The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1929, Page 52

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52 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

dinner for the students, the quartets sang spiritual
songs. After the lecture Mr. Horst saw the basket-
ball team lose its fifth game of the eleven played
this season.

Perhaps it will be possible some day to make
phonograph records of spiritual songs sung by stu-
dents and then to include them with the stereop-
ticon slides of this institution, which, together with
other interesting pictures of the mission, may be
obtained free of charge from the Rey. Theo. Walther.

Initherans touring to the South via North
Carolina’s splendid system of highways should by
all means stop in Greensboro long enough to inspect
this institution, which is located on Highway
No. 10,-about one mile east of the city square. But
visitors must not inquire for Immanuel College.
While this school throughout the Synodical Con-
ference is known by that name, an actual test has
shown that people living within six blocks of the
campus have never heard of such a college. How-
ever, everybody knows the Lutheran College.

Of the verses of Phillis Wheatley (born about
1753 in Africa, transported to Boston in 1761,
died 1784), the first of the race poets in America,
the following stanza deserves wide dissemination :—

‘Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land,

Taught my benighted soul to understand é

That there’s a God, that there’s a Savior too;

Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.

Some view our race with scornful eye —

“Their color is a diabolic dye.”

Remember, Christians, Negroes black as Cain [?]
* May be refined and join th’ angelic train.

Wx. H. Genre.

Gifts of Charity Assist in Winning
Souls for Christ. .

Recently the ladies of Pastor Oldsen’s congre-
gation in Ottawa, Ill., made up a box of aprons,
children’s clothes, shoes, and hats and shipped them
to Mount Zion Mission (colored) of New Orleans.

Among the many needy homes that were served
by these gifts was a family of eight children, three
of whom attended our school and were baptized
last year in Mount Zion Church. The remainder

of the family, however, could not be won for Christ.

They could not be brought to think seriously enough
about the salvation of their souls.

The father was a laborer, earning $1.75 a day,
$11 a week, of which $4 went for rent (three
Tooms), the remaining $7 to be used for feeding

_and clothing the family for the week and to
_ buy fuel,

In February the father was disabled by rupture
through heavy labor and is since then visiting the
hospital preparatory to undergoing an operation.
In this time of trouble a lady friend of the family
came to Mount Zion seeking aid and advice for ten
hungry mouths. They felt they might get some-
thing where that free clothing came from.

The pastor visited the family immediately with
a box of groceries donated by a kind grocer and
offered to seek adequate aid for a month or more
from the Community Chest, which offer was ac-
cepted. Here was an opportunity, too, to speak
to those of the family who had not as yet been won
for the Gospel about their souls’ welfare.

Husband, wife, and a lady friend, besides the
five unbaptized children are now being received into
the church through Baptism and confirmation.
Instead of appealing to the Community Chest, how-
ever, the congregation is standing by the family in
its need. For the family is now our family. The
father now conducts family devotion every night.

May the Lord richly reward the donors who
assisted us! O. W. L.

‘“‘That’s a Good One on Him.?’’

A few days ago I met an old colored sectarian
preacher. He is a dear old man and well grounded
in the fundamental teachings of the Bible. He is
not one of those preachers who preach this and that,
only not Jesus Christ as the only Savior of man-
kind and forgiveness of sins alone through His
merits. He is a preacher who preaches Christ and
Him crucified and leaves those things which do
not belong in the pulpit outside of the church. This
preacher had a good story to tell me about one of
our Lutheran missionaries of long ago. Here is his
story : —

“You know, I am convinced that the Lutheran
Church puts out some mighty good missionaries.
Right now I am thinking of that grand old man
who used to live in this neighborhood and who was
in charge of that colored church up on street.
He used to come to see me regularly. That was a
man for me! ‘There was no subject he was not
able to talk about. Well, I was mighty glad to see
him whenever he came, because he always told me
so many things about God and the Bible which
came in handy for my sermons. Several times he

came over here when I was struggling with a Bible--

passage on which I wanted to preach. Well, sir,
when he came, I would lead the conversation to
that Bible-passage. He wasn’t aware how little