The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1924, Page 67

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

67

“Under the heading, “I'9 Make Mission of Bath-
house,’ a local newspaper published the following
news on May 8: ‘The Federation of Lutheran
churches submitted the high bid for the bath-house
on Cutter St., south of Betts St., which the city is
offering for sale. Representatives of the Federation
said that the intention was to convert the bath-house
into a Mission.’ The purchase price is a little over
$5,000. The property is a sub-
stantial one-story brick building,
twenty-three feet wide and ninety
fect long. A good basement. is
under the entire building. ‘The
bath fixtures in the building
ought to net a tidy little sum.
The property, of course, will be
deeded to the Federation.

“When the interior of the
building has been rearranged and
made more suitable for the pur-
pose for which it is to serve,
mission-work among the Negroes
can be undertaken in a larger
measure. A Christian day-school
for Colored children can be
opened up. So soon as there
are prospects for such an un-
dertaking, the Colored Mission
Board of the Synodical Confer-
ence will, no doubt, render the
proffered assistance. The mem-
bers of our Colored Mission in
Cincinnati believe that many pu-
pils from among their race can
be gained for such a school, and
they consider it the best and most
blessed means to do missionary
work. One of the members puts
it this way: ‘The Lutheran Chris-
tian day-school is the only reason-
able way of saving my people.’ ”

We have been informed that since the above
was written, a member of the Mission Board was
at Cincinnati to look over the field and confer with
the brethren, who so generously purchased this
property, and to express the appreciation of the
Board for the missionary zeal displayed by the white
churches of Cincinnati. The Executive Committee
of the Mission Board has decided to furnish a
teacher for the school. _

We hope that this movement of the Cincinnati
churches may encourage the brethren in other

Northern cities with large Negro populations to
do likewise. Just a few days ago the writer re-
ceived a letter from a friend in which these words
occurred, “I feel that the Negro Mission up North
is very promising; in fact, we have great oppor-
tunities before our doors that seemingly had not
occurred to most of us before. I do hope that the
Synodical Conference will take action in this im-

Colored Mission Building in Cincinnati.

portant matter and place some missionaries in this
Northern field. Indianapolis ought to be a great
field.” FB. J.L.

A New Worker Installed.

There is so much of self-satisfied Christianity in
the world, so much of it within our own ranks, that
we Lutherans, and by that I mean Missouri Lu-
therans, are so prone to view the announcements
of mission growth with little or no interest. This