The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 61

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

physical condition, had refused to bring her; but
at last they had yielded to her entreaties.

“We immediately did what we could to ease her
pains and soon had her feeling considerably better.
At her request we also told her more of her Savior.
Soon she expressed the wish to be baptized. We saw
that she had not long to live, and we used every
moment to prepare her to receive the Sacrament she
so much desired. It was remarkable how atten-
tively she listened to our words of instruction and
how willingly she appropriated all we told her. We
thought we should baptize her the next day, but
already during the night her condition became so
alarming that we hardly had time to baptize her
before Jesus called her soul to Himself. Thus
brought to her Lord and Savior in the last hour,
we laid her pain-racked body to rest, feeling certain
she was with Jesus in paradise.” F. J. L.

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Eprror.)

News from the Eastern Field of Our Colored

Missions. — Springfield, Ill., reports an average
attendance of fifty-one at the services in January of
this year as compared with an average attendance
last year of thirty-two. The average Sunday-school
attendance was thirty this year, while last January
it was only twenty. — The Washington, D. C., mis-
sion now numbers twenty-eight communicant mem-
bers and thirty-one baptized members. ‘This sta-
tion was reopened about five months ago. The com-
municants are mostly former members of one of
our Eastern congregations. — Greensboro, N. C., re-
ceived two new adult members by confirmation and
one child by baptism last month. — On February 7
Pastor Dorpat of Meherrin, Va., baptized three of
his day-school pupils and the following Sunday three
others. The parents of these six children are non-
Lutherans, but they have consented to have their
children become members of our Church. — At
St. Philip's, St. Louis, forty-six adults and nineteen
children are being prepared for confirmation. This
congregation intends to decorate its church soon
after Easter. Of course, the members are paying
for this themselves. — Fourteen new members were
received into our mission congregation in Cleve-
land by baptism the last Sunday in January. —
St. Philip's, Chicago, is having such good atten-
dances that the congregation must seriously con-
sider whether it ought not to enlarge its plant. —
The Sunday-school of our Buffalo mission had a

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record average attendance in January, viz., seventy-
five. The church attendance, too, is improving since
the building of a new church has begun. It is
hoped at this writing that the congregation may
celebrate Easter in its new church. — To save ex-
penses and enable them to send more money to the
Mission Board, the members of our Cincinnati mis-
sion are doing the janitor work for their church.

Philadelphia, Pa. — Our colored mission in
Philadelphia is flourishing. 1931 was a very pros-
perous year. The Sunday-school has an enrolment
of 175, while the average attendance is 145. On
February 21 of this year the pastor baptized four
children, and he expected to baptize five more in
March. We hear that eight children and tires
adults were confirmed on Palm Sunday.

Free Soil, Mich. — The work at this place is
still being continued, though not much progress can
be recorded. Just at this time, however, a class of
over a dozen are being prepared for. baptism and
confirmation. Tight to ten hearers is the usual
attendance, but as many as twenty-eight have al-
ready been in attendance. Of course, we must not
forget that the total communicant membership at
this time is only six.

Vineland, Ala. — This is the youngest colored
mission-station in a new county of Alabama. Pastor
Hunt is here preparing seventy-two persons for
membership, namely, forty-nine adults and twenty-
three children. The Sunday-school ee an average
attendance of sixty-two.

Six Hens for the Lord. — Superintendent E. A.
Westcott reports in the last number of the Mfis-
sionary Lutheran that one of the missionaries of
the Alabama field has set aside six hens for the
Lord and that the eggs which these hens lay will
be for the Lord’s work. Here is an example that
others might do well to imitate. Who will do it?

Harvest Home Collections. — The five youngest
and smallest congregations of the Alabama field led
all the rest in the Harvest Home collections. Here
is something for the larger and older congregations
to think about. The total Harvest Home collections
for Alabama amounted to $775.

Who will Take This for an Example?—A mis-
sionary in Alabama writes: “Recently I visited a
neighboring town. To my surprise I found Miss
Sepie Riley, a visitor among these people, teaching
eight children each day and a goodly number more
in Sunday-school, as adults join her group on Sun-
days. Twenty persons were present on the day of
my visit. I preached a sermon, which together with