The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1933, Page 20

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

the sanitarium whom Pastor Sieker had prepared
for reception into the membership of the Church of
the Savior. Upon our return to the missionary’s
residence the missionary and I donned our clerical
gowns and then repaired to the missionary’s living-
room, where Mrs. Sieker, an invalid relative who is
staying at the missionary’s home, the candidate for
baptism, my wife, and another lady were await-
ing us. After the service had been opened in the
name of the Triune God, several hymns had been
sung, the appointed Epistle- and Gospel-lesson for

to my camp in the mountains with a heart filled

with gratitude to the Lord for having enabled us

to place a missionary into the very heart of one of

the world’s largest refuges for tuberculosis patients.”
F. J. L.

Corner-Stone Laying at St. Philip’s,
New Orleans.

On Christmas Day, when many of the Northern
States were wrapped in a blanket of snow and the

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Listening in on the Sermon.

the day had been read, and prayer had been offered
up, Pastor Sieker delivered a very inspiring and
touching address. Thereupon the patient from
Raybrook made confession of her faith and was bap-
tized, and then we celebrated Holy Communion
together.

“T must say that I am unable to recall that any
service that I have ever attended made a deeper
impression upon me than this Baptism and Com-
munion service held in a missionary’s living-room
and attended by only seven persons, including the
two pastors officiating. I returned that afternoon

,

South was deluged with rain, God graciously
granted St. Philip’s Congregation a surcease of
several hours, sufficient time to lay the corner-stone
for a little chapel at 3220 Pine Street, New Orleans.

Pastor L. H. Robinson opened the service with
hymn, prayer, and the reading of a psalm, Pastor
i. H. Wildgrube preached the sermon on Is. 28, 15,
showing how Jesus will be St. Philip’s “real”
Corner-stone, Pastor H. G. B. Reinhardt laid the
marble plate inscribed “St. Philip’s Evangelical
Lutheran Church, 1932” in the name of the Holy
Trinity, and Prof. J. Wilbur Twitty led the congre-