The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1927, Page 89

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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planted into their hearts in our day-school would
soon die. As we, for this very reason, do not believe
in educating our children for the sectarian churches,
we succeeded in building up a loyal Sunday-school,
of which every child of our day-school is a member.
We wonder of how many of our sister congregations
in North Carolina this can be said, no matter how
old they are and no matter in what beautiful church-
building they meet.

On Easter Day there were sixty present. It was

tinue for two weeks. (On account of lack of street
lights and the unmade streets we selected bright,
moonlight nights.) Dr. Nau, Professors Berg and
Beck, and some of our theological students assisted.
The fundamental doctrines of our Church were dis-
cussed. We had fair attendances. The meetings
were well advertised. Besides calling on almost two
hundred families just before and during the days
of the meetings, Rev. Naether placed placards in all
the stores, on telephone posts, and at street-corners.

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Members of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church near Mansura, La.

Rev. C. Thompson at right of picture. — Most of the older members were brought up in the Roman
Catholic Church, Read about the founding of this congregation in Fifty Years of Lutheranism
i among Our Colored People.

a happy day. Mrs. Naether, who teaches the kinder-
garten and the lower grades every day, had distrib-
uted envelopes for the Easter collection. Each one
of her thirty-five pupils handed in his little offer-
ing with a beaming face. One little seven-year-old
girl could not come, but she sent her envelope con-
taining her offering. After the Sunday-school lesson
the children rendered a short Easter program. On
Easter Monday the children marched to a. little
grove on our college grounds to hunt Haster-eggs.

During the months of February and March we
arranged for a series of every-night services, to con-

A communion service closed the meetings, and three
adults Were added to our little flock. We have
thirty-one’ baptized and twelve communicant mem-
bers. A number has been instructed, and we hope
that sooner or later they will join us. ‘There is
a large mission-field in this rapidly growing section
of the city. : ;
Permit me to add a few remarks about the Negro
churches formed in this community. I attended
their “services” a few times, only to convince myself
of the truth: “The world is our mission-field !?
Knowingly or unknowingly those Negro pastors