The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 35

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER 30

what may be the end — God only knows. It is my
desire, if He pleases to spare me in the world, to
serve the Gospel of Christ as He shall give me op-
portunity.”

Alexander Duff Speaks.

The following eloquent words, spoken by the
great Scotch missionary Alexander Duff to the Gen-
eral Assembly of Scotland, plainly indicate the
motives that sent him to India: “ “The field is the
world.’ And the more we are like God, the more we
reflect His image, the more our nature is assimi-
lated to the divine, the more nearly will we view the
world as God has done. “True friendship,’ it has
been said, ‘has no localities.’ And so it is with the
love of God in Christ. The sacrifice on Calvary was
designed to embrace the world in its amplitude.
Let us view the subject as God views it, let us view
it as denizens of the universe, and we shall not be
bounded .in our efforts of philanthropy, short of the
North or South Pole. Wherever there is a human
being, there must our sympathies extend.”

F.J.L.

St. Matthew’s Church, Baltimore, Md.

The pictures shown are to acquaint the dear
friends of our Synodical Conference with one of the
many Negro mission-stations they are supporting
with their gifts of love and sacrifice. This Balti-
more station is one, which, under the gracious
guidance of God, has also something for which to
be truly thankful.

How did this mission begin? Like many others,
especially those in the larger cities. Several years
ago a handful of faithful colored Lutherans left
their home congregations in the Southland to seek
employment in this growing industrial city. They
drifted a while without a regular
pastor; then they were occasionally
given some spiritual care by visit-
ing pastors. However, this did not
tend to the building up of a regular
congregation. In the course of
time the Mission Board saw the
large field open for harvest and in
this city of some 140,000 Negroes
placed a full-time missionary in
1929. The first regular pastor
took ill and was forced to give up
the work definitely. After several
months’ delay the present mission-
ary was called from the seminary
to take charge of this mission.

A Few of Our Faithful Colored Lutherans
in Baltimore.

Below, the reader is shown our “chapel,”? where
services and Sunday-school are conducted regularly.
This suitable place was secured through the efforts
of the first missionary. The “chapel” is a meeting-
room in the local Y. M. C. A. Building for the Col-
ored. It is situated in the heart of the section
where our main work is being done. This district
alone numbers over 15,000 Negroes and provides
ample work for establishing our dear Lutheran
Church here. A thorough canvass of many of the
homes thus far has proved that there are many
adults and children who may be gained for the
Savior’s kingdom. Although this Baltimore mis-
sion is yet in its beginning, it has had a growth of
which we are proud. We have had the joy of an in-
crease in average attendance of nine and ten to
twenty-seven and thirty. To date we have had en-
rolled as many as seventy-five children in the Sun-
day-school, fifty of whom are still on the roll. . The
big difference in Sunday-school attendance was evi-

Chapel of Colored Mission in Baltimore.