The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1926, Page 41

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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and he hopes to have another class ready by Palm
Sunday. He also has seven children who are to be
baptized. At the Communion service only two of
the members not absent from the city failed to make
use of the opportunity to partake of the Lord’s
Supper.

Crrantorre, N. C.— On January 24 the Mount
Zion Congregation rejoiced in the accession of an
adult member by confirmation, Mrs. Mattie Wallace.
Mrs. Wallace has five baptized children, who are also
members of the congregation. On the following
Sunday little Helena Fuller was baptized in the
congregation of St. Paul.

ConrereNces. — On the last Friday in January
Bakke Conference met for a few hours in the after-
noon at Immanuel Lutheran College. On the last
Saturday and Sunday, Concordia Conference met
at Shankletown, near Concord. The sermons on
Sunday were preached by the Revs. J. E. Shufelt
and J. W. Fuller. Holy Communion was celebrated
in the morning service. Refreshments were served
to the visiting missionaries on both days. At both
conferences the work of our field became the subject
of the discussions and took up the time. It was
agreed that it would be well, in the interest of our
work for this year, to haye a meeting of all the
missionaries of the Southeastern field as soon as
possible, instead of waiting until the regular sum-
mer meeting, when a good part of the year will
have become a matter of history. The special meet-
ing is to be held at Immanuel Lutheran College on
February 12. It is expected that a member of the
Mission Board will be present in accordance with
a suggestion made to the Board.

Concorp, N. C. — Concord, which had the
largest number of burials in this field in 1925,
suffered the loss of three adult members through
death during January. These were Mr. Marshall
Miller, Mrs. Esther Baxter, and Mr. William Mor-
rison. Mrs. Baxter joined our church in the early
years of our congregation, back in 1892.

The writer recalls how Mrs. Baxter helped to
feed some hungry mouths in another State without
having planned to do so. She attended the confer-
ence at Salisbury in 1924 and took with her a boxful
of lunch in case she should need it. She had no
need of it, however, and thought she would let the
writer, her former pastor, enjoy what she had care-
fully prepared. He carried it with him to the train

and placed it on a seat. Just as he was going to _

sit down, he discovered that his purse was gone,
and he decided to look for his purse and leave on

a later train. In the excitement he forgot the lunch,
but consoled himself with the thought that a brother
clergyman in the same seat had greater need of it,
in that*he had to travel all night to go to a neigh-
boring State. This brother minister, however,
thought that a member who was on the same train
vould appreciate this box which had come into his
possession, who, in turn, thought of a poor family
in distress and thought she would use it for its
relief. — What about the purse? The station master
called aside a detective, and this official seemed to
think that it was a reflection upon the fair name

Superintendent J. Ph. Smith.

of the city to suggest that a pickpocket was operat-
ing about the city, and the loser was left to regret
that he yielded to a pressing offer of reimbursement
of conference expenses and to reflect that, if he had
given more money to God at conference, the thief
would have had just that much less.

Greensboro, N. C. J. P. Sarr.

Four Appreciative and Appreciated
-Letters.

This letter comes from Arcadia, Ind:: “I am
mailing the sum of $14 for the dormitory at Greens-
boro. The Ladies’ Aid donated $8.62, to which