Evening star., 1897-01-12
LtTHERAN MISSIONARY RALLY.
Interesting Addresses at a Meeting
In York, PA.

one Of the events of great import to the
entire Lutheran church Of th,. general
synod in the United States was The home
missionary rally held Friday in the CITY
of York. The offices of the church extcn-
sion board Were filed all day with mem
bers of both the home mission and church
extension boards, and many visiting clergy
men and prominent laymen in all paris OF
the church.
The members of the church extension
board are: Revs. VIM. Freas, ID "a: b. F.
Alleman, DID,; w. s. Hiaman. Henry b.
Vile, Messrs. NJ Il. Spahr Jeca Carl Ar
thur King, j. A. DempWof George l.
Smyser, and their secretaries. Rev. ii. H.
Weber, general secretary, and Rev. ii. l.
farger, field secretary. These met bus
mess session at . am. At 1870 am tht
home mission board, whose headuiarters
are in Baltimore, Nd, also me-; This
board consists of Reys. Chas. S. Albert
DID; NJ. w. HANNA. DID; J. c. Koller
ID; W. E. Parson, DID; q. W. Finders,
ID; Messrs. Albert F. Fox, l.. Il. Doll,
L. c. Slater, w. III. Davis and the secre-
taries, Rev. A. Stewart Hartman. DID.
general secretary; Rev. S. B. Barni:z. ID D..
western secretary.
At noon the two boards wore With Their
secretaries, entertained at dinnar.
A joint business session of he Iwo boards
was held in the church extension rooms al
~ p m and matters of mutual interest
We're considered. Aggressive steps are tc
be taken for pushing the nome mission
work In the whole United States. Tn,
boards are thoroughly united, and deter.
mined to extend the borders of The Lu-
theran Church In America. The German
and Scandinavian immigrants, especially
in our large cities, IL was stated are rap
idly anglicizing, and for these the Genera
Synod Lutheran Church must build Eng
lish churches and send them English LU-
theran pastors.
In the evening the home mission rally
was held in Christ Lutheran Church. Rev
G. w. Enders, DID,, pastor. Drvotiona
exercises were conducted by the pastor
Rev. H. L. Baugher, DID, president of The
general synod and editor OF the Lutheran
World of New York city, presided.
The first address was by Willis :. Hin
man of Columbia, Pa. His subject was
Business in Church Extension" Rev. w.
E. Parson, DID,, of this city spoke on tho
subject, Does Our Work Pay?" He tooI
the ground that our work of planting
churches and supporting churches does pay
large returns from a pecuniary point OF
view, in proof of which the results OF
which were Washington, ID. C; Baltimore,
Md; Louisville, KY, and York, Pa. The
speaker further cited the growth of tht
church in her general work as coinci1ent
with the period during which her mission
work and church building have made the
most progress. The Lutheran Church has
become known more conspicuously IN the
past twenty-five years. She mas moved up
10 the tnlrQ place among me frol'.Slini
churches. Her mission work pays IN de.
nominational returns well as financially
Rev. Edwin Heyl Delk Of Hagerstown
Nd. spoke on Tine Civic Spirit in Church
Extension"
The last address CT the evening was 10y
Rev. NJ W. HANNA, DID,, of Altoona, Pa.
on "A Three-fold Obligation"
Rev. H. H. Weber, general secretary ol
church extension, made a statement, anG
said that nearly two thousand dollars had
been given at a special thank Offering.