The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 84

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84 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

With an enrolment of sixty-nine, there has been an
average attendance of around sixty-five for months.
Old and young, “the sheep and the lambs,” study
God’s Word side by side in three classes. The day-
school also bids for attention with its hundred-per-
cent. Lutheran enrolment of twenty-five.

The picture shows those baptized and confirmed
on Palm Sunday. The man at the extreme right of
the group is Pastor P. R. Hunt, and the woman at
the extreme left is Mrs. C. M. Riley, the teacher.

“O sing unto the Lord a new song, for He hath
done marvelous things; His right hand and His
holy arm hath gotten Him the victory.”

Learn of a Widow.

One of our pastors relates that he has a widow
in a congregation who rejoices in the stewardship
life. Although she is dependent for her support on

Good Shepherd Station, Vineland, Ala.

This picture shows those recently baptized and confirmed
at Vineland, our thirty-third station in Alabama.

washing and ironing and can but seldom attend

_ church services more than once a month because she

must cook and wait at table on Sundays, she never
hands in less than $2 in her envelopes, and often
they contain $3. I know I am stretching it when
I say her monthly earnings reach $15, and yet of
this pittance $3 is the Lord’s portion!
* What would happen to our Church’s debt if
1,000,000 members would have a conception of
stewardship such as has this humble widow? Would
there be such a problem as is confronting us at the
present moment, many laborers idle for lack of the
“Denny” ?

Lord, pour out into the hearts of Thy people
a fuller understanding of Thine injunction: “Upon
the first day in the week let every one of you lay
by him in store as God hath prospered him,” so that
in the midst of a sorely chastened world they will
set Thee first in their lives to Thy glory and their
own joy. Epwarp A. WEsrcort.

Eastern Field Notes.

Dr. H. Nau, the president of Immanuel Lu-
theran College at Greensboro, North Carolina,
writes the Editor: “Since you published in the
LuTHERAN PIONEER the new rule of the Missionary
Board, to wit: ‘All students of Immanuel Lutheran
College except students of the theological seminary
will in future be required to pay tuition in addition
to board, it is but right and proper that I inform
you that this rule has prevailed at Immanuel Lu-
theran College since 1926. All students have been
required to pay both board and tuition and, what is
more, have actually paid board and tuition. The
‘new rule’ and the publication of it will mislead our
friends in their judgment of our work here and
places the institution in an unfavorable light.” We
hope the good Doctor may be mis-
taken in his fears. It is surely
gratifying to hear that Immanuel
Lutheran College has done for six
years what only now, in these days
of depression, by force of circum-
stances the Board has felt it neces-
sary to ask them to do.

Superintendent Wm. H. Gerke
of the Eastern Field has favored us
with the following news items from
his field : —

Accessions: Two in Baltimore
by baptism; two by confirmation
in Winston-Salem; one by baptism
at High Point; sixteen by baptism and five by con:
firmation at Salisbury; nine by baptism, nineteen
adults and ten children by confirmation, in St.
Philip’s, St. Louis; six by confirmation and twenty-
three by baptism at Spartanburg; two by confirma-
tion at Atlanta; eight by confirmation and seven
by baptism in Cleveland; Chicago received nine
children and eight adults by baptism and nine
adults by confirmation, Yonkers three by baptism,
and Greensboro one by confirmation. This shows
an increase of 140 in the number of baptized mem-
bers and an increase of seventy in the communicant
membership of the congregations of our Hastern
Field.

St. Matthew's Messenger is the name of the
mimeographed church-paper of our colored mission
in Baltimore; and Pastor E. H. Bohm, our mission-
ary in Springfield, Ilinois, puts out a monthly bul-
letin, called Holy Trinity Messenger.

Mr. Schroeter, one of the parish-school teachers

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