The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1923, Page 28

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I also reported on our missions. The services over,
we started for Selma, sixty miles distant. Again
abominable roads most of the way. But the last
ten miles were good, and S. made the Ford go as
fast as the wheels would turn. We reached Selma
at 12.30 a.xr. <A cup of coffee at the Dixie Res-
taurant; a short stop at the post-office; a few
minutes’ chat at the fireplace in the lodging-place
of S. and K., and we turned in at 2 a.m. in the
K.-and-S. room and slept together.

“On Thursday forenoon we visited the Teachers’
Training-school, where S. gives several Catechism
lessons a week to a number of students who wish to
join the Church. Before dinner we paid a short

The Lutheran Pioneer.

After supper at Smith’s cabin, we repaired to the
church and school, which are housed in a private
Negro school-building. Mrs. Julia Abrams, of Oak
Hill, teaches the school at this place. A bell con-
sisting of parts of a steel rail calls the people to
services. In the services S. and I preached. After
the services we ate a lunch at the pulpit table to
strengthen the “inner man” for the strenuous jour-
ney back to Selma. Not a living soul did we sce
on the whole long way back! Upon our arrival at
Selma we took a cup of coffee at the depot restau-
rant and then went to S.’s lodging-place, where he
and K. wrapped the March number of the Colored
Lutheran till 2.30 a.m. We retired at 3 a. M.

‘Teachers’ Training-School, Selma, Ala., March 1, 1923.
Seated (left to right): Mrs. Nettie Moore, teacher; Evie Dale, Mary Bodly, Carrie Gullett,

Emma Dukes, Prof,

Otho Lynn.

Standing (left to right): Julin Jenkins, Grace Smith, Gertrude McBryde, Fannie Ramsey,
Carrie Stallworth, Irma Dulaney.

visit to the mission-school in Hast Selma. After
taking our dinner at a restaurant, we returned to
the East Selma mission-school, where S. gives
several Catechism lessons a week to the upper
-.grades, in which are a number of pupils he expects
to confirm in due time.. In the afternoon we started
for Holy Ark, which is thirty-five miles northeast
of Selma. The first ten miles were good, but when
we turned off the main road, we struck the worst
road I ever saw in my life. Never before have
I traveled on such a rough, winding, desolate road
as the one to Holy Ark; washout to the right and
“to the left at places that-were over a hundred feet
deep and a quarter of a mile Jong; long stretches of
deep sand alternating with deep, miry swamps, ete.

“On Friday morning we looked at several build-
ing sites for the Teachers’ Training-school. On the
way S. complained to me that he had not found
time to mail out the salary checks to the mission-
workers nor to take a bath. §. and K. go to Mobile
and Birmingham once a month. On the other Sun-
days, of the month S. drives 100 to 150 miles to
preach at two or three stations. In between he
writes for, and edits, the Colored Lutheran, looks
over the monthly and the quarterly reports from
fifteen schools and eighteen mission-stations, and
worries over the perplexing problem how to get
time to visit places from which calls have come for
Lutheran services, in some cases for several years,
in vain.” aiert