The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
WORK And PRAYER
Keynote Of the Coming Convention
of Luther League.
PROGRAM FOR THE THREE DAYS
1t Will Close With Grent Rally
in the st. Paul Audi
tOrfum.

The keynote OF the fifth national con-
vention of the Luther League of America,
to be held at st. Paul Minneapolis July
s, 9 and 10, will be Working and Praying
Praying and Working" The officers
of the National League are desirous Of
blessing to the church and of bringing to
Lutheran young people a fuller realiza-
tion of their duties to the church.
The headquarters of the convention Will
be at the Memorial English Evangelical
Lutheran church, w Sixth street near Ex
change street, and the business sessions
will be held at the First Swedish church.
Woodward avenue and John street Gov
ernor S. r. Van SAINT, Nels Jensen, presi-
dent of the Luther League of the twin
cities, and Rev. L. A. Johnson, pastor OF
the First Swedish church and Rev. A. J..
d. Haupt, will deliver addresses of well
come Tuesday evening at the initial ses-
sion. The response will be by w. c..
Stoever, president of the league.
The program for the convention is as
follows:
Wednesday morning, July 9, s:15 o'clock.
devotional services will be held and re-
ports of the president, secretary and
treasurer will follow. An address,
''Working and Prayer Must Be Joined
will be delivered by Rev. J. E. White
her, Lancaster, Pa.
Wednesday afternoon there will be an
address on praying and Working, the
Writ, D. D., Des Moines, Iowa. Reports
of ommittees-executive, literature, pub
lication will follow. Then will be given
an address on Power of Praying,' by
Miss Josephine Maedel, Of Kansas City,
Mo. "A discussion on prayer Cycle" will
close the session.
Wednesday evening at 7:45 o'clock there
11yin hn i1 Cd TJ,th oh
of st. Paul and Minneapolis with two ad-
dresses in each church. The subjects for
these addresses will be the same for all
the churches, namely, ''The Church's Need
and Work in This New Century" and
Where Shall We Lay the Emphasis?''
The speakers will be as follows:
St. Johns church, Seventeenth street and
Chicago av S, Minneapolis, Rev. F.
G. Gotwald, Springfield, Ohio, and Rev. G.
W. sandt, Philadelphia, Pa.
st. James church, Marshall and Grotto
streets, St. Paul, Rev. F. L. Sigmund, Garth
age, ILL.,, and Rev. H. B. Richards, Philadel-
phfa, Pa.
Bethlehem Norwegian church, Fourteenth
avenue S and Eighteenth street, Minneapolis,
Rev. TIL. Eggen, Madison, Wis, and Rev. G.
o. Solberg, Rockford, ILL.,
Emmanuel Norwegian church, Canada and
Fourteenth street, st. Paul, Rev. W. K.
Frich, Milwaukee, Wis, and j. S. Runyou,
New York.
st. Peters German church, Eighteenth and
Dupont avenues N, Minneapolis, Rev. j. F.
Hartman, D. d., Barren Hill, Pa, and Hor-
ace w. Bike, Pfttsburg, Pa.
Memorial church, St. Paul, Rev, G. s. Al
bert, D. d.. Philadelphia, Pa, and Professor
Gustav Andreen, president of Augustana col
lege, Rock Island, Ill.
Thursday morning, 9:15 o'clock an ad-
dress, ''Prayer Without Work." will be
given by Rev. J. W. Smith, Mount Ver-
non, N. Y An address,, Work Without
Prayer by NJ. G. Olson, Chicago, ILL.,,
will follow. The election Of officers will
come next.
Thursday afternoon, 2 o'clock. an ad-
dress, Work of the League; Local, will
be given by Rev. M. J. Beeber, Bingham
ton, NJ Y. and Work of the League
Abroud,'' by Rev. G. H. Stearns, Milwau-
kee.
Thursday evening, 7:45 o'clock, there
| will be a grand rally in the auditorium
of St. Paul after devotional services. An
address on THE League; What 1t Is, .
will be given by F. A. Hartrauff. Phila-
delphia. This will be followed by ad-
dresses on The League and Our Insti-
tutions,' by Rev. C. A. Swenson, D. D.,
Lindsborg Kan, and on '"The League and
Missions" by Rev. ]. H. Harpster, D. D.
Guntur- Raj ajahmundry, India. Music for
this meeting will be furnished by chorus
selected from the twin cities under the
direction of Professor Johnson and Henry
w. Knauff, organist.