The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1931, Page 28

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

‘<She Loves
Her Church and Sunday-School.’’

Little Eunice Dale’s age is eight, the baby child
of our member Brother Willie Dale. Eunice is a
most faithful little Lutheran. She and her father
are the only two Lutherans in their home. The
rest of the family is affiliated with the Baptist
church which is located not over one hundred yards
from their home.

No matter how, or what kind of, services are
held at the near Baptist church, the large crowd,
daddy, mama, brothers, and sisters, all may go.
This does not take any effect on faithful little
Eunice. When her time comes for her to go to
church, she gets ready and hastens away to her
church and Sunday-school. If the service at her
church adjourns before that of the Baptist church,
little Eunice is likely to go home and play around
in the yard all alone until the family returns, un-
less her mother instructs her to come where she
is when her church is over.

Little Eunice hardly misses bringing her con-
tribution for Sunday-school and divine service.
Whenever there is anything around the church to
be done, Eunice is there, always present to do what
she can as if she were a grown-up. She says that
she wants to be a Christian schoolteacher. She
wants to teach the Bible. Rosa J. YounG.

Mrs. Mollie Louder Passes Away.

_ On Saturday, December 13, 1930, there passed
to her reward one who was known among her people
as the “mother of orphans,” Mrs. Mollie Louder.
She was born at Swansboro, N. C., March 19, 1874,
thus reaching the age of fifty-six years. Her hus-
band, W. F. Louder, preceded her in death some
years ago. She became a member of the Lutheran
Church under the ministry of Rev. Stewart Doswell,
at Mount Pleasant, N.C., in 1905. At the time of
her confirmation she consecrated herself to the ser-

vice of the Lord and in her subsequent life showed

how very sincere she was in this act of consecration.

- While at Mount Pleasant, she was very active in

congregational work, especially in the Sunday-
school. In 1910 she served as matron of Immanuel
Lutheran College, Greensboro, N.C. After an ab-
sence of several years she returned to the institu-
tion to serve as cook. All in all she served the cause
of the Church at Immanuel for twelve years. In

1922 she was forced to leave in order that she might

bem

take care of her aged mother at Swansboro. While
caring for her mother, she gathered the children of
the community about her in a Sunday-school, and
it was also at this time that circumstances directed
her attention to, and enlisted her sympathy for,
poor orphans. During her stay at Swansboro she
took into her care four boys and a girl, one of them
only three weeks old at the time she took the infant
into her humble home.

In 1927 circumstances made it desirable for
Mrs. Louder to take her little family of orphans to
New Bern, N.C. She there first located in the
northern part of the city, in a locality called “The
Oaks.” While here, she gathered still more orphans
into her sheltering home, trusting that the Lord
would help to provide for her wards. And she was
never put to shame; for though often the wolf came
very near her door, he never was permitted actually
to enter.

A mission-station was opened at New Bern by
Rey. Martin Dorpat, but it is now in charge of Rev.
Fuller of Mount Pleasant, N. C. Mrs. Louder’s
earnest wish was that New Bern might some day
have a Lutheran mission-church and -school, and
she also hoped that the future might make the
founding of a colored Lutheran orphanage a pos-
sibility. Her prayers have been heard as far as the
mission-station and -school are concerned; and who
knows but what some day a colored Lutheran or-
phanage may become a reality?

God grant the Church many more humble
mothers of orphans and zealous workers!

H. S. Bares.

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Eprror.)

The Proper Proportion? — The Protestant
Church is to-day paying three times as much for
its janitors as it is paying for the religious educa-
tion of its children and youth! Is that carrying
on Home Missions?

A Good Work.—G. M. Schaefer, for the past
forty-seven years a faithful member of Trinity,
Atchison, Kans., bequeathed his personal property
to the Foreign Mission Treasury of the Missouri
Synod. It amounts to $10,000. His late home is
now occupied by his brother-in-law, Rev. A. Schmid,
who retired from the active ministry about a year
ago. After the death of Rev. and Mrs. A. Schmid
the house will also come into possession of the
Church.