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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. 181

Our Student-Body in Greensboro, February 15, 1926.

A Peep into the Basement.

The basement is nothing but a hole dug under
the building — dark and dingy. Here you find the
laundry and lavatory. “As for the lavatory arrange-
ments, will the reader permit us to draw the cloak
of silence over the conditions found? They simply
beggar description.” That was the statement made
by the editor of the Lutheran Witness after he had
visited Greensboro.

A Unanimous Resolution.

Your representatives at Lockport unanimously
and emphatically resolved that the dormitory which
has been needed for twelve years should be erected
at once. The Mission Board was instructed to
send out an appeal for special gifts. The sum of
$35,000 is needed. About $15,000 is in the Mis-
sion Treasury for the dormitory. The hope was
expressed that our good Christians would make
the Negro Missions a Christmas present of $35,000.
God grant it!

“Hope Deferred Maketh the Heart Sick.”
Proy. 13, 12.

Twelve years ago—in 1914—the Synodical
Conference resolyed that a dormitory should be
built at Greensboro as soon as two-thirds of the
amount needed would be on hand.

During these twelve years synods belonging to
the Synodical Conference have had big building
Programs, and our Greensboro dormitory was FOR-
GOTTEN. Meanwhile the students, the professors,

the members of the Mission Board have hoped from
year to year that help would come. They have
hoped in vain. They are discouraged.

A Leaven.

The purpose of our Greensboro college is not
simply to give colored girls a higher education.
Our Colored Missions need teachers; and these
must be trained at our own college. Nobody else
will do it for us.

Again, our Colored Missions partake of the
nature of foreign missions. Now, every one knows
that in the work of foreign missions certain
agencies must be employed to bring the heathen

Formerly a Parochial School — Now a Dormitory.
In order to find a home for our students, 160 children had to be

deprived of the opportunity to learn God’s Word and Luther’s doctrine
a pure. Help us to get a dormitory and to reopen the school.