The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1930, Sheet 164

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

Life-Giving Streams.

Keep the pure streams of the life-giving Fountain
Flowing in highways and byways and glen;
Beautiful the feet of those on the mountain
Bringing glad tidings to the children of men.
Send forth the life-giving streams to the centers
Poisoned with vice, superstition, and crime;
Cool the parched souls, dispelling where enters
Unbelief, doubt, with the Holy, Sublime!

Share in the work of the first resurrection,
Bringing to men the salvation of God,
Who through the gift of the Savior’s perfection
Glorious shall rise through the cleft of the sod.
Help to prepare for the final great harvest
Children who once were the Wily One’s prey;
Plant in the hearts of the dying the earnest
Of their inheritance while yet it is day.

Norr. — The above poem was sent to Miss Rosa J. Young
by an anonymous warm admirer of her work as a _mission-
worker and in appreciation of her book Light in the Dark
Belt. The unknown lady sent a number of other poems to

Miss Young, but lack of space prevents us from printing them
at this time. F.J.L.

News Items from Our Colored
Mission Field.

Louisiana.

Our good people in Zansura were severely stricken
by the drought last summer. Their need is very
great. Clothing and shoes are sorely needed. Director
Drewes, 3558 S. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, Mo., will
be pleased to give further information. — In Baton
Rouge, the capital of Louisiana, a new mission-
station is to be opened. At a resent service con-
ducted by Pastor G. M. Kramer, of New Orleans, ten
adult Negroes were present. Pastor Kramer thinks
the outlook promising. — Mount Zion, New Orleans,
lost the services of Mr. Andrew Seraile in its school.
Miss Mellinder, of St. Louis, has replaced him.
Mount Zion’s school has four teachers. — Bethlehem,
New Orleans, looked forward to the making of cer-
tain much-needed repairs; however, these will have
to be postponed for the present, since the sum ap-
propriated by the recent convention of the Synodical
Conference at Quincy will have to be used to pay
the cost of paving Washington and Dryades Sts. —
Trinity School, New Orleans, has so large an enrol-
ment that Assistant Pastor DeWitt Robinson has
been given an assistant in the person of Miss Tommie
Lee Jackson, of Alabama.

Mississippi.
Superintendent George A. Schmidt has‘removed

to Jackson, Miss., from where he will take care of
_ the work he began at Piney Woods a year ago and

also make the attempt to open mission-stations in
the State. The work at Piney Woods promises to
bring great results, and the outlook for expansion
is very good. The opinion of Professor Jones, the
head of the Piney Woods institution, is that in the
course of time Mississippi will bring as great returns
as has the Alabama field. God bless the further
labors of Pastor Schmidt and grant that our hopes
may be realized in Mississippi !

Alabama.

At Mobile Pastor A. Dreier is hard at work as
the successor to Rev. Wm. Wolff, who has accepted
a call to Strasbourg, France. Ie is also serving
Atmore and Montrose. — At Montrose, a new sta-
tion, Student Walter Hart is doing supply-work,
teaching school and also doing some preaching. —
Missionary Tervalon is to take over a fourth slalion,
six miles from Buena Vista. — At Auburn, Lee
County, near the Georgia line, work is also to be
begun. — It is the intention of the Mission Board
to have work begun in Montgomery, the capital of
the State, as soon as a good man can be found to
take charge. — Vredenburgh will soon have a com-
plete new mission-plant, a combination chapel-school
and a little parsonage. A kind Christian has left
a request of $1,530, which is to be used for this

purpose. North Carolina.

Pastor Malloy and a Greensboro student repaired
and painted the chapel at Monroe at a cost of only
$120.58 for material. The school at Monroe is in
charge of Miss Hopie Kirkpatrick, who was formerly
at St. Paul’s School, Charlotte. — At Greensboro the
two rooms of the school are overflowing into the
basement. Miss Mason, of Springfield, will teach
the third department.— At New Bern a mission-
school has been established, with Miss Steepleton in
charge. Student Bates of the Greensboro Seminary
conducts services every other Sunday. The new
station is under the supervision of Pastor Fuller.

Here and There.

In Grace Church, St. Louis, twenty children were
baptized on Sunday, October 5. This must have
been a joyous event for pastor and people. — At
Meherrin, Va., Richard A. Doswell, one of our oldest
members there, died after a lingering illness. He
attained the age of seventy-six years. The funeral
services were attended by a large number of people.

Rev. J. A. Moldstad, of Chicago, has been chosen
to succeed Pastor J. E. Thoen as the representative
of the Norwegian Synod on the Board for Colored
Missions.