The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1931, Page 13

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

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Professor Gehrke Accepts Call to Superinten-
dency. — Now that Professor Gehrke has accepted
the important position of Superintendent of the
Eastern Field, which also includes a number of
isolated mission-stations elsewhere, Immanuel Lu-
theran College will need a new man on the faculty
to fill the created vacancy. The faculty has asked
that Superintendent Gehrke be permitted to stay
till the end of the present school-year.

Committee on African Missions. — The Board
for Colored Missions has not as yet chosen the
members of the committee on African Missions.
At its last convention the Synodical Conference
empowered the board to select a committee to make
preliminary surveys and gather information.

Northern Conference. — The Northern Confer-
ence of Colored Mission-workers will meet at Cin-
cinnati on the 21st and 22d of this month. We
hope that the Conference will kindly furnish our
readers with a report of the meeting in due time.

A Lutheran Mission Conference. — The Lu-
theran Foreign Missions Conference, an association
consisting of representatives of several Lutheran
bodies, meets at Baltimore on the sixteenth of this
month. The morning sessions will be devoted to
the discussion of what constitutes necessary mis-
sionary preparation, while in the afternoon meetings
the general topic will be considered “The Relation
of the Parent Church and the Daughter Church in
the Mission-field.” In a number of evening ad-
dresses conditions in the field will be described.

A Praiseworthy Undertaking. — Pastor P. D.
Mueller’s withdrawal from the pastorate of the large
congregation at Topeka, Kans., did not mean cessa-
tion of work for him. When we saw him last sum-
mer in Topeka, he told us of his intention to retire
from the pastorate of his old congregation; but at
the same time he told us of his intention to take
up work among the colored people of the city. In
the latest number of the Kansas Lutheran we read
the following : —

“The mission among the colored people of North
Topeka, begun by the Rev. P. D. Mueller, but three
short weeks ago, is already serving twenty-nine chil-
dren between the ages of seven and sixteen and
five adults, a total of thirty-four blood-bought souls,
who are thus being led to know and love their
Savior. Instructions are given on two evenings of
each week. They are conducted in the humble cot-
tage of St. John’s colored janitor, who, together
with his wife, is an active missionary. The imme-
diate need would seem to be a larger room or build-

ing in which this class of thirty-four could be prop-
erly cared for.”

As we read this, the thought came to us that
Pastor Mueller was here setting a fine example that
might well be followed in many cases by other re-
tired pastors and also by laymen not actively en-
gaged in any calling.

Another Good Example. — And here is another
fine item which we take from the Kansas Lutheran:

“One of our pastors near the central part of the
State also has one colored pupil regularly enrolled
in his Sunday-school. One Sunday’s program of
this pastor read as follows: An early morning drive
per Ford to a preaching-station; breakfast at 7;
8 to 9 meditation; 9 to 10 Sunday-school; 10 to
11.30 divine service; a drive of twenty-five miles
home for dinner; twenty-five miles to another sta-
tion; 2.30 to 4.30 preaching a sermon and hearing
a lecture on missions; a brief respite until supper;
then a drive of twenty-five miles homeward, there-
to conduct an evening service. This pastor is sixty
years of age, but he never complains of being over-
burdened. Neither would he consent to have a
report of his activities made known were he aware
of such plans. We publish this, however, because
it may serve both as an incentive to some and as
a comfort to others whose burdens may seem heavy
to them.”

He Remains a Missionary Still. — Rev. Arnold
Meyer, who on account of his health had to give
up his work in the mission-field in China has re-
gained his health to such an extent that he accepted
the call as missionary in the Kansas District. He
was installed on the first Sunday of October in Las
Vegas, N. Mex.

Mission-Work of Our Church among Native
Australians. — Superintendent ‘Albert Mueller of
the mission among native Australians carried on by
our brethren in Australia writes as follows in the
Australian Lutheran: —

“Last Sunday Pastor Kleinig, Ceduna, preached
here, and I looked up some of the temporary native
camps along the Adelaide-Perth road, which passes
Koonibba. Teacher Bode came along, and we went
out as far as Colona Station, about a hundred miles
from here. From there we brought a lad of eight
or nine years to the Children’s Home, whose parents
wish him to attend our school. We visited a num-
ber of camps, but unfortunately found only a few
natives about, most of them being out after kan-
garoo or wombats. From Bookabie, where we have
held regular services, about half the natives had