The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1918, Page 57

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Posiisuep By THE EvancentcaL Lurneran Synopicat ConFErENCE oF NortH AMERICA.

Rev. F. J. LANKENAU, EDITOR.

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Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103,
Act of October 3, 1917, authorized on July 5, 1918.

ST. LOUIS, MO., AUGUST, 1918. No. 8.

Our Boys.
(Dedicated to the Army and Navy.)

Now our boys are marching forward,
Marching forward to the war,

And our homes are dark and dreary,
And our hearts are justly sore;

But the boys are proud and cheerful,
For they'll fight for me and you,
For the glory of their county

For the Red and White and Blue.

We inay fear and we may worry
For the boys we love so well;

May the good Lord give protection
From the gas and shot and shell,
And return them to their country,
To their homes, to me and you!
Hoist the flag, then, O ye people!
Hoist the Red and White and Blue!

Aiter years of toil and labor,

When their hair is thin and gray,
Their descendants will be learning

Of the awful, bloody fray,

And remember that grandfather

Was a Union soldier, too,

That he hee for home and country,
For the Red and White and Blue.

Copyright, 1918, by Herman M. Hahn
Baga" Broadway. “ort Wayne, Ind.

A Patriotic Duty.

To the patriot the opportunity to further the
best interests of his country is a claim upon him
to do so. If I saw a way of increasing a man’s
value for his country, if I could show a person
a better way of serving his native land, that op-
portunity would be a claim upon me; that chance
would be for me an obligation. Now, we Christians
are given an opportunity to influence for good the
citizenship of our great country by bearing witness
in word and deed to the great power of the Gospel
of Christ, and this opportunity lays upon us a
sacred obligation. We Christians know that there
is no power on earth that works for the achieve-
ment of good citizenship as does the Gospel of Jesus.
A good Christian must necessarily be a good citizen.
It is through the Gospel of Christ that the Holy
Spirit gives him the power in all sincerity to “render
unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s,” that is,
to give to his government the obedience and service
to which it is entitled. And such being the case,
the spirit of patriotism will impel us to make secure
the best interests of our country by promoting the
vital and enduring work of the Gospel in the hearts
and lives of the people. As sure as righteousness
exalts a nation, — and that is sure, since God’s Word
says s0,—so sure is it the duty of us Christians
to implant true righteousness in the hearts of our
fellow-countrymen by the preaching of Christ’s

Gospel. : 3 :
' There are some people foolish enough to think ”

that the greatness of a nation depends upon the
extent of territory over which its authority spreads;