The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1929, Sheet 75

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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“In Durham, Clement Sabourin and Theodore
Johnson represented the Lutheran college. Theodore
Johnson won the speakers’ prize.”

The double victory entitles our teams to enter
the State elimination contest, to be held the latter
part of April.

Last year we lost the negative of the query by
one point; but it took the State champions to beat
our team.

When the students began canvassing, they com-
plained that a fence built years ago on the line of
our campus might act as a barrier to their work by
keeping children from the section directly east of
the main building from attending Sunday-school.
For that reason the wires were cut and a gap is now
opened every Sunday permitting children to walk
directly into the building, a distance of 150 feet
from the end of the street in the rear instead of
a detour of about a block around the fence. Good
psychology. ‘There are other fences not made of
woven wire, yet equally as effective in keeping people
away from our services. ‘Tear them down.

Since students very oflen have a great deal of
trouble finding employment during the summer
vacation, some of our larger and more zealous
congregations might consider engaging theological
students for one, two, or three months during the
summer to let them make a thorough canvass of
the sections in which the churches are located.
Fifty dollars a month would be a fair salary for
a student who works eight hours a day and prepares
a good card index of the families in the community.

The Alumni Association is planning to raise
a large sum of money as a thank-offering for the
preservation of the college for twenty-five years as
an instrument in the work of missions. How many
readers know that this association contributed more
than $300 for furnishings in the new dormitory?

Wa. H. GEHRKE.

St. Philip’s at Chicago.

St. Philip’s at Chicago celebrated the fifth anni-
versary of her work in this city on Sunday, March 3,
1929. Special services were held in the evening, at
which time the choir from Peace Church, under the
direction of Teacher A. D. Abraham, rendered the
music. Our little church was filled to overflowing.
Even the vestibule was crowded, and many had to be
turned away.

During the Easter season twenty-eight souls were
added to our congregation, thirteen By baptism and
nineteen by confirmation.

Confirmation of ten adults took place on Palm
Sunday, while the children, nine in all, were con-
firmed on Easter Sunday at the morning service.

The choir rendered a cantata, The Thorn-
crowned King, on Easter Sunday night, but owing
to the very bad weather conditions there were very
few out to hear it, and so by popular request the
cantata was repeated Sunday evening, April 7. All
present agreed that for a young choir making its
first appearance in a work of this size it was excep-
tionally good. The members of the little body are
greatly encouraged and promise something else of
this sort in the very near future.

The church officers read ‘their quarterly report to
the congregation immediately after morning service,
April 7%. The report showed that the different
departments are attempting to live up to our slogan
“Bigger and Better Things for 1929.” The Sunday-
school superintendent made an especially interesting
report. He commended his staff of teachers for
their excellent cooperation and requested that some
child with musical training should play the piano
for Sunday-school. Immediately after the meeting
one little eleven-year-old girl signified her willing-
ness to serve.

The various organizations are working smoothly
and ardently. All glory to God for the progress that
we are making and for the willing workers in
our field.

BEATRICE Hanroup-WILuis, Correspondent.  -

Domine, Fiat Lux!
(Lord, let there be light!)

For three weeks the Rev. Josiah Perkins, D. D.,
imported revivalist, had stamped and stormed and
aimed his shafts of flaming oratory at the heads and
hearts of old “Uncle” Mose and his iniquitous com-

panions, trying to convince them of the error of

their ways and of the indisputable fact that a ter-
rible retribution awaited them unless they walked
the straight and narrow path.

“Uncle” Mose, the object of years of earnest
prayer and streams of honest tears and sweat, spent
his “spare” time rebottoming chairs with white-oak
“splits? and playing the banjo at the Saturday-
night frolics. Every Saturday night he could be
seen limping across the fields, with his old banjo
tucked under his arm and a short corn-cob pipe
caught between his few teeth that time and ignorant
neglect had been kind enough to leave him. Arrived
at the place of the frolic, he would spend the night

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