The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1924, Page 63

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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Items of Missionary Interest.

New Lazorers. — Mr. Andrew Schulze, a
graduate of the Seminary at Springfield Tll., has
accepted the call to Holy Trinity Church at
Springfield, and Mr. Paul Trumpoldt, who recently
graduated from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis,
will soon take up the work of a missionary among
the Negroes of Philadelphia and Washington.
Candidate Wm. F. Schink, of Wauwatosa Sem-
inary, will work among the Negroes of Mobile, Ala.

ALABAMA. — God is visibly blessing the work
of our missionaries in the Black Belt of Alabama.
During the first five months of the current year
no less than two hundred accessions could be re-

ported. May God continue to bless the work of
our laborers! Speaking of Alabama, it is also

worthy of note that our Colored members are
steadily nearing the goal of self-support. Super-
intendent Schmidt reports that the average income
on the field has increased from $300 per month in
1923 to almost $500 per month in this year! — At
the time of this writing, building operations on the
new ‘Teachers’ raining-school at Selma are well
under way and everything possible is being done to
have the building in condition for occupancy this
fall when the new school-year opens. — Negotia-
tions are under way for a home for our new mission
in Mobile, Pine Hill is to have a new chapel by
fall, and in East Selma a building should be
erected.

Nor Krerinc Pace. —In a recent circular,
Pastor Weidmann of the Missouri Synod ‘Church
Textension Board calls attention to the fact that
in many important centers our Church is not keep-
ing pace with the growth of population, largely
because our people are not providing the Chureh
Extension Funds with the means of helping new,
small, and struggling congregations to obtain needed
churches and chapels, as is done by other church-
bodies. Among other things, Pastor Weidmann
states in his appéal that more than a hundred ap-
plicants for help are now worshiping in lodge-halls,
in private homes, and in one instance even in an
abandoned real estate office. That the work must
be greatly handicapped under such circumstances
and conditions goes without saying. What a pity
it is, indeed, that our people upon the whole do
Not realize the wonderful opportunities offered by
a well-filled Church Extension Fund! ‘

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MEpIcAL MISSIONS ON THE FOREIGN FIELD. —
For years other denominations have realized the
great value of medical missions in opening the way
for the saving Gospel of Christ into the hearts of
men. ‘The wonderful success which attended the
small beginnings of such medical work under the
efficient leadership of Dr. Doederlein, of Chicago,
who worked as a volunteer in the hospital of the
Missouri Synod Foreign Missions at Ambur, India,
was only a repetition of the experiences of others.
Referring to the great possibilities offered by this
phase of mission-work, Pastor Herzberger writes in
the latest number of the Lutheran Deaconess the
following : —

“How can we provide for this erying need of
Lutheran medical missionaries? Our answer is:
Give our theological graduates or young pastors
who in burning love for their Savior are willing
to give their life to the blessed work and have the
sanction of our Foreign Mission Board and our
theological faculty, a thorough training in an ap-
proved medical school and then send them out into
the field. God has put it into the heart of one of
this year’s St. Louis graduates to prepare himself
for medical mission work. It is Candidate Norbert
Leckband from Iowa. Now, since our Foreign Mis-
sion Treasury has no funds to let Mr. Leckband
study at the medical college, and as he himself has
no means, we, who love our Savior’s cause, must
help this fine young Christian to accomplish his
sacred purpose. He will have to study four years
before he can graduate from the medical college
and become a full-fledged doctor of medicine. That
will mean a lot of financial assistance on our part.
Pastor Wambsganss and the Indiana District of the
Walther League stand ready to do their part. et
us do our bil! ‘The Editor is willing to receive any
contributions for Mr. Leckband and’ acknowledge
them in the following number -of the Lutheran
Deaconess.

‘May God bless our Foreign Missioh work and -
this our first medical missionary student!”

Address: ‘Rev. F. W. Herzpercer, 3619 Iowa
Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

Cirry Misston-Work. — Here and there in our
Church, the congregations in our larger cities are
awakening to the great importance of doing mis-
sion-work in the various public institutions found
in their midst. Chicago, St. Louis, Buffalo, Mil-
waukee, and other larger Lutheran centers have
been carrying on this blessed work for a number