The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1928, Page 102

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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forward to many more years of richest blessings,
wherein we hope, with the gracious help of God,
to carry forward with renewed vigor the blessed
work of saving souls and teaching and defending
the pure doctrine of His saving Word. To this
end may He stablish and help us as He has helped
us hitherto!
Sort Deo Grorra! 0. W.L.
Mount Zion’s Golden Jubilee.
(By J. AnpREwW SERAILE.)

Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church,
South Franklin and Thalia streets, will celebrate
its golden anniversary Sunday, May 20, with three
services, at 10 a.u., 3 P.u., and 7.30 p.xr. The
other Lutheran churches of this city are having no
services that day, in order that their members may
join their sister congregation, the oldest colored
Lutheran church here, in celebrating this occasion.

In connection with the anniversary there will
be a reunion of those confirmed in Mount Zion
during the fifty years of its existence. It is hoped
that every class will be represented. The reunion
service will be held at 3 o’clock in the afternoon.
At this service Pastors E. W. Kuss and G. M. Kra-
mer will speak. A special invitation is extended to
all who were confirmed in Mount Zion to be present
at this service and meet old friends.

The featured speaker, Rev. F. J. Lankenau, will -

deliver the sermon in the morning. He is the
oldest living ex-pastor of Mount Zion, having
served that congregation about forty years ago.
Rey. Lankenau is now pastor of a congregation in
Napoleon, O., and one of the vice-presidents of the
Missouri Synod. He is a very able speaker, as is
testified by the fact that many of the older Lu-
therans never miss an opportunity of hearing him
on the rare occasions when he visits this city.
Pastor W. Tervalon, of Napoleonville, La., for-
merly of New Orleans, will preach at the night
service, with Student Harvey Lehman, of Man-
sura, Lua., a candidate for the holy ministry, assist-
ing at the altar. Both these young men, by the
way, are colored, the impression among many
people being that the Lutheran Church has no
colored pastors. This is wrong; it has a number

of them, is preparing others, and would welcome
still more colored men into its ministry.

Special music will be rendered at all the ser-
vices. The organists will be Wm. Seeberry, Aaron
Wiley, and J. Andrew Seraile. At the first service
@ group of children gathered from the Lutheran
schools will sing. :

The congregation has always maintained a day-
school, so that the anniversary of one is the anni-
versary of the other as well. For fifty years Mount
Zion School has been a powerful force for good in
the community it serves. Its influence has been
exerted upon the lives of thousands of boys and
girls who have received their early education, often
their entire education, there.

The pastor of Mount Zion is Rev. O. W. Luecke.

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1878—1928.

Professor F'. Berg, the senior member of the
Immanuel College faculty and the oldest living
laborer in our Colored Missions, is celebrating his
fiftieth anniversary this year.

Before the close of the school-year at Immanuel
the students and teachers had several celebrations.
The theological and normal departments celebrated
Professor Berg’s birthday in a fitting manner in
March, and the whole student-body and faculty
observed the fiftieth anniversary of his work as
pastor and teacher by a fitting celebration in the
college chapel at a later date.

The Red and White, the organ of Immanuel’s
student-body, is dedicating its commencement num-
ber to Professor Berg and is bringing the following
article from the pen of one of its associate editors:

A Life of Service.

A most eager, willing, and energetic spirit of
service must be recognized as the distinguishing
trait in the character of our beloved instructor,
Professor Berg. To consider him in a class with
those who have merely a mediocre zeal for Chris-
tian service would not do him justice. For where
the/zeal of others has failed, he has persisted with
the greatest enthusiasm; where obstacles and ad-
verse circumstances have caused others to give up,
he has persevered unflinchingly; where others have
worked half-heartedly, he has labored with all his
might; and where others have given up because of
mature years, he is still energetically pressing on.

If we take a glance into his life, this at once
becomes evident. Soon after the Evangelical Lu-
theran Synodical Conference of North America, in
1877, resolved to do mission-work among our
people, Professor Berg, then a student at Concordia
Seminary at St. Louis, had a premonition that he
would be called into this work. He was perfectly
willing to enter it. In accordance with the reso-
lution of the Synodical Conference, Rev. J. F.