The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1928, Page 186

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Eprror.)

Our Colored Mission Day-Schools in New Orleans.
Trinity has the largest enrolment in its history.
Student Luther Robinson is teaching eighty-five
children in five grades. Surely a task! — St. Paul’s
has an enrolment that is ten per cent. better than
last year. The enrolment is 135. Teacher Wm.
Seeberry, the principal, was ill in bed several weeks,
which compelled Missionary Wildgrube to teach the
upper grades. — Mount Zion has an enrolment of
290. Since the middle of October this school has an
additional room. — Concordia School in Carrollton,
a suburb of New Orleans, has also an increased en-
rolment of pupils. More room is greatly needed. —
Concerning the number of pupils at Bethlehem we
have no information, though there is good reason to
believe that it has held its own.

Tinela, Ala. — Rev. W. J. Tervalon removed
from Napoleonville, La., to Tinela, Ala., in October.
He will have charge of the churches at Buena Vista,
Tinela, and Vredenburgh. A new parsonage was
built for Pastor Tervalon and family at Tinela.
May God bless the work of Pastor Tervalon in his
new field of labor!

Luther Conference.—This conference of workers
in the Louisiana field met Thanksgiving week at
New Orleans. We hope to be able to bring our
readers some interesting details concerning this con-
ference in the January number. We understand
that plans for the reopening of Luther College,
decided upon by the Synodical Conference at Omaha
last August, were under discussion.

An Inspection Trip. — Rev. C. F. Drewes, the
Director of Colored Missions, spent the month of
October in North Carolina. He visited the congre-
gations and schools and noted the progress and
needs of the field. Superintendent F. D. Alston and
Missionary Martin Dorpat accompanied Director
Drewes part of the time.

A Splendid Missionary Institution. — A person
scanning the records of our Sanitarium at Wheat
Ridge, Colo., will note that in the past year
151 persons found a home under its roof. Such
a splendid record was made possible largely through
the sale of Wheat Ridge Christmas Seals, which in
the past year amounted to more than $64,000. Shall
the blessed work at Wheat Ridge continue and prog-
tess be made? Any one acquainted with the nature
of the disease known as tuberculosis realizes that
fl sanitarium where the proper rest, attention, and

care may be obtained is an almost absolute necessity
to effect the cure. What would happen to the 151,
of whom perhaps one hundred are charity patients,
if Wheat Ridge’s great work of charity were dis-
continued or neglected? The greater number would,
without doubt; find shelter in some other institution,
but they would be deprived of their great blessings,
the Christian atmosphere, the divine services, the
pastoral care, the food for their immortal souls.
Again, if we consider that even at the present time
there are many tuberculars who are anxiously await-
ing the time when they may enter the Wheat Ridge
Sanitarium, but are forced to wait on account of
crowded conditions, we cannot but pray that the
Lord may this year again bless the sale of Wheat
Ridge Christmas Seals. Let us, then, make possible
an even greater Wheat Ridge by buying and using
liberally our Wheat Ridge Christmas Seals!

Prof. F. Pieper, D. D.

Fiftieth Anniversary.— On October 19 Dr. F.
Pieper celebrated his fiftieth anniversary as pro-
fessor at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo.
Dr. Pieper has always been a hearty friend of our
Colored Missions and for years served as a member
and as chairman of the Board for Colored Missions.
God be praised for giving us men like the venerable
Doctor! ;

Woman Workers in Our Foreign Mission Fields.
The Missouri Synod has at this time four woman —
workers in its China field and five in its field in
India. It is probable that several woman workers
will soon be added to this number. ‘Two of the
present workers in China are teaching, and two are
nursing, while one of the woman workers in India
is teaching and the other four are doing deaconess
work and nursing.