The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1933, Page 5

Transcription machine transcription, uncorrected

⤓ Download .txt · copy text

a Ai mt me can

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER 5

EET

expounding Rom. 8, 28, his subject being “The
Comfort of Christians in the Afflictions of this
Life.”

Missionary: “No. John 9,31 we read: ‘And we
know that God‘heareth not sinners. The sinner’s
sins separate him from God, making him a ‘child of
wrath, as the Bible says. A sinner cannot pray
‘Our Father.’ Not being a child of God, he cannot
secure an audience with God.

“Then, too, a sinner is dead in sins. He cannot
do anything that is pleasing to God. Furthermore,
he does not pray in Jesus’ name, and Jesus has told
us, John 16, 23: ‘Whatsoever ye shall ask the
Father in My name, He will give it you? An un-
believer does not believe in the forgiveness of sins
earned by Jesus on the cross 1900 years ago for all
men and for him also.”

Another patient said, “True, but I should like
to know how, then, a sinner is saved.”

Those among our members seeking physical recrea-
tion will find Lutherland just the place they are
looking for, well located as it is in the very heart
of the Pocono Mountains and perfectly equipped to
offer itself as a playground throughout the year to
all who seek its welcoming conveniences. Those who
are responsible for Lutherland have apparently
overlooked nothing that is required to make it a
perfect playground for old and young. And I like
these men the more for having been so liberal in
the arrangement of camps for boys and girls and
the older youth, of a playhouse and a playground
for the smaller children, of pools and a lake and
walks through the forest, of bowling-alleys, croquet
grounds, and tennis-courts, and all the other phys-
ical attractions and pastimes, whatever they may be.
In thus making one of God’s choicest beauty spots
such a real playground for old and young, the
founders and managers of Lutherland have acted

View of East Hall, West Hall, and Dining-Hall at Lutherland.

Missionary: “Rom. 3,28 teaches us that a sin-
ner is justified, saved, without the deeds of the Law,
the fulfilling of the commandments, which is im-
possible for him. God commands us to pray. On
the other hand, the same Bible verse says that we
are saved by faith, by believing that Jesus loved us
so much as to keep the commandments for us and
to die for us in order to atone for our sins. If we
believe this, we are saved. Johni,7%: ‘The:blood
of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all
sin.”

Patient: Oh, yes, I see.”

Others: ‘Reverend, stop in to see us again.”

A. Dominick.

Lutherland as a Missionary Enterprise.

Each succeeding visit has deepened the Editor’s
conviction that Lutherland is a great and successful
missionary enterprise. Of course, it is also a won-
derful playground, — we have never seen a better.

not only kindly, but thoughtfully and wisely; for
play in the abundance and variety as here afforded
is in itself a preventive of evil thoughts and im-
proper conduct and possesses real educational and
ethical value. There is room for education in play
itself; for generally the child who has learned to
play hard has at the same time learned a great deal
how to live best. Play at its best is, in a measure,
a school of ethics. Then, too, we are sure that those
who laid the foundations of Lutherland realized
that there are many permanent interests which a
child gains through play, interests which include
every field of human endeavor and achievement.
Games and athletics have not only physical interests,
but intellectual ones as well —artistic, dramatic,
literary, musical, interests in nature, in outdoor life,
and social interest in his camp life and his self-
governing activities in the camp and on the play-
ground.

But though the casual visitor may see in Luther-
land only a wonderfully equipped playground,