The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1930, Page 164

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+ Rev. F. W. Herzberger. +

a thing of beauty and tends to awaken reverence for
the house where God’s honor dwelleth. The church
proper has a seating capacity of at least 180. ‘To the
right of the chancel is the vestry. To the left is
another stairway, which leads to the basement or to
a rear exit. In the basement are located the lava-
tories, the boiler-room, the :coal-bin, a large and
pleasant Sunday-school room, a large stage, a well-
equipped kitchen, and closets. On the west side of
the building is found the belfry, in which hangs
a 300-pound bell.

St. Philips’s wishes to take this occasion to thank
the Hon. Mission Board for its beautiful new chapel.
Our prayer now is that with the help and continued
blessing of God the future may show the investment
made in Philadelphia by our Hon. Mission Board
to have been a wise and prudent one. We also wish
to take this opportunity to thank our many friends
for their kind contributions to the cause of Colored
Missions, for without their help, their prayers, and
their contributions the present chapel in Phila-
delphia could not have been erected. May God con-
tinue to bless us in the future as He has in the past,
so that our church, because of the saving Gospel
preached here, may prove to be a source of salvation

aes to many! May He be with us, guide us, protect us,”

P. TRUMPOLDT.

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

A Friend of the Negro.

The death of Rey. F. W. Herzberger some months
ago means the departure of a sincere friend of the
colored people. Already in his student days he
showed an interest in the work of the Synodical
Conference among the Negroes. While living in
Little Rock, Ark., for about a year, he came into
intimate contact with the work, and thus his interest
grew still greater in the spiritual uplift of the freed-
men of our country. ;

Pastor Herzberger was a native of Baltimore, Md.,
and was born there October 23, 1859. Upon his
graduation at St. Louis in 1882 he took up active
work in the ministry of the Lutheran Church in the
northwestern part of Arkansas. Four years later he
removed to Carson, Kans. In 1888 he was called to
Hegewisch, Ill., and in the following year he came
to Hammond, Ind. After a faithful pastorate of
ten years in Hammond he removed to St. Louis to
become the first city missionary within the bounds
of the Missouri Synod. There he labored most zeal-
ously and with remarkable success for over thirty
years, till the day of his death, August 26, 1930.

A Home Missionary’s Experience
with a Blizzard.

The article below we take from a 1929 issue of
the Omaha Lutheran. It recounts the actual ex-
periences of Pastor H. Schuetz, Cheyenne, Wyo.,
while on a winter missionary trip in the desolate
regions of the State. We are of the opinion that the
interesting experiences, as here given, will induce
our readers to pray more earnestly for these pioneers
of the Gospel and more willingly to support them
in their arduous and self-sacrificing labors. Every
reader of this account will become convinced that
our home missionaries in the sparsely settled regions
of our own West and of Canada, where conditions
are quite similar, by no means have a sinecure.

Our Missionary Sets Out.

“On Monday, October 28, after having given
confirmation instruction, I left Cheyenne in my car
at about 11 a. a. to baptize a sick child at Limestone
Camp, about forty miles northwest, and, at the same
time, to call upon a family which recently moved ©
into that desolate country to a place about fifteen
miles farther. Our weather-prophet had prophesied
a storm, but I thought I could make the trip before
it came. I reached that camp a little after noon,