, with the definite object to
support and promote higher education in our Colored
Mission Field.

It has been endorsed by Terns! Conference,
the District Visitor, a representative of the Mission
Board and a large number of other Lutheran pastors
and laymen. ;

We hope that every one connected with or in-
terested in our colored missions will join us in sup-
porting this worthy cause. We quite naturally ex-
pect a large membership from the North Carolina
Field in whose midst the college is located.

A special appeal is hereby made to all graduates
and former students of Immanuel College.

Rates: $1.00 per year for you; $5.00 per year
for church societies.

Send application to the Lutheran Education So-

ciely, 6 Locust Hill Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y., and
receive a membership card.

Noricr.
‘The present officers of the L. E. 8. are: Mr. Wil-

liam Doswell, President; Mrs. S. E.
retary; Rev. W. O. Hill, Treasurer.

This organization is only temporary. As soon
as two or more Chapters have been formed, the So-
ciety will be reorganized and the Board of Directors
will be elected. The books of the temporary or-
ganization will be audited by a committee appointed
by the New York Local Conference. The Treasurer
will publish an annual report.

Mouzon, See-

Application for Membership
in the Lutheran Education Society (for Immanuel
College), 6 Locust Hill Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y.

I am interested in the higher, Christian educa-
tion of Colored boys and girls, and approve of the
work which the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical
Conference is doing. to that end.

I herewith apply for Membership in the Lu-
theran Education Society, organized to support and
promote this work, for the year ending June, 19..,
and enclose herewith $........ for same.

NEMO GebasodedsauxoKdobodDB0D00GC0S0C0R

Please credit my membership to

Lutheran Congregation,

61

News and Views.

Our CuurcH Property.

There are some happy and thankful hearts in
the Bethany Congregation, Yonkers, N. Y., these
days. What is it all about? We will let an out-
sider tell you. Some time ago this friend, who had
been observing our activities more or less, remarked.
“Reverend, you Lutherans are about to ‘go over
the top.’” The person judged correctly, for at that
time we were examining several pieces of property
with the object of buying a church-home. And the
good news that we want to tell you, that you may
rejoice with us, is, that we have found the proper
place, signed the agreement to buy, and, God will-
ing, long before you read this article, will have
closed the deal and our congregation will own its
church property free of all debts. No, we do not
mean the church building, too. “One thing at a
time, and that done well,” is a maxim we have learned
long since. We have the coat, we will get the sleeves
later. So the building is a matter for future con-
sideration. How soon it will come we cannot
promise just now. But we will surely get it, let
us say, “some day.” However, we are extremely
thankful at this time that at last we have been able
to purchase the ground on which we intend some
day to build our church-home. The reason for our
special gratitudé to the Lord at this time is a long
story. I shall relate it as briefly as possible.

We talked over this matter some nine years ago,
when there was only a “handful” of us. St. John’s
Congregation had offered us a place of worship in
their Parish House, with the understanding that
some day we would have a church of our own. .So
we knew that-we must have a church-home. To
look to the Mission Board for such a gift, especially
in the Metropolitan District, where real estate is a
little more expensive than in some other places,
seemed to us somewhat of an imposition. And, in
the face of the great financial problems which al-
ready confronted the Board, the possibilities of such
a gift were vague. Synodical Conference already
had thousands and thousands of dollars tied up in
real estate throughout our large Mission Field.
These heavy investments, with no method by which
this money should ever be returned to the Mission
Treasury, were even at that time causing a financial
drain in the work. Moneys which were needed to
pay the missionaries adequate salaries and to open
new missions, had to be used to build more new
chapels, with-no effort, however small, being made