The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1923, Page 33

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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A. MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

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ST. LOUIS, mt MO.,

Vol. XLV.

* No. 5.

MAY, 1923.

OUR MONTHLY MISSIONARY MOTTO.
“‘The Church that ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical

“He Sitteth at the Right Hand of God.”

At God's right hand the § or sitteth now,
In glory, far above all power and might;
Having o’ercome our foes in matchless fight,
Heav’n, ¢arth, and the abyss must to Him bow.
Nor will He Satan, world, and flesh allow
To overthrow Mount Zion, His delight;
But granting it fresh help in ev’ry plight,
He doth it ever with new strength endow
By His good Spirit. Why, then, tremble we?
Let us not flinch, ours is the victory,
But spread His truth and still make known His grace.
He will empower our infirmity
To build His Chureh and fight iniquity,
And, blessing us, lift up on us His face.
H. Osteruvs.

Stop, Read, and Think!

IF is an insignificant-looking word, but very
important notwithstanding its insignificant looks.
So much could be done for God and the Church
IF —; so many poor heathen could be saved I’ —;
our Colored Missions and all other missions would
prosper IF—; yes, IF cach one of us did his
duty —. Does this concern and interest you?
Kindly take the time to read over the following
list of IFS and see how many of them you can
help to remove.

jConsidering the human side of it alone, the
whole world could easily be brought to Christ in
thirty-two years, in one generation of man, —

IF there were only one Christian on earth to-
day, and IF he would work one year and by God’s
grace would win just one soul to hriee and these

two souls would continue in win one more each
year; and IF cach man thus led to the Savior would
win another each year by God’s help — then, in only.
thirty-two years, every person in the world would -
be a Christian.

II only one of every 2,000 Lutheran day- and
Sunday-school children of this-country would be-
come ‘a missionary, we would have an additional
force of 750 missionary workers; and IF each of
the 10,000 Lutheran pastors of the United States
would secure during his life just one boy for the
missionary field, we could place 10,000 laborers in
the Lord’s harvest-field — yes, IF.

IF every one of the almost 4,000,000 Lutherans
in America would give just 50 cents each year for
missions over and above what he is doing now, it
would mean an increase in our mission treasuries
of almost $2,000,000 and a great increase in our
missionary efforts. Or IF every Lutheran in the
United States would give 10 cents a year for every
year that he has lived, who can measure how much
misery and suffering could be relieved in the mis-
sion-fields of our Church! Who will help to remove
this IF?

If every one of the more than 12,000 parish-
and Sunday-schools of the American Lutheran

“Church would support just one heathen child a year

at a cost of only $5, how much joy and sunshine
could thus be spread!

IF each one of the 224,000 pupils of the parish-
and Sunday-schools of the Synodical Conference
would give 25 cents a year to our Colored Missions,
—the sum spent at one or two movie shows, — it