The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1933, Page 134

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134 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

and delegates on the work of their respective con-
gregations was also given in this session.

Regular services were held on Sunday. Holy
Communion was celebrated in the morning service.
The confessional address was delivered by Pastor
J. Thompson of Kannapolis on Ps. 34,18. Pastor
M. Holsten of Concord, N. C., preached the sermon
on 2 Cor. 4, 5, with “The Ministry” as his subject.
He showed what should be the message, motive,
might, and manner of the ministry.

In the afternoon service, Professor Kamp-
schmidt of Greensboro, N.C., delivered a mission-
sermon. His theme was: “We Have a Divine
Injunction from the Lord Himself to Do Mission-
work,” and he dwelt on the motive, method, and
purpose of this important work of the Church.

After the services the chairman of the con-
ference, after Rev. F. Foard had spoken words of
thanks for the fine treatment the members of the
conference had received at the hands of the’ good
people of Kannapolis, declared the forty-seventh
session of Immanuel Conference adjourned.

This session of our conference afforded the pas-
tors and the congregation at Kannapolis much op-
portunity to receive practical and spiritual en-
lightenment. May the blessings of God rest upon
these meetings! Conference will meet again next
March in Spartanburg, S. C. W. C. Harr.

Confirmation at St. Paul’s, New Orleans.

~ I have a bit of-good news, which, I am sure, you
will welcome. During the past two months I had
the joy of confirming twenty catechumens at St.
Paul’s. The children’s class, which numbered four-
teen, was confirmed on the 28th of May, and the
adult class, which numbered six, was confirmed on
the 25th of June. Teacher Berger’s son Harding,
who was a member of the children’s class, was
very sick at the time the children were confirmed,
but God guided the knife of the surgeon, so that the
operation was successfully performed; and He gave
the boy so much strength in the space of one month
that he was able to go to church to be confirmed
with the adults.

Many interesting and pleasing things could be
said about the two catechumen classes. All con-
firmands in both classes were very attentive listeners
during their instruction, and they took to ee the
blessed teachings of God.

I am convinced that every one of the twenty
catechumens appreciates very highly that he or‘she

had the opportunity to study God’s Word. One
word spoken by one of the catechumens, I feel, ex-
presses the sentiment of them all. A member of the
children’s catechumen class came to me after the
last lesson and said to me, “Pastor, we thank you
for having taught us the Word of God.” My heart
was filled to overflowing with deep gratitude to God,
who has helped me and given me the right under-
standing of His Word when I prepared myself for
my classes and has permitted me to teach His Word
to so many during the past school-year. But I was
also very grateful to God for having given that
understanding and conviction to my catechumens
which made them sure that they had been taught
the Word of God. Without doubt these same cate-
chumens who said, “Pastor, we thank you for having
taught us the Word of God” feel sincerely grateful
also to the many friends of our mission and are
ready to say to them: “Dear supporters, we thank
you, too, for having made it possible for us to nays
servants of Christ who teach us the Word of God.’

Thirteen of the children in the children’s cate-
chumen class had Mr. A. V. Berger and Mr. W. B.
Seeberry for their teachers in the classrooms during
the day. These men have faithfully taught God’s
Word during the past years. The instruction in
the Word of God which these children received at
the hands of the teachers showed itself plainly dur-
ing their confirmation instruction, both as regards
their knowledge and their behavior.

We are now engaged in gathering another class
or two for confirmation and for Jesus. Would to
God we would find many who desire to learn the
‘way to heaven and be saved. E. H. W.

Nore. — The Editor is sorry that circumstances pre-
vented the appearance of the above article in an earlier
number.

Isle, of Pines.

Cuba was again in the limelight. Uprising,
revolution, bloodshed, was what the head-lines of
the daily press brought in bold type. But do you
know that on the beautiful Isle of Pines, which is
part of the Cuban Republic, we have a missionary
and a student assistant? ‘True, our mission cannot
boast of large numbers; but here, too, the Word of
God has proved a power of God unto salvation. At
four different stations we are serving 212 souls,
88 communicants, and last, but not least, here we
have two Christian day-schools, one at Palm Grove,
in charge of Pastor H. B. Hartmann, with an enrol-
ment of 31, the other in charge of Student E. Fin-