The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1926, Sheet 59

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

are three small flats, of two rooms each, in the
building. ‘The latter are occupied at present by
two colored families belonging to our church. Ser-
vices will be conducted in the upper schoolroom
until the new church has been erected. Since this
room is not large enough for church purposes, we
fear that the attendance at our services will drop
off somewhat. God speed the day when the colored
people of St. Louis will have a Lutheran church of
their own! P. E. G.

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But the living conditions obtaining at the school
where these “gentlemanly, polite, and Christian”
young men are getting their education, — our own
Immanuel College, — are most deplorable. . Because
of lack of room, these young men are sleeping in
the garret, which has been divided into rooms by
means of Beaver Board. In this garret light is at
a premium, and air is a rare article. Besides, Beaver
Board is very inflammable, thus exposing the stu-
dents living in these garret rooms to great danger.

Our Theological- Students at Greensboro.

Left to right: Frank Thompson, R. Ingram, L. Gauthreaux, F. Vorice, Albert Dominick,
C. Malloy, Wilbur Twitty.

A Final Appeal.

We hope that this will be a final plea in a mat-
ter of great importance for the welfare of a vital
factor in our colored mission enterprise. It con-
cerns living conditions at Immanuel Lutheran Col-
lege, Greensboro, N. C. Immanuel is where our
colored pastors and teachers get their training. At
the present time we have a fine student-body there.
The writer was there a few weeks ago, and he can
say that the behavior, personal appearance, and
class work of the students is most satisfactory in
every way. And the writer is not the only person
favorably impressed by the students of our Im-
manuel. The Dean of the large A and T College
at Greensboro not long ago told our Professor
Lankenau: “I admire the gentlemanly, polite, and
Christian ways of your students. I have never met

“any boys that act as gentlemanly as yours do.”

The female students of Immanuel, who are pre-
paring themselves for service in our Lutheran mis-
sion-schools, are living under even worse conditions.

‘Their home is a former school-building that has

been divided into rooms by means of Beaver Board
partitions. This building is so crowded that two
girls are obliged to sleep in most of the single beds
with which this temporary dormitory is furnished.

Such are actual conditions at Immanuel, — our
Immanuel, — your InmMaNvEL. ‘These deplorable
conditions have been repeatedly reported in the
PionEER during the past six years. As a result
$17,319.66 have been contributed for a dormitory.
Our colored members have given $2,000 of this sum.
However, the building with the necessary equipment
will cost about $50,000. You see that $32,000 are.
still lacking of the required sum. But the need is
so crying that the Board for Colored Missions felt
that it must provide the dormitory, even though the