The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1922, Sheet 51

Transcription machine transcription, uncorrected

⤓ Download .txt · copy text

The Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PosiisHep BY THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SyNopIcAL CoNFERENCE OF NortH AMERICA.

REv. F. J. LANKENAU, EDITOR.

Published monthly by Concordia Publishing House, St. Louls, Mo. Subscription price, 80 cts. per annum, payable strictly In advance.
Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

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

Vol. XLIV.

ST. LOUIS, MO., JULY, 1922. No. 7.

OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY MOTTO. :
‘‘We cannot serve God and Mammon, but we can serve God with Mammon.”

Triune God, We Magnify Thee!

Triune God, we magnify Thee
On this Golden Jubilee.

What was started by our fathers
In Thy name so trustfully

Thou abundantly hast blessed
And Thy grace made manifest.

Triune God, we magnify Thee,
Who for half a century

Hast bestowed success upon us,
Led and helped us wondrously.
Should we not with ardor warm
Unto Thee our vows perform?

‘Triune God, we magnify Thee,
And we pray: Remain with us!
Help us still to save our brethren
By Thy Gospel glorious,
That in heav’n with us they may
Praise Thy boundless grace for aye!
H. Osteruus.

Our Golden Jubilee.

On Sunday, July 9, the fiftieth anniversary of
the Synodical Conference will be observed through-
out the length and breadth of our country, and
even far beyond the confines of our country, in
Canada, South America, Europe, Asia, and Aus-
tralia. We hope that there will be but very few
congregations affiliated with synods connected with
the Synodical Conference, either organically or by

_ the ties of friendship, who will not observe this

Golden Jubilee of the largest general church-body
in the world.

We urge you to be sure and attend the anni-
versary service of your congregations, since that is
the best way to show your rejoicing for those bless-
ings which have come to you through the instru-
mentality of the Synodical Conference. If you at-
tend the jubilee service in your church, you will be
sure to hear just what all you owe to the Synodical
Conference (much more than you ever realized),
and this will then constrain you to thank God for
His blessings with your hearts and hands and voices.

The purpose of the Synodical Conference is to
express to the world that unity of faith which exists
among the various synodical bodies comprising the
Conference, to assure and promote unity in doctrine
and practise among its members for the future, to
put forth the greatest possible efforts in the spread-
ing of Christ’s Gospel, and to work incessantly to
bring about, if possible, the union of all Lutheran
American synods into one orthodox American Lu-
theran Church. Surely a grand and glorious pur-
pose and aim!

And the Synodical Conference has not worked in
vain during the past half century. God has richly
blessed its efforts in behalf of the expansion of His
kingdom and the unification of the Lutheran Church
in America. God in His grace has acknowledged
our feeble and imperfect attempts and apparently
brought nearer the union of the American Lutheran