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walk, and I detest riding in a street-car, and they’re
always crowded on the Sabbath.” This is, indeed,
distressing. Sometimes when I think how much
farther away heayen is than the church, and that
there are no conveyances on the road of any de-
scription, I wonder how some of us are going to
get there: i °

“And the pews are not comfortable.” ‘That's
too bad! ‘The Sabbath is the day of rest, and we
go to church for repose. ‘The less we do through
the week, the more rest we clamor for on_ the
Sabbath.

“And the sermon is too long.” All these things
are, indeed, to be regretted. I would regret them
mére sincerely, my boy, did I not know that you
will often squeeze into a stuffed street-car with a

‘hundred other-men, breathing an incense of whisky,

beer, and tobacco, hanging to a strap by your eye-
lids for two miles, and then pay fifty cents for the
privilege of sitting on a rough plank in the hot
sun for two hours longer, while in the intervals
of the game a scratch band will blow discordant
thunder out of a dozen misfit horns right into your
ears, and then you come home to talk the rest of
the family into a state of aural paralysis about the
“dandiest ball-game you ever saw played on that
ground.”

Ah, my boy, you see what staying away from
church does. It develops a habit of lying. There
isn’t one man in a hundred who could go on the
witness-stand, and give, under oath, the same rea-
sons for not going to church that he gives to his
family every Sunday morning. My son, if you
didn’t think you ought to go, you wouldn’t inake
any excuses for not going. No man apologizes for
doing right. — Bob Burdette.

BOOK TABLE.

REPORTS OF MISSOURL SYNOD. No. 10. Westlicher
Distrikt. 96 pages; price, 18 cts. No. 11. Canada-

‘ . Distrikt. 52 puges; price, 10 cts. Concordia Pub-
lishing House, St. Louis, Mo.

- The doctrinal paper presented at the last meeting of
the Western District was prepared by Prof. Th. Graebner.
The subject of the exceedingly interesting paper is, “The
Papacy of the Middle Ages and the Dawn of the New
Day.” Three of Luther’s most important reformatory
writings are extensively considered and copiously quoted;
namely, “Address to the Christian Nobility,” “Of the
Babylonian Captivity of the Church,” and “Of the Chris-
tian’s Liberty.’— The doctrinal paper presented to the
members of the Canada District at the last meeting by
Rey. P. Graupner bears the title, “What Does Scripture
Say of the Last Days of the World?” This paper is also
well worth reading. The unscriptural character of Zi-

‘onism and Chiliasm is well brought out under the second ©

subhead of the paper.

8S-NOTE PLAYER ROLLS.
Duesenberg. Concordia

Arranged by Barthel and

Musie Tlouse, 912—914
Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. Prices of rolls, net: No.1,
50 ets.; No. 2, 45 cts.; No. 3, 65 ets.; No. 4, 65 ets.;
No. 15, 60 cts.; No. 16, 50 ets.; No. 17, 60 ets.;
No. 18, 55 ets. Order from Concordia Publishing
House, St. Louis, Mo.

Rolls 1—4 each contain five or six selections of some
of our best known chorals. Roll 3 is wholly composed of
Lenten chorals, and Roll 4 has four Easter chorals. Rolls
15 and 16 bring a selection of fourteen of the best known
German sacred folksongs, seven on each roll. Rolls 17
and 18 contain fourteen well-known German folksongs
of a secular character, also seven on each roll. Those of
our readers who are the fortunate owners of player pianos
will be pleased to learn of these admirable selections of
German chorals and folksongs. The breadth and majesty
of our old Lutheran chorals, and the simple and unpre-
tentious, but lovely melody of many of the German folk-
songs is known to every lover of music, and the Concor-
dia Musie House, therefore, merits the grateful thanks
of every owner of a player piano among us for these care-
fully chosen and well-executed player rolls, Our sincere
wish is that the enterprise of the publishers may meet
with the proper encouragement.

NORTHERN REVIEW, War-and-Peace Magazine for the
Northwest. J. N. Lenker, Editor. Northern Review,
Box 253, Minneapolis, Minn. 5 ets. per copy; $1.00
per year.

This little magazine of 32 pages has set for itself the
laudable task of fairly and fully presenting to its readers
the side of the Central Powers in the gigantie struggle
now going on in Europe. It is a monthly. KJ. 1.

Acknowledgments.

Received for Colored Missions from the following Col-
ored congregations: In New York: Bethany, Yonkers,
$13.00; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 1.00. In North Carolina:
Bethel, Greenville, 1.00; Bethlehem, Monroe, 1.00; St.
John, Salisbury, 1.50; Grace, Greensboro, 4.67; station
in Winston, 40; St. Luke, High Point, 1.36; Trinity,
Elon College, .82; St. Peter, Drys School House, 2.00;
Mount Calvary, Mount Pleasant, 3.00; St. Paul, Char-
lotte, 11.00; Mount Zion, Meyersville, 3.00; Zion, Gold
Hill, 3.00; Trinity, Albemarle, 1.50; Mount Zion, Gold
Hill, 3.00; Concordia, Rockwéll, 3.00; Messiah, Fayette-
ville, 10.20, from the Sunday-sehool, 1.18; St. James,
Southern Pines, 3.60; Grace, Concord, 25.00; Mount Cal-
Sandy Ridge, 10.00. In Louisiana: New Orleans:
Bethlehem, 40.00; Mount Zion, 40.00; St. Paul, 40.00;
Redeemer, .50, from the Sunday-school, 42; St. Paul,
Mansura, 5.00; St. Paul, Napoleonville, 4.93; Trinity,
Johnson, 3.35. St. Matthew, Meherrin,, Va., 9.65, from
the Sunday-school, .39; station in Richmond, .75, from
the Sunday-school, .38. Station in Washington, D. C.,
1.63. — Total, $239.73.

St. Louis, Mo., April 8, 1916. .

Joun HH, Scuunze, T'rcas.
2211 Holly Ave.

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