The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1924, Page 93

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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The kind donors hope that their gift will help to
- ereate a desire in others to assist our colored Chris-
tians in beautifying their churches.

Finally, President Smith desires the PIoNEER
to make public acknowledgment of the receipt of
three quilts for Immanuel Lutheran College from
the Ladies’ Aid of Rev. M. C. Kauth’s congregation
at Kennewick, Wash.

The PIoNEER received $7, in three instalments,
from “A Walther Leaguer.” In sending the last
payment of three dollars, the kind donor says, “This
week’s tithe goes to the Negro Missions. More
later.” This donor is still a young man, and the
fact that he is voluntarily tithing himself is there-
fore particularly worthy of mention.

While speaking of gifts, it may not be amiss to
state that Pastor G. A. Schmidt, Box 683, Selma,
Ala., the superintendent of the Alabama field, asks
us to place a plea for clothes for Christmas dis-
tribution among their poor and needy in the Pyio-
NEER. We gladly do this, and we are sure that this
plea from Alabama will not be made in vain. This
is the time for fall house-cleaning, and we feel cer-
tain that our good housewives will come across
many a piece of clothing and many a pair of shoes
for which they have no particular use, but which
would render some needy Negro man, woman, or
child a great service. F.J.L.

Items of Interest from Our Colored
Mission Field.

A New Boarp MemBer. — Mr. Schuettner, for
a number of years the efficient Treasurer of our
Mission Board, not finding it possible to serve in
that capacity any longer, tendered his resignation
a few months ago. At its late convention the
Synodical Conference chose Mr. Theo. W. Eckhart
to take his place. We are pleased to state at this
time that Mr. Eckhart has kindly consented to ac-
cept the trust, and.that he has already entered upon
his duties. May God bountifully bless his labors!

A New Lazporer 1n ALABAMA. — Superinten-
dent G. A. Schmidt installed Candidate Wm.
Schink, a graduate of the Wauwatosa Seminary,
in Mobile, Ala., on September 21. In his sermon
Pastor Schmidt impressed upon the young servant
of the Lord his supreme duty of pointing his hearers
to Christ as “the Lamb of God, which taketh away
the sin of the world.” The attendance at this in-

Mr. Th. W. Eckhart.

stallation service was good; there being present
sixty white and forty colored hearers.. Rev. W. H.
Hafner, of Mobile, the advisory member of the Mis-
sion Board for the Southern District of the Mis-
souri Synod, was present at the service and assisted
Superintendent Schmidt in installing the young
missionary. — It will particularly interest the
friends of our Colored Missions to learn that seven
persons were confirmed and three baptized at this
same service. It has been found necessary to place
two mission teachers in Mobile because of the ex-
pected large enrolment in the day-school.

Rev. Wm. Schink. bs