The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1930, Page 88

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duced to the reader after he has preached his in-
augural sermon on June 8, 1930.)

At eight o’clock the Rev. Fred Foard spoke on
John 14,6. His subject was: “Christ the Way, the
Truth, and the Life.” He said: “There are two
future states, in one of which we will be found after
death, the state of eternal happiness and that of
never-ending misery. Every man’s desire is to enter
the one and to escape the other: Which is the way to
heaven, the place of bliss and happiness? Jesus said:
‘Iam the Way.’ Jesus does not say: I teach you the
way; do as I have done. We thank God that He did
not say this; for no one else has ever been able to
live and die like Christ. We cannot keep
the Ten Commandments, for we daily sin
much. But Jesus says: ‘I am the Way.’
By His death on Calvary’s cross He has
become the Way to heaven. He is the
only Way. ‘Neither is there salvation in
any other: for there is none other name
under heaven given among men whereby
we must be saved.’ Those who believe
that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth
them from all sin are in Christ and on
the way to everlasting life.”

The students’ chorus rendered appro-
priate selections in all the services.

Although the skies were overcast all
day, the church was crowded to capacity
in all three services. In the morning
service 150 chairs were occupied in addi-
tion to the pews. Most of the hearers
were adults, since scores of schoolchildren
were seated in the classrooms to make
room in the church for grown people.
The afternoon and evening services were
attended by fewer people; but most of
the chairs were needed also for these
services. Perhaps a thousand people attended the
three services.

The services were brought to the attention of the
people of the community by means of 2,000 invita-
tions, containing also the church calendar for May,
which were distributed by the students of Immanuel
Lutheran College. On the morning of the dedica-
tion an article on the congregation appeared on the
first page of the editorial section of Greensboro’s
leading newspaper together with a cut of the new
building. A shorter item appeared in both Greens-
boro papers on the Saturday and Sunday previous.

Among the visitors were the Rev. Shufelt and
family, of HighPoint; a delegation from Concord,
headed by the Rev. M. Holsten; Mrs. H. Naether,

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

assistant librarian of Atlanta University, who for
several years gave her services to Luther Memorial
School; Teachers Amy Little, of Salisbury, and
Mattie McConaughey, of High Point; Dr. Kep-
hart, head of Curry School, the training-school for
teachers of the North Carolina College of Greens-
boro, having an enrolment of more than fifteen
hundred students, together with his family and two
of the supervising teachers. Dr. Kephart was espe-
cially impressed with the two modern schoolrooms.
At noon and in the evening the women served
light lunches to guests from out-of-town Lutheran
churches. W. HL. G.

Grace-Luther Memorial Congregation, Greensboro, N. C.,

She Overhears the Conversation.

One of our girls, aged fourteen, was assisting at
a cane-mill one day last fall down here in Alabama
when she heard several adult non-Lutherans talking
about a little Lutheran boy. They said his mother,
a non-Lutheran also, had been encouraged by
deacons of the local Baptist church to take the little
Lutheran boy away from his church, Sunday-school,.
and day-school.

The girl felt that she should not participate in
the adults’ conversation, but she made a mental note
of all they said. In the evening she would not rest,
would not be content, but stole off silently to the
little boy’s home. She had a talk with the mother