The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1922, Sheet 82

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

posed to establish a Normal High School in Ala-
bama. The teaching force shall be Colored.

5. The Missionary Board. — As Pastor J. W.
Schulze accepted a call into the Minnesota District
of the Wisconsin Synod, in January, 1921, and thus
withdrew from the Board, Prof. Th. Graebner of
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, was chosen to fill
the vacancy. — At the request of the Board and with
the consent of President Gausewitz and the com-
mittee chosen by the Synodical Conference in 1920,
President Bergemann of the Wisconsin Synod, early
in 1921, provisionally appointed two advisory mem-
bers of the Board from his Synod, namely, President
Im. F. Albrecht of Fairfax, Minn., and Pastor W. A.
Hoenecke of Milwaukee. To date three plenary
meetings of the Board have been held with these
two advisory members. The arrangement has proved
very satisfactory. It lies with the Synodical Con-
ference to decide whether this arrangement is to be
permanent or not. It may here be mentioned that
the Wisconsin Synod has set aside $20,000 in its
budget for this year for our Colored Missions and
that it is giving our Mission its first laborer this
year in the person of Rev. Walter A. Beck. — Be-
cause of the expansion of the Negro Missions and
the increase in work devolving upon the Board, it
has been decided that the Board no longer meet
every month, as was the case heretofore, but that
the meetings be bimonthly. Two of the six meetings
in the year are to be plenary meetings; that is, all
the members of the Board, also those of the Wis-
consin Synod, are to attend these two meetings. An
executive committee, consisting of the President of
the Board, the Director of Missions, and the Treas-

Delegates to the Jubilee Convention of the Ev. Luth.|

urer of the Board, are to transact the business that
may come up between the meetings of the Board and
then report on their actions at the Board’s meetings.
— The terms of the following members of the Board
have expired: Prof. G. Mezger, Treasurer E. Schuett-
ner, and Pastor L. A. Wisler.

6. The Jubilee Collection. — Incident to the
fiftieth anniversary of the Synodical Conference,
the Board for Colored Missions has addressed all
congregations with the request that they give a
thank-offering for the benefit of our Colored Mis-
sions. Three illustrated circulars were sent out: -
1. Bringing the Negro Children to Jesus. (In-
tended for day-school and Sunday-school children.)
2. A Message to the Young People of the Synod-
ical Conference of North America. 1872—1922.
3. A Hearty Appeal to the Women of the Synodical
Conference. (German and English.) Printed let-
ters addressed to the pastors and teachers accom-
panied the circulars. The collection is still in
progress; for this reason the result is not yet
known. But even if the expected sum of $150,000
is not reached (though that amount is sorely needed
to erect the necessary buildings), our Colored Mis-
sions will have had the benefit of the publicity occa-
sioned by this collection.

%. Publicity. — To spread information concern-
ing our Negro Missions and to awaken and sustain
interest for this enterprise, the following is being
done: The Jfissionstaube and the LutnHrran P10-
NEER are published monthly. The subscription
price of each is 50 cents a year. Both periodicals
should have a far larger number of subscribers. —
The three illustrated lectures on our Colored Mis-