The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 4

Transcription machine transcription, uncorrected

⤓ Download .txt · copy text

ns

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

Death of Dr. George Mezger.

On November 2, 1931, Prof. George Mezger,
D. D., passed from this life to the life everlasting
at Zehlendorf, near Berlin, Germany, where he had
lived since the summer of 1923 as the representa-
tive of the Missouri Synod and professor at the
theological seminary of our brethren of the Saxon

Prof. George Mezger, D. D.

Free Church. Dr. G. Mezger was a native of Ger-
many, but came to America at the age of eighteen

years. He graduated from our St. Louis Seminary -

in 1881. After serving in the ministry for a num-

ber of years with success, he accepted a professor- «

ship at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, in the fall
_ 0£1896. He served this institution and his Church
as professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology
for the long period of twenty-seven years. During
' this long time he was also active in a literary way,
| publishing Outlines on Luther's Small Catechism

and Lessons in the Small Catechism of Dr. Martin
Luther. He likewise furnished the Lutheraner,
Lehre und Wehre, and the Homiletic Magazine
with many valuable contributions.

What will possibly interest our readers most is
the fact that he served as a member of the Colored
Mission Board for fifteen years and was its efficient
chairman during the later years of his membership.
He was greatly interested in the work of our Church
among the Freedmen and devoted much thought
and time to our Colored Missions. In him our
Colored Missions have lost a sincere friend and an
earnest intercessor. F.J.L.

Remodeled Administration Building,
Immanuel College, Greensboro, N. C.

The Administration Building of Immanuel Lu-
theran College, Greensboro, N. C., was so com-
pletely changed during the past summer as to need
a new introduction to our readers. Formerly this
building, one of the three constituting the physical
plant of the college, was three stories in height with
a cupolalike bell-tower in the center of the roof,
flanked by steeples at the four corners. Because
the kitchen and the dining-room became unsanitary,
because the section used as dormitory by the male
students was not conducive to good health, because
the various classrooms left much to be desired as
regards heating and lighting, because a careful in-
spection showed the necessity of an entirely new
roof, and because in general, the inadequacy of the
arrangement of the building became more and more
apparent also by contrast with modern institutions
in this educational center, which, besides a very
large high school for Negroes, contains five col-
leges, including the Agricultural and Technical
College and Bennett College, both for Negroes, the
Mission Board resolved to petition Synodical Con-
ference for an appropriation of $40,000 for the
purpose of remodeling the building, a plan which,
considering the cubic contents, proved more eco-
nomical than the erection of a new building.

The work of remodeling was completed in
August, 1931, with the happy result shown in the
illustration, though some regrets have been voiced
because of the disappearance of the many steeples.

Without entering into a detailed description of
the many changes in the interior, which, after all, -
only such can appreciate as have seen the original
layout, let it suffice to say that the Administration
Building now contains a good study hall, the neces-