# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1933_S7 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) ee THE LUTHERAN PIONEER 7 OO MnVw Toe enterprise, we must not forget the daily institutes during the months of July and August, held every morning at the Senior Camp and in the Casino. The attendance at these is quite gratifying as to number and very encouraging as to the interest -_ Vesper Landing. y Pr Scene of the Sunday evening services. ~ show n by those in attendance. It hardly ever hap- Bens that the lecturer in the daily institute hour fis not asked questions by one or the other of his earers concerning the subject that may have been “under discussion, and in many cases the questioner a As a person who is not a professing Christian. What 5 = 2 blessed opportunity this affords the lecturer to ‘expound the truth still more and to touch the heart! Similarly happy is the experience the instructor "="has in the afternoon Bible hour. The writer is still “thankful to the Lord for making use of his feeble =efforts in bringing back a stray sheep to the Lu- Py eran fold the past summer and in causing a per- son who had never seriously concerned herself about say her soul’s salvation to begin to realize that after all sit would profit a man nothing if he gained the 4 whole world and lost his soul. «nem The reader will pardon the writer if he once == more refers to the morning institute hour’ at the Senior Camp. The interest shown by the young men and women of the camp in the daily lectures compe Was actually astounding. The average attendance é “soe during our stay was about 95 per cent. of the « guests. Those who were absent, in almost every 2 > Jet had really good excuses, being absent either because of illness or for some equally satisfying reason. In a personal interview last summer with Rey. H. H. Gallman, the pastor of the Lutherland church, the writer was assured that the spiritual and religious work which Lutherland does among its many guests is really the reason for its existence and that all other purposes are secondary as com- pared with this primary aim. He stated that Dr. W. A. Maier, who has been the dean of Lutherland during the months of July and August for three years past, by his efficient work in and out of the pulpit had done much to help in the attainment of this aim. Similar were the words of Mr. Henry Dahlen, the president of the Lutherland Association. He said to the writer: “Hot July and August days are not usually considered the best offering the calendar has to make to the cause of the Church. There are people who say you cannot get the people to attend services on a hot day while they are enjoying their vacation in some summer camp. But it is being done at Lutherland. In these hot summer-days, as you see, our services are well attended, some of the people coming from distant resorts. You have seen again how well the institutes and Bible hours are attended. I feel that my every effort in behalf of Lutherland has been repaid by the spiritual bless- ings that come to thousands of people through this enterprise.” To both of these expressions the writer could only add: “As I see it, Lutherland has been, and truly is, a missionary enterprise; and I for one can only say, ‘God bless you for having taken ad-