The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1926, Page 172

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Due to the fact that the Hon. Mission Board
‘does not support more than one mission in smaller
places and towns, Conference resolved to shoulder
the responsibility for the East Selma school because
they would not like to see the children of that
district deprived of the opportunity of learning
God’s Word and Luther’s doctrine pure. Conference
pledged itself to support a teacher and pay all ex-
penses connected with the school in order that
the children might learn our glorious Lutheran
doctrine.

Our Alabama Luther Conference has grown to
such proportions that the matter of entertaining it
has become a problem for the small mission-

Teacher Clarence Klawitter,
Cincinnati, O.

stations; hence a committee was appointed to in-
yestigate conditions and report its findings to the
‘next convention as to how the problem of enter-
taining conference may be met.
Sunday was “the big day.” Holy Communion
was celebrated in the morning service. Pastor West-
_cott preached the confessional sermon. The speaker
chose as his text Luke 15, 1. 2, showing that “Jesus
_ Receives Sinners.” In the afternoon Pastor Eddle-
man, of Birmingham, preached on Is. 55, 1 ff.,
pleading with his hearers not to despise the Gospel-
call of God. In the evening service Rev. Cozart, of
Vredenburgh, preached a very inspiring sermon to
an audience that completely filled the church. He
based his sermon on 1 Cor. 16,18 and emphasized
the mission character of the conference.
At the close of the evening service, Superinten-

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

dent Schmidt, after a brief closing address, read the
assignments of the teachers for the coming year.
Professor Lehman thanked the congregation and
friends for their kindness during our stay among
them. The congregation sang “God Be with You
till We Meet Again,” and the conference adjourned,
to meet again, in 1928, at Birmingham, Ala.
Pastors and teachers returned to their stations filled
with greater love and zeal for the kingdom of God
and for dying souls.

The entire Alabama field is grieving over the
temporary loss of its beloved and efficient Super-
intendent, Rev. G. A. Schmidt, who was forced to
leave his work for a while on account of illness.
We pray that God will grant him a speedy recovery
and send him back among us here in the Black Belt.
Wherever one goes, one hears anxious inquiries
concerning his health. He has won the love and
esteem of the people among whom he has labored so
long. May God hear our prayers and restore to' us
our beloved superintendent !

Alabama Luther College is at present housing
fifty-seven Lutheran boys and girls; four Lutheran

“students are attending from the city. Alabama,:

Florida, Illinois, and Louisiana contributed Lu-
theran students to the present enrolment. Methodist
present, none; Baptist present, none; all other
denominations present, none. R. 0. L. L.

Cincinnati Mission Gets a Teacher.

The friends of our colored mission in Cincinnati
are happy; for after many disappointments, the
mission-school there at last has a teacher. On the
afternoon of Sunday, September 5, Mr. Clarence
Klawitter was publicly inducted into his office.
Mr. Klawitter’s home is in Bloomington, Ill., and
he is a graduate of our Normal School at River
Forest. The installation service was attended -by
not a few white friends of the mission, and it is
sure that their attendance had a very encouraging
influence on the young worker. Pastor Kase, our
missionary, did not only induct him into office,
but he also took him around to the homes of the
prospective pupils and introduced him to parents
and children during the week following the in-
Srallation: :

- The school was opened on September 13. The
first day’s attendance was most gratifying; twenty-
one children had come. At last accounts the enrol-
ment had risen to forty-three, and by this time it
may have gone still higher.