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The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 86

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could not be gotten to night services because their
parents would not come with them nor permit them
to come out alone at night. Or if they did get out
a few times, they would find the service so different
from what they had seen with their parents or even
in our Sunday-school that they would soon drift
back to their former religious haunts.

As it is now, however, the children of strangers
are reared from early childhood in the genuinely
Lutheran churchly way. They are baptized, attend
morning services, are confirmed, and attend the
monthly Communion for several years before grad-
uating from our day-school.

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

her and our Colored Missions in their prayers. We
understand that Miss Young, who has not enjoyed
good. health for several years, is now physically
greatly improved. The Editor joins in wishing
her God’s continued blessings. F.J.L.

The New Mission of the Atlantic District
in the Adirondacks.

The Atlantic District of the Missouri Synod
only recently entered upon a new missionary ven-
ture, which promises to bring rich returns. Below

Mount Zion Church and School, New Orleans.

What is being done to make these young com-
municants missionaries in their own homes is
another chapter in Mount Zion’s work. ‘The
Sunday-school service, however, has become a per-
manent institution here. O. W. L.

Birthday of Miss Rosa Young.

Word comes to the Editor that Miss Rosa

_ Young, through whose instrumentality our Church

weet

came to Alabama, celebrated her forty-third birth-
day on May 14. She asks her friends to remember

we bring the first report of the missionary, Pastor
Otto Sieker : —

The Adirondack Mountains in the northern part
of the State of New York are known for their scenic
beauty and for their salubrious air, which is dry on
account of the elevation — one to two thousand feet
above sea-level — and is kept dry by the vast forest
of pine, spruce, and other coniferae.

For this reason many sick people, particularly
consumptives, come to the Adirondacks “to cure.”
That is the expression universally used up’ here.
And if they come up here soon enough and “cure”
faithfully, they can hope to be cured entirely or at