# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1931_S6
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

Faculty, on the words “I will bless thee and make
thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing,” and
read the jubilee prayer; Gertrude Rhodes and
Elizabeth Taylor sang “Jerusalem the Golden”; an
octet sang the anthem “Praise the Lord”; Jasper
Bridges served as organist.

The program was interspersed with the reading
of felicitations from friends and classmates by Brice
Thompson, Rockefeller Jenkins, Winston Pledger,
Lucius Means, and Theodore Johnson.

The Faculty and the students gave Dr. Nau

We pray that our Father in heaven will give
Dr. Nau strength and courage to continue for many
more years to emphasize, in the classroom and in
sermons, the cardinal doctrine of the Bible and of
the Lutheran Church “that men cannot be justified
before God by their own strength, but are freely
justified for Christ’s sake, through faith, when they
believe that they are received into favor, and that
their sins are forgiven for Christ’s sake, who by His
death has made satisfaction for our sins.”

Wo. H. G.

Primary and First Grade of Concordia School, New Orleans.
On the left, Teacher Dora Allen; on the right, Principal Peter Robinson.

a set of Pieper’s Christliche Dogmatik. Haskew
Bates delivered the speech of presentation.

Dr. Nau’s life has been full of variety. Before
coming to Greensboro, in June, 1925, as president
of Immanuel Lutheran College, he spent the years
from 1905 to 1914 as a missionary in East India;
in 1914 and 1915 he was a recruiting-officer for the
German army; from 1915 to 1917 he served in the
German ambulance corps; from 1917 to 1919 he
was chaplain in a military hospital at Chemnitz,
Germany; in 1920 he served a congregation in
Berlin; from 1921 to 1925 he taught at Luther
College in New Orleans.

The Religious Institute at New Orleans.

The readers of the PronEER may recall a report
of the convention of Luther Conference which con-
vened in New Orleans on Thanksgiving Day in
1929. This writer, in his report of the proceedings
of that convention, directed your attention to a par-
ticular resolution of the conference, which was
fathered by the venerable Director Drewes, to estab-
lish an institute of religion. ‘The resolution grew
out of a desire expressed by Director Drewes, who
attended the sessions of conference, to provide an
opportunity for our teachers to become more pro-