The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1933, Page 108

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

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“Indians; 3) cleanliness and neatness of clothes 2
4) study and work in and out of school.

A word about skin disease and head lice. Espe-
cially at the beginning of the school-year we find
most of the children afflicted with both. The ma-
tron makes these conditions so unpopular that
towards the end of the school-year, if any of the
girls are still infected with either, they are so
ashamed that they gladly do anything to get rid
of them. The little black girl with the cropped
head of hair kneeling at the left of the picture
came to me and complained that her head was
covered with lice. She had tried kerosene to get
tid of them, but it did not help, and her scalp was
scalely, too. I looked her over, took her out under
a tree, and cut all her hair off close to her head.
Her hair was one nest of nits. She enjoyed the
operation, however, and laughed with the girls when
they saw her. @

This will give you a little picture of these girls
and their life. The more one deals with them, the
more one learns about them. Will we ever learn
to understand them fully?

Trivandrum, India. GERTRUDE STELTER.

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Eprror.)

Montgomery, Ala. — This city has a large col-
ored population. Some years ago we began work
here, but later were forced to discontinue operations.
We hope that the intended thorough investigation
of the situation may encourage the Board to take up
the work there again.

Spartanburg, N.C. — The pastor at Spartan-
burg, Rev. W. Hart, married the teacher of his
school, Miss Sophie Shelton. God bless them!

Immanuel Lutheran College, Greensboro. —
This school will graduate five ministerial candidates
this year: Messrs. Lester Charles, Rockefellow
Jenkins, Theodore Johnson, Lucius H. Means, and
Brice L. Thompson. A member of our Chester,
Illinois; congregation financed the education of
Theodore Johnson. Should these young men not
be placed for lack of funds, they will return to
the college for a year’s post-graduate work. —
Immanuel College also graduated five students from
_ the Normal Department. 3

“Bakke Memorial Fund.” — More than ten
years 8g0 a number of congregations in the Ala-
bama Field started this fund to erect some kind

of a memorial in memory of Pastor Bakke. We
understand that it has decided to place a plaque
in his honor and memory in Immanuel Lutheran
College at Greensboro. This seems an eminently
happy decision.

Ibesikpo, Nigeria, Africa.— Our Board con-
tinues to get insistent calls from the people living
there who have organized themselves into the
United Lutheran Church of Ibesikpo. Our Board
has sent them Catechisms and tracts in considerable
quantity, and these good people have acknowledged
the receipt of this material with every token of
gratitude. They are conducting their own schools
without any outside help and have one school with
eight teachers, which costs them 300 pounds sterling
a year. In addition to this large school they have
eighteen village schools, with thirty teachers. But
what these poor people are looking forward to is
a visit by a representative of our Board. They are
convinced that such a visit would mean much to
them and would also open our eyes to see the
promising nature of the field that they are trying
to occupy with the meager means they control.
Whose heart does not go out in sympathy to these
people calling for help!

A Southerner’s Appeal. — “Our forefathers
wanted laborers. To supply them, the slaver sailed.
He bore no cross, he carried no light, when he came
to Africa and entered that land of darkness and
death. Instead, he brought the yoke. Men, women,
and children were gathered in gangs. The lifeless
bodies of the weak marked the path through the
forests and grass to the coast. The dead swirled in
the wake of the slave-ships returning to our shores.
Those who lived became our slaves. They worked
our fields; they carried our burdens. War came.
And the children of those who had been stolen and
dragged from their homes cared for our homes and
protected and supported our defenseless mothers,
wives, sisters, and children while the men were away
to the front. Great is our debt to them. God help
us pay! The debt grows greater when a Negro, un-
taught by love, commits a crime. The fault, the
sin, ts ours! Father in heaven, help that Thy chil-
dren do not stand idly by while men prey upon the
weakness of those to whom we owe so much! Ten
millions and more are at our doors! What have
you done for the Negro? Christ died for him.
What will you do? Were and there a faithful few
are giving their hearts and lives to help lift this
race. But you-—never have you done your share.
You should. In God’s name begin to-day.”