The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1930, Page 70

Transcription machine transcription, uncorrected

⤓ Download .txt · copy text

70

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

Pastor Alston’s departure means the loss of a
faithful and efficient worker. May the Lord grant
our Colored Missions many more workers like
Pastor Alston!

KFUO as a Missionary Agency.

The Rev. H. H. Hohenstein,
Director of Station KFUO,

St. Louis, Mo.

Dear BrotHEeR HOHENSTEIN : —

Were some one to ask me what in my opinion,
under the gracious blessing of God, has been the
greatest cause for the phenomenal growth of my con-
gregation, I should unhesitatingly answer—KFUO.

As I am told, shortly before our church was
built, a little more than three years ago, a sign was
erected on the building site telling the passers-by
that a church was to be erected on this site in which
the preaching would be similar to that heard over
KFUO. The growth of my congregation immedi-
ately after the dedication of the church was nothing
short of phenomenal.

_ As I get into the homes of my members, I find
that very, very many of them first became acquainted
with, and interested in, the Lutheran Church
through KFUO. As I go about making mission-
calls, I find almost everywhere a favorable attitude
toward the Lutheran Church, also among such
people as have never seen the inside of one of our
churches. And‘the cause? KFUO! In a conversa-
tion recently held with the editor of a local news-
paper, I was informed that he tunes in on KFUO
regularly. When calling on mission-prospects with
whom I have not as yet come into contact in another
way, I always use KFUO as a medium of approach.

These lines are written in the hope that you and

those active in the interest of KFUO may be en-

couraged in the work you are carrying on, knowing ©

that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
With fraternal greetings,

ANDREW SCHULZE,
Pastor of St. Philip’s Lutheran Church,
Goode and St. Ferdinand Aves., St. Louis, Mo.

He Went to Bed One Morning
About School-Time.

: Who? Little Sidney Young, aged nine, a nephew
of the undersigned. His father is a public-school
teacher. Last fall he secured the public school near

our mission here at Hamburg, Ala. His wife is a
faithful member of our church and also her six little
boys. The mother and the three oldest boys, who
are of school-age, were very sad over this act of the
father’s in accepting this school, for they feared that
the father, being the teacher, would force the boys
out of their dear mission-school.

As they thought, so it happened. The father
took a decided stand that the boys should go with
him to school. This made the mother and the boys
very sad and unhappy.

All along, before the day came for the school to
open, little Sidney was thinking in his little mind
just how he could keep from going to that school.
So when the day came for the public school to open,
while the father and the other two sad-faced little
fellows were getting ready, — the boys against their
little will, — Sidney stole off to bed without un-
dressing, tucked the cover over his head, and lay
very quietly while his little heart beat fast as he
listened to hear the result.

At last all were ready. The father called out,
“Sidney! Sidney! Where is Sidney?”

Sidney’s reply was, “I don’t want to go.” The
father continued to call, and Sidney continued to
say, “I don’t want to go. I told you I don’t want
to go.”

The father, beginning to use authority, an-
swered, “If you won’t go with me to my school,
I will not permit your mother to send you to the
Lutheran church and Sunday-school either.” Little
Sid, not willing to be wholly cut off from his dear
Lutheran church, arose, made ready, and followed
with tear-stained cheeks. The three little boys were
so unhappy that their father finally repented and
promised them that, if they would carry out the
term with him, he would never again take them
away from their church and school.

Rosa J. Youne.

A Colored Youth’s Question Answered.

A colored youth one day asked a missionary in
great agitation of mind, “Is it true that we colored
people cannot enter heaven?” The poor fellow,
who had never had the blessing of Christian in-
struction, labored under the false impression that
the good Lord draws a color line in heaven and that
colored people therefore need not expect to reach
heaven. The missionary answered: “No, that is
not true; for we read John 3, 16: ‘God so loved the
world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that