The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1933, Page 116

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

and looked at me fixedly in an inquiring way, I felt
things were critical. Fortunately at that moment
I caught a glimpse of Odidi, who had now joined
the company around the fire, and beckoning to him,
I made him understand that I wanted to know
what his friend was saying. “Umm,” said Odidi,
after a few words with his cousin, “he wants to
know if you would oblige him with a brick of raw
sugar.” This is about the highest conception of
happiness that a Caraja possesses.

All very picturesque and interesting, but all
very cruel and sad; living like animals and dying
like the beasts that perish. How much longer must
they perish in ignorance? The way is open, the

Field. The speaker based his address on 2 Thess.
3,13: “But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-
doing.” Coming as it did at a time of wide-spread
depression, sorely felt throughout the Mission, the
sermon was a source of comfort, consolation, and
encouragement to the workers in the vineyard of
the Lord.

Two papers were read during the closed sessions
on Thursday and Friday nights. The first was by
the Rey. E. H. Wildgrube of St. Paul’s, New Or-
leans, under the caption “The Sorrows and Joys of
the Gospel-worker.” The most salient point of this
highly interesting paper, and one which evoked pro-
longed and lively discussion, was the following:

Luther Conference.

day of opportunity has come, and the answer may
rest with you. Surely it is time to give these for-
gotten Indians an opportunity to know the power
of Christ to transform and save. F.C.G@...£.

Convention of Luther Conference
of Louisiana.

The Luther Conference of Louisiana convened
at Mount Zion Church, New Orleans, June 14—18.
The roll-call unfortunately revealed the absence of
all the out-of-town workers and of one local pastor.
Also, there were no delegates from outside the con-
fines of the city.

The conference sermon was delivered by Pastor
G. M. Kramer, superintendent of the Louisiana

“The acute sorrow that comes when those who have
been instructed by the Gospel-worker leave us to
join another denomination or to wander about; and
the joy that comes when such a lost soul is won back
for Jesus.” Because the discussions of this point
bade fair to become endless, leading into some of
the ramifications of church discipline, the con-
ference resolved that a paper be prepared upon the
question “What Constitutes Church Discipline?”

Teacher P. J. Robinson of Concordia, New
Orleans, read the second paper. His subject was:
“What. Sins Should be Especially Mentioned in the
Ten Commandments?” This paper brought on a

’ discussion of the lodge question.

‘Two papers were read also in the open sessions.
The first one was by Teacher A. V. Berger of St.
Paul’s, New Orleans, on “Stephen the Martyr.”