The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 88

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

of them are glad to hear the saving Word. To such
as have not even a Bible we give a New Testament
and the Psalms. We have a fund for this purpose,
so that the Mission Board has no expense from such

ATLANTIC BULLETIN.

Rev. Otto Sieker.

gifts. From this welfare fund we also provide
Christmas-gifts for the patients. On the day before
Christmas the missionary’s auto went out twice,
heavily laden with all kinds of appropriate gifts.
From the same fund we give little birthday gifts
to those sufferers who must spend this otherwise
happy day far from their loved ones. A Lutheran
nurse who came here to “cure” and is cured, re-
quested the missionary to organize a Bible class.
She gathered the class, and the missionary gladly
does the instructing. There are Methodists, Bap-
tists, Presbyterians, and (would you believe it?)
even Christian Scientists who welcome his services.
The Lord has blessed our poor labors abundantly
so far, and we hope that He will continue to use
us for the spiritual health of many. Please remem-
ber in your daily prayers your mission in the Adi-
rondacks and your missionary, Otto Sieker. Please
send names of patients in Saranac Lake, Raybrook,
Sunmount, and Trudeau, phonograph records of
sacred music, hymns, organ selections, etc., so that
they can be used in broadcasting the morning devo-
tions, to THE Rey. Orro SIEKER,
Box 14, Saranac Lake, New York.

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“THE work is far from finished. Two-thirds
of the population of the world is yet without an

_ adequate knowledge of the way of salvation.”

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A Diamond Jubilee.

The Missouri Synod Teachers’ College at River
Forest, Ill., celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary
last month. It was seventy-five years ago last month
that the Missouri Synod opened its first normal
school, at Fort Wayne, Ind. The first teacher was
Prof. Ph. Fleischmann. Two years before this, in

Prof.
Ph. Fleischmann. Rev. F. Lochner.

1855, Professor Fleischmann, then pastor in Mil-
waukee, together with two other pastors of that
city, Pastors F. Lochner and L. Dulitz, on their own
initiative had founded a normal school with six stu-
dents. It was this private institution in Milwaukee
that the Missouri Synod took over two years later
and transferred to ort Wayne.

This was the beginning of what proved to be in

Rev. L. Dulitz.

the course of the following years one of the chief
agencies to bring about the phenomenal growth of
the Missouri Synod. It was also one of the main
instruments to give that body its solidity and keep
it loyal to God’s Word in confession and practise.