The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 188

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

the various missions of Synod. The teacher will
tell his class about Negro, South American, Foreign,
Deaf-mute, Home, and Institutional Missions in
consecutive order, and then a member of the class
will be asked to write to some designated person for
further information concerning the particular mis-
sion under consideration. Of course, the designated
persons will have been informed of what is in store
for them, so that they may properly prepare them-
selves for what is coming.

Upon receipt of the answers to their requests for
further information the correspondents will bring
these answers to school and give the whole class the
benefit of the information received.

Mr. Gernand presented his plan to the three
larger teachers’ conferences of the Central District,
and they found the plan practicable and deserving
of being carried out.

The more we think of Superintendent Gernand’s
plan, the more practical and worthy of carrying out
do we consider it. Perhaps other Districts would
feel like doing the same thing. F. J. L.

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Eprror.)

Do We Stand in Need of Home Missions? —
There are 385,000 boys and girls in Indiana who
do not receive any religious instruction and 998,000
grown-ups who never go to any church! Ohio has
1,107,000 boys and girls of school age who are grow-
ing up without any religious training and 2,229,000
adults who never attend a religious service! In the
State of Kentucky there are to be found 559,000
children whose parents are doing nothing to bring
them to Jesus, their Savior, and 665,000 grown
people to whom Jesus means nothing! West Vir-
ginia has within its borders 375,000 boys and girls
to whom God’s love in the gift of His own dear Son
is unknown and 544,000 adult persons who are
ignorant of the most fundamental truths of Chris-
tianity.

Negro Mission Statistics. — Our Colored Mis-
sions are growing at the rate of about seventy-five
persons a month. We now have over 8,000 baptized
and almost 4,500 communicant members in our
eighty congregations. In Alabama we have thirty-
three congregations, with 2,704 baptized members;
Louisiana has ten congregations, with 2,067 per-
sons; the Eastern Field has thirty-seven congrega-
tions, with 3,321 baptized persons. In Mississippi

fifty-two persons are in our spiritual care. Last year
the average contribution per communicant member
was $7.23. In our colored Sunday-schools 4,903
pupils are enrolled, and in our day-schools the en-
rolment is 2,911. Our Negro Missions have fifty-
two day-schools, in which sixteen male teachers and
forty-five lady teachers are doing the instructing.
The number of Sunday-schools is seventy-five.
Three congregations are conducting Saturday-
schools, in which eight teachers are instructing
113 pupils.

New Orleans Day-School Statistics. — Belhle-
hem had a total school enrolment of 241 on Oc-
tober 7. Sixty children were refused admittance.
The enrolled children are taught by only three
teachers. The upper department has seventy pupils,
the intermediate department has an enrolment of
fifty-six, and the primary department has no fewer
than 115 pupils! (How is it possible for one teacher
to instruct 115 primary pupils?!) — Mount Zion
School has 239 pupils enrolled. The enrolment is
as follows: upper department, forty; intermediate,
eighty-eight; primary, 109! Mount Zion refused
admittance to twenty-six children.— St. Paul’s has
only 112 pupils enrolled, forty-seven in the upper
classes and sixty-four in the lower department.
Sixteen children were refused at St. Paul’s because
they were not willing to accept the conditions under
which they could be admitted. — Trinity has an
enrolment of eighty-nine pupils in its school. This
is a mixed school, with only one teacher. If we were
able to take all children that would like to come to
Trinity School, the enrolment might reach 200! —
Concordia School has an enrolment of fifty-two. It
also has but one teacher. — Superintendent Kramer
reports that the attendance of the pupils is very
regular and that only very few pupils miss school.
When he visited Trinity School recently, eighty-
three pupils out of a possible eighty-nine were
present. — Since the fall opening the highest
Sunday-school attendance in Bethlehem has been
185; the best in Mount Zion, 191; the highest in
St. Paul’s, 106.

A Welcome Gift! — Recently the Board for Col-
ored Missions was informed by the holder of two
debenture notes against the Board, to the amount of
$2,000, that he will not present them for redemp-
tion, but wishes them to be regarded as a gift.
Surely a most generous and laudable gift on the part
of this kind friend of missions, who lives somewhere
in Illinois. God bless him richly for his liberal ett

-in these days of need!