The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1929, Sheet 74

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

preaching. ‘We preach Christ Crucified’ must be

our motto.”

A thought-provoking query in this connection
was, “What are we singing in our churches?” In-
cidentally, what may happen when we drift away
from the fine old Lutheran hymns is sadly illus-
trated by a certain non-Lutheran church which on
Easter Sunday rendered a cantata and, according to
a program before us, sang :—

All in the April evening
April airs were abroad,

The sheep and their little lambs
Passed me by on the road.
The lambs were weary and crying
With a weak and human cry.

I thought on the Lamb of God
Going meekly to die.

Up in the blue, blue mountain
Dewy pastures are sweet,

Rest for the little bodies,
Rest for the little fect.

Let the reader now turn to No. 203 in the Ev.
Lutheran Hymn-Book and read: —

O Lamb of God most holy,
Upon the cursed tree slain;
E’er patient, meek, and lowly,
Though heaped with hate and
disdain.
All sins Thou borest for us,
Else had despair reigned o’er us,
Have mercy on us, O Jesus!

Wx. H. GEHRKE.

Immanuel Lutheran College Chronicle.

Members of the faculty gave Prof. Frederick
Berg, the “Grand Old Man of Immanuel,” a pleas-
ant surprise on March 20, the seventy-third anni-
versary of his birthday.

Each evening during Holy Week a short service
was conducted in the chapel. The subjects of the
sermons were: “Christ’s Suffering and Death and
1) our Justification, 2) our Conversion, 3) our
Sanctification, 4) our Sufferings, 5) our Death.”
To advertise the week of services four students of
the Theological Department made about one hun-
dred ‘calls in the neighborhood and distributed
mimeographed programs. ‘Although the number of
visitors was not large, everybody was satisfied with
the results. f

In addition to the calls mentioned above, so far
about twenty-five families have been interviewed
with special reference to the Sunday-school con-
_ ducted every Sunday at the college. Twelve children
_ are coming as a result of the canvass, and the pros-

pects of doubling and even trebling the enrolment
are very bright. ‘Twenty-five calls and twelve new
children! Has such a thing ever happened before
in the entire mission? If the students had expended
ten times as much energy and had had only one half
the results, their labor would not have been in vain,
but even extremely profitable. Undoubtedly there
are pastors whose ministry would be transformed if
they could see only half as much success in their
work. Such results, so easily gained, also prove that
there is a real field for earnest workers in this com-
munity, especially also since the few straggling
sectarian churches apparently do not command the
respect and confidence of the people. “Pray ye the

Prof. Frederick Berg.

Lord of the harvest that He will send forth laborers
into His harvest.”

On April 8, the Greensboro Daily News carried
the following item on the editorial page. , The head-
ing read: “Lutheran College Debaters Win Both
Sides of the Contest.” Following was the com-
ment :—

“Debating teams from the Lutheran college
high-school department won both sides of a tri-
angular debate, Friday night, with a triumph over
the Bennett College high school team here and
a victory over Hillside Park high school in Durham.

“The affirmative team, Bernice Washington and
Mernell Graves, defeated Janet Webster and May
Withers of the Bennett team here. Judges were
Dean McKinney, of A. and T. College, V. A. Peeler,
of Washington Street school, and A. H. Peeler, of
Jonesboro school. May Withers was declared the
best speaker of the evening. \