The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1923, Page 71

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school are preparing to open their doors for the
new school-year. Among the students will be a
mumber who will have to depend upon the help of
Christian friends to help them through. ‘These stu-
dents have been prevailed upon to prepare them-
selves for the work in the Lord’s vineyard, to be
pastors and teachers among their people, and they
have been told that kind Christian friends will help
them along. However, the fund for indigent Col-
ored students is not only down to nothing, but to
less than nothing — it has a deficit of $1,000 at the
time of this writing.

All in all, we have probably twenty-five students
who need financial help, and to take care of them
we ought to have about $3,000 annually. Will not
some kind Christians come to the rescue? Would
it not be possible for a number of District indigent
students’ funds, as they now exist, to take over the
care of one or two Colored students? The Editor
knows of a conference students’ fund which has
done that. What a pity it would be if these stu-
dents who are preparing themselves for the ministry
or for the oflice of parochial school teacher should
have to give up their studies because of a Jack of
funds to carry them through! F. J. LL.

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Items of Missionary Interest.

A Muisstonary Doctor Catuep. — Dr. W.
Hoopmann, a son of Pastor Hoopmann in South
Australia and one of our young Lutheran medical
practitioners, has received a call from the Foreign
Missions Board of the Missouri Synod in America
to enter their mission-fields in India, there to suc-
ceed Dr. Docderlein, who has done the pioneer work
of a medical man. Because a doctor or nurse can
often win the heart of a heathen by ministering to
the body with tender care, and especially with
genuine Christian charity, we aim to call Christian
medical men and nurses, who are of the household
of faith, so that they can work in harmony with
the missionaries and, wherever opportunity presents
itself, tell the afllicted patient of his spiritual ail-
ment and point him to Jesus, the Savior. — Aus-
tralian’ Lutheran.

Sr. Paui’s, New ORLEANS. — Pastor Wildgrube
‘ was able to receive a number of adults by confirma-
tion a short time ago. We learn that he is also
doing systematic missionary work in the Colored
wards of the large Charity Hospital of the city.
Just recently his attention was called to a: large

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unoccupied Colored missionary territory several
miles west of his church. ‘The neighborhood is
called Pailet’s Land, and since he has a number of
families living in that neighborhood. he is looking
about for a building suitable to hold services. As
soon as he has found such a building. he will have
resular services and Sunday-school sessions. Pos-
sibly a school will be opened there also.

A New Teacter at Sr. Lours. — Miss Phyllis
Jones, an honor graduate of the Springfield, M1.
publie high school, has been appointed teacher of
ihe lower grades of our mission-school at St. Louis.
Miss Jones is a member of our Springfield congre-
gation and has always been a hard church-worker.

Coxcorp, N. C. — Mr. Holsten,, a graduate of
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo., has been called
to succeed Rey. Paul Lehman as pastor of Grace
Church, Concord. Mr. Holsten has accepted the
call extended to him.

Cmicaco Universrry. — Prof. R. 0. L. Lynn,
of the Teachers’ ‘Training-school at Selma, Ala.,
and Rey. Paul Lehman, who has been called as the
second professor of this institution, are attending
Chicago University this summer. They are, of
course, pursuing studies that will be helpful to
them as teachers of the Teachers’ Training-school.

Necro Mrcrarion. —It is reported that more
than 225,000 Negroes have migrated from the State
of Georgia during the past three years. This enor- -
mous emigration is causing a very acute labor short-
age in the towns and on the farms. Business men
and algo farmers are beginning to realize that they
are largely to blame for this state of affairs and are
earnestly considering ways and means of remedying
the evils of the present situation.

Great Suortace or Epucatep NEGRo Pastors.
The demand is for 1,500 educated Negro pastors
every year, while the schools supply only about one
hundred trained men annually. There are about
50,000 Negro churches in the United States of all
denominations. ‘There are not a few Colored min-
isterial training-schools in the country, but there
are only a few Colored men, comparatively, who
are willing to take theological training. This is
most deplorable; for one of the most serious draw-
backs confronting the Negro race in America is
the lack of training on the part of seventy-five per
cent. of its ministers.

_A ‘Tracey ApMonttr1on. — Refering to the great
migration of Negroes to the North, Our Catholic
Missions, a periodical devoted to Roman, Catholic.