The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 27

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

another town, where a paternal uncle lived. This
paternal uncle was about to make war on Zamelega,
but was dissuaded from doing this by his nephew,
who probably took a simpler course and stole the
canoe, which was the cause of the palaver. The
case was still pending when we left Gaboon.”

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Eprror.)

Buffalo, N. Y.— The Lutheran Church of Our
Savior, our colored church in Buffalo, is now under
construction and rapidly nearing completion. The
new building is to cost about $16,000 and will be of
brick-veneer construction. It will have a seating
capacity of approximately 150 persons.

Cincinnati. — Our missionary among the col-
ored of this city is preparing eight adults for confir-
mation. He writes that four of these he found as
patients in the hospital, two were gained as the
result of a funeral service, and two were brought
to his class through the personal efforts of members.
Two of these candidates were Masons, one even a
thirty-second-degree Mason.

Piney Woods, Miss. — The Rev. H. Nitz has
been called to Piney Woods as the successor of
Pastor George A. Schmidt.

Rockwell, N. C. — Pastor Foard has had his
wrist fractured recently. Several weeks prior to this
painful accident a baby boy was born to Rev. and
Mrs. Foard.

Indian Mission at Red Springs, Wis. — Presi-
dent H. Daib writes in a recent number of the
Messenger, the North Wisconsin District’s paper:
“While traveling from one laymen’s meeting to an-
other, my time permitted me to visit our Indian
Mission in Red Springs. On October 20, 1931,

Dormitory at Red Springs, Wis.

Indian Ladies’ Society, Red Springs, Wis.

I drove with Pastor Boettcher to Keshena to visit
his catechetical class. About forty children assemble
there of their own accord every Tuesday for religious
instruction. On the following day I visited our
Indian Mission station, particularly the three-room
parochial school, which is attended by 130 children.
How fortunate are our Indian children, in spite of
material disadvantages, that they are instructed in
the Word of God, which makes them wise unto sal-
vation ! — During the past summer our Indian con-
gregation built an altar niche into its church, thus
increasing the seating capacity to 160. Before this
the church had been too small. — In September
Pastor Boettcher confirmed five adults, one of whom
was also baptized.”

Work Among Indians. — At Lovelock, Nev.,
there is an Indian reservation, and our State mis-
sionary for Nevada, Pastor H. L. Maahs of Reno,
Nev., works among the Indians of this reservation.
Just recently we read this report of his success:
“Thirty-two Pahute children have been baptized in
the course of this year [1931]. Our Sunday-school
enrolment includes twenty-two children and several
adults, who all take a very active interest in the

~school, where they, too, learn of the Gift of gifts

and joyously sing songs of praise unto their Lord
and Savior.”

United States Military Academy.—By request
of the Atlantic District of the Missouri Synod,
Pastor Karl Schleede, who served as army chaplain
during the World War, makes regular visits to our
National Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
We were greatly surprised to hear that there are no
fewer than forty-eight Lutheran young men attend-
ing this officers’ school. The Atlantic District is