The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-11
MEET AT BUFFALO NEXT.
LUTHER LEAGUE SESSION IN ST.
PAUL COMES TO AN
END.
Closes With Big Rally at Auditorium,
at Which Speakers EuIogize Work
Which Has Been Done and Point
Out Possibilities for Future-Offi-
GERS Are Elected.

With the announcement last night
that the next grand rally would be
held at Buffalo, N. Y, in 1904, the fifth
national convention of the Luther
League of America, which has been
holding forth at the Auditorium for
the past three days, came to an end.
Today the majority of the delegates
Will leave for their homes, while those
who remain will be shown the two
cities by trolley
The closing session of the conven-
ton took the form of a song service,
the national anthem and hymns sane
toned by the Lutheran church being
rendered by a choir and choruSes of
fully $50 voices. To this was added
quartette and a number of solos.
Short addresses also filled out the pro-
gramme.
The most engaging and entertaining
speaker of the evening was Rev. G.
A.SWennSon, president of Bethany col
lege, located at Lindsburg, Kan. Pass
ing briefly on the growth of the Lu-
theran faith in the United States from
$4,000 communicates in 1900 to $780,
600 at the present time, Rev. SWenn-
son contended that this growth was
due more than anything else to the ed
ucation which the church promulgat-
ed through it's schools and higher in
situations of learning To the Luther
Gil AAtoCAbOIlOlIo VI lSdI IIIlS lie pointed
with pride, saying that in Lutheran
Sweden the illiteracy of that nation
only amounts to q fraction, and in Ice
land there is none. He advised all
Lutheran parents to send their chill
dren to Lutheran schools.
Doing Great Work.
AS to the Luther League of America.
he considered it a grand institution,
and one that das doing much in the
spread of the Lutheran faith He adj
vocated more enthusiasm in the
church and the teaching Of the gospel
as Luther would have wanted it. He
wanted no abridgment of the word Of
God.
Frank A. Hartranft, of Philadelphia,
spoke briefly of the Luther league,
how, from a representation gathered
from five states in 1895, it had grown
until now every young peoples Luth-
eran society in the United States,
and, in fact, wherever the doctrine of
Luther was taught, had a place in it's
fold.
Work in Missions.
The last speaker of the evening was
Rev. J. H. Harpster, the church's rep
reSentatiVe in the missionary fields of
India. He spoke of the work there,
and how, under great difficulties, it
had reached a position until at the
present time it was next, numerically,
to the Church of England. Luther
ism, he said,was the first of the Chris
tan faith to be established in India,
and he pleaded for a better recogni-
ton in the way Of help that the India
missions might prosper.
Today the delegates will be given a
trolley ride over the two cities. The
majority of the delegates left last
night for their homes, but a number
still remain.
Much of the afternoon session was
taken up with papers explaining the
workings of the leagues and how they
could be made helpful in the work of
the church.
Election of Officers.
The officers elected at the morning
President-W. C. stoever, Philadel-
phia.
Recording secretary-C. G. Grauer
Statistical Secretary-Rev. c. K. Hun
ton, Columbus, Ohio.
Literature Seeretaries-Rev. Charles
L. Fry, Philadelphia, and George H.
n. Y.
Executive Board-E F. Ebert New
York city; w. l.. Heinrich, Buffalo, N. Y;
Rochester, Pa; F. A. Hartrant, Phila,,
delphia; L.. M: Kuhnz, Omaha, Neb.; II.
Ziegler, Cincinnati, Ohio; M. G. Olson,
Chicago.
Some comment being made that all the
executive committee were Eastern men,
was that anyone attending the meetings
would be compelled to pay his own ex-
penses, so the matter was allowed to
stand that way.