The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1929, Page 126

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

extensive Home Mission enterprise. Pastor Birkner
is known for his missionary zeal and good judgment,
and for this reason the Central District may look
forward to a new era in its Home Mission endeavors
if God gives His blessing.

Our Buffalo Colored Mission. — Our colored mis-
sion in Buffalo now numbers thirty-three communi-
cant.members, and prospects for future growth are
bright. It is proposed to erect a chapel for the
mission. Candidate Pflug, a graduate of St. Louis
Seminary, will have charge of the work under the
direction of Missionary Wind.

St. Philip’s, Cleveland. — At a special baptismal
service on May 5, Missionary E. G. Mueller baptized
twenty-five children, ranging from eleven months to
fourteen years. Another group of children is to be
baptized in the near future.

' Grace, St. Louis. — Missionary Kroenk recently
received as members, by confirmation, six persons.
At the same service he baptized five children.

Bethlehem, New Orleans. — Pastor Kramer con-
firmed eleven persons at Bethlehem and baptized
three. At Concordia he confirmed two.

Atlanta, Ga.— On Tuesday, June 18, the Rev.
J. Alston and Miss Ruby Smith, both of Atlanta, Ga.,
were united in marriage by the Rev. C. Broders.
On Wednesday evening, June 19, the brother of the
bridegroom, the Rev. F. D. Alston, delivered the
wedding address, selecting as a text Ruth 1, 16.17.
After the address the bride was received into the
membership of the Lutheran Church.—F. D. Atston.

- Alabama Field. — All the congregations of this
extensive field celebrated the four-hundredth anni-
versary of Luther’s Small Catechism in the month
of July. In many instances the children rendered
appropriate programs. The congregations aimed to
collect $700 at these festival services, and we hope
that they may have reached their goal.

Bashi, Ala.— Odd name! Isn’t it? It is the
name of a colored mission station opened by Super-
intendent Schmidt not long ago. The July number
of the Misstonary Lutheran reports that in a recent
service thirty-eight persons were accessioned, twenty-
three by baptism and fifteen by confirmation.

Charlotte, N. C.—The Rev. C. J. Malloy has been
transferred from Kannapolis, N. C., where he served
for one year as assistant to the Rey. F. D. Alston, to
Charlotte, N. C. —F. D. Ausron.

~ Concord, N. C. — The foster mother of Rev. Fred
_ Foard, Mrs. Julia Pfifer, died here at the age of
seventy-two years. She had been an invalid for years.

Salisbury, N.C. — The Rev. F. J. Vorice is now
the pastor of St. John’s Church, Salisbury, N. C. He
has been transferred from Charlotte, N. C., where he
labored for two years. His new address is 480 S.
Caldwell St., Salisbury, N. C.—F. D. Atston.

Institutional Work in Milwaukee. — The two
institutional missionaries of the Synodical Confer-
ence working in Milwaukee, Pastors Duemling and
Helmes, serve twelve institutions. At the State
Penitentiary their services are attended by 400 to
500 men and women; in the House of Correction
the missionaries have the opportunity of preaching
the crucified Savior to hundreds; at the State In-
dustrial School for girls regular catechetical instruc-
tion is given to a goodly number, and services are
regularly held; at the Muirdale Sanitarium for
tubercular patients the missionaries are privileged to
do much bedside work, besides conducting regular
weekly services during the whole year; the work
among the patients at the Hospital for Mental Dis-
eases is signally blessed; at the County Infirmary
the aged, infirm, and feeble receive regular ministra-
tions; at the County Hospital, with its 500 beds,
regular services are conducted and much bedside
visiting is done; at the two government hospitals
and homes for veterans the work is difficult, but not
without its blessed rewards; at the Blue Mound
Sanatorium services are held every Saturday after-
noon and are regularly attended by many patients
and eight nurses; at the Milwaukee Children’s
Home a Sunday-school is conducted which has an
enrolment of 140; and finally, the inmates of the
County Hospital for Chronic Mentally Diseased are
regularly served, and 125 patients and ten nurses
attend the services. Pastors Duemling and Helmes
couducted 309 services during the year, visited
2,359 patients, and preached to audiences ag-
gregating 17,381.

Chinese in America. — The slow progress of
Christianity among the Chinese of our country is in
a great measure due to the fact that the Chinese
population numbers sixteen times more men than
women. It is a deplorable fact that so many mar-
ried Chinese living in the United States are pre-
vented from bringing their wives into our country
by existing immigration-laws. Successful mission-
work has only been done among the Chinese of our
country where normal family life existed.

German Missions of To-day. — German missions
now have 1,265 foreign missionaries in the field, who
are assisted by 7,956 paid native helpers. The num-
ber of native Christians served by German mission-