The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1925, Page 30

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30 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

remain at St. Paul’s, New Orleans, where he has
been doing very successful work. His congregation
has a baptized membership of 400. — The Board has
‘received bids on Alabama Luther College at Selma,
Ala., but it is probable that active building opera-
tions will not begin until more is known of the col-
lection now going on among the children of the
Synodical Conference. — Those who have read
Director Drewes’s Lutheran Catechism will not be
surprised to hear that the first edition is practically
exhausted.

Meruernin, Va. — After an illness of twelve
years, “Aunt” Virginia Doswell, the wife of J. W.
Doswell and one of our oldest members at Meherrin,
departed this life, trusting in death as she did in
life in Jesus as her only Savior. Among the Edi-
tor’s pleasant memories of his year’s stay at Meher-
rin there is none more gratifying than the memory
of “Aunt” Jennie’s kindness and helpfulness in
word and deed. When passing through Meherrin
two years ago, he had the pleasure of once more
seeing her and her husband, “Uncle” Willis, and
receiving from them the assurance that they still
stood where they had stood thirty years before: on
the solid Rock, Christ Jesus.

Dors Srupent Worx Pay?— The parents of
Mr. A. A. Sutton, a young man from Randolph
County, Ind., who succumbed in January, 1923, to
an attack of scarlet fever while in attendance at the
Ohio State University, have decided to will their
entire estate for the purpose of providing students

at that institution with religious training and or-.

ganization. During his Freshman year young Sut-
ton became very much interested in one of the
Lutheran churches at Columbus, an institution for
the students near the campus of the university, and
a year and a half later he joined the church after a
public confession of faith, rapidly assuming a place
of leadership among the students. His earnest-
ness and intense interest in the Lutheran Church
and its work convinced his parents that the most
profitable way they could use the property which
they have accumulated is to provide for its ulti-
mately going to the Lutheran Church to be used
in student work.

How To Hetr Missrons. — At the convention
of the Joint Synod of Ohio last fall the Foreign
Mission board of that body reported that the praise-
- worthy work of erecting a hospital in their India
Mission field had been undertaken by the Women’s
Missionary Conference, and that $51,000 had al-
_ ready been raised for the purpose. It was also

reported that many individuals and groups had be-

come patrons to elementary and high school pupils
and to native mission-workers. The board makes
this suggestion: The time has come when congre-
gations or individuals should take upon themselves
the responsibility of supporting a white missionary.
They correctly claim that a mighty inspiration for
the mission cause would be gained if congregations
or individuals were able to claim as their very own
a missionary, duly trained and ordained, to labor
in Foreign Missions. The board continues: “Some
of our large congregations are well able to assume
such responsibility; and very likely some individ-
uals with heart and purse sufficiently large will be
glad of being given such an opportunity.
Missionary Course For Girts.— The desire
on the part of not a few young ladies within the
bounds of. the Joint Synod of Ohio to enter the
service of the Foreign Mission field of that body
has prompted the faculty of Capital University,
Columbus, O., in conjunction with other mission
boards, to arrange for a missionary course for girls.
PARAGRAPHS OF Misstonary INTEREST FROM
THE PRESIDENT’s MESSAGE TO Concress. — Con-
cerning. the freedman the President expresses him-
self thus: “Developments have brought about a
very remarkable improvement in the condition of
the Negro race. Gradually, but surely, with the
almost universal sympathy of those among whom
they live, the colored people are working out their
own destiny. I firmly believe that it is better for
all concerned that they cheerfully should be ac-
corded their full constitutional rights, that they
should be protected from all those impositions to
which, from their position, they naturally fall a
prey, especially from the crime of lynching, and
that they should receive every encouragement to
become full partakers in all the blessings of our
common American citizenship.” — Another item of.
missionary interest in the President’s message was
his suggestion that the present stringent immigra-
tion laws be so modified that relatives of people

‘already in this country will be permitted to enter

our boundaries under easier conditions than others.
If this suggestion will be acted on by Congress,
it will mean the speedier reuniting of many fam-
ilies who are now kept apart by the lack of elas-
ticity in the present laws.

Tue East Hetps tHe West. — Among the
gifts received for European Relief the National
Lutheran Council News Bulletin recently reported
a contribution in the sum of 900 rupees (about
$300) received from the missionaries and native
Christians of the United Lutheran Church Mission