# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1923_S0
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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PUBLISIFED BY THE EVANGELICAL LUTITERAN SYNODICAL CONFERENCE oF Nortir AMERICA,

REv. F. J. LANIKKENAU, Epitor.
50 ets, per annum, pay: rble ees in advance,
Act of March 3,

1917, authorized as uly 5, 1918.

Published monthly by Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo, Subscription price,
Entered as secor Ss matter at the lost Office at St. Louis, Mo., under the
Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3,

No. 1.

Vol. XLV.

ST. LOUIS, MO., JANUARY, 1923.

OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY MOTTO.
“‘God’s Work Must Not Stand Still.’’

New Year’s Greeting.

May the new year of grace, just begun, stir us to a lively appreciation of our great responsibility to
bring Christ to the lost millions among the heathen and in our own fair land, and thus to do all we can
towards lifting the stupendous, staggering burden of the world’s pereat need!

Missions: What Have Ye Done?

Have ye looked for sheep in the desert,
For those who have missed their way?
Have ye been in the wild waste places
Where the lost and the wandering stray?
Have ye trodden the lonely highway,
The foul and darksome street?

It may be ye see in the gloaming

The print of My wounded feet.

Have ye folded home to your bosom

The trembling, neglected lamb,

And taught to the little lost one

The sound of the Shepherd’s name?
Have ye searched for the poor and needy
With no clothing, no home, no bread?
The Son of Man was among them,

He had nowhere to lay His head.

Have ye folded home to your bosom
The parched and thirsty soul?

Have ye said to the sick and wounded,
“Christ Jesus can make thee whole’?

Have ye told My fainting children

Of the strength cf the Father’s hand?
Have ye guided the tottering footsteps
To the shore of the “Golden Land’’?

Have ye stood by the sad and weary
To smooth the pillow of death,

To comfort the sorrow-stricken,

And strengthen the feeble faith?
And have ye felt when the glory
Has streamed through the open door,
And flitted across the shadows

That I had been there before?

Have ye wept with the broken-hearted
In their agony of woe?

Ye might hear Me whispering beside you,
“Tis the pathway I often go.

My disciples, My friends, My brethren,
Can ye dare to follow Me?”

Then, wherever the Master dwelleth,

There, too, shall the servant be. Anon.

Alabama Notes.

The Alabama Tather Conference held its 1922
sessions at Tilden, November 5—9. ‘These sessions
of Conference once more brought to mind the
peony and truthfulness of the words: “Behold,

we

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how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to
dwell together in unity!” Ps.133,1. During the
entire sessions of Conference not a discordant note
was struck, but all worked together in harmony
and in unity of spirit and mind for the upbuilding
of God’s kingdom here on earth. Such gatherings

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