The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1925, Page 93

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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dent of the Southeastern Field, will be succeeded
by Prof. Henry Nau, Ph. D., of Luther College.
Rey. Walter H. Beck, of Mount Zion, New Orleans,
has accepted the call as sixth professor at Im-
manuel. — C.F. D.

At the diamond jubilee of its school, Sunday,
May 17, Holy Cross of St. Louis (Pastor C. C.
Schmidt, D. D., and Pastor Paul Koenig) made an
offering for the Girls’ Dormitory at Greensboro.
The collection amounted to $397.80. Our cordial
thanks are extended to the congregation and its
pastors. — C.F. D.

Summer School. — May 25 the summer school
opened at Immanuel Lutheran College in Greens-
boro. Professors Frederick Berg and Hans Naether,
who taught last summer, are again serving as in-
structors.

Springfield, Ill. — God willing, the mission ™

school shall be opened again next September. Miss
Phyllis Jones has been asked to take charge of the
school. Pastor Schulze will give instruction in re-
ligion. — C0. I’. D.

General Conference at Concord. — The mem-
bers of Grace Church and their pastor, the Rev.
Melvin Holsten, are busily engaged making prepa-
rations for entertaining the delegates at the second
General Conference which is to meet in Concord,
August 12 to 17. It is expected that every congre-
gation of our Colored Missions will be represented
at this meeting. — C.F’. D.

Our Work in Dixie Land. — How are things
going with our mission among the colored folks?
Quite well, thank you. Three months ago we asked
our schoolchildren for $65,000 to cover the worst
needs of our chapels and school-buildings. To date
we are short only about $12,000 on this amount,
and money is still coming in. So contracts have
been let for two modest, but practical buildings for
a teachers’ training-school in Selma, Ala., ground
has been bought for chapels elsewhere, and during
the summer the sound of hammers will be heard.

G., in Lutheran Witness.

Remarkable Fact. — That the Word of God
heals the body as well as the soul is proved in the
ease of our colored Lutherans. The average death-
rate among Negroes in this country is very high —
eighteen out-of every thousand die every year.
Among our colored Lutherans the rate is only nine
out of every thousand. This is one of the most
remarkable facts of missionary statistics that has
ever come to our notice. It speaks volumes for the

improvement’ in morals and physical well-being
among those Negroes whom we have won for the
Church of the Reformation. — G., in Luth. Witness.

Louis Harms, Founder of Hermannsburg Missions.

Hermannsburg Missions. — Seventy-five years
ago Pastor Ludwig Harms founded his celebrated
mission institute in the small and poor village of
Hermannsburg, Hannover. From this institution
rivers of blessing flowed to many countries, Chris-
tian and heathen. Africa and India drew many of
their missionaries from there, and not a few of the
Lutheran pastors of America and Australia received
their education in the halls of the humble Her-
mannsburger Missionsanstalt. This:institution was

opened without a penny; Harms trusted in God’s

almighty and gracious help for the support of the

The Old Mission House at Hermannsburg, 1849.