# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1929_S151
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

with His stripes we are healed.” Is. 53, 4.5. Job of
‘old said: “If I wash myself with snow-water and
make my hands never so clean, yet shalt Thou
plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall
abhor me.” Job 9, 30.31. In Jeremiah we read:
“Though thou wash thee with niter and take thee
much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before Me,
saith the Lord God.” Jer. 2,22. But the blood of
Jesus did what soap and niter and snow-water could
not do; it cleansed us from all sin and made us

Louisiana Luther Conference.

It is with a joyful heart that I write about the
first conference ever held in Alexandria, La. Here
members of the Louisiana Luther Conference met
with Rev. E. R. Berger’s congregation for their sum-
mer convention, August 7—11.

Rev. G. M. Kramer left New Orleans a few days
prior to the convention to visit the congregation at
Lutherville, where Rey. C. P. Thompson is pastor.

Chapel at Alexandria, La.

heirs of the mansions in the Father’s house. When
Christians meditate on the grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ, pure gratitude moves them to ask, “What
shall we render unto the Lord ‘for all His benefits?”
Ps. 116, 12. And when Jesus says, “Feed My
lambs,” will Christians regard that as an ignoble
‘work whereby they may and do serve Him, as He
Himself has said: “Whoso shall receive one such
dittle child in My name receiveth Me”? Perish the
thought! Rather will the Lutheran day-school
teachers in our mission regard their work as a golden

‘opportunity, as a high and sacred task and calling.

i Wm. H. Geurxe.
_ (To be continued.)

On Wednesday morning we rolled on our way on
the highways of Louisiana, bound for Alexan-
dria. Weary, but with full Christian determination,
all seven of us, thanks to God, finally arrived save
at the set goal.

Conference- and church-members from far and
near assembled for the formal opening which was
held in the chapel Wednesday night. The opening
sermon was preached by Rev. G. M. Kramer, who
based his remarks on Rom. 6, 19—23, pointing out
the fact that we converted sinners should look back,
not with hearts longing to return to the Sodom of
sin, but with hearts thankful for the fact that we
have escaped the burning Sodom of iniquity.