The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1924, Page 5

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The Lutheran Pioneer. 5

The student-body, the professors, and the members
of conference were present. Pastor Hill, of Yon-
kers, N. Y., preached an inspiring sermon, using
Luke 16, 15 as the basis of his discourse. The Lord’s
Supper was celebrated in this service. After the
service the members of conference continued in ses-
sion until ten o’clock. They then went to the col-
lege, where the men were domiciled for the night.
The lady teachers slept at the dormitory. Early
next morning sessions were opened at eight thirty.
The raising of the funds for our new dormitory was
discussed and also the advisability of earnestly re-
questing our Mission Board to begin the work as
soon as possible. Mr. G. Ferguson then read an
instructive paper on “The Aim and Purpose of Our
Lutheran Day-schools.” This paper was discussed
at length. As all the members had to be at home
before Sunday, conference adjourned at one o’clock.
—At this conference we welcomed two new mem-
bers, Pastor Tolsten, who has charge of Grace
Church at Concord, N.C., and Prof. F. Nacther, a
graduate of Decorah, Iowa, and of the University
of Iowa, who for the past nine years has had charge
of a Colored congregation in Porto Rico. He is
assisting at Immanuel during Professor Smith’s ill-
ness. Both these brethren took an active part in
the deliberations and helped to make our sessions
profitable and interesting. The faculty entertained
the conference and spared no pains to make the
visit pleasant for the brethren.

Greer, 8. C. — All our brethren will rejoice to
hear that our work in Greer is making splendid
progress. Our school was opened in September and
now has an enrolment of 35 children.
W. Fuller baptized five and confirmed one just, be-
fore coming to conference. The prospects for the
future are bright and promising at this place.

CuHANGEs 1x Our Fretp. — Early in the new
year the Rev. F. Foard, who has served country sta-
tions so long that he is known as the “Country
Parson,” will move to High Point and also serve
Southern Pines. Professor Shufelt, who has served
at Immanuel College for the past two years, will
take charge of Gold Hill, Rockwell, and The Rocks.
Pastor March, in addition to serving St. John’s at
Salisbury, will look after the stations at Conover
and Catawba. Pastor Lash has already taken charge
of Grace at Greensboro and Elon College; he also
has charge of the catechumen class at the college.
He had confirmation on the second Sunday in De-
cember, but your correspondent did not learn how
many he confirmed; he also failed to get the names

The Rev. J. .

and number of additions at the other stations. — All
our teachers and pastors are busy arranging their
Christmas exercises and services. J. McD.

Items of Missionary Interest.

ALABAMA. — Our Colored churches in Alabama
at present have a baptized membership of 1,041 and
a communicant membership of 520. — At Buena
Vista it was necessary to build an addition to the
church. — The mission-workers on the Alabama
field met for a conference at Buena Vista Decem-
ber 30 to January 2. Pastor Holness, who has been

Prof. Paul Lehman
of the Teachers’ Training-School, Selma, Ala.

put in charge of the new mission at Birmingham,
found a number of Lutherans in that city. A day-
school has been opened. .

A LarcE Dericrr. — Due to the Fundamentalist
controversy in the Presbyterian Church the mission
treasuries are suffering greatly. It is feared that
the deficit in the foreign missions treasury will grow
to the enormous figure of $1,200,000 by the end of
the fiscal year.

THE LuTHERAN ORIENT Mission. — This so-
ciety is working among the wild Kurds of Persia
and Turkey. It has given the Kurds a written
language, into which it has translated the New
Testament. It has also published hymn-books, Lu-
ther’s Small Catechism, and other Christian litera-
ture in this language. !