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The Lutheran Pioneer.

cient to conduct an occasional missionary service
and to take an annual offering. ‘here must be
persistent, continuous teaching and training. One
of the most important things is to create a mis-
sionary atmosphere. Mottoes, maps, and pictures
on the wall help to do this. Missionary hymns
should be frequently sung. Prayers for missions
and missionaries should be offered every Sunday.
The library should provide attractive missionary
books. A bulletin board containing from Sunday
to Sunday outstanding facts, figures, and incidents
from mission-fields will help. Occasional pageants
may be made very instructive. Five minutes or
even one or two minutes before or after the teach-
ing of the lesson of the day may be advantageously
devoted to striking incidents in the lives and work
of missionaries. Above all, definite missionary
teaching should be done in the classes. ‘This may
be’done, as Dr. Trull indicates, by an interpretation
of the missionary idea of the lesson or by bringing
in illustrations from missionary history and biog-
raphy. ‘The ingenious superintendent and teacher
will add to these suggestions indefinitely. Where
it is possible, a superintendent of missionary edu-
cation should be clected by the Sunday-school
Teachers’ Association to cooperate with depart-
mental superintendents in working out plans for
the different departments. _ ,
Dr. John T. McFarland says: “Let us carry
*missions into our Sunday-schools primarily for the
sake of the children themselves, that they may come
to their largest development.” aa
The Foreign Missionary.

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Inadequate Schools.

The Russell Sage Foundation has been investi-
gating the’ public schools of Atlanta, Ga. It found,
in June, 1913, that out of 10,118 Negro children of
school age but 2,924 were enrolled.

Atlanta furnishes for its 17,000 white Ce
thirty-eight grammar schools, a boys’ high school,

_a girls’ high school, a boys’ technical high school,
a girls’ English commercial high school and five
night-schools. ‘

For .the 10,118 Colored children it furnishes
eleven grammar schools. ‘The whites have 426
teachers and the Negroes have 82. ‘The report says
that inadequacy of equipment was most noted in

td the Negro schools. If Atlanta had twice as many
____&chools, she would be making only a good beginning

in providing Negro children with school facilities.
Not only are the classes overcrowded, but practically
all are on a half-time basis. Of the ninety-one
classes in'the Negro public schools sixty-six were
on part time.

In addition, over 300 Negro children were
turned away because there were not even enough
half-time opportunities. Many others would have
applied had there been any possibility of gaining
admission.

Negro teachers are paid only three-fifths as much
as the white teachers. All classes had at least forty
pupils to one teacher, and fifty-two had fifty or more
to one teacher.

Tt must be remembered that Atlanta is ranked
as one of the most progressive of Southern cities.

The Crisis.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

Received for Colored Missions from the following Col-
ored congregations: Alabama, $8.20 and 3.15; Bethany,
Yonkers, 50.00; Bethel, Conover, 3.28; Concordia, Rock-
well, 10.00; Mount Olive, Catawba, 2.25; Bethel, Char-
lotte, 11.50; Bethlehem, Monroe, 5.00; Concordi
Orleans, 15.00; Grace, Concord, 40.00; Grace, Greens
8.24; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 2.00; Immanuel Lutheran Col-
lege, Greensboro, 564.85; Immanuel, Shankletown, 5.00;
Lecture tour (Rey. M. N. Carter), 25.00; Luther College,
New Orleans, 35.00; Mount Calvary, Kannapolis, 14.00;
Mount Zion, New Orleans, 40.00; Mount Zion, Rocks,
15.50; St. James’s, Southern Pines, 8.17; St. John’s, Salis-
bury, 14.00; St. Luke’s, Spartanburg, 15.00; St. Mark’s,
Atlanta, 15.00; St. Mark’s, Winston-Salem, 10.12; St.
Matthew’s, Meherrin, 24.23; Mount Zion, Charlotte, 16.00;
St. Paul’s, Charlotte, 32.00; St. Paul’s, Mansura, 12.50;
St. Paul’s, Napoleonville, 23.00; St. Peter’s, Drys School-
house, 15.00; St. Philip’s, Philadelphia, 5.00; Bethlehem,
New Orleans, 57.50; Zion, Gold Hill, 7.00; Mount Cal-
vary, Mount Pleasant, 7.00. — Zolal, $1,119.49.

St. Louis, Mo., May 1, 1923.

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