The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1922, Sheet 75

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SPECIAL NUMBER.

Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PUBLISHED BY THE EvaANGELIcAL LuTHERAN SynopicaAL CoNFERENCE OF NortH AMERICA.

REvy. F. J. LANKENAU, EDITOR.

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Vol. XLIV.

No. 10.

ST. LOUIS, MO., OCTOBER, 1922.

OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY MOTTO.

“The King’s business requires haste.”

The Christian’s Prayer.

Christ, Thy Gospel giveth me
Pardon, peace, and liberty;

Thou hast opened heaven's gate
For us all; Thy love — how great!

Lord, Thy Spirit saith to me:

“Bring this joy and liberty

To the sheep that straying roam;
Give them light and lead them home.”

Lord, Thy strength to me impart
And true willingness of heart
To perform this task of mine,
Amen. All the praise be Thine!
H. Osteruvs.

Our Jubilee Conference at Cincinnati.

This year’s convention of the Synodical Con-
ference was a jubilee convention in the full sense
of the word. President Gausewitz sounded the key-
note in his sermon in the opening service. He based
his address on Phil. 1, 3.5 and called the attention
of the Conference to the grace we have enjoyed
during the past fifty years in the fellowship of the
Gospel and exhorted his hearers to be sincerely
thankful for this inestimable gift. :

The convention was held August 16—21 at Cin-
cinnati in the church of Pastor Th. Moellering,
though all ‘six congregations of the city were the
hosts and afforded the guests right royal entertain-

ment. Unity of faith, confession, and purpose in-
duced our fathers to found the Synodical Con-
ference half a century ago, this unity has held the
Conference together till the present day, and this
unity was the blessed tie that bound together the
delegates assembled at Cincinnati.

The morning sessions of the convention were
devoted to a paper on our parish-schools by Prof.
J. P. Meyer of Wauwatosa Seminary. The paper
made a deep impression upon the delegates and
brought home to all once more the great value of
our Christian day-school and the importance of
guarding its best interests as the apple of our eye.

The afternoon ‘sessions of the convention were
filled with diséussions of our Negro Mission, its
progress, problems, and needs. The result of these
discussions our readers will find given on another
page in a series of resolutions passed by the conven-
tion. On Friday evening Director Drewes gave an
interesting illustrated lecture on the work done by
our Colored Mission workers in the Black Belt of
Alabama.

On Sunday afternoon the delegates met with
the members of our six churches in Cincinnati in
a large hall downtown for a joint anniversary cele-
bration. The speakers on this occasion were Pre-
sident Gausewitz, the editor of the PIoNEER, and
Pastor Charles Peay, a Colored laborer from Ala-
bama.

On Monday evening the convention was brought