The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1929, Sheet 79

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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de cake! Why don’t he quit talkin’ about what he
know nuddin’ about? Don’t he hab sense enough to
know dat we put icin’ on de cake and not in it?”

A Worker Accepts a Call. — Our mission in Cin-
cinnati has sustained a heavy loss in the departure
of Teacher Klawitter, who has accepted the call of
St. Trinity Church in St. Louis. He taught our
mission-school in Cincinnati for three years with
success. May God bless him in his new field of labor!

New Workers. — The work at Mobile, Atmore,
and Pensacola is demanding the placing of another
man in that field. — Another man is also very desir-
able for Northern Alabama. — North Carolina needs
three new teachers for its schools. — A missionary
is needed in Greensboro. — Alabama Luther College
needs another teacher.

Weather-Beaten Chapel at Pensacola, Fla.

Pensacola, Fla. — If our mission here is to grow,
we must put a man in the field who can devote his
whole time to it. And we must also give this mis-
sionary a respectable chapel to which he may invite
the people. At present our little flock in Pensacola
is worshiping in a most disreputable-looking shack,
in fact, so disreputable in looks that the writer is
at a loss to understand how it is at all possible
to induce people to attend services there. Director
Drewes showed the Editor a snap-shot of the build-
ing while he was attending the plenary meeting of
the Mission Board in St. Louis, April 2—4, and if
it had not been for the positive assurances of Direc-
tor Drewes and Superintendents Schmidt and
Nestcott, all of whom the Editor knows to be honest
and truthful men, he never would have thought it
possible that people living in a city could be induced
to worship in such a building. Ne

Concordia, New Orleans. —An emergency ap-
jPropriation of $1,000 was made by the Mission
Board for this station to make it possible to add
another room for school purposes at an early date.

Election of Negro Mission Board Officials. —
At its plenary meeting last month the Mission
Board chose the following officers: President, Prof.
0. C. A.Boecler; Vice-President, Rev. L. A. Wisler ;
Recording Secretary, Rev. E. L. Wilson; Treasurer,
Mr. Theo. W. Eckhart. These men will hold office
for the next three years.

Immanuel College, Greensboro, N. C. — This in-
stitution will this year celebrate its twenty-fifth
anniversary. Rey. E. L. Wilson has been chosen to
represent the Mission Board at the anniversary
solemnities to be held this month, at the time of the
commencement exercises. May God grant this in-
stitution His grace also in the future and permit it
to celebrate many more anniversaries!

Visit to the Eastern Field. — Director Drewes
spent several weeks last month in the Eastern Field,
visiting stations in North Carolina, looking over
a prospective field in Baltimore, and inspecting the
work in Philadelphia, Yonkers, Buffalo, Cleveland,
and Cincinnati.

Rosa J. Young. — It grieves us to hear that the

health of Miss Rosa J.Young is still far from satis- »

factory. Just recently she again was compelled to
spend three weeks in a hospital. For a while she
was threatened with the loss of her eyesight.
suffers from frequent attacks of nervousness.

Primitive Living Conditions. — One of our lady
teachers is compelled to live with a family of ten or
eleven in a house with only two rooms. Surely, this
is a greater sacrifice than should be expected from
one of our workers!

Alabama Luther College. — This school stands
in urgent need of a modest auditorium, a boys’
dormitory, and two more classrooms. If the money
appropriated for this institution were on hand,
these crying needs could be satisfied.

Parish Schools and Missions. — A number of
Districts of the Missouri Synod are making con-
siderable appropriations to subsidize parish schools
within their bounds. The Southern Nebraska Dis-
trict devotes 40 per cent. of its Home Mission
moneys to schools. The Central District spends
$16,000 a year for parish schools. Minnesota has
set aside $10,000 for the same purpose. Other Dis-
tricts that are making large annual appropriations
from their Home Mission funds for parish schools
are Iowa, English, Southern, and Texas. The
Atlantic District has a special school fund.

Siam. — In December, 1928, it was 100 years
ago that Protestant mission-work was begun in
Siam by two laborers of the American Board and

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