The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1924, Sheet 91

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The Autheran Pioneer,

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PUBLISHED BY TILE

EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SyYNODICAL CONFERENCE oF Nortit AME RICA.

REv. F. J. LANKENAU, EDITOR.

Published monthly by Concordia Publishing House, St. Louls, Mo.

Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo.,
Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103,

Subscription price, 50 cts. per annum, payable aa In advance,
under the Act of March 3, 187:
Act of October 3, 1917, authorized on July 5, 5, 1918.

Vol. XLVI. ST. LOUIS, MO., NOVEMBER, 1924. No. 11.
OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY MOTTO.
“Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.’’ Matt. 6, 9.

The Children’s Collection for Negro
Chapels.

Of course, our readers found the last number of
the PronrxER interesting because of the fine report
of the Negro Mission Board submitted by the
Director of Colored Missions, Rev. C. F. Drewes.
And because we are sure that every one of our
readers has read this report through very carefully,
we take it for granted that the hearts of all our
readers are filled with mixed feelings. ‘They join
the Board in praising God for the wonderful growth
our Negro Missions have experienced during the
past two years, a growth unprecedented in the his-
tory of this blessed work. But we know that, like
the Board, they, too, deplore the great lack of
chapels and schools everywhere in our extensive
field. For instance, when you read of the crowded
conditions in Selma; where over one hundred chil-
dren are being instructed in two classes, separated
from one another by a flimsy curtain, in a shack
twenty feet wide and thirty feet long; or when
you looked at the picture of the present church and
school at Pine Hill, Ala., then surely you felt just
as did your delegates at the convention of the
Synodical Conference a few months ago. When
your representatives heard of these conditions, they
with great unanimity declared that something must
be done to better the situation. ‘They felt that a
great wrong is being done our faithful mission-
workers when they are sent out to do our work and
are not better provided with the necessary, facil-
ities to carry on the work of the Lord. And thus
it came about that the convention voted appropria-

tions amounting to $65,000 for the building of
chapels and schools. And when thereupon the
question arose how this appropriation for buildings
could be raised, one of the delegates suggested that
we tell our white boys and girls throughout the
whole Synodical Conference (we have more than
200,000 of them) of this great need of schools and
churches in our Colored Missions and ask them to
undertake the task of gathering a sum sufficient to
carry out the building program.

Accordingly, all the boys and girls in our day-
schools and Sunday-schools will be asked to take
part in this great collection. Director Drewes is
now hard at work “getting the machinery in mo-
tion.” He has already sent out letters to all the
visitors of the Synodical Conference whose names
he knew for the purpose of getting the names of all
the pastors in every circuit and the number of boys
and girls in each congregation. By the time this
reaches our readers, all the pastors and teachers
will have received a letter from the Director, asking
them to give their valuable assistance in making the
collection a success. Parish papers throughout our
whole body will be offered articles as well as cuts
for the articles. Our juvenile periodicals will also
bring reading-matter bearing on the collection. Col-
lection boxes in imitation of the present Pine Hill
chapel (see the October number of the PronExrr)
will be furnished all the schools and Sunday-schools,
and every boy and every girl will be given an
envelope.

Tn order that our boys and girls may take all
the greater interest in this collection, a definite goal .
to be attained will be set for every Synodical. Dis-