The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1931, Page 87

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER 87

noteworthy that all these schools are in charge of
colored teachers. We see in this a striking proof
that an educated colored teachership is being raised
by our Board and that God’s approval is resting
upon this work. F. J. L.

A Little Boy Does Mission-Work.

Little Fred Daley is a baptized member in our
Lutheran mission and a very regular attendant at
Sunday-school. Fred has several younger brothers
and sisters who did not attend Sunday-school in

little Fred has five brothers, two sisters, and a cousin
coming to Sunday-school. Besides all but two of
them have been baptized in our mission.

Rosa J. Younc.

Lutheran Hour Opens the Door.

Soon after your missionary engaged upon his
labors in Nevada and Placer counties, California,
he sought admission to the numerous sanitariums
at Colfax and in the immediate vicinity. He was
denied the right to make a bedside canvass of the

, A Group of Schoolchildren.

spite of the many mission-visits made by the
teacher.

The faithful teacher, not willing to give up the
children, used little Fred as an instrument to gain
them. One Sunday after Sunday-school the teacher
had a private mission-talk with little Fred, asking
him to try to bring the others to Sunday-school.
The lad promised that he would.

After this the teacher would inquire of little
Fred each Sunday after Sunday-school as to where
the others were. The zealous lad always said, “I am
trying to get them. They couldn’t come to-day.”
Fred really had been trying, and the seeds which
he sowed soon demonstrated their fruits.

One Sunday, Fred brought along three of his
brothers and sisters. This encouraged the teacher
to keep up his private talks with Fred. At present

patients, but was assured a welcome. should he
receive a call for ministrations from any of the
inmates.

For over a year the doors of the institutions of
mercy remained closed to him, until a short while
ago a letter was received from the Lutheran Hour
headquarters requesting the visitation of a certain
young man at the Kathramon Sanitarium who was
“searching for the truth.” He had heard the Lu-
theran Hour, was deeply impressed by the address,
and wanted to learn more. A visit brought out
the fact that he had been groping about in prac-
tically every ism under the sun, but was being more
and more impressed by the Christian religion. He
is now supplied with various tracts, Schwan’s Cate-
chism, and Graebner’s Evolution and has reached

.the Book of Job in his reading of the Bible. May