The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1931, Page 36

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

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our children. All these are ever trying to improve
the methods of developing, informing, and testing
the minds of their pupils. But how very inadequate
are the provisions made by the Church — particu-

Rev. M. N. Carter.

larly the Protestant Church, also in only too many
instances the Lutheran Church — for the spiritual
culture of its own children and those that are
without !

The writer recently read somewhere that a great
scientist made the statement that, if each molecule
in a single glass of water could be enlarged to the
size of a tiny grain of sand, there would in that
case be enough sand to make a road reaching across
the continent from New York to Los Angeles three
miles wide and seven hundred feet deep! You say,
almost incredibly stupendous. You are right. But
what would be the even more incredibly stupendous
result, humanly speaking, if the Church would
seriously approach its divinely imposed task of pay-
ing its eternal debt to its own children and those of
the whole land, to all of whom it surely has a solemn
missionary duty and obligation! What a miracle
would then be wrought by God’s grace in the life of
the Church and of our whole country, all the way
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Great
Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico!

Little did the parents of that boy with the five
loaves and two fishes of whom the gospels tell us —
I say, little did the parents of that boy think what
an immense amount of good would come of their
providential act: that their boy with his few loaves
and fishes would with Jesus’ help feed five thou-
sand men and besides many thousands of women

and children. That nameless boy because of the
thoughtful foresight of his nameless parents be-
came the means of supplying the want of thou-
sands; so will our children’s store of Christian
nurture and training be a blessing to, the future
generations of a spiritually hungry world. You
and I cannot secure for ourselves a richer benedic-
tion from future generations — though we remain
nameless to them and they will never know that we
have lived, loved, longed, and wrought here — than
if we conscientiously seek to do what we can to
bring our own and many other children to Jesus
by rearing them in the nurture and admonition of
the Lord. We cannot better serve our country; we
cannot do our children a greater service, we cannot
bring sweeter joy to the angels of heaven; we can-
not more satisfactorily help to enlarge the Savior’s
kingdom on earth, we cannot bring greater glory to
our Lord’s name, than by paying the debt we owe
our children. F. J. L.

Cincinnati Entertains.

“A heart to share joy with or sorrow is a great
blessing to man or woman.

“It doth joy double,
And halveth trouble.”

Now imagine seven men sharing with each other
the joys and sorrows of their work, imbibing new

Rev. A. Schulze.

enthusiasm and inspiration, gaining new and prac-
tical ideas for the furtherance of their work, and
you have a picture of: the Northern Conference con-
yened at Cincinnati, 0., January 21 and 22, 1931.

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