The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1931, Page 57

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

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enthusiastically voted to join this movement and do
its utmost to interest all our colored congregations
of the conference in this enterprise. The members
of the conference expressed themselves as being
hopeful that this effort would be most helpful in
arousing our people to make insistent and sustained
attempts to reach the unchurched.

The conference was most edifying and inspira-
tional throughout, and all the workers returned to
their respective homes with new zeal and courage to
do the Lord’s work. J. A. Hunt.

News Items from the Eastern Field.

At a recent meeting of the Immanuel Con-
ference it was decided to take part in the Mission-
ary Expansion Movement. A committee was ap-
pointed to get things under way, and there is every
prospect of a successful campaign. A series of re-
commendations has been submitted to the congrega-
tions which anticipates that this movement is to be
made a permanent thing. Immanuel Conference
expects to raise $1,125 as an immediate result of
this effort.

The old training-school on the campus of Im-
manuel College is to be remodeled into a classroom
building. The cost is expected to be about $8,000.
The old building of Immanuel College will also be
remodeled this summer. Plans for bids have been
submitted.

Rey. Arnold Pennekamp of Staunton, IIl., has
accepted the call to Immanuel College as the suc-
cessor to Superintendent Gehrke. He has probably
begun his labors by the time this reaches our
readers. God bless Professor Pennekamp!

At New Bern, N.C., the work is progressing
very satisfactorily. The school is particularly suc-
cessful in its work.

At Cleveland (St. Philip’s) the prospects are
getting brighter every day. The missionary writes:
“Success makes work a pleasure.”

Detroit may soon have a Colored Mission sta-
tion. Director Drewes was to have visited and in-
spected the field the end of this month. Pre-
liminary work has already been done, and the
prospects are promising. To help in getting a mis-
sion started in this great industrial center, any one
knowing of colored friends or members of the Lu-
theran Church in Detroit should write to Super-
intendent Wm. Gehrke, 2413 Walker Ave., Greens-

-boro, N. C.

In Jacksonville, Ill., the Baptists are renting us

their building for $5 a month. After listening to
our missionary’s preaching, they have asked him to
continue using their church for his services.

Rey. Shufelt of High Point, N. C., has the
largest catechumen class in the Eastern Field.

Gleaned from the Eastern Field Bulletin
by F.J.L.

A South African Native Village.

Just as West Africa is the land of towns, so
South Africa is the land of villages, or, to use the
South African term, of kraals. In the following
we are taken on an imaginary visit to Zululand,
and on this visit we shall see something of the life
of one of the finest of the South African tribes, as
pictured by F. Deaville Walker in his very inter-
esting book Africa and Her Peoples.

A Visit to a Zulu Kraal.

“On the broken hillside before us a Zulu kraal,
or family settlement, comes to view. Riding
towards it, we pass a garden of mealies and Kafir
corn. A few yards beyond we come upon two or
three naked boys setting bird-traps; our approach
startles them, and they fly to the kraal for refuge.
‘Dismounting from our horses, we approach the
huts on foot. A few Zulus sit in the sunshine
taking snuff. Amid a general barking of dogs
others come out to see the strangers; for although
white men are often seen in most parts of Zululand,
there is a good deal of curiosity. Some of the chil- -
dren are terrified and run away; one suspects that
their mothers are in the habit of frightening them,
when unruly, with the awful threat, ‘The white man
will come and eat you!’ ”

Zulu Men.

“Stepping towards the men, we greet them with
the usual salutation, ‘I see you’; and they respond,
‘Yes.’ We ask for the induna (headman) and are
told that he will come soon. Etiquette requires that
he shall not hurry himself unduly; so, sitting down
on a stone, we wait his pleasure. The Zulus around
us are tall and well built, with shapely limbs and
broad chests. For ages it was a custom to kill off
sickly or deformed children, and this and their con-
stant warfare had a marked influence upon the
national physique; but these old practises are now
prohibited. Under our so-called civilization the
Zulus have slowly degenerated, though they are still
a very fine race. Their bodies are well rubbed with
oil, and their dress is scanty, but sufficient. From