The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1931, Page 5

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER 5

A Letter from Cincinnati.

We are pleased to bring the following from the
new missionary at Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, O., November 18, 1930.
Tur Rey. C. F. Drewes,
St. Louis, Mo.
Dear Pastor Drewes : —

Received your letter of the 14th and will answer
at once. Since receiving your letter, I have not had
the chance to broach the subject referred to in your
letter to our members. However, I will do so at the
next Friday service. I think that we can remit a
little ; but please don’t expect too much. At present
there are very few of the members working. And
because of the heating problem (we use a ton of
coal a week) there is very little left. However,
I will tell them and do my best to have them remit
a little regularly.

It may interest you to know that the work
during the past few months has been a great plea-
sure. With the aid of Mr. Huber we have been able
to have nine baptized on the last two Sundays
(three on the 9th and six on the 16th). These were
not children of members. At the present time it
seems that we shall have several more in the next
few weeks. Our Sunday-school has also been very
well attended in the past few months. And the
eight that I have in my confirmation class will
soon be ready for confirmation. Six of these are
from families that are not members.

I am also trying to have Pastor Kase obtain
permission for me to visit the colored patients in
the hospitals. I believe that this work will be
profitable for our Church; for there are many there
who know nothing at all of their Savior and are
just waiting for death to relieve them, not knowing
what will come after that.

Another field! We have a member living in
one of the suburbs of Cincinnati. This party has
promised his home if we come out and haye ser-
vices there at regular intervals. ‘There are about
1,700 colored people in that vicinity and very few
churches. ‘The churches that are there do not
amount to much. I will start there as soon as we
can get a few to attend, which may be within the
next few weeks.

It is our wish that God will prosper our work
here in Cincinnati; first of all because we want to
do our best to win these benighted souls for His
kingdom, but also because we want the Mission

Board to feel justified in going to the expense of
maintaining this mission.

I might also add that the people, too, are happy
in their church and are bending every effort to win
more. “Cincinnati must grow” is their motto.

I shall try my best to have the congregation
remit to the treasurer in the near future.

It is the wish of the congregation and also of
its pastor that the Lord will soon make you strong
again, so that you will be able to pay us a visit.

I am,

Cordially and sincerely yours,

Omar F. J. Rav.

Immanuel Lutheran College Chronicle.

Professors Beck and Kampschmidt arranged a
program of sacred selections for broadcasting over
Station WBIG, Greensboro, N. C., on December 16.
Dr. Nau delivered a short address.

A local architect, aided by Mr. Theodore Stein-
meyer of St. Louis, is preparing plans for convert-
ing into a lecture-hall the building formerly used
as a dormitory and lately as a Lutheran day-school.

The Cotton Blossom Singers of Piney Woods
school recently sang a number of selections before
the student-body during chapel period. The man-
ager of the organization spoke very favorably of the
mission-work being done by our Church at Piney
Woods, Miss.

Word has just been received that Mrs. Molly
Louder, who for a number of years has been caring
for a few Lutheran orphans in New Bern, was called
to her reward this morning (December 13).

The Booker T. Washington Literary Society
sponsored a program on November 21 to celebrate
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ordination of
Dr. Henry Nau. ‘The following pastors and stu-
dents took part in the celebration: Clemonce Sa-
bourin acted as master of ceremonies; the Rev.
Culbert Malloy had charge of the opening service;
Henry Grigsby spoke in behalf of the students;
Peter Hunt prepared an address on “Dr. Nau as
a Teacher of Theology”; the Rev. John Fuller
represented Immanuel Lutheran Conference; Lester
Charles recited a fitting poem; the Rev. Roland
Scaer brought the greetings of Ebenezer Lutheran
Church; the Rev. Paul Lehman extended the best
wishes of Grace-Luther Memorial Congregation;
Prof. Frederick Berg spoke in the name of the