The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1924, Page 92

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92 The Lutheran Pioneer.

Anniversary of the Indian Mission
at Red Springs, Wis.

September 21, 1924.

Our mission, twenty-five years ago,

Was poor, despised, and weak, and low;

The wonderful changes that were wrought

Are solely due to the grace of God.

“Thy kingdom come,” our prayer shall be

Till we come to the heavenly jubilee.
-..TZM...

It is thus that a former missionary of the Mis-
souri Synod Indian Mission at Red Springs, Wis.,
gives expression to his thoughts as his memory re-
verts to the beginnings of this enterprise and looks
forward to the culmination of all our labors and
hopes.

On account of the rainy weather the morning

services were held in Zion Lutheran Indian Church.
The anniversary service in the morning was partly
German and partly English. The German anni-
versary sermon in this service was- preached by
Pastor H. A. Handrich, of Luxembourg, Wis. He
based his discourse on Ps.111,1.2. ‘The choir of
the white Lutheran Church at Shawano rendered an
anthem. The English sermon was delivered by Rev.
Robert Kretzmann, of Kokomo, Ind., one of the
first missionaries of the Red Springs Indian mis-
sion, He spoke on Ps. 145, 5.6, pointing out how
God had shown His grace toward the mission in
the past, how He was showing it at the present
time, and that we may be assured of it for the

_ future.

The afternoon services were held on the shores
of beautiful Lake Gennesaret. In this service the
hymns were accompanied by a brass band from Belle
Plaine, Wis. ‘The children of the Indian school
sang “Lead Me to Jesus,” and the choir of the
Lutheran church at Bonduel rendered a selection.
Pastor Dallmann, of Milwaukee, preached a force-
ful sermon on the Biblical truth that Christian
ministers are the ambassadors of Christ. In the
same service Rey. Cornelius Aaron, a child of the
Red Springs Indian Mission, himself an Indian and
lately installed as missionary among his people at
Oneida, Wis., preached on Ps. 103,1.2. ‘The col-
lection lifted during the. afternoon service is to be
devoted to the equipping of the new mission church

_at Oneida.

Both services were attended by a large number
of white Lutherans from neighboring congregations.
F.J.L.

A Short’ Chapter on Gifts.

About six weeks ago the Editor received the
following from President Smith of Immanuel Col-
lege, Greensboro, N. C.: “When I returned from
our Salisbury conference, I found that Mr. H. 8.
Freihube, of Milwaukee, Wis., who had previously
corresponded with me and inquired about the total
cost of educating a colored boy at our institution,
had sent me a draft for $900 to cover the expenses
of an orphan boy at our school for the term of seven
years. He had heard of this particular boy and his
desire to study for the ministry, but had never met
him personally. The boy will enter our school this
fall, and we hope he will prove worthy of the sup-
port which is being so generously given him by
Mr. Freihube. Provision has been made to apply
the money to some other worthy student in case the
present beneficiary should die or prove unworthy.”

We deem it our duty thus publicly to acknowl-
edge the generosity of our Christian brother, and
in doing so we cherish the fond hope that his ex-
ample will encourage others to a like deed of love.
We have a number of young Negroes, poor but
worthy, who stand in need of such help. It is
surely a glorious work, that of helping a worthy
young colored man to fit himself for the ministry
among his people.

Then, too, President Smith asks the PIONEER to
acknowledge the receipt of an altar- and pulpit-
cover from the Ladies’ Aid of Zion [Lutheran
Church, Thayer, Nebr., sent by Mrs. Paul Schmidt.