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The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1929, Page 105

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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ment of the spirit of benevolence. The every-
member canvass has been carried out in its fullest
extent, and practically all make weekly gifts to the
Lord’s work. An extensive educational system has
been established, including large industrial and agri-
cultural departments. During the vacation season
selected schoolboys from the higher grades of the
central school go out two by two among the neigh-
boring tribes, where they conduct vacation-schools.
When vacation is at an end, they bring back with
them to the central school all the boys that have made
the proper grade in the vacation-schools. Besides the
main station-schools, under the direct supervision of
missionaries, hundreds of village-schools with tens
of thousands of pupils are conducted by black
teachers, who only a few years ago were heathen.
Of all the stations conducted by the Northern

Presbyterians in Kamerun the most successful is the
one at Elat. So great is the throng that gathers at ,
Elat every Sunday for services that one writer
speaks of such a service as “a most exciting ad-
venture.” For more than a decade has this remark-
able hunger for the Word continued at Elat. Already
more than ten years ago reports came that the atten-
dances reached thousands, and it still continues thus
without apparent abatement. At Elat and its sister
stations is being literally fulfilled what Pope says in
his beautiful paraphrase of the inspired prophet’s
words : — z

See future sons and daughters, yet unborn,

In crowding ranks on every side arise,

Demanding life, impatient for the skies.

See barbarous nations at thy gates attend,
Walk in the light and in thy temple bend.

reel Lutheran College, Greensboro, N.C., May 30, 1929.
ptt number in the history of this institution.