The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1926, Page 54

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54 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

plain to them how it is proposed to go through the
“book. After this the enrolment of those who are
ready to join the society will be in order.

The organization of the new society should now
take place at once. A president, secretary, treas-
urer, possibly also a librarian and map drawer,
should be chosen. The adoption of a constitution
for the new society and the preparation of a program
for the meetings may be left to a later meeting.

God willing, we shall submit’a constitution and
an order of exercises in our next number.

F. J. L.

Missionary Education. .

In looking over the field of our Synodical Con-
ference to see what is being done among. us in the
way of missionary education, we are pleased to note
the increasing number of missionary’ societies, which
not only are missionary societies in the sense that
they gather funds to help carry on various mis-
sionary enterprises of the Church, but which pursue
a systematic study of missions. Some of these so-
cieties use some special book as a text, while others
_have during the past year used as their text the

PionEEn’s regular monthly feature, “Reclaiming
Christ’s Heritage,” a feature that is being con-
tinued also in 1926. In passing, let us suggest to
any missionary study society that has not decided
upon what text to use that Pastor Burgdorf’s Dis-
pelling the Spiritual Gloom in South American
Forests and Pampas will furnish excellent material
for a year’s study. It costs only thirty cents and
may be had from Concordia Publishing House,
St. Louis, Mo.

Worthy of special commendation is also the fine
work which the leaders of the Walther League are
‘doing to arouse the missionary spirit of the youth
of our Church. To arouse the interest of its mem-
bership in the missionary enterprises of our Church,
the organs of the Walther League are bringing re-
liable and inspiring information regularly in their
columns in the form of. well-written articles and
excellent topical outlines. Besides this, the League
is’ encouraging its membership to support by regu-
‘lar contributions a number of missionary workers in
the foreign and home fields. - And at its last Inter-
national Convention all Walther League societies
were encouraged to offer their personal services to
their pastors and congregations for personal mis-
-sionary work in their own neighborhood. If the
‘Church as a whole were as thoroughly alive to the

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importance of missionary education and enterprise
as is our Walther League, we would not have great
cause for concern.

The earnest endeavors put forth by the editors
of our Sunday-school lessons to bring regular and
systematic missionary information and admonition
to our boys and girls are worthy of highest~ praise.

-Of course, we have no means of knowing whether

all our Sunday-schools are using these regular mis-
sionary Sunday-school lessons, but we hope that

there are very few who permit the golden oppor- -

tunity to pass by without profit.

It also gives us great pleasure to take special
notice upon this occasion of the fact that our boards
are giving increasing attention to the spreading of
information, in part through the regular columns
of our Church organs and in part by special occa-
sional printed matter, illustrated lectures, and book-
lets. We hope the response to these endeavors of
our various missionary boards to bring needed in-

formation to our people: has been sufficiently en- -

couraging to induce them not only to continue in
this educational work in the same measure, but to
increase and expand their promotional labors.

F. J. L.

Great Missionary Opportunities among
the Negroes in the North.

There are thousands of Negroes leaving the
cities, towns, and rural districts of the South to
seek for themselves new homes in the large indus-
trial cities of the North. . They are leaving because
of the unsatisfactory economical conditions of the
And when they go North, they generally go
to stay. Many of them are trying to buy homes of
their own on the instalment plan. Most of them
are industrious. They love home ws and many of
them love the Church.

. Searcity, of Churches.

But there are not enough churches to accom-
modate them. Most Northern cities are not over-
churched, as is the case, as far as colored churches
are concerned, in not a few cities of the South. In
a number of the larger’cities of the North, we have
quite a number of colored Lutherans who are obliged

_ to attend white churches for public worship. In
‘most of these cities, we have a number of white
Lutheran churches.
“duced to cooperate in buying a small building and

If, now,:these could be in-

fixing it‘up as a church home for our colored people,

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