# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1921_S90
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The Lutheran Pioneer,

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PUBLISHED BY THE EvANGELIcAL LuTHeraNn SynopicaL ConFERENCE oF NortH AMERICA.

REv. F. J. LANKENAU, EDITOR.

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Christmas.

Holy night, so full of gladness,
How we welcome thee!
Brightly, banishing all sadness,
Shines the Christmas-tree.

In this night a Babe from heaven
Came to bless the earth;

Unto us a Son was given

By a wondrous birth.

Child, Thou art the Friend most glorious
Of entire mankind,

Who, a Helper strong, victorious,

All our foes will blind.

Fleeing from our sins’ vexations,

We Thy grace implore;

For ’tis Thou who giv’st all nations

Joy forevermore. H. Osteruvs.

To All Our Pastors.

For the Annual Meeting.

Most of our congregations have a so-called
annual meeting at the beginning of the new year.
“This is generally the most important meeting of
the yedr, and consequently it is usually attended
by a greater number of niembers than the other
congregational‘ meetings.

Now, we have a matter that we'should be pleased
to have all the pastors of the Synodical Conference
put on the program of their next annual meeting.
Tt is a matter that should concern us all. It per-
tains to the matter of lifting a Jubilee Collection
in all our congregations upon the occasion of the
fiftieth anniversary of the Synodical Conference.
Surely this is a matter that should be taken up
and discussed in all earnestness.

Vol. XLITI. ST. LOUIS, MO., DECEMBER, 1921.

Tt was on July 10, 1872, that the Synodical
Conference was organized by representatives of a
number of Lutheran synods, who had met in the
church of Pastor J. Bading in Milwaukee. At the
time the following synods were represented: The
Synod of Ohio and Other States; the Synod of
Missouri, Ohio, and Other States; the Synod of
Wisconsin; .the Norwegian Lutheran Synod; the
Synod of Illinois; the Synod of Minnesota.

Dr. C. F. W. Walther.

Pastor J. Bading.
Presidents of Synodical Conference.

In his sermon, which he delivered in ‘the open-
ing service of the first convention of the Synodical
Conference, Dr. Walther exclaimed: “O blessed
day! Our children and children’s children will
speak of this day with joy and thanksgiving. If
our former disunion was a sad spectacle for all the
friends of Zion and a comedy for the Evil Foe and
all that hold to him, our present brotherly unity is
without a doubt a delight in the eyes of God, of
all His holy angels, and of all His true children,
but on the other hand a discouraging sight for the
Evil Foe and for all the enemies of God and of
His kingdom, the kingdom of truth and peace.”
(Brosamen, p. 568.)