The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1928, Page 181

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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questions are entirely out of place. We have the
Lord’s command: “Go ye into all the world and
preach the Gospel to every creature.” The lumber-
camps are in “the world,” and the men working
there belong to the “creatures” for whom Jesus
shed His blood and died. We also have the promise
that wherever God’s Word is preached, it shall not
return unto Him void. The main purpose I have in
view in visiting these camps is, as I have already
stated, to see those who are already members of my
congregation, lest they be deceived and misled. But
my work was also blessed among those who were not
my members. I have already baptized two men
whom I met first in the camps. Since the men in
camps are of various nationalities and many of them
altogether unchurched, no one can tell how much of
what they hear they may carry with them when they
leave the camps to go back home or elsewhere. I am
confident that eternity will show far greater results
than are apparent to-day. I can truthfully say that
I have never regretted the trips I have made to these
lumber-camps, even though not everything con-
nected with them was of a pleasant nature. For one
thing I want to say right here that the young men
of my church whom I visited in the camps have not
only shown greater love and confidence toward me
since, but as far as I can see, they have become
better church-members ,and more ardent workers
for the spreading of the Gospel abroad.

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Immanuel Lutheran College Chronicle.

Architect Steinmeyer personally submitted plans
of the new administration building to the faculty.
While severely plain, the building will admirably
serve its purpose.

Luther Memorial, the college church, also de-
signed by Mr. Steinmeyer, will be a combination
church-and-school building of the English parish
type. Since this church will be built on a well-
located lot in a new subdivision of the better class,
the prospects for growth appear favorable.

To the somewhat meager equipment of the insti-
tution a new Acme portable motion-picture pro-
jector was added in October. It was bought with
the proceeds of the stationery and bookstore main-
tained for the convenience of the students.

In addition to its weekly meetings on Wednesday

evenings in church the Bible class of Winston-

Salem, N. C., meets regularly in the homes of mem-
_ bers, to which unchurched neighbors who cannot be
induced to attend the meetings in church are in-

vited. Frequently Rev. Hunt conducts Bible study
in the homes of interested unchurched people, where
he uses both the Bible and the Catechism as texts.

Rey. Martin Dorpat, the traveling missionary,
recently placed an order for the following supplies:
Half a Century of Lutheranism, 50 copies; Mission
Hymnals, 100; Drewes’s Lutheran Catechism, 15;
English Catechism, 100; Penny Catechism, 200.

Wx. H. Grenrke.

Bringing the Gospel to the Deaf
in Canada.

Last summer Rey. W. Ferber, our missionary
among the deaf-mutes in Duluth and other cities,
made a trip through the three Western Canadian
provinces Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British
Columbia. He reports that at the various services
he conducted, there were sixty deaf-mutes in atten-
dance. Some of these found it difficult to follow
him because of the difference in signs used by the
deaf in communicating their thoughts. Then, too,
he found some who had never “heard” a sermon in
their whole life and who for this reason found it
hard to understand the religious signs used by him.
Naturally, the missionary was not able to cover a
great deal of ground in one sermon, since much had
to be repeated again and again, and many words and
expressions had to be spelled out as well as “signed.”
Yet, though the services, because of these difficulties,
sometimes lasted almost two hours, the missionary
reports that his “hearers” never grew weary, but
paid the closest attention to him from beginning
to end. '

In a service held at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
a deaf-blind boy was in attendance. The sermon
was communicated to him by the so-called double-
hand alphabet, a seeing person spelling the entire
services into his hand.

Pastor Ferber says that his trip was very en-
couraging and that visible results were not lacking.
For example, a number of deaf-mute children have
been induced to attend services and classes at Win-
nipeg, where they are being prepared for confirma-
tion together with other children. Adults have been
gained for mail courses of instruction.

At a farewell service held at Brandon, Manitobay
seventeen deaf-mutes gathered to hear the Word of
God and asked the missionary to come back. Need-
less to say, our missionary will gladly accede to
this request of the deaf-mutes of Western Canada.

EJIL.

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