The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-11-09
LUTHERAN SYNOD
CONVENES TODAY
FIRST TIME COLLEGE HAS BEEN
HOST.
Sessions VIII be Held in Holland
HaIl-Night Sessions at the
Lutheran Church.

theran chuch begins its ninety-frst an
nual convention at Newberry college
today (Tuesday) at 1:45 in the after
noon. The college has been looking
forward to this event with keen inter
est for many months, it being the first
time a synodical session was ever
held in the college buildings. The col
lege is the property of the synod and
its meeting on the campus this year
will afford the ministers and delegates
a unique opportunity to study the al
fairs of the institution.
Most of the members of synod will
arrive on the 1:O6 train Tuesday, while
others will come on earlier and later
trains
The day sessions will be held in the
college chapel, beginning at S:45 in
the morning and 1:45 in the afternoon.
The night sessions will be held in the
Lutheran church, beginning at 7:3O
o'clock
Rev. o. B. Shearouse of Glass, n. c.,
will bring the greetings of the North
carolina synod, aud the Rev. B. D.
Wessinger of Chaplin, S. c., will repre-
sent the Tennessee synod. Some min
lister from the Georgia synod will also
be present.
The visitors will be entertained in
the homes of Newberry, except that
each day they will take dinner with
the college students in the college
boarding nall.
The schedule of night services will
be as follows: TUESDAY night, ser
mon by Rev. P. E. Monroe, president
OF the synod and also president of
.Summerland college; Wednesday
night. address on Education" by Rev.
George ]. Gongaware, D. D., Charles
ton; Thursday nigh, address by Rev.
P. D. Risinger, Lexington.
All the citizens, whether of Lutheran
or other denominations, are cordially
invited to attend all the sessions, those
in the day at the college chapel and
those at night in the Lutheran church.
The South Carolina synod has eighty
CONGREGATIONS, fifty-eight ministers and
a membership of about 10000. 1t owns
and operates two colleges, Newberry
and Summerland college, and is part
owner of another college at Kumamoto,
Japan, with 500 students; also theo-
logical seminary in Columbia. 1t pro-
Tides educational facilities for over
1000 students every year. 1t also is
part owner of the large publication
house in Columbia. 1t conducts mis-
sions in this state at Spartanburg,
Greenville, Greenwood, Columbia, New
Brookland, Newberry mayer Memorial
and Summer MemoriaD, Sumter, Fair
fax, Swansea, Florence, Charleston
and Sunmmerville. It's total contri-
buttons through the regular synodical
channels last year were over $4,000,
besides the gifts of special character
to education and church buildings of
perhaps an equal amount.
Newberry became the educational
center of the Lutheran church Of South
Carolina quite number of years be-
fore the denomination had many mem
bers in the town. The first Lutheran
congregation had been 'organizd only
about three years before the synod de-
cided to locate Newberry college in
the village of Newberry" Luther
chapel (the former name of the Church
of the Redeemer) could not nave had
more than thirty Or forty members in
1856 when the college was located in
the town. The congregation had been
organized in 1858 with twenty-one
members, and had only fifty-four mem
bers twenty years afterwards. Five
years ago, Pastor Fulenwider received
at one service twice as many mem
bers in the Church of the Redeemer as
the congregation had in Luther chapel
t~e:.ty years after its organization.
The members of the synod who had the
deciding vote to locate the college in
Newberry certainly possessed far
sighted vision that they could see So
far into the future and realize that
arnnnd the COLLEGE there would grow