# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1949 08 30_S292
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vail, this would be a work of love that is all of that and more than what we could bring to our faithful God in money and other gifts as a thank offering for Luther's reformation of the Church.
J. T. M.

Our Important Work in London. On our journey home we also stayed in London for three days in order to become somewhat better acquainted with the very important work of our pastor there, E. G. Pearce.

The work concerns first of all the pastoral care and mission work of our pastor in London, which keeps extending further and further. As is well known, there are two congregations of our Synod in London. The first is the Luther-Tyndale Memorial Church, which was founded in the year 1896, now numbers about 100 communicant members, and has about 80 children in the Sunday school, 85 per cent of whom come from non-Lutheran homes. In the year 1947 this congregation raised $6,000 for the relief of the needy in our German Free Church, and in the year 1948 more than $2,500 for the same purpose. The congregation is very zealous for missions and is flourishing finely under the pastoral care of its pastor, Pearce.

The other congregation is Holy Trinity Church in Tottenham, which was founded in the year 1903. The Sunday school of this congregation is attended by 150 pupils, all of whom come from non-Lutheran homes. This congregation too is very glad to do mission work and, since the church could not hold the many who came, has now put up a simple but very serviceable building in order to accommodate the many who attend the Sunday school and the divine services.

Besides this, Pastor Pearce has also set up four Bible classes in various parts of Greater London, in order, God willing, to found new congregations from them. We were able to attend one such Bible class and rejoiced with all our hearts at the earnestness of our Lutheran fellow believers in London. We also attended a congregational meeting of our two congregations, and it will remain unforgettable to us how intel-

Pastor Fierla in the pulpit at the dedication of the meeting place of the Polish Lutherans

ligently our London members expressed themselves on the various points.

Pastor Pearce's address is now: The Rev. E. G. Pearce, 12 Twyford Ave., London N. 2 (East Finchley), England.

The second great work of our pastor in London is the care of the approximately 50,000 Lutheran refugees in England who have come from the Baltic provinces, Poland, Germany, Hungary, etc. The care of these refugees is provided jointly by our Synod and by the National Lutheran Council. But the direction of the work is under the chairmanship of our London pastor. Other Lutheran leaders are: Senior (Pastor) Fierla, a Pole; Dr. Jaak Taul, formerly professor of dogmatics at the University of Dorpat; Dean

Left to right: Pastor Cimala (Polish), Rev. E. Geo. Pearce, Mrs. Pearce, Senior W. Fierla (Polish), Pastor Arlt (Polish)

Edgars Bergs, deputy archbishop of Latvia; Dr. H. Kramm, formerly lecturer at Oxford; and others.

With the help of our Synod and of other Lutherans the Lutheran Poles have now bought the former parsonage of the Luther-Tyndale Memorial Church and dedicated it on July 17 as a meeting place for their services. We show two pictures of this. The one shows how Senior (Pastor Fierla) addresses the festival congregation; and the second, how after the divine service Pastor and Mrs. Pearce with three Lutheran Polish pastors go from the Luther-Tyndale Memorial Church into the old parsonage, now the meeting place of the Lutheran Poles.

The third work of our pastor in London concerns the spreading of the Lutheran Hour, whose sermons are heard in England in English, Polish, and still other languages. Among all of them the response is downright splendid. For example, the generally Christian English paper The Christian Herald, which has about 300,000 readers, has not only printed detailed reports on the Lutheran Hour but again and again whole sermons of Dr. Maier. It seems as though the English people wanted to hear just such preaching as Dr. Maier preaches.

For one pastor the work in England is probably almost too heavy, especially since now open doors for missions are present also in Cornwall, England. At Pastor Pearce's side there now stands Vicar N. Nagel of our St. Louis seminary, who comes from Australia and therefore no doubt feels at home in London. But perhaps still another pastor ought to be placed into the work. In any case let us in our intercessions remember also the blessed mission in London and in other parts of England.
J. T. M.

Our Chaplains in the Service of the Church. The English term chaplain has acquired such a special meaning among us that on the advice of some German theologians we keep the English term instead of putting it into German.