The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1923, Page 55

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ardent affections. It will be hard, indeed, to fill
her place in school. As a wife she was a true help-
meet to her husband. No one could enter her home
without feeling the warmth of her genial hospitality
and her unselfish joy in serving others.”

May our heavenly Father comfort Pastor Fuller
in his great bereavement and assure him of His
abiding presence and strength! FJ. 1.

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Items of Missionary Interest.

Resignation. — Prof. G. Mezger tendered his
resignation as member and president of the Board
of Colored Missions at the board meeting held
May 10. With deep regret his resignation was

Prof. Th. Graebner.

Prof. G. Mezger, D. D.

accepted. He had becen a member of the board
since 1908 and its president since 1917. His pres-
ence at the meetings of the board and his wise
counsel will be greatly missed by his former co-
members. Prof. Theodore Graebner was unani-
mously chosen to succeed Professor Mezger as the
head of the board. We congratulate the board upon
its wise and happy choice. ‘

TRANSFERS. — Pastors Lehman and Carlson
have been transferred from North Carolina to Ala-
bama. ‘The former will become teacher at the
Teachers’ Training-school, and the latter will take
charge of a number of congregations and thus re-
lieve Superintendent Schmidt, who has been over-
burdened with work and is just now taking a needed
rest in Iowa.

Tracners’ Insrrrure.— The annual teachers’
institute: of the Alabama workers ,will be held at
Holy Ark, Ala., August 1 to 5. Our next issue

will bring a report on this important missionary
gathering.

Lururr Conuece. — We rejoice to hear that

' Prof. H. Nau, Ph. D., will not accept the call to the
Seminary at Porto Alegre, Brazil. Luther College
may, indeed, be thankful that the services of this
excellent man are to be retained for the institution.
His removal would have been a most serious loss
for our Colored Missions as a whole.

Sr. Louis, Mo. — We are very sorry to be com-
pelled to report that Rev. Herbert Claus, for a num-
ber of years the faithful and successful missionary
at St. Louis and Springfield, has accepted a call to
a white congregation near St. Louis. As a result of
Pastor Claus’s leaving, certain changes are to be
made in the manning of the St. Louis and Spring-
field.charges.

IMMANUEL CoLLEGe. — Rev. G. Viehweg, of
Arapahoe, Nebr., has been called as professor at
Greensboro. Should he accept, he will be active
in the theological department of the school.

F.J.L.

Walther League Convention.

The thirty-first international convention of the
Walther League will be held in Detroit, Mich.,
July 15 to 19. Reports from all parts of the
country indicate that this will be the best-attended
convention in the history of the Walther League.
It is expected that about three thousand young
people will attend the sessions, and that the open-
ing service, Sunday afternoon, July 15, will be
attended by no less than five thousand Lutheran
people. :

The usual reports of the committees will give
a general survey of hospice work, charitable en-
deavors, Foreign Missions work, Junior department,
educational activities, and all phases of League
work. ‘The missionary exhibit will display curios,
charts, literature, and idols from heathen Jands.

The tenth hospice of the League was secured in
Los Angeles, Cal., where the need of such an insti-
tution for travelers and visitors was keenly felt.
It is a fine $18,000 residence, which can be used
for hospice purposes without many alterations and
is situated in one of the finest sections of California.
At a recent convention of the Eastern District it
was resolved to establish a large hospice in our
nation’s capital. The Pennsylvania District at its .
recent convention likewise gave hospice work the