The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1913, Page 52

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Alma Mater.

The oldest university

Was not on India’s strand,

Nor in the valley of the Nile,

Nor on <Arabia’s sand;

From time’s beginning it has taught
And still it teaches free

Its learning mild to every child, —
The school at mother’s knee.

The oldest school to teach the
law,

And teach it deeply, too,

Dividing what should not be
done

From what each pne should do,

Was not in Rome or Ispahan

Nor by the Euxine Sea;

It held its sway ere history's
day, —

The school at mother’s knee.

The oldest chair of Gospel love
Endowed from heaven above

To teach mankind how Jesus bore
Our sins, and how His love

Has made a way where sinners may
Find refuge and be free, —

That chair is found the world around
In the school at mother’s knee. _

The oldest seminary where ~
Theology was taught,

When love to God and reverent prayer
‘And the eternal “ought”

Were deep impressed on youthful hearts
In pure sincerity,

Came to earth with Abel’s birth, —

The school at mother’s knee.

The oldest and the newest too—
It still maintains its place,
And from its classes ever full,
It graduates the race.
Without its teaching, where would all
The best of living be?
"Iwas planned by heaven this earth to
leaven, —
The school at mother’s knee.
PRISCILLA LEONARD.

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A Letter from Greensboro.

Grace, Greensboro, N. C.
Deak PIONEER: —

Perhaps you are wondering what has become of
us, as it has been quite a while since you heard
from us. Well, we are glad to say that we are still
in the same old place, down on South Ashe Street.
We are glad to say that our congregation is still
blooming in spite of the few cold snaps that we
had last winter. Although the trees had shed their
Ivaves, and the flowers folded up their petals for
the winter, still our little congregation withstood
the cold, and never shed any leaves or folded its
blossoms. Although we are, few in number, as
compared with many of our sister congregations
and the sectarian churches round about us, still we
are nothing daunted, for we know and are assured
of the fact that, as our Lord tells us, “Where two
or three are gathered together in my name, there
am I in the midst of them.”

On Easter Sunday morning the Sunday-school

rendered an appropriate program to a large audience. .
~The children seemed to take great delight in telling

of the resurrection of the Savior, And in the
afternoon we had our regular Easter service. In
the evening at 8 o’clock Student W. J. ‘Tervalon,
of Immanuel College, preached a sermon to a large
audience. We might add here that this was
Mr. Tervalon’s first sermon.

On the evening of the 14th of April the stu-
dents of Immanuel College gave a concert for the
benefit of the Athletic Association. ‘The concert
was given in the schoolroom, and netted quite a
neat little sum for the “boys.”

Well, this is about all that we have to say this

time. We hope that it will not be as long as it has -

been before you hear from us again.
Rk. 0. L. L.

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