The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1926, Page 105

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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paid. In cities like Cincinnati, St.Louis, Detroit,
Philadelphia, and New York similar conditions
obtain.

In Cincinnati our white congregations have
gone far to solve the church problem for Negroes.
They purchased a building which will admirably
serve for church and school purposes and put it at
the disposal of our Board for Colored Missions.
In St. Louis similar plans are being worked out.
A devoted band of white ladies, the Ladies’ Aid
Society for Colored Missions, has been gathering
funds for a church.and school for years, and with
the kind help of the congregations of St.Louis and
the whole Western District of the Missouri Synod
our Church will soon have an efficient mission-plant
in that city. Chicago’s church problem, as far as
our mission there is concerned, is also nearing so-
lution. The Northern Illinois District is
making strenuous efforts to provide our
Chicago colored Lutherans with an adequate
church’ home. We believe that in Philadel-
phia the greatest difficulties will soon be of
the past, and our white brethren in Buffalo
are so greatly encouraged by the progress
which our work among the colored is showing
that they also will feel called upon to do what
Cincinnati has done and other cities aré about
to do.

There is one phase connected with the
- solution of this church problem which ought
to be encouraging to the white Christians and
should strengthen them in the wish to help
their black brethren and sisters, and that is the
great willingness of the colored people to help them-
selves and the efforts put forth by the Negroes
everywhere to improve their condition.

But their wages are’ small, and, left to them-
selves, they cannot meet the situation. We must
help them to get the necessary churches. A little
investment on our part in providing the Negro in
our Northern cities with Lutheran churches will

bring great dividends. F.J.L.
' —_—_—_—_—_——S oe
: An Impressive Service.

On Sunday, May 23, the Editor had the privi-
lege of speaking in a service in which five graduates
of the Fort Wayne Deaconess School were com-
missioned by Superintendent B. Poch of the Lu-
theran Deaconess Association. The service was
held in the afternoon at Zion Lutheran Church, Fort

Wayne. The Lutheran Deaconess Training-school
is conducted in connection with the Nurses’ School
of the Fort Wayne Lutheran Hospital, so that the
deaconesses are graduates of both schools.

. More than a thousand people attended the ser-
vice, among them a large delegation from Cleveland
and visitors from Cincinnati, Chicago, Buffalo, and
St. Louis. After the service a reception was ten-
dered the deaconesses in the parish-hall of Zion
Congregation. We are told that several hundred
people attended this reception.

The’ graduate deaconesses are: Amelia Docter,
Denver, Colo.; Lydia Hasz, Luxembourg, Wis.;
Amanda Kaiser, Oakland, Cal.; Alma Miller, Storm
Lake, Iowa; Meta Schrader, Paducah, Ky. They
have been assigned to service as follows: Misses
Miller and Schrader will go to India as zenana

Wheat Ridge Sanitarium.

workers in our East India Mission; Miss Docter.
will serve as hospital deaconess at the Wheat Ridge
Sanitarium, near Denver; Miss Hasz goes to.
Beaver Dam, Wis., to work in the Lutheran Dea-.
coness Hospital at that place; and Miss Kaiser will
return to the Pacific coast to serve as missionary-
deaconess in San Francisco. ;

May the Lord bountifully bless the labors of
His servants and give them the necessary spirit of
self-denial, the patience and courage their arduous
and responsible work demands! F. J. L.

What Shall We Do with Them?

They are with us and among us, two million and
more strong. And they by no means came un-
bidden. They came because we asked them to come
and offered them special inducements to come.
That they might come, we suspended the illiteracy.