The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1927, Page 187

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A New Professor.—Rev. W. H. Gehrke, Augusta,
Mo., has accepted the call to the vacant professorship
at Greensboro. He will, however, not enter upon his
new duties until next summer. In the mean time
Rev. Martin Dorpat is serving as supply. The num-
ber of students exceeds one hundred at Immanuel
Lutheran College, Greensboro.

The New Dormitory. — This building will be
dedicated on Thanksgiving Day. Prof. 0. C. A.
Boecler of St. Louis will attend the dedicatory cere-
monies as a representative of the Board.

College School at Greensboro. — A school has
again been opened in the building originally in-
tended for the purpose, which for years, however,
has been used a8 a girls’ dormitory. Miss Helen
Lynn is the teacher.

Deficit in the Treasury of Our Negro Missions. —
The fund for current expenses had a deficit of
$32,033.66 on October 31. On the same date the
deficit in the building fund was $14,065.80. Who
will help?

A Former Slave Now a Professor. — In Morris-
town, Tenn., is an ancient building which in the
early days of this nation was a Baptist church.
After the church organization moved out, the build-
ing was used as a slave-market, and many a Negro
man or woman, boy or girl, was sold here, passing
from one owner to another. Among these was one
“likely Negro boy,” who was sold for $1,196. Of
course, there were others, but we are only interested
in this one. At the outbreak of the Civil War the
building was used for a lodging-house, then a hos-

- pital, anything that the needs of the army called for.
When peace came, the building was a battered, be-
grimed affair. But the walls were solid, and the
needs of the community were greater than its wealth,
so the old building was remodeled and used as a
school for white children. After a few years it came
into the possession of the Methodist Church, which
established a school for Negroes there. On the
faculty of this school, now known as the Morristown
Normal and Industrial Institute, is Prof. A. F.
Fulton. And he is the very boy who was sold in that
very building for $1,196! Such are the transitions
possible in America: From a market block to an
institute platform; from a slave to a professor. And
all in the same building! The Southwestern Chris-
tian Advocate, from-which we take these facts, says:
“The president of the institution considers him
worth many times over the $1,196 for which he was
sold on the very ground he now walks over as in-
structor.” — Lutheran Standard.

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New York’s Negro Children. — In the last ten
years the Negro population of New York City’s five
boroughs has increased at a rate almost four times
as great as that of the general population. This
astounding increase in the colored population of
New York is mostly due to migrations from the
South. New York is to-day the home of no less than
200,000 Negroes. Largely because of parental
neglect and as a result of the lack of proper play-
grounds and other recreational facilities there has
been a disquieting increase in delinquency among
Negro children as against a decided decrease in
delinquency among white children.

One-Twelfth Each Month! —Tfé all our readers
and all other members of our Church were to adopt
for their slogan the title of this paragraph, many a
problem of the Church would be solved. If every.
Christian would give one-twelfth of his pledge to
his congregation each month, if each congregation
would carry out this part of its obligation to the
District each month, and if each District would do
this part of its promised cooperation with the
other Districts for the General Body, then many a
vexing problem would be solved. This is so clear
that it is needless to waste words about it. Why
should not every one among us decide to build this
effective method into our fiscal plan and thus make
sure that the whole business of the Church hence-
forth be done “decently and in order”? :

Christianity and Missions. — Christianity is a
missionary religion. It began with a mission—a
sending; for God sent His only-begotten Son into
the world. And now Christ says to us, His dis-
ciples: “As the Father hath sent Me, even so send
I you.” The Father sent His Son, and the Son,
obedient to His Father’s wish, went and perfectly
carried out His mission. The Son, in turn, now
sends us upon a mission; will we obediently carry
it out? Only in doing so shall we prove ourselves
true disciples of the Son and true children of the
Father.

Testimony of a Business Man.— This is what —

Henry G. Adams, the adviser of the Chinese Repub-
lic in the matter of Railway Accounts, has to say:
“When I went out to China, I did not think much
of foreign missions or foreign missionaries, but
I now take off my hat to the missionaries. I have
never contributed much to foreign missions, but now
I expect to put everything that I can spare into the
foreign mission offering. _ The missionaries are a
noble lot of men and women and are rendering
a very great service to the people of China.”