# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1921_S48
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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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Rev. Kramer to take his place in school. — From
May 11—14 Luther Conference convened in Mount
Zion Church. ‘The. opening sermon was preached
by Rev. Miles‘Gebauer of St. Paul’s Chapel. In the
two open meetings papers were presented on “Frat-
ernizing of Our Young People a Menace to Our
Church,” by Rey. A. Wiley; “Evil Resulis of
Divisions in the Church.” by ‘Teacher Wm. See-
berry; “What Are Legitimate Ways of Collecting
Money for the Church?” by Rev. G. Kramer. The
conference was attended by two workers from the
Alabama field, Supt. Geo. Schmidt and Rev. O.
Lynn. ‘The latter preached the sermon in the
morning service at Mount Zion on conference Sun-
day, which service was beautified by the singing of
the pupils of the Mount Zion and
schools.

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In the preparatory service on Sunday
evening Pastor Thompson of Napoleonville, La.,
preached ~the confessional sermon, while Supt.
Schmidt delivered the sermon in the main service.
In all the conference services there was singing by
the Mount Zion Choir, under the direction of Mr.
M. Tolsten.

LurHeran DrAcoNEsSS Assocration. — This
new organization has 5,000 members in 32 States.
One student of the Deaconess School is already
laboring in the mission-field of our Church in India.
Another student expects to enter the work in our
lialian Mission as soon as she has completed the
three years’ course. The Training-school for Nurses
at present has six students who are preparing for
missionary and charitable work in the Church.
A mother-house has been acquired for the sum of
$10,000 and will be removed to the Hospital prop-
erty at Fort Wayne. If several other wealthy mem-
bers of our Church will do what one member did
in New York, — give $1,000, the mother-house

~will soon be paid for. The work of the deaconesses
that this association intends to send out is of a truly

_ missionary character, and for this reason every true
friend of missions should be interested in the work
of this organization. he financial seeretary is
Mr. Aug. Freese, 618 W. Creighton Ave., Fort
Wayne, Ind. F. J. L.

The Blind Man’s Rebuke.

Says Mr. R. B. Stewart: “There was a friend of
mine preaching on Glasgow Green a few years ago,

_ when some one from the crowd called out, ‘May
I speak?’ After getting permission, he pushed his

way through the crowd until he was standing on the
platform beside my friend.

“Friends, he exclaimed, ‘I do not believe what
this man has been talking about. I do not. believe
in a hell, I do not believe in a Judgment, I do not
believe in a God, for [ have never seen any of them.
Ife continued talking in this way for a while, when
another voice was heard from the crowd, ‘May
[ speak ?”

“The infidel sat down, and the next man began:
‘Friends, you say there is a river running not far
from this place, the river Clyde. There is no such
thing: it is not true. You tell me grass and trees
are growing around me where IT now stand. ‘There
is no such thing; that is also untrue. You tell me
that there are a great many people standing here.
Again, I say, that is not true; there is no person
standing here save myself. 1 suppose you wonder
what IT am talking about, but, friends, I was born
blind, I never have seen one of you, and while [ talk,
it only seems that I am blind, or I would not say
such things. And you, he said, turning to the in-
fidel, the more you talk, the more you expose your
ignorance, because you are spiritually blind, and
cannot see.’ ” — Sel.

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NOTICE.

We again desire to call the attention of all the friends
of our Colored-Mission to the three fine illustrated lec-
tures which so graphically picture our three most im-
portant fields. Congregations should not fail to take
advantage of the CPO Ny, offered by these lectures
to become acquainted with our’ Mission. For particu-
lars write to Rev. Theo. I. Walther, 6406 Easton Ave.,
St. Louis, Mo.

BOOK TABLE.

Christian Art in the Place and in the Form of Lu-
theran Worship. By Paul E. Kretzmann, Ph. D.,
B.D. 415 pages, 69. Concordia Publishing House,
St. Louis, Mo. Price, $3.50.

While this book will probably never become a popular
book in the sense in which this word is generally used,
it will prove to be of inestimable value to all those who
wish to gain proper and authoritative information con-
cerning the exterior and interior of churches, the church
service, the vestments of the pastor, and other things
connected with the church. In a clear and lucid- manner
the author speaks of the architecture of church-buildings,
of the liturgy, of the church festivals, of the proper litur-
gical decorum of the pastor, of church music, and the
like. We wish that space would permit us to give our
readers the rich table of contents. Suffice it to say that _
Dr. Kretzmann in this book gives us neither a meager
sketch nor a confused mass of facts, but a masterly presen-
tation, sufficiently detailed, of Christian art in the place
and in the form of Lutheran worship. Congregations con-
templating the building of n new church, or the refurnish-
ing of their old church, will do well to purchase this book
for reference.

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