# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1916_S40 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 40 ; The Lutheran Pioneer. —$—$——$$—$—$—$—— walk, and I detest riding in a street-car, and they’re always crowded on the Sabbath.” This is, indeed, distressing. Sometimes when I think how much farther away heayen is than the church, and that there are no conveyances on the road of any de- scription, I wonder how some of us are going to get there: i ° “And the pews are not comfortable.” ‘That's too bad! ‘The Sabbath is the day of rest, and we go to church for repose. ‘The less we do through the week, the more rest we clamor for on_ the Sabbath. “And the sermon is too long.” All these things are, indeed, to be regretted. I would regret them mére sincerely, my boy, did I not know that you will often squeeze into a stuffed street-car with a ‘hundred other-men, breathing an incense of whisky, beer, and tobacco, hanging to a strap by your eye- lids for two miles, and then pay fifty cents for the privilege of sitting on a rough plank in the hot sun for two hours longer, while in the intervals of the game a scratch band will blow discordant thunder out of a dozen misfit horns right into your ears, and then you come home to talk the rest of the family into a state of aural paralysis about the “dandiest ball-game you ever saw played on that ground.” Ah, my boy, you see what staying away from church does. It develops a habit of lying. There isn’t one man in a hundred who could go on the witness-stand, and give, under oath, the same rea- sons for not going to church that he gives to his family every Sunday morning. My son, if you didn’t think you ought to go, you wouldn’t inake any excuses for not going. No man apologizes for doing right. — Bob Burdette. BOOK TABLE. REPORTS OF MISSOURL SYNOD. No. 10. Westlicher Distrikt. 96 pages; price, 18 cts. No. 11. Canada- ‘ . Distrikt. 52 puges; price, 10 cts. Concordia Pub- lishing House, St. Louis, Mo. - The doctrinal paper presented at the last meeting of the Western District was prepared by Prof. Th. Graebner. The subject of the exceedingly interesting paper is, “The Papacy of the Middle Ages and the Dawn of the New Day.” Three of Luther’s most important reformatory writings are extensively considered and copiously quoted; namely, “Address to the Christian Nobility,” “Of the Babylonian Captivity of the Church,” and “Of the Chris- tian’s Liberty.’— The doctrinal paper presented to the members of the Canada District at the last meeting by Rey. P. Graupner bears the title, “What Does Scripture Say of the Last Days of the World?” This paper is also well worth reading. The unscriptural character of Zi- ‘onism and Chiliasm is well brought out under the second © subhead of the paper. 8S-NOTE PLAYER ROLLS. Duesenberg. Concordia Arranged by Barthel and Musie Tlouse, 912—914 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. Prices of rolls, net: No.1, 50 ets.; No. 2, 45 cts.; No. 3, 65 ets.; No. 4, 65 ets.; No. 15, 60 cts.; No. 16, 50 ets.; No. 17, 60 ets.; No. 18, 55 ets. Order from Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Rolls 1—4 each contain five or six selections of some of our best known chorals. Roll 3 is wholly composed of Lenten chorals, and Roll 4 has four Easter chorals. Rolls 15 and 16 bring a selection of fourteen of the best known German sacred folksongs, seven on each roll. Rolls 17 and 18 contain fourteen well-known German folksongs of a secular character, also seven on each roll. Those of our readers who are the fortunate owners of player pianos will be pleased to learn of these admirable selections of German chorals and folksongs. The breadth and majesty of our old Lutheran chorals, and the simple and unpre- tentious, but lovely melody of many of the German folk- songs is known to every lover of music, and the Concor- dia Musie House, therefore, merits the grateful thanks of every owner of a player piano among us for these care- fully chosen and well-executed player rolls, Our sincere wish is that the enterprise of the publishers may meet with the proper encouragement. NORTHERN REVIEW, War-and-Peace Magazine for the Northwest. J. N. Lenker, Editor. Northern Review, Box 253, Minneapolis, Minn. 5 ets. per copy; $1.00 per year. This little magazine of 32 pages has set for itself the laudable task of fairly and fully presenting to its readers the side of the Central Powers in the gigantie struggle now going on in Europe. It is a monthly. KJ. 1. Acknowledgments. Received for Colored Missions from the following Col- ored congregations: In New York: Bethany, Yonkers, $13.00; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 1.00. In North Carolina: Bethel, Greenville, 1.00; Bethlehem, Monroe, 1.00; St. John, Salisbury, 1.50; Grace, Greensboro, 4.67; station in Winston, 40; St. Luke, High Point, 1.36; Trinity, Elon College, .82; St. Peter, Drys School House, 2.00; Mount Calvary, Mount Pleasant, 3.00; St. Paul, Char- lotte, 11.00; Mount Zion, Meyersville, 3.00; Zion, Gold Hill, 3.00; Trinity, Albemarle, 1.50; Mount Zion, Gold Hill, 3.00; Concordia, Rockwéll, 3.00; Messiah, Fayette- ville, 10.20, from the Sunday-sehool, 1.18; St. James, Southern Pines, 3.60; Grace, Concord, 25.00; Mount Cal- Sandy Ridge, 10.00. In Louisiana: New Orleans: Bethlehem, 40.00; Mount Zion, 40.00; St. Paul, 40.00; Redeemer, .50, from the Sunday-school, 42; St. Paul, Mansura, 5.00; St. Paul, Napoleonville, 4.93; Trinity, Johnson, 3.35. St. Matthew, Meherrin,, Va., 9.65, from the Sunday-school, .39; station in Richmond, .75, from the Sunday-school, .38. Station in Washington, D. C., 1.63. — Total, $239.73. St. Louis, Mo., April 8, 1916. . 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