The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1933, Page 93

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over 2,300 communicant members. One hundred
seventy children and thirty-two adults were bap-
tized last year; ninety children and fifty-five adults
were confirmed. One congregation became self-
supporting; eight new stations have been opened.
Twenty-seven of these mission-congregations have
their own churches, five have school-buildings, and
fifteen own parsonages. The Church Extension
Fund assisted a number of charges to acquire their
own churches and parsonages.

An Economical Mission. — Pastor Otto Heinitz
of Upland, Nebraska, has been conducting a mission
at Franklin, Nebraska, since 1926 upon his own
initiative and without requesting one cent from the
mission treasury. He conducts services there regu-
larly every Sunday evening. Before the service he
conducts the Sunday-school and after the service
a meeting of the Walther League. His services are
attended by about sixty-five persons, the Sunday-
school has an enrolment of twenty-five, and the
Walther League a membership of thirteen. We
wonder whether there are not more such oppor-
tunities for mission-work to be found in our
country. Look around!

Home Missions in Kansas and New Mexico. —
The Kansas District of the Missouri Synod is sub-
sidizing forty-five congregations. These are served
by thirty-three pastors, two students, and four
teachers. In the subsidized schools there are en-
rolled 234 children. Jn the Sunday-schools con-
nected with the subsidized congregations 1,270 are
enrolled; of these, 233 are the children of non-
Lutheran parents. One hundred eighty-seven chil-
dren and twenty-nine adults were baptized, and 114
youth and fifty-five adults were confirmed in these
mission-congregations. The communicant members
of the mission-congregations gave an average con-
tribution of $17 for the year, which compares quite
favorably with the average contributions in congre-
gations better situated than the mission-stations of
the Kansas District.

St. Philip’s, St. Louis. — The Lutheran An-
nouncer, the bulletin of St. Philip’s, St. Louis, tells

us of the confirmation of six children on Palm Sun-

day morning and of twelve adults on Palm Sunday
evening. It also makes mention of the perfect at-
tendance of twenty-nine of its Sunday-school pupils
for the first quarter of 1933.

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“Tovery true servant of God works on a com-
mission basis — commissioned of God.”

Missions and the Lutheran Exhibit
at the Century of Progress Exposition,
June 1 to November 1, 1933, at Chicago.

We take the following paragraphs from Pastor
A. R. Kretzmann’s description of the Lutheran
Exhibit at the World’s Fair in Chicago: -—

Missions at Home.

The first section will be a panel, two and a half
feet wide, devoted to “Missions at Home.” This
heading will again be in cut-out letters, and on the
chart beneath it there will be gathered the statistical
information with regard to all our missions at
home — the number of men in the field, the number
of people served, the number of stations, ete. At
a height of two and a half feet from the floor
there will be a diorama representing “The Good
Samaritan,” because Institutional- Missions will
have to be included in this same panel with the
“Missions at Home.” (A diorama is a three-dimen-
sion picture, about eighteen inches deep. The back
of the picture is painted on a half-round back-
ground. Figures farther back are in cut-out and
half-relief; the figures in the foreground are fully
modeled figures. This is the type of picturization
which will add greatly to almost all the great
exhibits in the Hall of Science, in the Travel and
Transport Building, and in other buildings at the
Fair. Up to the present writing it seems that our
set of six dioramas will be the only religious sub-
jects treated in this manner.) This panel is sep-
arated from the next section by a masonite pilaster,
which runs from the floor to the ceiling. Its capital
and base will be black, with a silver cut-out orna-
ment running down the face of the pilaster.

West Mural.

The next section will be the first of a series of
four great murals, which are intended to wipe out
the localized impression which the name “Missouri
Synod” gives to many people. In this section, which
is five feet wide and eleven feet high, the top por-
tion will be occupied by this great mural painting’
five feet square, representing our work in the West.
It will be known as the West Mural. In brilliant
colors it will present a sunset at the famous Golden
Gate. Rising over the setting sun is seen the heroic
figure of an angel, with wings outspread, blowing
the trumpet which should call men to repentance in’
the evening hours of the world. The flame-colored
clouds of the sunset will have the form of adoring
angels bowing down before the great trumpeting