The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1925, Page 111

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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Items of Missionary Interest.
By the Eprrtor.

Prospective New Laborers. —'The Colored Mis-
sion Board has succeeded in securing a number of
this year’s graduates for the Negro Mission field.
Augustus Roberts, a graduate of Immanuel Lu-
theran College, will go to Spartanburg, S. C., as the
successor of Pastor Fuller, who has been transferred
to Charlotte, N.C. Rev. John McDavid, till now
the pastor in charge of Charlotte, will take charge
of the work in California some time in August.
William LEddleman, also a graduate of Immanuel,
will go to Alabama to. relieve Superintendent
Schmidt of some of his work, and G. Kreft, who
did supply-work in Alabama a year ago, will return
to Alabama this fall. Finally, Paul F.Gose, who
has gained much experience as a supply in St. Louis
and at Immanuel Lutheran College, will take over
the St. Louis mission, while Pastor Kroenck will
continue in charge of the mission day-school and
also conduct the Sunday-school.

St. Louis, Mo. — No site has as yet been found
on which to erect the contemplated chapel for our
colored congregation in St. Louis. Funds for this
chapel are coming in, and it is hoped that by the
time a suitable building plot has been found and
building operations can begin the greater portion

.of the needed funds will be on hand.

Cincinnati, 0. — Our young, but promising col-
ored mission in Cincinnati had hoped to open a
day-school this fall in connection with the work.
However, the pleas of the Board for one of this
year’s normal graduates could not be heeded, and
so it is probable that the school cannot be opened
this fall. This will be a sore disappointment to all
connected with this promising mission-field, since
the interest which our Church takes in the Chris-
tian education of the young is just what appealed
so very strongly to the thinking Negroes of Cin-
cinnati. As one highly educated Negro expressed
it in the presence of the Editor: “The only hope
of my race lies in the children. The Church which
can and will properly take care of our children will
be a source of inestimable blessing to my people.”
We hope that the Board may yet succeed in finding
a teacher for Cincinnati before fall.

Immanuel Lutheran College, Greensboro, N.C.
The new president of this institution, Dr. H. Nau,
and Rey. W. Beck, another new member of the
faculty, are at the time of this writing getting ready

to change their residence from New Orleans to

started there.

Greensboro. President J. Ph. Smith has resigned
the presidency to accept the superintendency of the
southeastern part of our Colored Mission field.
The new school-year at Immanuel will begin on
September 8. A catalog may be had by addressing
Immanuel Lutheran College, Box 748, Greensboro,
N.C.

Missionary W.H. Beck, New Orleans. — A. re-
cent Associated Press report brought the informa-
tion that Missionary Beck of our Mount Zion
Colored Church, New Orleans, had been shot
through both legs by a young Negro ruffian who
had been molesting the pupils of the Mount Zion
School. We hope that the hoodlum will be ap-
prehended and that he will receive his reward.
For our young brother we are offering our earnest
prayers and hope he will soon recover from his
injuries.

Milwaukee, Wis. — The Board of City Missions
has asked the Board for Colored Missions to let

_them have Pastor Carter of Chicago during the

week to explore the city and get a colored mission
The request has been granted, of

course. However, as Pastor Carter is lecturing

“under the auspices of the Walther League in

Northern Wisconsin and will continue doing so for

-some time, it will not be possible to make the de-
.sired canvass at once.

Institutional Mission in Milwaukee. — From
the most interesting annual report of Rey. E. A.
Duemling, the efficient institutional worker of our

Church in Milwaukee, we learn that he preaches

and instructs in ten institutions of Milwaukee and
vicinity. He conducted 318 preaching services in
these ten institutions in the year ending May 1.

“These services had an aggregate attendance of

21,753 persons. During the year he made 1,302
sick-calls and communed 597 persons. He baptized
36 and confirmed 13. In his Sunday-school classes
he has an enrolment of 125. In his report Pastor
Duemling relates a number of touching incidents
which bear eloquent testimony of the truth of God’s
promise that His Word shall not return void, but
shall prosper in the thing whereto He sends it. We
shall take the liberty of bringing some extracts
from the report in a later issue. ’

Students’ Missionary Society, St. Louis. — In
the past school-year this missionary society of stu-
dents attending Concordia Theological Seminary,
St. Louis, took part in twenty-eight canvasses, in
which a total of 20,000 personal calls were made
by the students alone. The Society was represented