# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1917_S4
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Christ clearly shows when in response to the question of His-d
ciples: “What shall be the sign of Thy coming and of the end.
the world?” He declared: “Ye shall hear of‘ wars . .. in diye
places, men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking aft

which our Synod is at work has been drawn into the area of
In North America, Cuba, Australia, India, and Europe we
war and rumors of war. Lest we think that it would be uselegg

come.” The signs of the times should urge us to labor incesgan
and with all our powers, even as a farmer busily 8arners in thi
sheaves when he beholds the lowering clouds and the stréakg’
lightning, and hears the distant rumble of thunder.

to us: “When these things’ begin to come to pass, then look up an
lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”
Accordingly, since we Christians may not grow weary in’.ow
Church-work under the stress of war, it is also fitting. that we,’

, members of the Church, celebrate the J ubilee of the Reformati