The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1930, Page 87

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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Memorial began with the opening of a Sunday-
school in the chapel of Immanuel Lutheran College
with twelve children on the 25th of May, 1924. On
the following Sunday the number increased to
twenty-six. After several weeks of visiting near the
college and Greensboro’s East Side Extension, ser-
vices were held at the same place. Very few
responded. During the religious summer-school open-
air services were held, in which a number of our
Lutheran teachers assisted. Four such services
were held. On Monday, June 23, a Christian
summer-school was opened at the college. Mr. Wil-
liam Murdock, a graduate of Immanuel Lutheran
College of 1924, and Rey. H. Naether and Mrs. H.
Naether instructed about fifty children. This
summer-school closed with a program.” A building
was then rented, and here a Christian day-school
was opened on October 13, 1924, and services were
held on October 19. This school now numbers about
ninety children and is taught by two teachers.
W.H. G.

Dedication of Grace-Luther Memorial
Church.

Beautiful Grace-Luther Memorial - Lutheran
Church of Greensboro, N.C., was dedicated with
impressive ceremonies on Sunday morning; May 11,
by the newly called pastor, the Rev. Paul Lehman.
After the opening of the doors the congregation

.slowly marched into the church singing “Come, -

Thou Almighty King.” In-the main dedicatory
service the Rev. Jesse A. Hunt, of Winston-Salem,
delivered a sermon on “The Christian’s Love of the
House of God,” based on Ps. 26,8. He said in
substance: “The Christian’s love for the house of
God is not based on its external beauty.” After
referring to the glorious Temple of Solomon, he con-
tinued: “Every one who comes to your church can-
not but be impressed with its architecture. Its beauty
appeals to the eye and the emotions. However, it is
the glorious purpose of this building that causes
you to exclaim, ‘How amiable are Thy tabernacles,
O Lord of hosts!’ Here members of the household
of God meet; here they take counsel together; here
they confess their faults one to another; here they
pray for one another.

“There is another Inhabitant of this house-who
makes it altogether lovely. God is recording His
name here to-day, and He will therefore come to you
and bless you. He comes in His Word and in the
Sacraments, through which He brings and conveys
to you the forgiveness of sins. That is why Chris-

tians say : ‘T have loved the habitation of Thy house.”
Christians show their love of the house of God
by their attendance at public worship. They also
bring their children, their friends, and their neigh-
bors to church. They will also support the church
by contributing to its maintenance. The man who
spends dollars on himself and complains when he
gives a few cents to the church, how dwelleth the love
of God in him? Can you say, ‘I love Thy Zion,
Lord! if you withhold your money or give only
niggardly ?”

The Rev. Prof. Frederick Berg of Immanuel
Lutheran College, who has been engaged in Colored
Missions work, with intermissions, since 1877, de-
livered the sermon at the installation of the Rev.
Paul Lehman, which took place at three o’clock in
the afternoon. On the basis of 1 Cor. 4, 1. 2 he spoke
on “The Christian Pastor.” The following is a brief
synopsis of his address: —

“A Christian pastor is a minister of Christ. He
is not the lord of the congregation, nor is he a hired
man, who must perform his office according to the
whims and notions of his people. He is the servant
of Christ and as such also the servant of the people.

“A Christian pastor is furthermore a steward of
the mysteries of God, of the means of grace, the
Gospel and the Sacraments. He is not the owner of
them, so that he could keep them for himself or dis-
pense them according to his own pleasure. He is
the steward of these means of grace. He is the man
in whose keeping God has placed them; he is to dis-

_pense them according to their Owner’s will and is
-responsible to God for their administration.

_ } “Of the pastor, God requires that he be faithful
‘-in all things pertaining to his holy office, the small

as well as the great. God is satisfied with nothing
less. But He also requires no more than this. He
does not require of him that he be a profoundly
learned man; He does not require great eloquence;
He does not demand of him that he be a ‘good mixer’
nor that he be a great money-getter, who fills the
coffers of the church; He does not require of him
that he wield a powerful influence in the community
in secular affairs. God requires only this, that the
pastor always strive for, and be satisfied with,
nothing less than ‘being faithful in his office and
ministerial work.” ;
Following the offertory, the students’ chorus of
the college rendered a sacred selection. After:this
the undersigned, assisted by Prof. Frederick Berg,

‘the Rev. Jesse A. Hunt, and the Rev. Fred Foard,

installed the Rev. Paul Lehman as pastor of the con-
gregation. (The Rev. Lehman will again be intro-