The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1925, Page 119

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

119

What are You Going to Do About It?

“Hitherto hath the Lord helped us!”

The writer thinks that he saw these words on
the corner-stone at Immanuel Lutheran College.
Our college at Greensboro is, and has been and by
God’s grace always will be, a blessing to our
Church and to our colored race.

What do you think of it? Are you giving it
your prayers and financial support, or are you
sitting “at ease in Zion” and turning a deaf ear
to the cries of affliction as they go up from our
people? .We are in need of funds in order that our
college building may be repaired and brought up
to the standard of other colleges in our State.

Building Now Used for Girls’ Dormitory,
Immanuel College.

Especially the dormitory for girls should be speedily
built. We want to have proper accommodations
for our boys and girls, so that they may be pre-
pared to go out into the world to preach and teach
the Gospel to our people.

' “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us!”
_ Immanvel has had many a hard battle to fight,
* but so have all worth-while institutions that fight
against flesh and blood. Yet Immanuel has come
out victorious in every contest, and the possibilities
of gaining even greater triumphs for the kingdom
of God are offering themselves, if it can only get
your support.
“TTitherto hath the Lord helped us!”
Immanuel has in the past educated ministers
for our dear Lutheran Church and teachers for our

Christian day-schools. It has sent out God-fearing
laymen, who as physicians, secular teachers, busi-

ness men, and artisans are spreading the “Im-
manuel spirit” and “making good” in life. .

Immanuel is a beacon-light set upon a hill and
is known to all colored Lutherandom throughout
our country. In this State it is known to everybody
from mountain to seashore. It is an inestimable
blessing to our Church, and our people love it
dearly because of the Christian training that it
imparts to our boys and girls.

But Immanuel Is in Need, in Dire Need!

It needs a dormitory for its girl students. Just
let us take a look at the building that is serving as
a dormitory at the present time. It was built for
a school and has three large rooms, each 23 by 30
feet in size. Two of these have been converted into
six small bedrooms, measuring 10 by 23 fect. Beds
to accommodate about forty girls, with their trunks,
must find room in these small apartments. ‘The
twenty single beds have two occupants each. We
have been informed that even three girls have in
some way slept on one of these single beds, but we
don’t know how that is possible! But isn’t this
deplorable? Isn’t it surprising that the health of
the girls has not suffered under these conditions?

Don’t you think that Immanuel needs a new
girls’ dormitory? If you do, will you not help us
get one? Perhaps you could interest some rich
Christian brother or sister in our school who might
be moved to donate us a building as a memorial to
some loved one. ;

I know thé sunshine yet will come our way,
No skies remain forever bleak and gray;
God will provide.

Salisbury, N. C. CarRINGTON R. Marcu.

All in a Missionary’s Job!

What here follows was not written for publica-

-tion nor even for the eyes of the editor. It is from

the report of one of our Alabama missionaries to
Pastor Drewes, the Superintendent of Negro Mis-
sions. Rey. Drewes was kind enough to send me the *
report, and I was unable to withstand the tempta-
tion of letting the readers of the PIONEER get a
glimpse of what our missionaries in Alabama have
to contend with. The narrative plainly implies that.
the experiences here described are more or less com-.
mon in the life of a missionary in Alabama.- Here
is a part-of the missionary’s story: — - ‘
“Sunday morning I left home in a heavy ri rain
at 9 o'clock, but it was 10.15 before I got away.