The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1924, Page 38

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duced the writer to the gathering. In his address
the speaker showed that the 35,000 Negroes of
Cincinnati were a challenge to them as citizens and
as Christians. He emphasized the great spiritual
need of these thousands of strangers who had come
to live among them and asked them to come to the
rescue by supplying their religious and moral wants.
After the editor’s address very interesting talks were
given by Mr. W. H. Hoerr, chairman of the federa-
tion’s Board of Trustees, Mr. C. W. Bredenfoerder,
the chairman of the meeting, and Pastor Littmann.

And the result? This, that $3,906.50 was sub-
scribed at this meeting for the purchase of a suitable
home for the local Negro Mission! A canvass of
the congregations is expected to double this sum,
at least. And mark well, dear reader, this money
is being gathered by six small congregations. All
told, our six white churches in Cincinnati scarcely
number 1,200 communicants. And yet this handful
of Christians has the courage to undertake the
purchase of a local plant for a Negro mission!

A property, a former public bath-house, has
already been selected as a suitable mission-plant.
This property consists of a substantial one-story
brick structure twenty-three feet wide and ninety
feet long and can be bought for a little over $5,000.
The bath fixtures in the building can be disposed
of at a handsome figure. The building can easily
be divided into two rooms, so that the front room
can be used as a chapel and the rear room for school
purposes. The officials of the federation are of the
opinion that this property, if purchased, can easily
be put into proper condition and suitably furnished
for church and school purposes without going be-
yond the $10,000 appropriated.

Thus the missionary spirit of our Cincinnati
white Lutherans is going to make it possible for
the Colored Mission Board to carry on a promising
work in their city. By providing the Board with
a plant, these Christians are making it possible to
carry on a blessed enterprise which otherwise could
not be undertaken. We personally feel that our
Cincinnati brethren have found a solution to a diffi-
cult problem and -have shown how it can be made
possible for our Negro Mission Board to carry on
a work for which there is such a crying need in
s0 many of our Northern cities, but which till now
could not be done because the means to provide the
necessary plants were not at hand.

May our brethren in other Northern cities fol-
Tow the example of our Cincinnati congregations!

Items of Missionary Interest.

Patter’s Lanp, New Or.eans. — Pastor E. TH.
Wildgrube, of St. Paul’s, New Orleans, by request
delivered a lecture on the distinctive doctrines of
the Lutheran Church before the members of
St. Luke’s Pan American Congregationalist Church,
on Thursday, March 27. Our missionary did this
upon the urgent request of the above congregation
and by the advice of his conference. May his testi-
mony bear much fruit!

Director or Missions. — Rev. C. F. Drewes,
Director of Colored Missions, recently spent several
weeks in Louisiana and Alabama. During his trip
he visited most of the mission-stations in those two
States and also Luther College in New Orleans
and the Teachers’ Training-school in Selma. He
was also granted the privilege of addressing the
Southern District Synod, which held its annual
sessions in New Orleans while he was in that city.
In another part of this number the reader may
read extracts from a letter which the Director wrote

- from Selma while on his trip.

New Workers rn tHe ALABAMA Fretp. — The
force of laborers in Alabama has been increased by
the accession of two new laborers. One of these is
Pastor Paul Weeke, formerly of Superior, Wis., the
other Rev. Isaac Holness, formerly a worker in the
West Indies. Pastor Holness was installed in his
new field of labor at Birmingham, Ala., March 16,
by Director Drewes and Superintendent Schmidt.

Sysremaric Missionary Punricrry. — There is
perhaps no more indefatigable and efficient man in
charge of missionary publicity within the bounds of
the Synodical Conference than Rev. A. W. Bruegge-
mann, the Walther League missionary secretary of
the Northern and Southern Nebraska Districts,
Missouri Synod. It was Pastor Brueggemann who
arranged Pastor Carter’s lecture itineraries last
year, on which 122 lectures were delivered in the
interest of our Negro Missions. He is now ar-
ranging for the giving of three missionary lectures
in his territory: Foreign Missions in China, Home
Missions in Brazil, and District Home Missions.
Strenuous efforts are being made to induce all
the congregations of both the Northern and the
Southern Nebraska Districts to apply for all three
lectures. The lectures are illustrated with a large
number of good slides. It would surely give a great
impetus to the work of missions throughout our
Synodical Conference if such publicity work were
done in all the Districts.

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