The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1916, Page 77

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N. C., preached the sermon on 1 Pet. 5, 7. The
main service was followed by a communion service,
in which Prof. F. Wahlers delivered the confes-
sional address. Services were also held on Monday
and Tuesday evenings. The preacher on Monday
evening was Pastor W. O. Hill, of Yonkers, N. Y.,
who chose as his text 1 Kings 17, 7—16. On Tues-
day evening, Prof. M. Lochner, of the Teachers’
College at River Forest, Ill., but formerly pro-
fessor of Immanuel College at Greensboro and pas-
tor in charge of St. Matthew’s at Meherrin, ad-
dressed the Conference and his former members on
Rom. 6, 19—23.

A number of timely and very important papers
were presented to the Conference and thoroughly
discussed. Prof. J. Ph. Schmidt read a paper on
“Chiliasm.” Chiliasm is that false doctrine which
makes the claim that Christ will come to earth in
visible form, and set up a visible kingdom over all
the world, and thus usher in the millennium, after
which will come the end of the world.. Those who
hold this doctrine claim to find proof for it es-
pecially in the twentieth chapter of Revelation.
Professor Schmidt clearly proved that this doc-
trine is not based on the Bible, but is in every
way opposed to the Gospel of Christ.— A most
interesting paper on the double subject, “Infant
Baptism and the Mode of Baptism,” was read by
Pastor E. H. Polzin. The paper in a very lucid
way showed the Scripturalness of Infant Baptism
and the untenableness of the Baptist position, and
also refuted the doctrine that immersion is the
only proper mode of applying the water in Bap-
tism.— A third paper was presented by Pastor
C. R. March, of Fayetteville, N. C., on the Seventh
Commandment.

Conference devoted some time to the discussion
of the practicability of establishing a Church Ex-
tension Fund in Immanuel Conference as a fitting
memorial to the four-hundredth anniversary of the
Reformation. Conference with great unanimity de-
cided to create such a fund, and a committee was
appointed to draw up the necessary rules and regu-
lations.

The next convention of Immanuel Conference
is to have a Reformation program. Every sermon
and every paper is to deal with some phase of the
great work of the Lutheran Reformation.

The election of officers for the new year had the
following result: President, Pastor W. G. Schwehn,
Concord, N..C.; Vice-President, Pastor J. Alston,
Mount Pleasant, N. C.; Secretary, Pastor C. Stoll,

Atlanta, Ga. The next meeting will be held in
Grace Church, Concord, N. C.

God bless the good people of Meherrin for their
hospitality! God prosper, protect, and increase Im-
manuel Conference! R. 0. L. L.

Ordination at New Orleans.

On the evening of Sunday, September 3, the
Colored Lutherans of the three sister congrega-
tions in New Orleans were afforded an opportunity
to assemble in St. Paul’s Church in a joint service,

Candidate Sidney C. Tervalon.

and to witness a most solemn ceremony. The occa-
sion was the ordination of Candidate Sidney C.
Tervalon.

_As a lad Mr. Tervalon attended St. Paul’s School
and Sunday-school, was confirmed in St. Paul’s
Church, and on the Sunday named above, as a
young man, in the same church, was formally in-_
ducted into the holy office of the ministry. He
completed the preparatory course at Luther College
and the theological course at Immanuel College.

The service was begun when the theological can-
didate, Mr. Tervalon, accompanied by two pastors
of local white and three pastors of local Colored
congregations, appeared in the vestibule of the
church. ‘The organ then pealed forth a strain
befitting the solemnity of the occasion, the large
audience rose, and the group of six, garbed in