The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1924, Page 37

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out the country by means of lectures. Rev. Carter
was very successful on the lecture platform and
succeeded in creating much interest in the work
wherever he spoke.

Letters like the following plainly show the im-
pression that he made on his hearers : —

Lincoln, Kans., February 10, 1924.
Rev. M. N. Carter,
Chicago, Hl.
Drar Friend: —

T received your letter shortly after Christmas.
Thank you for the grectings. I am enclosing a
dollar for the mission, which I saved in dimes.

Best regards from my pastor and from my
people.

Your friend,
LENA OBERMUELLER.

Box 61, Congress Park, Il.
February 17, 1924.
Dear Pastor Carrer: —

Enclosed you will find a check for $12 for the
Colored Missions.
most interesting lecture one of my fourth-grade
girls, Katherine Zuttermeister by name, came to me
with an envelope for the little Negro children, in
which she had a $10 gold piece.

The same week my grades had a sleighride party.
There remained $2 in the treasury. This they also
voted to give to Negro Missions.

You may rest assured that your lecture made
a deep impression upon our people, and IT think
there‘ will always remain a warm spot in their
hearts for this mission.

Wishing you God’s blessing in your new field of
labor, I remain, A. I. mers.

F.J.L.

Cincinnati’s Enthusiastic Response
to a Challenge.

It is a fact well known to our readers that the
black man has been leaving the South at the rate
of hundreds of thousands every year. There are
districts in some of the Southern States that are
becoming virtually depopulated as far as the Col-
ored people are concerned. Though the South, since
this wholesale migration began, has held out great
inducements to the Negro to hold him to his native
soil, these in most cases proved to be in vain. The
Negro had made up his mind to seek his fortune
in the promised land of the North, and to the

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North, especially to its great industrial cities, he
would go.

Our good Lutherans of Cincinnati have realized
for some years past that their fair city was also
receiving its quota of Southern Negroes, and that
its Colored population was rapidly increasing.
When the Synodical Conference met almost two
years ago in Cincinnati and there celebrated its
semicentennial, the local Christians heard much of
the blessed work their Lutheran Church has been
doing for years among the Negroes of the South-
land. What they heard led them to lend a willing
ear to the pleas of their city missionary, Rev. Geo.
H. Kase, who had already been prospecting among
the Colored people of the city, to give him support
in the work which he intended to take up, especially
among’ the Negro immigrants from the South.

- For more than a year Pastor Kase has been
conducting services at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Livingston, who formerly were connected with one
of our churches in the South. He has also been
giving catechetical instruction to 2 number of per-
sons, who will soon be ready for confirmation.
Rey. Kase has thus already gathered a fine nucleus
for a future Colored congregation.

But what this new mission needs is a home of
its own. It needs not only a church home, but,
above all, a school home. ‘There is every reason to
believe that a Christian day-school would be fre-
quented by a large number of pupils from the very
beginning. It is the opinion of, those who have
already been gained that the Christian day-school
is the best and most blessed means to do missionary
work among the Negroes. As a highly educated
Negro whom we met, put it: “The Lutheran Chris-
tian day-school is the only reasonable way of saving
my people.”

The Cincinnati Federation of Missouri Lutheran
churches no sooner realized the great need of the
Negroes among them than they determined to prose-
cute the work so unselfishly begun by their city
missionary. With admirable courage the federa-
tion determined to appropriate $10,000 to procure
a home for their local Colored Mission. Having
determined this, a mass-meeting of all the members
of our churches in Cincinnati was called for Sunday
afternoon, March 23, at old Trinity Church on
Race St., Rey..Th. Moellering, pastor.

Though the weather was by no means propitious,
the response of the members to this call was most
gratifying. After a devotional service, conducted
by Pastor Moellering, Rev. P. 1. Dannenfeldt intro-

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