The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1918, Page 48

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“Professor Graebner shows from our publications long
before the war, and from Germany's publications against
our Synod long before the war, that we acknowledged
no allegiance to the Kaiser’s church, and that the Kaiser
and his followers regarded the Lutheran churches of Amer-
ica, and particularly the Missouri Synod, as seceders from
his and his theologians’ school of theology.

“Professor Gracbner includes in the booklet some pages
from a diary of German travel he wrote in 1906 for the
Lutheran Herald, of which at the time he was editor, and

. in which he, not dreaming of any future war with Ger-

many, criticises the un-Lutheran, even anti-Lutheran prin-
ake and practises of the Kaiser’s church and the effects
of the new theology on the morals of Germany.

“Our booklet will just now prove invaluable as an
authoritative refutation of the direct and indirect ac-
cusations made against one of the very most loyal church
organizations in this country of ours. We earnestly ree-
ommend that our congregations buy it in quantities sufli-
cient to supply their members for gratuitous dissemina-
tion if local conditions make it appear necessary that_our
Church and our Synod be set right in the community.

“The contents are: 1. What Connection Has the Kai-
ser with the American Lutheran Church? <A stirring ad-
nd, of Springfield, Ill., deliv-
ered before his Men’s Society, April 11. 2. Historical
Notes on the foregoing address by Prof. Graebner. 3. What
Connection Has the Kaiser with Our Parochial Schools?
In terse questions and answers the American character
of our parochial schools is vindicated. 4. The Proof Ab-
solute.

“Under the last head, evidence is adduced from oflicial
ublications of our Synod conclusively showing that our
od* has consistently opposed the State-Church idea of
Germany and’German theology, and that our Synod, in
turn, has not been befriended, but attacked by the church-
pers of Germany. One citation from a Prussian paper
istinctly terms our Synod an ‘enemy of Germanism.’
This and other quotations are absolutely convincing. Quo-
tations are given from Dr. Walther in proof of the whole-
hearted Americanism of that theologian as far back as
1846. <A strong statement from the Treasury Department,
testifying to an ‘intense patriotic interest,’ will in itself
silence many detractors. Fine patriotic passages from
camp addresses by Prof. Dau and Rev. H. Zorn are ad-
dyced. Authoritative expressions of our Synod regarding
the theological views of the Kaiser —his relation to rad-
ical theologians — are onc of the strongest: and most con-
vincing features of the booklet.

“The ‘drive’ against German-language synods of the
American Lutheran Church seems to be gaining momen-
a every day. Lay down a barrage of this booklet. Do
it now! :

Statistisches Jahrbuch der Missouri-Synode, 1917.
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Paper
covers; 204 pages. Price, 75 cts. -

This annual publication is indispensable for every one
that desires to know how this Synod is expanding, and
to learn about its various activities. It is a book of fig-
ures, but, for all that, need not be uninteresting. On the
contrary, if read in the right way, the reader will find it
to be one of the most interesting books he ever held in his
hand. A wide-spread distribution of this book will mean
an increase in interest in the work of the Missouri Synod.

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a Lathes eee Po rentarn eo uabing,
wal Ss. cover, a
formmtnPricasctarhaeaee sw
A commen: “on these two short epistles in
so simple and thought so popularly, ut that every
conversant with overrada lerman will be able to under-
stand it. We have a Pate seen commentaries that served
to darken the sacred text; but this short expansion is
really an explanation. Whether you will always

with the commentator or a tes will surely have no

The Lutheran Pioneer.

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* kers, N.Y. +

A National Anthem: America. By Louis Wagner, :
Music by F. Fettinger. Order from Louis Wagner,
3600 Texas Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Price, 15 cts. per |

copy; $1.50 per dozen; $10.00 per hundred,

We have in this composition a truly patriotic anthem,
one that breathes the spirit of loyalty in its every word,
And what adds to one’s gratification is the fact that the
poet so soon found a composer that caught the spirit of
his words and set them to appropriate music. I just now
had a friend to play the composition for me, and find it
in every way well suited to the words of Mr. Wagner's
stirring anthem. We hope that many a home, school, and
hall may resound with the beautiful words and stirring
notes of this anthem.

After the War, What? By 0. U.
Publicity Bureau, FE. 62d St., New York City. Price,

35 ets. per hundred.
A serious subject treated in a most serious and heart-
searching manner. ¥.

ved. Lie

Acknowledgments.

Received for Colored Missions from the followirig Col-
ored congregations: Little Rock, $2.06; Bethel, Conover,
through Rey. Lash, 13.74: Mount Olive, Catawba, through
Rev. Las! : Grace, Greensboro, 25.00; St. Luke, High
Point, 3.50; Bethany, Yonkers, 16.00; Bethel, Conover,

1.00; Bethel, Greenville, 10.00; Bethlehem, New Orleans,
_ 30.00; Camden, 10.00; Carrollton, 5.00; Christ Church,

Concordia, Rockwell, 3.00; Grace, Con-
cord, 35.00; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 3.00; Immanuel Col-
lege, 128.65; Immanuel School, 3.95; Kingston, 1.69;
Luther College, 19.50; Messiah, Fayetteville, .50; Mount
Calvary, Sandy Ridge, 11.00; Mount Carmel, Midway,
18.55; Mount Olive, Catawba, 1.60; Mount Olive, Tinela,
3.62; Mount Zion, Meyersville, 7.00; Mount Zion, New
Orleans, 30.00; Mount Zion, Rocks, 3.00; Oak Hill, 5.75;
Redeemer, New Orleans, 11.88; St. Andrew, Vredenburgh,
4.67; St. James, Southern Pines, 10.00; St. John, Salis-
bury, 14.68; St. Luke, High Point, 5.40; St. Luke, Spar-
tanburg, 8.00; St. Mark, Atlanta, 5.00; St. Matthew,
Meherrin, 15.05; St. Paul, Charlotte, 13.00; St. Paul,
Mansura, 6.00; -St. Paul, Napoleonville, 10.00; St. Paul,
New Orleans, 30.00; Washington, 2.55; Zion, Gold Hill,
3.00. For chapel in St. Louis: Grace, St. Louis, 27.30.—
Total, $574.23.
St. Louis, Mo., May 1, 1918.
Ewarp ScnuvuertTner, Treasurer,
323 Merchants-Laclede Bldg.

The undersigned has received $25.46, through Rev. G.
Schmidt, of Brooklyn, N. Y., for Bethany Church in Yon-
W. O. Hitx, Missionary.

We wish to thankfully acknowledge the receipt of
26 cents from a reader of the PIONEER in San Francisco,

Rosebud, 11.00;

_Cal., for the relief of poor war sufferers in the Holy Land.

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