The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1930, Page 106

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

General Conference. — The General Conference
‘of our Colored Missions meets at Springfield, Ill.,
July 31 to August 4. Pastor Clifford Bliss’s congre-
.gation will be the host.

Convention of Synodical Conference. — The
Synodical Conference will meet in Quincy, IIL.
August 6—11. On August 10 a great mass-meeting
is to be held commemorating the presentation of the
Augsburg Confession four hundred years ago. The
president of the Board for Colored Missions, Pastor
Otto Boecler, of Des Plaines, Ill., and Dean John
H. C. Fritz of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, will
be the speakers. Two short addresses will be given
by Pastor Carter, of Chicago, and John Alston, of
Atlanta.

Luther Preparatory School, New Orleans. —
This preparatory institution, of which Prof. Paul
Scherf is the principal, will have another year added
to its course next school-year. Mr. B. Hoffmann
of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, will serve as
assistant.

Baton Rouge, La. — It is intended to begin work
here again. Pastor Kramer has been asked to open
a station if the prospects are promising.

Colored Candidates. — The Board for Colored
Missions will station the four graduates of Immanuel
College, Greensboro, N. C., at the following places:
1. Albert Dominick, Holy Ark, Ala.; 2. Luther
Robinson, Trinity School, New Orleans, and as-
sistant to Rev. Wildgrube; 3. Harvey Lehman,
Trinity Church, Selma, Ala., and Maplesville, Ala. ;
4, De Witt Robinson, East Selma and Kings Land-
ing, Ala. Three of these candidates are from Man-
sura, La. ; }

Superintendent G. A. Schmidt. — We hear that
Pastor Schmidt will be compelled to take a month’s
rest to regain his health. Pastor Schmidt has been
burning the candle at both ends, and the inevitable
result has begun to show itself.

Vredenburgh, Ala. — This promising station is
in great need of a chapel. The Board expects to ask
the Synodical Conference to appropriate $1,200 for
this purpose when it meets in Quincy, Ill., next
month.

Rev. Wolff Called to Alsace. — Rey. William
Wolff, the efficient missionary at Mobile, Ala., has
_ been called to Strasbourg, Alsace, France. President
Strasen of the Alsace Lutheran Free Church found
_ it necessary to resign because of sickness, and Pastor
| Wolff has been called to succeed him. Missionary
olff with great reluctance accepted the call, for he

had learned to love his work in Mobile. The Board
for Colored Missions appreciates the fine services of
Pastor Wolff and would have rejoiced if he should
have decided to stay in the Colored Missions.

Kannapolis, N. C. — Rev. John W. Fuller, of
Mount Pleasant, N.C., has been called to Kanna-
polis to succeed the late Pastor Frank Alston. While
taking charge of Kannapolis, Pastor Fuller will
continue to serve Mount Calvary at Mount Pleasant
and “Drys Schoolhouse. <A student will be placed as
a supply at Kannapolis to teach school and occasion-
ally preach for Rev. Fuller.

Immanuel Lutheran College, Greensboro, N. C.
As our Colored Missions are developing, it is be-
coming more and more desirable to give our future
colored pastors a fuller preparation. For this reason
the wish has been expressed to extend the prepara-
tory course at Immanuel from four to six years, thus
making it a junior college. Very probably the
Synodical Conference, which meets next month at
Quincy, Ill., will be called upon to decide this
question.

Baltimore-Washington. — Candidate J. Schlich-
ting, a graduate of Concordia Seminary at Spring-
field, Ill., is to succeed Rev. Martin Dorpat as mis-
sionary in Baltimore and Washington.

Immigrant Mission of Missouri Synod. — Mis-
sionary Carl E. Gallman and his two full-time as-
sistants were called upon to serve 5,500 Lutheran
immigrants in the course of last year. They helped
4,000 at the piers upon arrival; 330 were discharged
to them by immigrant inspectors; 1,013 had the
benefit of their aid on Ellis Island; and 400 aliens
called at the missionaries office in person. The mis-
sionary’s office received 3,500 letters and sent out
4,500 letters and cards. The Missouri Synod sub-
sidizes this valuable missionary agency to the extent
of $3,700 a year, but about $8,000 a year is neces-
sary to carry on the work. About $4,000 a year is
earned by the missionary’s office in supplying.steam-
ship tickets to those going to Europe. By purchasing
tickets from the office of the immigrant missionary,
patrons receive service no other agency offers, and at
the same time the purchaser is helping in carrying
on a very helpful and successful missionary work.
Prospective European tourists should write to Lu-
theran Immigrant Society, Inc., Rev. Carl E. Gall-
man, 208 E. 61st St., New York, N. Y.

Deaf-Mute Mission Statistics. — During 1929
Missouri Synod missionaries for the deaf baptized
eleven infants and forty-nine adults; they confirmed