The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1923, Page 74

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show their gratitude than by helping to make Him
known to those children who are still in ignorance
of Him. It would seem to the writer that there is
no religious lesson in the Christian day-school and
no lesson in the Sunday-school that will not afford
the teacher an opportunity to refer to the work of
missions in some way. And besides these brief and
passing references to missions, there is many a les-
son where the importance and meaning of mis-
sionary activities can be referred to at some length
and properly emphasized. Our teachers should all
fully realize that the Christian education of a child
is not complete if it has no knowledge of, and no
interest in, missions, and for this reason they should
not lose sight of this important feature of their
duties and opportunities, but see that the children
entrusted to their care receive all that stands for
a complete Christian education.

The other day the writer received a letter from
the superintendent of our Sunday-school in Lan-
caster, O., Mr. J. A. Frisch, which prompted the
above lines, and he feels that he cannot do better
than close this article with an extract from this
interesting communication. After referring to the
appeal which appeared in the July Pioneer for
Immanuel College, Greensboro, N. C., Mr. Frisch
continues: “Is it not possible to harness up our
Sunday-school [and Christian day-school — Ep.]
pupils throughout the Synodical Conference to raise
the necessary funds for Imnianuel College? We
have never given our children the necessary encour-
agement to give for missionary purposes in a sys-
tematic manner. I feel that through the medium

_ of the PIONEER each and every one of our Sunday-

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schools [and day-schools — Ep.] could be lined up
to collect the fund. ;

_ “In passing, I will say that our Sunday-school
takes up a collection for missions every: Sunday
along with the regular collection for the Expense
Fund, and this collection averages $1.50 each Sun-
day from an enrolment of 110. We had $90 in our
Mission Fund when your appeal appeared, and we

‘sent this amount to Treasurer Wolf to be used for
“Immanuel College. . . .

For the recent collection
for the Chinese children $43 was gathered in four
weeks. As superintendent of our Sunday-school
I know it is a pleasure for the chilfren to give
their pennies and nickels to their Savior. While
being a pleasure for them, they are also being edu-
cated in Christian giving, which surely will be a
great asset of the Church in the future.

“Tt seems to me that the ProNEER is the paper

to bring this before our schools, and if you deem
it advisable, I should like to see this or any other
plan appear in an early issue. Let us put our
children to work. Let them know that they, too,
are a part of the Church and have a service to per-
form. A busy person in God’s kingdom affords an
infertile soil for Satan to till.”

Here a plan is presented which is most practical
because of the ease of its execution: Give all our
boys and girls in our Christian day-schools and
Sunday-schools an opportunity at every school ses-
sion to contribute their mite to the work of mis-
sions; have a mite-box handy in every room where
the children may deposit their gift of love. Who
will follow the example of our Sunday-school in
Lancaster ? FF. J. L.

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North Carolina Notes.

Well, first of all, we had a great, big conference
down at Kannapolis, N. C., August 283—26.
_ing about a conference, this surely was a great one:
bigger and better than anything we have had in
years. Those who were not present missed the event
of their lives. The pastors and teachers arrived
early Thursday morning. ‘That Thursday was truly
a cold day in August. We sat around a hot stove
while having sessions. Organization followed the
usual devotional services. ‘The old officers were re-
elected. We had a number of papers for the pas-

toral conference, but did not find time to hear or-

discuss them. Various problems of our field came
up for consideration. ‘The other fields have been
turning to us for professors and missionaries, and
our field has been géne through as with a fine-tooth
comb, so that we are suffering for, want of workers.
Our great State is making gigantic strides, particu-
larly in education, and we are striving to keep our
schools abreast of the public schools. Professors
Smith and Schuelke and Rev. Hunt were appointed
a school board for our field to devise ways and means
and procure information to enable us to make our
schools as efficient as possible. How to fill the
vacancies in our field was discussed. Various other
questions were also considered.
‘Thursday night divine services were held. Rey.
J. W. Fuller preached an able sermon from Hos.
13, 9. ;
Friday morning the delegate conference began.
- Thursday night and Friday morning the delegates
and visitors arrived. At 10 a. 3x¢. the president, Rev.

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