The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1931, Page 146

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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Samuel.

Samuel the son was asked of God

By Hannah, who in fervent prayer
Before the altar of the Lord

Besought God, and He answered her.

Samuel the boy in fear of God

Was given again to serve the Lord,
And in the quiet of the night

God called his name, and Samuel heard.

Samuel the youth, when called by name,
In answer to the voice declared:

“Speak, Lord, Thy servant hears”; again
The Lord used him as messenger.

Samuel the prophet, faithful still
To the still voice within his heart,
Through prayer evoked the power of God,
Made sin from Israel depart.

Samuel, th’ example for us all
To hear, obey, and pray anew
That we the will of God fulfil
And to His promises be true.
Watrurr J. Weren.

A Message from Mississippi.

Piney Woods Country-life School was founded
by Lawrence C. Jones, a colored man. Mr. Jones
graduated from Iowa University in 1907, then came
to the Southland and established a school for the
education of colored girls and boys.

From small and trying beginnings — first under
a cedar-tree, then in a little tumble-down shack —
Piney Woods School has grown from year to year.

To-day the school owns over 1,500 acres of land, has
large, spacious dormitories, a serviceable and large
administration building; and teachers’ cottages and
workshops dot the campus. In short, it is a school
well equipped to take care of the needs of the boys
and girls who come to the institution to prepare
themselves for life. The school is a monument
to the untiring zeal and energy of its founder,
Mr. L. C. Jones. Hundreds of boys and girls that
have graduated from this institution look back with
gratitude to the blessings brought to them during
the days they attended Piney Woods.

_ Besides a student-body of about 300 boys and
girls, Piney Woods has a faculty of upwards of fifty

* teachers engaged in imparting to the students useful
knowledge, both academic and industrial.

The student-body at Piney Woods is made up in
the main of normal girls and boys. But the fact that
quite a number of afflicted young people have found

"here an opportunity to fit themselves for life shows

what sort and manner of man Mr. Jones is. He has:
a heart, a big heart, for the more unfortunate people:
and is ever ready to give those afflicted or poor in.
this world’s goods a chance to study.

Among the students that I instruct in religion is:
a class of twelve blind girls and boys. They have:
found at Piney Woods an opportunity for schooling.
Then there is that boy who some years ago lost his
legs. He carries himself about the campus in a chair
with as much expertness as one who walks freely.
One of the most courageous students at Piney Woods
is a boy who has had both of his hands amputated
on account of an explosion of which he was the:

Pastor George A. Schmidt and Two
Students.

The armless boy has the reputation of being the

best Bible student on the Piney Woods campus.
victim. This same boy plays baseball and tennis,.
uses the typewriter and his knife, fork, and pencil
with accuracy and precision. I am thinking, too, of
that little girl, paralyzed from the hips down and
moved about from place to place on the campus in
a wheel-chair by the other students. They never-
seem to weary of showing to this unfortunate girl
deeds of kindness.

And never will I forget that other student who
last Christmas at five o’clock was dragging himself
through the dusk of that chilly and damp morning’
to attend chapel services, where he, together with
many others, heard the gladsome message of the-
loving Savior born into this world as a Redeemer-

_for all.