The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 43

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

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A Frontier Scene in Northern Wisconsin.

older people. Bootlegging and drunken sprees are
No church-life; preaching and worship
at long and very irregular intervals. Tere is also
a frontier because of its isolation and spiritually
neglected condition.

3ut all these frontiers, wherever they may be,
are a loud and insistent challenge to us to go there
and change them from spiritual deserts to blooming
gardens of the Lord by the bringing of the Gospel.
The faithful preaching of the Gospel in all these
neglected communities would by the grace of God
bear blessed fruit. Ignorance would vanish, super-
stition would be replaced by faith, and selfish isola-
tion would give place to a healthy interest of the
people in the welfare of their fellow-men. Christ
and His Gospel would make all things new.
F.J.L.

common.

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Eprror.)

Home Missions in the Central District.—The
Central District of the Missouri Synod has 62,025
communicant members. Besides supporting the
work of the General Body, this District carries on
its own Home Missions within its confines, includ-
ing Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
The Home Mission Fund of the District subsidizes
wholly or in part twenty-four places in Ohio, twenty
in Indiana, three in Kentucky, and one in West
Virginia. This work is done at a cost of $52,255
a year. The subsidy is used toward the support of
twenty-eight pastors, eleven permanent male teach-
ers, five student teachers, three woman teachers, and
four supply students. In four cases the subsidy is
used for Institutional Mission work. Nearly thirty-
two per cent. of the Home Mission Fund, or

$16,665, are used to subsidize seventeen parish-
schools. It is gratifying to hear that the communi-
cants of our subsidized missions annually contribute
an average of $28.01, a sum probably eight dollars
in excess of the contribution of the average commu-
nicant of the whole Synod. The Central District
Home Missions are taking spiritual care of almost
ten thousand persons in the congregations, almost
a thousand of whom are in parish-schools and over
three thousand in Sunday-schools.

Ontario District.— This District of the Mis-
souri Synod has a large Home Mission field, while
its means and workers are quite limited. Just at
present it is trying hard to develop a new field, the
so-called New Ontario Mission. This new Home
Mission enterprise includes no fewer than nine sta-
tions. Fortunately all nine stations are located on
one of two railroads. A visit to all his stations
means 450 miles of travel for the missionary. All
these stations are still small, but they are growing.
The average attendance at the services at each of
the nine stations is from twenty to fifty hearers.

Death of Pastor Wm. Hallerberg. — Quite un-
expectedly our dear friend Pastor Hallerberg of
St. Louis passed away into the better life on De-
cember 29, 1931. Born in 1872, he entered the
ministry in 1895. He first was his father’s assistant
in Quincy, Ill. From 1908 to 1919 he served Mar-
cus Congregation at St. Louis as its pastor. From
the fall of 1919 till his death he was the efficient

Rev. C. J. William Hallerberg.

Field Secretary of the Western District. The de-
ceased also served his Synod as a faithful member
of its important Church Extension Board. He is
survived by his widow and five children, who with
a great host of mourning friends and coworkers
deeply feel his loss. — In conclusion we wish to add