The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1922, Sheet 65

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

printed this: “The Ladies’ Aid Society of the
Pilgrim Lutheran Church cordially invites you to
attend a Birthday Party,” ete., giving the place and
time of the party. On the lower margin of the card
is a space for the name and address of the invited
person. Attached to the card by means of a silk
cord is a dainty little bag for a contribution of as
many cents as the invited person might be old, or
more. ‘This request. for the missionary donation is
printed in verse on the reverse side of the card.

A DeEpLORABLE AccIDEN'T. — Pastor Drewes,
the Director of Colored Missions, met with an
accident a month ago that might have ended fatally.
While returning with a brother pastor from a meet-
ing, the auto they were in was run into by some
reckless driver. Besides receiving a number of
bruises and gashes about the head and on the right
hand and left leg, the severity of the collision
brought a hemorrhage of the brain perilously near.
After staying at a hospital for several days, the
patient was removed to his home and there rapidly
improved. We hope that when this reaches our
readers’ hands, our beloved Director may be fully
restored.

Forr Saarrir, Ark. — It always pleases us
greatly when we hear of people in the Southland
taking an interest in our Negro Missions. ‘Thus
we were much gratified when the principal of our
parochial school in Fort Smith sent us the copy of
an appeal which had gone out to all the pupils of
the school, urging them not to forget the Jubilee
Collection for our Colored Mission Building Fund.
Principal Eug. E. Wunderlich writes: “We are
staging a vacation drive among the day-school chil-
dren of our school in Fort Smith. If everything
goes well now, we hope to give’ you some nice sup-
port by September. We are sending a letter to all
our children as a reminder.” God bless the en-
deavors of this zealous friend of our Negro Missions
and all others in the same great cause!

THE Jornt CoNFERENCE at NEW ORLEANS. —
Our readers must not neglect to read Pastor Lynn’s
vivid account of the General Conference held at
New Orleans. All reports that have reached us
speak of the Conference as a great success. Let
our readers particularly notice the resolutions re-
ferring to the attainment of self-support on the part
of our Negro congregations. If the congregations
will prove as earnest as were their representatives
in this matter, it will probably mean that the sum
of $500 per month will be released for us elsewhere

in opening up new fields. We know of several con-
gregations that have already acted upon the resolu-
tion and done so enthusiastically.

Tur Jubiwee Fonp.— Our Colored congrega-
tions have contributed about $2,500 to this Fund.
How are our white congregations doing? God give
us all willing hearts! F.J.L.

OO —

BOOK TABLE.

Select Songs for School and Home. Home Edition.
By J. A. Theiss and B. Schumacher. With an in-
troduction on the Rudiments of Music by K. Haase.

Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Sub-
stantial cloth-binding. XVI and 392 pages. Price,

$2.00. Special introductory and exchange prices
upon application.

This is the four-part edition of a book of songs put
out about two years ago. The publication of this Home
Edition will make this collection of English songs even
more popular than it has been. The introduction of this
book into our homes would prove a fine means of expell-
ing a lot of “undesirable musical stuff.”

Address at the Celebration of the Seventy-fifth An-
niversary of the Missouri Synod at Fort Wayne,
Ind. By Prof. W. H. T. Dau. American’ Luther
League, Fort Wayne, Ind.

The American Luther League is willing to furnish
this booklet free of charge, one copy or in quantities,
to any one who will make good use of them. Help to
spread the message contained in this booklet!

Das erfolgreiche Kuvert-Finanzsystem. Seine EKin-
fuchrung und Durchfuehrung. By Pastor 8. A. Stein.
Second edition. Published by the author, 416 W. Co-
lumbia St., Springfield, O. Sold at Lutheran book-
houses. Price, 25 cts. a copy; $2.40 a dozen; $18.00
a hundred.

In calling attention to this very serviceable pamphlet,
we wish to say that the author has also put an excellent
English booklet on the market covering the same subject;
it bears the name, A Guide in Church Finance. We be-
lieve that if we could induce our members to read either
one of these booklets, all our churches would soon intro-
duce the weekly duplex-envelope system. F. J. L.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

Received for Colored Missions from the following Col-
ored congregations: St. Luke’s, High Point, $2.40; St.
Philip’s, Philadelphia, 5.00; Concordia, New Orleans,
15.00; Bethlehem, New Orleans, 50.00; Mount Zion, New
Orleans, 40.00; Bethel, Conover, 1.00; Bethel, Plaque-
mine, 2.00; Bethlehem, Monroe, 4.25; Concordia, Rock-
well, 5.00; through Rey. Carter, 14.50; Grace, Concord,
100.00; Grace, Greensboro, 7.96; Immanuel College in
Greensboro, 19.70; Immanuel, Shankletown, 10.00; Lu-
ther College, New Orleans, 20.00; Mount Calvary, Sandy
Ridge, 12.00; Mount Olive, Catawba, 2.00; Mount Zion,
Rocks, 10.00; St. James’s, Southern Pines, 6.13; St.
John’s, Salisbury, 12.00; St. Luke’s, Spartanburg, 26.28;
St. Mark’s, Atlanta, 5.00; St. Mark’s, Winston-Salem,
3.44; St. Matthew’s, Meherrin, 20.36; St. Paul’s, Char-
lotte, 30.00; Mount Zion, Charlotte, 15.00; St. Paul’s,
Mansura, 5.00; St. Peter’s, Drys Schoolhouse, 75.00; Beth-
any, Yonkers, 45.00; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 15.00; St.
Paul’s, Napoleonville, 20.00; Trinity, New Orleans, 10.00;
St. Paul’s, New Orleans, 40.00. — Total, $649.02.

St. Louis, Mo., July 1, 1922.

H. A. Ditraar, Asst. Treas.,
1944 Clara Ave.