The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1927, Page 51

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. 51

Christ is Risen!

(Tune: Onward, Christian Soldiers.)
Lo, the earth is quaking;
Angels gladness bring,
Saying, “Christ is living.
Hallelujahs sing!”

Out of rocky prison
Comes the joyful sound,
“Jesus Christ is risen!
Sinners are unbound!”

Chorus.

All the world rejoices
With the angel-choir;
Sings with happy voices,
“He lives evermore!”

We have caused Him worry,
Work that broke His heart,
Pain that made Him sorry,
Caused Him many a smart.
But now tell the story:
“We’re redeemed from hell;
Crowned with Him, in glory
Ever we shall dwell.”
Chorus.
Lo, the earth is quaking;
Angels gladness bring,
Saying, “Christ is living.

Hallelujahs sing!”

He, with sore affliction,

Bleeding, captive led

To the crucifixion,

Rises from the dead.

Guards were terror-stricken

When the angel came,

Telling pious women,

“Jesus lives again!”
Chorus.

All the world rejoices

With the angel-choir;

Sings with happy voices,

“He lives evermore!”

Over land and ocean

Ring, ye bells, yea, ring!
Hear, men, with devotion!
Join the throng and sing!
_ For on Calvary’s mountain,
Where they pierced His side,
Flowed a healing fountain
From the Crucified.

Chorus.

Lo, the earth is quaking;
Angels gladness bring,
Saying, “Christ is living.
Hallelujahs sing!”

Kappa, Ind. R. KRETZMANN.

Mormon Propaganda.

As Mormonism has much in common with Mo-
hammedanism in doctrine and practise, so also in
its missionary efforts. Their missionaries go out
two and two and support themselves. . At the present
time there are probably no less than 2,000 Utah
missionaries out to make converts, and to these may
safely be added 300 more from the Josephite sect
of Mormonism, all going from house to house among
the people and proselyting wherever they can. On
this continent they have ten missionary districts,
outside of Utah, each with its headquarters and full
organization, and over 1,000 elders, so called, doing
their work. As a result of their persistent efforts
they add about 7,000 converts to the membership
every year in this country alone. Besides this work
at home the Mormons are conducting fifteen foreign
“missions,” with 779 more “missionaries” at work,
and about 2,000 converts are added annually as the
result of this work.

How Mormons Train Their Children.

Christ said while sojourning visibly on earth
that the children of the world are wiser in their
generation than the children of light. Mormons
realize far more than most Christians do the great
importance of training their children daily in their
religion and make use of every opportunity and of
every proper and improper means to give their off-
spring such training. In communities where there
are no “Gentiles” to oppose, they constantly make
use of the public schools to teach their faith. Else-
where they have academies and church schools.
Where there are public high schools, they build their
“seminaries” near by. They have a large number
of these seminaries all over Utah. Leading from
the high school to the seminary is probably a cinder
path, and when the public school is dismissed, the
pupils go to the seminary for their religious teach-
ing. Teachers well versed in Mormon teachings
give their time for instructing their pupils in these
seminaries. Thus the constant teaching of the
children, begun at four years of age, is carried
through the whole high school period. The writer

. who reports these facts adds: “No wonder that their

growing youth are confirmed in the faith.”

Mormons Still Polygamists.

The strenuous efforts made by Mormons to create
the impression that their standards and practise re-

garding marriage have been changed to conform to

those of Christianity and civilization prompt us to
say a few words on this point. President Woodruff,