The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1923, Page 49

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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PuBLISUED BY THE EVANGELICAL LUTITERAN

REv.

Published monthly by Concordia Publishing TIouse, St. Louis, Mo,

Entered as second-class matter at the Post Oflice at St. Louis, Mo.,
Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103,

F. J. LANKENAU,

Synopican CONFERENCE OF Norrit AMERICA,

EDITOR.

Subscription price, 50 cts. per annum, payable strictly In advance,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.

Act of October 3, 1917, authorized on July 5, 1018.

Vol. XLV. ST. LOUIS, MO.,

g ULY, 1923. No. 7.

OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY MOTTO.

‘Every man, woman, and child in heathen darkness is a challenge
to the Church.’’

An Earnest Appeal.

Have you ever wanted to see something and
then, after you had seen it, felt sorry that you
had seen it? ‘That is the way I feel sometimes
since I have seen our Immanuel College at Greens-
boro. I always had the wish to sce this institution,
but since I have seen it, I often have a feeling
much akin to sadness for having seen it. You ask
why I should feel that way. Let me tell you.

_ I found at Greensboro a faculty, mostly com-
posed of young men, that was just “aching” to do
things. All of them were as busy as they could be;
every one of them practically bubbling over with
enthusiasm for the work he was engaged in; every
‘one of them doing more work than is ordinarily
expected from an instructor; not one of them com-
plaining of having too much work, but apparently
willing to do even more. And all this despite a host
of handicaps; all this despite innumerable diffi-
culties and drawbacks. Actually, friends, the con-
ditions and circumstances under which our young
professors at Greensboro are expected to work are
such as should not be found nor tolerated in the
Synodical Conference. What would you think of
a contractor who would expect workmen to dig
a ditch or make a road without shovels, spades,
scrapers, and the like? What would you think of
a farmer in these days who would expect his hired
men to farm his land without plows, harrows, cul-
tivators, mowers, reapers, horses, aud all the other

things that a farmer needs to make farming a sue-
What would you think of a contractor who
expected his. carpenters to put up a house without
hammers and saws and nails and ‘serews? Of
course, these things can be done; ditches can be
dug and roads can be made without proper tools,-
a farm can be tilled without modern implements,
and I have seen log houses that had been: erected
without hammer, saw, nail, or screw. But isn’t it
unreasonable to expect these things to be done
under such handicaps? Isn’t it a waste of precious
time and valuable man-power in these days of
modern implements to build roads and houses and
run farms without the aid of adequate tools?

Our faculty at Immanuel College is doing won-
derful work despite the handicaps besetting them
on all sides. ‘The graduates they turn out are the
equals of any institution of the same grade in the
South. ‘The writer is in a position to make a com-
parison, and he herewith declares without hesitation
that the showing which the graduates of Immanuel
Lutheran College made was most favorable. Sey-
eral times he said to two friends who had accom-
panied him on his trip: “If these teachers are able
to make such a good showing under these most
deplorable conditions, what couldn’t they do if
they were given a real chance!”

Tt was said of Mark Hopkins, the celebrated
American college president, that to make a uni-
versity all that was necessary would be to put him
at one end of a log and a student at the other end.

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